Sometimes misreading book covers or spines pleases me unduly

20881485The Abominable Dan Simmons

After Dark, My Sweet Jim Thompson

Archaeologies of the Future Fredric Jameson

The Burden Agatha Christie

The Deep Peter Benchley

Demand the Impossible Tom Moylan (though I have long settled for the smart and lovely Tom Moylan)

Discipline and Punish Michel Foucault

Drown Junot Díaz (sorry, Junot!)61ktLfUzqOL

The Ecstatic Victor LaValle

Everything Belongs to the Future Laurie Penny

Farewell, My Lovely Raymond Chandler

Fifty Degrees Below Kim Stanley Robinson

The Gradual Christopher Priest

The Hollow Agatha Christie

The Hollow Man Dan Simmons

51saFZsE6RL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_The Human Stain Philip Roth (although he undoubtedly prefers to contemplate The Professor of Desire Philip Roth)

Leather Maiden Joe R. Lansdale (sorry, Joe, but it’s how I picture you now whenever I hear your name)

Mr Britling Sees It Through H.G. Wells

Occupy Noam Chomsky

The Peripheral William Gibson (remember when he was absolutely central?)

The Queen’s Fool Philippa Gregory

Search and Destroy Tom Clancystone

Serenade James M. Cain

Signatures of the Visible Fredric Jameson

Sixty Days and Counting Kim Stanley Robinson

Stone Adam Roberts (sorry, Adam, but at least I’m not advocating people Splinter Adam Roberts, like you’re a log, or Salt Adam Roberts like you’re some kind of slug – and of course I always really think of you as The Thing Itself)WeCanBuildYou(1stEd)

Terrorist John Updike

Together We Kill Mickey Spillane

The Transparency of Evil Jean Baudrillard (bestselling sequel to The OHP of Evil Jean Baudrillard)

We Can Build You Philip K. Dick

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s