2013 Reading Challenge Thread

[Me76]

What did you think of Jet Me76?
I downloaded it free (or v cheap) ages ago, but haven't got round to reading it.
Worth a read?

I enjoyed it tbh. Especially for a freebie. Its got some good killing sequences and is not a bad story. Its dojng the obvious thing of offering the first in the series for free so you then go and buy the rest. But I have definitely read worst free ones. (And I read a lot of the free stuff)

 

[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
8/30 The City & The City - China Mieville
9/30 The Optimist's Daughter - Eudora Welty
10/30 The Stranger - Albert Camus
11/30 Clarks In Jamaica - Al Fingers
12/30 Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
13/30 Pao - Kerry Young
14/30 Skagboys - Irvine Welsh
15/30 Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party - Graham Greene
16/30 Gimpel The Fool - Isaac Bashevis Singer
17/30 The Pursuit Of Perfect - Tal Ben-Shahar
18/30 The Music Of Chance - Paul Auster
19/30 Magnetism - F Scott Fitzgerald
20/30 The Art Of Conversation - Catherine Blyth
21/30 Hash: The Chilling Inside Story Of The Secret Underworld Behind The World's Most Lucrative Drug - Wensley Clarkson
22/30 Venus In Furs - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
23/30 The Answer Is Never: A Skateboarder's History Of The World - Jocko Weyland
24/30 The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
25/30 Spook Country - William Gibson
26/30 The Red House - Mark Haddon
27/30 Journey Into Fear - Eric Ambler
28/30 The Crow Road - Iain Banks
29/30 A Dance With Dragons - George R R Martin............Come on Martin, get yer finger out

 

[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
8/30 The City & The City - China Mieville
9/30 The Optimist's Daughter - Eudora Welty
10/30 The Stranger - Albert Camus
11/30 Clarks In Jamaica - Al Fingers
12/30 Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
13/30 Pao - Kerry Young
14/30 Skagboys - Irvine Welsh
15/30 Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party - Graham Greene
16/30 Gimpel The Fool - Isaac Bashevis Singer
17/30 The Pursuit Of Perfect - Tal Ben-Shahar
18/30 The Music Of Chance - Paul Auster
19/30 Magnetism - F Scott Fitzgerald
20/30 The Art Of Conversation - Catherine Blyth
21/30 Hash: The Chilling Inside Story Of The Secret Underworld Behind The World's Most Lucrative Drug - Wensley Clarkson
22/30 Venus In Furs - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
23/30 The Answer Is Never: A Skateboarder's History Of The World - Jocko Weyland
24/30 The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
25/30 Spook Country - William Gibson
26/30 The Red House - Mark Haddon
27/30 Journey Into Fear - Eric Ambler
28/30 The Crow Road - Iain Banks
29/30 A Dance With Dragons - George R R Martin
30/30 Gangs Of Jamaica: The Babylonian Wars - Thibault Ehrengardt..........Really bad. Written by the former chief editor of the French reggae magazine Natty Dread, I hoped this would continue and update the excellent 'Born Fi Dead' by Laurie Gunst, but it fails on every level. Gunst wrote as a true journalist, using detailed research and insight to illuminate the birth, growth and continuation of the partisan politics and gang violence which has marred Jamaica's history since independence, leaving the reader to make up their own mind on the terrible history she reveals.
By contrast Ehrengardt writes in sensationalist tones, packed with inappropriate dramatic exclamations on each gangster and atrocity he encounters, before passing his own moral judgment on them.
Its a brave book, he visited and spoke with violent gangsters in their own yards and went on patrols with police and soldiers in places few of us would voluntarily go, but he only manages to fill 49 pages with this. There is no true insight, his scant research is drawn directly from the the two major books already published on the subject, and his personal opinions are forced down the readers throat on very page to the point that he comes across like a pub bore. A wasted opportunity.

