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Old 25th April 2008, 11:04am   #166
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1) Deborah Curtis - Touching From A Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division.
2) Louise Welsh - The Bullet Trick.

It jumps about a bit but it's easy to follow. The twists are good. I quite enjoyed this book.

I know this is going at a snails pace but I haven't had the urge to read until lately.
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Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
I'll give this a shot, even though I'm a bit late to the party.

1. The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
2. Permission Marketing - Seth Godin
3. The 33 Strategies of War - Robert Greene
4. Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War - Robert Coram
5. A Book of 5 Rings - Miyamoto Musashi

Got another two out of the library, so will add them to the list soon...
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Old 28th April 2008, 1:22pm   #168
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Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
1.Goethe - Faust Part I
2.Slavoj Zizek - The Universal Exception
3.Sadegh Hedayat - The Blind Owl
4.Brian Turner - Here, Bullet.
5.John Burnside - The Devils Footprints
6. Jean Baudrillard - The Spirit of Terrorism or A Requiem for the Twin Towers
7. AL Kennedy - Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains
8. The Life of Rob Roy - Anonymous
9. Miranda July - No one belongs here more than you.
10. Edwin Morgan - A book of lives.
11. TS Eliot - The Waste Land and other poems
12. Antony Samson - Who Runs This Place? An Anatomy og Britain in the 21st Century
13. Greg Philo and David Miller - Market Killing: what the free market does and what social scientists can do about it
14. Robert Crawford - A Scottish Assembly
15. James Kelman - how late it was, how late
16. Noam Chomsky - Profit over people
17. Joseph Stiglitz - Globalization and it's Discontents
18.David Frisby - Fragments of Modernity
19.Catherine Belsey - A very short intro to Poststructuralism
20. Mikail Bulgacov - The Master and Margarita
21. Paul Strathern - Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes
22. Paul Childs - Modernism
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Old 29th April 2008, 12:03am   #169
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Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
1. Chuck Palahniuk - Haunted
2. Neil Gaiman - Stardust
3. Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere
4. Gary Gibson - Stealing Light
5. Iain Banks - Steep Approach to Garbadale
6. Jed Rubenford - Interpretation of Murder
7. James Patterson - 7th Heaven
8. Tom Reynolds - Touch Me, Im Sick
9. Belle De Jour - Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl
10. Hunter S. Thompson - Hell's Angels
11. Nikki Sixx - Heroin Diaries
12. Philip Pullman - Northern Lights
13. James Patterson - The 6th Target
14. Duncan Staff - The Lost Boy
15. Kevin Smith - the Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith
16. James Patterson - You've Been Warned

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Old 29th April 2008, 4:59pm   #170
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1. Discurrsive Research in practice - Hepburn and Wiggins Eds.
2. Obedience to authority - Stanley Milgram
3. The lucifer effect - Phillip Zimbardo
4. Developing a questionnaire - Bill graham
5. About Behaviourism - B.F. Skinner
6. Language and Gender: a reader Jennifer Coates (Ed)
7. Tricks of the Mind - Derren Brown
8. Virtual Ethnography - Christine Hine
9. Wild Minds - Marc Hauser
10. The collected writings of Jung - C. G. Jung (Anthony Storr ed.)
11. Learn to remember - Dominic O'Brian
12. No Country for old men - Cormac McCarthy
13. The memory palace of Matteo Ricci - Jonathan Spence
14. Look To Windward - Iain M Banks
15. Matter - Iain M Banks
16. The Step approach to Garabdale - Iain Banks
17. Mutants - Armand Marie Leroi
18. Attack of the unsinkable rubber ducks - Christopher Brookmyer
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Old 30th April 2008, 1:11pm   #171
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Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
1.Goethe - Faust Part I
2.Slavoj Zizek - The Universal Exception
3.Sadegh Hedayat - The Blind Owl
4.Brian Turner - Here, Bullet.
5.John Burnside - The Devils Footprints
6. Jean Baudrillard - The Spirit of Terrorism or A Requiem for the Twin Towers
7. AL Kennedy - Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains
8. The Life of Rob Roy - Anonymous
9. Miranda July - No one belongs here more than you.
10. Edwin Morgan - A book of lives.
11. TS Eliot - The Waste Land and other poems
12. Antony Samson - Who Runs This Place? An Anatomy og Britain in the 21st Century
13. Greg Philo and David Miller - Market Killing: what the free market does and what social scientists can do about it
14. Robert Crawford - A Scottish Assembly
15. James Kelman - how late it was, how late
16. Noam Chomsky - Profit over people
17. Joseph Stiglitz - Globalization and it's Discontents
18.David Frisby - Fragments of Modernity
19.Catherine Belsey - A very short intro to Poststructuralism
20. Mikail Bulgacov - The Master and Margarita
21. Paul Strathern - Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes
22. Paul Childs - Modernism
23. Sammuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
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Old 30th April 2008, 1:21pm   #172
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20. Mikail Bulgacov - The Master and Margarita
In my all-time top 5.

Written during the Stalinist years (Bulgakov actually had limited personal correspondence with Stalin) and hidden and unpublished until well after he was dead. He was known for his war dramas throughout his life and was only revealed as a master satirist a quarter of a century after his death.

Awesome, awesome book.
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Old 30th April 2008, 2:41pm   #173
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Aye it was very, very good. It's good to have a russian book that's actually readable once translated.
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23. Sammuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
What'd you think of it?

