Fifty book challenge 2008

[endless psych]

Originally Posted by Will_Couper

3. Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

Careful now, the literature police (also known as Posh) will be along shortly to demand the exclusion of sequential art.

[Stew]

Originally Posted by Stew

1. Albert Camus - The Stranger.

2. Steven Callahan - Adrift.
3. Thomas Pynchon - Mason & Dixon.
4. Richard K. Morgan - Thirteen.
5. Graham Greene - The End of The Affair.
6. Dan Abnett - Ravenor Rogue.

[supernothing]

Originally Posted by supernothing

10. Edwin Morgan - A book of lives.
great.

11. TS Eliot - The Waste Land and other poems
Loved "Ash Wednesday", amazin piece.

[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

Forgot how bleak and macabre it gets towards the end.

[Purplerose]

1. Dean Koontz - Demon Seed
2. Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner

[Will_Couper]

Originally Posted by endless psych

Careful now, the literature police (also known as Posh) will be along shortly to demand the exclusion of sequential art.

He can demand all he likes. It stays. So there!


Will

[gazz]

1. Night Train: A Biography of Sonny Liston - Nick Tosches
2. Pound for Pound: A Biography of Sugar Ray Robinson - Percy Sutton
3. Atlas: From the Streets to the Ring: A Son's Struggle to Become a Man - Teddy Atlas
4. Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden

[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

I don't really understand why it's his most famous, I much preferred The Rainbow.

[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)

[the.definitive]

1. The God Of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
2. Dune - Frank Herbert
3.Marching Powder - Rusty Young
4. Mr Vertigo - Paul Auster
5. Brick Lane - Monica Ali

Mr Vertigo is a total comfort read, I must have read it at least ten times by now

[supernothing]

Originally Posted by supernothing

11. TS Eliot - The Waste Land and other poems
Loved "Ash Wednesday", amazin piece.

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

got to love dissertation time.

[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

By christ does my reading slow down when I'm not at work

Originally Posted by supernothing

13. Greg Philo and David Miller - Market Killing: what the free market does and what social scientists can do about it

This book sounds remarkably like the sort of thing I should be reading - is it any good?

[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

[supernothing]

Originally Posted by endless psych

This book [market killing] sounds remarkably like the sort of thing I should be reading - is it any good?

Aye it's pretty decent. Philo is the head of the influential Glasgow Uni Media Group (and my disertation supervisor) and Miller is the head of Sociology at Strathclyde. Starts of with an analysis of the state of British society post-Thatcher, then goes on the attack at social science's toothlessness in properly analysing these changes. Argues against post-modernist allthatissolidmeltsintoair approaches saying they are disempowering etc: critizises Derrida, Baudriallard, Barthes, etc.
Then there are some responses (although not rebuttals) by people like Chomsky, Stuart Hall, and a few other (generally) media schollars.

[Rowsbette]

Originally Posted by endless psych

By christ does my reading slow down when I'm not at work

What kinda job d'you have that lets you sit and read the whole time?!

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

Amazing. Still, I'm kinda wishing the recommended reading for this term wasn't so unrelentingly bleak.