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10th January 2008, 4:29pm
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#16 | | Experimental stooge
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Auld Reekie
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| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
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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 | 
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10th January 2008, 4:45pm
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#17 | | Registered User Editor
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Glasgow
Posts: 9,058
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
I predict that this will be the year that I give up and finally admit that I like Scottish trash fiction:
1. Iain Banks - Dead Air
2. Alexander McCall Smith - 44 Scotland Street
3. Christopher Brookmyre - Be My Enemy | 
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10th January 2008, 5:03pm
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#18 | | Forever Waiting.
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Glasgow
Posts: 4,183
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
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 | |
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10th January 2008, 9:15pm
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#19 | | Registered User
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Posts: 696
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
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Originally Posted by Rowsbette I know, I too am dubious. But I suppose it was the holidays for a lot of people...
1. Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness | how was it? That's a book i always mean to read. | |
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12th January 2008, 3:23am
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#20 | | Experimental stooge
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Auld Reekie
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| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
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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 | |
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12th January 2008, 5:11am
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#21 | | 50ft Queenie
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Fascination Street
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| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
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Originally Posted by PrincessGarnet how was it? That's a book i always mean to read. | Pretty tough going, in my opinion, despite how short it is. There's some really memorable bits in it but for the most part it was a bit too fragmented and bizarre for my tastes. I don't think I'd have bothered finishing it if I hadn't been studying it... in fact I remember beginning and giving up on it a few summers ago. Plus, cretin that I am, I couldn't help thinking of Apocalypse Now all the way through. 
I've only read two Conrad books but I definitely preferred The Secret Agent. | |
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12th January 2008, 5:12am
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#22 | | Strong protect the weak. Admin
Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Glasgow
Posts: 28,925
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
1. Troy: Lord of the Silver Bow
No way I'll manage 50 I read too slowly
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12th January 2008, 5:14am
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#23 | | Aurë enteluva Gallery SuperMod
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| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
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Originally Posted by Ghostsuit 1. Troy: Lord of the Silver Bow
No way I'll manage 50 I read too slowly | Been meaning to start that series, I love David Gemmell, Gutted he died. | |
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12th January 2008, 5:25am
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#24 | | Strong protect the weak. Admin
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Originally Posted by Shannow Been meaning to start that series, I love David Gemmell, Gutted he died. | Yeah been a while since I read any of his stuff and I think the last book is finished off by his wife or son or something.
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Some people say he keeps a portrait in his attic which ages insead of him...
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12th January 2008, 5:27am
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#25 | | Aurë enteluva Gallery SuperMod
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| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
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Originally Posted by Ghostsuit Yeah been a while since I read any of his stuff and I think the last book is finished off by his wife or son or something. | Aye, it was his wife, working off his notes , who had previously contributed to his other books apparently thoug not to such an extent.
Wonder if it has the typical gemmel epilogue though, which is often worth reading the whole thing for alone. | |
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13th January 2008, 1:47pm
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#26 | | Mr WYSIWYG
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Kirkintilloch
Posts: 9,119
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Right, a couple of weeks late, but hey ho:
1. The Rules of the Game - Neil Strauss
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13th January 2008, 5:16pm
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#27 | | \\// //\\
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Where you're not
Posts: 5,749
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
Right, didn't manage 50 last year, but this year is looking more promising (so far).
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
Wee sister got me the complete collection (A Trilogy in Five Parts) for Christmas. A good read, wasn't as keen on the last 2 though, too much like spin-offs.
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13th January 2008, 5:42pm
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#28 | | Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Edinburgh
Posts: 71
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
Read the forums for ages but never posted, thought posting in this thread would keep my motivation for reading up. So far:
1. Night Train: A Biography of Sonny Liston - Nick Tosches
2. Pound for Pound: A Biography of Sugar Ray Robinson - Percy Sutton | |
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13th January 2008, 9:25pm
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#29 | | Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 696
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
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Originally Posted by Rowsbette Pretty tough going, in my opinion, despite how short it is. There's some really memorable bits in it but for the most part it was a bit too fragmented and bizarre for my tastes. I don't think I'd have bothered finishing it if I hadn't been studying it... in fact I remember beginning and giving up on it a few summers ago. Plus, cretin that I am, I couldn't help thinking of Apocalypse Now all the way through.
I've only read two Conrad books but I definitely preferred The Secret Agent. | excellent, i have the secret agent and was going to read it next! | |
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13th January 2008, 11:17pm
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#30 | | the quintessential outlaw
Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: rollin' deep
Posts: 7,740
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
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Originally Posted by PrincessGarnet excellent, i have the secret agent and was going to read it next! | Right, I was lying last time, for real:
1.Goethe - Faust Part I
2.Slavoj Zizek - The Universal Exception (only read half of it but I'm counting it cuz it is nigh on impossible to read without someone to advise you on all the Kant and Hegel references)
3.Sadegh Hedayat - The Blind Owl
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