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Post by anna09 » Sun Oct 21, 2012 2:53 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
69. Laughter in the Dark- Vladimir Nabokov (Excellent!!)
70. London Fields- Martin Amis (fucking awesome)
71. The Trial of Henry Kissinger- Christopher Hitchens
72. The Ghost Writer- Philip Roth
73. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams
74. Couples- John Updike
75. Conversations with Ian McEwan- Ryan Roberts
76. The Information- Martin Amis
77. Experience- Martin Amis
78. Under Western Eyes- Joseph Conrad
79. The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath (Loved this!)
80. The Dying Animal- Philip Roth
81. The Third Man- Graham Greene
82. Lionel Asbo: State of England- Martin Amis
83. Despair- Vladimir Nabokov
84. Oscar Wilde: Nothing. . .Except My Genius- Alastair Rolfe
85. Time's Arrow- Martin Amis
86. A Month of Sundays- John Updike (disappointing)
87. Aldous Huxley: The Complete Essays (1939-1956)- Aldous Huxley (brilliant as always)
88. The Tenth Man- Graham Greene
89. The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000- Martin Amis
90. The Secret Agent- Joseph Conrad
91. Dead Babies- Martin Amis
92. The Plague- Albert Camus (a new favourite)
93. Brighton Rock- Graham Greene
94. Mortality- Christopher Hitchens
95. Joseph Anton- Salman Rushdie
96. The Stranger- Albert Camus
97. Loser Takes All- Graham Greene
98. Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories- Philip Roth
99. The Actual- Saul Bellow
100. It's Even Worse Than it Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the Politics of Extremism- Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein


101. The Fall- Albert Camus
102. Other People- Martin Amis
103. Glory- Vladimir Nabokov
104. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays- Albert Camus

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

Post by odysseus » Sun Oct 21, 2012 3:15 pm

1 - Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan
2 - Transcendent - Steven Baxter
3 - Hull Three Zero - Greg Bear
4 - Overexposure - Hugo Rifkind
5 - Confessional - Jack Higgins
6 - Making Money - Terry Pratchett
7 - The Fifthe Elephant - Terry Pratchett
8 - I Shall Wear Midnight - Terry Pratchett
9 - At Home - Bill Bryson
10 - The God Delusion (again!) - Richard Dawkins
11 - The God Gene - Dean Hamer
12 - The Ice Cream Girls - Dorothy Koomson
13 - Freewill - Sam Harris
14 - Chart Throb - Ben Elton
15 - Half Life - Roopa Farooki
16 - The Grudge - Tom English
17 - Wilt - Tom Sharpe
18 - The Wilt Alternative - Tom Sharpe
19 - Wilt On High - Tom Sharpe
20 - A Tiny Bit Marvellous - Dawn French
21 - Thong Nation - Henry Sutton
22 - The Early History of God - Mark S. Smith
23 - The Seventh Scroll - Wilbur Smith
24 - Southern Cross - Patricia Cornwell
25 - The Devil - Ken Bruen
26 - Ghosts And Lightning - Trevor Byrne
27 - The Lost Symbol - Dan Browne
28 - A Brief History Of The Dead - Kevin Brockmeier
29 - Alex - Penny Avis & Joanna Berry
30 - Book Of Tomorrow - Cecilia Ahern
31 - Own Goals - Phil Andrews
32 - Oracle Night - Paul Ausker
33 - The Haunt - A.L. Barker
34 - The End of Faith - Sam Harris
35 - Cargo Fever - Will Buckingham
36 - Sober As A Judge - Henry Cecil
37 - The Good, The Bad And The Dumped - Jenny Colgan
38 - The Femail Brain - Louanne Brizendine
39 - Shrine - James Herbert
40 - Flying Saucer Rock & Roll - Richard Blandford
41 - The 3 Mistakes Of My Life - Chetan Bhagat
42 - Jamrach's Menagerie - Carol Birch
43 - Those In Peril - Wilbur Smith
44 - Katy Carter Wants A Hero - Ruth Soberton
45 - Patrick Robertson - A Tale of Adventure - Brian Hennigan
46 - Larry's Party - Carol Shields
47 - The Vision Of Elena Silves - Nicholas Shakespear
48 - The Trials And Tribulations Of Lucas Lessar - Shanna Seliy
49 - A Surrey State Of Affairs - Ceri Radford
50 - Sorta Like A Rock Star - Matthew Quick
51 - The Mumper - Mark Baxter & Paolo Hewitt

