(i realize that was an annoying post. i've gotten a little obsessed with lists of books, though. i just read benjamin's essay on book-collecting--it's the one piece in that book i can get into without getting confused--and i've spent a couple of hours playing on amazon.com, trying to get it to recommend things that i like. i've put in a couple of hundred books and it's getting marginally better, but not to the point where it's reading my mind.

i don't know why my expectations are so high. except that the automatic-movie-picker thing was pretty good.)