Books Read in 2004
- Batman: Harvest Breed by George Pratt
- Astro City: Life in the Big City by Kurt Busiek
- JLA: A League of One by Christopher Moeller
- Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
- Zuckerman Unbound by Philip Roth
- Ruse: Enter the Detective by Mark Waid
- The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
- Astro City: Confessions by Kurt Busiek
- Top 10: Book 1 by Alan Moore
- Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
- The Scar by China Mieville
- The Mighty Thor: Godstorm by Kurt Busiek
- The Archer's Tale by Bernard Cornwell
- The New Wave Fabulists by various authors
- Astro City: Family Album by Kurt Busiek
- Tales of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Native Heart by Gabriel Horn (White Deer of Autumn)
- The Tain by China Mieville
- The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
- Yukon Ho! by Bill Watterson
- Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
- A Small Killing by Alan Moore
- Cities: The Very Best of Fantasy Comes to Town
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Marvels by Kurt Busiek
- Chapterhouse Dune by Frank Herbert
- God Stalk by P.C. Hodgell
- The Gift by Patrick O'Leary
- Dork Covenant: Collected Dork Tower Vol 1 by John Kovalic
- Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
- Astro City: The Tarnished Angel by Kurt Busiek
- Unearthed Arcana (D&D D20) by Andy Collins
- Replay by Ken Grimwood
- Supreme: Story of the Year
- The Monster of the Prophecy by Clarke Ashton Smith
- Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
- The Cipher by Kathe Koja
- Fluke by Christopher Moore
- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
- JLA: Riddle of the Beast by Alan Grant
- Lolita by Nabokov
- So Long and Thanks for all the Fish by Douglas Adams
- Dave Barry is Not Taking this Sitting Down by Dave Barry
- Metalheads: Heavy Metal Music and Adolescent Alienation by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
- Kingdom Come by Mark Waid and Alex Ross
- The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Looks like 2004 may be the year of the graphic novel. I've found that many libraries are starting to carry graphic novels now, so their prohibative price won't keep me from reading them. Unfortunately they are often in the young-adult section so they don't have the darker stuff that I seem to enjoy.
It will also be the year of DUNE, because I finally found (and finished) _Heretics of Dune_ on tape unabridged and my local library has _Chapterhouse Dune_ (also finished) and ALL of the prequels.
Chapterhouse was good and the end of an era! I wanted it to be a deep moment, being the last words ever written about Dune by Herbert himself. It was. He had a very touching dedication to his dead wife.
Just ordered _House Atriedes_ from the library.
How was Oryx and Crake? I'm curious about it but haven't picked up a copy yet.
I loved the Scar. It did take awhile though. Did you read the other Mieville books also?
Oryx and Crake was GREAT!!! I loved it, maybe even better than _The Handmaid's Tale_. It was pretty dark stuff but very modern, Atwood's a hip dame for her age.
_Perdido Street Station_ took over as my favorite book of all time last year. It was absolutely incredible. _The Scar_ is really falling behind but it's still pretty good.
What did you think of Replay by Ken Grimwood?
(I read it last year)
Sorry about the late reply. I absolutely loved it! Very cool, I'd have to put it in my top 20 books of all time. I love the use of a fantastic idea to teach a very mundane lesson about life.
He definitely hit something because I think almost anyone you ask, at one time or another, has said, "What would I do differently if I could do it all again?" or "What would I do if I was suddenly rich?".
It's unfortunate that most of the reviews I read of Grimwood's other books have said they didn't match up.