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Post by macdoc » Sat Jun 30, 2012 2:47 am

50. Voice of the Whirlwind ..Walter Jon Wlliams - similar theme to Hardwired
51 Faceless Killers first of the Wallander detective series.
52.Dogs of Riga second of the Wallander detective series.
53 White Lioness - third in the Wallander series by Henning Mankell - various translators
54 Solips System - Walter Jon Wlliams
in progress
55 Railsea China Mielville
56 Angel Station - even deeper cyberpunk.
57. Swerve: How the World became Modern - reading small bits at a time - fascinating if a bit dry
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Post by anna09 » Sun Jul 01, 2012 12:06 am

1. The Nasty Bits- Anthony Bourdain
2. The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters- B.R. Myers
3. The Rum Diary- Hunter S. Thompson
4. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human- V.S Ramachandran
5. Down and Out in Paris and London- George Orwell
6. Death from the Skies: The Science Behind the End of the World- Philip Plait
7. The Scarlet Pimpernel- Baroness Orczy
8. Lady Chatterley's Lover- D. H. Lawrence
9. House of Meetings- Martin Amis
10. The Lost Girl- D. H. Lawrence
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
12. Scaramouche- Rafael Sabatini
13. Money- Martin Amis
14. The Good Soldier- Ford Madox Ford
15. The Nick Adams Stories- Ernest Hemingway
16. The Virgin and the Gipsy- D. H. Lawrence
17. Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts About Alternative Medicine- Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
18. Far and Away: A Prize Every Time- Neil Peart
19. In Between the Sheets- Ian McEwan
20. Sleep Thieves- Stanley Coren
21. Free Will- Sam Harris
22. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking- Susan Cain
23. A Cook's Tour- Anthony Bourdain
24. Lucky Jim- Kingsley Amis
25. Every Man Dies Alone- Hans Fallada
26. No Way to Treat a First Lady- Christopher Buckley
27. All Our Worldly Goods- Irene Nemirovsky
28. The Rachel Papers- Martin Amis
29. God No!- Penn Jillette (don't bother)
30. The Rainbow- D. H. Lawrence
31. Totalitarian Science and Technology- Paul R. Josephson
32. This Side of Paradise- F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. The White House Mess- Christopher Buckley
34. Wolf Among Wolves- Hans Fallada
35. Eichmann in Jerusalem- Hannah Arendt
36. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories- Robert Louis Stevenson
37. Love Medicine- Louise Erdrich
38. The Russian Revolution- Robert Goldston
39. The Comfort of Strangers- Ian McEwan
40. Enduring Love- Ian McEwan
41. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- Stieg Larsson
42. On Chesil Beach- Ian McEwan
43. Supreme Courtship- Christopher Buckley (meh)
44. The Girl Who Played With Fire- Stieg Larsson
45. The Innocent- Ian McEwan
46. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time- Mark Haddon (Loved this!)
47. A Farewell to Arms- Ernest Hemingway
48. Amsterdam- Ian McEwan
49. Black Dogs- Ian McEwan
50. Atonement- Ian McEwan



51. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest- Stieg Larsson
52. Crome Yellow- Aldous Huxley
53. The Child in Time- Ian McEwan
54. Space Chronicles- Neil Degrasse Tyson
55. Little Man, What Now?- Hans Fallada
56. The Cement Garden- Ian McEwan
57. Saturday- Ian McEwan
58. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastraphe- Robert Gellately
59. Antic Hay- Aldous Huxley
60. Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
61. Solar- Ian McEwan
62. The Metamorphosis and Other Stories- Franz Kafka
63. Letters to a Young Contrarian- Christopher Hitchens (re-read)
64. The Sinner's Grand Tour- Tony Perrottet

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Post by Clinton Huxley » Sun Jul 01, 2012 10:13 am

Anna, you don't need to read any more books this year...
"I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"

AND MERRY XMAS TO ONE AND All!

