The List: Books Read from February 1-29, 2012

86. Wondrous Beginnings ed. M.H. Greenberg (fantasy writers have the worst first stories)

87. Nancy Drew and the Flying Saucer Mystery by Caroline Keene (girls like this stuff?)

88. Entertainment by Algis Budrys

89. The Divine Invasion  by Philip K. Dick (big letdown, but he's still awesome)

90. Rod Serling's Other Worlds (includes The Underdweller, my  favorite William F. Nolan story)

91. Hallowed Be The Extreme by John Cunnings (beward of books with 'extreme' in the title)

92. The Cranes That Built The Cranes by Jeremy Dyson

93. Live Girls by Beth Nugent (a lot of 'edgy' fiction just dribbles away in the end)

94. The Golden Ass by Apuleius

95. Day of the Locust by Nathaniel West

96. City of Glass by Paul Auster (liked it, usually kind of thing I hate i.e. something by Paul Auster)

97. Boomerang by Barry Hannah (outstanding memoir-as-fiction or something)

98. Tours of the Black Clock by Steve Erickson (the best half-book writer around)

99. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare by Henry Miller (thought this was 100...ah shit...)

100. Wasp by Eric Frank Russell (cool scifi about a terrorist)

101. Phase IV by Barry N. Malzberg (makes more sense than the movie)

102. Year's Best Horror X by Karl Edward Wagner

103. Year's Best Horror XI

104. XII

105. IX

106. VI

107. VII

108. All-Night Visitors by Clarence Major (angry black stuff...kept saying "Don't hit me!" as I read)

109. Darkside ed. by J. Pelan (some truly disgusting stuff, not really horror...yuckaroony...)

110. Great Tales of Suspense (Waterhill Classics)

111. IN DREAMS BEGIN RESPONSIBILITIES BY DELMORE SCHWARTZ (find of the marathon!)

112. Spaceman Blues by B.F. Slattery

113. The Other World by John Wynne (dark packaging generally disappoints)

114. My Name is Legion by Roger Zelazny (ok RZ, not his best...will get to that)

115. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch (just cuz you're dying doesn't make you a good writer)

116. Our Children's Children by Clifford D. Simak (neither does being dead)

117. Thunder on the LEft by Christopher Morley (GREAT writing, need to read again)

118. Stop-Time by Frank Conroy (outstanding memoir)

119. Horrible Beginnings by Martin H. Greenberg (best of the "beginnings" series)

120. Et Tu, Babe by Mark Leyner (smart, fast, gets tediously smart, fast)

121. Dusk by James Salter

122. Slan by A.E. Van Vogt

Somewhere I lost three books...but that brings us up to date.  Us?