1.Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 2.The Affair of the Corpse Escort by Clifford Knight 3.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 4.Have Spacesuit Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein 5.Death at an Early Age by Jonathan Kozol 6.Dune by Frank Herbert 7.Gateway by Frederick Pohl 8.Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling 9.Who Wrote the Bible? by Richard Elliot Friedman 10.The Shame of the Nation by Jonathon Kozol 11.Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand 12.Angels and Demons by Dan Brown 13.Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling 14.Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling 15.Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card 16.Under Orders by Dick Francis 17.Hell Week by Dennis Chalker with Kevin Dockery 18.The Merchant's War / Venus Inc. by Frederick Pohl 19.Wicked by Gregory Maguire 20.The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand 21.Rachel and Her Children by Jonathon Kozol 22.Bearing an Hourglass by Piers Anthony 23.Winning Through Intimidation by Robert Ringer 24.Wielding a Red Sword by Piers Anthony 25.Roses are Red by James Patterson 26.Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell 27.Pop Goes the Weasel by James Patterson 28.Animal Farm by George Orwell 29.Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 30.Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 31.A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson 32.Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 33.My Late Wives by Carter Dickson 34.Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich 35.The Unicorn Murders by Carter Dickson 36.Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich 37.Foundation by Isaac Asimov 38.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 39.Thursday the Rabbi Walked Out by Harry Kemelman 40.Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov 41.Someday the Rabbi Will Leave by Harry Kemelman 42.Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robison 43.You Can Run But You Can't Hide by Duane "Dog" Chapman 44.Glorious Appearing by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins 45.Don't Eat This Book by Morgan Spurlock 46.The Myth of Hitler's Pope by Rabbi David G. Dalin 47.Mayflower Remembered by Crispin Gill 48.White Blaze Fever by William Schuette 49.The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman 50.The Three Kings by Richard Sullivan 51.The Confessions of St. Augustine translated by Albert Cook Outler 52.Speed Reading by Steve Moidel 53.The Four Blind Mice by James Patterson
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Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
You waited until the end to read Speed Reading? Not very efficient. Posted by Mike (Member # 55) on :
Of these, I have read
6.Dune by Frank Herbert 8.Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling 13.Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling 14.Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling 15.Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card 26.Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell 28.Animal Farm by George Orwell 29.Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 32.Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 37.Foundation by Isaac Asimov 40.Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
The ones marked in bold I read in 2007. Do any of the ones I haven't read stand out in particular?
My books of 2007 are, in roughly chronological order,
1. The Game, Neil Strauss 2. Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami 3. The Kite Runner, Khalid Hosseini 4. Life of Pi, Yann Martel 5. The Cave, Jose Saramago 6. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon 7. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J. K. Rowling 8. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J. K. Rowling 9. Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond 10. After the Quake, Haruki Murakami 11. I am a Strange Loop, Douglas Hofstader 12. A Wild Sheep Chase, Haruki Murakami 13. The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger 14. Dance Dance Dance, Haruki Murakami
Actually the first three or so might have been 2006. Wild Sheep Chase and Dance Dance Dance were incredible.
I'm currently reading Dom Casmurro, which seems pretty good so far. Next on my list are a couple by Dostoevsky, some Kafka, Neverwhere, Love in the Time of Cholera, and a couple more by Murakami, in some order or another.
Posted by Tara (Member # 10030) on :
quote:9.Who Wrote the Bible? by Richard Elliot Friedman
So who was it?
Posted by Elmer's Glue (Member # 9313) on :
Jesus, duh...
Posted by JonHecht (Member # 9712) on :
*hides his pen* Yes... Jesus. >_>
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
So is that all? Just a list? Don't we get the juicy meaty review and detailed opinion of each one?
Posted by the_Somalian (Member # 6688) on :
That's actually quite a respectable list. I don't think I've even ten, and am STILL reading two of those--Jane Eyre and The Bonfire of the Vanities. When I was in High School and I could zip through such books in a week at most.
Just think, Stephen King says that he reads a similar number of books as you do, and he has the luxury of having a lot of free time on his hands by virtue of being a millionaire and whatnot.
Posted by Threads (Member # 10863) on :
I can see why you're still reading Jane Eyre
It's almost as bad as Emma and I would have closed it almost as soon as I opened it if I didn't have to read it for school.
Posted by Dobbie (Member # 3881) on :
quote:Originally posted by Tatiana: So is that all? Just a list? Don't we get the juicy meaty review and detailed opinion of each one?
How about a short review of a few?
52. Speed Reading by Steve Moidel
Dr. Stanley D. Frank, co-developer of the Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics program and executive vice-president of Encyclopedia Brittanica, wrote a book entitled Remember Everything You Read, which was mainly directed at high school and college students. Steve Moidel's Speed Reading is part of the Barron's Business Success Guides series for aspiring business managers. It's essentially a dumbed-down version of Dr. Frank's book.
Posted by Phanto (Member # 5897) on :
I scored 12 on the first list.
Posted by theamazeeaz (Member # 6970) on :
Well, I've read 10 on that list. Sadly, I used to read that many books, but read on the internet more these days. I also tend to like nonfiction a little more.
8.Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling 12.Angels and Demons by Dan Brown 13.Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling 14.Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling 15.Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card 20.The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand 29.Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 36.Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich 38.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 49.The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
I scored 17. I did real badly on the latter half!
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
I'm wondering if Dobbie was deliberately trying to read one book a week or if it just ended up close to that...
Posted by Dobbie (Member # 3881) on :
Deliberate. I actually read about 30 of those since Labor Day.
Posted by Mike (Member # 55) on :
My 15 books of 2008.
January 1. Dom Casmurro, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis 2. Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women, Jayne Ann Krentz 3. The Poincare Conjecture : In Search of the Shape of the Universe, Donal O'Shea (started reading in 2007) 4. Notes From Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky 5. Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
February 6. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
April 7. Collected Fictions, Jorge Luis Borges (didn't finish this one, though I loved most of what I did read)
July 8. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami 9. The Road, Cormac McCarthy 10. The Elephant Vanishes, Haruki Murakami
August 11. The Complete Stories, Franz Kafka
November 12. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
December 13. The Master of Go, Yasunari Kawabata 14. The Mathematical Universe, William Dunham 15. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami (nearly done with this one)
(Edit: last year was 2008, not 2009, duh )
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
I've only read...
3.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 15.Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card 26.Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell 28.Animal Farm by George Orwell
...in my ENTIRE LIFE.
It's obvious I don't belong here. Thanks for having me anyway.
FWIW, I actually did re-read Ender's Game in 2008.
Posted by ricree101 (Member # 7749) on :
quote:Originally posted by Mike: 11. I am a Strange Loop, Douglas Hofstader
I just got done with Godel, Escher, and Bach a month or so ago and really loved it. How's this one?
Posted by Mike (Member # 55) on :
It was pretty good. We had a short thread on it a while back. The thing about Hofstader is that he typically argues by elaborate analogy and then often repeats himself, trying to come up with a slightly different way of presenting his analogy each time. It gets old. But the ideas themselves in I am a Strange Loop are very interesting — reading it certainly changed how I understand consciousness. And some of his analogies actually worked for me.
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