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Post by Clinton Huxley » Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:25 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.
52) Jerusalem - Simon Sebag-Montefiore.
53) Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
54) A Prickly Affair: My Life With Hedgehogs by Hugh Warwick.
55) Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
56) Where The Dead Cities Are by AC Grayling
57) Explorers of the Nile by Tim Jeal
58) Them - Jon Ronson
59) The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins (pretty boring)
60) Packing For Mars - Mary Roach (excellent)
61) Travels to Bokhara: Being A Journey From India to Cabool, Tartary and Persia, 1831-1833 (Vol I) by Alexander Burnes.
62) Massive : The Hunt For The God Particle by Ian Sample
63) Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek
64) Breakfast Of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
65) Night Walks by Chris Yates
66) The Self Illusion By Bruce Hood
67) The History Of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
68) Black Ajax by George MacDonald Fraser
69) Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580 by Roger Crowley (excellent)
70) Northern Life by Frank Atkinson.
71) The Invention Of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick.
72) Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes.
73) Venetian Navigators: The Mystery Of The Voyages Of The Zen Brothers by Andrea Di Robilant.
"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 Svartalf » Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:51 am

1) Stephen Turnbull The Samurai Sourcebook reread, but damn needed
2) The Complete Idiot's Guide to Lost Civilisations
3) Fritz Leiber's Swords of Lankhmar
4) Roger Zelazny's Jack of Shadows
5) Frit's Leiber's words and Ice Magic[
6) Norman Spinrad's Little Heroes
7) Poul Anderson's Operation Chaos.
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Wed Oct 24, 2012 8:14 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
54) A Prickly Affair: My Life With Hedgehogs by Hugh Warwick.
55) Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
56) Where The Dead Cities Are by AC Grayling
57) Explorers of the Nile by Tim Jeal
58) Them - Jon Ronson
59) The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins (pretty boring)
60) Packing For Mars - Mary Roach (excellent)
61) Travels to Bokhara: Being A Journey From India to Cabool, Tartary and Persia, 1831-1833 (Vol I) by Alexander Burnes.
62) Massive : The Hunt For The God Particle by Ian Sample
63) Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek
64) Breakfast Of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
65) Night Walks by Chris Yates
66) The Self Illusion By Bruce Hood
67) The History Of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
68) Black Ajax by George MacDonald Fraser
69) Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580 by Roger Crowley (excellent)
70) Northern Life by Frank Atkinson.
71) The Invention Of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick.
72) Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes.
73) Venetian Navigators: The Mystery Of The Voyages Of The Zen Brothers by Andrea Di Robilant.
74) Ottoline At Sea by Chris Riddell.
"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 » Mon Oct 29, 2012 12:58 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!!)
70. London Fields- Martin Amis (fucking awesome)
71. The Trial of Henry Kissinger- Christopher Hitchens
72. The Ghost Writer- Philip Roth
73. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams
74. Couples- John Updike
75. Conversations with Ian McEwan- Ryan Roberts
76. The Information- Martin Amis
77. Experience- Martin Amis
78. Under Western Eyes- Joseph Conrad
79. The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath (Loved this!)
80. The Dying Animal- Philip Roth
81. The Third Man- Graham Greene
82. Lionel Asbo: State of England- Martin Amis
83. Despair- Vladimir Nabokov
84. Oscar Wilde: Nothing. . .Except My Genius- Alastair Rolfe
85. Time's Arrow- Martin Amis
86. A Month of Sundays- John Updike (disappointing)
87. Aldous Huxley: The Complete Essays (1939-1956)- Aldous Huxley (brilliant as always)
88. The Tenth Man- Graham Greene
89. The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000- Martin Amis
90. The Secret Agent- Joseph Conrad
91. Dead Babies- Martin Amis
92. The Plague- Albert Camus (a new favourite)
93. Brighton Rock- Graham Greene
94. Mortality- Christopher Hitchens
95. Joseph Anton- Salman Rushdie
96. The Stranger- Albert Camus
97. Loser Takes All- Graham Greene
98. Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories- Philip Roth
99. The Actual- Saul Bellow
100. It's Even Worse Than it Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the Politics of Extremism- Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein
101. The Fall- Albert Camus
102. Other People- Martin Amis
103. Glory- Vladimir Nabokov
104. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays- Albert Camus
105. The Black Prince- Iris Murdoch (This was the first book I've read of hers and I loved it!)

