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Post by macdoc » Fri Mar 29, 2013 10:36 pm

20 They Said I should write a Book - fluff ..but entertaining fluff.
21 kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson.....surprisingly entertaining despite the time frame...
22 Ep.#6 - "Head of the Dragon" (The Frontiers Saga)
23 An Account of the Mutiny on the Bounty - William Bligh
24 The Life of Buffalo Bill Cody - good read tho politically very incorrect for our times.
25 A voyage to the South Sea undertaken by Captain William Bligh - William Bligh > quite fascinating.
26 The Dingo Boys: The Squatters of Wallaby Range ....early Australia
27 Sand and Spinifex - Carnegie....wonderful read...epic efforts to explore central Australia
28 The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia ..bit too American derringdo for my taste but informative
29 Robbery under Arms; Rolfe Boldrewood -a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields < long - decent and informative.
30. Shearing in the Riverina Rolfe Boldrewood and also From Back and Beyond - two shorties but interesting - both Australiana
31 A Modern Buccaneer - Rolfe Boldrewood
in progress - these look to be a chunk
32. Voyage to Terra Australia Vol 1 1801-1802
33 Voyage to Terra Australia Vol 2 1801-1802
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Sun Mar 31, 2013 6:13 pm

Trigger Warning!!!1! :
1) Earthworms And Their Allies by F.E. Beddard.
2) Otter Country by Miriam Darlington.
3) The Horses Of St. Marks by Charles Freeman.
4) Everest ed. Peter Gillman.
5) Five On A Treasure Island by Enid Blyton.
6) Map Addict by Mike Parker.
7) The Art Of Travel by Alain De Botton.
8) The Spiderwick Chronicles Book Two: The Seeing Stone by DiTerlizzi and Black.
9) First Life by David Attenborough and Matt Kaplan.
10) A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeves.
11) Mia The Bridesmaid Fairy by Daisy Meadows.
12) Ottoline And The Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell.
13) South: The Story Of Shackleton's 1914-1917 Expedition by Ernest Shackleton.
14) Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy.
15) On The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin.
16) Stargazing With Binoculars by Robin Scagell and David Frydman.
17) Survivors by Richard Fortey.
18) Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.
19) The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce.
20) Captain Cook's Journal During The First Voyage Around The World by Cpt. James Cook.
21) The Spiderwicke Chronincles book 3: Lucinda's Secret by DiTerlizzi and Black.
22) Coco's Story by Sarah Hawkins.
23) The A-Z of Whisky by Gavin D. Smith.
24) The Borgias by Christoper Hibbert.
25) The Darwinian Hypothesis by T.H. Huxley.
26) Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie.
27) Flatland by Edwin Abbott.
28) Wings: 100 Years Of British Aerial Warfare by Patrick Bishop.
29) The Secret Seven by Enid Blyton.
30) Pip of Pengersick: A Smuggler's Tale by Jac West.
31) The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.
32) The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out Of A Window And Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson.
33) The Particle At The End Of The Universe by Sean Carroll.
34) Supercontinent by Ted Nield.
35) Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel by Jeff Kinney.
36) The Pirates' Treasure by Emily Bearn.
37) The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
38) All The Countries We've Ever Invaded by Stuart Laycock.
39) Do You Think What You Think You Think? By Julian Baggini.
40) Cruel Britannia: A Secret History Of Torture by Ian Cobain.
41) A Rebours by J.K. Huysmans.
42) The Years Of Endurance 1793 - 1802 by Arthur Bryant.
43) Incoming! Or, Why We Should Stop Worrying and Learn To Love The Meteorite by Ted Nield.
44) The Collector by John Fowles.
45) Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
46) Confessions Of An English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey
47) Mr Stink by David Walliams
48) Byzantium by Giles Morgan
49) Everest 1953 by Mick Conefrey
50) Rulers Of India: Akbar by George Bruce Malleson
51) As Easy As Pi by Jamie Buchan.
52) Can Anyone Hear Me? Testing Times With Test Match Special On Tour by Peter Baxter
53) Scotch: The Whisky Of Scotland in Fact And Story by Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart.
54) The Secret Lives f Buildings by Edward Hollis
55) The Student's Guide To Writing by John Peck and Martin Coyle.
56) Quarantine by John Crace
57) The Eye Of The Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, And The Beginnings Of Modern Natural History by David Freedberg
58) The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
59) Finding George Orwell In Burma by Emma Larkin
60) The King's Speech by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi
61) Francis Bacon from the estate of Francis Bacon.
62) The History Of The World In Bite-Sized Chunks by Emma Marriott
63) The Glorious First Of June by Sam Willis
"I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"

