Fifty book challenge 2008

[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
15. Against A Dark Background - Iain M Banks
16. Feersum Endjinn - Iain M Banks
17. Consider Phlebas - Iain M Banks
18. The Last Hero - Terry Pratchett
19. Making Money - Terry Pratchett

20. Look to Windward - Iain M Banks

This is probably the best of the Iain M Banks books I've read recently, even though on the face of it I shouldn't have. Much better than the darker stuff and certainly funnier.

I am now a bit bloated from too much Iain M Banks, I require something different, I feel.


Will

[Violet*Faerie]

1)Deborah Curtis - Touching From A Distance: Ian Curtis And Joy Division.
2) Louise Welsh - The Bullet Trick.
3) Irvine Welsh - The Bedroom Secrets Of The Master Chefs.
4) Clare Alan - Poppy Shakespeare.

5) Louise Voss - Lifesaver.

This book was actually quite good but not really what I'd normally read. It's worth a read.

[endless psych]

Originally Posted by endless psych

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
19. Your memory - Kenneth Higby (PhD)
20. The Practice of Critical Discourse analysis - Bloor and Bloor (eds)
21. Methods of Crticial discourse analysis - Wodak and Meyer
22. Fugitives and Refugees - Chuck Palahniuk
23. Non Fiction - chuck Palahniuk
24. The Gum Thief - Douglas Coupland
25. Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk
26. Tools for Critical discousr research - Theo Van Leewuen

27. Ludmillas Broken English - DBC Pierre

[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
38. Kate Atkinson - Human Croquet
39. Ian McEwan - Atonement
40. Kate Atkinson - One Good Turn
41. Angela Carter - The Magic Toyshop
42. Angela Carter - Love

43. Angela Carter - Wise Children

Breezed through it in a day, still one of my favourites.

[CHUCK LIDELOL]

Originally Posted by CHUCK LIDELOL

~+1 The Dirt - Motley Crue
~+2 Ghostwritten - David Mitchell

~+3 - To Kill a Mocking Bird (Harper Lee)

[CHUCK LIDELOL]

~+4 - Russell Brand - My Bookie Wook

[endless psych]

Originally Posted by endless psych

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
19. Your memory - Kenneth Higby (PhD)
20. The Practice of Critical Discourse analysis - Bloor and Bloor (eds)
21. Methods of Crticial discourse analysis - Wodak and Meyer
22. Fugitives and Refugees - Chuck Palahniuk
23. Non Fiction - chuck Palahniuk
24. The Gum Thief - Douglas Coupland
25. Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk
26. Tools for Critical discourse research - Theo Van Leewuen
27. Ludmillas Broken English - DBC Pierre

28. Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks

[Captain Cripplepants]

1. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1st book in the HHGttG series) - Douglas Adams
2. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (2nd book in the HHGttG series) - Douglas Adams
3. Life, the Universe and Everything (3rd book in the HHGttG series) - Douglas Adams
4. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (4th book in the HHGttG series) - Douglas Adams
5. Mostly Harmless (5th book in the HHGttG series) - Douglas Adams
6. The God Delusion (2006 Ed.) - Richard Dawkins
7. A Briefer History of Time - Stephen Hawking 8. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
9. The Black Swam - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

[endless psych]

Originally Posted by endless psych

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
19. Your memory - Kenneth Higby (PhD)
20. The Practice of Critical Discourse analysis - Bloor and Bloor (eds)
21. Methods of Crticial discourse analysis - Wodak and Meyer
22. Fugitives and Refugees - Chuck Palahniuk
23. Non Fiction - chuck Palahniuk
24. The Gum Thief - Douglas Coupland
25. Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk
26. Tools for Critical discourse research - Theo Van Leewuen
27. Ludmillas Broken English - DBC Pierre
28. Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks

29. The Rum Diaries - Hunter S Thompson.
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[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
7. Jean Plaidy - The Royal Road to Fotheringay
8. Philippa Gregory - The Queens Fool
9. Marie Brennan - Midnight Never Come

[princessoPUNK]

Originally Posted by princessoPUNK

Not in order! These are ones i have definitely read since New Years.

