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26th May 2009, 4:34pm
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#181 | | 50ft Queenie
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Fascination Street
Posts: 8,876
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2009
1. Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
2. Angela Carter – The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History
3. Angela Carter – Heroes and Villains
4. Angela Carter – Shadow Dance
5. Ford Madox Ford – The Good Soldier
6. Sarah Gamble – The Fiction of Angela Carter
7. Angela Carter – Several Perceptions
8. D. M. Thomas – The White Hotel
9. John Berger – Ways of Seeing
10. William Leith – The Hungry Years: Confessions of a Food Addict
11. Hanif Kureishi – My Beautiful Laundrette and The Rainbow Sign
12. Christine Geraghty – My Beautiful Laundrette
13. Richard Yates – Revolutionary Road
14. Emma Smith – The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare
15. Thomas Hardy – Tess of the D'Urbervilles
16. William Shakespeare – Titus Andronicus
17. William Shakespeare – Hamlet
18. William Shakespeare – Othello
19. Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
20. Robert Louis Stevenson – The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
21. Bram Stoker – Dracula
22. William Shakespeare – Twelfth Night
23. William Shakespeare – Measure for Measure
24. Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray
25. William Shakespeare – King Lear
26. William Shakespeare – Macbeth
27. William Shakespeare – The Winter's Tale
28. S. L. Bethell – The Winter's Tale: A Study
29. Thomas Hardy – The Mayor of Casterbridge
30. Chistina Rossetti – Goblin Market and Other Poems
31. William Shakespeare – The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint
32. Simone de Beauvoir – The Woman Destroyed
33. T. S. Eliot – Collected Poems 1909-1962
34. D.H. Lawrence - The Rainbow
35. Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
36. Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent
37. T. S. Eliot - The Cocktail Party
38. T. S. Eliot - The Family Reunion
39. D. H. Lawrence - Women in Love
40. Jane Smiley – A Thousand Acres
41. Ariel Levy – Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture | 
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28th May 2009, 11:47am
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#182 | | Experimental stooge
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Auld Reekie
Posts: 15,133
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2009
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Originally Posted by endless psych  1) The Stuff of Thought - Steven Pinker
2) Counterknowledge - Damian Thompson.
3) Can robots Really think? - Peter Cave
4) Freakonomics - Stephen D Levitt, Stephen B. Dubner
5) Mistakes were made (but not by me) - Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson.
6) Elephants on acid - Alex Boese
7) Chaos - James Gleick
8) The black swan - Nicholas Taleb Tassim
9) Predictably irrational - Dan Ariely
10) Quirkology - Richard Wiseman
11) Emergency - Neil Strauss
12) Irrationality - Stuart Sutherland
13) Flat Earth News - Nick Davies
14) Critical Mass - Phillip Ball
15) The Road - Cormac McCarthy
16) The motorcycle Diaries - Ernesto 'CHE' Guevara
17) Blink - Malcolm Gladwell | 18) Human Universals - Donald E. Brown | |
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31st May 2009, 1:11pm
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#183 | | Experimental stooge
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Auld Reekie
Posts: 15,133
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2009
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Originally Posted by endless psych 1) The Stuff of Thought - Steven Pinker
2) Counterknowledge - Damian Thompson.
3) Can robots Really think? - Peter Cave
4) Freakonomics - Stephen D Levitt, Stephen B. Dubner
5) Mistakes were made (but not by me) - Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson.