 

[Kidda]

1/15- North by Northwestern (Deadliest Waters) by Sig Hansen
2/15- Narrowboat Dreams by Steve Haywood
3/15- Baptism of Fire by Frank Collins
4/15- Ascension by Cameron Dante
5/15- Book by Whoopi Goldberg
6/15- Undercover by Rob Evans and Paul Lewis.
7/15- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
8/15- Working on the edge: King Crab fishing on Alaska's high seas by Spike Walker
9/15- Ship of ghosts by Neil Hinton
10/15- Trawlerman- Jimmy Buchan
11/15- Unbreakable- Sharon Osbourne
12/15- Love, lipstick and lies- Katie Price (ah I really wish I hadn't though, ugh)

 

[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
8/30 The City & The City - China Mieville
9/30 The Optimist's Daughter - Eudora Welty
10/30 The Stranger - Albert Camus
11/30 Clarks In Jamaica - Al Fingers
12/30 Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
13/30 Pao - Kerry Young
14/30 Skagboys - Irvine Welsh
15/30 Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party - Graham Greene
16/30 Gimpel The Fool - Isaac Bashevis Singer
17/30 The Pursuit Of Perfect - Tal Ben-Shahar
18/30 The Music Of Chance - Paul Auster
19/30 Magnetism - F Scott Fitzgerald
20/30 The Art Of Conversation - Catherine Blyth
21/30 Hash: The Chilling Inside Story Of The Secret Underworld Behind The World's Most Lucrative Drug - Wensley Clarkson
22/30 Venus In Furs - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
23/30 The Answer Is Never: A Skateboarder's History Of The World - Jocko Weyland
24/30 The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
25/30 Spook Country - William Gibson
26/30 The Red House - Mark Haddon
27/30 Journey Into Fear - Eric Ambler
28/30 The Crow Road - Iain Banks
29/30 A Dance With Dragons - George R R Martin
30/30 Gangs Of Jamaica: The Babylonian Wars - Thibault Ehrengardt
31/30 The Time Thief - Michael Thomas

 

[magneze]

1. Noam Chomsky - Occupy
2. Ian Bone - Bash The Rich
3. Iain Sinclair - London Orbital
4. Richard Morgan - Black Man
5. John Lanchester - Whoops!: Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay
6. David Herman - Effective JavaScript
7. Francois Lelord - Hector & The Search For Happiness
8. Edward Tufte - The Visual Display of Quantative Information
9. Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game
10. Stephen Few - Information Dashboard Design
11. Susan Cain - Quiet, the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking
12. Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall
13. Ha-Joon Chang - 23 things they don't tell you about capitalism
14. Dan Saffer - Microinteractions
15. Jeff Gothelf - Lean UX
16. Richard Morgan - Market Forces

Nice sci-fi story set in the near future. Much of it is nicely paced, but the duelling cars just seems shoehorned in. Very odd.

 

[MrSki]

