Yes, that is my to-be-read stack. I always try to identify titles when I look at pictures like this, so for the sake of your eyes, here's a list:
- The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
- The Iliad by Homer (W.H.D. Rouse verse translation, which I'm a little uncertain about)
- The Purgatorio by Dante (John Ciardi translation)
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- A Case of Conscience by James Blish
- Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
- Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
- Yamama by Kobi Kamin (an Israeli book. Thanks to Dotan for identifying the author)
- Satan Burger by Carlton Mellick III
- McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue 13, edited by Chris Ware
- The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
- The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier
- The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin
- Kings of Albion by Julian Rathbone
- Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (not pictured)
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I read the Bulgakov book in English translation a number of years ago, and found it ... strange.
Two of the works you mention have new translations which I liked. Here are the first few lines of each.
Rage: Sing, Goddess, Achilles' rage,
Black and murderous, that cost the Greeks
Incalculable pain, pitched countless souls
Of heroes into Hades' dark,
And left their bodies to rot as feasts
For dogs and birds, as Zeus' will was done.
The Iliad translated by Stanley Lombardo (with that cool D-Day picture on the front cover)
To course on better waters the little
boat of my wit, that leaves behind her
so cruel a sea, now raises her sails,
and I will sing of that second kingdom
in which the human spirit is made clean
and becomes worthy to ascend to Heaven.
Purgatorio translated by W. S. Merwin.
Yamama is by Kobi Kamin, AFAIK.
This is probably not the ideal way to ask, but since I can't find your e-mail, would you consider writing articles or reviews for the Tenth Dimension? If so, please e-mail me (dotan at corky.net). Thanks!
That's not a pile. I've got somewhere between three and five hundred books that I haven't read yet. It's due to this illness I have where I can't walk into a bookstore without buying things.
I've been feeling the first stirrings of that illness, Dave. Happily, bookstores in Israel are so lousy and have such miniscule selections in English that I am often able to walk out of one merely with a sense of profound disappointment. Between Amazon and used booksellers, however, I think I've amassed a respectable backlog - it's certainly as big as I'd like it to get, if not a little bigger.
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