6) Elephants on acid - Alex Boese
7) Chaos - James Gleick
8) The black swan - Nicholas Taleb Tassim
9) Predictably irrational - Dan Ariely
10) Quirkology - Richard Wiseman
11) Emergency - Neil Strauss
12) Irrationality - Stuart Sutherland
13) Flat Earth News - Nick Davies
14) Critical Mass - Phillip Ball
15) The Road - Cormac McCarthy
16) The motorcycle Diaries - Ernesto 'CHE' Guevara
17) Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
18) Human Universals - Donald E. Brown | 19) Omnibus #1: At the mountains of Madness - HP Lovecraft | |
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31st May 2009, 9:20pm
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#184 | | Jessop Jessop Jessop
Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: clydebank
Posts: 4,733
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2009
1. piercing - ryu murakami
2. cross country - james patterson
3. in the miso soup - ryu murakami
4. darkly dreaming dexter - jeff lindsay
5. dearly devoted dexter - jeff lindsay
6. dexter in the dark - jeff lindsay
7. the unbearable lightness of being - milan kundera
8. the catcher in the rye - j.d. salinger
9. american psycho - bret easton ellis
10. after dark - haruki murakami
11. dexter by design - jeff lindsay
12. three and out - tom henry
13. coraline - neil gaiman
14. fleshmarket close - ian rankin
15. too weird for ziggy - sylvie simmons
16. the runes of the earth - stephen donaldson
17. how the dead live - will self
18. anansi boys - neil gaiman
19. beggars banquet - ian rankin
20. amber spyglass - philip pullman
21. completely unexpected tales - roald dahl
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31st May 2009, 9:50pm
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#185 | | Drop dead gorgeous
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Glasgow/Aberdee
Posts: 1,665
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2009
1. Hitch hikers guide to the Galaxy
2. The restaurant at the end of the Universe
3. Life, the Universe and everything
4. The Violin - Anne Rice
5. Revolution in Eastern Europe - Peter Cipkowski
6. Minority Report - Philip K Dick
7. Sandman (The dream hunters) - Neil Gaiman
8. Anansi boys - Neil Gaiman
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1st June 2009, 12:24am
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#186 | | the quintessential outlaw
Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: rollin' deep
Posts: 7,742
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2009
1. Cormac McCarthy - The Blood Meridian
2. Ryzard Kapuscinski - The Soccer War
3. Ryzard kapuscinski - My African Life
4. JM G Le Clezio - Terra Amata
5. Roberto Bolano - The Savage Detectives
6. John Fante - The Road To Los Angeles
7. William Falconer - As I Lay Dying
8. Jean Claude Izzo - A Sun For The Dying
9. Cormac McCarthy - The Road
10. David Peace - GB84
11. Cormac McCarthy - All The Pretty Horses
12. Cormac McCarthy - The Crossing
13. Sudhir Vankatesh - Gang Leader for a Day
14. Roberto Bolano - Last Nights On Earth
15. Albert Camus - The FallFucking love Camus
16. Ryzard Kapuscinski - Another Day of Life The story of the start of the Angolan civil war and the run up to independance. Its more the story of one journalist trying to cover the story, but I think it's all the more insightful for that.
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4th June 2009, 10:18pm
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#187 | | Arsenius Jigger
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Garelochhead
Posts: 2,839
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2009
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Originally Posted by xph0ria 1. Terry Pratchett - Carpe Jugulum
2. Terry Pratchett - Lords and Ladies
3. Gregory Maguire - A Lion Among Men
4. Andrew Davidson - The Gargoyle
5. Stephenie Meyer - Twilight
6. Michael Crichton - The Lost World
7. Jesse Kellerman - The Brutal Art
8. Gregory Maguire - Mirror, Mirror
9. Stephenie Meyer - New Moon
10. Ryu Murakami - Audition
11. Terry Pratchett - Thief of Time
12. Matthew Pearl - The Last Dickens
13. JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
14. Stephenie Meyer - Eclipse
15. Christopher Ranson - The Birthing House
16. Terry Pratchett - Mort
17. Kerry Cohen - Loose Girl
18. Stephen King - Cycle of the Werewolf
19. John Connelly - The Killing Kind
20. Stephenie Meyer - Breaking Dawn
21. John Connelly - The Black Angel
22. Terry Pratchett - Maskerade
23. Stephen King - Danse Macabre | 24. Richard Matheson - I Am Legend
25. Dan Brown - Angels and Demons
(Read that last one cover to cover in a few hours before going to bed. Queue dreams of priests, the Pope, and me running around Vatican City for some reason that I can no longer remember.) | |
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7th June 2009, 6:54pm
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#188 | | Green Eyed Panty Monster.
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Up a tree.
Posts: 3,141
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2009
1) Nick Hornby - How To Be Good.
Not that great to be honest. Took me ages to read.
Anyway, I know I'm starting this late but I know I should read more.
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9th June 2009, 3:52pm
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#189 | | Experimental stooge
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Auld Reekie
Posts: 15,133
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by endless psych 1) The Stuff of Thought - Steven Pinker
2) Counterknowledge - Damian Thompson.
3) Can robots Really think? - Peter Cave
4) Freakonomics - Stephen D Levitt, Stephen B. Dubner
5) Mistakes were made (but not by me) - Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson.