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Clinton Huxley wrote:Anna, you don't need to read any more books this year...
But my new goal is 100 books! :{D

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Post by Millefleur » Sun Jul 01, 2012 8:43 pm

Cormac McCarthy's:
1. Child of God
2. Suttree
3. No Country for Old Men
5. Blood Meridian
6. The Sunset Limited
7. The Orchard Keeper
8. Outer Dark
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9. Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
10. 'Tis - ''
11. Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
12. The 39 Steps - John Buchan
13. Thunderhead - Mary O'hara
14, 15, 16. The Green Grass of Wyoming Parts 1, 2 and 3, O'hara
17. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
18. The Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger
19. Gulliver's Travels - Johnathan Swift
20. Game of Thrones, A Song of Ice and Fire/Book One - George R. R Martin
21. The Death of Bunny Munro - Nick Cave
22. Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
23. Innocent Erendira - ''
24. Pippa in Switzerland - E.E Ohlson
25. To Kill a Mockingbird
26. Huckleberry Finn
27. As She Climbed Across The Table
28. The Girl Who Played With Fire
29. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest
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Post by anna09 » Wed Jul 04, 2012 2:29 am

1. The Nasty Bits- Anthony Bourdain
2. The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters- B.R. Myers
3. The Rum Diary- Hunter S. Thompson
4. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human- V.S Ramachandran
5. Down and Out in Paris and London- George Orwell
6. Death from the Skies: The Science Behind the End of the World- Philip Plait
7. The Scarlet Pimpernel- Baroness Orczy
8. Lady Chatterley's Lover- D. H. Lawrence
9. House of Meetings- Martin Amis
10. The Lost Girl- D. H. Lawrence
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
12. Scaramouche- Rafael Sabatini
13. Money- Martin Amis
14. The Good Soldier- Ford Madox Ford
15. The Nick Adams Stories- Ernest Hemingway
16. The Virgin and the Gipsy- D. H. Lawrence
17. Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts About Alternative Medicine- Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
18. Far and Away: A Prize Every Time- Neil Peart
19. In Between the Sheets- Ian McEwan
20. Sleep Thieves- Stanley Coren
21. Free Will- Sam Harris
22. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking- Susan Cain
23. A Cook's Tour- Anthony Bourdain
24. Lucky Jim- Kingsley Amis
25. Every Man Dies Alone- Hans Fallada
26. No Way to Treat a First Lady- Christopher Buckley
27. All Our Worldly Goods- Irene Nemirovsky
28. The Rachel Papers- Martin Amis
29. God No!- Penn Jillette (don't bother)
30. The Rainbow- D. H. Lawrence
31. Totalitarian Science and Technology- Paul R. Josephson
32. This Side of Paradise- F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. The White House Mess- Christopher Buckley
34. Wolf Among Wolves- Hans Fallada
35. Eichmann in Jerusalem- Hannah Arendt
36. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories- Robert Louis Stevenson
37. Love Medicine- Louise Erdrich
38. The Russian Revolution- Robert Goldston
39. The Comfort of Strangers- Ian McEwan
40. Enduring Love- Ian McEwan
41. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- Stieg Larsson
42. On Chesil Beach- Ian McEwan
43. Supreme Courtship- Christopher Buckley (meh)
44. The Girl Who Played With Fire- Stieg Larsson
45. The Innocent- Ian McEwan
46. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time- Mark Haddon (Loved this!)
47. A Farewell to Arms- Ernest Hemingway
48. Amsterdam- Ian McEwan
49. Black Dogs- Ian McEwan
50. Atonement- Ian McEwan




51. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest- Stieg Larsson
52. Crome Yellow- Aldous Huxley
53. The Child in Time- Ian McEwan
54. Space Chronicles- Neil Degrasse Tyson
55. Little Man, What Now?- Hans Fallada
56. The Cement Garden- Ian McEwan
57. Saturday- Ian McEwan
58. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastraphe- Robert Gellately
59. Antic Hay- Aldous Huxley
60. Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
61. Solar- Ian McEwan
62. The Metamorphosis and Other Stories- Franz Kafka
63. Letters to a Young Contrarian- Christopher Hitchens (re-read)
64. The Sinner's Grand Tour- Tony Perrottet
65. Scoop- Evelyn Waugh

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Post by macdoc » Wed Jul 04, 2012 10:26 am

Yeah - figured I hit about 110 last year by way of Kindle count and a few lone paper things - this year progressing right along. Now I have the hammock out should move even faster - can read late into the night on the lappie and enjoy the evening as well. :dance:
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Fri Jul 06, 2012 8:02 am

Trigger Warning!!!1! :
1) Tweeting the Universe by Marcus Chown and Govert Schilling
2) Byzantium: The Decline and Fall by John Julius Norwich
3) Imprimatur by Monaldi and Sorti (Finally, turned into a slog, this one)
4) The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald (I'd say it was good, rather than great...)
5) Vertigo - W.G. Sebald
6) Birdlistening - Simon Barnes
7) The Pig That Wants To Be EAten - Julian Baggini
8) The Better Angels Of Our Nature - Steven Pinker
9) Temeraire - Naomi Novik
10) Letters To My Torturer - Houshang Asadi
11) Trick or Treatment - Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst.
12) The Beginning Of Infinity - David Deutsch.
13) How To Teach Quantum Physics To Your Dog - Chad Orzel
14) Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
15) King Arthur and the Grail - Richard Cavendish
16) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - translation by Simon Armitage
17) The Modern Library- Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil
18) The Peregrine - J.A. Baker
19) The Crusades Vol. 1 - Sir Steven Runciman
20) Blind Descent - James Tabor - extreme caving and death
21) The Etymologicom - Mark Forsyth - a romp through the English language. Enjoyed it immensely.
22) The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
23) Symbiotic Planet - Lynn Margulis. Hmmmmmm. Picked up for a quid at the second hand bookshop
24) In Search of Nature - E. O. Wilson
25) A Universe From Nothing - Laurence Krauss
26) Flashman - George MacDonald Fraser
27) Collins Complete Photography Course
28) Supersense - Bruce Hood
29) Royal Flash - George MacDonald Fraser
30) The Wasteland and other poems - T.S. Eliot
31) Flashman's Lady - George MacDonald Fraser
32) Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney
33) You Can't Read This Book by Nick Cohen
34) Areopagitica by John Milton
35) The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer
36) The Trial by Franz Kafka
37) Being Dead by Jim Crace.
38) Map Of A Nation by Rachel Hewitt. The story of the Ordnance Survey, producer of the world bestest national maps.
39) Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Nuff said, everyone should read. So it goes.
40) The Great Arc by John Keay. The story of the loons who completed the great trigonemetrical survey of India. Including the deranged officer who burnt off all his toes with a candle.
41) Intelligent Life In The Universe by I.S. Shklovskii and Carl Sagan.
42) The God Instinct by Jesse Bering
43) The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe by Douglas Adams.
44) Bomber Boys by Patrick Bishop
45) Leonardo: Anatomy - app by Touch Press
46) Candide by Voltaire
47) The Epigenetics Revolution by Nessa Carey
48) Life, The Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
49) Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray.
50) Letter to England by Voltaire.

Woot, 50 up
51) So Long and Thanks For All The Fish - Douglas Adams.
"I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"

AND MERRY XMAS TO ONE AND All!

