50 Book Challenge 2010
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65.) The Robbers by Friedrich Schiller
Graphic Fiction:
21.) V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
Graphic Fiction:
21.) V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
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This will be the first time I've undertaken a book challenge, so here goes. So far I have read:
1) The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
2) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
3) Silverthorn by Raymond E. Feist
4) Sharpe's Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell
5) H.M.S. Surprise by Patrick O'Brian
6) Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett
Currently reading Cancer Ward by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
By the way, some of you may remember me as stuee from the RDF forums.
1) The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
2) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
3) Silverthorn by Raymond E. Feist
4) Sharpe's Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell
5) H.M.S. Surprise by Patrick O'Brian
6) Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett
Currently reading Cancer Ward by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
By the way, some of you may remember me as stuee from the RDF forums.
Re: 50 Book Challenge 2010
66.) Die Rauber von Friedrich Schiller
67.) Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
67.) Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Re: 50 Book Challenge 2010
Graphic Fiction:
22.) Han Solo and Hollow Moon of Khorya by Jeremy Barlow and others
22.) Han Solo and Hollow Moon of Khorya by Jeremy Barlow and others
Re: 50 Book Challenge 2010
68.) Don Carlos by Friedrich Schiller
Re: 50 Book Challenge 2010
69.) Gedichte, Gedichte von Joachim Ringelnatz
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1)DBC Pierre - Vernon God Little
2)Christopher Hitchens - Letters to a Young Contrarian
3)Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses
4)Ian McEwan - Amsterdam
5)Cormac McCarthy - The Road
6)Richard Dawkins- The Blind Watchmaker
7)Christopher Hitchens - Love, Poverty and War
8)Stephen King - On Writing
9)Stephen King - Under The Dome
10)Ben Dupre - 50 Philosophy Ideas YoU Really Need to Know
11)Noam Chomsky - What We Say Goes
12)Ian McEwan - Atonement
13)Richard Dawkins - Unweaving the Rainbow
14)Noam Chomsky - Understanding Power
15)George Orwell - Animal Farm
16)Noam Chomsky - Profit Over People
17)Christopher Hitchens - The Missionary Position
18)Noam Chomsky - Hegemony or Survival
19)James Joyce - Dubliners
20)Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach
21)Ian McEwan - The Cement Garden
22)Chuck Palahniuk - Lullaby
2)Christopher Hitchens - Letters to a Young Contrarian
3)Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses
4)Ian McEwan - Amsterdam
5)Cormac McCarthy - The Road
6)Richard Dawkins- The Blind Watchmaker
7)Christopher Hitchens - Love, Poverty and War
8)Stephen King - On Writing
9)Stephen King - Under The Dome
10)Ben Dupre - 50 Philosophy Ideas YoU Really Need to Know
11)Noam Chomsky - What We Say Goes
12)Ian McEwan - Atonement
13)Richard Dawkins - Unweaving the Rainbow
14)Noam Chomsky - Understanding Power
15)George Orwell - Animal Farm
16)Noam Chomsky - Profit Over People
17)Christopher Hitchens - The Missionary Position
18)Noam Chomsky - Hegemony or Survival
19)James Joyce - Dubliners
20)Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach
21)Ian McEwan - The Cement Garden
22)Chuck Palahniuk - Lullaby
Re: 50 Book Challenge 2010
4) - I'm way behind - The Gargoyle: Andrew Davidson.
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I haven't had time to read for pleasure in forever, but HA I have one book down for this year.
