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ne'erdowell
The Adirondack Mountains / USA
member since 19.01.2008
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I have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Pronator Teres Syndrome, and Thoracic Outlet Syndrome... Needless to say, I cannot work a real job, hence I am a ne'erdowell. I have recently enrolled in college again. This time I am working on a Bachelor's degree in English Literature. My previous degrees consist of an Associates in Culinary Arts and a Bachelor's in Art with a Studio Concentration in Drawing.
Currently Reading:
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe:
Elective Affinities
Alfred Lord Tennyson:
Idylls of the King
Orson Scott Card:
Shadow Puppets
2009 Readings as of 03.12
Mary Shelley:
Frankenstein (2nd time)
Greg Bear:
The Forge of God
Orson Scott Card:
Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon
William Faulkner:
The Wild Palms, As I Lay Dying
Christopher Marlowe:
Doctor Faustus
Alexander Pope:
Essay on Man
Sophocles:
Oedipus (... yet again)
Aeschylus:
Prometheus Bound
2008 Readings:
T.H. White:
The Sword in the Stone
Philip Longworth:
Russia: The Once and Future Empire from Pre-History to Putin
Ayn Rand:
We The Living
Leo Tolstoy:
Anna Karenina
Han-Shan:
Cold Mountain
Fyodor Dostoevsky:
The Double, White Nights, The Gambler, A Disgraceful Affair, The Brothers Karamazov, Demons
Herman Hesse:
Siddartha (again)
Jack Kerouac:
The Dharma Bums, On the Road
The Dalai Lama:
Stages of Meditation
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin:
Three Cups of Tea
Greg Bear:
Eon, Eternity
Vernor Vinge:
A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky, Rainbow's End
Gene Wolfe:
The Urth of the New Sun, Littany of the Long Sun, Epiphany of the Long Sun, The Knight, The Wizard
J. R. R. Tolkein:
Lord of the Rings (for the 4th time)
Tristram Stuart:
The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times
Neal Stephenson:
Anathem
Orson Scott Card:
Ender's Game
2007 Readings
Fyodor Dostoevsky:
The Idiot, Crime and Punishment
George R. R. Martin:
A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows
Frank Herbert:
Dune (and several others in the Dune series)
Glen Cook:
A Cruel Wind, Chronicles of the Black Company
Neal Stephenson:
Snow Crash, Interface, Cobweb
Gene Wolfe:
Shadow of the Lictor, Claw of the Conciliator, Sword of the Lictor, and Citadel of the Autarch
J.R.R. Tolkien:
Lord of the Rings (3rd time), Unfinished Tales, Silmarillion (2nd time), Book of Lost Tales 1 & 2, Children of Hurin, A Tolkien Reader
Milton:
Paradise Lost
Vernor Vinge:
Tatja Grimm's World
Douglas Adams:
Hitchhiker's Guide
Herman Hesse:
The Glass Bead Game
2006 Readings
Neal Stephenson:
In the Beginning Was the Command Line, The Baroque Cycle (Vols 1,2,&3), Cryptonomicon (2nd time)
William Gibson (at least 3rd time on all books):
Virtual Light, Neuromancer, Count Zero, Burning Chrome, All Tomorrow's Parties, Pattern Recognition, Idoru
J.R.R. Tolkein:
The Hobbit (4th or 5th time), Lord of the Rings (2nd time), The Silmarillion
Goethe:
Faust
Franz Kafka:
The Metamorphosis
Fyodor Dostoevsky:
Notes From the Underground
Cervantes:
Don Quixote
Giuseppe Di Lampedusa:
The Leopard |
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