I just finished reading A Trillion Year Spree, by Brian Aldiss, a work which outlines the history of science fiction as well as the books which led to its current state of development.
I'm impressed.
And, as a young orphan once so pitifully queried of an eviller, crueller generation: "Please, Sir, can I have some more?"
So, I made a list of the books that I need to read during the course of this semester. The entire list consists of over 50 books, which is why I've broken it into more digestible list-chunks of about 6-7 books each. Sadly enough, most of the books that I plan to peruse are not available in India. The only solution thus left to a penniless semi-literate subcontinental geek is to download 'em tomes off IRC.
In any case, here's the first list-chunk of books that I intend reading. Let's see how quickly I'm able to finish them. After I finish one list, I plan on posting reviews of each book, most of which I guess will be painfully personal.
But then, such is life.
Without further ado, here are the books:
I'm impressed.
And, as a young orphan once so pitifully queried of an eviller, crueller generation: "Please, Sir, can I have some more?"
So, I made a list of the books that I need to read during the course of this semester. The entire list consists of over 50 books, which is why I've broken it into more digestible list-chunks of about 6-7 books each. Sadly enough, most of the books that I plan to peruse are not available in India. The only solution thus left to a penniless semi-literate subcontinental geek is to download 'em tomes off IRC.
In any case, here's the first list-chunk of books that I intend reading. Let's see how quickly I'm able to finish them. After I finish one list, I plan on posting reviews of each book, most of which I guess will be painfully personal.
But then, such is life.
Without further ado, here are the books:
- The House on the Borderland, by William Hope Hodgson
- The Night Land, by William Hope Hodgson
- The Trial, by Franz Kafka
- The Castle, by Franz Kafka
- Star Maker, by Olaf Stapledon
- The Anubis Gates, by Tim Powers
- The Inverted World, by Christopher Priest
4 comments:
don't remember much about "the trillion year spree" ...just the way he was totally insistent on science fiction being called SF and not sci-fi...
discovered your blog right now :) promise to be a regular
this worthless disciple of yours ( kunal kashyap ) inspired by thy voracious desire to drink the ocean of knowledge , has been pushed into making his own read list which goes as follows :
1)midnight's children
2)guerrillas
3)interpreter of maladies
4)lotr
recently read
1)the namesake
2)love in the time of cholera
3)the picture of dorian gray
dude... I really have to go thru ur posts to comment... I can't just pretend!
Seems like u got two new readers this post onwards...
Mine is senti/crappy... so.. be-aware!
Catch a single word for "greedy muggermuch fooling around with books or e-books" :D ??
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