2012 Reading Goals

[Hedda Gabler]

I'll just jump in if that's okay.

A book I really want to get through is Arguably Essays by Christopher Hitchens. It's a huge book and reading Hitchens makes my eyes glaze. Not because I don't enjoy him, but because he's so intelligent and throws out so much information to think about, my brain sort of cramps up and goes to the corner of my skull huddled in the fetal position.

Like him or hate him, he challenges you to really look at your own opinions about things.

[srboone]

Does anyone have a title that they have told themselves "I'm going to read this book this year?" Maybe it's a book that has sat on your shelf for years; maybe it's one that you are determined to hunt down or, maybe it's one that you know will be published this year. It might even be one that you've already read.

I have started a re-read list for 2012:

The Tommyknockers by Stephen King
Needful Things by Stephen King (enough people on this forum have shown enthusiam over this title and motivated me to re-read this)
The Cornelius Quartet by Michael Moorcock
A Cornelius Calendar by Michael Moorcock
The (Many) Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius by Michael Moorcock

As for first-time reads:

David Copperfield by Charles "Chuckles" Dickens