Books Read in 2008

CSL · Post by **CSL** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 9:41 pm

Read

January

Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama
Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World by Colin Wells
Second to None: The Fighting 58th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force by Kevin R. Shackleton
Grant and Sherman: The Friendship that Won the Civil War by Charles Bracelen Flood
Welfare Reform in the Early Republic: A Brief History with Documents by Seth Rockman
The Peninsular War, 1807-1814 by Michael Glover
Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 by Catherine Merridale
The Mexican War by Otis A. Singletary
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 by Robert Middlekauff
The Era of Streetcars in Winnipeg, 1881 to 1955 by Herbert W. Blake
Broadsides: The Age of Fighting Sail, 1775-1815 by Nathan Miller

February
Que vivan los tamales!: Food and the Making of Mexican Identity by Jeffrey Pilcher
The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis
Baltimore & The Nineteenth of April 1861: A Study of the War by George William Brown
House to House: An Epic Memoir of War by David Bellavia
The Civil War Reader 1862 by James M. McPherson, Stephen W. Sears, and various others
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War by Edwin C. Bearss
The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction by Linda Gordon
Soldaderas in the Mexican Military: Myth and History by Elizabeth Salas
The Civil War by Bruce Catton

March

Turner: Art and Ideas by Barry Venning
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Short Stories by Stephen Crane
True Tales From Another Mexico: The Lynch Mob, the Popsicle Kings, Chalino, and the Bronx by Sam Quinones
Victoria's Wars: The Rise of Empire by Saul David
Verdun 1916 by Malcolm Brown

April

Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border by Luis Alberto Urrea
Understanding Canadian Defence by Desmond Morton
1916: The Easter Rising by Tim Pat Coogan
Warfare in the Age of Bonaparte by Michael Glover
The Railway Age by Michael Robbins
Montgomery: D-Day Commander by Nigel Hamilton
Wellington: The Iron Duke by Philip J. Haythornthwaite
Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton by Martin van Creveld
Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah by Tom Chaffin
Haig: The Evolution of a Commander by Andrew Wiest
Somme: The Heroism and Horror of War by Martin Gilbert

May

Lincoln and the Russians by Albert A. Woldman
Roman Warfare by Adrian Goldsworthy
The Second World War, vol. 1: The Gathering Storm by Winston S. Churchill
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Second World War, vol. 2: Their Finest Hour by Winston S. Churchill
The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265-146 BC by Adrian Goldsworthy
In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire by Adrian Goldworthy

June

1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and The Clash of Island and The West by Roger Crowley
Caesar: Life of a Colossus by Adrian Goldsworthy
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
Treat 'Em Rough!: The Birth of American Armor, 1917-20 by Dale E. Wilson
Hindenburg: Icon of German Militarism by Dennis Showalter and William J. Astore
Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War by Robert Doughty

Reading

Queued

Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam by Stephen W. Sears
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Visions of Glory 1874-1932 by William Manchester
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Alone 1932-1940 by William Manchester
Citizens by Simon Schama
The First World War: Volume 1: To Arms by Hew Strachan
The National Dream & The Last Spike by Pierre Burton
Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917 by Laura M. MacDonald
V Was For Victory: Politics and American Culture During World War II by John Morton Blum
With Snow on their Boots: The Tragic Odyssey of the Russian Expeditionary Force in France During World War I by Jamie H. Cockfield
Saddam: His Rise and Fall by Con Coughlin
Nelson's Purse: The Mystery of Lord Nelson's Lost Treasures by Martyn Downer
The Commandos at Dieppe: Rehearsal for D-Day by William Fowler
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Claudius the God by Robert Graves
A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front by Winston Groom
Wellington: The Years of the Sword by Elizabeth Longford
Harry and Ike: The Partnership That Remade the Postwar World by Steve Neal
Back to the Front: An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War 1 by Stephen O'Shea
The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer
Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer
Cook : The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook by Nicholas Thomas
Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie

Finished: 51

Completed in 2007: 67
Completed in 2006: 50
Completed in 2005: ~40

Grundbegriff · Post by **Grundbegriff** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 9:49 pm

I don't know why I sign up for this, when I've never stuck to it. I loathe trivial little bookkeeping tasks, and this one always falls off my To Do list pretty quickly.

