Read in 2005
Submitted by kbuxton on Thu, 01/06/2005 - 07:01
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- 1-5 The Book Lover's Book by Linda J. Kirk
- 1-6 The Tooth Fairy by Graham Joyce
- 1-10 The Coming Anarchy by Robert D. Kaplan
- 1-12 The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore
- 1-16 Little Green Men by Christopher Buckley
- 1-22 Nine Hundred Grandmothers by R.A. Lafferty
- 1-24 The Soloist by Mark Salzman
- 1-26 Night Prayers by P.D. Cacek
- 1-28 OM Yoga by Cyndi Lee
- 1-28 Killing the Mockingbird by Dennis McBride
- 2-2 Dance for Two by Alan Lightman
- 2-3 Paint Your Drago by Tom Holt
- 2-14 Lord Kelvin's Machine by James Blaylock
- 2-15 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Improve Your Personal Finances by Ilyce R. Glink
- 2-16 In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman
- 2-17 Rent Girl by Michelle Tea
- 2-19 The History of Luminous Motion by Scott Bradfield
- 2-25 Dark Cities Underground by Lisa Goldstein
- 2-27 Book Lust by Nancy Pearl
- 2-27 The Search by Naguib Mahfouz
- 2-28 Song of Susannah by Stephen King
- 3-2 The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
- 3-6 The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
- 3-7 The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
- 3-13 The Bookman's Promise by John Dunning
- 3-16 The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett
- 3-18 Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
- 3-20 The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis
- 3-22 Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam
- 3-25 Lost in Place by Mark Salzman
- 3-28 A Place so Foreign by Cory Doctorow
- 4-2 The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
- 4-4 War Trash by Ha Jin
- 4-9 Someplace to be Flying by Charles de Lint
- 4-10 The Deeper Meaning of Liff Douglas Adams and John Lloyd
- 4-11 Affluenza John De Graaf, David Wann & Thomas H. Naylor
- 4-12 Remake by Connie Willis
- 4-17 Open Sesame by Tom Holt
- 4-19 A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
- 4-21 A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
- 4-24 Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
- 4-24 Monkey Brain Sushi edited by Alfred Birnbaum
- 4-26 A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
- 5-4 Secret Harmonies by Paul J. McAuley
- 5-7 Shike: Time of the Dragons by Robert Shea
- 5-9 Shike: Last of the Zinja by Robert Shea
- 5-18 Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey
- 5-24 Mortals by Norman Rush
- 5-25 Wrong About Japan by Peter Carey
- 5-26 Gaviotas by Alan Weisman
- 5-27 Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
- 5-29 The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
- 5-30 After the Plague by T.C. Boyle
- 6-1 Overtime by Tom Holt
- 6-2 Why We Buy by Paco Underhill
- 6-3 Lying Awake by Mark Salzman
- 6-3 Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
- 6-6 The Saracen: Land of the Infidel by Robert Shea
- 6-8 The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
- 6-9 The Saracen: The Holy War by Robert Shea
- 6-13 Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
- 6-14 Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
- 6-18 The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
- 6-20 The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany
- 6-24 The Cat's Pajamas by James Morrow
- 7-2 Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
- 7-3 Cities edited by John McGreevy
- 7-11 A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
- 7-16 The Promise by Chaim Potok
- 7-19 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
- 7-20 Excession by Iain M. Banks
- 7-23 The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry
- 7-24 Lincoln's Dreams by Connie Willis
- 7-26 Grailblazers by Tom Holt
- 7-27 The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
- 7-31 Pashazade by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
- 7-31 Black Widow: Homecoming by Richard K. Morgan
- 8-2 More Book Lust by Nancy Pearl
- 8-10 River Town by Peter Hessler
- 8-13 The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
- 8-18 A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- 8-21 The Coyote Kings and the Space-Age Bachelor Pad by Minister Faust
- 8-23 Isaac Newton by James Gleick
- 8-23 A Song to Sing, A Life to Live by Don and Emily Saliers
- 8-26 The Televisionary Oracle by Rob Brezsny
- 8-28 The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
- 8-29 Newcomer's Handbook for Seattle by Monica Fischer and Amy Bellamy
- 8-31 The Gentle Powers by Stella Gibbons
- 9-4 Amazons by Cleo Birdwell
- 9-5 The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
- 9-11 Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow
- 9-13 In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
- 9-14 Palestine by Joe Sacco
- 9-22 Epileptic by David B.
