Jay Landsman

I definitely plan on getting some Norman Mailer books for christmas.

Murakami is a novelist who really intrigues me, and I have Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the Road on my Amazon wish-list. Is it a good novel, or should I start off with something else?

I plan on purchasing the collected letters of Oscar Wilde at some point. He seems like an interesting enough guy for me to part with my money for

I have a fervent interest in politics and the ideologies that have shaped the world we currently live in, so I try and read as many political texts as possible. A good true story can be just as gripping as a fantastical novel no doubt.

I plan to start on Naked Lunch tomorrow, and will probably get through the book by Wednesday at the latest. I have Nineteen-Eighty Four and The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Post-Apocalyptic novels really interest me due to extensive playing of Fallout 3) on the way to keep me occupied until christmas time.

I finished The Rum Diary after a long session yesterday afternoon. It's the most conventionally written of his works, but it's still very engaging. I want to get hold of Hells Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga and Kingdom of Fear in the near future - maybe I'll get them if I drop enough hints before christmas

Sadly not. There was a Welsh language only school right next to where I lived, but I was sent to the catholic one instead

That means 'hello' in Welsh for anybody who doesn't know It's half one in the morning, so a lengthy introduction isn't on his cards here. I just look forward to increasing my knowledge about the scope of good books around that I don't have a clue about, and I hope that the site doesn't go inactive while I'm around

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I quite like that title! This list will be of every book that I've read post-Harry Potter, as I've only recently started to really get immersed in book reading. Feel free to praise/criticise/laugh at my taste in books David Simon - Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets Lester Bangs - Mainlines, Blood Feasts and Bad Taste Jack Kerouac - On The Road F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls Hunter S. Thompson - The Rum Diary Hunter S. Thompson - Hells Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga Hunter S. Thompson - The Great Shark Hunt Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell - Homage to Catalonia Norman Mailer - The Fight Tom Wolfe - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test A.J. Liebling - The Sweet Science Alex Haley - The Autobiography of Malcolm X Cormac McCarthy - The Road Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale Spike Milligan - Milligan's War P. J. O'Rourke - Peace Kills J. G. Ballard - Empire of the Sun Jane Smiley - The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton Charles Bukowski - Ham on Rye Gavin Evans - Dancing Shoes is Dead Carl Hiaasen - Tourist Season Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels - The Communist Manifesto The bolded titles are ones that I own, but haven't got around to reading yet.

Amazon seems to be the best site to purchase books that I know of. I was able to purchase The Great Gatsby for