Still, it wouldn't be any fun to enter the new year without resolutions, eh?

January
Read

Reading
Mick Brown, Tearing Down the Wall of Sound
G. K. Beale, et al., Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament

khomotso · Post by **khomotso** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 9:53 pm

Read

Cormac McCarthy's The Road.

Reading

Michael Chabon's Gentlemen of the Road

Queued

Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 9:54 pm

Read
January
"Guns, Germs & Steel" by Jared Diamond
"War Party" by Louis L'Amour
"Legends of the Fall", "Revenge" and "The Man Who Gave Up His Name" by Jim Harrison
"Shadow of the Giant" by Orson Scott Card
"Going Back to Bisbee" by Richard Shelton
"Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

February
"Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett
"Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
"The God Gene" by Dean Hamer
"Sock" by Penn Jillette
"The Good Guy" by Dean Koontz
"The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson
"The Sound and The Fury" by William Faulkner

March
"World Without End" by Ken Follett
"The Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas
"Fallen Founder - The Life of Aaron Burr" by Nancy Isenberg

April
“These is My Words” by Nancy Turner
“Westward the Tide” by Louis L’Amour
“The Stainless Steel Rat” by Harry Harrison
“The Stainless Steel Rat’s Revenge” by Harry Harrison
“The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World” by Harry Harrison

May
“Duma Key” by Stephen King
“The Stainless Steel Rat is Born” by Harry Harrison
“The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted” by Harry Harrison
“The Stainless Steel Rat Sings The Blues” by Harry Harrison
“The Thirteenth Tale” by Diane Setterfield
“Freethinkers” by Susan Jacoby
“Mostly Harmless” by Douglas Adams

June
“After Long Silence” by Helen Fremont
“Stationary Bike” by Stephen King
“Pastwatch” by Orson Scott Card
"The Mind of the Market" by Michael Shermer
"Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt
"Lisey's Story" by Stephen King

July
“Revolt in 2100” by Robert Heinlein
"Methuselah's Children" by Robert Heinlein
“Tales From Margaritaville” by Jimmy Buffett
“Mike Nelson’s Movie Megacheese” by Mike J. Nelson
"The Joke" by Milan Kundera
"Memory Keeper's Daughter" by Kim Edwards
"The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril" by Paul Malmont

August
“The Black Swan” by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“From The Corner of His Eye” by Dean Koontz
“The Testament” by John Grisham
"Tweak - Growing Up On Methamphetamines" by Nic Sheff
“The 4-Hour Workweek” by Timothy Ferriss
“Troublesome Young Men” by Lynne Olson

September
“Prey” by Michael Crichton
“Running the Table – Legend of Kid Delicious” by L. Jon Wertheim
“Sole Survivor” by Dean Koontz
“The Korean War” by Max Hastings
“The Rant Zone” by Dennis Miller
“The World of Atlas Shrugged” by TOC
“Thermopylae” by Paul Cartledge
“Cryptonomicon” by Neal Stephenson

October
"Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
"The Confusion" by Neal Stephenson
“Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep?” by Philip K Dick

November
“Bleachers” by John Grisham
“The Power of One” by Bryce Courtney
"The Substance of Style" by Virginia Postrel
“The Story of B” by Daniel Quinn

December
"Retribution" by Max Hastings
“The System of the World” by Neal Stephenson
“I Am Legend” by Richard Matheson

2007

B Dog · Post by **B Dog** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 9:58 pm

