Fifty book challenge 2009

[sylvianorth]

It's probably some folks' idea of a nightmare, but if you enjoy rummaging you're sure to find a few great bargains. Just beside Tchai Ovna, it is. Although I never make it beyond the "Everything's £1" room.

Love that place, plus the guys don't give a flying fuck about actually selling anything, so you can potter about to your hearts delight. Absolutely no point in going there with one book in mind though. The one youre on about round the corner is really nice but a bit...stuffy for my liking. Caledonia books on Great Western Road is good if you're looking to get rid of books you won't read again, but the staff are dicks.

I also really like Biblocafe on Woodlands Road, the selection isn't great but it's quiet and welcoming, plus the woman who runs it is called Lou. Just saying.

I love bookshops.

[Rowsbette]

Ooh, I haven't been to either of those... do Caledonia buy books then? I seriously need to clear some shelf-space and didn't think there were many places near me that'd pay for second-hand books.

Cheers for the heads-up, might go and have a wee swatch as my recent venture reminded me how comforting it is just to stoat around bookshops.

[supernothing]

Aye Caledonia buy books, its owned buy the same guys that own Voltaire and Rousseu I think. Much more orderly but more expensive, still pretty good though. They've got a cool magazine selection too.

[sylvianorth]

Ooh, I haven't been to either of those... do Caledonia buy books then? I seriously need to clear some shelf-space and didn't think there were many places near me that'd pay for second-hand books.

Cheers for the heads-up, might go and have a wee swatch as my recent venture reminded me how comforting it is just to stoat around bookshops.

Yeah, they don't pay stacks of cash, I think I got about £12 for a pile of about 9 books, but they were all fairly common titles and one of the books had actually been bought FROM there. I just hate throwing out books but it was ones i would NEVER read again (hello Madam Bovary) and cleared shelf space. They don't take textbooks or anything though, or at least they weren't interested in any of mine.

Biblocafe the one I mentioned before, also take books and either offer cash or an exchange thing, so you get 'credits' to spend in store. You can then return THOSE books for more credits and so on.

I absolutely love stoating about bookshops, if I have an hour to kill intown I nearly always wind up in Borders and tan most of a book. That's probably not what they had in mind when they brought in couches right enough :-|

[Fiona_B]

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
23. the curious incident of the dog in the night-time - mark haddon

24. pride and prejudice and zombies - jane austen/seth grahame smith

[sylvianorth]

How was the P and P zombie book?

[the.definitive]

10. Paperback Raita - Will Rhode

11. We Need To Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver


Seems just about everyone has read this book except me, but it was amazing anyway. I finished it in work and couldn't concentrate for the next few hours just thinking about all the different ways to consider the whole thing. Such a hard topic to cover without sounding like you're somehow not giving it the weight it deserves, I reckon she managed to pull it off brilliantly.

[the.definitive]

11. We Need To Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver


Seems just about everyone has read this book except me, but it was amazing anyway. I finished it in work and couldn't concentrate for the next few hours just thinking about all the different ways to consider the whole thing. Such a hard topic to cover without sounding like you're somehow not giving it the weight it deserves, I reckon she managed to pull it off brilliantly.

And instead of going swimming today I got caught up reading this:

No More Tomorrows - Schapelle Corby with Kathryn Bonella.

Really badly written but interesting and quite moving all the same.

[Pretty Kitty]

1. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
2. Emma - Jane Austen
3. The secret garden - F. Hodgson Burnett
4. Alice's adventures in wonderland - Lewis Carroll
5. Through the looking glass - Lewis Carroll
6. The adventures of Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi
7. What Katy did - Susan Coolidge
8. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
9. The call of the wild - Jack London
10. Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
11. Round the world in eighty days - Jules Verne
12. The importance of being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
13. The picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
14. Carpe Jugulum - Terry Pratchett
15. Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
16. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - A.C.Doyle
17. Duma Key - Stephen King
18. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
19. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
20. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
21. The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
22. The Comedy of Errors - William Shakespeare
23. A Midsummer Nights Dream - William Shakespeare
24. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea - Jules Verne

25. Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare

[supernothing]

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 Fall
16. Ryzard Kapuscinski - Another Day of Life
17. Mischa Glenny - McMafia
18. Jean Claude Izzo - Total Chaos
19. Florrian Zeller - The Facination of Evil
20. Introducing Camus
21. Cormac McCarthy - Cities of the Plain
22. Donald Ray Pollock - Knockemstiff Some short stories about hillbillies in Ohio. I was a bit dubious to start with, like AYE i've read palanuik/DBC Pierre I get it - but it was surprisingly good.

[Runt]

1. Hitch hikers guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
2. The restaurant at the end of the Universe - Douglas Adams
3. Life, the Universe and everything - Douglas Adams
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
9. Female Chauvinist Pigs - Ariel Levy (meh)
10. another Sandman (can't remember which) - Neil Gaiman
11. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien

12. Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
13. New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
14. The Female Eunuch - Germaine Greer (technically I'm only a third of the way through this, I keep getting distracted and having to 'lighten my mood' but I thought I should list it incase I forget, because I WILL finish it.)

Very excited about my present on Tuesday, next twilight book - Eclipse I think it's called.

[Fiona_B]

How was the P and P zombie book?

awful. it is literally just pride and prejudice with one or two sentences about "unmentionables" thrown in with the odd pic.

[princessoPUNK]

Very excited about my present on Tuesday, next twilight book - Eclipse I think it's called.

It's very good, and then you get to read the fourth book, which is by far the best.

Hmm, perhaps I will read the Twilight series again.

[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
23) Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance - Robert M Pirsig
24) What works? Evidence based policy and practice in public services -Huw Davies, Sandra Nutley and Peter Smith (EDS)

25) Brainwashing the science of thought control - Kathleen Taylor

[the.definitive]

And instead of going swimming today I got caught up reading this:

No More Tomorrows - Schapelle Corby with Kathryn Bonella.

Really badly written but interesting and quite moving all the same.

13. The Cutting Room - Louise Welsh