Books Read in 2005
- Top 10 Book 2 by Alan Moore
- Dune: House Atriedes by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
- The Iron Council by China Mieville
- Men and Cartoons by Jonathan Lethem
- Slaughtermatic by Steve Aylett
- Ruse 2: The Silent Partner by Mark Waid
- Judgement Day by Alan Moore
- Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian (gave up on this one about 3/4ths of the way in).
- Kalpa Imperial by Angelica Gorodischer
- In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman
- The Fat Girl's Guide to Life by Wendy Shanker
- Dune: House Harkonnen by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
- Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
- Drachenfels by Jack Yeovil
- The Leprachuan's Kingdom by Peter Haining
- The Complete Adventurer (D&D) by Jesse Decker
- Dune: The Butlerian Jihad by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
- The Complete Divine(D&D) by David Noonan
- The Complete Arcane(D&D) by Richard Baker
- The Complete Warrior(D&D) by Andy Collins, David Noonan, Ed Stark
- A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
- Double Star by Robert Heinlien
- The Futurological Congress by Stainslaw Lem
- Otherness by David Brin
- Birthright: The Book of Man by Mike Resnick
- Dungeon Master's Guide II (D&D)by Decker, Noonan, Thomasson, Jacobs, and Laws
- Conversations About the End of Time by Umberto Eco, Stephen Jay Gould, Jean-Claude Carriere, and Jean Delumeau
- Monster Mythology (2nd Ed)(D&D) by Carl Sargent
- Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
- The Magister(D&D) by Ed Greenwood and Steve Perrin.
- Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
- The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell
- The White Rose by Glen Cook
- Post Secret by Frank Warren
- Great Work of Time John Crowley
- Travelig Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott
- The Curse of Chalion by Lois Mcmaster Bujold
I was very happy to notice that my downward trend in number of books read for the year has finally turned around. In 2004 I was up 9 titles from 2003. So I'm hoping to increase that by another 9 this year.
Well those dreams were crushed by a video game addiction. I can't even make it through short stories anymore because I'm so tired from staying up playing City of Heroes. The addiction is almost over though. I'm ending my subscription in the end of June.
That ended but then I started playin World of Warcraft. But that ended about a month ago and I'm a free man again.
I have started adding D&D books to this list because they are "books" and I have read them. I read them from cover to cover and I usually take notes on what to use and what not to use. So I figure they count since I spend a significant amount of time reading them.
How was Men and Cartoons? I am interested in Lethem's Fortress of Solitude also...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
It was good. Not at all like his _Gun with Occasional Music_ (which was great in a different way). This was more subtle. More about people and how strange they can be. It was absurdist at times and really just normal fiction at times. So if that's what you're into give it a try.
Interesting. Thanks. My interest was sparked more by the generally good critical reception for the books than by anything I read about the books themselves. We'll see if I follow up on my curiousity...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
What'd you think of Slaughtermatic? It's the only book of his I've read, and I never quite worked out if I liked it or not.
I think it was good but if it was any longer it would have been bad. It was like an experiment in style that was cool and new but would have been really irritating at 200 pages or more. Here's what I wrote on the Delpi discussion boards.
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It was kind of Tarantino does action, William Gibson does ideas/tech and William S. Burroughs does the writing with a bit more modern hipness. It's short so it was worth it.