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Post by macdoc » Fri Jul 06, 2012 1:44 pm

50. Voice of the Whirlwind ..Walter Jon Wlliams - similar theme to Hardwired
51 Faceless Killers first of the Wallander detective series.
52.Dogs of Riga second of the Wallander detective series.
53 White Lioness - third in the Wallander series by Henning Mankell - various translators
54 Solips System - Walter Jon Wlliams
55 Railsea China Mielville
in progress
56. Independence: The struggle to set America Free.
57 Angel Station - even deeper cyberpunk.
58. Swerve: How the World became Modern - reading small bits at a time - fascinating if a bit dry
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Post by anna09 » Fri Jul 06, 2012 6:10 pm

1. The Nasty Bits- Anthony Bourdain
2. The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters- B.R. Myers
3. The Rum Diary- Hunter S. Thompson
4. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human- V.S Ramachandran
5. Down and Out in Paris and London- George Orwell
6. Death from the Skies: The Science Behind the End of the World- Philip Plait
7. The Scarlet Pimpernel- Baroness Orczy
8. Lady Chatterley's Lover- D. H. Lawrence
9. House of Meetings- Martin Amis
10. The Lost Girl- D. H. Lawrence
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
12. Scaramouche- Rafael Sabatini
13. Money- Martin Amis
14. The Good Soldier- Ford Madox Ford
15. The Nick Adams Stories- Ernest Hemingway
16. The Virgin and the Gipsy- D. H. Lawrence
17. Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts About Alternative Medicine- Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
18. Far and Away: A Prize Every Time- Neil Peart
19. In Between the Sheets- Ian McEwan
20. Sleep Thieves- Stanley Coren
21. Free Will- Sam Harris
22. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking- Susan Cain
23. A Cook's Tour- Anthony Bourdain
24. Lucky Jim- Kingsley Amis
25. Every Man Dies Alone- Hans Fallada
26. No Way to Treat a First Lady- Christopher Buckley
27. All Our Worldly Goods- Irene Nemirovsky
28. The Rachel Papers- Martin Amis
29. God No!- Penn Jillette (don't bother)
30. The Rainbow- D. H. Lawrence
31. Totalitarian Science and Technology- Paul R. Josephson
32. This Side of Paradise- F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. The White House Mess- Christopher Buckley
34. Wolf Among Wolves- Hans Fallada
35. Eichmann in Jerusalem- Hannah Arendt
36. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories- Robert Louis Stevenson
37. Love Medicine- Louise Erdrich
38. The Russian Revolution- Robert Goldston
39. The Comfort of Strangers- Ian McEwan
40. Enduring Love- Ian McEwan
41. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- Stieg Larsson
42. On Chesil Beach- Ian McEwan
43. Supreme Courtship- Christopher Buckley (meh)
44. The Girl Who Played With Fire- Stieg Larsson
45. The Innocent- Ian McEwan
46. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time- Mark Haddon (Loved this!)
47. A Farewell to Arms- Ernest Hemingway
48. Amsterdam- Ian McEwan
49. Black Dogs- Ian McEwan
50. Atonement- Ian McEwan
51. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest- Stieg Larsson
52. Crome Yellow- Aldous Huxley
53. The Child in Time- Ian McEwan
54. Space Chronicles- Neil Degrasse Tyson
55. Little Man, What Now?- Hans Fallada
56. The Cement Garden- Ian McEwan
57. Saturday- Ian McEwan
58. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastraphe- Robert Gellately
59. Antic Hay- Aldous Huxley
60. Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
61. Solar- Ian McEwan
62. The Metamorphosis and Other Stories- Franz Kafka
63. Letters to a Young Contrarian- Christopher Hitchens (re-read)
64. The Sinner's Grand Tour- Tony Perrottet
65. Scoop- Evelyn Waugh
66. Dubliners- James Joyce

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Post by anna09 » Sat Jul 07, 2012 9:30 pm

