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"Before you know it as the years go by, you're just like other people you have seen, with all those peculiar human ailments. Just another vehicle for temper and vanity and rashness and all the rest. Who wants it? Who needs it? These things occupy the place where a man's soul should be." -- Henderson the Rain King

Saturday, April 30, 2005

Books #1-20

Here's a quick recap of the first twenty books of my 2005 50 book challenge.

  1. What's the Matter with Kansas - Thomas Frank
  2. How We Are Hungry - Dave Eggers
  3. The Wilco Book - Wilco
  4. The Polysyllabic Spree - Nick Hornby
  5. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris
  6. Ticket To Ride - Larry Kane
  7. Hobart #4 - Various
  8. McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #15 - Various
  9. Forced Entries - Jim Carroll
  10. Imperial Hubris - Michael Scheuer
  11. The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
  12. Platform - Michel Houellebecq
  13. Slapstick - Kurt Vonnegut
  14. Fever Pitch - Nick Hornby
  15. Poets on the Peaks - John Suiter
  16. Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
  17. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs - Chuck Klosterman
  18. Waxwings - Jonathan Raban
  19. So You Wanna Be A Rock & Roll Star - Jacob Slichter
  20. Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer

If I had to pick, I'd say my 5 favorites so far would be (in no particular order):

  1. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
  2. The Plot Against America
  3. Everything Is Illuminated
  4. Slapstick
  5. Waxwings

posted by Jamie at 2:30 PM