7 July 2006 - two o'clock pm

The following list are the titles of books I can't add to my amazon wish list because too many coworkers were buying amazon music downloads. I haven't tried my own music download sites since the changeover, for fear it might set off alarms over at the IT desk.

Edgar Rice Burroughs: Tarzan of the Apes
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Lost World
H. Rider Haggard: Allan Quartermain
C.S. Lewis: Out of the Silent Planet
JG Ballard: The Wind from Nowhere
Kurt Vonnegut: Player Piano
Ray Bradbury: Farenheit 451
John Brunner: The Shockwave Rider
James Thurber: Many Moons
Charles Platt: The Silicon Man
Terry Pratchett: The Colour of Magic
Piers Anthony: Chthon
Herman Melville: Moby Dick
ETA Hoffmann: The Nutcracker & The Mouse King
Nathaniel Hawthorne: House of the Seven Gables
Walter Scott: Quentin Durward
Anton Chekhov: The Shooting Party
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime & Punishment
Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary
Stendhal: Scarlet & Black
Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Time

As you know, I was somewhat disappointed when a recent literary idol fell, and have been endeavoring to find work to fill that little hole of wonder and whimsy she left behind. I am confessedly a reader of light fare in both the sense of being neither heavy nor dark, and since the very notion of magic and myths come to life is silly in itself, it irritates me no end when authors try to push for their materials to be taken seriously. If I want to take something seriously, I'll read War & Peace.