1. The Nasty Bits- Anthony Bourdain
2. The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters- B.R. Myers
3. The Rum Diary- Hunter S. Thompson
4. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human- V.S Ramachandran
5. Down and Out in Paris and London- George Orwell
6. Death from the Skies: The Science Behind the End of the World- Philip Plait
7. The Scarlet Pimpernel- Baroness Orczy
8. Lady Chatterley's Lover- D. H. Lawrence
9. House of Meetings- Martin Amis
10. The Lost Girl- D. H. Lawrence
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
12. Scaramouche- Rafael Sabatini
13. Money- Martin Amis
14. The Good Soldier- Ford Madox Ford
15. The Nick Adams Stories- Ernest Hemingway
16. The Virgin and the Gipsy- D. H. Lawrence
17. Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts About Alternative Medicine- Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
18. Far and Away: A Prize Every Time- Neil Peart
19. In Between the Sheets- Ian McEwan
20. Sleep Thieves- Stanley Coren
21. Free Will- Sam Harris
22. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking- Susan Cain
23. A Cook's Tour- Anthony Bourdain
24. Lucky Jim- Kingsley Amis
25. Every Man Dies Alone- Hans Fallada
26. No Way to Treat a First Lady- Christopher Buckley
27. All Our Worldly Goods- Irene Nemirovsky
28. The Rachel Papers- Martin Amis
29. God No!- Penn Jillette (don't bother)
30. The Rainbow- D. H. Lawrence
31. Totalitarian Science and Technology- Paul R. Josephson
32. This Side of Paradise- F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. The White House Mess- Christopher Buckley
34. Wolf Among Wolves- Hans Fallada
35. Eichmann in Jerusalem- Hannah Arendt
36. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories- Robert Louis Stevenson
37. Love Medicine- Louise Erdrich
38. The Russian Revolution- Robert Goldston
39. The Comfort of Strangers- Ian McEwan
40. Enduring Love- Ian McEwan
41. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- Stieg Larsson
42. On Chesil Beach- Ian McEwan
43. Supreme Courtship- Christopher Buckley (meh)
44. The Girl Who Played With Fire- Stieg Larsson
45. The Innocent- Ian McEwan
46. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time- Mark Haddon (Loved this!)
47. A Farewell to Arms- Ernest Hemingway
48. Amsterdam- Ian McEwan
49. Black Dogs- Ian McEwan
50. Atonement- Ian McEwan

51. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest- Stieg Larsson
52. Crome Yellow- Aldous Huxley
53. The Child in Time- Ian McEwan
54. Space Chronicles- Neil Degrasse Tyson
55. Little Man, What Now?- Hans Fallada
56. The Cement Garden- Ian McEwan
57. Saturday- Ian McEwan
58. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastraphe- Robert Gellately
59. Antic Hay- Aldous Huxley
60. Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
61. Solar- Ian McEwan
62. The Metamorphosis and Other Stories- Franz Kafka
63. Letters to a Young Contrarian- Christopher Hitchens (re-read)
64. The Sinner's Grand Tour- Tony Perrottet
65. Scoop- Evelyn Waugh
66. Dubliners- James Joyce
67. The Turn of the Screw- Henry James

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Post by Clinton Huxley » Sat Jul 07, 2012 9:59 pm

