Fifty book challenge 2008

[Will_Couper]

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.


Will

[supernothing]

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

[Rowsbette]

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.

[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)
11. Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash.

[supernothing]

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?".

[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
5. The Innocent Man: John Grisham

[Rowsbette]

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.

[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

[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

I never cry at books, but I cried when reading that one.

[Pantgirl]

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!

[Nuff]

1. Snow Bound - P.J Tracey
2. Protect and Defend-Vince Flynn.
3. The Good Guy- Dean Koontz.

[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

[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)
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)

[Pier Angeli]

1. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
2. Hey Nostradamus! - Douglas Coupland
3. Girlfriend In A Coma - Douglas Coupland
4. Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami

[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.
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.