Fifty book challenge 2008

[Fiona_B]

6. The Book of Philip Jose Farmer - Philip Jose Farmer

A bit of a mixed bag, but mostly good.



Gary's a good guy, but I haven't read any of his novels. How was this one?


Will

i miss him. it's actually not too bad, i'm not a major fan of that sort of stuff, but i buy his books to support him.

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

[Will_Couper]

i miss him. it's actually not too bad, i'm not a major fan of that sort of stuff, but i buy his books to support him.

Is he still out of the country?


Will

[Fiona_B]

he came back for a couple of months but went back out there not that long ago.

[Will_Couper]

I keep meaning to go to the GSFWC, but never seem to do it. Haven't seen him in ages.


Will

[Fiona_B]

he's too busy being abroad with the other half. apparently it's far cheaper to live over there so i think he'll be there for a while still.

[Will_Couper]

Yeah. I'd heard things to that effect. Good luck to him.


Will

[Nuff]

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

4. The Game-Neil Strauss.
5. My Fighting Life-Chuck Liddell.

[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
15. Samuel Beckett - Play
16. Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
17. Samuel Beckett - Happy Days
18. Samuel Beckett - Krapp's Last Tape
19. Muriel Spark - A Far Cry From Kensington
20. Hilary Mantel - Eight Months on Ghazzah Street

21. Harold Pinter - The Room / The Dumb Waiter
22. Harold Pinter - A Slight Ache
23. Harold Pinter - The Caretaker
24. Milan Kundera - Immortality

I class that last one as my favourite book ever, but I haven't picked it up in at least two years. It's just as good as I'd remembered it. (L)

[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.) Michty, just michty...

[Fiona_B]

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

[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

[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
15. Samuel Beckett - Play
16. Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
17. Samuel Beckett - Happy Days
18. Samuel Beckett - Krapp's Last Tape
19. Muriel Spark - A Far Cry From Kensington
20. Hilary Mantel - Eight Months on Ghazzah Street
21. Harold Pinter - The Room / The Dumb Waiter
22. Harold Pinter - A Slight Ache
23. Harold Pinter - The Caretaker
24. Milan Kundera - Immortality

25. William Shakespeare - The Tempest
26. Kurt Vonnegut - A Man Without a Country

I highly recommend the latter.

[princessoPUNK]

I think i've probably read 50 this year already. Am i supposed to list them? I work in a bookshop so i do have more access to books than your average person, and i spend at least 3 hours every weekday on public transport. I average 4- 6 books a week(not counting uni books, do they count too?). My favourite so far has been The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi.

[Hayabusa]

1. H. G. Wells - The Invisible Man
2. Arthur Machen - The Three Imposters
3. Tom Robbins - Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
4. Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer
5. Henry Miller - Tropic Of Capricorn
6. Henry Miller - The Colossus Of Marossui

7. Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Clandestine In Chile
8. Milan Kundera - The Joke
9. Hermann Hesse - Narziss and Goldmund
10. Malcolm Lowry - Dark As The Grave Wherin My Friend is Laid
11. Michel Houellebecq - Atomised
12. Ben Elton - Popcorn
13. Will Self - The Quantity Theory Of Insanity

14. Daniel Farson - The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon: The Authorized Biography

A brilliant biography by Bacon's close friend Daniel Farson, it's not so much a biography as it is a book of memoirs by the author. Giving rare insight into Bacon's formative years in Ireland and his bohemian lifestyle in London whilst detailing with his ascent to international acclaim.

Interestingly enough Bacon wouldn't allow the book to be published until after his death, which is understandable given the colourful life he led.

[Hayabusa]

15. Samuel Beckett - Play
16. Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
17. Samuel Beckett - Happy Days

I know counting plays is a bit of a cop-out (especially the very short Play BUT I've now read it four times and seen the weirdly addictive film thrice) but I wanna record every full book I read this year, and it seems really lame to keep separate lists.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdTjRumkT9k

Wow that was excellent, i hadn't realised until now that all of Beckett's plays had been adapted, there's an incredible amount of acting and directing talent involved. Even Harold Pinter pops up as the director in 'Catastrophe'.

They've all been compiled into a DVD boxset which i'd like to see at some point, when it's not, you know fucking extortionate.