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

Post by Clinton Huxley » Thu Nov 01, 2012 12:30 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
54) A Prickly Affair: My Life With Hedgehogs by Hugh Warwick.
55) Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
56) Where The Dead Cities Are by AC Grayling
57) Explorers of the Nile by Tim Jeal
58) Them - Jon Ronson
59) The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins (pretty boring)
60) Packing For Mars - Mary Roach (excellent)
61) Travels to Bokhara: Being A Journey From India to Cabool, Tartary and Persia, 1831-1833 (Vol I) by Alexander Burnes.
62) Massive : The Hunt For The God Particle by Ian Sample
63) Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek
64) Breakfast Of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
65) Night Walks by Chris Yates
66) The Self Illusion By Bruce Hood
67) The History Of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
68) Black Ajax by George MacDonald Fraser
69) Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580 by Roger Crowley (excellent)
70) Northern Life by Frank Atkinson.
71) The Invention Of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick.
72) Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes.
73) Venetian Navigators: The Mystery Of The Voyages Of The Zen Brothers by Andrea Di Robilant.
74) Ottoline At Sea by Chris Riddell.
75) The Spiderwick Chronicles book 1 by Tony DiTerizza and Holly Black
76) Boneland by Alan Garner
77) The Lost Capital of Byzantium: The History Of Mistra And The Peloponnese by Steven Runciman.
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0 Ambasadora Heidi Ruby Miller
81 Wired Douglas E. Richards
82 Amped Douglas E. Richards
83 Dangerous Evolution _ Greg Vann
84 Fall of Giants - Ken Follet
85 Winter of the World Ken Follet
86 Spinward Fringe Broadcast 1 Resurrection Randolph Lalonde
87 Spinward Fringe Broadcast 2: Awakening this is turning into a good series - talk about fast paced space opera......damn
88 The Big Year - Mark Obmascik <<<< if you know anything about birding get this .... unusual to be able to watch the movie ( so so ) and the book the same day - last time was Seabiscuit movie and book the same day
89 Spinward Fringe Broadcast 3: Triton - this is an engaging series.
90 Spinward Fringe Broadcast 4: The Silkstream IV
in progress
91 Spinward Fringe Broadcast 5: Fracture this has it's hooks in me and they getting much longer :?
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Post by anna09 » Wed Nov 07, 2012 9:43 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
69. Laughter in the Dark- Vladimir Nabokov (Excellent!!)
70. London Fields- Martin Amis (fucking awesome)
71. The Trial of Henry Kissinger- Christopher Hitchens
72. The Ghost Writer- Philip Roth
73. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams
74. Couples- John Updike
75. Conversations with Ian McEwan- Ryan Roberts
76. The Information- Martin Amis
77. Experience- Martin Amis
78. Under Western Eyes- Joseph Conrad
79. The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath (Loved this!)
80. The Dying Animal- Philip Roth
81. The Third Man- Graham Greene
82. Lionel Asbo: State of England- Martin Amis
83. Despair- Vladimir Nabokov
84. Oscar Wilde: Nothing. . .Except My Genius- Alastair Rolfe
85. Time's Arrow- Martin Amis
86. A Month of Sundays- John Updike (disappointing)
87. Aldous Huxley: The Complete Essays (1939-1956)- Aldous Huxley (brilliant as always)
88. The Tenth Man- Graham Greene
89. The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000- Martin Amis
90. The Secret Agent- Joseph Conrad
91. Dead Babies- Martin Amis
92. The Plague- Albert Camus (a new favourite)
93. Brighton Rock- Graham Greene
94. Mortality- Christopher Hitchens
95. Joseph Anton- Salman Rushdie
96. The Stranger- Albert Camus
97. Loser Takes All- Graham Greene
98. Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories- Philip Roth
99. The Actual- Saul Bellow
100. It's Even Worse Than it Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the Politics of Extremism- Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein

101. The Fall- Albert Camus
102. Other People- Martin Amis
103. Glory- Vladimir Nabokov
104. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays- Albert Camus
105. The Black Prince- Iris Murdoch (This was the first book I've read of hers and I loved it!)
106. Brideshead Revisited- Evelyn Waugh

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90 Spinward Fringe Broadcast 4: The Silkstream IV
91 Spinward Fringe Broadcast 5: Fracture
92 Spinward Fringe Broadcast 6: Fragment
damn good series and 7 up soon

