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BOOKS READ IN 2008
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
2. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
3. The Memory of Whiteness by Kim Stanley Robinson
4. Time Enough For Love by Robert Heinlein
5. Making Money by Terry Pratchett
6. Steel Beach by John Varley
7. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
8. Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
9. The Fabulous Riverboat by Philip Jose Farmer
10. Temeraire by Naomi Novik
11. Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert Heinlein
12. The Dark Design by Philip Jose Farmer
13. Road Story by Julienne van Loon
14. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
15. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
16. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
17. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
18. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
19. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
20. Watership Down by Richard Adams
21. The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick
22. Once Upon a Time in the North by Philip Pullman
23. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
24. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
25. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
26. The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
27. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
28. Neuromancer by William Gibson
29. The Magic Labyrinth by Philip Jose Farmer
30. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
31. Down Under by Bill Bryson
32. The Torrents of Spring by Ernest Hemingway
33. City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer
34. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
35. The Barbie Murders by John Varley
36. Flight (Volume One) by Kazu Kibuishi
37. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
38. The General In His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
39. On The Road by Jack Kerouac
40. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
41. World War Z by Max Brooks
42. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
43. Alive by Piers Paul Read
44. The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
45. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
46. Nation by Terry Pratchett
47. Following The Equator: Volume I by Mark Twain
48. Following The Equator: Volume II by Mark Twain
49. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
50. The Odyssey by Homer

BOOKS READ IN 2009
1. Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson
2. The Langoliers by Stephen King
3. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
4. A Passage To India by E.M. Forster
5. The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
6. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
7. Kafka On The Shore by Haruki Murakami
8. The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
9. Typee by Herman Melville
10. The First 49 Stories by Ernest Hemingway
11. Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
12. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
13. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
14. The Court of the Air by Stephen Hunt
15. Inverted World by Christopher Priest
16. Fugue For A Darkening Island by Christopher Priest
17. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
18. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
19. Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates Of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
20. The Dark Tower Volume I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King
21. Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
22. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
23. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
24. The Starry Rift by Jonathan Strahan
25. The Dark Tower Volume II: The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King

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Hey, very good review of House of Leaves. I've been tempted to pick it up, but can't tell if it is all too cute for its own good.

One thing in your review: In the sentence: "His notes are discovered and punished by California deadbeat Johnny Truant" I think you meant published?

posted by jseger9000 at 7:37 pm (EST) on Aug 14, 2009

my collection told me ur lame. just like ur book collection is lame.

i was thoroughly disapointed with it the one time i looked at them all in ur room. but u definately didnt have this many book s that u have on here. not on the shelf anyways...

posted by leelistreet at 3:05 pm (EST) on Jun 11, 2009

pffft whatever haha. some of those items are a whole series listed as one thing aswell.
besides, they're the ones that i OWN and have read. iv read multiple others... i just havent bought them haha.

well I love my collection.

posted by leelistreet at 1:50 pm (EST) on Jun 7, 2009

Ah, edgeworth, don't be repulsed by Murakami before reading "Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World." This is very different stuff from "Kafka," deeper, with interweaving strands of narrative that each grow stronger because of the other. And it's more straightforward, plotwise, in its (exceedingly) unorthodox way.

You won't regret it!

posted by LukeS at 2:31 pm (EST) on Mar 19, 2009

Edgeworth,

VERY nice job reviewing and appreciating "Cloud Atlas." You captured its essence exactly, and praise it, appropriately, to the skies.

posted by LukeS at 2:25 pm (EST) on Mar 19, 2009

I howled when I read your reviews on the Riverworld series. I have to admit that it beat me. It won.
I loved the idea, I loved the first book, and gave the series up cold at least 4 or 5 times. I may pick it up again just so I can have a t-shirt made. "I survived Riverworld."

posted by aaaviku at 3:12 pm (EST) on Jan 12, 2009

Hi there - replying to your question about what I found emotion in the subway scene in 'The Curious Incident with the Dog in the Night-Time". I guess I reacted the way I did because I have a family member with a similar condition. So it hit me when he was trapped in the subway....... everytime a car came, he wanted so much to get on, but then it came and he was overwhelmed and shut down. For hours and hours. The growing frustrating and anxiety and panic and exhaustion of that scene really got to me. I could easily imagine the person I love going through that, I empathized. It really got to me.

posted by ptzop at 10:30 pm (EST) on Dec 9, 2008

Are you truly only 19? Enjoyed your reviews. You should read The Sheltering Sky again in 20 years, though, I think by then you'd enjoy it.

Adios
EF

posted by EnriqueFreeque at 2:36 am (EST) on Nov 30, 2008

Sounds like another sci-fi series I read one time it was at least ten books I kept on reading it in the vain hope that it would get better. Alas it never did, it was horrific from the beginning to the bitter end. For the life of me I can't remember what the series was called though I suppose it's just my brain saving me the horror of reliving those awful books again.

posted by Whispering at 11:57 pm (EST) on Nov 9, 2008

Nice reviews very insightful thanks for saving me the pain of reading the Riverworld's saga.

posted by Whispering at 4:29 am (EST) on Nov 8, 2008

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