Anodyne
Wednesday, April 06, 2005
 
For a while, I was trying to list and comment on every book I finished, which quickly proved overwhelming and futile. So here's a short list of every monograph-size book I've actually finished since mid-January, with particularly remarkable titles indicated in red.

Buffett, by Roger Lowenstein

Origins of the Crash, by Roger Lowenstein

Collected Essays, Letters & Journalism, v.1, by George Orwell

The Algebraist, by Iain Banks

Uncommon Places, by Stephen Shore

Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami

Oracle Night, by Paul Auster

The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron, by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind

Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity, by Alexander Alberro

Light, by M. John Harrison

Red Mars and Green Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson

In Nevada, by David Thomson

The Weather, by Lisa Robertson

October magazine, issue 110, all 150 pages of it, especially Claire Bishop's terrific "Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics."

The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson

But Beautiful, by Geoff Dyer

The Fabulous Clipjoint, by Fredric Brown

Books that defeated me between January and March include How to Write by Gertrude Stein, LA MOCA's Sam Durant catalog, and Adorno's Aesthetic Theory.

Currently reading (on alternating days): Chris Bonington's Annapurna South Face, Aime Tschiffely's Southern Cross to Pole Star (Century Travellers, now lamely retitled Tschiffely's Ride), and Benjamin Buchloh's Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry.
- posted by cjb @ 10:38 PM


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