Sunday, July 02, 2006

Choices

I spend far too much time dwelling on what most would call "trivial" issues, such as what books to bring on our upcoming vacation to Niagara Falls. Clarion bud Trent had similar issues awhile back and now the shoe is on the other foot. (Literally. As you can see, packing is not going too well.)

As I mentioned to Mr. H, I usually take a novel, a non-fiction and a magazine. Even with those limited categories, I'm having trouble deciding:

Fiction choices:

The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
lost boy lost girl - Peter Straub
They Thirst - Robert R. McCammon
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Perfect Circle - Sean Stewart
The Night Class - Tom Piccirilli
The Basic Kafka - Franz Kafka (Okay, so it's not a novel...)
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary - M.R. James (Yeah, yeah, not a novel either...)

Non-Fiction choices:

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets - David Simon
Horror: 100 Best Books - Stephen Jones, Kim Newman, eds.

Magazines:

July Asimov's (one story read)
July F&SF (three stories read)
June Weird Tales (one story read)

There it is. Gotta decide soon. Vote early, vote often.

1 comment:

Andy Wolverton said...

You're probably right. I've read a few of Kafka's stories in anthologies and found myself re-reading...and re-reading them.

Reviews - absolutely.