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^I love the Dark is Rising books. The film was a travesty.

Just started Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse.

My second favorite novel ever... right behind Dracula. I reread both every couple of years.

There are some awesome annotated versions of Dracula, I wonder about Treasure Island... Hmm...

Right now I'm reading Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius.

Clash of Kings

'The Talented Mr. Ripley,' by Patricia Highsmith.

On The Road by Kerouac

Game of thrones by George R.R. Martin.

Just starting it today.

Oh my God. Will you marry me?

Dracula is my #1 favorite novel. (Even though I hate vampire fiction in general.) And Treasure Island is certainly in my Top 5. (And I don't even like pirate stories!)

You're awesome.

By the way, I have an excellent annotated version of Dracula, called The New Annotated Dracula by Leslie S. Klinger...

...he also did a great annotated Sherlock Holmes...

I wish there were a great annotated Treasure Island...

GOD is not great:

How religion poisons everything: Christopher Hitchens.

You know, I've read a few reviews of Klinger's edition. It seems as if everyone either loves or hates it. I think I will give it a try next time I read D.


It's too bad there isn't a good annotated Treasure Island there's definitely a lot to annotate!

PS

.... maybe we should 'go steady' first.

I believe in long engagements.

Towers of Midnight by Brandon Sanderson/Robert Jordan. That is book #13 of the Wheel of Time series. I started reading these books in the mid 90's. The writing quality took a dive around books seven through ten. I stopped right about there having grown frustrated with the author's refusal to tie up existing plot lines and steadfast determination to add more and more and MORE superfluous characters. Many years passed. Author Robert Jordan died, series still unfinished. Brandon Sanderson took over at book #12. I heard better things about new author. A sibling of mine sent me the new books as a gift. I skipped straight to the new author ones, books 12 and 13.

Book 12 was pretty good, considering. New author moved the plot forward. Book 13, not quite so good. Part of that is new author struggling to fix all the nonsense original author added. If you're familiar with this series, the bits of Towers of Midnight I take issue with are the entirety of the Perrin Aybara chapters and most of the Gawyn Trakand ones. A lot of time wasting tedium with those two. Other parts of the book were generally better.

Klinger can be annoying as hell, but there's too much good in his annotated editions to stay away from them if you're a fan of the original material. I reviewed his annotated Dracula on Amazon here if you want my detailed thoughts on it. I haven't reviewed his annotated Holmes, but my feelings about it are pretty much identical.

Breakfast of Champions. I don't like it and would like to go back to rereading The Name of the Wind.

A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe

Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer

Stephen King - 'Salem's Lot
"What was down there?" Royal asked. "What did you see?"
"Nothin'," Hank Peters said, and the word came out in sections divided by his clicking teeth.
"I didn't see nothin' and I never want to see it again."

A History of Warfare by John Keegan.