Book Log 2008

Submitted by CaptMal on Thu, 01/10/2008 - 11:23
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  1. --Italics indicate rereads--
  3. 1/9: Le petit prince/The Little Prince (1943, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) - A+
  4. 1/10: To Kill a Mockingbird (1960, Harper Lee) - A+
  5. 1/10: Postcards from the Boys (2004, Ringo Starr) - A+
  6. 1/17: John (2005, Cynthia Lennon) - B
  7. 1/19: America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction (2004, Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin, and David Javerbaum) - A+
  8. 1/24: I Am America (And So Can You!) (2007, Stephen Colbert, Richard Dahm, Paul Dinello, and Allison Silverman) - A+
  9. 1/28: The Book of Useless Information (2006, Noel Botham and The Useless Information Society) - A+
  10. 1/29: The Beatles (1980, Geoffrey Stokes) - A+
  11. 2/7: 'Salem's Lot (1975, Stephen King) - A+
  12. 2/12: 2007: The Year in Review (2007, The Editors of TIME) - A
  13. 2/19: Read the Beatles: Classic and New Writings on the Beatles, Their Legacy, and Why They Still Matter (2006, June Skinner Sawyers, ed.) - A+
  14. 2/20: Fahrenheit 451 (1953, Ray Bradbury) - A+
  15. 2/28: Catcher in the Rye (1951, J.D. Salinger) - A+
  16. 2/29: Ultimate Spider-Man: Vol. 19 - Death of a Goblin (2007-2008, Brian Michael Bendis) - A+
  17. 3/12: Maus: A Survivor's Tale (1972-1991, Art Spiegelman) - A+
  18. 3/18: Ghost Rider Team-Up (1976-1981, Bill Mantlo, Jim Shooter, Steven Grant, Michael Fleischer, and Tom DeFalco) - C
  19. 3/27: Spider-Man: Birth of Venom (1984-1991, Jim Shooter, Roger Stern, Tom DeFalco, John Byrne, Louise Simonson, and David Michelinie) - C+
  20. 4/1: Ultimate Marvel Team-Up: Ultimate Collection (2001-2002, Brian Michael Bendis) - B-
  21. 4/2: Wolverine/Deadpool: Weapon X (2001-2002, Frank Tieri) - C-
  22. 4/3: The Spectacular Spider-Man: Vol. 4 - Disassembled (2004, Paul Jenkins) - C+
  23. 4/10: Spider-Man: Breakout (2005, Tony Bedard) - C+
  24. 4/10: She-Hulk: Vol. 1 - Single Green Female (2004, Dan Slott) - B
  25. 4/10: Ghost World (1993-1997, Daniel Clowes) - A+
  26. 4/11: L'ascension du haut mal/Epileptic: Vol. 1 (1996-1998, David B.) - A+
  27. 4/11: A Contract with God, and Other Tenement Stories (1978, Will Eisner) - B+
  28. 4/29: The Road (2006, Cormac McCarthy) - A+
  29. 4/29: The Future of the Movies: Interviews with Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas (1991, Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel) - A+
  30. 5/12: Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert - Forty Years of Reviews, Essays, and Interviews (2006, Roger Ebert) - A+
  31. 5/23: Ethan Frome (1911, Edith Wharton) - B+
  32. 7/2: Fray (2001-2003, Joss Whedon) - A+
  33. 7/5: Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp (1993, C.D. Payne) - B-
  34. 7/28: Fell: Vol. 1 - Feral City (2006-2007, Warren Ellis) - B+
  35. 8/14: The Stand (1978, Stephen King) - A+
  36. 9/3: Christine (1983, Stephen King) - C+
  37. 9/8: Tarantino (2005, Jim Smith) - A
  38. 9/9: Sin City: Vol. 1 - The Hard Goodbye (1991-1992, Frank Miller) - A+
  39. 9/10: The Ultimates (2002-2004, Mark Millar) - A+
  40. 9/12: John Lennon: The Illustrated Biography (2008, Gareth Thomas) - A+
  41. 9/16: Watchmen (1986-1987, Alan Moore) - A+
  42. 9/18: King Dork (2005, Frank Portman) - A+
