50 Book Challenge 2010

[Darkchilde]

This was one of the things that were running at RDF, and thought to resurrect it. The rules are simple:

1. 50 books.
2. A book must be about 50 pages
3. Books you started in 09 and finish in 10 count on the 10 list.
4. Re-reads count
5. If a book has two books in it it counts as two (Ex. An Orwell book with the animal farm and 1984, counts as two.)
6. No rules on what to read, besides what's listed.
7. This is for fun so enjoy yourself.

[Hollis]

Not sure what's going on with the Dawkins website: might as well post here for now.
Where did I leave off?....

59.) A Choice of Emily Dickinson's Verse: edited by Ted Hughes

60.) Kindergeschichten von Peter Bichsel

[Wiðercora]

Huzzah!

The story thus far...

1. The Atheist's Guide to Christmas - ed. Ariane Sherine
2. Redemption Ark - Alistair Reynolds
3. Think on My Words: An Exploration of Shakespeare's Language - David Crystal
4. Tickling the English - Dara O'Briain
5. Nil: A Land Beyond Belief - James Turner
6. The Assassination of the Prime Minister: John Bellingham and the Murder of Spencer Perceval - David C. Hanrahan
7. 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction - Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

Currently Reading: Richard Dawkins' The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

[Darkchilde]

1. Reaper Man - Terry Pratchett
2. Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan

Currently reading: Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs.

[Hollis]

61.) Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

62.) Selected Poems: 1965 - 1975 by Seamus Heaney

[Hollis]

63.) Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov

[Chinaski]

1) Charles Bukowski - Post Office
2) Chuck Palahniuk - Choke
3) Albert Camus - The Stranger
So far. Don't have much time to read, school is exhausting.

[Animavore]

1) Being and Nothingness - Satre
2) The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein.
3) Chaos - James Gleick.

[ficklefiend]

Do audio books count?

1- Richard Feynman - the pleasure of finding things out
2- RTD - the writer's tale the final chapters (doctor who scripts and stuff)
3- (not started) Cider House Rules

I hardly have time for reading this semester.

[Wasted Tourist]

1)DBC Pierre - Vernon God Little
2)Christopher Hitchens - Letters to a Young Contrarian
3)Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses
4)Ian McEwan - Amsterdam
5)Cormac McCarthy - The Road
6)Richard Dawkins- The Blind Watchmaker
7)Christopher Hitchens - Love, Poverty and War
8)Stephen King - On Writing
9)Stephen King - Under The Dome
10)Ben Dupre - 50 Philosophy Ideas YoU Really Need to Know
11)Noam Chomsky - What We Say Goes
12)Ian McEwan - Atonement
13)Richard Dawkins - Unweaving the Rainbow
14)Noam Chomsky - Understanding Power
15)George Orwell - Animal Farm
16)Noam Chomsky - Profit Over People
17)Christopher Hitchens - The Missionary Position
18)Noam Chomsky - Hegemony or Survival
19)James Joyce - Dubliners

[Wasted Tourist]

1)DBC Pierre - Vernon God Little
2)Christopher Hitchens - Letters to a Young Contrarian
3)Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses
4)Ian McEwan - Amsterdam
5)Cormac McCarthy - The Road
6)Richard Dawkins- The Blind Watchmaker
7)Christopher Hitchens - Love, Poverty and War
8)Stephen King - On Writing
9)Stephen King - Under The Dome
10)Ben Dupre - 50 Philosophy Ideas YoU Really Need to Know
11)Noam Chomsky - What We Say Goes
12)Ian McEwan - Atonement
13)Richard Dawkins - Unweaving the Rainbow
14)Noam Chomsky - Understanding Power
15)George Orwell - Animal Farm
16)Noam Chomsky - Profit Over People
17)Christopher Hitchens - The Missionary Position
18)Noam Chomsky - Hegemony or Survival
19)James Joyce - Dubliners
20)Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach

[Mantisdreamz]

I dug mine up from RDF:

Here goes.... I give myself until June 1st to read these books, in order And then I'll attempt another 25 from there....

