Books I Read in 2011
Books read in 2011:
(RB)=read before
Neil Gaiman: The Graveyard Book 9/10
Amy Greenfield, Edward Crouse, Curtis Harrington, Dennis Hopper, Gary Graver, Shelley Winters, Bill Condon, Debbie Reynolds: Curtis Harrington: Cinema on the Edge 7/10
L. Frank Baum: The Woggle-Bug 7/10 (RB)
L. Frank Baum: Tik-Tok of Oz 9/10 (RB)
Ted Talley: Terra Nova 9/10
John Ostrander, Kim Yale, Paul Kupperberg, Cary Bates: The Janus Directive 7/10
William F. Brown: The Girl in the Freudian Slip 7/10
Jamie Delano: Hellblazer: The Devil You Know (except The Horrorist)
William F. Brown: A Single Thing in Common 7/10
Montague Rhodes James: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, introduction by E.F. Bleiler 7/10
Neil Gaiman: Black Orchid 9/10
Francine Prose: Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them 9/10
John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi 9/10
Scott Edelman: Captain Marvel 7/10
Patrick J. Smith: The Tenth Muse: A Historical Study of the Opera Libretto 9/10
Samuel Beckett: How It Is 9/10
Ruth Plumly Thompson: Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz 8/10 (RB)
Tom Holt: Flying Dutch 8/10
Edwene Gaines: The Four Spiritual Laws of Prosperity 8/10
Abraham Merritt: Burn, Witch, Burn! 7/10
John Ostrander: Firestorm/Swamp Thing: The Elemental War 8/10
Arnold Drake: The Doom Patrol Archives, Vol. 2, introduction by Roy Thomas 8/10
Gary Fisher: Channel Surfing with God 6/10
John Marc DeMatteis: Doctor Fate: The Night of Brahma 7/10
Jeff Barstock: Song of Oz 9/10
Eric Origen and Gan Golan: The Adventures of Unemployed Man 10/10
Doug Moench: The Spectre 8/10
Keith Giffen and John Marc DeMatteis: Justice League: The Teasdale Imperative 5/10
John Marc DeMatteis: Doctor Fate: The End of Innocence 7/10
Jamie Delano: Hellblazer: The Family Man 9/10
Grant Morrison: Doom Patrol: The Painting That Ate Paris 10/10
Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno: Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments edited by Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, translated by Edmund Jephcott 10/10
Richard Murray Vaughan: Camera, Woman 6/10
Brian K. Vaughan: Runaways: Teenage Wasteland 9/10
Grant Morrison: Doom Patrol: Down Paradise Way 10/10
Grant Morrison: Animal Man: Origin of the Species 9/10
Neil Gaiman: Death: The Time of Your Life 8/10
Douglas Adams: Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency 8/10
Joe Quesada: Nyx: Wannabe 9/10
Nicoline Van Der Sijs: Cookies, Coleslaw, and Stoops: The Influence of Dutch on the North American Languages 9/10
Doug Wheeler, with Andrew Helfer: Swamp Thing 8/10
Jamie Delano: Hellblazer: Dead-Boy’s Heart [34-40] 10/10
Dick Martin: The Ozmapolitan of Oz 7/10
Scott Kolins, with Geoff Johns: Solomon Grundy 7/10
Jay Conrad Levinson, David Perry: Guerilla Marketing for Job Hunters 2.0: 1,001 Unconventional Tips and Tactics for Landing Your Dream Job; foreword by Darren Hardy, Publisher, Success magazine
Neil Gaiman: The Book of Magic, introduction by Roger Zelazny 10/10 (RB)
Kevin Wayne Jeter: Mister E 7/10
Peter Milligan: Shade, the Changing Man: The American Scream 9/10
Rachel Cosgrove Payes: The Wicked Witch of Oz 8/10
Eric Shanower: The Giant Garden of Oz 9/10
Garth Ennis: Hellblazer: Dangerous Habits 8/10
Gina Wickwar: The Hidden Prince of Oz 9/10
John Ostrander: Firestorm: Blaze of Glory [94-100] 9/10
Fred Van Lente: Marvel Zombies 5 8/10
Josh Frank with Charlie Buckholtz: In Heaven Everything Is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theatre 9/10
Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges: House of Mystery: Love Stories for Dead People 9/10
John Pierson: Spike, Mike Slackers & Dykes: A Guided Tour Through a Decade of Independent Cinema 8/10
Paul Kupperberg: Checkmate! 8/10
Plátōn/Plato: Politea [Ē Peri Dikaioy, Politikos]/The Republic [or On Justice, Political], translated by Paul Shorey [read the first three books, then forced to return to the library]
Warren Leight: Side Man 9/10
Neil Gaiman: The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes, introduction by Karen Berger (RB) 9/10
Grant Morrison: Animal Man: Deus Ex Machina 10/10
George Pérez: Wonder Woman: The Savage Moon [25-35] 9/10
Peter Milligan: Animal Man: Schrödinger’s Pizza [27-32] 9/10
Patricia Hersch: A Tribe Apart: A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence 9/10
John Marc DeMatteis: Doctor Fate: The Endless End! 8/10
Guy Debord: The Society of the Spectacle, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith 9/10
Adrian Athique and Douglas Hill: The Multiplex in India: a Cultural Economy of Urban Leisure 8/10
Garth Ennis: Hellblazer: Bloodlines 9/10
Michael Fleisher: Wrath of the Spectre 9/10
Richard Schchner: Performance Studies, 2nd Edition 10/10
Henri Lefebvre: The Production of Space [forced to return after reading 138 pages]
Matt Wagner: Sandman Mystery Theatre: Dr. Death and The Night of the Butcher 8/10
Matt Wagner and Steven T. Seagle: Sandman Mystery Theatre: The Hourman and The Python 9/10
Neil Gaiman: Neil Gaiman’s Midnight Days 10/10
Books I left incomplete as the year closed:
Don Mitchell: Cultural Geography
Eric Butterworth: Spiritual Economics
Dennis O’Neill: The Question: Zen and Violence
Mike Sekowsky: Diana Prince: Wonder Woman, vol. 2
Marianne Williamson: A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever, introduction by Dean Ornish
Hy Bender: The Sandman Companion
Richard N. Bolles: The Job Hunter’s Survival Guide
Jim Steranko & Co.: Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., vol. 1
Harvey Pekar: American Splendor
Stan Lee: Marvel Masterworks Vol. 2: The Fantastic Four, Vol. 1
William Messner-Loebs: Doctor Fate
John Marc DeMatteis: The Defenders
Nancy A. Collins: Swamp Thing
John Ostrander: Suicide Squad
George Pérez: Wonder Woman
Cary Bates: Captain Atom
Jeff Parker: Thunderbolts
Tom Veitch: Animal Man
