Looking for Kurtz

He surely wanted nothing from the wilderness but space to breathe in and push on through.  His need was to exsist, and to move onwards at the greatest possible risk, and with a maximum of privation.                                                                                                                                        -Joseph Conrad                                                                                                                                         Heart of Darkness

Joel's Around the World Reading list: -James Clavell's Shogun -Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness -William Golding's Darkness Visible -Alex Garland's The Beach -John Grisham's The Partner -Herman Hesse's Demian -Glen Green's The Juror -Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull -John Grisham's The Firm -Stephen King's Thinner -Robert Stevenson's Treasure Island -Joseph Conrad's The Nigger of the 'Narcissus', Typhoon and other stories -Stephen King's Hearts in Atlantis -W. Somerset Maughan's 3 Dramas -- The Letter, The Sacred Flame, For Services Rendered -William Golding's The Lord of the Flies -John Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby -Charles Dickens' Great Expectations -Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment -Joseph Conrad's Almayer's Folly -George Orwell's Animal Farm -Henry James' The Turn of the Screw -Niccolo' Machiavelli's The Prince -W. Somerset Maughan's Up at the Villa -Jules Verne's Around The World in Eighty Days -George Orwell's 1984 -W. Somerset Maughan's The Razor's Edge -W. Somerset Maughan's Christmas Holiday -Julian Rathbone's The Kings of Albion -John L. Parker Jr.'s Once A Runner -Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart -Paul Auster's Leviathan -John Updike's Brazil -Paul Theroux's The Mosquito Coast -J.R.R. Tolkein's The Lord Of The Rings -Jack Kerouac's On The Road -Nathan Huggin's Fredrick Douglas -- Slave and Citizen -John Grisham's The Testament -Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge Of Courage -Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground -Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange -Katherine Dunn's Geek Love -Bob Rotella's Golf Is Not A Game Of Perfect -Ernest Hemingway's For Whom The Bell Tolls -Lance Armstrong's (with Sally Jenkins) It's Not About The Bike -- My Journey Back To Life -Harlan Coben's Tell No One -W. Somerset Maughan's Of Human Bondage -Jack London's Call Of The Wild & White Fang -Henry David Thoreau's Walden, or Life In The Woods -Lisa Goldstein's The Dream Years -Hunter S. Thompson's Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas -Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim

Lisa's Around the World Reading list: -Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha -Alex Garland's The Beach -Glen Green's The Juror -Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull -Robert Stevenson's Treasure Island -Stephen King's Thinner -Stephen King's Hearts in Atlantis -Stephen King's Bag of Bones -W. Somerset Maughan's 3 Dramas -- The Letter, The Sacred Flame, For Services Rendered -William Golding's The Lord of the Flies -Ben Elton's Inconceivable -W. Somerset Maughan's The Razor's Edge -George Orwell's 1984 -W. Somerset Maughan's Up At The Villa -John L. Parker Jr.'s Once A Runner -Paul Auster's Leviathan