1/100 Dissolution C J Sansom
2/100 Dark Fire C J Sansom
3/100 Sovereign C J Sansom
4/100 Across the Face of the World Russell Kirkpatrick
5/100 The Right Hand of God Russell Kirkpatrick
6/100 In Earth Abides the Flame Russell Kirkpatrick
7/100 The Hobbit J R R Tolkien
8/100 Temeraire Naomi Novik
9/100 Throne of Jade Naomi Novik
10/100 Black Powder War Naomi Novik
11/100 Empire of Ivory Naomi Novik
12/100 Victory of Eagles Naomi Novik
13/100 Tongues of Serpants Naomi Novik
14/100 Odalisque Fiona McIntosh
15/100 Emissary Fiona McIntosh
16/100 Goddess Fiona McIntosh
17/100 The Wilt Inheritance Tom Sharpe
18/100 The Truth about these Strange Times Adam Foulds
19/100 Heretic C J Sansom
20/100 Gallows Thief Bernard Cornwell
21/100 The Hartlepool Monkey Sean Longley
22/100 Six Suspects Vikas Swarup
23/100 Heartstone C J Sansom
24/100 The Town with No Twin Barry Pilton
25/100 Harlequin Bernard Cornwell
26/100 Vagabond Bernard Cornwell
27/100 School for Scumbags Danny King
28/100 The Swap Anthony Moore
29/100 Heretic Bernard Cornwell
30/100 1356 Bernard Cornwell
31/100 Azincourt Bernard Cornwell
32/100 Oh Pure & Radiant Heart Lydia Millet
33/100 Sharpe’s Triumph Bernard Cornwell
34/100 Sharpe’s Fortress Bernard Cornwell
35/100 Sharpe’s Prey Bernard Cornwell
36/100 The Last Kingdom Bernard Cornwell
37/100 The Pale Horseman Bernard Cornwell
38/100 Sharpe’s Rifles Bernard Cornwell
39/100 The Lords of the North Bernard Cornwell
40/100 Sword Song Bernard Cornwell
41/100 The Fort Bernard Cornwell
42/100 The Burning Land Bernard Cornwell
43/100 Death of Kings Bernard Cornwell
44/100 Sharpe’s Escape Bernard Cornwell
45/100 Sharpe’s Battle Bernard Cornwell
46/100 Sharpe’s Fury Bernard Cornwell
47/100 Sharpe’s Company Bernard Cornwell
48/100 The Generals Simon Scarrow
49/100 Fire & Sword Simon Scarrow
50/100 Stonehenge 2000 BC Bernard Cornwell
51/100 The Better Mousetrap Tom Holt
52/100 Sharpe’s Waterloo Bernard Cornwell
53/100 Bageye at the Wheel Colin Grant
54/100 The London Satyr Robert Edric
55/100 Wolf of the Plains Conn Iggulden
56/100 Lords of the Bow Conn Iggulden
57/100 Bones of the Hills Conn Iggulden
58/100 Empire of Silver Conn Iggulden
59/100 Conqueror Conn Iggulden
60/100 The Monocled Mutineer William Alison/John Fairley
61/100 How I Killed Margaret Thatcher Anthony Cartwright
62/100 Secrets in Priors End Eve Houston
63/100 Starters for Ten David Nicholls
64/100 Kill your Friends John Niven
65/100 Emperor Stephen Baxter
66/100 Life Liberty & the pursuit of Sausages Tom Holt
67/100 The London Train Tessa Hadley
68/100 A Memory of Light Robert Jordon Brandon Sanderson
69/100 Ratcatcher James McGee
70/100 Resurrectionist James McGee
71/100 Where the Shadows Lie Michael Ridpath
72/100 66 Degrees North Michael Ridpath
73/100 The Last days of Newgate Andrew Pepper
74/100 Rivers of London Ben Aaronovitch
75/100 Harry Revised Mark Sarvas
76/100 The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim Jonathan Coe
77/100 Moon over Soho Ben Aaronovitch
78/100 The Whale Road Robert Low
79/100The Wolf Sea Robert Low
80/100 The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
81/100 Fallen Angels Bernard Cornwell & Susan Kells
82/100 Soldier of Fortune Edward Marston
83/100 Drums of War Edward Marston
84/100 Under Siege Edward Marston
85/100 Relics Pip Vaughan-Hughes
86/100 The Vault of Bones Pip Vaughan-Hughes
87/100 A Very Murdering Battle Edward Marston
88/100 The Nizam’s Daughters Allan Mallinson
89/100 Raiders from the North Alex Rutherford
90/100 Rumours of War Allan Mallinson
91/100 Rapscallion James McGee

 

[DotCommunist]

I've read bare books this year and totally neglected to post them up here.

 

[imposs1904]

I've read bare books this year and totally neglected to post them up here.

I'm not sure jazz mags qualify for the reading challenge.

