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by anna09 » Sun Jun 03, 2012 9:49 pm
51. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest- Stieg Larsson
52. Crome Yellow- Aldous Huxley
53. The Child in Time- Ian McEwan
54. Space Chronicles- Neil Degrasse Tyson
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by Clinton Huxley » Tue Jun 05, 2012 12:04 pm
1) Tweeting the Universe by Marcus Chown and Govert Schilling
2) Byzantium: The Decline and Fall by John Julius Norwich
3) Imprimatur by Monaldi and Sorti (Finally, turned into a slog, this one)
4) The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald (I'd say it was good, rather than great...)
5) Vertigo - W.G. Sebald
6) Birdlistening - Simon Barnes
7) The Pig That Wants To Be EAten - Julian Baggini
8) The Better Angels Of Our Nature - Steven Pinker
9) Temeraire - Naomi Novik
10) Letters To My Torturer - Houshang Asadi
11) Trick or Treatment - Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst.
12) The Beginning Of Infinity - David Deutsch.
13) How To Teach Quantum Physics To Your Dog - Chad Orzel
14) Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
15) King Arthur and the Grail - Richard Cavendish
16) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - translation by Simon Armitage
17) The Modern Library- Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil
18) The Peregrine - J.A. Baker
19) The Crusades Vol. 1 - Sir Steven Runciman
20) Blind Descent - James Tabor - extreme caving and death
21) The Etymologicom - Mark Forsyth - a romp through the English language. Enjoyed it immensely.
22) The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
23) Symbiotic Planet - Lynn Margulis. Hmmmmmm. Picked up for a quid at the second hand bookshop
24) In Search of Nature - E. O. Wilson
25) A Universe From Nothing - Laurence Krauss
26) Flashman - George MacDonald Fraser
27) Collins Complete Photography Course
28) Supersense - Bruce Hood
29) Royal Flash - George MacDonald Fraser
30) The Wasteland and other poems - T.S. Eliot
31) Flashman's Lady - George MacDonald Fraser
32) Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney
33) You Can't Read This Book by Nick Cohen
34) Areopagitica by John Milton
35) The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer
36) The Trial by Franz Kafka
37) Being Dead by Jim Crace.
38) Map Of A Nation by Rachel Hewitt. The story of the Ordnance Survey, producer of the world bestest national maps.
39) Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Nuff said, everyone should read. So it goes.
40) The Great Arc by John Keay. The story of the loons who completed the great trigonemetrical survey of India. Including the deranged officer who burnt off all his toes with a candle.
41) Intelligent Life In The Universe by I.S. Shklovskii and Carl Sagan.
42) The God Instinct by Jesse Bering
43) The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe by Douglas Adams.
44) Bomber Boys by Patrick Bishop
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by camoguard » Tue Jun 05, 2012 3:19 pm
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by Clinton Huxley » Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:06 pm
1) Tweeting the Universe by Marcus Chown and Govert Schilling
2) Byzantium: The Decline and Fall by John Julius Norwich
3) Imprimatur by Monaldi and Sorti (Finally, turned into a slog, this one)
4) The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald (I'd say it was good, rather than great...)
5) Vertigo - W.G. Sebald
6) Birdlistening - Simon Barnes
7) The Pig That Wants To Be EAten - Julian Baggini
8) The Better Angels Of Our Nature - Steven Pinker
9) Temeraire - Naomi Novik
10) Letters To My Torturer - Houshang Asadi
11) Trick or Treatment - Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst.
12) The Beginning Of Infinity - David Deutsch.
13) How To Teach Quantum Physics To Your Dog - Chad Orzel
14) Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
15) King Arthur and the Grail - Richard Cavendish
16) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - translation by Simon Armitage
17) The Modern Library- Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil
18) The Peregrine - J.A. Baker
19) The Crusades Vol. 1 - Sir Steven Runciman
20) Blind Descent - James Tabor - extreme caving and death
21) The Etymologicom - Mark Forsyth - a romp through the English language. Enjoyed it immensely.
