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Member: kswolff

CollectionsYour library (2,635), Wishlist (96), Currently reading (4), All collections (2,696)

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Tagsfiction (1,132), novel (770), non-fiction (272), France (174), poetry (132), UK fiction (130), gay (123), series (119), history (88), erotica (82) — see all tags

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GroupsLiterary Snobs, Pynchon Pandæmonium, The Chapel of the Abyss, Writer-readers

Favorite authorsDan Abnett, R. Scott Bakker, Honoré de Balzac, Wayne Douglas Barlowe, Charles Baudelaire, Samuel Beckett, Anthony Bourdain, Anthony Burgess, Max Cannon, Robert A. Caro, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Robertson Davies, J. R. "Bob" Dobbs, James Ellroy, Jean Genet, William Gibson, Stephen Jay Gould, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Tony Kushner, Norman Mailer, William Manchester, Mike Mignola, Vladimir Nabokov, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ovid, Camille Paglia, Ezra Pound, Marcel Proust, Thomas Pynchon, Monty Python, John Rechy, Salman Rushdie, Marquis de Sade, Simon Schama, Jean Shepherd, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Alexander Theroux, Hunter S. Thompson, Andrew H. Vachss, Gore Vidal, William T. Vollmann, Evelyn Waugh, Joss Whedon (Shared favorites)

About meI'm a voracious reader. I love fiction and non-fiction. I also write fiction, speculative fiction, and book reviews.

I review books for Blogcritics.org and TV for "The Best TV You're Not Watching". I also write reviews on my blog, "The Driftless Area Review." If you are interested in having me review your book, send a query letter to driftlessareareview @ hotmail . com. I will send you information on where to address the review copy.

My tastes are pretty scatter shot. I like the Great Writers (Proust, Pynchon, Beckett, etc.) as well as more popular commercial stuff like Andrew Vachss, James Ellroy, and Warhammer 40K novels.

Since my library is large and varied, I've established a short reading queue. This will be a guideline for me to follow and help me prioritize my reading.

Reading queue:

FICTION:

*"Journey to the End of the Night" by Louis-Ferdinand Celine (reading now)
*"Death on the Installment Plan" by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
*"The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
*"Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy

NON-FICTION

*"The White House Years," by Henry Kissinger (reading now)
*"Justice at Nuremberg" by Robert E. Conot (reading now)
*"Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco" by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
*"Citizens" by Simon Schama
*"Diplomacy" by Henry Kissinger

POETRY:

*"The Divine Comedy" by Dante
*"Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained" by John Milton
*"Milton a Poem" and "Jerusalem" by William Blake
*"The Faerie Queene" by Edmund Spenser
*"Byrne" by Anthony Burgess
*"Pale Fire" by Vladimir Nabokov
*"The Civil War" by Lucan

MULTIVOLUME:

*"Das Kapital" by Karl Marx (reading now)
*"The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon.
*"The History of Private Life" by Various

I live in Rochester, MN. Reading helps with the insufferably long Minnesota winters.

About my libraryMy library is an amalgamation of a lifetime. It's an example of wide-ranging, generalist taste, everything from fiction to non-fiction, pop to High Art and everything in between.

Homepagehttp://driftlessareareview.wordpress.com/

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Member sinceSep 12, 2008

Currently readingCapital: Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy (Penguin Classics) by Karl Marx
The White House Years by Henry A. Kissinger
Journey to the End of the Night (New Directions Paperbook) by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Justice at Nuremberg by Robert E Conot