Reading for 2008

Submitted by AmyD on Thu, 01/10/2008 - 04:49
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  1. "The Dunwich Horror and Others" HP Lovecraft (433 pgs)
  2. "A Winter Haunting" Dan Simmons (384 pgs)
  3. "Lisey's Story" Stephen King (688 pgs)
  4. "Skipping Towards Gomorrah" Dan Savage (320 pgs)
  5. "In Cold Blood" Truman Capote (368 pgs)
  6. "Two Complete Novels (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency/Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul)" Douglas Adams (436 pgs)
  7. "Trainspotting" Irvine Welsh (348 pgs)
  8. "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde (193 pgs)
  9. "The Day of the Triffids" by John Wyndham (222 pgs)
  10. "Less Than Zero" by Bret Easton Ellis (208 pgs)
  11. "Neuromancer" by William Gibson (271 pgs)
  12. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There" by Lewis Carroll (272 pgs)
  13. "Solaris" by Stanislav Lem (204 pgs)
  14. "Summer of Night" by Dan Simmons (555 pgs)
  15. "Deliverance" by James Dickey (278 pgs)
  16. "The Hellbound Heart" by Clive Barker (164 pgs)
  17. "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury (192 pgs)
  18. "Dreams of Terror and Death" by HP Lovecraft (400 pgs)
  19. "Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk (208 pgs)
  20. "Dandelion Wine" by Ray Bradbury (256 pgs)
  21. "Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground " by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Soderlind (405 pgs)
  22. "The Ruins" by Scott Smith (528 pgs)
  23. "Nightmare Movies: A Critical Guide to Horror Films" by Kim Newman (255 pgs)
  24. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey (281 pgs)
  25. "Burning Chrome" by William Gibson (191 pgs)
  26. "Porno" by Irvine Welsh (484 pgs)
  27. "Perfume" by Patrick Suskind (272 pgs)
  28. "HP Lovecraft's Book of Horror" ed. by Stephen Jones and Dave Carson (455 pgs)
  29. "Edgewise" by Graham Masterton (326 pgs)
  30. "Worlds Enough and Time: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction" by Dan Simmons (272 pgs)
  31. "Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions" by Neil Gaiman (339 pgs)
  32. "Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders" by Neil Gaiman (355 pgs)
  33. "Glue" by Irving Welsh (in progress)
Author Comments: 

My goal for the year is 10,000 pages

Final tally: 10,563 pages

Courtney10105/06/2008

The Ruins is a good book. I just finished reading it. I can't decide if I like the movie or the book more.

Nance11/12/2008

You are close to the goal! It would be sad you miss it by a couple of pages. I don't really have goal since I'm sick.

Do you have a favorite this year?

For Fight Club, do you see the movie before reading the book? Because I really want to read this book, but I've seen the movie and I don't know if the book could still be great.

AmyD11/12/2008

I'll make my goal, even if it means I'm reading all day Dec. 31!

I think my favorites have been the William Gibson and Irvine Welsh book. I also really enjoyed the book I just finished--it was fun to read the stories that inspired Lovecraft and see where he got some of his ideas. What about you?

I absolutely recommend reading "Fight Club"! I own the movie and I've seen it numerous times but that didn't diminish my enjoyment of either the book or film. Same with "Trainspotting"--I loved the book and I think I actually like the movie better now that I've read the book.