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Post by Clinton Huxley » Mon Apr 01, 2013 7:07 pm

Trigger Warning!!!1! :
1) Earthworms And Their Allies by F.E. Beddard.
2) Otter Country by Miriam Darlington.
3) The Horses Of St. Marks by Charles Freeman.
4) Everest ed. Peter Gillman.
5) Five On A Treasure Island by Enid Blyton.
6) Map Addict by Mike Parker.
7) The Art Of Travel by Alain De Botton.
8) The Spiderwick Chronicles Book Two: The Seeing Stone by DiTerlizzi and Black.
9) First Life by David Attenborough and Matt Kaplan.
10) A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeves.
11) Mia The Bridesmaid Fairy by Daisy Meadows.
12) Ottoline And The Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell.
13) South: The Story Of Shackleton's 1914-1917 Expedition by Ernest Shackleton.
14) Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy.
15) On The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin.
16) Stargazing With Binoculars by Robin Scagell and David Frydman.
17) Survivors by Richard Fortey.
18) Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.
19) The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce.
20) Captain Cook's Journal During The First Voyage Around The World by Cpt. James Cook.
21) The Spiderwicke Chronincles book 3: Lucinda's Secret by DiTerlizzi and Black.
22) Coco's Story by Sarah Hawkins.
23) The A-Z of Whisky by Gavin D. Smith.
24) The Borgias by Christoper Hibbert.
25) The Darwinian Hypothesis by T.H. Huxley.
26) Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie.
27) Flatland by Edwin Abbott.
28) Wings: 100 Years Of British Aerial Warfare by Patrick Bishop.
29) The Secret Seven by Enid Blyton.
30) Pip of Pengersick: A Smuggler's Tale by Jac West.
31) The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.
32) The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out Of A Window And Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson.
33) The Particle At The End Of The Universe by Sean Carroll.
34) Supercontinent by Ted Nield.
35) Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel by Jeff Kinney.
36) The Pirates' Treasure by Emily Bearn.
37) The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
38) All The Countries We've Ever Invaded by Stuart Laycock.
39) Do You Think What You Think You Think? By Julian Baggini.
40) Cruel Britannia: A Secret History Of Torture by Ian Cobain.
41) A Rebours by J.K. Huysmans.
42) The Years Of Endurance 1793 - 1802 by Arthur Bryant.
43) Incoming! Or, Why We Should Stop Worrying and Learn To Love The Meteorite by Ted Nield.
44) The Collector by John Fowles.
45) Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
46) Confessions Of An English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey
47) Mr Stink by David Walliams
48) Byzantium by Giles Morgan
49) Everest 1953 by Mick Conefrey
50) Rulers Of India: Akbar by George Bruce Malleson
51) As Easy As Pi by Jamie Buchan.
52) Can Anyone Hear Me? Testing Times With Test Match Special On Tour by Peter Baxter
53) Scotch: The Whisky Of Scotland in Fact And Story by Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart.
54) The Secret Lives f Buildings by Edward Hollis
55) The Student's Guide To Writing by John Peck and Martin Coyle.
56) Quarantine by John Crace
57) The Eye Of The Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, And The Beginnings Of Modern Natural History by David Freedberg
58) The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
59) Finding George Orwell In Burma by Emma Larkin
60) The King's Speech by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi
61) Francis Bacon from the estate of Francis Bacon.
62) The History Of The World In Bite-Sized Chunks by Emma Marriott
63) The Glorious First Of June by Sam Willis
64) A Circus Adventure by Emily Bearn
65) Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
"I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"

AND MERRY XMAS TO ONE AND All!

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Post by Svartalf » Thu Apr 04, 2013 10:10 pm

1)Shadowrun : Vice.
2) William Gibson : Pattern Recognition
3) Pierre Lévêque In the Tracks of the Greek Gods[/i
4-9) Way of the Tiger hexalogy by Mark Smith and Jamie Thomson
10) Talisman of Death same authors
11-14) Harry Turtledove Legion of Videssos
15) Dominique Charpin Reading and Writing in Babylon
16) David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman
17) The Jesus Papers, by Michael baigent
18) Tome of Drow Lore Greg Lynch
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Post by SteveB » Fri Apr 05, 2013 12:29 am

