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

21. Triad - Derek Lambert

Supposedly a high-octane thriller, but it's quite pedestrian in pace. Having said that it wasn't bad. If had been any longer it would have been quite tiresome.


Will

[CHUCK LIDELOL]

~+1 The Dirt - Motley Crue
~+2 Ghostwritten - David Mitchell
~+3 My Bookie Wook - Russell brand
~+4 The Heroin Diary - Nikki Sixx

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

31. The Dice Man - Luke Reinheart.

[CHUCK LIDELOL]

What did you think of The Dice Man?

~+1 The Dirt - Motley Crue
~+2 Ghostwritten - David Mitchell
~+3 My Bookie Wook - Russell brand
~+4 The Heroin Diary - Nikki Sixx
~+5 Rant - Chuck Palahniuk

[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.
31. The Dice Man - Luke Reinheart.

32. Search for the Dice Man - Luke Reinheart.

Originally Posted by CHUCK LIDELOL

What did you think of The Dice Man?

I prefer the sequel truth be told. A lot of the first book feels little like it was intended to be serialised I reckon.

[CHUCK LIDELOL]

I hate the sequel. I'm halfway through it. I really, REALLY dislike it. It's so fucking patronising with his whole "oh, open yr eyes! Dice living is random! it's the only way to be live!" diatribe forced in (don't get me started on Luke's shitty Zen interludes). I hate it so. Wasn't it patently obvious that he'd end up in the Diceworld with Chaos or whatever her name is, ditching the boring one. Gah. Doubt I'll bother finishing it. I'm 150 pages in, he's decided to stay 'one more day'...

Jeez, it pisses me off how Larry doesn't get the entire place. Walking into it blind-folded and shocked when the TV shows random stuff, when people lie to him, when people steal his car and shit. I can't be doing with obvious FBI man joins up 'comedy' angle. (I speculate).

[CHUCK LIDELOL]

~+1 The Dirt - Motley Crue
~+2 Ghostwritten - David Mitchell
~+3 My Bookie Wook - Russell brand
~+4 The Heroin Diary - Nikki Sixx
~+5 Rant - Chuck Palahniuk
~+6 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

[Charlicat]

Originally Posted by 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.

Same. I read it a few years ago before having heard of him at all, and it blew me away. I thought the premise of the book would be about what happens initially with the balloon thing, so the sense of confusion/bewilderment he creates was ace.

I loved Atonement though, in a totally different way. Film was rubbish and had no depth. Only other Ian Mcewan book I've read is Amsterdam which I wasn't that fond on. Need to read more of his stuff.

Originally Posted by CHUCK LIDELOL

I hate the sequel. I'm halfway through it. I really, REALLY dislike it. It's so fucking patronising with his whole "oh, open yr eyes! Dice living is random! it's the only way to be live!" diatribe forced in (don't get me started on Luke's shitty Zen interludes). I hate it so. Wasn't it patently obvious that he'd end up in the Diceworld with Chaos or whatever her name is, ditching the boring one. Gah. Doubt I'll bother finishing it. I'm 150 pages in, he's decided to stay 'one more day'...

Jeez, it pisses me off how Larry doesn't get the entire place. Walking into it blind-folded and shocked when the TV shows random stuff, when people lie to him, when people steal his car and shit. I can't be doing with obvious FBI man joins up 'comedy' angle. (I speculate).

Cant remember if I tried to read the sequel and gave up, or just didnt bother. Seemed like it would just be drawing out the dice thing to overkill bordering on YAWN OK situation.


My bookywook (L)

[CHUCK LIDELOL]

My Bookywook rules. Gave it to someone in work, din't ah.

[Charlicat]

It was like he was telling my whole life, with his words.

[CHUCK LIDELOL]

I prayed that he would finish but he just kept right on...

[Charlicat]

Originally Posted by CHUCK LIDELOL

I prayed that he would finish but he just kept right on...

?

[CHUCK LIDELOL]

~+1 The Dirt - Motley Crue
~+2 Ghostwritten - David Mitchell
~+3 My Bookie Wook - Russell brand
~+4 The Heroin Diary - Nikki Sixx
~+5 Rant - Chuck Palahniuk
~+6 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
~+7 The Search for the Diceman - Luke Rhinehart

[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

50. Paul Auster - The New York Trilogy

Yus. I am awesome.
Although if you omit the plays in the list I'm only standing at 36...

Originally Posted by Charlicat

I loved Atonement though, in a totally different way. Film was rubbish and had no depth. Only other Ian Mcewan book I've read is Amsterdam which I wasn't that fond on. Need to read more of his stuff.

I thought the film captured the atmosphere pretty well, but I watched it straight after reading the book so I kept noticing irritating wee changes. I've only read three of his too, but I like the way he varies in terms of style and tone.

[jondejonjon]

Originally Posted by 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
10. Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bachs
11. Drop the Pink Elephant - Bill McFarlan

12. Choke - Chuck Palanuik
13. Thank you for arguing - Jay Heinrichs
14. Born Standing Up - Steve Martin
15. The Long Tail - Chris Anderson
16. The Four Hour Work Week - Tim Ferriss