Read
Anathem - Neal Stephenson
Baseball: A History of America's Favorite Game - George Vecsey
Black Hole - Charles Burns
Bone: One Volume Edition - Jeff Smith
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life - Steve Martin
Crooked Little Vein - Warren Ellis
D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II - Stephen Ambrose
Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Jeff Kinney
Fantasyland: A Season on Baseball's Lunatic Fringe - Sam Walker
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
Hardcore Zen - Punk Rock, Monster Movies & the Truth about Reality - Brad Warner
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
I Am America (And So Can You!) - Stephen Colbert
The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan
One Christmas in Washington - David Bercuson & Holger Herwig
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. - Robert Coover
Wishful Drinking - Carrie Fisher
World Without End - Ken Follett

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 9:59 pm

JonathanStrange · Post by **JonathanStrange** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 10:41 pm

JANUARY
Hamlet* Wm. Shakespeare
Macbeth* Wm. Shakespeare
Hamlet Poem Unlimited Harold Bloom
Thomas Paine's Right of Man (Books That Changed the World titles) Christopher Hitchens
Off Armageddon Reef* David Weber
Space Boy Orson Scott Card
Freedomnomics Why The Free Market Works & Other Half-Baked Theories Don't John R. Lott
King's Gambit A Son, a Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game Paul Hoffman
Eternals A Graphic Novel Neil Gaiman
Day of Empire How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance and Why They Fall Amy Chua
The Rejection Collection Vol. 2 MORE Cartoons You've Never Seen, and Never Will See, in the New Yorker M. Diffee
Double Cross* (Alex Cross Series) James Patterson
The Darkest Evening of the Year Dean Koontz
The War of the Rats A Novel of Stalingrad* David L. Robbins
Slan Hunter A Science Fiction Novel A.E. Van Vogt
Crisis, Pursued by Disaster, Followed Closely by Catastrophe A Memoir of Life on the Run Mike O'Connor

FEBRUARY
A Midsummer's Night's Dream* Wm. Shakespeare
Religion of Peace? Why Christianity Is And Islam Isn't Robert Spencer
What Went Wrong?*Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response Bernard Lewis
The Suicide of Reason Radical Islam's Threat to the West Lee Harris
The Truth About History How New Evidence is Transforming the Story of the Past Reader's Digest Association
Slaves of the Shinar An Epic Fantasy of the Ancient World Justin Allen
The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Chronicles Series #1)* Bernard Cornwell
The Pale Horseman (The Saxon Chronicles Series #2)* Bernard Cornwell
Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain! Scott Adams (The Dilbert Guy)
Fleet of Worlds 200 Years Before the Discovery of the Ringworld Larry Niven
Day of Reckoning How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed Are Tearing America Apart Patrick J. Buchanan
Another Bullshit Night In Suck City: A Memoir Nick Flynn
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince* (Book 6) J. K. Rowling
The Center Cannot Hold My Journey Through Madness Elyn R. Saks

MARCH
Othello* Wm. Shakespeare
Henry V* Wm. Shakespeare
A World Undone The Story of the Great War 1914 to 1918 G. J. Meyer
Shadow Warriors The Untold Story of Traitors, Saboteurs, and the Party of Surrender Kenneth Timmerman
The Economic Naturalist In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas Robert H. Frank
Lords of the North (The Saxon Chronicles Series #3)* Bernard Cornwell

APRIL
Sword Song (The Saxon Chronicles Series #4) Bernard Cornwell
The Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5)* J.K. Rowling
Courageous:The Lost Fleet, Book 3Jack Campbell
Emperor Time's Tapestry Stephen Baxter
House to House An Epic Memoir of War in Iraq David Bellavia
Gangleader For A Day A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets Venkatesh, Sudhir
A Way With Words II: Approaches to Literature*Drout, Michael
Roma The Novel of Ancient Rome*Saylor, Steve

MAY
The Canterbury Tales* Chaucer, Geoffrey
Duma Key King, Stephen
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7)* Rowling, J.K.
Matter A Culture Novel Banks, Iain
Genghis: Lords of the Bow Iggulden, Conn
Heart Shaped Box* Hill, Joe