SteveB wrote:1) Percy Gets Probed vol 1
2) Percy Gets Probed vol 1 (I read it twice, so I'm counting it twice!)
3) Percy Gets Probed vol 2
4) Percy Gets Probed vol 2
5) Doolie Gogh
6) Copyediting and Proofreading for Dummies
7) Redacted book due to NDA. :ninja:
8) The Writing Process A Concise Rhetoric
9) The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose
10) Style 10 Lessons in Clarity and Grace
11) Redacted book due to NDA
12) Redacted book due to NDA
13) Hitler's Preemptive War: The Battle for Norway, 1940 :bored:
I'm not gonna mention the books I have to edit. I mean they're not even published yet or might not even be. With that being said:

14) Fall of Giants Ken Follett
15) Love Poems From Around the World :shifty:
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Sat Apr 06, 2013 10:22 pm

Trigger Warning!!!1! :
1) Earthworms And Their Allies by F.E. Beddard.
2) Otter Country by Miriam Darlington.
3) The Horses Of St. Marks by Charles Freeman.
4) Everest ed. Peter Gillman.
5) Five On A Treasure Island by Enid Blyton.
6) Map Addict by Mike Parker.
7) The Art Of Travel by Alain De Botton.
8) The Spiderwick Chronicles Book Two: The Seeing Stone by DiTerlizzi and Black.
9) First Life by David Attenborough and Matt Kaplan.
10) A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeves.
11) Mia The Bridesmaid Fairy by Daisy Meadows.
12) Ottoline And The Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell.
13) South: The Story Of Shackleton's 1914-1917 Expedition by Ernest Shackleton.
14) Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy.
15) On The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin.
16) Stargazing With Binoculars by Robin Scagell and David Frydman.
17) Survivors by Richard Fortey.
18) Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.
19) The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce.
20) Captain Cook's Journal During The First Voyage Around The World by Cpt. James Cook.
21) The Spiderwicke Chronincles book 3: Lucinda's Secret by DiTerlizzi and Black.
22) Coco's Story by Sarah Hawkins.
23) The A-Z of Whisky by Gavin D. Smith.
24) The Borgias by Christoper Hibbert.
25) The Darwinian Hypothesis by T.H. Huxley.
26) Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie.
27) Flatland by Edwin Abbott.
28) Wings: 100 Years Of British Aerial Warfare by Patrick Bishop.
29) The Secret Seven by Enid Blyton.
30) Pip of Pengersick: A Smuggler's Tale by Jac West.
31) The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.
32) The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out Of A Window And Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson.
33) The Particle At The End Of The Universe by Sean Carroll.
34) Supercontinent by Ted Nield.
35) Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel by Jeff Kinney.
36) The Pirates' Treasure by Emily Bearn.
37) The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
38) All The Countries We've Ever Invaded by Stuart Laycock.
39) Do You Think What You Think You Think? By Julian Baggini.
40) Cruel Britannia: A Secret History Of Torture by Ian Cobain.
41) A Rebours by J.K. Huysmans.
42) The Years Of Endurance 1793 - 1802 by Arthur Bryant.
43) Incoming! Or, Why We Should Stop Worrying and Learn To Love The Meteorite by Ted Nield.
44) The Collector by John Fowles.
45) Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
46) Confessions Of An English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey
47) Mr Stink by David Walliams
48) Byzantium by Giles Morgan
49) Everest 1953 by Mick Conefrey
50) Rulers Of India: Akbar by George Bruce Malleson
51) As Easy As Pi by Jamie Buchan.
52) Can Anyone Hear Me? Testing Times With Test Match Special On Tour by Peter Baxter
53) Scotch: The Whisky Of Scotland in Fact And Story by Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart.
54) The Secret Lives f Buildings by Edward Hollis
55) The Student's Guide To Writing by John Peck and Martin Coyle.
56) Quarantine by John Crace
57) The Eye Of The Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, And The Beginnings Of Modern Natural History by David Freedberg
58) The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
59) Finding George Orwell In Burma by Emma Larkin
60) The King's Speech by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi
61) Francis Bacon from the estate of Francis Bacon.
62) The History Of The World In Bite-Sized Chunks by Emma Marriott
63) The Glorious First Of June by Sam Willis
64) A Circus Adventure by Emily Bearn
65) Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
66) Darwin's Lost World by Martin Brasier
67) The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford.
"I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"

AND MERRY XMAS TO ONE AND All!

