I've Read
Submitted by evildonut on Wed, 08/25/2004 - 10:16
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- Memoirs of a Geisha
- The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass - series
- Breakfast of Champions - Vonnegut - still totally bizarre, yet captivating.
- The Feminine Mistake (Leslie Bennett) - Every woman should read this and should maintain her financial independence
- The Omnivore's Dilemma - really makes you wonder about your food
- Snake Hips - Anne Thomas Soffee
- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - Not nearly as yayhoo as I initially imagined. Pretty decent, in fact.
- Bare Bones (Kathy Reichs) - CSI-type novel. Easy read, fairly compelling. Fluff, in general.
- Fast Food Nation (Eric Schlosser) - I have no desire to eat at McDonald's or any fast food place ever again, except those fries do taste freakin' good. After reading this, though, I will avoid these guys as much as I possibly can.
- Hell to Pay - George P. Pelecanos (excellent thriller set in DC)
- Maximum Bob - Elmore Leonard
- Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich
- Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon - Stephenson
- Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Speaker for the Dead - Card
- Most of the Stardoc series - Viehl
- Microserfs, Shampoo Planet, Generation X, Miss Wyoming - Coupland
- Behaving Like Adults, Getting Over It, Running In Heels - Maxted
- Bridget Jones' Diary and The Edge of Reason - Fielding
- Bourne Identity, Bourne Supremacy, Bourne Ultimatum (Robert Ludlum) - I read these in high school in the 90's. Excellent spy novels. Much better than the first movie at least. Haven't seen the second, but my overall is that the book's story is much more intricate (duh) and more involved, delving more deeply into the characters and making them more than just action stars. Movie's not bad for an action thriller, though. Just usually weird to see what you imagined brought to life in a different way. Luckily, they make the characters much younger in the movie, so I have no trouble separating the two...
- Lucky - Alice Sebold. Moving.
- Horatio's Drive - Dayton Duncan (audio book). Another fun travel story.
- Bushwhacked - Molly Ivins (audio book). Trying to figure out what/who I believe in politics.
- The New Thought Police : Inside the Left's Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds - Tammy Bruce and Laura Schlessinger. More on my continuing struggle to figure out what sorts of politics I agree with/care about.
- Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain - Michael Paterniti. Good travel story, if odd.
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams. This and the others. Classic.
- I Hate the Dallas Cowboys, and Who Made Them America's Team, Anyway? - Bert Sugar, ed. Great collection of essays for non-Cowboys fans
- War Torn - John Marks: set in Bosnian conflict of the mid-90s, affair of American journalist and married Yugoslav mother of missing child. Wow, that's a really inadequate description of a great story.
- The Punch and A Civil War- Feinstein: One of my favorite sports writers
- Chump Change - decent Gen x slacker novel set in NYC
- Bringing Down the House - Ben Mezrich. Story of 6 MIT students who won millions in Vegas. I performed an impromptu "dramatic reading" of this while waiting for the Metro one evening when my friends were on the other platform and wondered what I was reading.
- Electroboy : A Memoir of Mania - Andy Behrman
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks
- The Eye of the Tiger - Tom Clancy
- Polaroids from the Dead - Douglas Coupland - bought this at Borders or some such deep-discount table circa 1998 and finally got around to reading it after hauling it cross-country several times as I moved. Great look at the early 90's, a time when I was in high school. I wonder if I would have enjoyed it so much had I read it when it came out in 1995. Probably, as I do love Coupland.
- Franny and Zooey - J. D. Salinger
- The Janson Directive - Robert Ludlum - probably as good as his Bourne trilogy. Loved it.
- The Seven Daughters of Eve - Bryan Sykes - about our genetic ancestry traced through our mothers' DNA. very good.
- Empire Falls - Richard Russo - very good story of a small town and its residents, ruled by the moneyed family.
- Cannery Row - Steinbeck. Great writing about a fun, colorful time and place in American history.
- Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy - normally I'm a fan, but this just devolved into all about the war and it got uninteresting with about 300 pages left.
- Sum of All Fears - Clancy - ok, this was better, but have I lost my love of Clancy? I got fed up with the details about 100 pages from the end.
- The Notebook - Sparks. Sweet as well as suspenseful. Does a very good job of not giving away the ending.
- The Darwin Awards vol. 3
These are things I've liked or not had (m)any complaints about, at least