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Member: kswolff

CollectionsYour library (2,636), Wishlist (100), Currently reading (4), Read but unowned (6), All collections (2,706)

Reviews63 reviews

Tagsfiction (1,143), novel (771), non-fiction (339), France (180), poetry (134), UK fiction (132), gay (123), series (122), history (102), erotica (85) — see all tags

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GroupsLe Salon du Faulkner, Literary Snobs, Pynchon Pandæmonium, The Chapel of the Abyss, Writer-readers

Favorite authorsDan Abnett, R. Scott Bakker, Honoré de Balzac, Wayne Douglas Barlowe, Charles Baudelaire, Samuel Beckett, Anthony Bourdain, Anthony Burgess, Max Cannon, Robert A. Caro, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Robertson Davies, J. R. "Bob" Dobbs, James Ellroy, Jean Genet, William Gibson, Stephen Jay Gould, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Tony Kushner, Norman Mailer, William Manchester, Mike Mignola, Vladimir Nabokov, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ovid, Camille Paglia, Ezra Pound, Marcel Proust, Thomas Pynchon, Monty Python, John Rechy, Salman Rushdie, Marquis de Sade, Simon Schama, Jean Shepherd, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Alexander Theroux, Hunter S. Thompson, Andrew H. Vachss, Gore Vidal, William T. Vollmann, Evelyn Waugh, Joss Whedon (Shared favorites)

About meI'm a voracious reader. I love fiction and non-fiction. I also write fiction, speculative fiction, and book reviews.

I review books for Blogcritics.org and science fiction/fantasy books for the Joe Bob Briggs website (http://www.joebobbriggs.com/bookclub/rev...). I've been going to CONvergence for the past 2 years. Look me up, I could review your book for Joe Bob Briggs!

I write essays on TV for "The Best TV You're Not Watching". I also write reviews on my blog, "The Driftless Area Review." If you are interested in having me review your book, send a query letter to driftlessareareview @ hotmail . com. I will send you information on where to address the review copy. Whether self-published or from a major publishing house, count me interested.

A quick glance of my Library and my reviews should give you a good picture of my tastes, preferences, and interests.

My tastes are pretty scatter shot. I like the Great Writers (Proust, Pynchon, Beckett, etc.) as well as more popular commercial stuff like Andrew Vachss, James Ellroy, and Warhammer 40K novels.

Since my library is large and varied, I've established a short reading queue. This will be a guideline for me to follow and help me prioritize my reading.

Reading queue:

FICTION:

*"Liver" by Will Self (Early Reviewers) (reading now)
*"Death on the Installment Plan" by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
*"The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
*"Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy

NON-FICTION

*"I Think, Therefor Who am I?" by Peter Weissman (review copy) (reading now)
*"The White House Years," by Henry Kissinger (reading now)
*"Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco" by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
*"Citizens" by Simon Schama
*"Diplomacy" by Henry Kissinger

POETRY:

*"The Divine Comedy" by Dante
*"Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained" by John Milton
*"Milton a Poem" and "Jerusalem" by William Blake
*"The Faerie Queene" by Edmund Spenser
*"Byrne" by Anthony Burgess
*"Pale Fire" by Vladimir Nabokov
*"The Civil War" by Lucan

MULTIVOLUME:

*"Das Kapital" by Karl Marx (reading now)
*"The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon.
*"The History of Private Life" by Various

I live in Rochester, MN. Reading helps with the insufferably long Minnesota winters.

About my libraryMy library is an amalgamation of a lifetime. It's an example of wide-ranging, generalist taste, everything from fiction to non-fiction, pop to High Art and everything in between.

Homepagehttp://driftlessareareview.wordpress.com/

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Member sinceSep 12, 2008

Currently readingCapital: Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy (Penguin Classics) by Karl Marx
The White House Years by Henry A. Kissinger
I Think, Therefore Who Am I? by Peter Weissman
Things We Are Not: M-Brane SF Presents New Tales of the Queer by Christopher Fletcher