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Post by Bella Fortuna » Sun Apr 14, 2013 4:19 am

1. Snowball in Hell - Christopher Brookmyre
2. Do Not Pass Go - Tim Moore
3. Earth, Air, Fire, and Custard - Tom Holt
4. Back Story - David Mitchell
5. City of Falling Angels - John Berendt
6. We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
7. High-Rise - JG Ballard
8. The Chaperone - Laura Moriarty
9. Percy Gets Probed - some bloke
10. Complete Stories of JG Ballard
11. The World Inside - Robert Silverberg
12. Stand on Zanzibar - John Brunner
13. Science Made Stupid - Tom Weller
14. The Horologicon - Mark Forsyth
15. Homer and Langley - EL Doctorow
16. 50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True - Guy Harrison
17. Ghosty Men - Franz Lidz
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Sun Apr 14, 2013 8:37 pm

Trigger Warning!!!1! :
1) Earthworms And Their Allies by F.E. Beddard.
2) Otter Country by Miriam Darlington.
3) The Horses Of St. Marks by Charles Freeman.
4) Everest ed. Peter Gillman.
5) Five On A Treasure Island by Enid Blyton.
6) Map Addict by Mike Parker.
7) The Art Of Travel by Alain De Botton.
8) The Spiderwick Chronicles Book Two: The Seeing Stone by DiTerlizzi and Black.
9) First Life by David Attenborough and Matt Kaplan.
10) A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeves.
11) Mia The Bridesmaid Fairy by Daisy Meadows.
12) Ottoline And The Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell.
13) South: The Story Of Shackleton's 1914-1917 Expedition by Ernest Shackleton.
14) Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy.
15) On The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin.
16) Stargazing With Binoculars by Robin Scagell and David Frydman.
17) Survivors by Richard Fortey.
18) Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.
19) The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce.
20) Captain Cook's Journal During The First Voyage Around The World by Cpt. James Cook.
21) The Spiderwicke Chronincles book 3: Lucinda's Secret by DiTerlizzi and Black.
22) Coco's Story by Sarah Hawkins.
23) The A-Z of Whisky by Gavin D. Smith.
24) The Borgias by Christoper Hibbert.
25) The Darwinian Hypothesis by T.H. Huxley.
26) Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie.
27) Flatland by Edwin Abbott.
28) Wings: 100 Years Of British Aerial Warfare by Patrick Bishop.
29) The Secret Seven by Enid Blyton.
30) Pip of Pengersick: A Smuggler's Tale by Jac West.
31) The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.
32) The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out Of A Window And Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson.
33) The Particle At The End Of The Universe by Sean Carroll.
34) Supercontinent by Ted Nield.
35) Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel by Jeff Kinney.
36) The Pirates' Treasure by Emily Bearn.
37) The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
38) All The Countries We've Ever Invaded by Stuart Laycock.
39) Do You Think What You Think You Think? By Julian Baggini.
40) Cruel Britannia: A Secret History Of Torture by Ian Cobain.
41) A Rebours by J.K. Huysmans.
42) The Years Of Endurance 1793 - 1802 by Arthur Bryant.
43) Incoming! Or, Why We Should Stop Worrying and Learn To Love The Meteorite by Ted Nield.
44) The Collector by John Fowles.
45) Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
46) Confessions Of An English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey
47) Mr Stink by David Walliams
48) Byzantium by Giles Morgan
49) Everest 1953 by Mick Conefrey
50) Rulers Of India: Akbar by George Bruce Malleson
51) As Easy As Pi by Jamie Buchan.
52) Can Anyone Hear Me? Testing Times With Test Match Special On Tour by Peter Baxter
53) Scotch: The Whisky Of Scotland in Fact And Story by Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart.
54) The Secret Lives f Buildings by Edward Hollis
55) The Student's Guide To Writing by John Peck and Martin Coyle.
56) Quarantine by John Crace
57) The Eye Of The Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, And The Beginnings Of Modern Natural History by David Freedberg
58) The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
59) Finding George Orwell In Burma by Emma Larkin
60) The King's Speech by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi
61) Francis Bacon from the estate of Francis Bacon.
62) The History Of The World In Bite-Sized Chunks by Emma Marriott
63) The Glorious First Of June by Sam Willis
64) A Circus Adventure by Emily Bearn
65) Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
66) Darwin's Lost World by Martin Brasier
67) The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford.
68) Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in 20th Century Physics by George Johnson
69) Neutrino by Frank Close
70) Diving Belles by Lucy Wood.
"I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"

