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6th July 2009, 3:41pm
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#241 | | Sturdy like a lobster
Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Glasgow
Posts: 1,716
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2009
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
26. Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
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8th July 2009, 1:36pm
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#242 | | Sturdy like a lobster
Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Glasgow
Posts: 1,716
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2009
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
26. Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
27. White Fang - Jack London
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8th July 2009, 7:25pm
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#243 | | Sturdy like a lobster
Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Glasgow
Posts: 1,716
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2009
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
26. Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
27. White Fang - Jack London
28. All's Well That Ends Well - William Shakespeare
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10th July 2009, 4:20pm
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#244 | | 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 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
23. Ken Cain, Hiedi Poslewait, Andrew Thompson - Emergency Sex: and other desperate measures Pretty decent book about/by 3 folk who worked for the UN in various combat zones in the 90s as civilian staff. Well interesting. Shite name though
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12th July 2009, 9:56am
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#245 | | Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Paisley
Posts: 808
| 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
38. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
39. Year of Wonder - Geraldine Brooks
40. Body Surfing - Anita Shreve
41. The Gallows' Girl - Melanie Gifford
42. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling
43. The Chocolate Run - Dorothy Koomson
44. Light on Snow - Anita Shreve
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12th July 2009, 11:16pm
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#246 | | Jessop Jessop Jessop
Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: clydebank
Posts: 4,735
| 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
23. the curious incident of the dog in the night-time - mark haddon
24. pride and prejudice and zombies - jane austen/seth grahame smith
25. sputnik sweetheart - haruki murakami
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15th July 2009, 12:30pm
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#247 | | 50ft Queenie
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Fascination Street
Posts: 8,876
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2009
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Originally Posted by Fiona_B  25. sputnik sweetheart - haruki murakami | Worth a read? Got it from a charity shop a few months ago but heard mixed reviews about the author. 51. Henry James – What Maisie Knew
52. Jean Rhys – After Leaving Mr Mackenzie
53. Carlos Ruiz Zafon – The Shadow of the Wind
54. Alex Kuczynski – Beauty Junkies: Under the Skin of the Cosmetic Surgery Industry
55. Paul Auster – The Music of Chance
56. Chuck Klosterman – Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs
57. Jean Rhys – Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography
58. Marc Acito – How I Paid for College
59. Melvin Burgess – Junk
A week in the sun = lots of reading. Bit of a cop-out since I'd read half of them before, but I enjoy a good reread and was amazed at how much I'd forgotten. Shouldn't have started on Auster though, now I just wanna reread all of his others.  | |
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15th July 2009, 12:36pm
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#248 | | we hope that you choke
Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Dennistoun
Posts: 3,299
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2009
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Originally Posted by Rowsbette Worth a read? Got it from a charity shop a few months ago but heard mixed reviews about the author. 51. Henry James – What Maisie Knew
52. Jean Rhys – After Leaving Mr Mackenzie
53. Carlos Ruiz Zafon – The Shadow of the Wind
54. Alex Kuczynski – Beauty Junkies: Under the Skin of the Cosmetic Surgery Industry
55. Paul Auster – The Music of Chance
56. Chuck Klosterman – Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs
57. Jean Rhys – Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography
58. Marc Acito – How I Paid for College
59. Melvin Burgess – Junk
A week in the sun = lots of reading. Bit of a cop-out since I'd read half of them before, but I enjoy a good reread and was amazed at how much I'd forgotten. Shouldn't have started on Auster though, now I just wanna reread all of his others. | I've not read The Music of Chance, would you recommend it? I've read two of his other books about ten times, loved them. I've just started the The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson but I really can't get into it. Powering through, though.
Also how was your holiday!? If you've got a tan I'm going to have to avoid you out of jealousy.
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15th July 2009, 1:39pm
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#249 | | 50ft Queenie
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Fascination Street
Posts: 8,876
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2009
I really enjoyed The Music of Chance but I wouldn't actually *recommend* it to anyone cos the ending is so "what the fuck?" But if you don't mind a bit of frustration and some unanswered questions I'd give it a bash, it's a quick read with a really surreal, dark vibe. I'd lend you my copy but it fell to bits in the sun. 
Holiday was great, thanks! I'm fairly tanned but it looked better abroad... in Glasgow's cold light I just look a bit grubby. | |
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15th July 2009, 4:40pm
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#250 | | we hope that you choke
Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Dennistoun
Posts: 3,299
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2009
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Originally Posted by Rowsbette I really enjoyed The Music of Chance but I wouldn't actually *recommend* it to anyone cos the ending is so "what the fuck?" But if you don't mind a bit of frustration and some unanswered questions I'd give it a bash, it's a quick read with a really surreal, dark vibe. I'd lend you my copy but it fell to bits in the sun.
Holiday was great, thanks! I'm fairly tanned but it looked better abroad... in Glasgow's cold light I just look a bit grubby. | Fair enough, might give it a bash once I've struggled through the book I'm reading. I bet you don't really look grubby, you'll bronzed next to me anyway 
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16th July 2009, 7:47am
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#251 | | Experimental stooge
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Auld Reekie
Posts: 15,136
| 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
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 Taylorr | 26) The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein | |
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20th July 2009, 4:56pm
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#252 | | we hope that you choke
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Posts: 3,299
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2009
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Originally Posted by the.definitive 13. The Cutting Room - Louise Welsh | 14. The Testament of Gideon Mack - James Robertson
This just didn't do it for me at all, really had to force myself to finish it.
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20th July 2009, 7:11pm
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#253 | | Experimental stooge
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Auld Reekie
Posts: 15,136
| 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
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 Taylorr
26) The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein | 27) :59 - Richard Wiseman | |
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20th July 2009, 7:33pm
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#254 | | Jessop Jessop Jessop
Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: clydebank
Posts: 4,735
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2009
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Originally Posted by Rowsbette Worth a read? Got it from a charity shop a few months ago but heard mixed reviews about the author. 51. Henry James – What Maisie Knew
52. Jean Rhys – After Leaving Mr Mackenzie
53. Carlos Ruiz Zafon – The Shadow of the Wind
54. Alex Kuczynski – Beauty Junkies: Under the Skin of the Cosmetic Surgery Industry
55. Paul Auster – The Music of Chance
56. Chuck Klosterman – Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs
57. Jean Rhys – Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography
58. Marc Acito – How I Paid for College
59. Melvin Burgess – Junk
A week in the sun = lots of reading. Bit of a cop-out since I'd read half of them before, but I enjoy a good reread and was amazed at how much I'd forgotten. Shouldn't have started on Auster though, now I just wanna reread all of his others. | i've got the majorty of books by haruki murakami and i've loved every single one. transports me to a whole other world.
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20th July 2009, 7:34pm
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#255 | | Al Queda Pish
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Muppet Lab
Posts: 7,046
| Re: Fifty book challenge 2009
Couple of Celtic books. Lisbon Lions history and 10 days that rocked the club. Decent.
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