Recent Book Activity

Willing to read virtually anything - Swift, Par Lagerkvist, Ralph Ellison, P.J. O'Rourke, car repair manuals, 19th Century etiquette primers. I still long for the mostly bygone era of independent used book stores, where I used to spend countless dimly-lit and musty hours searching for elusive obscurities, often leaving twenty dollars poorer and with my sinuses full of glorious mildew. Still hunting for a hardcover edition of Knut Hamsun's "Hunger" to replace the paperback copy which is steadily disintegrating after re-reading it 15 or 20 times since I first read it in college.

A few random caveats: I find Thoreau tedious, "The Sound and the Fury" mostly unreadable and Sherlock Holmes endlessly entertaining. Just my opinions. You're welcome to your own, of course, but please don't force them on me.