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93: Cloud Atlas - gonna read the book then watch the movie
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Post by anna09 » Fri Nov 09, 2012 3:11 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
69. Laughter in the Dark- Vladimir Nabokov (Excellent!!)
70. London Fields- Martin Amis (fucking awesome)
71. The Trial of Henry Kissinger- Christopher Hitchens
72. The Ghost Writer- Philip Roth
73. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams
74. Couples- John Updike
75. Conversations with Ian McEwan- Ryan Roberts
76. The Information- Martin Amis
77. Experience- Martin Amis
78. Under Western Eyes- Joseph Conrad
79. The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath (Loved this!)
80. The Dying Animal- Philip Roth
81. The Third Man- Graham Greene
82. Lionel Asbo: State of England- Martin Amis
83. Despair- Vladimir Nabokov
84. Oscar Wilde: Nothing. . .Except My Genius- Alastair Rolfe
85. Time's Arrow- Martin Amis
86. A Month of Sundays- John Updike (disappointing)
87. Aldous Huxley: The Complete Essays (1939-1956)- Aldous Huxley (brilliant as always)
88. The Tenth Man- Graham Greene
89. The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000- Martin Amis
90. The Secret Agent- Joseph Conrad
91. Dead Babies- Martin Amis
92. The Plague- Albert Camus (a new favourite)
93. Brighton Rock- Graham Greene
94. Mortality- Christopher Hitchens
95. Joseph Anton- Salman Rushdie
96. The Stranger- Albert Camus
97. Loser Takes All- Graham Greene
98. Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories- Philip Roth
99. The Actual- Saul Bellow
100. It's Even Worse Than it Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the Politics of Extremism- Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein


101. The Fall- Albert Camus
102. Other People- Martin Amis
103. Glory- Vladimir Nabokov
104. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays- Albert Camus
105. The Black Prince- Iris Murdoch (This was the first book I've read of hers and I loved it!)
106. Brideshead Revisited- Evelyn Waugh
107. The Second Plane- Martin Amis

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Post by anna09 » Sat Nov 10, 2012 4:50 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
69. Laughter in the Dark- Vladimir Nabokov (Excellent!!)
70. London Fields- Martin Amis (fucking awesome)
71. The Trial of Henry Kissinger- Christopher Hitchens
72. The Ghost Writer- Philip Roth
73. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams
74. Couples- John Updike
75. Conversations with Ian McEwan- Ryan Roberts
76. The Information- Martin Amis
77. Experience- Martin Amis
78. Under Western Eyes- Joseph Conrad
79. The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath (Loved this!)
80. The Dying Animal- Philip Roth
81. The Third Man- Graham Greene
82. Lionel Asbo: State of England- Martin Amis
83. Despair- Vladimir Nabokov
84. Oscar Wilde: Nothing. . .Except My Genius- Alastair Rolfe
85. Time's Arrow- Martin Amis
86. A Month of Sundays- John Updike (disappointing)
87. Aldous Huxley: The Complete Essays (1939-1956)- Aldous Huxley (brilliant as always)
88. The Tenth Man- Graham Greene
89. The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000- Martin Amis
90. The Secret Agent- Joseph Conrad
91. Dead Babies- Martin Amis
92. The Plague- Albert Camus (a new favourite)
93. Brighton Rock- Graham Greene
94. Mortality- Christopher Hitchens
95. Joseph Anton- Salman Rushdie
96. The Stranger- Albert Camus
97. Loser Takes All- Graham Greene
98. Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories- Philip Roth
99. The Actual- Saul Bellow
100. It's Even Worse Than it Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the Politics of Extremism- Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein
101. The Fall- Albert Camus
102. Other People- Martin Amis
103. Glory- Vladimir Nabokov
104. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays- Albert Camus
105. The Black Prince- Iris Murdoch (This was the first book I've read of hers and I loved it!)
106. Brideshead Revisited- Evelyn Waugh
107. The Second Plane- Martin Amis
108. Rabbit, Run- John Updike

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Post by anna09 » Tue Nov 13, 2012 2:51 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
69. Laughter in the Dark- Vladimir Nabokov (Excellent!!)
70. London Fields- Martin Amis (fucking awesome)
71. The Trial of Henry Kissinger- Christopher Hitchens
72. The Ghost Writer- Philip Roth
73. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams
74. Couples- John Updike
75. Conversations with Ian McEwan- Ryan Roberts
76. The Information- Martin Amis
77. Experience- Martin Amis
78. Under Western Eyes- Joseph Conrad
79. The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath (Loved this!)
80. The Dying Animal- Philip Roth
81. The Third Man- Graham Greene
82. Lionel Asbo: State of England- Martin Amis
83. Despair- Vladimir Nabokov
84. Oscar Wilde: Nothing. . .Except My Genius- Alastair Rolfe
85. Time's Arrow- Martin Amis
86. A Month of Sundays- John Updike (disappointing)
87. Aldous Huxley: The Complete Essays (1939-1956)- Aldous Huxley (brilliant as always)
88. The Tenth Man- Graham Greene
89. The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000- Martin Amis
90. The Secret Agent- Joseph Conrad
91. Dead Babies- Martin Amis
92. The Plague- Albert Camus (a new favourite)
93. Brighton Rock- Graham Greene
94. Mortality- Christopher Hitchens
95. Joseph Anton- Salman Rushdie
96. The Stranger- Albert Camus
97. Loser Takes All- Graham Greene
98. Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories- Philip Roth
99. The Actual- Saul Bellow
100. It's Even Worse Than it Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the Politics of Extremism- Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein
101. The Fall- Albert Camus
102. Other People- Martin Amis
103. Glory- Vladimir Nabokov
104. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays- Albert Camus
105. The Black Prince- Iris Murdoch (This was the first book I've read of hers and I loved it!)
106. Brideshead Revisited- Evelyn Waugh
107. The Second Plane- Martin Amis
108. Rabbit, Run- John Updike
109. The Little Sister- Raymond Chandler

