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The Bookshelf
Below is my top ten list, by category, of books I've run across recently. The underlined titles link a short review by me. Also please view a sampling of some of my own work. If you have any recomends, want to discuss the books, or just talk about literature in general, please email me, or visit the Literature Discussion Board.
Featured Writer
May 2001
Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five
"A Fourth generation German-American now living in easy circumstances on Cape Cod [and smoking too much], who, as an American infantry scout hors de combat, as a prisoner of war, witnessed the fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany, "The Florence of the Elbe," a long time ago, and survived to tell the tale. This is a novel in the somewhat schizophrenic manner of tales of the planet Tralfamadore, where the flying saucers come from. Peace.
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Fiction
1. Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five(1969)
2. Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha(1951)
3. D.H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers(1913)
4. Philip K. Dick: Mary and the Giant(posthumously, 1987)
5. Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange(1962)
6. Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
7. J.D. Salinger: Catcher in the Rye
8. D.H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterly's Lover(1928)
9. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
10. Thomas Hardy: Jude The Obscure(1895)
Science Fiction Top
1. Philip K. Dick: The Man in the High Castle
2. Arthur C. Clarke: 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream Electric Sheep(Blade Runner)
3. Frank Herbert: Dune(1965)
4. Ursula K. LeGuin: The Left Hand of Darkness
5. Philip K. Dick: Martian Time Slip(1964)
6. Philip K. Dick: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
7. J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit(1937)
8. Philip K. Dick: The World Jones Made
9. A.E. van Vogt: The Universe Maker(1965)
10. A.E. van Vogt: The House That Stood Still(1953)
Nonfiction Top
1. Henry David Thoreau: Walden(1853)
2. Virginia Woolfe: A Room of One’s Own(1928)
3. Dietrich Dorner: The Logic of Failure: Why Things Go Wrong
4. Natalie Goldman: Writing Down the Bones
5. Randall Robinson: The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks
6. Boykin Curry and Brian Kasbar, editors: Essays that Worked: 50 Essays from Successful Applications to the Nation's Top Colleges
7. June Singer: Boundaries of the Soul: The Practice of Jung’s Psychology
8. Spencer Johnson, M.D. : Who Moved My Cheese?(1998)
9. Margaret Fuller: Woman in the Nineteenth Century
10. Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience(1849)
Original Work Top
A meager sampling at present, but more is on the way!
(Short)Short Story: The Weekend (Nov. 2000)
Half-formed Plot Ideas(ongoing)
(Short)Short Story: As I See It, As You See It(June 2001)