2013 Reading Challenge Thread

[pennimania]

13/100 A Glass of Blessings. Barbara Pym

14/100 These Wonderful Rumours - wartime diaries. May Tweed
15/100. Jane and Prudence - Barbara Pym
16/100 Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals - Immanuel Kant

 

[imposs1904]

1/100 Barca: The Making of the Greatest Team in the World by Graham Hunter
2/100 Ramones by Nicholas Rombes
3/100 The Train by Georges Simenon
4/100 Wild Boy: My Life in Duran Duran by Andy Taylor
5/100 Physical Resistance: A Hundred Years of Anti-Fascism by Dave Hann
6/100 Walking With Ghosts by John Baker
7/100 Cupid's Dart by David Nobbs
8/100 The Pale Criminal by Phillip Kerr
9/100 The Roar of the Butterflies by Reginald Hill
10/100 Pack Men by Alan Bissett
11/100 Gods and Beasts by Denise Mina

12/100 The Graduate by Charles Webb

It turn out that 90% of the brilliant lines from the film are all from the book. Buck Henry's easiest pay cheque?

 

[Me76]

1/50 Rachels Holiday, Marian Keyes
2/50 Fingersmith, Sarah Waters
3/50 Life, Death and Vanilla Slices, Jenny Eclair
4/50 Pushed Too Far, Ann Voss Peterson
5/50 Born Weird, Andrew Kaufman
6/50 The People of the Abyss, Jack London
7/50 Gray Justice, Alan McDermott
8/50 Gone Tomorrow, Lee Child

9/50 the Hundred year old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, Jonas Jonasson

Funny, dry and whimsical caper. I would recommend.

 

[braindancer]

1/30 Mockingbird - Walter Tevis
2/30 More Than Human - Theodore Sturgeon
3/30 Bottle Factory Outing - Beryl Bainbridge
4/30 Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West
5/30 Mister Johnson - Joyce Carey
6/30 The Death of Bunny Munro - Nick Cave
7/30 The Room of Lost Things - Stella Duffy
8/30 The Hustler - Walter Tevis
9/30 On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
10/30 The Handmaids Tale - Margaret Atwood
11/30 Roadside Picnic - Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

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[TruXta]

11/30 Roadside Picnic - Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

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I love that book.

 

[braindancer]

I love that book.

Yes - it was great. Although I must confess to being a little confused by the ending. I had to re-read the last few pages to make a bit more sense of it but I'm still not sure I'm entirely there.... I think I may read it once more this evening!

 

[TruXta]

Yes - it was great. Although I must confess to being a little confused by the ending. I had to re-read the last few pages to make a bit more sense of it but I'm still not sure I'm entirely there.... I think I may read it once more this evening!

It's meant to be a bit confusing I think. Have you seen Stalker, the filmatization by Tarkovsky?

 

[braindancer]

It's meant to be a bit confusing I think. Have you seen Stalker, the filmatization by Tarkovsky?

I've only seen it when it shown alongside The Wizard of Oz as a piece of art. Wizard of Oz on the left side of the screen, Stalker on the right. Stalker was edited down so that both films turned from black and white to colour at the same time. I did not enjoy this one jot! But I'd like to see the film without the distraction of the Wizard of Oz.

 

[belboid]

I've only seen it when it shown alongside The Wizard of Oz as a piece of art. Wizard of Oz on the left side of the screen, Stalker on the right. Stalker was edited down so that both films turned from black and white to colour at the same time. I did not enjoy this one jot! But I'd like to see the film without the distraction of the Wizard of Oz.

bizarre!

 

[TruXta]

Bizarre indeed. Check out Stalker, it's great.

 

[belboid]

Oh dont worry, I've seen it. Great film.

 

[TruXta]

Oh dont worry, I've seen it. Great film.

Not you, I meant braindancer.

 

[braindancer]

Not you, I meant braindancer.

I shall!

 

[Greebo]

4/21-50 one third of A Week in December - Sebastian Faulkes. In my defence, it was a pretty bad month and that book was a lot less readable than expected.
5/21-50 The Lover's Watch - Aphra Behn. Read for no other reason than it was there, and all the better for it.

 

[pennimania]

14/100 These Wonderful Rumours - wartime diaries. May Tweed
15/100. Jane and Prudence - Barbara Pym
16/100 Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals - Immanuel Kant

17/100 No Fond Return of Love - Barbara Pym.

I'm a bit sick of Barbara now, even though this last made me break out into helpless laughter.

Too many clergymen.

I'm thinking of attacking Les Miserables now in an attempt to emulate Miss-Shelf.