 

[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)
Seamus Heaney 'New Selected Poems 1966-1987' (8/20)
Freya Stark 'The Minaret of Djam: An Excursion in Afghanistan' (9/20)
Gustave Flaubert 'Madame Bovary' (10/20)
Graham Greene 'Brighton Rock' (11/20)
SE Hinton 'The Outsiders' (12/20)
Esther Freud 'Hideous Kinky' (13/20)
Armistead Maupin 'More Tales of the City' (14/20)
Laurie Lee 'Cider with Rosie' (15/20)

 

[BoatieBird]

1/50 - Grits, Niall Griffiths
2/50 - Suicide Hill, James Ellroy
3/50 - Children of Men, P D James
4/50 - Worlds of English, Module guide
5/50 - Whit, Iain Banks
6/50 - Paula Spencer, Roddy Doyle
7/50 - Harm Done, Ruth Rendell
8/50 - The News Where You Are, Catherine O'Flynn
9/50 - Birdman, Mo Hayder
10/50 - Money, Martin Amis
11/50 - The 5:2 Diet Book, Kate Harrison
12/50 - The Treatment, Mo Hayder
13/50 -The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
14/50 - The Little Friend, Donna Tartt
15/50 - What Was lost, Catherine O'Flynn
16/50 - Stonemouth, Iain Banks
17/50 - The One You Love, Paul Pilkington
18/50 - English in the World - OU Study Guide
19/50 - English in the World: History, Diversity, Change, Edited by Philip Seargeant and Joan Swann
20/50 - The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
21/50 - The Vanishing Point, Val McDermid
22/50 - The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
23/50 - Skagboys, Irvine Welsh
24/50 - Dracula, Bram Stoker
25/50 - Complicity, Iain Banks
26/50 - Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
27/50 - Ritual, Mo Hayder
28/50 - Feersum Endjinn, Iain M Banks
29/50 - One Across, Two Down, Ruth Rendell
30/50 - White Bones, Graham Masterton
31/50 - Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
32/50 - The Crow Road, Iain Banks
33/50 - The Saint Zita Society, Ruth Rendell
34/50 - The Bat, Jo Nesbo
35/50 - The Shining, Stephen King
36/50 - The Casual Vacancy, J.K. Rowling
37/50 - The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
38/50 - Skin, Mo Hayder
39/50 - A Face in the Crowd, Stephen King + How to Talk to Girls at Parties, Neil Gaiman
40/50 - Communicating in English: Talk, Text, Technology
41/50 - The Politics of English: Conflict, Competition, Co-existence
42/50 - The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
43/50 - Ghost in the Machine, Ed James
44/50 - Doctor Sleep, Stephen King
45/50 - A Judgement in Stone, Ruth Rendell
46/50 - The Bridge, Iain Banks
47/50 - The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt

48/50 - Dead Man's Time, Peter James

 

[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
12/30 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
13/30 The Honorary Consul - Graham Greene
14/30 Slam - Nick Hornby
15/30 Fatal Remedies - Donna Leon
16/30 Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
17/30 The Human Stain - Phillip Roth
18/30 Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
19/30 2001 A Space Odyssey - Arthur C Clarke
20/30 Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
21/30 The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
22/30 The Motel Life - Willy Vlautin
23/30 Amnesia Moon - Jonathan Lethem
24/30 Lonesome Dove - Larry McNurty
25/30 Minority Report - Phillip K Dick
26/30 High Rise - J.G. Ballard
27/30 The Cave - Tim Krabbe
28/30 Salt - Adam Roberts
29/30 Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem
30/30 2666 - Roberto Bolano
31/30 Saturday - Ian McEwan

 

[BoatieBird]

