Books I.

This is an incomplete list of some of the books I have in my collection.


Black Beauty - Anna Sewell.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm - Kate Douglas Wiggin.
History Of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russell.

Education And The Social Order - Bertrand Russell.
The Histories - Herodotus.
Vanity Fair - William Thackeray.
Les Misérables - Victor Hugo.

The Hunchback Of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo.
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy.
War And Peace - Leo Tolstoy.
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë.
Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde - R. L. Stevenson.
Crime And Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Notes From Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky.
The Odyssey - Homer.
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert.
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez.
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess.

Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell.
Men And Women - Robert Browning.
Leonardo Da Vinci - D. M. Field.
Ice Station - Matthew Reilly.
Tommo & Hawk - Bryce Courtenay.
The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie.

The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins.
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien.
The Lord Of The Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien.
The Inquisition - Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh.
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey.
The Consolation Of Philosophy - Alain De Botton.
The Classical World - Robin Lane Fox.
The History Of Sexuality Vol 1 - Michel Foucault.
How Language Works - David Crystal.
And The Ass Saw The Angel - Nick Cave.
The Secret History - Donna Tartt.
The Horse Whisperer - Nicholas Evans.
Magician - Raymond E. Feist.

Silverthorn - Raymond E. Feist.
A Darkness At Sethanon - Raymond E. Feist.
The Story Of English Literature - Edward Albert and C. D. Poster.
A Short History Of English Literature - Ifor Evans.
Grug Learns To Read - Ted Prior.
Pride And Prejudice And Zombies - Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith.

The Runner - Christopher Reich.
'The Office Inbox', Jokes For Her.
The Great Australian And New Zealand Book Of Baby Names - Cecily Dynes.
The Final Days Of Michael Hutchence - Mike Gee.
The Wishing Horse - Malcolm Yorke.
Incendiary - Chris Cleave.
Dancing Brumby's Rainbow - Elyne Mitchell.
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom.

Goosebumps: A Shocker On Shock Street - R. L. Stine.
Goosebumps: A Night In Terror Tower - R. L. Stine.
The Pleasures Of Love - Jean Plaidy.
The Lady In The Tower - Jean Plaidy.
The Outsider - Albert Camus.
Delta Of Venus - Anaïs Nin.
The Catcher In The Rye - J. D. Salinger.

Motherless Daughters - Hope Edelman.
Roget's Thesaurus - Peter Mark Roget.
Habitus Disgustica - Ian Whitelaw.
The Vulgar Tongue - Francis Grose.
Every Girl Is The End Of The World For Me - Jeffrey Brown.
Any Easy Intimacy - Jeffrey Brown.
The Meaning Of Life: According To The Great And The Good - Kinnier, Kernes, Tribbensee and Van Puymbroek.
The Virgin Suicides - Geoffrey Eugenides.

The Quicksand Pony - Alison Lester.
The Haunting Of L. - Howard Norman.
In A Dark Wood Wandering - Hella S. Haasse.
100 Hair Raising Horror Stories - Al Sarantino and Martin H. Greenberg.
Gods And Myths Of Ancient Egypt - Mary Barnett.
The Noble Horse - Monique and Hans D. Dossenbach.
The Collins Big Book Of Art - David G. Wilkins and Iain Zaczek.

Edvard Munch - Ian Dunlop.
Nursery Rhymes And Fairy Tales - Margaret Tarrant.
Whatever Happens To Baby Horses? - Bill Hall.

Ten Little Known Facts About Hippopotamuses - Douglas Little.
The Very Best Of Friends - Margaret Wild and Julie Vivas.
The Complete Book Of Drawing - Barrington Barber.
A History Of Art - H. W. Janson.
Kurt Cobain Journals.

The New Encyclopaedia Of The Horse - Elwyn Hartley Edwards.
Uncommissioned Art: An A-Z Of Australian Graffiti - Christine Dew.

Quotes I.

Here are some quotes, poems... shit that's not by me, but which I love.


"I want to go to curly beach
And ride the curly sea
And paddle out beyond the reach
Of those who'd straighten me.
I'll take a little curly shell
And hold it to my ear
And when I hear the distant swell:
The gentle, distant magic bell,
I'll know the coast is clear." - Michael Leunig.


"Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think." - Horace.


"I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all." - Alfred Lord Tennyson.


"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it." - John Stuart Mill.


"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean.


"Life is not worth living unless one can be indiscreet to intimate friends." - Isaiah Berlin.


"If I could be a lovely chap
Life would fall into my lap
And all my words would sound so nice
You'd want to hear me say them twice.
But what I want to say to you
Is only what I think is true
And so, alas, I'll always be
A rather unattractive me." - Michael Leunig.


"Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans." - John Lennon.


"Thought must be the harder; the heart, the keener.
Courage must be greater as our strength grows less." - 'Maldon'.


"Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony." - Lou Reed.


"You do not need the Bible to justify love, but no better tool has been invented to justify hate." - Richard A. Weatherwax.


"We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because comets struck the earth and wiped out dinosaurs, thereby giving mammals a chance not otherwise available (so thank your lucky stars in a literal sense); because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and crook. We may yearn for a 'higher' answer - but none exists. This explanation, though superficially troubling, if not terrifying, is ultimately liberating and exhilarating. We cannot read the meaning of life passively in the facts of nature. We must construct these answers ourselves - from our own wisdom and ethical sense. There is no other way."  - Stephen Jay Gould.


"Though my rime be ragged,
Tatter'd and jagged,
Rudely rain-beated,
Rusty and moth-eaten,
If ye take well therewith,
It hath in it some pith." - John Skelton.


"It is better to destroy, than to create what is meaningless." - Every Time I Die, 'Imitation Is The Sincerest From Of Battery'.