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29th July 2008, 9:45pm
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#286 | | Mr WYSIWYG
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Greenock
Posts: 9,114
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
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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
| 22. The Gods that Failed - Larry Elliot and Dan Atkinson
Quite scary reading about the rampant power that the markets have over governments.
Will | 
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29th July 2008, 11:03pm
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#287 | | Experimental stooge
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Muffled 'bang'
Posts: 13,839
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
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Originally Posted by Rowsbette 
Yus.  I am awesome.
Although if you omit the plays in the list I'm only standing at 36... | Pah, and I'm not allowed to count graphic novels.
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30th July 2008, 1:59pm
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#288 | | Experiment in Heavy Deal
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Muppet Lab
Posts: 3,242
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
~+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
~+8 The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
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31st July 2008, 10:09pm
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#289 | | Mr WYSIWYG
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Greenock
Posts: 9,114
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
Quote:
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
22. The Gods that Failed - Larry Elliot and Dan Atkinson
| 23. The Blue Max - Jack D. Hunter
A tragedy set in World War One about a young airman's ambition leading to his downfall. Pretty good.
Will | |
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31st July 2008, 10:16pm
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#290 | | Experimental stooge
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Muffled 'bang'
Posts: 13,839
| 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
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. | 33. Reasons to be cheerful - Mark Steele
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4th August 2008, 8:30pm
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#291 | | Experimental stooge
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Muffled 'bang'
Posts: 13,839
| 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
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.
33. Reasons to be cheerful - Mark Steele | 34. Its not a runner bean - Mark Steel
35. Clinical Psychology - Andy Field
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6th August 2008, 12:16am
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#292 | | Experiment in Heavy Deal
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Muppet Lab
Posts: 3,242
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
~+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
~+8 The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
~+9 The Informers - Bret Easton Elis
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6th August 2008, 11:29am
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#293 | | Mr WYSIWYG
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Greenock
Posts: 9,114
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
Quote:
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
22. The Gods that Failed - Larry Elliot and Dan Atkinson
23. The Blue Max - Jack D. Hunter
| 24. Bringing Down the House - Ben Mezrich
I didn't realise until I started reading this that it was the basis for the film '21'. Pretty interesting stuff even if a lot of it is exaggerated or totally made up bullshit.
Will
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6th August 2008, 5:44pm
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#294 | | 50ft Queenie
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Fascination Street
Posts: 8,467
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
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Originally Posted by endless psych Pah, and I'm not allowed to count graphic novels. | You're technically allowed, but we'll probably judge you for it.  51. Donna Tartt - The Secret History
Really enjoyed the majority of it, but I think it could stand to be a fair bit shorter... although I loved the style, at 600-odd pages it became a bit tiring. Also, the ending was a tad: "So what?" | |
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6th August 2008, 10:45pm
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#295 | | Experiment in Heavy Deal
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Muppet Lab
Posts: 3,242
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
Textbooks don't count btw.
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6th August 2008, 10:49pm
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#296 | | Experimental stooge
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Muffled 'bang'
Posts: 13,839
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
Haven't read any.
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7th August 2008, 1:36pm
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#297 | | Experimental stooge
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Muffled 'bang'
Posts: 13,839
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
Quote:
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.
33. Reasons to be cheerful - Mark Steele
34. Its not a runner bean - Mark Steel
35. Clinical Psychology - Andy Field | 36. What is psychology? - Andrew Colman
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Just a sockpuppet for Freud. Whats happened to my bag?
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7th August 2008, 3:47pm
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#298 | | Mr WYSIWYG
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Greenock
Posts: 9,114
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
Quote:
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
22. The Gods that Failed - Larry Elliot and Dan Atkinson
23. The Blue Max - Jack D. Hunter
24. Bringing Down the House - Ben Mezrich
| 25. Jeeves in the Offing - P.G. Wodehouse
About as daft as I was expecting. Enjoyable all the same.
And I appear to have belatedly made it to the halfway mark.
Will | |
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9th August 2008, 7:05pm
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#299 | | Experiment in Heavy Deal
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Muppet Lab
Posts: 3,242
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
~+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
~+8 The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
~+9 The Informers - Bret Easton Elis
~+10 Animal Farm - "George Orwell"
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10th August 2008, 12:37pm
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#300 | | Wench
Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: clydebank
Posts: 3,066
| 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
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
25. Michel Houellebecq - Atomised
26. Haruki Murakami - Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
27. Dita Von Teese - Burlesque and the Art of the Teese
28. Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses
never. fucking. again. that one is going up the loft and staying there in case i get some mental idea that reading it again might make it better than what i remember.
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