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Post by Svartalf » Sun Apr 14, 2013 9:29 pm

1)Shadowrun : Vice.
2) William Gibson : Pattern Recognition
3) Pierre Lévêque In the Tracks of the Greek Gods[/i
4-9) Way of the Tiger hexalogy by Mark Smith and Jamie Thomson
10) Talisman of Death same authors
11-14) Harry Turtledove Legion of Videssos
15) Dominique Charpin Reading and Writing in Babylon
16) David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman
17) The Jesus Papers, by Michael baigent
18) Tome of Drow Lore Greg Lynch
19/ Underdark by Bruce Cordell
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:11 am

Trigger Warning!!!1! :
1) Earthworms And Their Allies by F.E. Beddard.
2) Otter Country by Miriam Darlington.
3) The Horses Of St. Marks by Charles Freeman.
4) Everest ed. Peter Gillman.
5) Five On A Treasure Island by Enid Blyton.
6) Map Addict by Mike Parker.
7) The Art Of Travel by Alain De Botton.
8) The Spiderwick Chronicles Book Two: The Seeing Stone by DiTerlizzi and Black.
9) First Life by David Attenborough and Matt Kaplan.
10) A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeves.
11) Mia The Bridesmaid Fairy by Daisy Meadows.
12) Ottoline And The Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell.
13) South: The Story Of Shackleton's 1914-1917 Expedition by Ernest Shackleton.
14) Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy.
15) On The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin.
16) Stargazing With Binoculars by Robin Scagell and David Frydman.
17) Survivors by Richard Fortey.
18) Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.
19) The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce.
20) Captain Cook's Journal During The First Voyage Around The World by Cpt. James Cook.
21) The Spiderwicke Chronincles book 3: Lucinda's Secret by DiTerlizzi and Black.
22) Coco's Story by Sarah Hawkins.
23) The A-Z of Whisky by Gavin D. Smith.
24) The Borgias by Christoper Hibbert.
25) The Darwinian Hypothesis by T.H. Huxley.
26) Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie.
27) Flatland by Edwin Abbott.
28) Wings: 100 Years Of British Aerial Warfare by Patrick Bishop.
29) The Secret Seven by Enid Blyton.
30) Pip of Pengersick: A Smuggler's Tale by Jac West.
31) The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.
32) The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out Of A Window And Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson.
33) The Particle At The End Of The Universe by Sean Carroll.
34) Supercontinent by Ted Nield.
35) Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel by Jeff Kinney.
36) The Pirates' Treasure by Emily Bearn.
37) The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
38) All The Countries We've Ever Invaded by Stuart Laycock.
39) Do You Think What You Think You Think? By Julian Baggini.
40) Cruel Britannia: A Secret History Of Torture by Ian Cobain.
41) A Rebours by J.K. Huysmans.
42) The Years Of Endurance 1793 - 1802 by Arthur Bryant.
43) Incoming! Or, Why We Should Stop Worrying and Learn To Love The Meteorite by Ted Nield.
44) The Collector by John Fowles.
45) Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
46) Confessions Of An English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey
47) Mr Stink by David Walliams
48) Byzantium by Giles Morgan
49) Everest 1953 by Mick Conefrey
50) Rulers Of India: Akbar by George Bruce Malleson
51) As Easy As Pi by Jamie Buchan.
52) Can Anyone Hear Me? Testing Times With Test Match Special On Tour by Peter Baxter
53) Scotch: The Whisky Of Scotland in Fact And Story by Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart.
54) The Secret Lives f Buildings by Edward Hollis
55) The Student's Guide To Writing by John Peck and Martin Coyle.
56) Quarantine by John Crace
57) The Eye Of The Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, And The Beginnings Of Modern Natural History by David Freedberg
58) The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
59) Finding George Orwell In Burma by Emma Larkin
60) The King's Speech by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi
61) Francis Bacon from the estate of Francis Bacon.
62) The History Of The World In Bite-Sized Chunks by Emma Marriott
63) The Glorious First Of June by Sam Willis
64) A Circus Adventure by Emily Bearn
65) Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
66) Darwin's Lost World by Martin Brasier
67) The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford.
68) Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in 20th Century Physics by George Johnson
69) Neutrino by Frank Close
70) Diving Belles by Lucy Wood.
71) Camps And Trails in China by Roy Chapman Andrews
72) To The Last Round: The Epic British Stand On The Imjin River, 1951 by Andrew Salmon
"I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"

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Post by Bella Fortuna » Tue Apr 23, 2013 3:08 pm

