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Member: Banoo

CollectionsYour library (500), Currently reading (1), To read (1), All collections (500)

Reviews179 reviews

TagsRead (282), Read 2009 (86), Nobel (77), Read 2008 (73), Read 2007 (26) — see all tags

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Groups1001 Books to read before you die, 50 Book Challenge, 75 Books Challenge for 2009, Author Theme Reads, Books that made me think, Group Reads - Literature, Reading Globally

Favorite authorsSamuel Beckett, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jonathan Evison, James Joyce, Ismail Kadare, Yasunari Kawabata, Orhan Pamuk, Walker Percy, Charles Portis, John Steinbeck, Leo Tolstoy (Shared favorites)

About meI'm a bayou-born Cajun from Cut Off, Louisiana (real name place and has nothing do to with cutting things off but more about things cut off). I've been in Singapore and Malaysia since 1989… a two year move just kind of dragged on. Though I love nasi-lemak, it's still not as good as jambalaya... luckily, thanks to my Dad, I know how to cook Cajun food. Here's my Gumbo Recipe.

I went through a period not long ago where all my reading was done using my hand phone. It was convenient. A mobile phone could be pulled out and looked at almost anywhere without question. And I could keep hundreds of books on my memory card… it was more a portable library than phone but I hated getting calls when I was in my library. So I’ve gone back to paper print. Yeah, the environment is important and we should save the trees, but the smell of a new book and feel of it’s lightly textured paper is a joy worth a tree or two… just be sure to replant a tree for every few books you read.

Problem with my reading is I don’t remember things too well. I’ve got multiple copies of books. It’s a costly problem. I think it may be an age thing, though I’m not fully convinced of that. My memory goes back a couple of weeks fairly well, before that…

I'm a landscape architect working at WDI Design Sdn Bhd. I’m paid to tell people where to plant trees so that I can read more books. I design swimming pools and fountains too because water is cool.

My sign is Cynic not Virgo. The charts are wrong… I should know.

About my libraryMy library is my current library. Not my library when I was younger... or older. I've gone through many libraries and my books of yesterday seemed to have vanished from my shelves. I'm not sure where they ended up, whether they just turned to dust or sneaked off to be with other books on other shelves. I need a book dog to keep my flock of books in order. I'm beginning to think books are wild beasts and cannot be tamed.

Also I've read almost all of the books listed in my library but since my memory is limited and getting less reliable I'm only marking 'read' the books I've recently gone through.

Currently Reading
• Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston

2009 Completed Books
• Quicksand, Nella Larsen
• Imperium In Imperio, Sutton E. Griggs
• Teatro Grottesco, Thomas Ligotti
• Zen in the Art of Writing, Ray Bradbury
• Valis, Philip K. Dick
• Poachers, Tom Franklin
• The Confusions of Young Törless, Robert Musil
• Savage Night, Jim Thompson
• The Bells of Nagasaki, Takashi Nagai
• The Woman in Black, Susan Hill
• Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
• The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett
• The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
• The Following Story, Cees Nooteboom
• Magnetic Field, Ron Loewinsohn
• Nine, Andrzej Stasiuk
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches, Matsuo Basho
• The Izu Dancer and Other Stories, Kawabata & Inoue
• The Hunting Gun, Yasushi Inoue
• Willard and His Bowling Trophies, Richard Brautigan
• Detective Story, Imre Kertész
• Novel without a Name, Duong Thu Huong
• The Eye, Vladimir Nabokov
• Salmonella Men on Planet Porno, Yasutaka Tsutsui
• Aimez-vous Brahms, Françoise Sagan
• Trout Fishing in America, Richard Brautigan
• The Bread of Those Early Years, Heinrich Boll
• Letters From My Windmill, Alphonse Daudet
• Natasha: And Other Stories, David Bezmozgis
• Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges
• Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
• The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories, Tim Burton
• The Haunted Dolls' House, M. R. James
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Broken April, Ismail Kadare
• Diary of a Bad Year, J.M. Coetzee
• The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
• Fire Ants, Gerald Duff
• In the Miso Soup, Ryu Murakami
• The Code of the Woosters, P.G. Wodehouse
• Quicksand, Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
• A Dog's Heart: An Appalling Story, Mikhail Bulgakov
• Almost Transparent Blue, Ryu Murakami
• Dante, Dante Alighieri
• Smashed, Squashed, Splattered, Chewed, Chunked and Spewed, Lance Carbuncle
• Gather the Weeds, Patrick Kilgallon
• Blind Willow, Sleeping Women, Haruki Murakami
• Seven Nights, Jorge Luis Borges
• The Ministry of Fear, Graham Greene
• House of Glass, Pramoedya Ananta Toer
• Diary of a Mad Old Man, Junichiro Tanizaki
• Dark Water, Koji Suzuki
• The New Life, Orhan Pamuk
• My Loose Thread, Dennis Cooper
• In Praise of Shadows, Junichiro Tanizaki
• Five by Endo, Shusaku Endo
• Audition, Ryu Murakami
• Footsteps, Pramoedya Ananta Toer
• Hauntings: Bangla Ghost Stories, edited by Suchitra Samanta
• Hell, Yasutaka Tsutsui
• Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo
• Ubik, Philip K. Dick
• The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain
• Child of All Nations, Pramoedya Ananta Toer
• The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
• This Earth of Mankind, Pramoedya Ananta Toer
• Humpty Dumpty in Oakland, Philip K. Dick
• Bayou Farewell, Mike Tidwell
• The Lake, Yasunari Kawabata
• Karnak Café, Naguib Mahfouz
• Fever, J. M. G. Le Clézio
• The Tenant, Roland Topor
• Lost Paradise, Cees Nooteboom
• Prufrock and Other Observations, T.S. Eliot
• Terra Amata, J. M. G. Le Clézio
• The Nimrod Flipout: Stories, Etgar Keret
• 69, Ryu Murakami
• Shadow Family, Miyuki Miyabe
• Utz, Bruce Chatwin
• The Giants, J. M. G. Le Clézio
• The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
• Please Don't Call Me Human, Wang Shuo
• Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine, Stanley Crawford
• A Prescription for Love :P, Leeanne Marie Stephenson
• Stories of Anton Chekhov, Anton Chekhov

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