The books I’ve completed this semester/winter break, ranked in order by personal preference. I’ll update it as I go along…
Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville (1851)
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (1934)
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs (1959)
Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller (1938)
The Love of the Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1941)
Underworld by Don DeLillo (1997)
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges (1962)
On Writing by Stephen King (2000)
Song of the Silent Snow by Hubert Selby Jr. (1986)
Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway (1927)
The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller (1941)
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1930)
In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway (1925)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey (1962)
Hollywood by Charles Bukowski (1989)
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life by Herman Melville (1846)
Junky by William S. Burroughs (1953)
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1952)
Surfacing by Margaret Atwood (1972)
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (1895)
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (1987)
Different Seasons by Stephen King (1982)
The Covenant by Irving Layton (1977)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)
The Willow Tree by Hubert Selby Jr. (1998)
Fierce Departures by Dionne Brand (2009)
‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King (1975)
The Rez Sisters by Tomson Highway (1988)
Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim (1996)
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Thanks,
Mike Thorn
(Tuesday, May 10th, 2011) ask me questions.
Thanks,
Mike Thorn
(Tuesday, May 10th, 2011) ask me questions.
October 22, 2011
Personal Reading This Semester
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Marlon Brando at the Congress of Racial Equality Demonstration in Torrance, California, 1963.
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Manhattan | Woody Allen | 1979
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Julien Donkey-Boy | Harmony Korine | 1999
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Spring Breakers | Harmony Korine | 2012
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Adventureland | Greg Mottola | 2009
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Sylvia Plath, 1953
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The Lords of Salem (Rob Zombie, 2012)
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