Reading List #3

[loosechanj]

1. Caitlin R. Kiernan - Beowulf
2. Jose Saramago - Blindness
3. Terry Pratchett - Jingo
4. Flann O'Brien - The Third Policeman
5. Kurt Vonnegut - The Sirens of Titan
6. Terry Pratchett - The Last Continent
7. Ellis Weiner - National Lampoon's Doon
8. Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle
9. Terry Pratchett - Carpe Jugulum
10. Stephen King - The Tommyknockers
11. Kurt Vonnegut - Player Piano
12. Terry Pratchett - The Fifth Elephant
13. Vladimir Nabakov - Lolita
14. Max Brooks - The Zombie Survival Guide
15. Terry Pratchett - Thief of Time
16. Sinclair Lewis - Babbitt
17. Haruki Murakami - The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
18. Terry Pratchett - The Truth
19. Ray Bradbury - The Toynbee Convector
20. Christa Faust - Money Shot
21. Chuck Palahniuk - Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
22. Charles Bukowski - Post Office
23. Terry Pratchett - The Last Hero
24. James Hilton - Lost Horizon
25. C.S. Forester - Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
26. Terry Pratchett - The Amazing Maurice & His Educated Rodents
27. Stephen King - Pet Semetary
28. Adolf Hitler - Mein Kampf
29. C.S. Forester - Lieutenant Hornblower
30. Terry Pratchett - Night Watch
31. Caitlin R. Kiernan - Murder of Angels
32. C.S. Forester - Hornblower & The Hotspur
33. Terry Pratchett - The Wee Free Men
34. Niccollo Machiavelli - The Prince
35. C.S. Forester - Hornblower During The Crisis
36. C.S. Forester - Hornblower & The Atropos
37. Terry Pratchett - Monstrous Regiment
38. John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy Of Dunces
39. C.S. Forester - Beat to Quarters
40. Terry Pratchett - A Hat Full of Sky
41. Truman Capote - Complete Stories
42. Karl Marx & Fredrich Engels - The Communist Manifesto
43. C.S. Forester - Ship of the Line
44. C.S. Forester - Flying Colours
45. Terry Pratchett - Going Postal
46. Richard Matheson - A Stir Of Echoes
47. C.S. Forester - Commodore Hornblower
48. Terry Pratchett - Thud!
49. Philip K. Dick - VALIS
50. Flora Rheta Shreiber - Sybil
51. Stephenie Meyer - Twilight
52. C.S. Forester - Lord Hornblower
53. Terry Pratchett - Wintersmith
54. Cherie Priest - Wings to the Kingdom
55. Terry Pratchett - Nation
56. Ira Steven Behr - The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition
57. Stephenie Meyer - New Moon
58. Phil Farrand - Nitpicker's Guide for Deep Space Nine Trekkers
59. C.S. Forester - Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies
60. Douglas R. Hofstadter - Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
61. Kurt Vonneget - Mother Night
62. Stephenie Meyer - Eclipse
63. Rose George - The Big Necessity
64. Terry Pratchett - Making Money
65. Steve Dublianca - Waiter Rant
66. Caitlin R. Kiernan - Daughter Of Hounds
67. Diablo Cody - Candy Girl
68. Stephenie Meyer - Breaking Dawn
69. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone
70. L. Frank Baum - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
71. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets


Only made it to 71 books this year. :( Bleh, why do we need a new year anyway, the old one wasn't broken!

Comments

[jeffpalmatier.livejournal.com]

Wow: from what I understand, Mein Kampf and The Communist Manifesto are pretty turgid readings and pretty hard to get through. I've read excerpts, but I never tried to read the whole enchilada. A fellow student who read at least part of it told me that Hitler would be discussing a given topic, and then he would go off on a tirade about something else. I guess that's not surprising given Hitler's diatribe-inclined brain, and the fact that he 'wrote' the book by dictating it. I read once that it was often given as a gift in Nazi Germany, but very few Germans tried to read it. One of the very few people who did take the time to read it was Stalin, and he still let himself be fooled in believing he had more time against an invasion by the Nazis.

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

It was a slog, definitely. The Manifesto has the virtue of being short. Mein Kampf was a 700 page wall of text, and it reads like the transcription of a speech, a transition Hitler doesn't make well at all. And yeah, it was bizarre. He'd be talking about the price of bread and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, JEWS SUCK!!! It was like literary Tourette's. I can't believe I read that, but now I can say I did. :D

[cryduchat.livejournal.com]

I tried to read MK as a young teen and just couldn't crack it. Hrm, I also checked it out from the library so I'm sure my name is floating around on a FBI watch list somewhere.

Now I think I'd rather read a comprehensive bio of Hitler then something he wrote himself, considering.

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

Speaking from experience, yeah you'd be better off reading a bio. Unless you want to read Mein Kampf just for the book worm points.

[thewrongcrowd.livejournal.com]

Being on librarything I see a lot of year-end book polls. Yours are about the only ones that I find myself thinking "I wanna read that" for nearly everything on them. Kudos.