JUNE
Odyssey of the West A Classic Education through the Great Books: The Medieval World* Timothy B. Shutt, Ed.
Dante A Life* R.W. B. Lewis
Sailing From Byzantium: How A Lost Empire Shaped the World* Wells,Colin
Altered Carbon* Morgan, Richard
What is Intelligence? Beyond the Flynn Effect Flynn, James
IQ A Smart History of a Failed Idea Murdoch, Stephen
Irreligion A Mathematician Explains Why The Arguments For God Don't Add Up Paulos, John Allen
Heroes Saving Charlie A Novel Wallington, Aury
Wrath of a Mad God Book Three of the Darkwar Saga Feist, Raymond E.
The Man Who Loved China The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Joseph Needham Winchester, Simon

JULY
The Return of History And the End of Dreams Robert Kagan
The Age of American Unreason Susan Jacoby
Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism Philip Kitcher
The Sword of Shannara Terry Brooks
Odd Hours A Novel Koontz, Dean
The Last Days of Europe Epitaph For An Old Continent Walter Laqueur
The Solitary Vice Against Reading Mikita Brottman
Moment of Truth In Iraq Turning Defeat and Disaster into Victory and Hope Michael Yon
The Second Plane September 11: Terror and Boredom Martin Amis
Proust and the Squid The Story and Science of the Reading Brain Maryanne Wolf
The Mind of the Market Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, And Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics Michael Shermer
Rutka's Notebook A Voice From the Holocaust Rutka Laskier

AUGUST
Worlds At War The 2,500 Year Struggle Between East And West Anthony Pagden
God's Crucible Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 David Levering Lewis
The Ten-Cent Plague The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America David Hajdu
How To Talk About Books You Haven't Read Pierre Bayard
The Logic of Life The Rational Economics of an Irrational World Tim Harford
Cities In Flight Science Fiction James Blish
American Nerd The Story of My People Benjamin Nugent
Deadfall A Novel Robert Liparulo
The Woman Who Can't Forget The Most Remarkable Memory Known Jill Price
Wastelands Stories of the Apocalypse Various Authors (ed. J. Adams)
The Archer's Tale* Bernard Cornwell

SEPTEMBER
Evil Genes Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfriend Barbara Oakley
The Man Who Made Lists Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus Joshua Kendall
The Forsaken An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia Tim Tzouliadis
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society M.Shaffer & A. Barrows
A Voyage Long And Strange Rediscovering the New World Tony Horwitz
Warrior A Visual History of the Fighting Man R. G. Grant
Star Corps (Book One of The Legacy Trilogy) Ian Douglas
The Martian General's Daughter Theodore Judson
Why We Hate Us American Discontent In The New Millenium Dick Meyer
Netherland Joseph O'Neill

OCTOBER
Gypsy Morph Genesis of Shannara Terry Brooks
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness Thaler & Sunstein
Swordmage (Blades of the Moonsea, Book 1)Richard Baker
Deconstructing Sammy: Music, Money, Madness, and the Mob Matt Birkbeck
Lush Life A Novel Richard Price
The Night of the Gun A Reporter Investigates The Darkest Story of His Life, His Own David Carr

Bad Demographic · Post by **Bad Demographic** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 10:42 pm

I'm aiming to halve my 2007 reading list. Over a book a week was way too many books. There are so many other things I want to do.

