Then in that case, it'll go on the bottom of the pile, right after I read ILIAD and ODYSSEY along with the CONAN books, the entire New Gods saga, Joseph Campbell, and Walter Simonson's THOR as preparation for my Herakles book. Also, I need to read actual versions of the myth of Herakles.

But before all that, I need to read THE WORLD WITHOUT US, Cormac McCarthy's THE ROAD, and biographies of Sammy, Dino, and Ol' Blue eyes as research for BUB AND JOHNNY GO.

Whereas right now, I'm still embroiled in biographies of RFK and Elliot Ness (including Ness' own book, THE UNTOUCHABLES) for research for the Harvey Dent novel. I'm also going to need to read up on Camille Claudel for insight into Gilda.

And somewhere along there, I need to read the next four or so books of the CHRONICLES OF AMBER, as I promised Bloo I would, and I similarly promised fiveseconddelay that I'd read WAITING FOR THE GALACTIC BUS. And I need to read the complete works of Borges, because Borges is awesome.

And then I promised Nicola I'd read three books as well, but I can't remember them off-hand. I have a list somewhere.

And somewhere along the way, I really do want to reread THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV and THE IDIOT. In fact, I really should try to plow my way through and finish CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. And I never did get too far in my copy of DEMONS, which I really need to do.

So, yeah. Remind me again in a year or five of what those titles are. ;p