I love writing, but I’ve found that I have a hard time containing myself to only one forum. I have a Writing blog, naturally, dedicated to the life and musings of a writer (The Writer’s Den), I have a newsy-journalist type blog (The National Affairs Desk, Toronto), I have a seasonal story blog (The Campfire Pages: stop me anytime!) and I even have a Fan-Fic page (UHF Signals!)
And now, I have this, Project Hunter.
I don’t know why I feel the need to separate all my thoughts, but I do. I have varied interests; music, writing, art, film, history etc…and blogs are best when left focused and not a rambling catch-all of everything in our brains. Of course, that’s what THIS is, a rambling catch-all of everything in my brains. Leave it to me to make a rule in one sentence and then break it in the next!
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Recently someone asked me to publish a list of the books in my personal library. This struck me as a very daunting task, as I have at least 150 books or more, until this particular someone told me they had 1500-2000 books they wanted to list (good luck with that!) So with further ado, I’ll give you all a sample of what’s in my personal collection, book wise. In the future I’ll be adding a legend (recommended books, crappy books, etc..) and some synopsi (what IS the plural of synopsis? A quick Google reveals it to be “Synopses”)
Enjoy the list, which for the time being is un-alphabetized, and feel free to recommend books to me.
The David Hunter Official Library (DHOL), Part One
Brave New World- Aldous Huxley
Bluebeard- Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five- Kurt Vonnegut
Cosmos - Carl Sagan
The Sun also Rises- Ernest Hemingway
The Colorado Kid- Stephen King
The Elements of Style- William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White
Sherlock Holmes, the Complete Novels and Stories Vol. 1- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Night Lives On- Walter Lord
Of Mice and Men- John Steinbeck
The Red Pony- John Steinbeck
Cannery Row- John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck
The Tell-Tale heart and Other Writings- Edgar Allan Poe
On Writing- Stephen King
Different Seasons- Stephen King
The Stand- Stephen King
The Green Mile- Stephen King
Night Shift- Stephen King
Skeleton Crew- Stephen King
Duma Key- Stephen King
The Pigman- Paul Zindel
The Revolutionary Age of Andrew Jackson- Robert V. Remini
Dianetics- L. Ron Hubbard
Her Name, Titanic- Charles Pellegrino
The Good Earth- Pearl S. Buck
The World Without Us- Alan Weisman
Durango Street- Frank Bonham
Cool Cat- Frank Bonham
Secrets of the Past- Readers Digest Paperback
Great Detectives- Otto Prenzler
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays- Henry David Thoreau
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest- Ken Kesey
In Cold Blood- Truman Capote
To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee
Deviant- Harold Schechter
Watership Down- Richard Adams
On the Road- Jack Kerouac
Dune- Frank Herbert
The Monkey Wrench Gang- Edward Abbey
Down the River- Edward Abbey
Desert Solitaire- Edward Abbey
The Journey Home- Edward Abbey
The Best Short Stories of the Modern Age- Selected by Douglas Angus
Valentines and Vitriol- Rex Reed
The Rough Guide to Boston- David Fagundes and Anthony Grant
A Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickens
The Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy (entire series) - Douglas Adams
No One Here Gets Out Alive, the Doors- Jeff Hopkins
Zodiac- Robert Graysmith
Zodiac Unmasked- Robert Graysmith
The Lord of the Rings- J.R.R. Tolkien (entire series)
The Hobbit- J.R.R. Tolkien
Harbrace College Handbook for Canadian Writers
Part Two
Hamlet- William Shakespeare
Othello - William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet- William Shakespeare
Henry IV Part 1 & 2- William Shakespeare
Hamlet- William Shakespeare
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Mark Twain
Roughing It- Mark Twain
1984- George Orwell
Shane- Jack Schaefer
The Catcher in the Rye- J.D. Salinger
Journey to the Center of the Earth- Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days- Jules Verne
20,000 Leagues under the Sea- Jules Verne
The Time Machine- H.G. Wells
Great Short Works of Jack London- Edited by Earle Labor
An Anthology of Verse- Edited by Roberta A. Charlesworth
Treasure Island- Robert Louis Stevenson
The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wiseguy- Nicholas Pileggi
Blue Highways- William Moon
21st Century Dictionary of Quotations- The Princeton Language Institute
Cold Case- Linda Barnes
Billions & Billions- Carl Sagan
Pale Blue Dot- Carl Sagan
The Rolling Stone Rock and Roll Reader 1974- Edited by Ben Fong Torres
Redrum the Innocent- Kirk Makin
Celebrity Murders- Max Haines
Anthology of Robert Frost’s Poems- Selected by Louis Untermeyer
Where Have All the Bullets Gone? - Spike Milligan
Mussolini: His Part in my Downfall- Spike Milligan
Chuck Amuck- Chuck Jones
Chuck Re-ducks- Chuck Jones
Complete World Bartender Guide- Standard Reference to 2000 drinks ~ Bob Sennett
Searching For Bobby Orr- Stephen Brunt
The Game- Ken Dryden
Hope you enjoy this voyeuristic look into my book collection. There are some classics, and some laughables, that's for sure!
Take care for now.
To be continued…