Reading:
The Ram Rebellion ed. Eric Flint

Read:
Tripwire by Lee Child
Stolen Without a Gun by Walter Pavlo, Jr. & Neil Weinberg
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs
Death du Jour by Kathy Reichs
Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith
The Shape Shifter by Tony Hillerman
Deadly Decisions by Kathy Reichs
Fatal Voyage by Kathy Reichs
Grave Secrets by Kathy Reichs
The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde
Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
Rats, Bats and Vats by Eric Flint and Dave Freer
The Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith
Gun, With Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem
Grantville Gazette Volume I ed. Eric Flint
Grantville Gazette Volume II ed. Eric Flint
Grantville Gazette Volume III ed. Eric Flint
Bobbie Faye's Very (very, very, very) Bad Day by Toni McGee Causey
Bobbie Faye's (kinda, sorta, not exactly) Family Jewels by Toni McGee Causey
Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, And The Opening Of The American West by Stephen E. Ambrose
Lewis and Clark Through Indian Eyes ed. Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith
Floating the Missouri by James Willard Schultz (Apikuni)
Or Else My Lady Keeps the Key by Kage Baker
An Ice Cold Grave by Charlaine Harris
Black Ships by Jo Graham
From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies by Alexander McCall Smith
The Scar by China Mieville
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive by Alexander McCall Smith
the knitting experience Book 1: the Knit Stitch by Sally Melville
the knitting experience Book 2: the Purl Stitch by Sally Melville
Mort by Terry Pratchett
The Truth by Terry Pratchett
Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann
Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Books read in 2005: 47
Books read in 2006: 30
Books read in 2007: 57

tswright · Post by **tswright** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:20 pm

Read:
Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom by Van K. Tharp
Scar Night by Alan Campbell
The Complete TurtleTrader: The Legend, the Lessons, the Results by Michael W. Covel
Spin State by Chris Moriarty
Spin Control by Chris Moriarty
King Richard the Second by William Shakespeare
The First Part of King Henry the Fourth by William Shakespeare
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carre

Reading:
The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth by William Shakespeare
A Small Town in Germany by John Le Carre

Queued:
Lots.

JonathanStrange · Post by **JonathanStrange** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:32 pm

And so it begins.

Kyosho · Post by **Kyosho** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:08 am

Reserved. I'm going to keep track this time.

koanicriddle · Post by **koanicriddle** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:13 am

Read -

Map of Dreams by M. Rickert
The Dog Said Bow-Wow by Michael Swanwick
The Dark edited by Ellen Datlow
New Weird edited by Anne and Jeff VanderMeer
The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockheimer
Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
Punktown by Jeffrey Thomas
The Year of Our War by Steph Swainson
No Present Like Time by Steph Swainston
Lye Street by Allan Campbell
Softspoken by Lucius Shepard
Bad Brains by Kathe Koja
Mainspring by Jay Lake
Fallen by Tim Lebbon
Deadstock by Jeffrey Thomas
The Ceremonies by T.E.D. Klein
Dark Gods by T.E.D. Klein
The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
Steampunk edited by Anne and Jeff VanderMeer
Before They are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie
The Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie[/i]

Books read in 2004 - 31
Books read in 2005 - 20
Books read in 2006 - 23
Books read in 2007 - 40

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:15 am

We can always hope...

Current:

Elric of Melnibone by Michael Moorcock
The Watchmen by Alan Moore

Finished:

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Sandman: King of Dreams by Alisa Kwitney
The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks

Books Read in 2007: 5
Books Read in 2006: 23
Books Read in 2005: 36
Books Read in 2004: 31

YellowKing · Post by **YellowKing** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:09 am

Books Read:

Assassin's Apprentice - Robin Hobb (****)
World War Z - Max Brooks (***)
Black Evening - David Morrell (***)
Royal Assassin - Robin Hobb (****)
Night in the Lonesome October - Richard Laymon (***)
Slash - Slash (***)
Assassin's Quest - Robin Hobb (****)
Blood Games - Richard Laymon (***)
Duma Key - Stephen King (****)
Bite - Richard Laymon (**)
Crossroads of Twilight - Robert Jordan (***)
A Place of Execution - Val McDermid (***)
New Spring - Robert Jordan (***)
Into the Fire - Richard Laymon (***)
Keepers - Gary A. Braunbeck (**)
The Cellar - Richard Laymon (**)
Death's Dominion - Simon Clark (**)
The Wheel of Darkness - Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (****)
Ship of Magic - Robin Hobb (****)
Mad Ship - Robin Hobb (****)
Subterranean - James Rollins (**)

