Books I've read
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johnridleyWith the book list going around recently, I realized that I have no idea what books I've read, even recently. I just read what seems like a good idea at the time. With that in mind, I'm going to try to put them into LJ when I think of them. While completion of this list is obviously a futile objective, hopefully by thinking on this for a while I'll be able to at least get a good skeleton of the total body.
It's not as ridiculous for me to try to do this as it is for most of my friends. I don't read that much, but I'm hoping that when I get it all jotted down it will be more than I think. In that respect this is a bit of a confidence-boosting exercise.
I've been making an attempt to read more this year, since sometime around the end of last year I realized that I had read something something like one book in the last 12 months and got pretty disgusted with myself. I've actually discontinued my magazine subscriptions, partly to help get a little more time to read other stuff.
I haven't looked at the bookshelf yet, just going from memory/Wikipedia free association here. It's interesting to realize the extent to which I pretty much have no plan for reading; I just pick up something either out of convenience or recommendation, and if I like it I tend to read more by that author. It's also interesting how many titles I can look at and not really be sure if I've read it or not.
I guess it's not too bad. I have 25 Hugo winners in the list, so at least I'm not completely lacking in that regard, though I'm a lot more fleshed out in older stuff than newer. That's probably because I'm not really a fan of some of the newer stuff.
Currently:
American Gods
This year:
The Demolished Man
The Colour of Magic + The Light Fantastic (I consider them one book, or two half-books, whichever)
The Fabric of the Cosmos (Brian Greene)
A Briefer History of Time
Shadow of the Hegemon
Return to Mars, Mercury, Moonrise, Titan (ben bova)
Previously:
(going down the aforementioned list)
Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit, I think 3 or 4 times (just finished reading it aloud to Tom)
Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune
Farenheit 451
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Children of the Atom
Harry Potter series, multiple times (some aloud)
Hitchhiker's books, plus Dirk Gently books'
More than Human
Rendezvous with Rama
Ringworld, Ringworld Engineers, Ringworld Throne
A whole load of Man-Kzin wars books
World of Ptavvs, A Gift from Earth, Neutron Star, Protector, Tales of Known Space, The Mote in God's Eye, The Integral Trees, The Smoke Ring, Inconstant Moon, Fallen Angels (blech)
The Peace War, A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky, Marooned in Real Time
Snow Crash, The Diamond Age
Stand On Zanzibar
The Stars My Destination
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn (ben bova)
The Whole Shebang
The Elegant Universe
Ender's War, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Ender's Shadow
Mission of Gravity, Needle, Iceworld, Cycle of Fire, Close to Critical
Slan, The World of Null-A, The House That Stood Still, The Weapon Shops of Isher, Mission to the Stars
God knows how many Xanth novels. I think and hope I stopped after 10 or so.
Waiting for the Galactic Bus
Heinlein (pretty much everything I think, no need to list it all here)
Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, The Robots of Dawn, Robots and Empire
Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation, Prelude to Foundation, Forward the Foundation, Foundation's Edge, Foundation and Earth
Pebble in the Sky
Foundation's Fear, Foundation and Chaos, Foundation's Triumph
Moving Mars
Man Plus
God Stalk, Dark of the Moon
Falling Free, Shards of Honor, Barrayar, The Warrior's Apprentice, The Vor Game, Brothers In Arms,
Sundiver, Startide Rising, The Uplift War,
A bunch of Asimov shorts, a couple of collections at least.
Asimov "Robot City" series - first 4 or 5 then I got bored.
Venus on the Half-Shell
Code of the Lifemaker
Artemis Fowl, The Eternity Code, The Opal Deception, Arctic Incident (Lost Colony is currently in Tom's hands)
Bill the Galactic Hero, The Technicolor Time Machine, A Stainless Steel Rat/is born/gets drafted/saves the world/for president
Callahan's Cross-Time Saloon, Time Travellers Strictly Cash, Callahan's Lady, Lady Slings The Booze
Med-Ship (short story collection)
Lensmen (series)
One of the original Tom Swift books, can't remember which one.
Tom Swift, Jr: Tom Swift and his...Flying Lab, Jetmarine, Outpost in Space, Diving Seacopter, Caves of Nuclear Fire, Race to the Moon, Electronic Retroscope, Spectromarine Selector, Visitor from Planet X, Asteroid Pirates
TTC Audiobook: The Joy of Science (very good IMHO)
It's not as ridiculous for me to try to do this as it is for most of my friends. I don't read that much, but I'm hoping that when I get it all jotted down it will be more than I think. In that respect this is a bit of a confidence-boosting exercise.