6) Elephants on acid - Alex Boese
7) Chaos - James Gleick
8) The black swan - Nicholas Taleb Tassim
9) Predictably irrational - Dan Ariely
10) Quirkology - Richard Wiseman
11) Emergency - Neil Strauss
12) Irrationality - Stuart Sutherland
13) Flat Earth News - Nick Davies
14) Critical Mass - Phillip Ball
15) The Road - Cormac McCarthy
16) The motorcycle Diaries - Ernesto 'CHE' Guevara
17) Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
18) Human Universals - Donald E. Brown
19) Omnibus #1: At the mountains of Madness - HP Lovecraft | 20) The Zombie Survival Guide - Max brooks | |
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9th June 2009, 4:08pm
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#190 | | Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Paisley
Posts: 805
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2009
1. Diary of a Wife - Anias Nin
2. Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
3. Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination - Helen Fielding
4. The Weight of Water - Anita Shreve
5. A Wedding in December- Anita Shreve
6. The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro
7. Love, Etc. - Julian Barnes
8. Vienna - Eva Menasse
9. The Family Way - Tony Parsons
10. A Girl's Guide to Modern European Philosophy - Charlotte Grieg
11. Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
12. The Pilot's Wife - Anita Shreve
13. New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
14. Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer
15. Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer
16. Class, The Secret diary of a Teacher in Turmoil - Jane Beaton
17. Those Faraday Girls - Monica McInerney
18. Stories we Could Tell - Tony Parsons
19. My Favourite Wife - Tony Parsons
20. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
21. Q and A - Vikas Swarup
22. Testimony - Anita Shreve
23. The Snows of Kilimanjaro - Ernest Hemingway
24. P.S. I love You - Cecilia Ahern
25. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
26. How to be Good - Nick Hornby
27. Art Therapy with Children on the Autistic Spectrum - Kathy Evans, Janet Dubowski
28. The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
29. Plan B - Emily Barr
30. The Sweetheart Season - Karen Joy Fowler
31. The Other Ariel - Lynda K. Bundtzen
32. The Perfect Life - Rafaella Barker
33. Eragon - Christopher Paolini
34. The Oxford Murders - Guellermo Martinez
35. Inner Circle - T.C. Boyle
36. Friday Nights - Joanna Trollope
37. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley | |
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10th June 2009, 6:13am
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#191 | | 50ft Queenie
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Fascination Street
Posts: 8,876
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2009
1. Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
2. Angela Carter – The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History
3. Angela Carter – Heroes and Villains
4. Angela Carter – Shadow Dance
5. Ford Madox Ford – The Good Soldier
6. Sarah Gamble – The Fiction of Angela Carter
7. Angela Carter – Several Perceptions
8. D. M. Thomas – The White Hotel
9. John Berger – Ways of Seeing
10. William Leith – The Hungry Years: Confessions of a Food Addict
11. Hanif Kureishi – My Beautiful Laundrette and The Rainbow Sign
12. Christine Geraghty – My Beautiful Laundrette
13. Richard Yates – Revolutionary Road
14. Emma Smith – The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare
15. Thomas Hardy – Tess of the D'Urbervilles
16. William Shakespeare – Titus Andronicus
17. William Shakespeare – Hamlet
18. William Shakespeare – Othello
19. Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
20. Robert Louis Stevenson – The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
21. Bram Stoker – Dracula
22. William Shakespeare – Twelfth Night
23. William Shakespeare – Measure for Measure
24. Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray
25. William Shakespeare – King Lear
26. William Shakespeare – Macbeth
27. William Shakespeare – The Winter's Tale
28. S. L. Bethell – The Winter's Tale: A Study
29. Thomas Hardy – The Mayor of Casterbridge
30. Chistina Rossetti – Goblin Market and Other Poems
31. William Shakespeare – The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint
32. Simone de Beauvoir – The Woman Destroyed
33. T. S. Eliot – Collected Poems 1909-1962
34. D.H. Lawrence - The Rainbow
35. Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
36. Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent
37. T. S. Eliot - The Cocktail Party
38. T. S. Eliot - The Family Reunion
39. D. H. Lawrence - Women in Love
40. Jane Smiley – A Thousand Acres
41. Ariel Levy – Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
42. Mireille Guiliano - French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure
43. Kate Atkinson - When Will There Be Good News?
44. Mollie Hunter - A Stranger Came Ashore
45. Agatha Christie - Evil Under the Sun
Fancied some lighter stuff. The Kate Atkinson one was very readable but I don't think her newer crime-based stuff is as strong as her first two novels. | |
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10th June 2009, 7:32pm
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#192 | | On The Ascendent
Join Date: May 2003 Location: Hyndbland
Posts: 8,522
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by supernothing 13. Sudhir Vankatesh - Gang Leader for a Day Shite name, awrite book. About a sociology post-grad who decides to do his fieldwork in the biggest projects in America (in Chicago). A pretty good look at the illegal economy, crack gangs, corrupt housing authorities and ghetto life in general. So many parallels to The Wire. | What did you think of Venkatesh? I know in the book he always highlights "how naive" he was, but there were times where I thought he was being really idiotic, like when he discussed how much the hustlers in the neighbourhood were making with J.T. and Ms. Bailey.