1. Wicked - Gregory Maguire (very good, dark, and not at all musical like surprisingly)
2. Freud's Alphabet - Jonathan Tel
3. Islam, A Short History - Karen Armstrong
4. A wedding in December - Anita Shreve
5. Light on Snow - Anita Shreve
6. Swallowing Grandma - Kate Long
7. Queen Mum - Kate Long
8. Start from Here - Sean French
9. Venus as a Boy - Luke Sutherland
10. The Piano - Jane Campion
11. The Wind Singer - William Nicholson
12. Slaves of the Mastery - William Nicholson
13. The Wind on Fire - William Nicholson
14. Imagined London - Anna Quindlen
15. Love Story - Erich Segal
16. Wintering - Kate Moses (Sem fiction on the last moths of Silvia Plath's life, excellent book)
17. The Self Preservation Society - Kate Harrison
18. The Realm of Shells - Sonia Overall
19. Human Punk - John King
20. Everyday life in the Viking Age - Jacqueline Simpson
21. The Developing Child - Helen Bee
22. A Teachers' Guide to the Psychology of Learning - Michael J.A. Howe
23. Literacy and Language in the Primary Years - Wray and Medwell
24. The Study of Language - George Yule
25. Six Religions int the Twentieth Century - W. Owen Cole
26. Child Development and Teaching Pupils with Special Educational Needs - Tilstone and Layton
27. Drama in the Curriculum - Jon Somers
28. Joan Bakewell - The Centre of the Bed
29. Labrynthe - Kate Mosse

30. Innocence -Kathleen Tessaro

Focusing on the impact people close to the character have has at various points of her life, if ound this book really good. The 'ghost' of her best friend has a sort of ' a Christmas Carol effect on her current life.


31. A Bit of Crack and Car Culture - Bess Ross

A book of short stories, set in a northern scottish coastal village. Some obviously autobiographical, some with overlapping characters. A wonderful collection of stories that gives a magical tinge to the banality and harshness of life, and builds a picture of the lives of the people of the village.


32 The Red Door : the Complete English Stories(1949-76) -,Iain Crichton Smith.

These stories have something i find common in Scottish writing - the endings are often abrupt, and not 'fairy tale' happy. Some of the stories are quite disheartening, some very funny, and some a bit too surreal for me. All in all, they are very good.


33. The Brown Owls Guide to Life -Kate Harrison

I really enjoy Kate Harrison's books. The would be referred to as Chick-Lit, but have more depth to them than the genre suggests. The story is based on how the main character reacts to her mothers death, and is both funny and poignant.

[endless psych]

Originally Posted by endless psych

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
19. Your memory - Kenneth Higby (PhD)
20. The Practice of Critical Discourse analysis - Bloor and Bloor (eds)
21. Methods of Crticial discourse analysis - Wodak and Meyer
22. Fugitives and Refugees - Chuck Palahniuk
23. Non Fiction - chuck Palahniuk
24. The Gum Thief - Douglas Coupland
25. Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk
26. Tools for Critical discourse research - Theo Van Leewuen
27. Ludmillas Broken English - DBC Pierre
28. Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks
29. The Rum Diaries - Hunter S Thompson.

30. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson.

[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
38. Kate Atkinson - Human Croquet
39. Ian McEwan - Atonement
40. Kate Atkinson - One Good Turn
41. Angela Carter - The Magic Toyshop
42. Angela Carter - Love
43. Angela Carter - Wise Children

44. Ilona van Mil - Sugarmilk Falls
45. Ian McEwan - Enduring Love
46. Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
47. Ann Patchett - Bel Canto
48. Ali Smith - The Accidental
49. Albert Camus - The Fall

[Charlicat]

Originally Posted by 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
38. Kate Atkinson - Human Croquet
39. Ian McEwan - Atonement
40. Kate Atkinson - One Good Turn
41. Angela Carter - The Magic Toyshop
42. Angela Carter - Love
43. Angela Carter - Wise Children

44. Ilona van Mil - Sugarmilk Falls
45. Ian McEwan - Enduring Love
46. Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
47. Ann Patchett - Bel Canto
48. Ali Smith - The Accidental
49. Albert Camus - The Fall

Did you like Enduring Love?

[Rowsbette]

Aye, I loved it... totally owns Atonement. Cracking style, pace etc, and I like the way he drops in loadsa "with hindsight" type clues to create a sense of foreboding.