Professor Coldheart ([info]perich) wrote,
@ 2007-12-16 19:49:00
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Entry tags:50 books, books

Here's my fifty books progress tracker for 2008 (technically, December 1 2007 to November 30 2008).

The [TABLE] tag fucked up the spacing on the page last year (LiveJournal hates it), so I'm just using commas now. This way I can still import them into Excel if I want.

1, World War Z, Max Brooks, December 16 2007
2, A Very Long Engagement, Sebastien Japrisot, December 22 2007
3, The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara, December 26 2007
4, A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole, December 31 2007
5, The Myth of the Rational Voter, Bryan Caplan, January 12 2008
6, God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible, Adam Nicolson, January 20 2008
7, Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger, January 26 2008
8, The Towers of the Sunset, L.E. Modesitt, January 28 2008
9, Life of Pi, Yann Martel, February 8 2008
10, American Gods, Neil Gaiman, February 18 2008
11, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier, February 23 2008
12, This Gun For Hire, Graham Greene, February 29 2008
13, Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut, March 8 2008
14, The Plot Against America, Philip Roth, March 17 2008
15, The Color of Magic, Terry Pratchett, March 26 2008
16, The Space Merchants, C.M. Kornbluth, March 29 2008
17, Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger, April 8 2008
18, Mind Performance Hacks, Ron Hale Evans, April 11 2008
19, Little Brother, Cory Doctorow, April 20 2008
20, The Edge of Tomorrow, Isaac Asimov, April 26 2008
21, The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood, May 6 2008
22, The Best of Fritz Leiber, Fritz Leiber, May 15 2008
23, Virtual Unrealities, Alfred Bester, May 18 2008
24, Bridge of Birds, Barry Hughart, May 23 2008
25, The Defection of A.J. Lewinter, Robert Littell, May 25 2008
26, The Pacific and Other Stories, Mark Helprin, June 11 2008
27, The Ministry of Fear, Graham Greene, June 26 2008
28, Camp Concentration, Thomas Disch, July 9 2008
29, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, July 18 2008
30, Soon I Will Be Invincible, Austin Grossman, July 20 2008
31, Love in the Ruins, Walker Percy, July 24 2008
32, Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi, August 12 2008
33, Downtown Owl, Chuck Klosterman, August 16 2008
34, The Mote in God's Eye, Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle, August 23 2008
35, The Knight, Gene Wolfe, August 27 2008
36, Smiley's People, John LeCarre, September 8 2008
37, The 4-Hour Work Week, Tim Ferriss, September 9 2008
38, Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett, September 14 2008
39, The Wizard, Gene Wolfe, October 9 2008
40, A Fire Upon The Deep, Vernor Vinge, October 22 2008
41, The Alchemist, Paolo Coelho, October 24 2008
42, Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson, November 2 2008
43, Off The Books, Sudhir Venkatesh, November 6 2008
44, King of the Vagabonds, Neal Stephenson, November 14 2008
45, The 33 Strategies of War, Robert Greene, November 26 2008
46, Now The Hell Will Start, Brendan Koerner, November 27 2008
47, The Monster of Florence, Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi, November 28 2008
48, Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, November 29 2008
49, Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris, November 29 2008
50, Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive, Noah Goldstein, December 5 2008
51, The Confidential Agent, Graham Greene, June 6 2008




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[info]duckierose
2007-12-17 02:55 am UTC (link)
Hey, that's what I'm reading right now! It's taking me longer than usual, though, because I can't read it right before bed, because it gives me messed up dreams.

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[info]perich
2007-12-17 03:01 am UTC (link)
It made for some very intense lunchtime reading at work.

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[info]duckierose
2007-12-17 03:09 am UTC (link)
That sounds like a very safe time to read it. I've been reading for an hour or so at night, then switching to something light and dumb to distract my brain.

When I first got the Walking Dead graphic novels I could not put them down, and kept having terrifying dreams.

Thankfully, I have learned my lesson.

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[info]herbaliser
2007-12-17 06:50 am UTC (link)
I really like to use allconsuming myself.

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[info]perich
2007-12-17 12:20 pm UTC (link)
Intriguing.

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[info]nessur
2008-10-23 06:24 pm UTC (link)
How far did you get?

A schedule is good, and it's okay to fall off them as long as you know how to get back on it. Making a mistake and calling a plan a failure is easy, perseverance is everything.

When do you get most of your reading done, when not in Tech or Theatre-consumed worlds?

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[info]perich
2008-10-23 06:42 pm UTC (link)
I usually read on the train.

And the year's not over yet; I just know how unlikely it is that I'll read 10 books in the next 7 weeks.

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