1. Snowball in Hell - Christopher Brookmyre
2. Do Not Pass Go - Tim Moore
3. Earth, Air, Fire, and Custard - Tom Holt
4. Back Story - David Mitchell
5. City of Falling Angels - John Berendt
6. We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
7. High-Rise - JG Ballard
8. The Chaperone - Laura Moriarty
9. Percy Gets Probed - some bloke
10. Complete Stories of JG Ballard
11. The World Inside - Robert Silverberg
12. Stand on Zanzibar - John Brunner
13. Science Made Stupid - Tom Weller
14. The Horologicon - Mark Forsyth
15. Homer and Langley - EL Doctorow
16. 50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True - Guy Harrison
17. Ghosty Men - Franz Lidz
18. A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter Miller Jr.
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Re: 50 Book Challenge 2013 AKA Anna Will Kick Your Arse Agai

Post by anna09 » Sat Apr 27, 2013 8:18 pm

1. The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin- Masha Gessen
2. Pnin- Vladimir Nabokov
3. Slaughterhouse-Five- Kurt Vonnegut
4. The Daydreamer- Ian McEwan
5. Free Will- Sam Harris
6. The Drinker- Hans Fallada
7. The Victim- Saul Bellow
8. Dubliners- James Joyce
9. Never Let Me Go- Kazuo Ishiguro (Very good but so sad! :cry: )
10. The Moral Landscape- Sam Harris (I've been rereading some books to see what I can use for my senior thesis).
11. The Bell- Iris Murdoch
12. The Comfort of Strangers- Ian McEwan (re-read)
13. The Handmaid's Tale- Margaret Atwood (So good! Definitely a new favourite.)
14. Clockwork Angels- Kevin J. Anderson
15. Everyman- Philip Roth
16. Selected Tales- Edgar Allen Poe
17. Marry Me- John Updike
18. Cyrano de Bergerac- Edmund Rostand
19. Mother Night- Kurt Vonnegut
20. The Sea, The Sea- Iris Murdoch
21. The Trial- Kafka
22. A Man Without a Country- Kurt Vonnegut
23. A Severed Head- Iris Murdoch
24. The Sense of an Ending- Julian Barnes
25. The Dogs and the Wolves- Irene Nemirovsky
26. Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall- Kazuo Ishiguro
27. Breakfast of Champions- Kurt Vonnegut
28. While Mortals Sleep- Kurt Vonnegut
29. No One Left to Lie To- Christopher Hitchens
30. A Clockwork Orange- Anthony Burgess
31. The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives- Leonard Mlodinow
32. Amsterdam- Ian McEwan
33. Bodily Harm- Margaret Atwood
34. Napoleon's Privates: 2,500 Years of History Unzipped- Tony Perrottet
35. The Romanov's: The Final Chapter- Robert K. Masse
36. Appointment in Samarra- John O'Harra
37. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief- Lawrence Wright (Really good!)
38. On Chesil Beach- Ian McEwan
39. The Plot Against America- Philip Roth
40. The Age of Innocence- Edith Wharton
41. The Blind Assassin- Margaret Atwood
42. Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior- Leonard Mlodinow
43. Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All- Paul A. Offit
44. Summer- Edith Wharton
45. Indignation- Philip Roth
46. Engineers of the Soul: In the Footsteps of Stalin's Writers- Frank Westerman
47. Ethan Frome- Edith Wharton
48. Sherlock Holmes: The Scroll of the Dead- Stuart Davies
49. The Luzhin Defense- Vladamir Nabokov
50. The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity- Bruce M. Hood (Very poorly-written. I've never read a book before with so many typos!)
51. The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde- Loren D. Estleman (meh)
52. The Pregnant Widow- Martin Amis
53. Stalin's Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War- Robert Gellately
54. Winesburg, Ohio- Sherwood Anderson
55. Cat's Cradle- Kurt Vonnegut
56. Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories- Thomas Mann
57. A Haunted House- Virginia Woolf

I obviously have some catching up to do! Damn thesis! :lay:

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Re: 50 Book Challenge 2013 AKA Anna Will Kick Your Arse Agai