22) The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
23) Symbiotic Planet - Lynn Margulis. Hmmmmmm. Picked up for a quid at the second hand bookshop
24) In Search of Nature - E. O. Wilson
25) A Universe From Nothing - Laurence Krauss
26) Flashman - George MacDonald Fraser
27) Collins Complete Photography Course
28) Supersense - Bruce Hood
29) Royal Flash - George MacDonald Fraser
30) The Wasteland and other poems - T.S. Eliot
31) Flashman's Lady - George MacDonald Fraser
32) Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney
33) You Can't Read This Book by Nick Cohen
34) Areopagitica by John Milton
35) The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer
36) The Trial by Franz Kafka
37) Being Dead by Jim Crace.
38) Map Of A Nation by Rachel Hewitt. The story of the Ordnance Survey, producer of the world bestest national maps.
39) Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Nuff said, everyone should read. So it goes.
40) The Great Arc by John Keay. The story of the loons who completed the great trigonemetrical survey of India. Including the deranged officer who burnt off all his toes with a candle.
41) Intelligent Life In The Universe by I.S. Shklovskii and Carl Sagan.
42) The God Instinct by Jesse Bering
43) The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe by Douglas Adams.
44) Bomber Boys by Patrick Bishop
45) Leonardo: Anatomy - app by Touch Press
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by Clinton Huxley » Thu Jun 07, 2012 9:21 pm
1) Tweeting the Universe by Marcus Chown and Govert Schilling
2) Byzantium: The Decline and Fall by John Julius Norwich
3) Imprimatur by Monaldi and Sorti (Finally, turned into a slog, this one)
4) The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald (I'd say it was good, rather than great...)
5) Vertigo - W.G. Sebald
6) Birdlistening - Simon Barnes
7) The Pig That Wants To Be EAten - Julian Baggini
8) The Better Angels Of Our Nature - Steven Pinker
9) Temeraire - Naomi Novik
10) Letters To My Torturer - Houshang Asadi
11) Trick or Treatment - Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst.
12) The Beginning Of Infinity - David Deutsch.
13) How To Teach Quantum Physics To Your Dog - Chad Orzel
14) Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
15) King Arthur and the Grail - Richard Cavendish
16) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - translation by Simon Armitage
17) The Modern Library- Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil
18) The Peregrine - J.A. Baker
19) The Crusades Vol. 1 - Sir Steven Runciman
20) Blind Descent - James Tabor - extreme caving and death
21) The Etymologicom - Mark Forsyth - a romp through the English language. Enjoyed it immensely.
22) The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
23) Symbiotic Planet - Lynn Margulis. Hmmmmmm. Picked up for a quid at the second hand bookshop
24) In Search of Nature - E. O. Wilson
25) A Universe From Nothing - Laurence Krauss
26) Flashman - George MacDonald Fraser
27) Collins Complete Photography Course
28) Supersense - Bruce Hood
29) Royal Flash - George MacDonald Fraser
30) The Wasteland and other poems - T.S. Eliot
31) Flashman's Lady - George MacDonald Fraser
32) Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney
33) You Can't Read This Book by Nick Cohen
34) Areopagitica by John Milton
35) The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer
36) The Trial by Franz Kafka
37) Being Dead by Jim Crace.
38) Map Of A Nation by Rachel Hewitt. The story of the Ordnance Survey, producer of the world bestest national maps.
39) Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Nuff said, everyone should read. So it goes.
40) The Great Arc by John Keay. The story of the loons who completed the great trigonemetrical survey of India. Including the deranged officer who burnt off all his toes with a candle.
41) Intelligent Life In The Universe by I.S. Shklovskii and Carl Sagan.
42) The God Instinct by Jesse Bering
43) The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe by Douglas Adams.
44) Bomber Boys by Patrick Bishop
45) Leonardo: Anatomy - app by Touch Press
46) Candide by Voltaire.