1) The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
1) The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
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Re: 50 Book Challenge 2010
1)DBC Pierre - Vernon God Little
2)Christopher Hitchens - Letters to a Young Contrarian
3)Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses
4)Ian McEwan - Amsterdam
5)Cormac McCarthy - The Road
6)Richard Dawkins- The Blind Watchmaker
7)Christopher Hitchens - Love, Poverty and War
8)Stephen King - On Writing
9)Stephen King - Under The Dome
10)Ben Dupre - 50 Philosophy Ideas YoU Really Need to Know
11)Noam Chomsky - What We Say Goes
12)Ian McEwan - Atonement
13)Richard Dawkins - Unweaving the Rainbow
14)Noam Chomsky - Understanding Power
15)George Orwell - Animal Farm
16)Noam Chomsky - Profit Over People
17)Christopher Hitchens - The Missionary Position
18)Noam Chomsky - Hegemony or Survival
19)James Joyce - Dubliners
20)Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach
21)Ian McEwan - The Cement Garden
22)Chuck Palahniuk - Lullaby
23)Ian McEwan - Black Dogs
2)Christopher Hitchens - Letters to a Young Contrarian
3)Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses
4)Ian McEwan - Amsterdam
5)Cormac McCarthy - The Road
6)Richard Dawkins- The Blind Watchmaker
7)Christopher Hitchens - Love, Poverty and War
8)Stephen King - On Writing
9)Stephen King - Under The Dome
10)Ben Dupre - 50 Philosophy Ideas YoU Really Need to Know
11)Noam Chomsky - What We Say Goes
12)Ian McEwan - Atonement
13)Richard Dawkins - Unweaving the Rainbow
14)Noam Chomsky - Understanding Power
15)George Orwell - Animal Farm
16)Noam Chomsky - Profit Over People
17)Christopher Hitchens - The Missionary Position
18)Noam Chomsky - Hegemony or Survival
19)James Joyce - Dubliners
20)Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach
21)Ian McEwan - The Cement Garden
22)Chuck Palahniuk - Lullaby
23)Ian McEwan - Black Dogs
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1)DBC Pierre - Vernon God Little
2)Christopher Hitchens - Letters to a Young Contrarian
3)Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses
4)Ian McEwan - Amsterdam
5)Cormac McCarthy - The Road
6)Richard Dawkins- The Blind Watchmaker
7)Christopher Hitchens - Love, Poverty and War
8)Stephen King - On Writing
9)Stephen King - Under The Dome
10)Ben Dupre - 50 Philosophy Ideas YoU Really Need to Know
11)Noam Chomsky - What We Say Goes
12)Ian McEwan - Atonement
13)Richard Dawkins - Unweaving the Rainbow
14)Noam Chomsky - Understanding Power
15)George Orwell - Animal Farm
16)Noam Chomsky - Profit Over People
17)Christopher Hitchens - The Missionary Position
18)Noam Chomsky - Hegemony or Survival
19)James Joyce - Dubliners
20)Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach
21)Ian McEwan - The Cement Garden
22)Chuck Palahniuk - Lullaby
23)Ian McEwan - Black Dogs
24)Richard Dawkins - Climbing Mount Improbable
2)Christopher Hitchens - Letters to a Young Contrarian
3)Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses
4)Ian McEwan - Amsterdam
5)Cormac McCarthy - The Road
6)Richard Dawkins- The Blind Watchmaker
7)Christopher Hitchens - Love, Poverty and War
8)Stephen King - On Writing
9)Stephen King - Under The Dome
10)Ben Dupre - 50 Philosophy Ideas YoU Really Need to Know
11)Noam Chomsky - What We Say Goes
12)Ian McEwan - Atonement
13)Richard Dawkins - Unweaving the Rainbow
14)Noam Chomsky - Understanding Power
15)George Orwell - Animal Farm
16)Noam Chomsky - Profit Over People
17)Christopher Hitchens - The Missionary Position
18)Noam Chomsky - Hegemony or Survival
19)James Joyce - Dubliners
20)Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach
21)Ian McEwan - The Cement Garden
22)Chuck Palahniuk - Lullaby
23)Ian McEwan - Black Dogs
24)Richard Dawkins - Climbing Mount Improbable
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1)DBC Pierre - Vernon God Little
2)Christopher Hitchens - Letters to a Young Contrarian
3)Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses
4)Ian McEwan - Amsterdam
5)Cormac McCarthy - The Road
6)Richard Dawkins- The Blind Watchmaker
7)Christopher Hitchens - Love, Poverty and War
8)Stephen King - On Writing
9)Stephen King - Under The Dome
10)Ben Dupre - 50 Philosophy Ideas YoU Really Need to Know
11)Noam Chomsky - What We Say Goes
12)Ian McEwan - Atonement
13)Richard Dawkins - Unweaving the Rainbow
14)Noam Chomsky - Understanding Power
15)George Orwell - Animal Farm
16)Noam Chomsky - Profit Over People
17)Christopher Hitchens - The Missionary Position
18)Noam Chomsky - Hegemony or Survival
19)James Joyce - Dubliners
20)Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach
21)Ian McEwan - The Cement Garden
22)Chuck Palahniuk - Lullaby
23)Ian McEwan - Black Dogs
24)Richard Dawkins - Climbing Mount Improbable
25)Ian McEwan - Saturday
2)Christopher Hitchens - Letters to a Young Contrarian
3)Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses
4)Ian McEwan - Amsterdam
5)Cormac McCarthy - The Road
6)Richard Dawkins- The Blind Watchmaker
7)Christopher Hitchens - Love, Poverty and War
8)Stephen King - On Writing
9)Stephen King - Under The Dome
10)Ben Dupre - 50 Philosophy Ideas YoU Really Need to Know
11)Noam Chomsky - What We Say Goes
12)Ian McEwan - Atonement
13)Richard Dawkins - Unweaving the Rainbow
14)Noam Chomsky - Understanding Power
15)George Orwell - Animal Farm
16)Noam Chomsky - Profit Over People
17)Christopher Hitchens - The Missionary Position
18)Noam Chomsky - Hegemony or Survival
19)James Joyce - Dubliners
20)Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach
21)Ian McEwan - The Cement Garden
22)Chuck Palahniuk - Lullaby
23)Ian McEwan - Black Dogs
24)Richard Dawkins - Climbing Mount Improbable
25)Ian McEwan - Saturday
Re: 50 Book Challenge 2010
Echo Burning - Lee Childshotshoe wrote:Funny, almost the only post I regret losing from RDnet was the 50 book challenge. So, here is mine:
The Snack Thief - Andrea Camilleri; translated by Stephen Sartarelli
Third in a series of detective novels about a Sicilian detective, Inspector Montalbano
Stitch'n bitch : the Knitter's Handbook - Debbie Stoller
The City & the City - China Miéville
Mind-bending story about a city divided amongst two nations
The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett
An early discworld novel
Rain Gods - James Lee Burke
crime thriller set in Texas, by the great James Lee Burke -- but it's marred by improbable coincidences and much repetition of themes
Ringworld - Larry Niven
science fiction classic I have read three (or four?) times, but not in this millenium. Holds up pretty well, with interesting speculations about the tradeoff between lucky genes and free will
Ringworld Engineers - Larry Niven
after re-reading Ringworld, I wanted to re-read the sequel as well. Less philosophical than the first.