Post by Clinton Huxley » Mon Apr 29, 2013 7:25 am

Trigger Warning!!!1! :
1) Earthworms And Their Allies by F.E. Beddard.
2) Otter Country by Miriam Darlington.
3) The Horses Of St. Marks by Charles Freeman.
4) Everest ed. Peter Gillman.
5) Five On A Treasure Island by Enid Blyton.
6) Map Addict by Mike Parker.
7) The Art Of Travel by Alain De Botton.
8) The Spiderwick Chronicles Book Two: The Seeing Stone by DiTerlizzi and Black.
9) First Life by David Attenborough and Matt Kaplan.
10) A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeves.
11) Mia The Bridesmaid Fairy by Daisy Meadows.
12) Ottoline And The Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell.
13) South: The Story Of Shackleton's 1914-1917 Expedition by Ernest Shackleton.
14) Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy.
15) On The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin.
16) Stargazing With Binoculars by Robin Scagell and David Frydman.
17) Survivors by Richard Fortey.
18) Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.
19) The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce.
20) Captain Cook's Journal During The First Voyage Around The World by Cpt. James Cook.
21) The Spiderwicke Chronincles book 3: Lucinda's Secret by DiTerlizzi and Black.
22) Coco's Story by Sarah Hawkins.
23) The A-Z of Whisky by Gavin D. Smith.
24) The Borgias by Christoper Hibbert.
25) The Darwinian Hypothesis by T.H. Huxley.
26) Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie.
27) Flatland by Edwin Abbott.
28) Wings: 100 Years Of British Aerial Warfare by Patrick Bishop.
29) The Secret Seven by Enid Blyton.
30) Pip of Pengersick: A Smuggler's Tale by Jac West.
31) The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.
32) The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out Of A Window And Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson.
33) The Particle At The End Of The Universe by Sean Carroll.
34) Supercontinent by Ted Nield.
35) Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel by Jeff Kinney.
36) The Pirates' Treasure by Emily Bearn.
37) The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
38) All The Countries We've Ever Invaded by Stuart Laycock.
39) Do You Think What You Think You Think? By Julian Baggini.
40) Cruel Britannia: A Secret History Of Torture by Ian Cobain.
41) A Rebours by J.K. Huysmans.
42) The Years Of Endurance 1793 - 1802 by Arthur Bryant.
43) Incoming! Or, Why We Should Stop Worrying and Learn To Love The Meteorite by Ted Nield.
44) The Collector by John Fowles.
45) Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
46) Confessions Of An English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey
47) Mr Stink by David Walliams
48) Byzantium by Giles Morgan
49) Everest 1953 by Mick Conefrey
50) Rulers Of India: Akbar by George Bruce Malleson
51) As Easy As Pi by Jamie Buchan.
52) Can Anyone Hear Me? Testing Times With Test Match Special On Tour by Peter Baxter
53) Scotch: The Whisky Of Scotland in Fact And Story by Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart.
54) The Secret Lives f Buildings by Edward Hollis
55) The Student's Guide To Writing by John Peck and Martin Coyle.
56) Quarantine by John Crace
57) The Eye Of The Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, And The Beginnings Of Modern Natural History by David Freedberg
58) The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
59) Finding George Orwell In Burma by Emma Larkin
60) The King's Speech by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi
61) Francis Bacon from the estate of Francis Bacon.
62) The History Of The World In Bite-Sized Chunks by Emma Marriott
63) The Glorious First Of June by Sam Willis
64) A Circus Adventure by Emily Bearn
65) Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
66) Darwin's Lost World by Martin Brasier
67) The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford.
68) Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in 20th Century Physics by George Johnson
69) Neutrino by Frank Close
70) Diving Belles by Lucy Wood.
71) Camps And Trails in China by Roy Chapman Andrews
72) To The Last Round: The Epic British Stand On The Imjin River, 1951 by Andrew Salmon
73) The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
74) The Treehouse by Kathleen Jamie
75) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
76) The Devil and Sherlock Holmes by David Grann.
"I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"

AND MERRY XMAS TO ONE AND All!

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Re: 50 Book Challenge 2013 AKA Anna Will Kick Your Arse Agai