Trigger Warning!!!1! :
1) Tweeting the Universe by Marcus Chown and Govert Schilling
2) Byzantium: The Decline and Fall by John Julius Norwich
3) Imprimatur by Monaldi and Sorti (Finally, turned into a slog, this one)
4) The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald (I'd say it was good, rather than great...)
5) Vertigo - W.G. Sebald
6) Birdlistening - Simon Barnes
7) The Pig That Wants To Be EAten - Julian Baggini
8) The Better Angels Of Our Nature - Steven Pinker
9) Temeraire - Naomi Novik
10) Letters To My Torturer - Houshang Asadi
11) Trick or Treatment - Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst.
12) The Beginning Of Infinity - David Deutsch.
13) How To Teach Quantum Physics To Your Dog - Chad Orzel
14) Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
15) King Arthur and the Grail - Richard Cavendish
16) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - translation by Simon Armitage
17) The Modern Library- Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil
18) The Peregrine - J.A. Baker
19) The Crusades Vol. 1 - Sir Steven Runciman
20) Blind Descent - James Tabor - extreme caving and death
21) The Etymologicom - Mark Forsyth - a romp through the English language. Enjoyed it immensely.
22) The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
23) Symbiotic Planet - Lynn Margulis. Hmmmmmm. Picked up for a quid at the second hand bookshop
24) In Search of Nature - E. O. Wilson
25) A Universe From Nothing - Laurence Krauss
26) Flashman - George MacDonald Fraser
27) Collins Complete Photography Course
28) Supersense - Bruce Hood
29) Royal Flash - George MacDonald Fraser
30) The Wasteland and other poems - T.S. Eliot
31) Flashman's Lady - George MacDonald Fraser
32) Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney
33) You Can't Read This Book by Nick Cohen
34) Areopagitica by John Milton
35) The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer
36) The Trial by Franz Kafka
37) Being Dead by Jim Crace.
38) Map Of A Nation by Rachel Hewitt. The story of the Ordnance Survey, producer of the world bestest national maps.
39) Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Nuff said, everyone should read. So it goes.
40) The Great Arc by John Keay. The story of the loons who completed the great trigonemetrical survey of India. Including the deranged officer who burnt off all his toes with a candle.
41) Intelligent Life In The Universe by I.S. Shklovskii and Carl Sagan.
42) The God Instinct by Jesse Bering
43) The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe by Douglas Adams.
44) Bomber Boys by Patrick Bishop
45) Leonardo: Anatomy - app by Touch Press
46) Candide by Voltaire
47) The Epigenetics Revolution by Nessa Carey
48) Life, The Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
49) Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray.
50) Letter to England by Voltaire.

Woot, 50 up
51) So Long and Thanks For All The Fish - Douglas Adams.
52) Jerrusalem - Simon Sebag-Montefiore.
"I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"

AND MERRY XMAS TO ONE AND All!

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Post by anna09 » Sun Jul 08, 2012 6:41 pm

1. The Nasty Bits- Anthony Bourdain
2. The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters- B.R. Myers
3. The Rum Diary- Hunter S. Thompson
4. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human- V.S Ramachandran
5. Down and Out in Paris and London- George Orwell
6. Death from the Skies: The Science Behind the End of the World- Philip Plait
7. The Scarlet Pimpernel- Baroness Orczy
8. Lady Chatterley's Lover- D. H. Lawrence
9. House of Meetings- Martin Amis
10. The Lost Girl- D. H. Lawrence
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
12. Scaramouche- Rafael Sabatini
13. Money- Martin Amis
14. The Good Soldier- Ford Madox Ford
15. The Nick Adams Stories- Ernest Hemingway
16. The Virgin and the Gipsy- D. H. Lawrence
17. Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts About Alternative Medicine- Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
18. Far and Away: A Prize Every Time- Neil Peart
19. In Between the Sheets- Ian McEwan
20. Sleep Thieves- Stanley Coren
21. Free Will- Sam Harris
22. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking- Susan Cain
23. A Cook's Tour- Anthony Bourdain
24. Lucky Jim- Kingsley Amis
25. Every Man Dies Alone- Hans Fallada
26. No Way to Treat a First Lady- Christopher Buckley
27. All Our Worldly Goods- Irene Nemirovsky
28. The Rachel Papers- Martin Amis
29. God No!- Penn Jillette (don't bother)
30. The Rainbow- D. H. Lawrence
31. Totalitarian Science and Technology- Paul R. Josephson
32. This Side of Paradise- F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. The White House Mess- Christopher Buckley
34. Wolf Among Wolves- Hans Fallada
35. Eichmann in Jerusalem- Hannah Arendt
36. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories- Robert Louis Stevenson
37. Love Medicine- Louise Erdrich
38. The Russian Revolution- Robert Goldston
39. The Comfort of Strangers- Ian McEwan
40. Enduring Love- Ian McEwan
41. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- Stieg Larsson
42. On Chesil Beach- Ian McEwan
43. Supreme Courtship- Christopher Buckley (meh)
44. The Girl Who Played With Fire- Stieg Larsson
45. The Innocent- Ian McEwan
46. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time- Mark Haddon (Loved this!)
47. A Farewell to Arms- Ernest Hemingway
48. Amsterdam- Ian McEwan
49. Black Dogs- Ian McEwan
50. Atonement- Ian McEwan
51. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest- Stieg Larsson
52. Crome Yellow- Aldous Huxley
53. The Child in Time- Ian McEwan
54. Space Chronicles- Neil Degrasse Tyson
55. Little Man, What Now?- Hans Fallada
56. The Cement Garden- Ian McEwan
57. Saturday- Ian McEwan
58. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastraphe- Robert Gellately
59. Antic Hay- Aldous Huxley
60. Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
61. Solar- Ian McEwan
62. The Metamorphosis and Other Stories- Franz Kafka
63. Letters to a Young Contrarian- Christopher Hitchens (re-read)
64. The Sinner's Grand Tour- Tony Perrottet
65. Scoop- Evelyn Waugh
66. Dubliners- James Joyce
67. The Turn of the Screw- Henry James
68. First Love, Last Rites- Ian McEwan

