Reading
Books: on balance, I'm for them. These are most of the ones I've read since 2007 or so. The star ratings correspond more closely to "how worth my time this felt" than "how good this is."
Promethea, Vol. 3
Alan Moore
Promethea, Vol. 4
Alan Moore
The Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac
The Doll's House (The Sandman, #2)
Neil Gaiman
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Essential Monster of Frankenstein, Vol. 1
Gary Friedrich
The Invisible Man
H.G. Wells
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1
Alan Moore
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street
Warren Ellis
Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death
Judith Butler
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Elementary Particles
Michel Houellebecq
Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer
The letters of Madame de Sévigné, with an introduction by A. Edward Newton, Volume 1 of 7
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal de Sévigné
Atmospheric Disturbances
Rivka Galchen
Revisions of Goodloe Byron
Goodloe Byron
Hyper/Text/Theory
George P. Landow
Promethea, Vol. 2
Alan Moore
The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
Lawrence Lessig
Sounds of Your Name
Nate Powell
How the Scots Invented the Modern World
Arthur Herman
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Edmund Burke
Made me think about:
- Looking Backward 2000-1887
Inkweed
Chris Wright
Avengers: Disassembled
Brian Michael Bendis
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
Scott McCloud
E-Crit: Digital Media, Critical Theory, and the Humanities
Marcel O'Gorman
Zoology
Ben Dolnick
Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID
Katherine Albrecht
Made me think about:
- Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
Hellboy, Vol. 3: The Chained Coffin and Others
Mike Mignola
The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon
The Guermantes Way (In Search of Lost Time, #3)
Marcel Proust
The Ultimates, Volume 2: Homeland Security
Mark Millar
Sin City, Vol. 4: That Yellow Bastard (Sin City, #4)
Frank Miller
Form And History In American Literary Naturalism
June Howard
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers
Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology
George P. Landow
Dracula
Bram Stoker
The Professor's House
Willa Cather
Melmoth the Wanderer
Charles Robert Maturin
The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
Made me think about:
- The Parasol Against the Axe
The Saturated World: Aesthetic Meaning, Intimate Objects, Women?s Lives, 1890?1940
Beverly Gordon
The Social Construction of American Realism
Amy Kaplan
Bread Givers
Anzia Yezierska
The Complete Crumb Comics, Vol. 11: Mr. Natural Committed to a Mental Institution!
Robert Crumb
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
James Weldon Johnson
Tales of the TMNT: The Collected Books, Volume 1
Steve Murphy
Zofloya
Charlotte Dacre
American Elf: The Collected Sketchbook Diaries, Vol. 1
James Kochalka
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Stephen Crane
The Monk
Matthew Gregory Lewis
Epistemology of the Closet
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Passing
Nella Larsen
The Spoils of Poynton
Henry James
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Ann Radcliffe
Y: The Last Man, Vol. 10: Whys and Wherefores (Y: The Last Man, #10)
Brian K. Vaughan
Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser
The Complete Buddy Bradley Stories from Hate Comics, Vol. 2: Buddy Does Jersey, 1994-1998
Peter Bagge
Radium Watch Dial Painters: Poems
D.S. Butterworth
The History of Love
Nicole Krauss
The Castle of Otranto
Horace Walpole
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
Richard Preston
Made me think about:
- The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
Terrorism in the Late Victorian Novel
Barbara Arnett Melchiori