odd problem which should gain me no sympathy

[magicicada]

so... at a certain point during my teenage years, i started to get the feeling that i'd 'read it all'. this feeling would ebb and flow, but some of the first authors that I remember reading entire oeuvres are: conan doyle, agatha mcchristie (at least my favorite detectives), vonnegut, heinlein, asimov (robot stories only), pratchett, douglas adams, alfred bester, brian aldiss, etc. for the living writers, there would occasionally be a new gem (once it had come out in paperback), but for the most part, i found myself cruising the used bookstores desperate for something new and good. i prayed especially for really good, and unknown authors with big backstocks. i even tried king, but he was banned from my late night reading list for causing insomnia and nightmares. then there was the whole baby thing which gave some of my authors a chance to catch up. i am told particularly that i need to catch up on stephenson & george rr martin. however, just when i see daylight in terms of some extra reading time, i have a few more authors to read:

Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Proust...

i have an entire language worth of literature to catch up on. i should feel happy that my 'out of books' problem is fairly well solved for the next decade or so, but i have no idea how i'm going to get all of martin's series finished before he comes down for trinocCon... and that's not even counting all of Mme Rowling's books which i am planning on reading again en fran'cais.

boooks!!!!

Comments

[shlafe.livejournal.com]

I haven't read Proust, I read the abridged Les Miserables, and I quite enjoy Dumas - except for the stupid ending of The Count of Monte Cristo.

Half price day at FOL - want me to see if I can find anything for you?

[gardenwaltz.livejournal.com]

s'okay, i'm going to france :). i'm going to pick up the equivalent of the dover thrift editions of everything.

[shlafe.livejournal.com]

I get it... you are going to read the books IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE. I kinda missed that part...

[gardenwaltz.livejournal.com]

mais oui!