A Guy's Moleskine Notebook

Thoughts and reflections on works of fiction and literature. Pondering of life through pictures and words. Babbling about gay rights. Travelogues and anecdotes.

[1] Annie Proulx: Brokeback Mountain

[2] Arthur Golden: Memoirs of a Geisha

[3] Yu Hua: To Live

[4] Alan Hollinghurst: The Line of Beauty

[5] Colm Toibin: The Master

[6] Carlos Ruiz Zafon: The Shadow of the Wind

[7] William James: The Varieties of Religious Experience

[8] Charles Higham: The Civilization of Angkor

[9] Graham Greene: A Burnt-Out Case

[10] Dai Sijie: Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch

[11] Alan Hollinghurst: The Swimming-Pool Library

[12] Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita

[13] Colm Toibin: The Blackwater Lightship

[14] Alan Hollinghurst: The Folding Star

[15] Ross King: Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling

[16] Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov

[17] Jonathan Franzen: The Corrections

[18] Colm Toibin: The Story of the Night

[19] John Banville: Shroud

[20] Leo Tolstoy: Resurrection

[21] Peter Hessler: River Town, Two Years on the Yangtze

[22] Ian McEwan: The Atonement

[24] Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Love in the Time of Cholera

[25] Ignacio Padilla: Shadow without a Name

[26] Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose

[27] Richard Russo: Straight Man

[28] Fyodor Dostoevsky: Notes from Underground

[29] Alan Hollinghurst: The Spell

[30] Hermann Broch: The Death of Virgil

[31] James Baldwin: Giovanni's Room

[32] Ken Kesey: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

[33] Xingjian Gao: One Man's Bible

[34] C. Jay Cox: Latter Days

[35] Harper Lee: To Kill A Mockingbird

[36] William Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew

[37] Daniel A. Helminiak: What The Bible Really Says about Homosexuality

[38] James Baldwin: Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

[39] Kenji Yoshino: Covering - The Hidden Assault of Civil Rights

[40] Italo Calvino: If, On a Winter's Night A Traveler

[41] Arthur Phillips: The Egyptologist

[42] George Orwell: 1984

[43] Michael Warner: The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and Ethics of Queer Life

[44] Andrew Sullivan: Virtually Normal

[45] Henry James: The Wings of the Dove

[46] Jose Saramago: Blindness

[47] Umberto Eco: The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

[48] Dan Brown: Da Vinci Code

[49] Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go

[50] Ken Follett: The Pillars of Earth

[51] Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace

[52] Michael Thomas Ford: Alec Baldwin Doesn't Like Me

[53] Jonathan Franzen: How To Be Alone

[54] Jonathan Lethem: The Fortress of Solitude

[55] Matthew Pearl: The Dante Club

[56] Zadie Smith: White Teeth

[57] Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Double

[58] Jose Saramago: The Double

[59] Andrew Holleran: Dancer from the Dance

[60] Heinrich von Kleist: The Marquise of O & Other Stories

[61] Andrew Holleran: In September, the Light Changes

[62] Tom Perrotta: Little Children

January 20, 2006

Amazon.com pisses me off

I've been part of the Ammy review community for more than 5 years. The site is often infested with glitches that keep all the submitted reviews in the dark hole. What really pisses me off now is that Ammy conceitedly claims copyright to my reviews on the site. It's ridiculous that Ammy thinks it can withold my right to publish my reviews elsewhere on the internet and makes claim to my intellectual property. I consider modifying my book reviews and start distributing them here. Censorship is what puts me on my mutter because Ammy won't even tolerate words pertaining to or allusive to homosexuality. My reviews of Alan Hollingurst's novels were subjected to a time-consuming scrutiny before Ammy published them on my reviewer page. But why all the trouble? It's not Ammy's opinion anyway. Many of my friends had been thumping on me to start a blog that does justice of the true opinions of literature works. This blog will now be the primary quarter of reflections and thoughts on literature works.

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