Want to read

-The Myth of Eternal Return by Mircea Eliade. This seems really interesting, and I have been borrowing it from a friend for... a year or more, I think, at this point. Needs looking at. Also, more things by Eliade in general. He's seeping into my thoughts and I want to see if there's more in his books that's worth it.

-Anything by Jung. Because he and M. Eliade were tight, and I'd like to hear someone contradicting Freud please.

-Independent People by Some Icelandic Person. Recommended by lovely friend from Minnesota.

-The Peloponnesian War by He Who Must Not be Named, AKA Thucydides. Sorry, man, your style has kept me again and again from comprehending much of this apparent masterpiece on war, this necessary read of anyone at all interested in the Golden Age of Athens.

-Any/every thing by Marija Gimbutas. Another recommendation from said Minnesotan.

-Of Human Bondage. By Maugham. Recommended by somewhat objectivist, atheist best friend of mine. Not that this has anything to do with the merit or lack thereof of her recommendations. Just saying.

-Gone With the Wind. See Of Human Bondage above.

-Kissing The Virgin's Mouth by Donna Gershten. Not sure why. It got on old list somehow.

-The Polish Complex. Same story.

-Ninety three by Victor Hugo. Books I didn't care for by Hugo: The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Books I fell in love with by Victor Hugo: The Man Who Laughs (I think that's the title... I always mix it up. Laughed? Laughing?), Les Miserables. So far that's a pretty good tally for Mr. Hugo, so why not read his last novel?

-Seraph on the Suwanee by Zora Neale Hurston. I think I used Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God for summer reading book reports every year from eighth to twelfth grade. Was also pretty into biographies of her, her other stories and novels, and anything else, but I haven't read this novel it seems. Oh-- Hurston was a writer of the Harlem Renaissance, co-wrote a play with Langston Hughes, recorded many customs of African Americans and people of the Caribbean, complete with dialect spelling (it wasn't considered racist at the time, and even when I read it now the tones of the various voices in Hurston's books seem sincere, not at all like the "slave" voices of books like Uncle Tom's Cabin, and more modern than Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. Modernity, or rather a touch of the universal, helps such matters). Good stories too. Strong heroines.

-The Glass Bead Game, by Herman Hesse. Seems dense but fascinating. Society of intellectuals from the future condense? all knowledge into a game, of which one character, subject of biography I think, becomes (a) master.

-A Romance on Three Legs
Biography of Glenn Gould