books!

books i want to read:

on the road- kerouac
the dharma bums- kerouac
big sur- kerouac
gravity's rainbow- pychon
the crying of lot 49- pynchon
light in august- faulkner
the sound and the fury- faulkner
naked lunch- burroughs
for whom the bell tolls- hemingway
the sun also rises- hemingway
the fountainhead- rand
live for a living- wakefield


whenever i go to borders (or b&n, or any bookstore, really), i feel overwhelmed by their massive selection of books and my brain just stops working. somehow i meander over to the music section, probably drooling and glassy-eyed, and either end up buying a cd that i have already downloaded or an autobiographical book by a music critic (tonight it was love is a mixtape by rob sheffield). i dont think there is anything inherently wrong these books. i have enjoyed every chuck klosterman book. nothing feels good was alright, i guess (or, it was when i was 19 and really enjoyed taking back sunday). i cant wait to buy perfect from now on when it comes out on paperback (even though i read about half of it tonight in the store... thats another problem with me; i need to own books. borrowing them from the library and then giving them back doesnt really work for me. i like seeing them on my bookshelf. they are my little paper trophies.) its just that the music section is a 10 foot by 5 foot shelf... if that. and most of it is total garbage (how many different Slash biographies do we really need?). i know there are probably at least 300 or so books that i have not yet read (that are not called harry potter, because i read all of those... twice) that i really need to. so i will keep adding to this list. any suggestions are more than welcome.