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Post by Clinton Huxley » Wed Nov 14, 2012 6:18 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
54) A Prickly Affair: My Life With Hedgehogs by Hugh Warwick.
55) Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
56) Where The Dead Cities Are by AC Grayling
57) Explorers of the Nile by Tim Jeal
58) Them - Jon Ronson
59) The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins (pretty boring)
60) Packing For Mars - Mary Roach (excellent)
61) Travels to Bokhara: Being A Journey From India to Cabool, Tartary and Persia, 1831-1833 (Vol I) by Alexander Burnes.
62) Massive : The Hunt For The God Particle by Ian Sample
63) Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek
64) Breakfast Of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
65) Night Walks by Chris Yates
66) The Self Illusion By Bruce Hood
67) The History Of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
68) Black Ajax by George MacDonald Fraser
69) Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580 by Roger Crowley (excellent)
70) Northern Life by Frank Atkinson.
71) The Invention Of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick.
72) Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes.
73) Venetian Navigators: The Mystery Of The Voyages Of The Zen Brothers by Andrea Di Robilant.
74) Ottoline At Sea by Chris Riddell.
75) The Spiderwick Chronicles book 1 by Tony DiTerizza and Holly Black
76) Boneland by Alan Garner
77) The Lost Capital of Byzantium: The History Of Mistra And The Peloponnese by Steven Runciman.
78) Parades End by Ford Madox Ford
79) Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime And The Lunatic Asylum by Mark Stevens.
80) The Monarchy: A Critique Of Britain's Favourite Fetish by Christopher Hitchens
81) World War One: History In An Hour by Rupert Colley.
"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 » Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:50 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
69. Laughter in the Dark- Vladimir Nabokov (Excellent!!)
70. London Fields- Martin Amis (fucking awesome)
71. The Trial of Henry Kissinger- Christopher Hitchens
72. The Ghost Writer- Philip Roth
73. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams
74. Couples- John Updike
75. Conversations with Ian McEwan- Ryan Roberts
76. The Information- Martin Amis
77. Experience- Martin Amis
78. Under Western Eyes- Joseph Conrad
79. The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath (Loved this!)
80. The Dying Animal- Philip Roth
81. The Third Man- Graham Greene
82. Lionel Asbo: State of England- Martin Amis
83. Despair- Vladimir Nabokov
84. Oscar Wilde: Nothing. . .Except My Genius- Alastair Rolfe
85. Time's Arrow- Martin Amis
86. A Month of Sundays- John Updike (disappointing)
87. Aldous Huxley: The Complete Essays (1939-1956)- Aldous Huxley (brilliant as always)
88. The Tenth Man- Graham Greene
89. The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000- Martin Amis
90. The Secret Agent- Joseph Conrad
91. Dead Babies- Martin Amis
92. The Plague- Albert Camus (a new favourite)
93. Brighton Rock- Graham Greene
94. Mortality- Christopher Hitchens
95. Joseph Anton- Salman Rushdie
96. The Stranger- Albert Camus
97. Loser Takes All- Graham Greene
98. Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories- Philip Roth
99. The Actual- Saul Bellow
100. It's Even Worse Than it Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the Politics of Extremism- Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein

101. The Fall- Albert Camus
102. Other People- Martin Amis
103. Glory- Vladimir Nabokov
104. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays- Albert Camus
105. The Black Prince- Iris Murdoch (This was the first book I've read of hers and I loved it!)
106. Brideshead Revisited- Evelyn Waugh
107. The Second Plane- Martin Amis
108. Rabbit, Run- John Updike
109. The Little Sister- Raymond Chandler
110. Sweet Tooth- Ian McEwan (Loved this!)

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