  43. 9/20: DC: The New Frontier - Vol. 1 (2004, Darwyn Cooke) - A
  44. 9/20: DC: The New Frontier - Vol. 2 (2004, Darwyn Cooke) - A+
  45. 9/29: Of Tangible Ghosts (1994, L.E. Modesitt, Jr.) - D+
  46. 10/2: Batman: Vampire (1991-1999, Doug Moench) - A
  47. 10/3: Batman: Death and the City (2007, Paul Dini, Stuart Moore, and Royal McGraw) - B
  48. 10/3: Half Dead (2007, Barb-Lien & Park Cooper) - C-
  49. 10/4: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (2006, Rachel Cohn and David Levithan) - A+
  50. 10/5: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Panel to Panel (2007, Scott Allie) - A+
  51. 10/8: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Omnibus - Volume 1 (1999-2003, Christopher Golden, Joss Whedon, Dan Brereton, Scott Lobdell, Fabian Nicieza, and Paul Lee) - B+
  52. 11/5: It (1986, Stephen King) - A
  53. 11/6: Runaways: Vol. 1 - Pride & Joy (2003, Brian K. Vaughan) - B+
  54. 11/6: Runaways: Vol. 2 - Teenage Wasteland (2004, Brian K. Vaughan) - A-
  55. 11/6: Runaways: Vol. 3 - The Good Die Young (2004, Brian K. Vaughan) - A-
  56. 11/6: Runaways: Vol. 4 - True Believers (2005, Brian K. Vaughan) - A+
  57. 11/11: Batman Black and White: Vol. 1 (1996, Brian Bolland, Howard Chaykin, Chuck Dixon, Neil Gaiman, Archie Goodwin, Andrew Helfer, Klaus Janson, Joe Kubert, Ted McKeever, Dennis O'Neil, Katsuhiro Otomo, Bill Sienkiewicz, Walter Simonson, Jan Strnad, Bruce Timm, Matt Wagner, and Kent Williams) - A-
  58. 11/18: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988, Michael Chabon) - B
  59. 11/22: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000, Stephen King) - A+
  60. 11/26: Batman: Snow (2005, Dan Curtis Johnson) - B-
  61. 11/30: Spider-Man: One More Day (2007, J. Michael Straczynski and Joe Quesada) - C+
  62. 12/3: Gotham Central: Vol. 1 - In the Line of Duty (2003, Greg Rucka and Ed Brubaker) - B+
  63. 12/4: Gotham Central: Vol. 2 - Half a Life (1999-2003, Greg Rucka) - A-
  64. 12/5: All-Star Superman: Vol. 1 (2006-2007, Grant Morrison) - C
  65. 12/25: It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider (2005, Jim Henson, the Muppets, and Friends) - A
  66. 12/28: Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business (2007, David Mamet) - A-
superfluous07/31/2008

I love Le Petit Prince, always worth a second read.

CaptMal08/01/2008

I had to read it for French class, and I was pretty blown away.

Rushmore09/10/2008

I'm reading watchmen, i'm more than half way now, just onto Rorschach's prison time. I can't put the book down, its so engaging, so layered. I love the sequences that mix two different events, such as Dr. M's interview with laurie & nite owl getting ambushed. Or all of the funeral scene. It's amazing. I can't see how they ever turned it into a film, with so much going on its going to be interesting to find out how it works out. My favourite characters are Rorschach & Dr Manhatten. I also really enjoyed Hollis' autobiog, the story about moe at the autoshop was very engaging. Thanks for the recommendation, this is the best graphic novel i've read so far, second is batman Year 1.

CaptMal09/12/2008

Glad you're enjoying it, man.

As soon as I finish off the books I got for my birthday, I'm going to re-read it.

Rushmore09/12/2008

ah, did u have a nice birthday?

CaptMal09/17/2008

Yep, I had a very nice birthday. Got lots of DVD's. :-)