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9th February 2008, 7:11pm
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#91 | | Mr WYSIWYG
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Greenock
Posts: 9,098
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
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Originally Posted by 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
The second book of hers I've read and the second I've thought was pish. There's a lesson in there somewhere.
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11th February 2008, 10:23pm
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#92 | | the quintessential outlaw
Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: rollin' deep
Posts: 7,609
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
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Originally Posted by supernothing 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. | 15. James Kelman - how late it was, how late
16. Noam Chomsky - Profit over people
17. Joseph Stiglitz - Globalization and it's Discontents
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11th February 2008, 10:28pm
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#93 | | 50ft Queenie
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Fascination Street
Posts: 8,406
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
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Originally Posted by supernothing 15. James Kelman - how late it was, how late | What did you think of it? I enjoyed it but the ending irritated me a tad, obviously I wasn't expecting him to wrap it up happily but I would've liked him to address some of the unanswered questions. I kept getting the feeling I was missing something.
It got me addicted to tea as well, seems he mentions it constantly. | |
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11th February 2008, 10:29pm
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#94 | | Forever Waiting.
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Glasgow
Posts: 3,944
| 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
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)
11. Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash.
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11th February 2008, 10:36pm
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#95 | | the quintessential outlaw
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| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
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Originally Posted by Rowsbette What did you think of it? I enjoyed it but the ending irritated me a tad, obviously I wasn't expecting him to wrap it up happily but I would've liked him to address some of the unanswered questions. I kept getting the feeling I was missing something.
It got me addicted to tea as well, seems he mentions it constantly. | Never liked it to be honest, i couldn't wait for it to end. Just bored the fuck out of me. It's like an annoying alchy sitting next to you a bus "am blind man, fuckin blind, fuckin eyes man, fuckin blind eh?".
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14th February 2008, 12:32am
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#96 | | Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Edinburgh
Posts: 53
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
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
5. The Innocent Man: John Grisham | |
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15th February 2008, 12:20pm
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#97 | | 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 supernothing Never liked it to be honest, i couldn't wait for it to end. Just bored the fuck out of me. It's like an annoying alchy sitting next to you a bus "am blind man, fuckin blind, fuckin eyes man, fuckin blind eh?". | Haha, I know where you're coming from... I was pretty surprised it won the Booker prize.
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
Some nice wee moments, but overall not my cup of tea at all. I get that she created a whole new style of writing etc, but after a few pages it just starts to seem self-indulgent. | |
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15th February 2008, 3:20pm
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#98 | | Experimental stooge
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Muffled 'bang'
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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
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
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17th February 2008, 7:45pm
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#99 | | 50ft Queenie
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Fascination Street
Posts: 8,406
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
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
I never cry at books, but I cried when reading that one.  | |
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17th February 2008, 7:47pm
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#100 | | Pillowpants Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Granny Land
Posts: 15,667
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
I need to get back into reading again Have about 10 books I have got as gifts since last Christmas and havent read any of them!
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17th February 2008, 8:46pm
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#101 | | Nufftastic
Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Kilmarnock
Posts: 6,090
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
1. Snow Bound - P.J Tracey
2. Protect and Defend-Vince Flynn.
3. The Good Guy- Dean Koontz.
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23rd February 2008, 12:10pm
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#102 | | 50ft Queenie
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Fascination Street
Posts: 8,406
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
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 | |
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25th February 2008, 9:00am
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#103 | | Forever Waiting.
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Glasgow
Posts: 3,944
| 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
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)
11. Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash.
12. Richard Morgan - Broken Angels
13. Raymond E Fiest - Wrath of a Mad God (Book 3 of the Darkwar saga)
14. Stephen Donaldson - The Power that Preserves (The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Book 3)
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25th February 2008, 9:16am
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#104 | | Boogie Oogie Oogie
Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Love Town
Posts: 7,204
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
1. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
2. Hey Nostradamus! - Douglas Coupland
3. Girlfriend In A Coma - Douglas Coupland
4. Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami | |
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26th February 2008, 9:00pm
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#105 | | Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 26,944
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2008
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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.
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. | 7. Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights.
8. Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo.
9. Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho.
10. William Shakespeare - Othello. | |
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