Tripoint - C.J. Cherryh
Maybe the least interesting of the Merchanter novels, marred by emphasis on how being fathered by a rapist had damaged the protagonist Tom Bowe-Hawkins. Nonetheless, compelling.
Foreigner - C. J. Cherryh
The first book of the "Foreigner universe" where human colonists are stranded on a planet inhabited by an alien civilization, the Atevi, who have no feelings of love or affection but an overruling concept of duty and loyalty. The only human character in most of the book is the translator/paidhi Bren Cameron.
Invader - C. J. Cherryh
Second book, where Bren Cameron suddenly has to deal with the appearance of a human space ship in orbit and the reactions to it in both Atevi and human colonial politics
Inheritor - C. J. Cherryh
Third in this series, with more overt action, as war is threatened by conservatives on both sides
Jack Reacher. Great modern noir fiction. This one is a little different, set in border Texas with home-grown criminals having nothing to do with Reacher's military past. Probably not the best introduction to Childs' writing if not already a fan, though, too much driving around and griping about the heat.
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Aaaaaaaaand now that my comp is out for nearly a month, I'll probably be reading more often. Soooooooo...
1) The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
2) The Blood of the Fold - Terry Goodkind
1) The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
2) The Blood of the Fold - Terry Goodkind
Re: 50 Book Challenge 2010
The Last Olympian - Rick Riordanhotshoe wrote:Funny, almost the only post I regret losing from RDnet was the 50 book challenge. So, here is mine:
The Snack Thief - Andrea Camilleri; translated by Stephen Sartarelli
Third in a series of detective novels about a Sicilian detective, Inspector Montalbano
Stitch'n bitch : the Knitter's Handbook - Debbie Stoller
The City & the City - China Miéville
Mind-bending story about a city divided amongst two nations
The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett
An early discworld novel
Rain Gods - James Lee Burke
crime thriller set in Texas, by the great James Lee Burke -- but it's marred by improbable coincidences and much repetition of themes
Ringworld - Larry Niven
science fiction classic I have read three (or four?) times, but not in this millenium. Holds up pretty well, with interesting speculations about the tradeoff between lucky genes and free will
Ringworld Engineers - Larry Niven
after re-reading Ringworld, I wanted to re-read the sequel as well. Less philosophical than the first.
Tripoint - C.J. Cherryh
Maybe the least interesting of the Merchanter novels, marred by emphasis on how being fathered by a rapist had damaged the protagonist Tom Bowe-Hawkins. Nonetheless, compelling.
Foreigner - C. J. Cherryh
The first book of the "Foreigner universe" where human colonists are stranded on a planet inhabited by an alien civilization, the Atevi, who have no feelings of love or affection but an overruling concept of duty and loyalty. The only human character in most of the book is the translator/paidhi Bren Cameron.
Invader - C. J. Cherryh
Second book, where Bren Cameron suddenly has to deal with the appearance of a human space ship in orbit and the reactions to it in both Atevi and human colonial politics
Inheritor - C. J. Cherryh
Third in this series, with more overt action, as war is threatened by conservatives on both sides
Echo Burning - Lee Childs
Jack Reacher. Great modern noir fiction. This one is a little different, set in border Texas with home-grown criminals having nothing to do with Reacher's military past. Probably not the best introduction to Childs' writing if not already a fan, though, too much driving around and griping about the heat.
A young-adult fantasy/adventure story about the modern-day half-blood children of the Greek gods and their battle to defend Olympus against the powerful TItans. Reads like a movie.
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