1/50 - Grits, Niall Griffiths
2/50 - Suicide Hill, James Ellroy
3/50 - Children of Men, P D James
4/50 - Worlds of English, Module guide
5/50 - Whit, Iain Banks
6/50 - Paula Spencer, Roddy Doyle
7/50 - Harm Done, Ruth Rendell
8/50 - The News Where You Are, Catherine O'Flynn
9/50 - Birdman, Mo Hayder
10/50 - Money, Martin Amis
11/50 - The 5:2 Diet Book, Kate Harrison
12/50 - The Treatment, Mo Hayder
13/50 -The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
14/50 - The Little Friend, Donna Tartt
15/50 - What Was lost, Catherine O'Flynn
16/50 - Stonemouth, Iain Banks
17/50 - The One You Love, Paul Pilkington
18/50 - English in the World - OU Study Guide
19/50 - English in the World: History, Diversity, Change, Edited by Philip Seargeant and Joan Swann
20/50 - The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
21/50 - The Vanishing Point, Val McDermid
22/50 - The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
23/50 - Skagboys, Irvine Welsh
24/50 - Dracula, Bram Stoker
25/50 - Complicity, Iain Banks
26/50 - Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
27/50 - Ritual, Mo Hayder
28/50 - Feersum Endjinn, Iain M Banks
29/50 - One Across, Two Down, Ruth Rendell
30/50 - White Bones, Graham Masterton
31/50 - Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
32/50 - The Crow Road, Iain Banks
33/50 - The Saint Zita Society, Ruth Rendell
34/50 - The Bat, Jo Nesbo
35/50 - The Shining, Stephen King
36/50 - The Casual Vacancy, J.K. Rowling
37/50 - The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
38/50 - Skin, Mo Hayder
39/50 - A Face in the Crowd, Stephen King + How to Talk to Girls at Parties, Neil Gaiman
40/50 - Communicating in English: Talk, Text, Technology
41/50 - The Politics of English: Conflict, Competition, Co-existence
42/50 - The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
43/50 - Ghost in the Machine, Ed James
44/50 - Doctor Sleep, Stephen King
45/50 - A Judgement in Stone, Ruth Rendell
46/50 - The Bridge, Iain Banks
47/50 - The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
48/50 - Dead Man's Time, Peter James

49/50 - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Rachel Joyce

 

[Kidda]

1/15- North by Northwestern (Deadliest Waters) by Sig Hansen
2/15- Narrowboat Dreams by Steve Haywood
3/15- Baptism of Fire by Frank Collins
4/15- Ascension by Cameron Dante
5/15- Book by Whoopi Goldberg
6/15- Undercover by Rob Evans and Paul Lewis.
7/15- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
8/15- Working on the edge: King Crab fishing on Alaska's high seas by Spike Walker
9/15- Ship of ghosts by Neil Hinton
10/15- Trawlerman by Jimmy Buchan
11/15- Unbreakable by Sharon Osbourne
12/15- Love, lipstick and lies by Katie Price (ah I really wish I hadn't though, ugh)
13/15- What planet am I on? by Shaun Ryder

 

[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
14/50 - Light of the Western Stars- Zane Grey
15/50 -Riders of the Purple Sage - Zane Grey
16/50 - Mission to Paris - Alan Furst
17/50 -The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
18/50 - Acquired for Development By...A Hackney Anthology - Edited by Gary Budden and Kit Caless
19/50 -Prisoner to the Streets - Robyn Travis
20/50 - The Fear Index - Robert Harris
21/50 - Rebel - Bernard Cornwell
22/50 - Copperhead- Bernard Cornwell
23/50 - The Departure - Neal Asher
24/50 - Battle Flag - Bernard Cornwell
25/50 - The Bloody Ground - Bernard Cornwell
26/50 - Deep Country - Five Years in the Welsh Hills. - Neil Ansell
27/50 - Deception - Jonathan Kellerman
28/50 - Zero Point - Neal Asher
29/50 - Birdscapes - Birds in Our Imagination and Experience - Jeremy Mynott
30/50 - Extinction Point - Paul Antony Jones
31/50- Extinction Point: Exodus -Paul Antony Jones
32/50 - Burn Out - Traci Hohenstein
33/50 - The Urban Birder - David Lindo
34/50 - A Year in the Woods - Colin Elford
35/50 - The Wild Places - Robert Mcfarlane
36/50 - A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys Through Urban Britain - Owen Hatherley
37/50 -Without Warning - John Birmingham
38/50 - After America - John Birmingham
39/50 - Angels of Vengeance - John Birmingham
40/50 - Laidlaw - William McIlvanney
41/50 - Weapons of Choice: World War 2.1 - John Birmingham
42/50 - The Old Ways - Robert McFarlane
43/50 - The Bat - Jo Nesbo
44/50 The Green Road Into The Trees: A Walk Through England - Hugh Thompson

 

[ringo]

12/15- Love, lipstick and lies by Katie Price (ah I really wish I hadn't though, ugh)

I found three books in the street the other week. One was How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale by Jenna Jameson (famous porn star autobiography)

I read the first couple of chapters on the way home. Very pretty girl from shit family has low self-esteem, gets raped by old pervert, ends up in porn business. Badly written, depressing and not worth reading more of, but I can see why many are drawn towards this type of titillating, car crash lives stuff.