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Re: 50 Book Challenge 2012 AKA Anna Will Kick Your Arse

Post by Clinton Huxley » Wed Jul 11, 2012 8:44 pm

Trigger Warning!!!1! :
1) Tweeting the Universe by Marcus Chown and Govert Schilling
2) Byzantium: The Decline and Fall by John Julius Norwich
3) Imprimatur by Monaldi and Sorti (Finally, turned into a slog, this one)
4) The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald (I'd say it was good, rather than great...)
5) Vertigo - W.G. Sebald
6) Birdlistening - Simon Barnes
7) The Pig That Wants To Be EAten - Julian Baggini
8) The Better Angels Of Our Nature - Steven Pinker
9) Temeraire - Naomi Novik
10) Letters To My Torturer - Houshang Asadi
11) Trick or Treatment - Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst.
12) The Beginning Of Infinity - David Deutsch.
13) How To Teach Quantum Physics To Your Dog - Chad Orzel
14) Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
15) King Arthur and the Grail - Richard Cavendish
16) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - translation by Simon Armitage
17) The Modern Library- Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil
18) The Peregrine - J.A. Baker
19) The Crusades Vol. 1 - Sir Steven Runciman
20) Blind Descent - James Tabor - extreme caving and death
21) The Etymologicom - Mark Forsyth - a romp through the English language. Enjoyed it immensely.
22) The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
23) Symbiotic Planet - Lynn Margulis. Hmmmmmm. Picked up for a quid at the second hand bookshop
24) In Search of Nature - E. O. Wilson
25) A Universe From Nothing - Laurence Krauss
26) Flashman - George MacDonald Fraser
27) Collins Complete Photography Course
28) Supersense - Bruce Hood
29) Royal Flash - George MacDonald Fraser
30) The Wasteland and other poems - T.S. Eliot
31) Flashman's Lady - George MacDonald Fraser
32) Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney
33) You Can't Read This Book by Nick Cohen
34) Areopagitica by John Milton
35) The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer
36) The Trial by Franz Kafka
37) Being Dead by Jim Crace.
38) Map Of A Nation by Rachel Hewitt. The story of the Ordnance Survey, producer of the world bestest national maps.
39) Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Nuff said, everyone should read. So it goes.
40) The Great Arc by John Keay. The story of the loons who completed the great trigonemetrical survey of India. Including the deranged officer who burnt off all his toes with a candle.
41) Intelligent Life In The Universe by I.S. Shklovskii and Carl Sagan.
42) The God Instinct by Jesse Bering
43) The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe by Douglas Adams.
44) Bomber Boys by Patrick Bishop
45) Leonardo: Anatomy - app by Touch Press
46) Candide by Voltaire
47) The Epigenetics Revolution by Nessa Carey
48) Life, The Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
49) Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray.
50) Letter to England by Voltaire.

