What Do you Read

I registered just to see what books you'd read and the link takes me to a page where it says how to add books. :x
 
Planet-man said:
I have to register with something called "anobii" to see the page, which I'm assuming is some sort of Swedish porn site and not doing(as much as I love the Swedish women).
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ProjectX2 said:
I registered just to see what books you'd read and the link takes me to a page where it says how to add books. :x
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I didn't know you had to register to see it, that sucks.

I don't know what happened to you, Proj, but the site's basically like Shelfari, except you can the status of books you've read, like Reading, Finished, Not Started, Abandoned, etc, and the dates you started and finished them, as well as give them a star rating.

I'll just post my list later then.
 
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Everything Bad is good for you- 4/5 - According to this, Pop culture is making you smarter. It's well written and very convincing.

Let it Blurt - 3.5/5 - Lester Bangs was an interesting guy and a good writer. However, I did not initially realize that this was a book about him by some other guy, not the writings of Lester himself, which thoroughly dampened my enjoyment of the book.

The Once and Future King - 4.5/5 - I'd been meaning to read this for awhile. It's as good as it's reputation suggests.

The Secret Servant - 2/5 - I'm usually a big fan of Daniel Silva's writing, and Gabriel Allon is a ****ing badass, but I just couldn't get into this. How many times can Gabriel be restoring some art, only to have some big, bad (and usually Christian) antagonists terrorize some ****, causing him to have to go and kick their asses? Silva's writing is solid, but he needs some new stories.

The Bourne Betrayal - 2.5/5 - I liked the Bourne Identity. I liked the Bourne Supremacy. I thought that the Bourne Ultimatum was boring and stupid. I thought the Bourne Legacy didn't match the tone of the other books properly (probably because it was written by someone else) and I this one just appeared to be cashing in on the new movie.

Songs of the Doomed - More notes on the death of the American dream - 5/5 - It's Hunter S. Thompson. In case you don't know, that makes this one of the best and most entertaining books ever written.

Simple Genius - 3/5 - The story was kind of contrived and the plotting was messy at some points, but it still managed to be a good read.

The Fall of Baghdad - 4/5 - It reminded me that not all Journalists are full of ****.

The Dark Tower VII - 1.5/5 - Worst. Ending. Ever. Still kind of well written, but I think Stephen King forgot what happened in the earlier books.

I know I've read more than this, but I can't think of any others. When I do, I'll add them.
 
This is what I've read so far. It's been a really off year for me, reading mostly series books and other crap, and nothing Important or any non-fiction. In order of when I've finished them this year:

1. Dark Tower 1: The Gunslinger, new and expanded, by Stephen King. 12/30/06 - 1/2/07. Obviously, a very quick read. King does a good job creating a different world (or a future of our world or whatever), and his made up speech is far less grating than the way he writes in his other books. This is the first King I ever read. I liked it, but I actually have little interest in continuing the series.

2. The Colorado Kid by Stephen King. 1/27/07 - 1/28/07. A very short book and easy read, it's sold as a mystery novel but is really nothing of the sort. It's a character study, and a kind of pointless one at that. Not a bad way to spend some time, but by no means a good book. My first exposure to King writing in the real world and the first time his style really annoyed me.

3. Cell by Stephen King. 2/1/07 - 2/20/07. I was on a King roll. My frist "real" King book, full length horror novel. Again, an enjoyable read that really did nothing for me aside from pure entertainment, with less annoying King-ness than The Colorado Kid.

4. The Godwulf Manuscript by Robert B. Parker. Sometime 2007 - 4/3/07. One of the few books I've read more than once. The first in the series of Spenser (for hire) novels. A good start to the series that I went long enough between reading (about seven years) to forget most of what happened. This series gets great in a few books.

5. Stargate SG-1: The First Amendment by Ashley McConnell. Sometime 2007 - 4/26/07. Enh. Really kinda crappy. Written fairly early in the SG-1 series' life, some of the characters are off or their names are spelled wrong. Less than a hundred pages. Pretty crappy.

6. God Save the Child by Robert B. Parker. Sometime 2007 - 6/5/07. The second Spenser novel. Very good, highly recommended. The series really comes into its own here.

7. Star Wars: New Jedi Order - Destiny's Way by Walter Jon Williams. 1/6/07 - 6/9/07. Pretty good for a Star Wars novel, with some real emotion as the younger Jedis get Knighted.

8. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling. Sometime 2007 - 7/13/07. First of three Harry Potter books I read this year. One of my least favorite of the series, probably second only to Order of the Phoenix.

9. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling. 7/21/07 - 7/27/07. Probably my favorite Harry Potter book.

10. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling. 7/15/07 - 8/16/07. A good book, obviously. If the series continued to be harmless little adventures of kids in magic school I would still love it.

11. Getting Even by Woody Allen. Sometime 2006 - 8/16/07. Collection of humorous stories by Woody Allen, one of the funniest books I've ever read and the fourth book this year I read for the sceond time. Highly recommended.

12. Star Wars: New Jedi Order - Force Heretic 1: Remnant by Sean Williams and Shane Dix. 8/13/07 - 10/4/07. Another good Star Wars book.

I read a bunch of books at once, which is why some of them take so long to finish, so in teh next few weeks I'll finish off a bunch more. According to Anobii, I've finished 12 books this year for a total of 3734 pages, but I think some fo their page counts are off and it's more than that.
 
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New Jedi Order are great books , nice pick Joey

Here , you earned a Joey snack

*gives him a Joey snack*
 
SSJmole said:
New Jedi Order are great books , nice pick Joey
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Joe's got more intestinal fortitude than I do. I bailed out of the New Jedi Order books after the first one. Too depressing for my tastes.

Posting our rankings and thoughts on the books we've read this year is a neat idea. Unfortunately, when I started typing up just the titles of what I've read this year, I found I had 62 on my list. (Which doesn't include any children's picture books, comics/graphic novels, or any of the books I've read for book discussion groups. :shock: I so need to get a life....)

I think that many books might be a bit overwhelming. On the other hand, it might also take up so much space that E will have to give us a separate thread for this topic. :twisted:
 
Started on the second Kenzie novel, Darkness Take My Hand. I forgot how badass Pine the hitman was. And how quickly Bubba goes from your standard redneck ****kicker into a parody of unstoppable racists. Still, its been long enough since I've read these that I don't remember exactly what happened so I'm enjoying myself.
 
Haven't read an exorbitant amount of books this year, but let's see what i can remember.

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood- Dark and funny post apocalypse type of story told in alternating flashback stories about the main character, Snowman, and how he wound up homeless on a beach with a bunch of childlike grown adults worshiping him and genetically mutated animals roaming around.

Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandresakaran- reports from a reporter from the Washington Post stationed inside the Green Zone in Iraq about the (mis)handling of the war in the first year and a half or so after the invasion.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - by etc., etc. nuff said. thrilling, then slightly disappointing.

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman(!!) and Terry Pratchett- i'm reading this now. Lot's of fun. Basically the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Omen.
 
Seldes Katne said:
Joe's got more intestinal fortitude than I do. I bailed out of the New Jedi Order books after the first one. Too depressing for my tastes.

Posting our rankings and thoughts on the books we've read this year is a neat idea. Unfortunately, when I started typing up just the titles of what I've read this year, I found I had 62 on my list. (Which doesn't include any children's picture books, comics/graphic novels, or any of the books I've read for book discussion groups. :shock: I so need to get a life....)

I think that many books might be a bit overwhelming. On the other hand, it might also take up so much space that E will have to give us a separate thread for this topic. :twisted:
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I had somewhere in the forties.

Again, not including Graphic Novels.

Dancanread said:
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman(!!) and Terry Pratchett- i'm reading this now. Lot's of fun. Basically the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Omen.
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I may have to read this again soon. I adore this book

"I think I'll name him......Dog."
 
Fast Food Nation. This book is disgusting, not because of what it says about food, but because taxpayer money is going to pay some ******* monopoly to abuse their employees. ****ing capitalism.
 
I'm a notoriously slow reader with a short literary attention span. I always have a million books going at once and make almost no progress on any of them. It's a curse.
 
TwilightEL said:
Fast Food Nation. This book is disgusting, not because of what it says about food, but because taxpayer money is going to pay some ******* monopoly to abuse their employees. ****ing capitalism.
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All those tax breaks to hire non-unionized workers.

I read that a few years ago and it FREAKED me out. did you read about the flavor manufacturing plants in Jersey yet?
 
Joe Kalicki said:
I'm a notoriously slow reader with a short literary attention span. I always have a million books going at once and make almost no progress on any of them. It's a curse.
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Looking at your avatar i wouldn't talk about curses too much.

:D
 
Dancanread said:
All those tax breaks to hire non-unionized workers.

I read that a few years ago and it FREAKED me out. did you read about the flavor manufacturing plants in Jersey yet?
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I know. I actually already knew most of the food stuff, because let's face it... people like grossing people out. But the tax stuff isn't gross, it's just shameful, like how big eugenics were in the 1930s. It's the stuff nobody wants to talk about because it's an embarrassment to the human race.
 
TwilightEL said:
I know. I actually already knew most of the food stuff, because let's face it... people like grossing people out. But the tax stuff isn't gross, it's just shameful, like how big eugenics were in the 1930s. It's the stuff nobody wants to talk about because it's an embarrassment to the human race.
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word.
 
I finished Cell last night. I enjoyed it a lot. The only part of the book I found weak was the bit where they stayed with The Head for a while, for some reason. I'd give it a 4.5/5.
 
Finished The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three last night. A better read than the first book. The only part I felt dragged was The Lady of the Shadows segment. 4.5/5

I also read Stephen King's On Writing about a week ago and found it pretty good. It helped quite a lot and I'll have to start testing new skills.

I'm passing The Big Sleep because I can't really get into it and I've seen the plot too many times now (Desolation Jones, Big Lebowski etc.) So now I'm moving onto Dresden Files Book 3: Grave Peril and I'll read the occasional Stephen King short story from his Night Shift collection.
 
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