Fifty book challenge 2008

[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
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

37. How to Think Straight about psychology - Keith E. Stanovich

[xph0ria]

Originally Posted by xph0ria

1. Philip Pullman - The Amber Spyglass
2. Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion
3. Alice Sebold - The Almost Moon
4. Christopher Brookmyer - Quite Ugly One Morning
5. Christopher Brookmyer - Country of the Blind
6. Terry Pratchett - Going Postal
7. Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic
8. Stephen King - Duma Key

Not updated this in a loooong time. Might have missed a few out from the list, but from memory (and the piles of books orphaned from my shelves that are lying beside my bed at the moment) the list continues (not in reading order) as...

9. Stephen King - Insomnia
10. Terry Pratchett - Sourcery
11. Terry Pratchett - Thud!
12. Terry Pratchett - Monstrous Regiment
13. Stephen King - The Waste Lands
14. Stephen King - Wizard and Glass
15. Stephen King - Wolves of the Calla
16. Stephen King - Song of Susanna
17. Stephen King - The Dark Tower
18. Neil Gaiman - Stardust
19. Gregory McGuire - Wicked
20. Gregory McGuire - Son of a Witch
21. JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
22. JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
23. Brian King - Walking in on Mum and Dad
24. Bill Bryson - Shakespeare
25. Nicocolo Machiavelli - The Prince
26. Jodi Picoult - Salem Falls
27. Jodi Picoult - Tenth Circle
28. Anne Rice - Interview with the Vampire
29. Anne Rice - The Vampire Lestat
30 - Mervyn Peake - Titus Groan


If there's more, I can't remember.

[CHUCK LIDELOL]

~+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
~+11 A Million Little Pieces - James Frey

[jondejonjon]

Originally Posted by jondejonjon

Originally Posted by jondejonjon View Post
1. The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
2. Permission Marketing - Seth Godin
3. The 33 Strategies of War - Robert Greene
4. Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War - Robert Coram
5. A Book of 5 Rings - Miyamoto Musashi
6. Small is the new big - Seth Godin
7. America Unchained - Dave Gorman
8. Starbucked - Taylor Clark
9. Eisenhower on Leadership - Alan Axelrod
10. Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bachs
11. Drop the Pink Elephant - Bill McFarlane
12. Choke - Chuck Palanuik
13. Thank you for arguing - Jay Heinrichs
14. Born Standing Up - Steve Martin
15. The Long Tail - Chris Anderson
16. The Four Hour Work Week - Tim Ferriss

17. The Game - Neil Strauss
18. How to lose friends and alienate people - Toby Young

[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
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

29. Haruki Murakami - Underground

[Rowsbette]

51. Donna Tartt - The Secret History

52. Muriel Spark - The Ballad of Peckham Rye

Fairly readable but very strange. Don't think I really "got" it.

[CHUCK LIDELOL]

~+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
~+11 A Million Little Pieces - James Frey
~+12 All Families are Psychotic - Douglas Coupland

[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
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
37. How to Think Straight about psychology - Keith E. Stanovich

38. The progressive patriot - Billy Bragg

[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
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
37. How to Think Straight about psychology - Keith E. Stanovich
38. The progressive patriot - Billy Bragg

39. A snowball in hell - Christopher Brookmyer

[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
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
37. How to Think Straight about psychology - Keith E. Stanovich
38. The progressive patriot - Billy Bragg
39. A snowball in hell - Christopher Brookmyer

40. The selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins

[triggerhappy]

Originally Posted by endless psych

39. A snowball in hell - Christopher Brookmyer

What did you think of it?

I bought a copy at the launch last week and haven't gotten round to reading it yet.

[endless psych]

Originally Posted by triggerhappy

What did you think of it?

I bought a copy at the launch last week and haven't gotten round to reading it yet.

Fairly standard Brookmyer. There seem to be a lot of similarities in plot and characterisation (such as it is with Brookmyer anyway) with his previous book (Unsinkable yadda yadda).

That and Iain Banks does it (far, far, far) better in complicity.

[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
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
37. How to Think Straight about psychology - Keith E. Stanovich
38. The progressive patriot - Billy Bragg
39. A snowball in hell - Christopher Brookmyer
40. The selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins

41. The blind watchmaker - Richard Dawkins

[CHUCK LIDELOL]

~+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
~+11 A Million Little Pieces - James Frey
~+12 All Families are Psychotic - Douglas Coupland
~+13 Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk

[Rowsbette]

51. Donna Tartt - The Secret History
52. Muriel Spark - The Ballad of Peckham Rye

53. Angela Carter - The Passion of New Eve

I've really slowed my reading pace since hitting fifty.
Also! A Million Little Pieces has been sitting untouched on my shelf for months, I picked it up t'other day with the intention of starting it but no idea where the idea'd come from. Bet I was subconsciously influenced by this thread.