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ones that stood out.
in alpha by title order.
| Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass; The Hunting of the Snark (all w/Tenniel illustrations) |
Lewis Carroll |
| Archy and Mehitabel, & the life & times of, etc. (w/ Herriman illustrations) |
Don Marquis |
| At the Mountains of Madness
and numerous short stories |
H P Lovecraft |
| Autobiography of Black Hawk | |
| Bartholomew and the Oobleck, The Cat in the Hat, and others |
Dr Seuss |
| Candide | Voltaire |
| Count Zero Neuromancer and others |
William Gibson |
| Crash also High Rise and others |
J G Ballard |
| Crazy Cartoons by VIP | V Partch |
| Cruising the Movies | Boyd MacDonald |
| The Curse of Lono (w/ Ralph Steadman illustrations) also Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
Hunter S Thompson |
| The Day of the Locust | Nathaniel West |
| The Decameron | Boccaccio |
| A Distant Mirror | Barbara Tuchman |
| Don Martin Steps Out Don Martin Bounces Back Don Martin Drops 13 Stories and cartoons in Mad magazines |
Don Martin |
| dragon stories, and other books | E. Nesbit |
| Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend Little Nemo etc |
Winsor McCay |
| The Dream of the Red Chamber | Ts'ao Chan |
| Far Tortuga | Peter Matthiesen |
| The Fifth Head of Cerberus | Gene Wolfe |
| Il Galateo |
Giovanni della Casa (R.S. Pine-Coffin translation) |
| The Gormenghast trilogy | Mervyn Peake |
| Half Magic Magic by the Lake Thyme Garden Knight's Castle The Well Wishers Magic or Not? |
Edward Eager |
| Homer Price and Centerburg Tales | Robert McCloskey |
| The House on the Borderland | William Hope Hodgson |
| I Claudius and Claudius the God | Robert Graves |
| Inherit the Wind | Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee |
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The Inquestor Tetralogy also Mallworld, Aquiliad |
Somtow Sucharitkul or as S P Somtow |
| In Watermelon Sugar | Richard Brautigan |
| Krazy Kat comic strips | George Herriman |
| Land of Oz
(w/ John R. Neil illustrations) |
L Frank Baum |
| The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
| The Lord of the Rings | J. R. R. Tolkien |
| The Malacia Tapestry | Brian Aldiss |
| The Mathematical Theory of Relativity | A S Eddington |
| The Mezzanine | Nicholson Baker |
| the Moomintroll books | Tove Jansson |
| The Niebelungenleid
I liked the A.T. Hatto/Penguin Classics translation. |
(anonymous, ca.1200 AD) |
| Norstrilia and other Instrumentality stories |
Cordwainer Smith |
| The Once and Future King | T H White |
| Paddle-to-the-Sea | Holling C Holling |
| The Phantom Tollboth | Norton Juster |
| Pogo comic strips | Walt Kelly |
| Rootabaga Stories (w/ Maud & Miska Petersham illustrations) |
Carl Sandburg |
| The Satyricon | Petronius |
| The Sirens of Titan also Cat's Cradle etc |
Kurt Vonnegut Jr |
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Solaris also A Perfect Vacuum, Imaginary Magnitude |
Stanislaw Lem |
| Speak Up You Tiny Fool | John Glashan |
| The Stars My Destination | Alfred Bester |
| Spinors and Space-Time, vol.s 1 & 2 (ok, these I didn't read cover to cover, but jumping around in them was great.) |
Roger Penrose and Wolfgang Rindler |
| anything Tintin esp. Flight 714, The Shooting Star, The Blue Lotus, ...all of them |
Herge |
| essays, cartoons, fairy tales | James Thurber |
| The Twelve Ceasars | Suetonius |
| The Twenty One Balloons | William Pene Du Bois |
| Voyage to Arcturus | David Lindsay |
| poems (some of my favorites are quoted on my memorial to dead friends page) |
Walt Whitman |
| Watchmen | Alan Moore; Dave Gibbons illus. |
| The Willowdale Handcar, The Insect God, The West Wing, The Doubtful Guest, and many others |
Edward Gorey |
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The Wind in the Willows
(w/E H Shepard illustrations) |
Kenneth Grahame |
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Winnie the Pooh and the House on Pooh Corner (w/E H Shepard illustrations) |
A A Milne |
| The Young Visiters
(w/ Wm Pene du Bois illustrations) |
Daisy Ashford |
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reference:
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| Calculus and Analytical Geometry (3rd Edition, 1960) |
George B Thomas Jr |
| Galactic Astronomy: Structure and Kinematics | Mihalas & Binney |
| Mechanics | Keith Symon |
| Radio Astronomy;
also Antennas |
John D Kraus |
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books I'd like to have:
- The Junior Woodchuck's Guidebook - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the one from the Ursa Minor publishers) - and maybe just sneak a glance into the Necronomicon, sometime when I'm at the Miskatonic University's library. |
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and for the pictures, books full of work by:
Grandville, Odilon Redon, Max Ernst, John Held Jr.
are hightly recommended, among others.
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