Read in 2006
Submitted by kbuxton on Sun, 01/01/2006 - 09:04
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- 1-1 Like Shaking Hands with God by Kurt Vonnegut & Lee Stringer
- 1-5 Strata by Terry Pratchett
- 1-10 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- 1-15 Who Let the Dogs In? by Molly Ivins
- 1-16 Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
- 1-18 Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- 1-20 Nanotime by Bart Kosko
- 1-24 Grand Central Winter by Lee Stringer
- 1-25 Unshelved by Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum
- 1-27 Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds
- 1-29 What Would Dewey Do? by Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum
- 2-7 Here and Now by Constance O'Day-Flannery
- 2-9 I am the Clay by Chaim Potok
- 2-14 The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
- 2-19 Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
- 2-20 Snow by Orhan Pamuk
- 2-22 A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
- 2-24 To the Last Man by Zane Grey
- 2-26 The Three Incestuous Sisters by Audrey Niffenegger
- 3-1 The House of Paper by Carlos Maria Dominguez
- 3-2 Readers' Advisory Service in the Public Library by Joyce Saricks
- 3-9 Redemption Ark by Alastair Reynolds
- 3-10 Gaza Blues by Etgar Keret and Samir El-youssef
- 3-11 Chomsky for Beginners by David Cogswell
- 3-17 Absolution Gap by Alastair Reynolds
- 3-19 The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor
- 3-22 Green Eyes by Lucius Shepard
- 3-25 A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
- 3-25 The Cloud Atlas by Liam Callanan
- 3-28 The Cheating Culture by David Callahan
- 4-1 Walking the Labyrinth by Lisa Goldstein
- 4-11 In Your Dreams by Tom Holt
- 4-21 Foop! by Chris Genoa
- 4-22 The Dewey Decimal System of Love by Josephine Carr
- 4-26 Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
- 4-29 The Anarchist in the Library by Siva Vaidhyanathan
- 5-5 Standing Alone in Mecca by Asra Nomani
- 5-7 The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker
- 5-13 Careers for Bookworms & Other Literary Types by Marjorie Eberts & Margaret Gisler
- 5-19 American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- 5-26 Mom's Cancer by Brian Fies
- 5-31 The Last Witchfinder by James Morrow
- 6-14 Fires of Eden by Dan Simmons
- 6-15 Red Dust by Ma Jian
- 6-16 Adventures of the Artificial Woman by Thomas Berger
- 6-17 Cloud of Sparrows by Takashi Matsuoka
- 6-19 Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
- 6-22 Outbreak: Plauges that Change History by Bryn Barnard
- 6-23 The Confusion by Neal Stephenson
- 6-25 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- 7-7 A Circle of Cats by Charles De Lint
- 7-8 The System of the World by Neal Stephenson
- 7-12 Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
- 7-13 Starman Jones by Robert Heinlein
- 7-15 The Practice Effect by David Brin
- 7-16 Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
- 7-21 Hannah West in the Belltown Towers by Linda Johns
- 7-21 The Pirates! In an adventures with Scientists by Gideon Defoe
- 7-22 Carnet de Voyage by Craig Thompson
- 7-26 How to Learn Any Language Quickly, Easily, Inexpensively, Enjoyably and on your Own by Barry Farber
- 7-27 Longitudes and Attitudes by Thomas L. Friedman
- 7-28 Genreflecting (5th ed) by Diana Tixier Herald
- 7-29 Saturday by Ian McEwan
- 8-2 The Arabian Nightmare by Robert Irwin
- 8-4 How to Learn a Foreign Language by Graham E. Fuller
- 8-6 Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
- 8-7 Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
- 8-8 Why You Need a Foreign Language & How to Learn One by Edward Trimnell
- 8-11 The Life of the World to Come by Kage Baker
- 8-16 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- 8-17 The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde
- 8-23 Ellis Island & Other Stories by Mark Helprin
- 8-25 13 Phantasms and other stories by James P. Blaylock
- 8-25 The Burglar who liked to Quote Kipling by Lawrence Block
- 8-26 Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
- 8-30 The Golem's Mighty Swing by James Sturm
- 8-30 Fax from Sarajevo by Joe Kubert
- 9-1 Deogratias by Stassen
- 9-4 Veronica by Nicholas Christopher
- 9-7 The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
- 9-8 Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
- 9-12 The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs
- 9-15 The Pirates! In an Adventure with Ahab by Gideon Defoe
- 9-18 Notes from a Defeatist by Joe Sacco
- 9-19 Citizen Vince by Jess Walter
- 9-20 We are on Our Own by Miriam Katin
- 9-24 Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
- 9-29 Divine Intervention by Ken Wharton
- 10-6 Anvil of the World by Kage Baker
- 10-14 The Land of Dreams by James Blaylock
- 10-15 Moon Palace by Paul Auster
- 10-26 The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson
- 10-27 Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett
- 10-28 Downers Grove by Michael Hornburg
- 11-1 Children of the Night by Dan Simmons
- 11-8 The Ticking by Renee French
- 11-22 The Living by Annie Dillard
- 11-24 La Perdida by Jessica Abel
- 11-27 Stars In my Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany
- 12-2 The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
- 12-4 The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
- 12-5 You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But it Helps by Tom Holt
- 12-6 Hannah West in Deep Water by Linda Johns
- 12-7 The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar
- 12-14 Singularity Sky by Charles Stross
- 12-15 Mao for Beginners by Rius
- 12-18 Shenzhen by Guy Delisle
- 12-21 Snow White and the Seven Samurai by Tom Holt
- 12-24 The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon
- 12-26 Banvard's Folly by Paul Collins
- 12-27 Iron & Silk by Mark Salzman
I see that January was a slow month.   :-)
Yes. I'm taking four classes and started working. That takes a toll on the amount of time I have to read.
So what is the deal with Terry Pratchett? Everyone seems to read him. Is he/she any good? Good in the Phillip K Dick Samuel Delaney kind of way or more of a guilty pleasure? Just curious..
Terry Pratchett is very very funny. His books are light reading, but not just fluff. Basically they're fantasy set on an alternate earth, one that doesn't really have technology but has magic, dwarfs, vampires, etc. They're amusing social satire.
Memories of my Melancholy Whores is a pretty catchy title! What was it about?
It's a really short novel pretty much about what the title says :) It's the reminiscences of an old man about his prostitutes over the years. (Definitely not Garcia Marquez's best work)
Some interesting stuff so far this year. You must really be enjoying Alastair Reynolds. :-)
That Tony Vigoritto book has been popping up on my Amazon recommendations for awhile now (at least a year) and when I was researching him some time back it seems that he must live in or around Central Ohio. Perhaps even Ohio University down in Athens.
So do you own the copy of Green Eyes that you read? I have quite a few of the first printings of those Ace Sci-Fi Specials, 3rd Series.
Yes, I was enjoying Reynolds and just felt a need to finish off the series :)
The Vigorito book was only ok. It had it's moments but felt overwritten a lot of the time (he tried too hard to be clever). I think he is in Athens.
And yes, I own Green Eyes. Not sure if I'll bother keeping it or not though (the one bedroom apartment is a bit squished these days). I liked it ok, but didn't love it.
What did you think of Foop!?-
Overall not bad, not fabulous. It had its highly entertaining moments.
What did you think of 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde?
Is it the first time you've read it?
Yes, it was my first time reading it, and it was for a book group. I went into it not expecting to like it much, but actually did.
I thought you might find this interesting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Weird