I’ve been at this for a long while, but I’m almost done. I have a goal of reading 50 books this year.

in no particular order:
(I also have an account at Goodreads.com – add me, MDodson)

1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. The Catcher in the Rye
3. The Great Gatsby
4. Romeo and Juliet
5. The Odyssey
6. Twilight
7. Eclipse
8. New Moon
9. Breaking Dawn
10. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
11. Fight Club
12. Choke
13. Survivor
14. Invisible Monsters
15. Lullaby
16. Diary
17. Haunted
18. Snuff
19. Stranger Than Fiction
20. Pygmy
21. The Hunger Games
22. Catching Fire
23. Mockingjay
24. A Living Nightmare (Cirque Du Freak #1)
25. The Vampire’s Assistant
26. Tunnels of Blood
27. Vampire Mountain
28. Trials of Death
29. The Vampire Prince
30. Hunters of the Dusk
31. Allies of the Night
32. Killers of the Dawn
33. The Lake of Souls
34. Lord of the Shadows
35. Sons of Destiny
36. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
37. The City of Ember
38. Othello
39. The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1)
40. The Reptile Room
41. The Wide Window
42. The Miserable Mill
43. The Austere Academy
44. The Ersatz Elevator
45. The Vile Village
46. The Tell-Tale Heart
47. The Cask of Amontillado
48. The Fall of the House of Usher
49. The Raven and Other Poems
50. Tuck Everlasting
51. Watchmen
52. A Million Little Pieces
53. My Friend Leonard
54. Happy Cruelty Day!: Daily Celebrations of Quiet Desperation
55. You Are a Miserable Excuse for a Hero!: Book 1 in the Just Make a Choice! Series
56. The Terrible, Horrible, Temp-to-Perm Debacle
57. Interview with the Vampire
58. The Scarlet Letter
59. High Fidelity
60. It’s Kind of a Funny Story
61. Be More Chill
62. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
63. Jesus’ Son
64. Batman: Hush
65. Alas, Babylon
66. Batman: The Completed History
67. Dear John
68. Is Kissing a Girl Who Smokes Like Licking an Ashtray?
69. Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid
70. White Oleander
71. Kissing Doorknobs
72. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
73. Looking for Alaska
74. Paper Towns
75. I Can’t Believe I’m Still Single
76. Skellig
77. Beastly
78. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker’s Guide, book #1)
79. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
80. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
81. Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist
82. Running with Scissors
83. The Crucible
84. Speak
85. I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell
86. The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
87. The New Dead: A Zombie Anthology
88. Beowulf
89. Coraline
90. Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
91. The Princess Bride
92. Kick-Ass
93. Ghost World
94. Zombicorns
95. The Lightning Thief
96. Jumanji

145

Duff: Maybe we can use slingshots to rob the place.
John: A slingshot is not a real weapon, Duff.
Duff: Oh, yeah? Well maybe you’d like to define the word “weapon’ for me while this plastic doll smashes into your temple at 180 miles per hour.

146

Elaine: [whispers] He’s an asshole.
Duff: Mmm… casserole.
Elaine: I said asshole.
Duff: I heard casserole!

147

Detective Charles: I turned 40 last week. Do you know what I did? I got my colon scoped by Dr. Spencer. Do you know what he told me? He said “Detective Charles, you have one of the cleanest rectums I’ve ever seen.” and do you know why? During my quiet time here at work I use a toothbrush that I have here in my desk to get to the really hard to find spots… just for a really good scrubbin’... you guys think you’re so smart don’t you?
Duff: No
Detective Charles: The way you made those survilence tapes just… disapear? You just… got rid of ‘em some how…
John: What tapes?
Detective Charles: Will you do me a personal favor son?
John: Sure.
Detective Charles: Don’t ever play ME… like a flute… OK? Because see, you two idiots got real lucky, I don’t have enough to keep you here. But mark my words gentlemen… I mean… you’re goin’ down. I mean… you’re either goin’ down… or by God i’m gonna’ take you down. But either way… once you’re down?
[picks up a paper weight and slams it on his desk three times]
Detective Charles: YOU’LL STAY DOWN! YOU’LL STAY DOWN! YOU… WILL… STAY DOWN!

139

Paul Avery: Jesus Herald Christ on rubber crutches Bobby! What are you doing? You’re doing that thing again. That thing we discussed… starts with an L…
Robert Graysmith: Oh looming.

140

Robert Graysmith: [Both are brushing their teeth] Spit.
Aaron Graysmith: I swallowed it.
Robert Graysmith: Why?
Aaron Graysmith: It was minty.

141

Dave Toschi: Whoever this is, you owe me another lamp.

142

Paul Avery: Methinks our friend is a tad fuckered in the head.

143

Arthur Leigh Allen: I am not the Zodiac. And if I were, I certainly wouldn’t tell you.

144

Robert Graysmith: Doesn’t it bother you that people call you Shorty?
Shorty: Doesn’t it bother you that people call you retard?
Robert Graysmith: Nobody calls me that.
Shorty: Right