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by anna09 » Thu Jun 07, 2012 11:01 pm
51. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest- Stieg Larsson
52. Crome Yellow- Aldous Huxley
53. The Child in Time- Ian McEwan
54. Space Chronicles- Neil Degrasse Tyson
55. Little Man, What Now?- Hans Fallada
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by orpheus » Fri Jun 08, 2012 12:20 am
1) La Maison de Rendez-Vous - Alain Robbe-Grillet (Finally found my way out of this delicious maze of a book)
2) Amaryllis Night and Day - Russell Hoban (in his memory, because he died late last year).
3) The Medusa Frequency - Russell Hoban (see above)
4) Kleinzeit - Russell Hoban (see above. I miss Russ. Immense loss.)
5) Austerlitz - W.G. Sebald (you must read this. Richard Elder said "think of WG Sebald as memory's Einstein.)
6) Ill Seen, Ill Said - Samuel Beckett (good old Sam. Telling it like it is.)
7) Molloy - Samuel Beckett
8) Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett
9) The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett
10) Looking at Giacometti - David Sylvester (This is one of the most thoughtful and insightful books on art)
11) A Giacometti Portrait - James Lord (lighter, but a nice portrait in words that Lord wrote while Giacometti painted Lord's portrait)
12) Conversations with Boulez: Thoughts on Conducting
13) Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
14) Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges
15) Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson (reread)
16) Poems - Paul Celan (Michael Hamburger trans.)
17) The Diaries of Paul Klee
18) Piero della Francesca; A Mathematician's Art - J.V. Field
19) The Dialectic of Duration - Gaston Bachelard
20) Conversations with Woody Allen - Eric Lax
21) Harrison Birtwistle in Recent Years - Michael Hall
22) Harrison Birtwistle: The Mask of Orpheus - Jonathan Cross
23) Cycladic Art - J. Lesley Fitton
24) Thoughts of Sorts - Georges Perec
25) How It Was: A Memoir of Samuel Beckett - Anne Atik
26) Modern Artists on Art: 10 Unabridged Essays - Robert Herbert (ed.)
27) Interviews with Francis Bacon - David Sylvester (another great one by Sylvester. One of the few really good art critics. And Bacon had a lot of insight into his own and others' work.)
28) Le Grand Meaulnes - Alain Fournier (those who have read this will know.)
29) Existential Psychotherapy - Irvin Yalom
30) Selected Poems - Mark Strand
31) The Magus - John Fowles (loved the descriptions of the Greek islands. Hated the characters. He should have left out all the people.)
32) Writings and Interviews - Richard Serra (one of my favorite artists. Fiercely articulate.)
33) Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett - James Knowlson (reread)
That's all for now. It's been a busy year.
I think that language has a lot to do with interfering in our relationship to direct experience. A simple thing like metaphor will allows you to go to a place and say 'this is like that'. Well, this isn't like that. This is like this.
—Richard Serra
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by anna09 » Fri Jun 08, 2012 7:17 pm
51. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest- Stieg Larsson
52. Crome Yellow- Aldous Huxley
53. The Child in Time- Ian McEwan
54. Space Chronicles- Neil Degrasse Tyson
55. Little Man, What Now?- Hans Fallada
56. The Cement Garden- Ian McEwan
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by macdoc » Sat Jun 09, 2012 2:55 am
40 Fifty Shades Darker- E L James
41 Fifty Shades Freed - E L James
42. What Came After - Sam Winston
43. Divergent - Veronica Roth
44 Insurgent - Veronica Roth
45. Book One: The Sea of Storms by Mark Whiteway
46 Book Two:The World of Ice and Stars
47 Book Three:The Crucible of Dawn
in progress
48. Swerve: How the World became Modern - reading small bits at a time - fascinating if a bit dry
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by macdoc » Mon Jun 11, 2012 2:10 pm
