Books read summary, 2009

[johnridley]

Details of books read July-Dec 2009
Ebooks:

• Cross the Stars by David Drake
  
• Gateway by Fredrik Pohl
  
• Prentice Alvin by Orson Scott Card
  
• Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny
  
• The Guns of Avalon by Roger Zelazny
  
• Sign of the Unicorn by Roger Zelazny
  
• The Hand of Oberon by Roger Zelazny
  
• Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
  

Dead tree:

• And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer
  

Audiobooks:

• Oath of Swords by David Weber
  
• The War God's Own by David Weber
  
• Windrider's Oath by David Weber
  
• By Heresies Distressed by David Weber
  
• To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer
  
• The Fabulous Riverboat by Philip Jose Farmer
  
• Beyond the Blue Event Horizon by Fredrick Pohl
  
• Heechee Rendezvous by Frederik Pohl
  
• The Annals of the Heechee by Frederik Pohl
  
• The Bromeliad by Terry Pratchett
  
• Storm from the Shadows by David Weber
  
• Eschaton trilogy by Frederik Pohl - The Other End of Time, The Siege of Eternity, The Far Shore of Time
  
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  
• On A Pale Horse by Piers Anthony
  
• Bearing An Hourglass by Piers Anthony
  
• With a Tangled Skein by Piers Anthony
  
• Wielding a Red Sword by Piers Anthony
  
• Being a Green Mother by Piers Anthony
  
• For Love of Evil by Piers Anthony
  
• And Eternity by Piers Anthony
  

Audio lecture:

• A History of the United States (The Teaching Company)
  

The stand-out of this half of the year was definitely Moby Dick. As a friend at work commented when I was raving about how incredibly Melville uses the English language, he dryly commented "there's a reason they're called 'classics.'"

I have slowed down quite a bit in December, because I started Count of Monte Cristo on audio, and about 1/4 of the way through I reached some chapters read by a woman with a french accent and I had no idea what the hell she was saying (Librivox recording, volunteer readers, and on long titles like this, often different readers on different chapters). So I had to switch to ebook and read it myself. I'm now about 1/3 of the way through (not much time to read, and I'm not a fast reader anyway). It's a long book. It'll probably take me all of January to finish.

I'm planning to continue working more on classic literature. Partially because I'm discovering how incredible it is, and partially because the publishers aren't providing ebooks in affordable, DRM-free formats, so I'm reading what I can get in the format I like.

Stats for 2nd half of 2009:
ebooks: 8
paper: 1
audio: 22
lecture: 1

For all of 2009:
ebooks: 18
paper: 2
audio: 46 + a bunch of short stories
Total: 66 books, all new (nothing re-read)

plus lectures: 5