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As one wise bumper sticker says:
"So many books, so little time!"
Do you like this selection of books? Discuss your favorite
reading at
The-Artists-Life!
My 'Wish List'
(Things I hope to read 'next' or soon, anyway):
Lizzie's
Secret Angels, by J. Robert Whittle
See my WHOLE
book wish list at Amazon.com!
My own first novel, Nikki:
Some GREAT but little known
books by friends and acquaintances:
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Spirit of the Raven, An Alaskan Novel, by Bob Cherry
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Lizzie, Lethal Innocense, by J. Robert Whittle
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All the books of Author, Brenda Wilbee
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Books by my first Editor (editor of Nikki), Gloria Kempton
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A Holy Struggle: Unspoken Thoughts of Hopkins, by Margaret Smith
My Favorite All Time Books:
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Van Gogh, Nathaniel Harris
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A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce
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Nikolai Gogol, by Vladimir Nabokov
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Pnin, by Vladimir Nabokov
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Invitation to a Beheading, by Vladimir Nabokov
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The
Idiot, by Feodor Dostoyevsky
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Crime and Punishment, by Feodor Dostoyevsky
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The
Brothers Karamazov, by Feodor Dostoyevsky
My Favorite All Time Authors
and Poets:
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Dostoyevsky:
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Nabokov:
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Pnin
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Invitation to a Beheading
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Gogol:
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Tolstoy:
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Anna Karinina
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Resurrection
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Anne Rice
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Edgar Allen Poe
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Walt Whitman
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Pablo Neruda
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Oscar Wilde
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Arthur Rimbaud
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Alfred Jarry
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Guillaumi Apollinaire
I'm in the process of putting direct links to books I would highly recommend.
But ONLY books I would 'highly recommend.' If you want to search
for some other books I've mentioned on this page, use the Amazon.com search
box:
All Links to books at Amazon.com are...
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Current and Recent Reading:
Book Reviews:
Recent Reading:
Starting with what I've read most recently, and then going back
almost a whole year.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles, (Sherlock Holms), by Conan Doyle
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Pig, by Andrew Cowan
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It, by Stephen King
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Intensity, by Dean Koontz
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey
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The Green Mile, by Stephen King
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The Vampire Armand, by Anne Rice
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Darkfall, by Dean Koontz
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The Bridges of Madison County, by Robert James Waller
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Carrie, by Stephen King
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The Damnation Game, by Clive Barker
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The Ghost Writer, by Philip Roth
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The Mysterious Affair at Syles and Curtain, by Agatha Christie
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Great Expectation, by Charles Dickens
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Elephants Can Remember, by Agatha Christie
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To Kill a Mocking Bird, by Harper Lee
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Servant of the Bones, by Anne Rice
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The Tommyknockers, by Stephen King
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
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The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky, Ed. Romola Nijinsky
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Invitation to A Beheading, by Vladimir Nabokov (my second reading
of this)
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The Shipping News, by Anne Proulx
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Things I've been reading excerpts
from:
These are books that (for the most part) I've read before, and have
been reading little bits and pieces of from time to time for inspiration.
A lot of these have to do with what I'm currently writing.
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Poets on Painters, Ed. J.D. McClatchy
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Van Gogh, Nathaniel Harris
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The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri
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The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Ed. Irma A. Richter
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The Adventurous World of Paris 1900-1914, Nogel Gosling (I love
this book, have read it several times...)
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Dear Theo, The Autobiography of Vincent VanGogh, Ed. Irving and
Jean Stone (I love this book, read it several times..)
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The Select Letters of Lewis Carroll, Ed. Morton N. Cohen
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Paul Gauguin, The Search For Paradise, Ed. Bernard Denvir
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The Classic Ballet, Kirstein, Stuart, Dyer
Recent reading from prior to that:
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The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Violin, by Anne Rice
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Home at Last, by Katherine Stone
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Lizzie, Lethal Innocense, by J. Robert Whittle
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Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Gutterson
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Spirit of the Raven, An Alaskan Novel, by Bob Cherry
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Invitation to a Beheading, by Vladimir Nabokov
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Nijinsky, by Vera Krasovskaya
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The Venetian's Wife, by Nick Bantock
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Granny Dan, by Danielle Steel
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Joy School, by Elizabeth Berg
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The Alpine Hero, An Emma Lord Mystery, by Mary Daheim
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The Sword of Shannara, by Terry Brooks
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The Reader, A Novel, by Bernhard Schlink
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Glory, by Vladimir Nabokov
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In Dark Water, by Mermer Blakeslee
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A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
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Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden
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Horace Afoot, by Frederick Reuss
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Pnin, by Vladimir Nabokov
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A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce
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The House of Forgetting, by Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Windy City Blues, by Sara Paretsky
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VN, The Life and Art of Vladimir Nabokov, by Andrew Field
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Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
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Nikolai Gogol, by Vladimir Nabokov
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Bend Sinster, by Vladimir Nabokov
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King, Queen, Knave, by Vladimir Nabokov
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Dancing on My Grave, by Gelsey Kirkland and Greg Lawrence
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Holding on to The Air, by Suzanne Farrell
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Nijinsky, by Vera Krasovskaya
What happened to the book reviews that USED
to be here (for all of the above books)? I'm currently writing
a little bit nicer (more polished) book reviews for my favorite selctions
of the same books at Amazon.com. But, if you really want to read
what used to be here, there's an archived copy HERE.
Books I started Reading but
simply could NOT finish!
In other words these are books I really would NOT recommend, for the
most part. Some of them are really enjoyable reading, but I couldn't
get into the plot (if there was one...) Others are books that are
over-hyped - getting a lot of attention in the media, but in my opinion
not all that great. Some of them are really great books, but how
can I recommend something that I myself cannot finish?????
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I Know This Much Is True, by Wally Lamb (in progress, probably won't
finish)
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Poison, by Kathryn Harrison (I think I'll finish it SOME DAY!)
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Vineland, by Thomas Pyncheon (I think I'll finish it SOME DAY!)
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V, by Thomas Pyncheon (I think I'll finish it SOME DAY!)
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