Woot, 50 up
51) So Long and Thanks For All The Fish - Douglas Adams.
52) Jerusalem - Simon Sebag-Montefiore.
53) Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
"I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"

AND MERRY XMAS TO ONE AND All!

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Re: 50 Book Challenge 2012 AKA Anna Will Kick Your Arse

Post by anna09 » Thu Jul 12, 2012 2:29 am

1. The Nasty Bits- Anthony Bourdain
2. The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters- B.R. Myers
3. The Rum Diary- Hunter S. Thompson
4. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human- V.S Ramachandran
5. Down and Out in Paris and London- George Orwell
6. Death from the Skies: The Science Behind the End of the World- Philip Plait
7. The Scarlet Pimpernel- Baroness Orczy
8. Lady Chatterley's Lover- D. H. Lawrence
9. House of Meetings- Martin Amis
10. The Lost Girl- D. H. Lawrence
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
12. Scaramouche- Rafael Sabatini
13. Money- Martin Amis
14. The Good Soldier- Ford Madox Ford
15. The Nick Adams Stories- Ernest Hemingway
16. The Virgin and the Gipsy- D. H. Lawrence
17. Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts About Alternative Medicine- Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
18. Far and Away: A Prize Every Time- Neil Peart
19. In Between the Sheets- Ian McEwan
20. Sleep Thieves- Stanley Coren
21. Free Will- Sam Harris
22. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking- Susan Cain
23. A Cook's Tour- Anthony Bourdain
24. Lucky Jim- Kingsley Amis
25. Every Man Dies Alone- Hans Fallada
26. No Way to Treat a First Lady- Christopher Buckley
27. All Our Worldly Goods- Irene Nemirovsky
28. The Rachel Papers- Martin Amis
29. God No!- Penn Jillette (don't bother)
30. The Rainbow- D. H. Lawrence
31. Totalitarian Science and Technology- Paul R. Josephson
32. This Side of Paradise- F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. The White House Mess- Christopher Buckley
34. Wolf Among Wolves- Hans Fallada
35. Eichmann in Jerusalem- Hannah Arendt
36. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories- Robert Louis Stevenson
37. Love Medicine- Louise Erdrich
38. The Russian Revolution- Robert Goldston
39. The Comfort of Strangers- Ian McEwan
40. Enduring Love- Ian McEwan
41. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- Stieg Larsson
42. On Chesil Beach- Ian McEwan
43. Supreme Courtship- Christopher Buckley (meh)
44. The Girl Who Played With Fire- Stieg Larsson
45. The Innocent- Ian McEwan
46. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time- Mark Haddon (Loved this!)
47. A Farewell to Arms- Ernest Hemingway
48. Amsterdam- Ian McEwan
49. Black Dogs- Ian McEwan
50. Atonement- Ian McEwan

51. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest- Stieg Larsson
52. Crome Yellow- Aldous Huxley
53. The Child in Time- Ian McEwan
54. Space Chronicles- Neil Degrasse Tyson
55. Little Man, What Now?- Hans Fallada
56. The Cement Garden- Ian McEwan
57. Saturday- Ian McEwan
58. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastraphe- Robert Gellately
59. Antic Hay- Aldous Huxley
60. Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
61. Solar- Ian McEwan
62. The Metamorphosis and Other Stories- Franz Kafka
63. Letters to a Young Contrarian- Christopher Hitchens (re-read)
64. The Sinner's Grand Tour- Tony Perrottet
65. Scoop- Evelyn Waugh
66. Dubliners- James Joyce
67. The Turn of the Screw- Henry James
68. First Love, Last Rites- Ian McEwan
69. Laughter in the Dark- Vladimir Nabokov (Excellent!!)

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