Fifty book challenge 2008

[johnnie walker]

Did you stop smoking?

Thinking about going back to this book soon, didn't give it a fair shot the first time.

Yeah i did. Haven't smoked since i read it.

[Pier Angeli]

1. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
2. Hey Nostradamus! - Douglas Coupland
3. Girlfriend In A Coma - Douglas Coupland
4. Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
5. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

I've been sooo lazy with reading these past few months, so took me ages to finish The Time Traveler's Wife. Really enjoyed it although it's quite sad.

[jondejonjon]

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
6. Small is the new big - Seth Godin

7. America Unchained - Dave Gorman

[supernothing]

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
25. R.L. Trask - Introducing Linguistics
26. John Burnside - Glister

[johnnie walker]

1. Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon
2. Neal Stephenson - The Diamond Age
3. Joe Abercrombie - The Blade Itself (The First Law: Book One)
4. Richard Morgan - Altered Carbon
5. Terry Pratchett - The Light Fantastic
6. China Miéville - The Iron Council
7. Ian Irvine - The Curse on the Chosen (Book Two of the Song of the Tears trilogy, part of the Three Worlds Cycle)
8. Richard Dawkins - Unweaving the Rainbow
9. Joe Abercrombie - Before They Are Hanged (The First Law: Book Two)
10. Terry Brooks - The Sword of Shannara (Book One of the Sword of Shannara trilogy)
11. Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash.
12. Richard Morgan - Broken Angels
13. Raymond E Fiest - Wrath of a Mad God (Book 3 of the Darkwar saga)
14. Stephen Donaldson - The Power that Preserves (The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Book 3)
15. Neal Stephenson - Quicksilver (Volume One of the Baroque Cycle)
16. Terry Brooks - The Elfstones of Shannara (Book Two of the Sword of Shannara trilogy)
17. Cory Doctorow - Little Brother (Released on Creative Commons Licence - download for free )
18. Allen Carr - The Easy Way To Stop Smoking
19. John Gribbin - Science: A History
20. Arthur C Clarke & Stephen Baxter - The Light of Other Days

One of my favourite books

[Rowsbette]

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
32. Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle
33. William Shakespeare - Macbeth
34. William Shakespeare - Othello
35. William Shakespeare - King Lear

36. Philippe Dijan - Betty Blue

[Will_Couper]

1. The Rules of the Game - Neil Strauss
2. The Hungry Moon - Ramsey Campbell
3. Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
4. Still-Watch - Mary Higgins Clark
5. Riverworld and Other Stories - Philip Jose Farmer
6. The Book of Philip Jose Farmer - Philip Jose Farmer
7. Graham Masterton Omnibus: The Hymn and Night Plague - Graham Masterton
8. Crooked Little Vein - Warren Ellis
9. Me, Hood! - Mickey Spillane
10. The Body Lovers - Mickey Spillane
11. Out of Space and Time - Clark Ashton Smith

12. Tooth and Nail - Ian Rankin

First Ian Rankin book I've read and it was...adequate. It wasn't spectacularly great and had some heavy shades of 'Red Dragon' just with a smaller dose gore.

13. Class Dis-Mythed - Robert Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye

I've been reading this series for years and its always entertaining. Pure popcorn comedy fantasy though - funny without being too taxing. This one is a bit of a commentary on both MySpace and its ilk and reality television.


Will

[jondejonjon]

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
6. Small is the new big - Seth Godin
7. America Unchained - Dave Gorman

8. Starbucked - Taylor Clark
9. Eisenhower on Leadership - Alan Axelrod

[Fiona_B]

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
19. Kevin Smith - Tales from the Clerks
20. Philip Pullman - The Subtle Knife
21. Mark Oliver Everett - Things the Grandchildren Should Know
22. Philip Pullman - Once Upon a time in the North

23. Neil Gaiman - American Gods

[Purplerose]

1. Dean Koontz - Demon Seed
2. Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner
3. Cecelia Ahern - P.S. I Love You
4. Richard Matheson - I Am Legend
5. Julie Bertagna - Exodus
6. Ian McEwan - Atonement

I am so behind on this, now uni is over I got some catching up to do!

[supernothing]

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
25. R.L. Trask - Introducing Linguistics
26. John Burnside - Glister
27. James Kelman - An Old Pub Near the Angel
28. Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar

[johnnie walker]

1. Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon
2. Neal Stephenson - The Diamond Age
3. Joe Abercrombie - The Blade Itself (The First Law: Book One)
4. Richard Morgan - Altered Carbon
5. Terry Pratchett - The Light Fantastic
6. China Miéville - The Iron Council
7. Ian Irvine - The Curse on the Chosen (Book Two of the Song of the Tears trilogy, part of the Three Worlds Cycle)
8. Richard Dawkins - Unweaving the Rainbow
9. Joe Abercrombie - Before They Are Hanged (The First Law: Book Two)
10. Terry Brooks - The Sword of Shannara (Book One of the Sword of Shannara trilogy)
11. Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash.
12. Richard Morgan - Broken Angels
13. Raymond E Fiest - Wrath of a Mad God (Book 3 of the Darkwar saga)
14. Stephen Donaldson - The Power that Preserves (The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Book 3)
15. Neal Stephenson - Quicksilver (Volume One of the Baroque Cycle)
16. Terry Brooks - The Elfstones of Shannara (Book Two of the Sword of Shannara trilogy)
17. Cory Doctorow - Little Brother (Released on Creative Commons Licence - download for free )
18. Allen Carr - The Easy Way To Stop Smoking
19. John Gribbin - Science: A History 20. Arthur C Clarke & Stephen Baxter - The Light of Other Days
21. Dan Abnett - The Horus Heresy book 1: Horus Rising (Warhammer 40k)

Suprisingly good. I wasn't really expecting much (it is a warhammer 40k after all), but i really enjoyed it.

[Will_Couper]

1. The Rules of the Game - Neil Strauss
2. The Hungry Moon - Ramsey Campbell
3. Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
4. Still-Watch - Mary Higgins Clark
5. Riverworld and Other Stories - Philip Jose Farmer
6. The Book of Philip Jose Farmer - Philip Jose Farmer
7. Graham Masterton Omnibus: The Hymn and Night Plague - Graham Masterton
8. Crooked Little Vein - Warren Ellis
9. Me, Hood! - Mickey Spillane
10. The Body Lovers - Mickey Spillane
11. Out of Space and Time - Clark Ashton Smith
12. Tooth and Nail - Ian Rankin
13. Class Dis-Mythed - Robert Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye

14. Myth-Gotten Gains - Robert Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye

Another fun bit of fantasy comedy. Looks like it'll be the last one considering that Robert Asprin's just died.


Will

[Fiona_B]

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
19. Kevin Smith - Tales from the Clerks
20. Philip Pullman - The Subtle Knife
21. Mark Oliver Everett - Things the Grandchildren Should Know
22. Philip Pullman - Once Upon a time in the North
23. Neil Gaiman - American Gods

24. Jodi Picoult - Nineteen Minutes

[Rowsbette]

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
32. Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle
33. William Shakespeare - Macbeth
34. William Shakespeare - Othello
35. William Shakespeare - King Lear
36. Philippe Dijan - Betty Blue

37. Jean Rhys - Good Morning, Midnight

I wasn't a big fan of Wide Sargasso Sea but I loved this. Very bleak, though.