 

[marty21]

1/50- City of Gold - Len Deighton
2/50- Outside- Shalini Bolan
3/50- Deep Black - Stephen Coonts and Jim Defelice
4/50- Before They Are Hanged - Joe Abercombie
5/50 - Last Arguments of Kings - Joe Abercrombie
6/50 - The Horse At The Gates - DC Alden
7/50 - Shakespeare's Local - Pete Brown
8/50 - Ash - James Herbert
9/50 - Capital - John Lanchester
10/50 - Covert Reich - A K Alexander
11/50 - The American West - Dee Brown
12/50 - Dark Winter - David Mark
13/50 - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown

Almost finished this - heartbreaking book - read it years ago and then lent it to someone very powerful and tragic

 

[TruXta]

13/50 - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown

Almost finished this - heartbreaking book - read it years ago and then lent it to someone very powerful and tragic

I read that at about age 12. Made me see western movies in a different light.

 

[marty21]

I read that at about age 12. Made me see western movies in a different light.

It does - the wholescale betrayal of the tribes, the dishonesty and greed of the settlers - the massacres that went unpunished by settlers/miners/soldiers,etc

 

[el-ahrairah]

sounds god, i will add it to my wishlist!

still trawling through The Clash. teh content is interesting but the prose is not.

 

[petee]

5/30 the jewish annotated new testament (levine ed.)

6/30 tinker tailor soldier spy (le carre)

 

[Pickman's model]

The galton case 9%

the drowning pool 10%

 

[Belushi]

Sebastian Faulks 'Birdsong' (1/20)
Colin Thubron 'Shadow of the Silk Road' (2/20)
Philip Larkin 'High Windows' (3/20)
Sally Brampton 'Shoot the Damn Dog' (4/20)
Hans Fallada 'Alone in Berlin' (5/20)
Robert Bartlett 'The Making of Europe 950 - 1350' (6/20)
Albert Camus 'The Outsider' (7/20)

 

[Firky]

Need to update my list but I'd have to look at what I've read in the last few weeks to be sure. Forgot about this thread

Albert Camus 'The Outsider' (7/20)

One of my favourite books!

4/50- Before They Are Hanged - Joe Abercombie
5/50 - Last Arguments of Kings - Joe Abercrombie

You read Red Country yet?

 

[october_lost]

1/30 Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart
2/30 John A. Rapp, Daoism and Anarchism...
3/30 Wang Hui, China's New Order...
4/30 Angela Y. Davies, Are prisons obsolete?

 

[marty21]

Need to update my list but I'd have to look at what I've read in the last few weeks to be sure. Forgot about this thread



One of my favourite books!


You read Red Country yet?

I have it somewhere, haven't started it yet.

 

[imposs1904]

1/100 Barca: The Making of the Greatest Team in the World by Graham Hunter
2/100 Ramones by Nicholas Rombes
3/100 The Train by Georges Simenon
4/100 Wild Boy: My Life in Duran Duran by Andy Taylor
5/100 Physical Resistance: A Hundred Years of Anti-Fascism by Dave Hann
6/100 Walking With Ghosts by John Baker
7/100 Cupid's Dart by David Nobbs
8/100 The Pale Criminal by Phillip Kerr
9/100 The Roar of the Butterflies by Reginald Hill
10/100 Pack Men by Alan Bissett
11/100 Gods and Beasts by Denise Mina
12/100 The Graduate by Charles Webb

13/100 Backhand by Liza Cody

The last of the Anna Lee novels. I never watched the tv adaptation of the books starring Imogen Stubbs but the books were fun and are recommended if you like your crime fiction not too heavy.

 

[Pickman's model]

the drowning pool 10%

The underground man 11%

 

[imposs1904]

1/100 Barca: The Making of the Greatest Team in the World by Graham Hunter
2/100 Ramones by Nicholas Rombes
3/100 The Train by Georges Simenon
4/100 Wild Boy: My Life in Duran Duran by Andy Taylor
5/100 Physical Resistance: A Hundred Years of Anti-Fascism by Dave Hann
6/100 Walking With Ghosts by John Baker
7/100 Cupid's Dart by David Nobbs
8/100 The Pale Criminal by Phillip Kerr
9/100 The Roar of the Butterflies by Reginald Hill
10/100 Pack Men by Alan Bissett
11/100 Gods and Beasts by Denise Mina
12/100 The Graduate by Charles Webb
13/100 Backhand by Liza Cody

14/100 Kill Your Friends by John Niven

If you like your humour dark, very dark, this may be the novel for you.

 

[ringo]

1/30 The Room Of Lost Things - Stella Duffy
2/30 At Hell's Gate: A Soldiers Journey From War To Peace - Claude Anshin Thomas
3/30 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
4/30 Altered Carbon - Richard K Morgan
5/30 The Chinese Potter: A Practical History Of Chinese Ceramics - Margaret Medley
6/30 Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
7/30 Pride And Prejudice - Jane Austen -- Brilliant, never occurred to me to read it before as at some point in my youth I dismissed it as a girls book :

 

[Stigmata]

Slower than most of you guys, but so far:

1/12 The Mammoth Book of Best New SF vol 25 - ed. Gardner Dozois
2/12 Shakespeare's Local - Pete Brown
3/12 Woman on the Edge of TIme - Marge Piercy