- 9-25 Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
- 9-27 Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad
- 9-28 Thud! by Terry Pratchett
- 10-2 Borges and the Eternal Orangutans by Luis Fernando Verissimo
- 10-4 Looking for Jake by China Mieville
- 10-6 Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
- 10-9 Thought Contagion by Aaron Lynch
- 10-10 Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde
- 10-10 Library: The Drama Within by Diane Asseo Griliches
- 10-13 Glass Soup by Jonathan Carroll
- 10-14 The Devils in the Details by Tim Powers and James Blaylock
- 10-15 Overheard at the Bookstore by Judith Henry
- 10-17 Wild Ducks Flying Backward by Tom Robbins
- 10-22 Soldiers of God by Rober D. Kaplan
- 10-24 Scrolling Forward by David M. Levy
- 10-24 Brittle Innings by Michael Bishop
- 10-27 Ambient Findability by Peter Morville
- 10-28 All Things are Lights by Robert Shea
- 11-01 Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen
- 11-06 Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood
- 11-10 An Alien Light by Nancy Kress
- 11-12 Have Spacesuit -- Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein
- 11-13 Paul Moves Out by Rabagliati, Michel
- 11-15 Balkan Ghosts by Robert D. Kaplan
- 11-17 Columbus in the Americas by William Least Heat Moon
- 11-21 The River at the Center of the World by Simon Winchester
- 11-23 The Alchemist's Door by Lisa Goldstein
- 11-25 The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
- 11-26 Cultural Literacy by E.D. Hirsch, jr.
- 12-2 The Dark Tower by Stephen King
- 12-3 Brothers in Arms by Lois McMaster Bujold
- 12-7 A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
- 12-8 Forsake the Sky by Tim Powers
- 12-10 An Insider's Guide to Robert Anton Wilson by Eric Wagner
- 12-13 The Zenith Angle by Bruce Sterling
- 12-14 Brothel by Alexa Albert
- 12-19 Synners by Pat Cadigan
- 12-22 An Empire Wilderness by Robert Kaplan
- 12-24 Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
- 12-28 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
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Any favorites so far?
I've basically liked them all, but in different ways.
The Tooth Fairy is good dark fantasy.
The Stupidest Angel is really weird humorous semi-fantasy and is very good, but not his best.
Little Green Men was funny, but not as much so as The Stupidest Angel.
Nine Hundred Grandmothers is a bunch of odd but good SF stories. I'm not entirely partial to short stories though.
The Soloist was a quick but enjoyable read.
What did you think of The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman, and the rest of the trilogy? I am about to start reading it (tomorrow on the train to London), although it will take me somewhat longer than three or four days it took you. It was voted Britain's second-favourite ever novel in a recent BBC poll.
Fabulous stuff.
I'm not familiar with The Coming Anarchy; is this a novel, or a jeremiad of some sort? What did you think of it?
Johnny Waco
It's a short series of essays about the current state of the world and how it got that way. It wasn't bad, but liked his book The Ends of the Earth better.
how do you people read a book every 2 or 3 days... i don't think i could read a whole book if i read for 24 hours straight... do you guys speed read or is that all you do all day?
I just read fast, but it's not really speed reading per se. I generally read a bit before bed every night, which sometimes means I don't sleep much.
What did you think of Earth Abides by George R. Stewart ? It is one of my favourite sci-fi books.
Also, what did you think of Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse ? I've read a lot of Hesse's novels, but that is not one of my favourites.
I read The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany many years ago (the 1970s) but I don't remember much about it. H.P.Lovecraft quoted him as an influence.
Earth Abides was good, though I've probably read too many books that came after it in the sub-genre to have it be one of my favorites.
Siddhartha was ok, but I think I read it at the wrong time of my life.
The King of Elfland's Daughter was ok, but the writing style wasn't my favorite..
What exactly are the "Book Lust" books like? From descriptions so far, I thought they were just reccomendations.
They are just recommendations, but fairly interesting ones. It's a series of them on various themes. There might be a short essay with recommendations from a specific author. The next might be a list of good books for kids. Some are lists on specific topics, others lists of books that have been neglected.
Any favorite nonfiction? What did you think of Freakonomics?
I liked Freakonomics.
My favorites of the nonfiction are probably
Robert Kaplan's The Coming Anarchy
Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone
Peter Hessler's River Town
Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States
Simon Winchester's The River at the Center of the World