-------

Reading:
Ship of Destiny - Robin Hobb
Knife of Dreams - Robert Jordan

Lars · Post by **Lars** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:26 am

Reading
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

In Queue
The Children of Men by PD James
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
Forever Odd by Dean Koontz
Brother Odd by Dean Koontz
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Finished

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

Completed in 2007: 47

SlapBone · Post by **SlapBone** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:05 am

Sword Song (The Saxon Chronicles, Book 4) - Bernard Cornwell
I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
Tom Clancy's Endwar - David Michaels
Comes a Horseman - Robert Liparulo
Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett

razgon · Post by **razgon** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 7:46 am

Okay, I'm game...

Books Read:

Reading:
War of the Flowers - Tad Williams
Playboy entire 2007 issues...

Finished:
eh...well...its been a slow year for reading

Fringe · Post by **Fringe** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:05 am

Read:
January:

Reading:
19 Minutes by Jodi Picoult
Doing What Matters by James M. Kilts
Queued:

Finished:

J · Post by J » Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:42 am

Read
H.M.S. Surprise - Patrick O'Brien
The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
Mort - Terry Prachett
The Reaper Man - Terry Prachett
Witches Abroad - Terry Prachett

Reading
The Bachman Books - Stephen King
Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk

Queued
The Mauritius Command - Patrick O'Brien

JonathanStrange · Post by **JonathanStrange** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 10:15 am

Bad Demographic wrote:Over a book a week was way too many books. There are so many other things I want to do.

Unabridged audiobooks! You can go to the gym or your daily run and listen. You can drive your daily commute and listen. I'll even do my yardwork/housekeeping tasks and listen. Hell, I'm listening now. I just nod whenever it looks like someone's askin' me a question. (Hmmm...maybe that's why they say I agreed to stay after work to check some data...)

CeeKay · Post by **CeeKay** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:41 am

I vow to read more than one book this year! maybe if I get a Kindle it will motivate me to do so.

Reading
Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings

Finished

theohall · Post by **theohall** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:58 pm

In the Net:
Burden of Proof - Scott Turow
My Own Kind of Freedom - Stephen Brust
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
Path of the Fury - David Weber
In Fury Born - David Weber
Tapestry of Spies - Stephen Hunter
Dangerous Ground - Larry Bond
A Hymn Before Battle - John Ringo
Gust Front - John Ringo
When the Devil Dances - John Ringo
Hell's Faire - John Ringo
Eaters of the Dead - Michael Crichton
Bolos Book V: Old Guard - edited by Keith Laumer
The Road to Damascus - John Ringo & Linda Evans - Cool Story! Read it way too fast
The Runaway Skyscraper - Murray Leinster
Morale: A Story of the War of 1941-43 - Murray Leinster (written in 1931)
The Burning Shore - Wilbur Smith
Ring of Fire - ed. Eric Flint
The Hero - John Ringo & Michael Z. Williamson
Cally's War - John Ringo and Julie Cochran
Grave Secrets - Kathy Reichs
The Insider - Stephen Frey
Havana - Stephen Hunter
Bolos: Honor of the Regiment - created by Keith Laumer; ed. Bill Fawcett
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Ender's Shadow - Orson Scott Card
Shadow of the Hegemon - Orson Scott Card
Bolos II: The Unconquerable - created by Keith Laumer; ed. Bill Fawcett

On the Ice:
Grantville Gazette Vol I - ed. Eric Flint
Defcon One - Joe Weber

Next Line Change:
Grantville Gazette Vol II - ed. Eric Flint

moghedian · Post by **moghedian** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:00 pm

Grundbegriff wrote:I don't know why I sign up for this, when I've never stuck to it. I loathe trivial little bookkeeping tasks, and this one always falls off my To Do list pretty quickly.

