The Beer Retard - September 8th, 2003

Since I made the fateful decision to get cable TV, my reading habits have ceased to become a cause of concern. It's now officially a state of emergency. I've only read two books so far this year. That's pathetic. I used to read at least a book a month, often more. All the movies I watch are not the problem. It's the countless hours wasted flipping through the hundreds of cable channels. To say it's become a bad habit would be an understatement. So I've decided to compile a reading list and try to set a goal of reading a book a month. Some of the books have been sitting in my bookcase for months/years; others are titles I've wanted to read and can get at the library. If anyone's read anything lately that they'd recommend, I'd appreciate it.

Fiction
The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey
Continental Drift - Russell Banks
White Noise - Don Delillo
The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
Hunger - Knut Hamsun
Tapping the Source - Kem Nunn

Non-fiction
Main Lines, Blood Feasts and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader - Lester Bangs
The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune - Stuart Galbraith
Speed Tribes - Karl Taro Greenfeld
Rivethead - Ben Hamper
Jumping the Line - William Herrick
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare - Henry Miller
Reefer Madness - Eric Schlosser