 

[el-ahrairah]

69. Art Spiegalman - Meta-Maus
70. Penny Rimbaud - Shibboleth
71. Graham McNeill - Priests Of Mars

72. Morrissey - Autobiography
73. Nick Kyme - Nocturne

 

[belboid]

69. Art Spiegalman - Meta-Maus

hadn't seen that before - is it good?

 

[braindancer]

72. Morrissey - Autobiography

Worth a go? I've skimmed the first few pages and was not immediately convinced I could be arsed....

 

[imposs1904]

Worth a go? I've skimmed the first few pages and was not immediately convinced I could be arsed....

A bit florid in places but I enjoyed it. The early years are the best, and he's a lot more personally revealing in the book - in his own way - than I was expecting.

 

[el-ahrairah]

hadn't seen that before - is it good?

interesting but non-essential.

 

[el-ahrairah]

Worth a go? I've skimmed the first few pages and was not immediately convinced I could be arsed....

much harder work than i expected, with little reward for actually bothering. occasionally i read bits out to the missus in comedy voices because he is such a pretentious tit that it makes you actually want to bully him.

 

[belboid]

interesting but non-essential.

I just read the following reply thinking it was about Spiegelman - it seemed a little harsh!

I'll only bother with this if its in a library then

 

[braindancer]

occasionally i read bits out to the missus in comedy voices because he is such a pretentious tit that it makes you actually want to bully him.

I did exactly that when laughing at the first few sentences...

 

[el-ahrairah]

I just read the following reply thinking it was about Spiegelman - it seemed a little harsh!

I'll only bother with this if its in a library then

there's a dvd that comes with it that contains all his notes and the interview annotations and stuff. haven't looked at it yet but if you want a copy drop me a pm with your address and i'll send it you.

 

[el-ahrairah]

also finished today:

74, Robert Jensen - Getting Off.

 

[imposs1904]

1-50
51/100 Dark Passage by David Goodis
52/100 The Burglar by David Goodis
53/100 Bash the Rich: True Life Confessions of an Anarchist in the UK by Ian Bone
54/100 The Deportees and other stories by Roddy Doyle
55/100 Bullfighting by Roddy Doyle
56/100 The Red Road by Denise Mina
57/100 Maigret in Holland by Georges Simenon
58/100 The Sailors' Rendezvous by Georges Simenon
59/100 Anti-Fascist by Martin Lux
60/100 I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President by Josh Lieb
61/100 Maigret at the "Gai-Moulin" by Georges Simenon
62/100 The Bar on the Seine by Georges Simenon
63/100 Lillian & Dash by Sam Toperoff
64/100 Street of No Return by David Goodis
65/100 The Busconductor Hines by James Kelman
66/100 Maigret Mystified by Georges Simenon
67/100 Nine Inches: Stories by Tom Perrotta
68/100 Dr. Yes by (Colin) Bateman
69/100 Bad Vibes: Britpop and My Part in Its Downfall by Luke Haines
70/100 Maigret Goes Home by Georges Simenon
71/100 Punk Rock: An Oral History by John Robb
72/100 A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
73/100 The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
74/100 Two Pints by Roddy Doyle
75/100 The Flemish Shop by Georges Simenon
76/100 Brother Kemal by Jakob Arjouni
77/100 Autobiography by Morrissey
78/100 Morbid Symptoms by Gillian Slovo

79/100 The Guts by Roddy Doyle

 