Post by Clinton Huxley » Mon Apr 29, 2013 7:26 am

Trigger Warning!!!1! :
1) Earthworms And Their Allies by F.E. Beddard.
2) Otter Country by Miriam Darlington.
3) The Horses Of St. Marks by Charles Freeman.
4) Everest ed. Peter Gillman.
5) Five On A Treasure Island by Enid Blyton.
6) Map Addict by Mike Parker.
7) The Art Of Travel by Alain De Botton.
8) The Spiderwick Chronicles Book Two: The Seeing Stone by DiTerlizzi and Black.
9) First Life by David Attenborough and Matt Kaplan.
10) A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeves.
11) Mia The Bridesmaid Fairy by Daisy Meadows.
12) Ottoline And The Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell.
13) South: The Story Of Shackleton's 1914-1917 Expedition by Ernest Shackleton.
14) Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy.
15) On The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin.
16) Stargazing With Binoculars by Robin Scagell and David Frydman.
17) Survivors by Richard Fortey.
18) Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.
19) The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce.
20) Captain Cook's Journal During The First Voyage Around The World by Cpt. James Cook.
21) The Spiderwicke Chronincles book 3: Lucinda's Secret by DiTerlizzi and Black.
22) Coco's Story by Sarah Hawkins.
23) The A-Z of Whisky by Gavin D. Smith.
24) The Borgias by Christoper Hibbert.
25) The Darwinian Hypothesis by T.H. Huxley.
26) Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie.
27) Flatland by Edwin Abbott.
28) Wings: 100 Years Of British Aerial Warfare by Patrick Bishop.
29) The Secret Seven by Enid Blyton.
30) Pip of Pengersick: A Smuggler's Tale by Jac West.
31) The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.
32) The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out Of A Window And Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson.
33) The Particle At The End Of The Universe by Sean Carroll.
34) Supercontinent by Ted Nield.
35) Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel by Jeff Kinney.
36) The Pirates' Treasure by Emily Bearn.
37) The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
38) All The Countries We've Ever Invaded by Stuart Laycock.
39) Do You Think What You Think You Think? By Julian Baggini.
40) Cruel Britannia: A Secret History Of Torture by Ian Cobain.
41) A Rebours by J.K. Huysmans.
42) The Years Of Endurance 1793 - 1802 by Arthur Bryant.
43) Incoming! Or, Why We Should Stop Worrying and Learn To Love The Meteorite by Ted Nield.
44) The Collector by John Fowles.
45) Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
46) Confessions Of An English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey
47) Mr Stink by David Walliams
48) Byzantium by Giles Morgan
49) Everest 1953 by Mick Conefrey
50) Rulers Of India: Akbar by George Bruce Malleson
51) As Easy As Pi by Jamie Buchan.
52) Can Anyone Hear Me? Testing Times With Test Match Special On Tour by Peter Baxter
53) Scotch: The Whisky Of Scotland in Fact And Story by Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart.
54) The Secret Lives f Buildings by Edward Hollis
55) The Student's Guide To Writing by John Peck and Martin Coyle.
56) Quarantine by John Crace
57) The Eye Of The Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, And The Beginnings Of Modern Natural History by David Freedberg
58) The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
59) Finding George Orwell In Burma by Emma Larkin
60) The King's Speech by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi
61) Francis Bacon from the estate of Francis Bacon.
62) The History Of The World In Bite-Sized Chunks by Emma Marriott
63) The Glorious First Of June by Sam Willis
64) A Circus Adventure by Emily Bearn
65) Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
66) Darwin's Lost World by Martin Brasier
67) The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford.
68) Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in 20th Century Physics by George Johnson
69) Neutrino by Frank Close
70) Diving Belles by Lucy Wood.
71) Camps And Trails in China by Roy Chapman Andrews
72) To The Last Round: The Epic British Stand On The Imjin River, 1951 by Andrew Salmon
73) The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
74) The Treehouse by Kathleen Jamie
75) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
76) The Devil and Sherlock Holmes by David Grann.
"I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"

AND MERRY XMAS TO ONE AND All!

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Re: 50 Book Challenge 2013 AKA Anna Will Kick Your Arse Agai

Post by charlou » Wed May 01, 2013 12:52 am

Some of you are super fast readers :shock:

I'm ploddingly slow with reading .. got a few easy reads on the go atm...

The Avacado Plantation, Boom or bust in the Australian film industry, by film writer and critic, David Stratton - aptly titled and well researched commentary on the effect of the 10BA tax concessions on the Australian film industry during the 80s .. includes a comprehensive look at 270 Australian films from that decade. An interesting read (I hear David Stratton's voice - he does a movie review program with Margaret Pomeranz, for the ABC).

What is Your Dangerous Idea? Today's leading thinkers on the unthinkable, a compilation edited by John Brockman. Content is as it says on the tin, with each contributor summing up their response to the title question in a few pages. Nothing new or shocking in what I've read so far, though some mildly provocative opinions nonetheless.

Free to a Good Home, by Catherine Deveny. Witty and sharp tongued, though her views often don't resonate for me.
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