I've been making an attempt to read more this year, since sometime around the end of last year I realized that I had read something something like one book in the last 12 months and got pretty disgusted with myself. I've actually discontinued my magazine subscriptions, partly to help get a little more time to read other stuff.
I haven't looked at the bookshelf yet, just going from memory/Wikipedia free association here. It's interesting to realize the extent to which I pretty much have no plan for reading; I just pick up something either out of convenience or recommendation, and if I like it I tend to read more by that author. It's also interesting how many titles I can look at and not really be sure if I've read it or not.
I guess it's not too bad. I have 25 Hugo winners in the list, so at least I'm not completely lacking in that regard, though I'm a lot more fleshed out in older stuff than newer. That's probably because I'm not really a fan of some of the newer stuff.
Currently:
American Gods
This year:
The Demolished Man
The Colour of Magic + The Light Fantastic (I consider them one book, or two half-books, whichever)
The Fabric of the Cosmos (Brian Greene)
A Briefer History of Time
Shadow of the Hegemon
Return to Mars, Mercury, Moonrise, Titan (ben bova)
Previously:
(going down the aforementioned list)
Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit, I think 3 or 4 times (just finished reading it aloud to Tom)
Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune
Farenheit 451
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Children of the Atom
Harry Potter series, multiple times (some aloud)
Hitchhiker's books, plus Dirk Gently books'
More than Human
Rendezvous with Rama
Ringworld, Ringworld Engineers, Ringworld Throne
A whole load of Man-Kzin wars books
World of Ptavvs, A Gift from Earth, Neutron Star, Protector, Tales of Known Space, The Mote in God's Eye, The Integral Trees, The Smoke Ring, Inconstant Moon, Fallen Angels (blech)
The Peace War, A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky, Marooned in Real Time
Snow Crash, The Diamond Age
Stand On Zanzibar
The Stars My Destination
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn (ben bova)
The Whole Shebang
The Elegant Universe
Ender's War, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Ender's Shadow
Mission of Gravity, Needle, Iceworld, Cycle of Fire, Close to Critical
Slan, The World of Null-A, The House That Stood Still, The Weapon Shops of Isher, Mission to the Stars
God knows how many Xanth novels. I think and hope I stopped after 10 or so.
Waiting for the Galactic Bus
Heinlein (pretty much everything I think, no need to list it all here)
Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, The Robots of Dawn, Robots and Empire
Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation, Prelude to Foundation, Forward the Foundation, Foundation's Edge, Foundation and Earth
Pebble in the Sky
Foundation's Fear, Foundation and Chaos, Foundation's Triumph
Moving Mars
Man Plus
God Stalk, Dark of the Moon
Falling Free, Shards of Honor, Barrayar, The Warrior's Apprentice, The Vor Game, Brothers In Arms,
Sundiver, Startide Rising, The Uplift War,
A bunch of Asimov shorts, a couple of collections at least.
Asimov "Robot City" series - first 4 or 5 then I got bored.
Venus on the Half-Shell
Code of the Lifemaker
Artemis Fowl, The Eternity Code, The Opal Deception, Arctic Incident (Lost Colony is currently in Tom's hands)
Bill the Galactic Hero, The Technicolor Time Machine, A Stainless Steel Rat/is born/gets drafted/saves the world/for president
Callahan's Cross-Time Saloon, Time Travellers Strictly Cash, Callahan's Lady, Lady Slings The Booze
Med-Ship (short story collection)
Lensmen (series)
One of the original Tom Swift books, can't remember which one.
Tom Swift, Jr: Tom Swift and his...Flying Lab, Jetmarine, Outpost in Space, Diving Seacopter, Caves of Nuclear Fire, Race to the Moon, Electronic Retroscope, Spectromarine Selector, Visitor from Planet X, Asteroid Pirates
TTC Audiobook: The Joy of Science (very good IMHO)
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looking through the bookshelf now
Date: 2006-11-20 10:13 pm (UTC)Portrait of Dorian Gray
Chronicles of Narnia series
Tom Swift and the City of Gold, Circling the Globe (original series)
Phule's Company
Terry Brooks' Wizard Series
Mercedes Lackey's Oath and Arrows series
Cardinal of the Kremlin
Who's Afraid of Beowulf?
Expecting Someone Taller
God Stalk, Dark of the Moon
Native Tongue
The Nitrogen Fix
Alternities
Limits (Larry Niven)
Deadman Switch
Stacheff's Warlock series
The Callahan Touch
Godel Escher Bach
The Perfect Machine
Pale Blue Dot
The Demon-Haunted World
A Wrinkle in Time
Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (Red Dwarf)
"Graphic novels" - Buck Godot & tons of other Foglio stuff, Duncan & Mallory, Elfquest.
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