Monday, July 13, 2009

10 Books A Day: #81

Lord Of Misrule...Christopher Lee...Orion

My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor...Alec Guinness...Penguin

A Positively Final Appearance...Alec Guinness...Viking

Blessings In Disguise...Alec Guinness...A Common Reader Edition

Alec Guinness: The Authorized Biography...Piers Paul Read...Simon & Schuster

Teachings Of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal...C. S. Nott...Arkana

The Nature Of Alexander The Great...Mary Renault...Penguin

Don't Know Much About American History...Kenneth C. Davis...HarperCollins

Writers Dreaming: Twenty-Six Writers Talk About Their Dreams and the Creative Process...Naomi Epel...Vintage

Apocalypse Culture...ed. Adam Parfrey...Feral House

The Road...Cormac McCarthy...Knopf

All The Pretty Horses...Cormac McCarthy...Vintage

Blood Meridian...Cormac McCarthy...Vintage

Outer Dark...Cormac McCarthy...Vintage

Ulysses...James Joyce...Modern Library

The Craft Of The Novel...Colin Wilson...Ashgrove Press

The Outsider...Colin Wilson...Tarcher

Selected Poems...Herman Melville...Penguin

Moby Dick...Herman Melville...Modern Library

The Letters Of Herman Melville...ed. Merrell R. Davis & William H. Gilman...Yale University Press


All the books after from Writers Dreaming on down are legacies from my brother Mike. The book The Road by Cormac McCarthy (and what a name for a Robert E. Howard hero that would be!) was the volume he was waiting to read when he passed away.

Book Count: 1034.

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