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Pinched from melymbrosia:

3 books you use most often for reference
The New York Public Library Desk Reference
Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever (2001)
Writing Treatments That Sell (It's more useful than it sounds.)

3 books you read on "high rotation"
Love and Rockets "Wigwam Bam," Xaime Hernandez
The High King, Lloyd Alexander
Truman, David McCullough (But not the whole thing, not all at once, anyhow. I just like the chapter where he's working on the railroad; also the chapter where FDR dies; also the chapter where he fires MacArthur)

3 books you read for comfort
A Moveable Feast, Hemingway
Getting Even, Woody Allen
Gracie: A Love Story, George Burns

3 books you really ought to read
The Illuminatus Trilogy
Underworld, Don DeLillo
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers

3 books you will never read
Infinite Jest
Possession
The Mabinogion

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The truth is that I use the internet for reference. And many of the books I should read but probably won't are simply too fat to carry around. Truman, of course, is exempt from all weight restrictions. As, of course, am I.

You must be this tall to ride this ride.

Oh, and everybody read prillalar's SG-1 farce, 'cause it's ever so.

Comments

[pene.livejournal.com]

That's good, cause JW and I started an anti Infinite Jest club. you can join. it'll be fun. we'll have meetings where we don't read Infinite Jest.

Oh, oh, spaghetti-oh

[sevenall.livejournal.com]

At last! someone who loves "The High King" as much as I do...

[cofax7]

Now, you'll read Lloyd Alexander but not the Mabinogion? Why is that?

Good list, and I also use the internet for reference a lot as well.

How's the job? Did you see M has her tickets?

[prowler323.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh, maybe it's the lit geek in me, but I've *read* two of the three books you said you'll never read -- Possession and The Mabinogion.