[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
12/30 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
13/30 The Honorary Consul - Graham Greene
14/30 Slam - Nick Hornby
15/30 Fatal Remedies - Donna Leon
16/30 Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
17/30 The Human Stain - Phillip Roth
18/30 Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
19/30 2001 A Space Odyssey - Arthur C Clarke
20/30 Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
21/30 The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
22/30 The Motel Life - Willy Vlautin
23/30 Amnesia Moon - Jonathan Lethem
24/30 Lonesome Dove - Larry McNurty
25/30 Minority Report - Phillip K Dick
26/30 High Rise - J.G. Ballard
27/30 The Cave - Tim Krabbe
28/30 Salt - Adam Roberts
29/30 Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem
30/30 2666 - Roberto Bolano
31/30 Saturday - Ian McEwan
32/30 Margrave of the Marshes - John Peel

 

[BoatieBird]

1/50 - Grits, Niall Griffiths
2/50 - Suicide Hill, James Ellroy
3/50 - Children of Men, P D James
4/50 - Worlds of English, Module guide
5/50 - Whit, Iain Banks
6/50 - Paula Spencer, Roddy Doyle
7/50 - Harm Done, Ruth Rendell
8/50 - The News Where You Are, Catherine O'Flynn
9/50 - Birdman, Mo Hayder
10/50 - Money, Martin Amis
11/50 - The 5:2 Diet Book, Kate Harrison
12/50 - The Treatment, Mo Hayder
13/50 -The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
14/50 - The Little Friend, Donna Tartt
15/50 - What Was lost, Catherine O'Flynn
16/50 - Stonemouth, Iain Banks
17/50 - The One You Love, Paul Pilkington
18/50 - English in the World - OU Study Guide
19/50 - English in the World: History, Diversity, Change, Edited by Philip Seargeant and Joan Swann
20/50 - The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
21/50 - The Vanishing Point, Val McDermid
22/50 - The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
23/50 - Skagboys, Irvine Welsh
24/50 - Dracula, Bram Stoker
25/50 - Complicity, Iain Banks
26/50 - Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
27/50 - Ritual, Mo Hayder
28/50 - Feersum Endjinn, Iain M Banks
29/50 - One Across, Two Down, Ruth Rendell
30/50 - White Bones, Graham Masterton
31/50 - Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
32/50 - The Crow Road, Iain Banks
33/50 - The Saint Zita Society, Ruth Rendell
34/50 - The Bat, Jo Nesbo
35/50 - The Shining, Stephen King
36/50 - The Casual Vacancy, J.K. Rowling
37/50 - The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
38/50 - Skin, Mo Hayder
39/50 - A Face in the Crowd, Stephen King + How to Talk to Girls at Parties, Neil Gaiman
40/50 - Communicating in English: Talk, Text, Technology
41/50 - The Politics of English: Conflict, Competition, Co-existence
42/50 - The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
43/50 - Ghost in the Machine, Ed James
44/50 - Doctor Sleep, Stephen King
45/50 - A Judgement in Stone, Ruth Rendell
46/50 - The Bridge, Iain Banks
47/50 - The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
48/50 - Dead Man's Time, Peter James
49/50 - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Rachel Joyce

50/50 - Persuasion, Jane Austen

 

[QueenOfGoths]

1."Standing in Another Man's Grave" - Ian Rankin
2. "Child 44" - Tom Rob Smith
3. "The Leopard" - Jo Nesbo.
4. "Blood Money" - Chris Collett
5. "The Siege" - Simon Kernick
6. The Hypnotist - Lars Kepler
7. "When We Are Married" J.B. priestley
6. "Jar City"
7. "The Yiddish Policeman's Union" - Michael Chabon
8. "Headless" - Adam Roberts
9. "Stone's Fall" - Iain Pears
10. "The Wrath of Angels" - John Connolly
11. "The Draining Lake" - Arnaldar Indridasdon
12. "Natural Causes" - James Oswald
13. "The Book of Souls" - James Oswald
14. "Phantom - Jo Nesbo
15. "Mammoth Book of Alternate History Short Stories" - edited by Ian Watson and Ian Whates
16. "The Atrocity Archives" - Charles Stross
17. "An Enemy of the People" - Henrick Ibsen translated by Arthur Miller