1. Chandler, Raymond - The Big Sleep and Other Novels - Penguin Classics in association with Hamish Hamilton
2. Lane Fox, Robin - Alexander The Great - The Folio Society by arrangement with Penguin Books
3. Machiavelli, Niccoḷ translated by Bull, George, introduction by Grafton, Anthony - The Prince - Penguin Classics
4. Burrow, John - A History Of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances And Inquiries From Herodotus And Thucydides To The Twentieth Century - Penguin Books
5. Klein, Naomi - The Shock Doctrine: The Rise Of Disaster Capitalism - Penguin Books
6. Venkatesh, Sudhir - Gang Leader For A Day - Penguin Books
7. Dillon, Myles and Chadwick, Nora - The Celtic Realms: The History And Culture Of The Celtic Peoples From Pre-History To The Norman Invasion - Phoenix Press
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10th June 2009, 7:36pm
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#193 | | Experimental stooge
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Auld Reekie
Posts: 15,133
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by endless psych 1) The Stuff of Thought - Steven Pinker
2) Counterknowledge - Damian Thompson.
3) Can robots Really think? - Peter Cave
4) Freakonomics - Stephen D Levitt, Stephen B. Dubner
5) Mistakes were made (but not by me) - Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson.
6) Elephants on acid - Alex Boese
7) Chaos - James Gleick
8) The black swan - Nicholas Taleb Tassim
9) Predictably irrational - Dan Ariely
10) Quirkology - Richard Wiseman
11) Emergency - Neil Strauss
12) Irrationality - Stuart Sutherland
13) Flat Earth News - Nick Davies
14) Critical Mass - Phillip Ball
15) The Road - Cormac McCarthy
16) The motorcycle Diaries - Ernesto 'CHE' Guevara
17) Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
18) Human Universals - Donald E. Brown
19) Omnibus #1: At the mountains of Madness - HP Lovecraft
20) The Zombie Survival Guide - Max brooks | 21) World War Z - Max Brooks | |
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15th June 2009, 10:54pm
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#194 | | Experimental stooge
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Auld Reekie
Posts: 15,133
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by endless psych 1) The Stuff of Thought - Steven Pinker
2) Counterknowledge - Damian Thompson.
3) Can robots Really think? - Peter Cave
4) Freakonomics - Stephen D Levitt, Stephen B. Dubner
5) Mistakes were made (but not by me) - Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson.
6) Elephants on acid - Alex Boese
7) Chaos - James Gleick
8) The black swan - Nicholas Taleb Tassim
9) Predictably irrational - Dan Ariely
10) Quirkology - Richard Wiseman
11) Emergency - Neil Strauss
12) Irrationality - Stuart Sutherland
13) Flat Earth News - Nick Davies
14) Critical Mass - Phillip Ball
15) The Road - Cormac McCarthy
16) The motorcycle Diaries - Ernesto 'CHE' Guevara
17) Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
18) Human Universals - Donald E. Brown
19) Omnibus #1: At the mountains of Madness - HP Lovecraft
20) The Zombie Survival Guide - Max brooks
21) World War Z - Max Brooks | 22) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Jane Austen and Seth Graham Smith | |
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17th June 2009, 9:50pm
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#195 | | Jessop Jessop Jessop
Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: clydebank
Posts: 4,733
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2009
1. piercing - ryu murakami
2. cross country - james patterson
3. in the miso soup - ryu murakami
4. darkly dreaming dexter - jeff lindsay
5. dearly devoted dexter - jeff lindsay
6. dexter in the dark - jeff lindsay
7. the unbearable lightness of being - milan kundera
8. the catcher in the rye - j.d. salinger
9. american psycho - bret easton ellis
10. after dark - haruki murakami
11. dexter by design - jeff lindsay
12. three and out - tom henry
13. coraline - neil gaiman
14. fleshmarket close - ian rankin
15. too weird for ziggy - sylvie simmons
16. the runes of the earth - stephen donaldson
17. how the dead live - will self
18. anansi boys - neil gaiman
19. beggars banquet - ian rankin
20. amber spyglass - philip pullman
21. completely unexpected tales - roald dahl
22. screen burn - charlie brooker
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