READING 1990

Attached is a list of the books I read in 1990. Sometimes I add markers like (*) to indicate books I particularly like. I also try to keep track of how many books of a particular kind (novel, etc.) and from a given country and century (Eng. 19th, etc.), I read each year. Richard Seltzer seltzer@samizdat.comwww.samizdat.com

For reviews of some of these books, see www.samizdat.com/isyn/reviews.html For brief notes on others, see www.samizdat.com/readrev.html For more on books and reading, see www.samizdat.com/readers.html


Jan.

1 Thomas Pynchon 5 Vineland [awful] 1 AMER N1

2 Louise Erdrich 3 **Tracks [worth rereading] 2 AMER N2

3 Larry McMurtry 2 Anything for Billy 3 AMER N3

4 Junichiro Tanizaki 1 Naomi 1 JAP N4

March

5 Syd Field 1 Screenplay 4 AMER MOV1

6 Hillis Cole & Judith Haag Complete Guide to Standard Script Formats Part I 5 AMER MOV2

7 Syd Field 2 Selling a Screenplay 6 AMER MOV3

8 Irwin R. Blacker 1 The Elements of Screenwriting 7 AMER MOV4

May

9 W.P. Kinsella 3 The Thrill of the Grass 20th CANADIAN STORIES 1

10 Brad Leithauser 1 Hence 9 AMER N5

11 Richard Powers 2 Prisoner's Dilemma 10 AMER N6

12 Tom Wolfe 2 Bonfire of the Vanities 11 AMER N7

13 Carl Foreman 1 High Noon (screenplay) 12 AMER SP1

14 Reginald Rose 1 Twelve Angry Men (screenplay) 13 AMER SP2

15 Nathan Douglas 1 & Harold Jacob Smith 1 The Defiant Ones (screenplay) 14 AMER SP3

June

16 Shane Black 1 Lethal Weapon (screenplay) 15 AMER SP4

17 Mitch Grannunzio 1 Second Sight (screenplay) 16 AMER SP5

18 Syd Field 3 The Screenwriter's Workbook 17 AMER MOV5

19 Corey Bleckman 1 Dominick & Eugene (screenplay) 18 AMER SP6

July

20 Robert Parker Playmates 19 AMER MY1

August

21 Anne Tyler 1 Breathing Lessons 20 AMER N8

September

22 Richard Feynman 1 Surely You're Joking 21 AMER BIO1

23 Franz Kafka 3 The Castle 1 CZECH N9

24 Mario Vargas Llosa 1 War at the End of the World 1 PERU N10

25 Whitley Strieber 1 Majestic 22 AMER N11

26 Carrie Fischer 1 Postcards from the Edge 23 AMER N12

October

27 Elias Canetti Auto da Fe 1 ROM N13

November

28 Thomas Sanchez 1 ***Rabbit Boss 24 AMER N14

29 Steve Erickson 3 **Tours of the Black Clock 25 AMER N15

30 Thomas Sanchez 2 **Mile Zero 26 AMER N16

December

31 Leslie Epstein 1 Pinto and Son 27 AMER N17

32 Cliff Stoll 1 The Cuckoo's Egg 28 AMER BUS1




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