Still, it wouldn't be any fun to enter the new year without resolutions, eh?

I agree but I'll give it a go anyway

Reading
Sandstorm by James Rollins

Taking a Break
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson ...it's interesting but when I sit down at work for a break, I can only take so many gluons and bosons and such and all that. I had just reached the part about the Manson Crater but I wanted to switch things up

Read
Black Order by James Rollins. An advance readers in the trunk of the wifes car when I was looking for something to read. Enjoyed this one so got the first three Sigma Force novels for 75¢ on half.com

The Gold Coast by Nelson DeMille. Before Tony Soprano there was Frank Bellarosa. Looking forward to the next book.

Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry...another advanced readers. Terrorism and the "living dead". About 1/3 of the way thru, enjoying so far....

Titanic't Last Secrets by Brad Matsen...seems the ship was built to substandard levels. It broke apart
on the surface, then went down. Not the stern in the sky then break in half thing.

The Monster of Florence by Mario Spezi and Douglas Preston....never even heard about this. Even when Preston was accused of
obstruction through the press or whatever it was the Italian authorities called it.

Mayday by Thomas Block, Nelson DeMille...quick and fun read, I didn't like flying to begin with

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski....very good as I think I mentioned in a later post

The Devil's Bones by Jefferson Bass...not bad but pretty quick and tidy I think compared to his last ones...

World Without End by Ken Follett...decided to read it just because I had just finished the previous one and I hate not remembering what was going on. Sort of similar themes going on in this one but still very enjoyable.

Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Home Before Dark: The Collected Cedar Hill Stories, Vol. 2 by Gary Braunbeck

The Anatomy of Deception by Lawrence Goldstone

Duma Key by Stephen King

The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

Fatal Forecast by Michael J. Tougias---now I want to see the Perfect Storm again. I can't imagine what these kind of seas must look like, much less feel like when you are on them.

The Lost Fleet by Marc Songini ---makes me want to go visit the Whaling Museum in New Bedford which is right around the corner really.

Bad Demographic · Post by **Bad Demographic** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:44 pm

JonathanStrange wrote:
Bad Demographic wrote:Over a book a week was way too many books. There are so many other things I want to do.
Unabridged audiobooks! You can go to the gym or your daily run and listen. You can drive your daily commute and listen. I'll even do my yardwork/housekeeping tasks and listen. Hell, I'm listening now. I just nod whenever it looks like someone's askin' me a question. (Hmmm...maybe that's why they say I agreed to stay after work to check some data...)

I really like audiobooks for long car trips. Maybe I'll give them a try this year.

Steron · Post by **Steron** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:08 pm

My goal is 12 books this year. I would love to read more but with 2 kids under 2 and a lot of home projects to do I think 12 is a attainable goal.

READING
The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945 by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns

ON DECK
N/A

FINISHED
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
Stan Lee's Amazing Marvel Universe by Roy Thomas and Stan Lee
Vahalla Rising by Clive Cussler
Flood Tide by Clive Cussler
Treasure of Khan by Clive Cussler
Plague Ship by Clive Cussler with Jack DuBrul
Inca Gold by Clive Cussler
Shock Wave by Clive Cussler

mori · Post by **mori** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:34 pm

Finished
Act of Treason by Vince Flynn

Queued
Lost Victories by Field Marshal Erich von Manstein

Sharpe's Battle by Bernard Cornwell

Tigers in the Mud by Otto Carius

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 4:17 pm

READ

The Domination by S.M. Stirling
Drakas by S.M. Stirling

READING

Orphan's Destiny by Robert Buettner

WYBaugh · Post by **WYBaugh** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 7:03 pm

Reading

Spindle

Queued

The Jennifer Morgue - Charles Stross

Finished

The Android's Dream - John Scalzi

Canuck · Post by **Canuck** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 8:22 pm

Read (out of 5 stars)
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Reading
The Engines of God by Jack McDevitt

Queued
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet

PR_GMR · Post by **PR_GMR** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 8:28 pm

Oright, I'm participating. One of my new year resolutions is to read more. This thread might be the ticket to keeping me motivated. So let me jump in.