I started that Bulgakov one a few years ago and really liked it, but for some reason I didn't get beyond the first few chapters... think it's just cos I wasn't reading much at the time. Reckon I'll give it another go this summer.

What're the others in your top 5, MarkMono?
I seem to have developed a weird obsession with swatching what everyone else is reading, gets me some strange looks in the library.
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Shroedingers Cat Trilogy - Robert Anton Wilson
Arabian Sands - Sir Wilfred Thesiger
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold - John Le Carre
The Travels - Marco Polo

In no particular order.
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Yeah I thought it was pretty good, a very bleak microcosm of the modern world I suppose. I dunno if it was in this thread but I've said before that I wouldn't want to actually see it performed - i can imagine it being a bit too Fry and Laurie oxbridge slapstick for my liking.
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I'll give this a shot, even though I'm a bit late to the party.

1. The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
2. Permission Marketing - Seth Godin
3. The 33 Strategies of War - Robert Greene
4. Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War - Robert Coram
5. A Book of 5 Rings - Miyamoto Musashi

Got another two out of the library, so will add them to the list soon...
6. Small is the new big - Seth Godin
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Old 2nd May 2008, 11:11am   #178
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Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
1.Goethe - Faust Part I
2.Slavoj Zizek - The Universal Exception
3.Sadegh Hedayat - The Blind Owl
4.Brian Turner - Here, Bullet.
5.John Burnside - The Devils Footprints
6. Jean Baudrillard - The Spirit of Terrorism or A Requiem for the Twin Towers
7. AL Kennedy - Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains
8. The Life of Rob Roy - Anonymous
9. Miranda July - No one belongs here more than you.
10. Edwin Morgan - A book of lives.
11. TS Eliot - The Waste Land and other poems
12. Antony Samson - Who Runs This Place? An Anatomy og Britain in the 21st Century
13. Greg Philo and David Miller - Market Killing: what the free market does and what social scientists can do about it
14. Robert Crawford - A Scottish Assembly
15. James Kelman - how late it was, how late
16. Noam Chomsky - Profit over people
17. Joseph Stiglitz - Globalization and it's Discontents
18.David Frisby - Fragments of Modernity
19.Catherine Belsey - A very short intro to Poststructuralism
20. Mikail Bulgacov - The Master and Margarita
21. Paul Strathern - Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes
22. Paul Childs - Modernism
23. Sammuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
24. Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited

Just finnished uni last week so started finnishing all the books I had part-read for ages. Good times.
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Shroedingers Cat Trilogy - Robert Anton Wilson
Arabian Sands - Sir Wilfred Thesiger
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold - John Le Carre
The Travels - Marco Polo

In no particular order.
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Yeah I thought it was pretty good, a very bleak microcosm of the modern world I suppose. I dunno if it was in this thread but I've said before that I wouldn't want to actually see it performed - i can imagine it being a bit too Fry and Laurie oxbridge slapstick for my liking.
Yeah... when reading it I couldn't imagine the slapstick-style bits ever being funny, but when my cousin went to see it she said they milked them for laughs. And apparently one of my mum's pals thought it was the funniest play she'd ever seen.

I got Brideshead Revisited outta the library yesterday, get out my brain!

1. Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
2. D. H. Lawrence - The Rainbow
3. Evelyn Waugh - A Handful of Dust
4. James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
5. Evelyn Waugh - The Loved One
6. Philip Pullman - Northern Lights
7. Philip Pullman - The Subtle Knife
8. D. H. Lawrence - Women in Love
9. Ford Madox Ford - The Good Soldier
10. Virginia Woolf - To The Lighthouse
11. Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime & Punishment
12. Joseph Conrad - Under Western Eyes
13. Laura Hird - Born Free
14. Harold Pinter - The Birthday Party
15. Samuel Beckett - Play
16. Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
17. Samuel Beckett - Happy Days
18. Samuel Beckett - Krapp's Last Tape
19. Muriel Spark - A Far Cry From Kensington
20. Hilary Mantel - Eight Months on Ghazzah Street
21. Harold Pinter - The Room / The Dumb Waiter
22. Harold Pinter - A Slight Ache
23. Harold Pinter - The Caretaker
24. Milan Kundera - Immortality
25. William Shakespeare - The Tempest
26. Kurt Vonnegut - A Man Without a Country
27. Ian McEwan - The Cement Garden
28. William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice
29. Muriel Spark - Loitering with Intent
30. Margaret Atwood - The Edible Woman

31. William Shakespeare - Anthony and Cleopatra
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Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
1. Chuck Palahniuk - Haunted
2. Neil Gaiman - Stardust
3. Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere
4. Gary Gibson - Stealing Light
5. Iain Banks - Steep Approach to Garbadale
6. Jed Rubenford - Interpretation of Murder
7. James Patterson - 7th Heaven
8. Tom Reynolds - Touch Me, Im Sick
9. Belle De Jour - Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl
10. Hunter S. Thompson - Hell's Angels
11. Nikki Sixx - Heroin Diaries
12. Philip Pullman - Northern Lights
13. James Patterson - The 6th Target
14. Duncan Staff - The Lost Boy
15. Kevin Smith - the Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith
16. James Patterson - You've Been Warned
17. Marian Keyes - Sushi For Beginners

18. Jane Moore - dot.homme
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