Edit, taking a look at these now, I think I'm going to trash some of these. *Removed Ayn Rand, Emily Bronte, and John Irving* Phew, I feel much better.

Douglas Adams
1) Life, the Universe & Everything (currently reading this)
2) So Long and Thanks for all the Fish
3) Mostly Harmless

Richard Dawkins
4) The Selfish Gene (currently reading this)
5) The Extended Phenotype
6) The Greatest Show on Earth (re-read)

Stephen King
7) On Writing (thanks macguffin for the idea)

Victor L Wooten
8) The Music Lesson

George R R Martin - A Song of Fire & Ice series
9) A Clash of Kings (currently reading this)
10) A Storm of Swords
11) A Feast for Crows
12) A Dance with Dragons

Brian Greene
13) The Elegant Universe (humble attempt)
14) The Fabric of the Cosmos (humble attempt)

Stephen King - The Dark Tower Series
17) The Gunslinger
18) The Drawing of the Three
19) The Wastelands
20) Wizard & Glass
21) Wolves of the Calla
22) Song of Susannah
23) The Dark Tower





I gave up for awhile on reading, (2 weeks), so I think I have quite a ways to go still to finish these.

[Hollis]

64.) Katz und Maus von Günter Grass

[hotshoe]

Funny, almost the only post I regret losing from RDnet was the 50 book challenge. So, here is mine:

The Snack Thief - Andrea Camilleri; translated by Stephen Sartarelli
Third in a series of detective novels about a Sicilian detective, Inspector Montalbano

Stitch'n bitch : the Knitter's Handbook - Debbie Stoller

The City & the City - China Miéville
Mind-bending story about a city divided amongst two nations

The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett
An early discworld novel

Rain Gods - James Lee Burke
crime thriller set in Texas, by the great James Lee Burke -- but it's marred by improbable coincidences and much repetition of themes

Ringworld - Larry Niven
science fiction classic I have read three (or four?) times, but not in this millenium. Holds up pretty well, with interesting speculations about the tradeoff between lucky genes and free will

Ringworld Engineers - Larry Niven
after re-reading Ringworld, I wanted to re-read the sequel as well. Less philosophical than the first.

Tripoint - C.J. Cherryh
Maybe the least interesting of the Merchanter novels, marred by emphasis on how being fathered by a rapist had damaged the protagonist Tom Bowe-Hawkins. Nonetheless, compelling.

Foreigner - C. J. Cherryh
The first book of the "Foreigner universe" where human colonists are stranded on a planet inhabited by an alien civilization, the Atevi, who have no feelings of love or affection but an overruling concept of duty and loyalty. The only human character in most of the book is the translator/paidhi Bren Cameron.


Invader - C. J. Cherryh
Second book, where Bren Cameron suddenly has to deal with the appearance of a human space ship in orbit and the reactions to it in both Atevi and human colonial politics

Inheritor - C. J. Cherryh
Third in this series, with more overt action, as war is threatened by conservatives on both sides

[Wasted Tourist]

1)DBC Pierre - Vernon God Little
2)Christopher Hitchens - Letters to a Young Contrarian
3)Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses
4)Ian McEwan - Amsterdam
5)Cormac McCarthy - The Road
6)Richard Dawkins- The Blind Watchmaker
7)Christopher Hitchens - Love, Poverty and War
8)Stephen King - On Writing
9)Stephen King - Under The Dome
10)Ben Dupre - 50 Philosophy Ideas YoU Really Need to Know
11)Noam Chomsky - What We Say Goes
12)Ian McEwan - Atonement
13)Richard Dawkins - Unweaving the Rainbow
14)Noam Chomsky - Understanding Power
15)George Orwell - Animal Farm
16)Noam Chomsky - Profit Over People
17)Christopher Hitchens - The Missionary Position
18)Noam Chomsky - Hegemony or Survival
19)James Joyce - Dubliners
20)Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach
21)Ian McEwan - The Cement Garden

HooooKay Just after finishing that