40 Fifty Shades Darker- E L James
41 Fifty Shades Freed - E L James
42. What Came After - Sam Winston
43. Divergent - Veronica Roth
44 Insurgent - Veronica Roth
45. Book One: The Sea of Storms by Mark Whiteway
46 Book Two:The World of Ice and Stars
47 Book Three:The Crucible of Dawn
48 Rough Winds: Extreme Weather and Climate Change
49. Hardwired. Walter Jon Williams <<<, damn this is a cracker jack novel for cyberpunk lovers!!!!.
in progress
50. Voice of the Whirlwind ..Walter Jon Wlliams - similar theme to Hardwired
51. Swerve: How the World became Modern - reading small bits at a time - fascinating if a bit dry
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by anna09 » Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:25 am
51. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest- Stieg Larsson
52. Crome Yellow- Aldous Huxley
53. The Child in Time- Ian McEwan
54. Space Chronicles- Neil Degrasse Tyson
55. Little Man, What Now?- Hans Fallada
56. The Cement Garden- Ian McEwan
57. Saturday- Ian McEwan
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by anna09 » Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:17 am
51. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest- Stieg Larsson
52. Crome Yellow- Aldous Huxley
53. The Child in Time- Ian McEwan
54. Space Chronicles- Neil Degrasse Tyson
55. Little Man, What Now?- Hans Fallada
56. The Cement Garden- Ian McEwan
57. Saturday- Ian McEwan
58. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastraphe- Robert Gellately
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by macdoc » Thu Jun 14, 2012 1:37 am

Can i suggest the 3 Biographies as a followup ( slow ya down a bit woman )
I read them back to back and while the first two were good Stalin was a chore - damn Russion names to keep track of
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by Clinton Huxley » Thu Jun 14, 2012 6:40 am
1) Tweeting the Universe by Marcus Chown and Govert Schilling
2) Byzantium: The Decline and Fall by John Julius Norwich
3) Imprimatur by Monaldi and Sorti (Finally, turned into a slog, this one)
4) The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald (I'd say it was good, rather than great...)
5) Vertigo - W.G. Sebald
6) Birdlistening - Simon Barnes
7) The Pig That Wants To Be EAten - Julian Baggini
8) The Better Angels Of Our Nature - Steven Pinker
9) Temeraire - Naomi Novik
10) Letters To My Torturer - Houshang Asadi
11) Trick or Treatment - Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst.
12) The Beginning Of Infinity - David Deutsch.
13) How To Teach Quantum Physics To Your Dog - Chad Orzel
14) Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
15) King Arthur and the Grail - Richard Cavendish
16) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - translation by Simon Armitage
17) The Modern Library- Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil
18) The Peregrine - J.A. Baker
19) The Crusades Vol. 1 - Sir Steven Runciman
20) Blind Descent - James Tabor - extreme caving and death
21) The Etymologicom - Mark Forsyth - a romp through the English language. Enjoyed it immensely.
22) The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
23) Symbiotic Planet - Lynn Margulis. Hmmmmmm. Picked up for a quid at the second hand bookshop
24) In Search of Nature - E. O. Wilson
25) A Universe From Nothing - Laurence Krauss
26) Flashman - George MacDonald Fraser
27) Collins Complete Photography Course
28) Supersense - Bruce Hood
29) Royal Flash - George MacDonald Fraser
30) The Wasteland and other poems - T.S. Eliot
31) Flashman's Lady - George MacDonald Fraser
32) Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney
33) You Can't Read This Book by Nick Cohen
34) Areopagitica by John Milton
35) The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer
36) The Trial by Franz Kafka
37) Being Dead by Jim Crace.
38) Map Of A Nation by Rachel Hewitt. The story of the Ordnance Survey, producer of the world bestest national maps.
39) Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Nuff said, everyone should read. So it goes.
40) The Great Arc by John Keay. The story of the loons who completed the great trigonemetrical survey of India. Including the deranged officer who burnt off all his toes with a candle.
41) Intelligent Life In The Universe by I.S. Shklovskii and Carl Sagan.
42) The God Instinct by Jesse Bering
43) The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe by Douglas Adams.
44) Bomber Boys by Patrick Bishop
45) Leonardo: Anatomy - app by Touch Press
46) Candide by Voltaire
47) The Epigenetics Revolution by Nessa Carey.
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by anna09 » Thu Jun 14, 2012 4:10 pm
macdoc wrote: Can i suggest the 3 Biographies as a followup ( slow ya down a bit woman )
I think I need a break from commies and nazis; that book was huge!
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