Book roll, reading list...
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    2008

    1. As I Lay Dying
    2. Atomic Lobster
    3. Northanger Abbey
    4. The House on Mango Street
    5. Anasi Boys
    6. Manilius: Astronomica
    7. The London Companion
    8. Tales from the Tower of London
    9. London Walks
    10. The Phoenix
    11. Sword of God
    12. Villa and Zapata
    13. Paris: the Secret History
    14. Santa Fe Dead
    15. The Consolation of Philisophy
    16. Swine Not?
    17. The Dragon's Nine Sons
    18. The Fourth Bear
    19. The Big Picture
    20. Holy Moly
    21. Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
    22. Zen in the Art of Writing (Ray Bradbury)
    23. Hot Mahagony
    24. The Disappearance of the Universe
    25. Dance of Death
    26. The Lodger
    27. Citizen Marketers
    28. Spook Country
    29. The Fly on the Wall
    30. Shakespeare & Co.
    31. Brightonomicon
    32. The Shakespeare Wars
    Ongoing:
    1. Marcus Aurelius (new translation)
    2. Bartlett's familiar quotations
    3. Marcus Aurelius
    4. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
    5. Roadside History of Texas
    6. Roadside Geology of Texas
    7. Ephemeris

    Always recommended:

      1. The Truth Will Out
      2. The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton

     

    2007:

    1. Sleep with Fishes
    2. Nature Girl
    3. Hurricane Punch
    4. You Suck
    5. Running Blind
    6. The Last Templar
    7. American Gods
    8. London Calling
    9. Fishing on the Edge
    10. Hard Rain
    11. Rain Storm
    12. Antic Disposition
    13. The Secret
    14. Bonfire of Roadmaps
    15. Deep Storm
    16. Wild Fire
    17. Brimstone
    18. Aspects of the Novel
    19. Bad Luck and Trouble
    20. Lost Echoes
    21. Lifeguard
    22. Shoot Him If He Runs
    23. Night Train to Rigel

     

    2006

    1. Highway 61 Resurfaced (Bill Fitzhugh)
    2. Pompeii
    3. The Life of the World to Come
    4. re-read: Alamanc of the Dead
    5. re-read: Zia Summer
    6. Jemez Spring
    7. A Dirty Job <- good read
    8. When Darkness Falls
    9. Iron Sunrise
    10. The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl
    11. The Big Bamboo
    12. Peter Ackroyd's Shakespeare
    13. Nylon Angel
    14. Movements in modern art: surrealism
    15. Coriolanus
    16. The Wolves in the Walls
    17. The Colditz Legacy
    18. Mammoth
    19. The Last House in the Galaxy
    20. Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
    21. The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 2)
    22. The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 3)
    23. The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton
    24. The Hard Way
    25. Persuader
    26. One Shot
    27. The World is Flat
    28. Echo Burning
    29. Reaching through the Veil to Heal
    30. A Salty Piece of Land
    31. Singularity Sky
    32. Rain Fall
    33. The Machine's Child

2005

      1. Torpedo Juice (much anticipated Tim Dorsey - Serge Storm novel)
      2. Robert Rankin's Knees Up Mother Earth
      3. The Piano Tuner
      4. Imagined London
      5. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
      6. Lone Star Nation
      7. Plum Island
      8. The Lion's Game
      9. Bone Dry
      10. Ten Little New Yorkers by Kinky Friedman
      11. Fishing for a Laugh
      12. Stories from the Old Hotel
      13. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
      14. Up Country
      15. A Bit on the Side
      16. Two Dollar Bill
      17. Night Fall
      18. London Pigeon Wars
      19. The Broker
      20. Lord Vishnu's Love Handles
      21. Radio Activity
      22. Southtown (author is San Antonio native Gemini)
      23. Will in the World
      24. Do you speak American?
      25. re-read: Big Red Tequila (author is San Antonio native Gemini)
      26. re-read: Alburquerque
      27. The Wagner Operas (Newman)
      28. Reading Tea Leaves
      29. Tao Te Ching
      30. Creative Visualization
      31. The Iliad
      32. Friday Night Lights
      33. The Fish's Eye
      34. The Two Noble Kinsmen
      35. Shakespeare
      36. Shakespeare's Language
      37. No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
      38. Beowulf
      39. Flat Crazy (Blanco County Mystery)
      40. Iron Orchid
      41. The Truth Will Out
      42. A Line in the Sand
      43. Well-Cast Lines
      44. The Coffee House a cultural history by Markman Ellis

2004

  1. The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad
  2. The Gold Coast
  3. Santa Fe Rules
  4. The Stupidest Angel
  5. System of the World
  6. Blessings in Disguise by Alec Guinness
  7. The Teeth of the Tiger
  8. Swimming to Catalina
  9. The Clerkenwell Tales
  10. Demons & Angels
  11. Skinny Dip
  12. Dress your family in corduroy and denim
  13. Thunder God by Paul Watkins (available from Faber & Faber, UK)
  14. Yoga for people who can't be bothered to do it by Geoff Dyer
  15. A Door Into Summer by RAH
  16. Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
  17. The Zenith Angle by Bruce Sterling (good read)
  18. Kill Two Birds & Get Stoned by Kinky Friedman
  19. Confusion by Neal Stephenson
  20. Speed Week
  21. Fandom of the Operator by Robert Rankin
  22. Buck Fever by Ben Rehder (highly recommended)
  23. The Prisoner of Vandam Street by Kinky Friedman
  24. Urban Tribes by Ethan Watters (highly recommened for birthdays between 1960 & 1983)
  25. The Slaying of the Shrew by Simon Hawke
  26. Cadillac Beach by Tim Dorsey
  27. Eat Shoots & Leaves
  28. Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson

Ongoing: