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2月 11, 2009, 8:53am (top)Message 1: soylentgreen23

1. The Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein
A nice easy start to the year - or rather, that's what it was supposed to be. It took me a lot longer to read this slim volume than it really should have done.

2. Strait is the Gate by Andre Gide
Another Gide novel - last year I read The Immoralist and frankly I loved it; this one is great too, although the quotes from French poetry, without translation!, were a little hard to bear.

Message edited by its author, 11月 16, 2009, 11:08am.

2月 11, 2009, 10:23am (top)Message 2: billiejean

Hi, Chris,
Nice to see you here at the 50 book challenge. I look forward to seeing all the books that you are reading this year. :) I never did get Brighton Rock read, but I continue to get positive comments on it, so I do hope to read it this year. Good luck with your challenge and have a great day!
--BJ

5月 30, 2009, 4:46am (top)Message 3: soylentgreen23

3. Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
4. Drohobycz, Drohobycz by Henryk Grynberg

Ok, so it's nearly June and I've read 4 books - but I think I've still got a chance to get to 50!

6月 2, 2009, 6:41am (top)Message 4: soylentgreen23

5. A History of the Sciences by Stephen F. Mason

6. Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So The Wind Won't Blow It All Away by Richard Brautigan

Shame that number 6 is an omnibus edition, so I can only count it at as one...

6月 8, 2009, 6:10am (top)Message 5: soylentgreen23

7. Little Birds by Anais Nin

6月 10, 2009, 4:54am (top)Message 6: soylentgreen23

8. The Devil Tree by Jerzy Kosinski

6月 13, 2009, 4:19pm (top)Message 7: soylentgreen23

9. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

6月 22, 2009, 10:33am (top)Message 8: soylentgreen23

7月 2, 2009, 2:40pm (top)Message 9: soylentgreen23

7月 4, 2009, 2:09pm (top)Message 10: soylentgreen23

16. The Drought by J. G. Ballard

17. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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7月 6, 2009, 4:34pm (top)Message 11: soylentgreen23

18. The Third Man and The Fallen Idol by Graham Greene

Wow - at the start of May I'd read 2 books for the year so far; a month and a bit I'm up to 18! Granted, I'd already started a couple of the books since finished, but I think it's pretty impressive all the same.

8月 26, 2009, 12:25pm (top)Message 12: soylentgreen23

19. Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
20. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

And having worked so hard to make up some ground, I see myself slipping back. I've got four months to go, and need to read 30 books, in that time; in other words, two books a week, more or less. Might prove difficult...

9月 2, 2009, 6:15am (top)Message 13: soylentgreen23

21. Gai-jin by James Clavell

I might not be quite up to speed on the year's reading, but I have at least read some epic tomes, like this one and Les Miserables, as well as a few dense pieces of non-fiction. It's been a good year so far, and not over yet.

9月 3, 2009, 6:06am (top)Message 14: soylentgreen23

22. The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark

9月 4, 2009, 10:02am (top)Message 15: soylentgreen23

23. The Gangster We Are All Looking For by Thuy Le

24. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

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9月 5, 2009, 5:07pm (top)Message 16: soylentgreen23

25. The Finishing School by Muriel Spark

26. Lost Japan by Alex Kerr

9月 6, 2009, 10:50am (top)Message 17: soylentgreen23

27. Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud

9月 7, 2009, 10:00am (top)Message 18: soylentgreen23

28. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. I'd always been put off this one because it was said to be so difficult, but it wasn't at all - it was a very rewarding read, in fact.

9月 7, 2009, 12:46pm (top)Message 19: soylentgreen23

29. Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan

9月 9, 2009, 4:10am (top)Message 20: soylentgreen23

30. Embers by Sandor Marai

9月 11, 2009, 10:55am (top)Message 21: soylentgreen23

31. Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost

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9月 24, 2009, 3:52pm (top)Message 22: soylentgreen23

10月 1, 2009, 4:42am (top)Message 23: soylentgreen23

10月 5, 2009, 1:23pm (top)Message 24: soylentgreen23

34. The Outcast by Sadie Jones

35. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

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10月 7, 2009, 1:38pm (top)Message 25: soylentgreen23

36. King Rat by James Clavell

35 books in, and still half of October, all of November, and all of December to go. I think I'm in with a shout for the third year running :)

10月 10, 2009, 8:12am (top)Message 26: soylentgreen23

10月 13, 2009, 11:30am (top)Message 27: soylentgreen23

10月 16, 2009, 12:12pm (top)Message 28: soylentgreen23

39. Silas Marner by George Eliot

Message edited by its author, 11月 16, 2009, 10:54am.

10月 16, 2009, 1:39pm (top)Message 29: rocketjk

Just visited your thread for the first time. That's a really great year of reading so far!

10月 17, 2009, 4:29am (top)Message 30: soylentgreen23

rocketjk - thanks! It's been a lot of fun, and I'm pretty sure I'll be able to hit my target too.

40. The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

10月 20, 2009, 9:37am (top)Message 31: soylentgreen23

41. On Writing Well by William Zinsser

10月 28, 2009, 8:20am (top)Message 32: soylentgreen23

42. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

43. Junky by William S. Burroughs

Closing in on the target now!

10月 29, 2009, 5:37am (top)Message 33: soylentgreen23

44. The Easter Parade by Richard Yates

10月 31, 2009, 11:57am (top)Message 34: soylentgreen23

45. Billy Budd by Herman Melville

11月 1, 2009, 6:31am (top)Message 35: soylentgreen23

46. Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty

11月 4, 2009, 3:42pm (top)Message 36: soylentgreen23

47. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
48. Portrait of a Turkish Family by Irfan Orga

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11月 7, 2009, 3:18am (top)Message 37: soylentgreen23

11月 14, 2009, 6:40am (top)Message 38: soylentgreen23

50. Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant

Fifty books! And it's only half-way through November - which means I've got another month and a half to push towards 60.

11月 15, 2009, 12:45pm (top)Message 39: soylentgreen23

51. Being Dead by Jim Crace

11月 16, 2009, 2:50pm (top)Message 40: soylentgreen23

52. Pig Tales by Marie Darrieussecq

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11月 20, 2009, 11:55am (top)Message 41: soylentgreen23

53. Quantum of Solace by Ian Fleming

12月 3, 2009, 12:13pm (top)Message 42: soylentgreen23

54. Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux

12月 6, 2009, 5:20am (top)Message 43: soylentgreen23

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12月 15, 2009, 1:30pm (top)Message 46: soylentgreen23

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12月 18, 2009, 8:03am (top)Message 48: soylentgreen23

60. The Ghost Road by Pat Barker

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12月 20, 2009, 4:53am (top)Message 49: soylentgreen23

61. Ashenden by W. Somerset Maugham

12月 21, 2009, 2:04pm (top)Message 50: soylentgreen23

62. First Person Singular by W. Somerset Maugham

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