January
READ

READING
A Killer Life, by Christine Vachon with Austin Bunn

COMPLETED IN 2008: 0

Grundbegriff · Post by **Grundbegriff** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 8:58 pm

Canuck wrote:Seems a bit silly to have 30 books in your "queued" section.

A token of youth.

CSL · Post by **CSL** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:18 pm

Grundbegriff wrote:
Canuck wrote:Seems a bit silly to have 30 books in your "queued" section.
A token of youth.

I already made the list for another thread before, so it seemed a bit silly to have to go back and find the amazon links a second time when I needed them.

Grundbegriff · Post by **Grundbegriff** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:50 pm

CSL wrote:
Grundbegriff wrote:
Canuck wrote:Seems a bit silly to have 30 books in your "queued" section.
A token of youth.
I already made the list for another thread before, so it seemed a bit silly to have to go back and find the amazon links a second time when I needed them.

Defensiveness and overexplanation -- also tokens of youth.

CSL · Post by **CSL** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 10:03 pm

Grundbegriff wrote:
CSL wrote:
Grundbegriff wrote:
Canuck wrote:Seems a bit silly to have 30 books in your "queued" section.
A token of youth.
I already made the list for another thread before, so it seemed a bit silly to have to go back and find the amazon links a second time when I needed them.
Defensiveness and overexplanation -- also tokens of youth.

You got anything better to do?

jonnytx · Post by **jonnytx** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 10:34 pm

I got big plans for reading this year, BIG PLANS...

FINISHED

IN THE QUEUE

Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
World Without End - Ken Follett
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul - Douglas Adams
The Man Who Killed the Deer - Frank Waters
Rocket Ship Galileo - Robert Heinlein
Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown

Inverarity · Post by **Inverarity** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:18 pm

Holding this spot

Canuck · Post by **Canuck** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 1:42 am

I'm just saying it's a bit silly to have the list in the first place. I dunno-I mean I have a shitload of unread books on my bookshelf but I haven't put them on my queued list because to be perfectly honest I don't know when or if I'll ever get around to them. I suppose I could put them on there but then I'd just be saying 'Hey guys, look at all the unread books I have on my bookshelf'. Anyways carry on! The only thing more traditional around here than the 'Books Read' thread is the 'hey guys look at my literary penis' accusations.

SlapBone · Post by **SlapBone** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 2:19 am

Canuck wrote:I'm just saying it's a bit silly to have the list in the first place. I dunno-I mean I have a shitload of unread books on my bookshelf but I haven't put them on my queued list because to be perfectly honest I don't know when or if I'll ever get around to them. I suppose I could put them on there but then I'd just be saying 'Hey guys, look at all the unread books I have on my bookshelf'. Anyways carry on! The only thing more traditional around here than the 'Books Read' thread is the 'hey guys look at my literary penis' accusations.

Congratulations, you win the "Dirt" of the year award for shitting in CSL's book thread. You may not be as vicious, but since he got himself banned, I guess you are doing ok.

Canuck · Post by **Canuck** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 3:28 am

Hah. Well like I said, it is a tradition as old as the Books Read thread itself.

It could have been worse. I could have purposely jumped the gun and started a "Books Read 2008" thread first. Then I REALLY would have upset the apple cart!

Fringe · Post by **Fringe** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 3:33 am

Canuck wrote:
Seems a bit silly to have 30 books in your "queued" section. I mean, unless you plan on reading them all at once. That would be like the the manager putting his entire team into the 'on deck' circle.

As the manager, you can send anyone from your roster up to the plate and you can bat out of order without protest.

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I'm going to be more of a reader this year