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Old 22nd March 2009, 11:47pm   #106
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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
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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. Ny Favourite Wife - Tony Parsons
20. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
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Old 25th March 2009, 5:38am   #108
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Re: Fifty book challenge 2009
I am quite aware there is some complete gash in here. I got the 100 books thing for this DS and have been letting it choose my books for me apparently it thinks I am about 10 years old.

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

Didn't actually realise the extent of the crap I had been reading until I had to type it out shall be choosing my own books from now on.
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Old 25th March 2009, 9:56am   #109
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Didn't actually realise the extent of the crap I had been reading until I had to type it out shall be choosing my own books from now on.
I think that's a respectable list! The children's books are acceptable cos they're regarded as classics, there's not much actual "crap" in there.

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 & The Rainbow Sign

12. Christine Geraghty - My Beautiful Laundrette
13. Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road

Revolutionary Road's amazing... so poignant and very readable. Can't decide whether or not to have a swatch at the DVD when it comes out, they'd have to have handled it very carefully for it to make a good film.
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Old 25th March 2009, 12:09pm   #110
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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. Ny Favourite Wife - Tony Parsons
20. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne

21. Q and A - Vikas Swarup
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Old 25th March 2009, 7:21pm   #111
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I think that's a respectable list! The children's books are acceptable cos they're regarded as classics, there's not much actual "crap" in there. .
well I proably shouldn't admit to making my boyfriend read Fantastic Mr Fox to me then.
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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


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Old 31st March 2009, 6:23pm   #113
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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
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Old 31st March 2009, 7:00pm   #114
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Revolutionary Road's amazing... so poignant and very readable. Can't decide whether or not to have a swatch at the DVD when it comes out, they'd have to have handled it very carefully for it to make a good film.
I picked this up for a couple of quid in HMV the other day, might make it my next read!
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Old 31st March 2009, 10:11pm   #115
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I picked this up for a couple of quid in HMV the other day, might make it my next read!
Ooh, nice one. I'm quite keen to get my mitts on his other books but alas, not until after May 15th. I've got all these amazing visions of all the stuff I'll do when my exams are over (read five billion novels, have lotsa nights out, gorge myself on the remaining six series of the Sopranos, train for a 5k, hopefully soak up the Glasgow sun) but the list is getting a bit excessive.

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 & 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

Last one's extremely bizarre, but entertaining nonetheless. Rape, tongues and hands cut off, the "good guy" murdering his own children, involuntary cannibalism... Ordered the film version, Titus, with Anthony Hopkins. Looking forward to having a swatch, but I'm wary about the high gore content.
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I am quite aware there is some complete gash in here. I got the 100 books thing for this DS and have been letting it choose my books for me apparently it thinks I am about 10 years old.

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
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I asked my dad for some book recommendations and he suggested Sophie Kinsella, 'Remember Me?' I was pure



5. Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince- J.K Rowling

Started Ewan Morisson 'Swung' and 'Billy' by Pamela Stevenson also.
6. 'Coraline'- Neil Gaiman
7. 'Billy' by Pamale Stevenson.

In the end I really disliked 'Billy'. Started 'Billy Liar' (hoho) yesterday.
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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
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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 & 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
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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


Falling a bit behind it seems, too busy just now trying to complete job applications, not enough time for reading.
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