sixtyfoothigh's reading log.

[sixtyfoothigh]

Hi new here! *waves*

 

I've been keeping a log of my reading since 2008.

 

I just tried to post it but as I've got my personal log formatted to contain links it won't let me until I have 10 posts. I don't want to re-format it so I will post it later.

 

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[sixtyfoothigh]

This is my 2008 list:

 

1) Zed by Elizabeth McClung.

2) A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil by Christopher Brookmyre.

3) My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult.

4) The Zahir by Paulo Coelho.

5) The Colour Purple by Alice Walker.

6) The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood.

7) The Winter Rose by Jennifer Donnelly.

8) We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver.

9) The Sweet Smell of Psychosis by Will Self.

10) The Shining by Stephen King

11) A Partisans Daughter by Louis de Berniere.

12) A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

13) All Quiet on the Orient Express by Magnus Mills.

14) Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame.

15) Jonathon Livingstone Seagull: A Story by Richard Bach.

16) The Diving-Bell and The Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby.

17) Explorers of the New Century by Magnus Mills.

18) Inconceivable by Ben Elton.

19) Men At Arms by Terry Pratchett.

20) The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides.

21) Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood.

22) Red Dragon by Thomas Harris.

23) The Silence of The Lambs by Thomas Harris.

24) Wild Magic by Cat Weatherill.

25) The Crucible by Arthur Miller.

26) Hannibal by Thomas Harris.

27) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.

28) The Fatal Eggs by Mikhail Bulgakov.

29) Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks.

30) Sickened by Julie Gregory.

31) The Nightwatch by Sergei Lukyanenko.

32) The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards.

33) Wasted by Mark Johnson.

34) Boy A by Jonathan Trigell.

35) The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera.

36) Superior Saturday by Garth Nix.

37) Making Money by Terry Pratchett.

38) The Dark Reign of Gothic Rock: In The Reptile House with The Sisters of Mercy, Bauhaus and The Cure By Dave Thompson.

39) The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.

40) We by Yevgeny Zamyatin.

41) Nation by Terry Pratchett.

42) The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho.

43) Concertina - The Lifes and Loves of a Dominatrix by Susan Winemaker.

44) Bod's Way: The Meaning of Life by Alison Cole.

45) Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.

46) Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.

47) The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett.

48) The Naked Women by Desmond Morris.

49) Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks.

50) Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.

 

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[sixtyfoothigh]

I'm now into book 10 of 2009. So far:

 

1) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling.

]2) The World of Karl Pilkington by Karl Pilkington, Steve Merchant and Ricky Gervais.

3) World War Z by Max Brooks. My brother gave me this for Christmas.

4) Ten Thousand Sorrows by Elizabeth Kim.

5) The Day Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko.

6) Soul Music by Terry Pratchett.

7) Engleby by Sebastian Faulks.

8) Blast From The Past by Ben Elton.

9) Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh.

 

I'll post my notes on these books over the next few weeks and also keep posting as I read more.

 

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Edited March 15, 2009 by sixtyfoothigh

[~Andrea~]

Hi SFH.

 

You read a good selection of books last year! Lots of books there I would like to read. What did you think of The Virgin Suicides? I have to say I was a little disappointed with it.

 

I loved HP and Deathly Hallows. What did you think?

[sixtyfoothigh]

I was surprised at how much The Virgin Suicides made me laugh... given the subject matter (I'd seen the film, so knew the plot) I didn't expect it to be a funny book. I remember crying at the end, but I finished reading it in bed on a Sunday, when I had a bit of a hangover - so the tears might have been more related to the hormonal rollercoaster that accompanies my hangovers. I think I was expecting it to be better... I did really enjoy the writing style and the fact it was first person plural made it a novel (haha) book to read.

 

I have to admit though, I think I like the movie more... I love Air and Kirsten Dunst.

 

I'm a sucker for HP books... I really enjoyed everything about Deathly Hallows, except the ending. It read like bad fan fic. Though obviously it was nice to know what happened.

 

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[Ben]

No matter what JK put as the ending, not everyone would have been happy, ever.

[sixtyfoothigh]

I guess not... though, on a purely selfish note, I wish she's written it so *I* would be happy. lol. It wasn't so much the content of the ending either, it was the writing style. I think I read in an inteview that she'd had that ending written ever since the first book. So maybe it was just that she evolved as a writer during the series and that's why the epilogue felt... less developed(?) and fanficky. (Win for the made up word.)

 

It's not important really. I still re-read it in January. (And I did stay up all night and read it the night it was published.)

 

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[sixtyfoothigh]

I finished reading Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh this morning. I liked it a lot although I found the narration a bit confusing in places. It made me think a bit of the play An Inspector Calls and the movie The Cats Meow - different reasons for each, I think partly the language used in the latter and partly the characters attitudes in the former. It also made me think about my friends and my rather hedonistic clubbing lifestyle... how shy-making.

 

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