I read Killing Kennedy and now I just finished "All the Presidents' Pastries: 25 Years in the White House." They were both pretty good.

11/21/2013 12:48:11 AM

1) Altered Carbon - Richard K. Morgan (Amazing book!) - 10/10
2) Broken Angels - Richard K. Morgan - 9/10
3) Woken Furies - Richard K. Morgan - 8/10
4) A Memory of Light - Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson - 9/10
5) The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick - 7/10
6) I Drink for a Reason - David Cross - 7/10
7) Tough Shit! - Kevin Smith - 7/10
8) Into the Storm (Destroyermen #1) - Taylor Anderson - 7/10
9) Crusade (Destroyermen #2) - Taylor Anderson - 7/10
10) Maelstrom (Destroyermen #3) - Taylor Anderson - 6/10
11) Distant Thunders (Destroyermen #4) - Taylor Anderson - 6/10
12) Rising Tides (Destroyermen #5) - Taylor Anderson - 6/10
13) Firestorm (Destroyermen #6) - Taylor Anderson - 6/10
14) Iron Grey Sea (Destroyermen #7) - Taylor Anderson - 7/10
15) Downbelow Station (Company Wars #1) - C. J. Cherryh - 7/10
16) Ship Breaker (Ship Breaker #1) - Paolo Gacigalupi - 7/10
17) The Drowned Cities (Ship Breaker #2) - Paolo Gacigalupi - 8/10
18) Warbreaker - Brandon Sanderson - 7/10
19) Shattered Hourglass (Day by Day Armageddon #3) - J.L. Bourne - 5/10
20) Roadside Picnic - Arkady Strugatsky - 9/10
21) Gun Machine - Warren Ellis - 6/10
22) A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness - 10/10
23) Wild Cards (Wild Cards #1) - George R. R. Martin - 6/10
24) Perdido Street Station - China Miéville - 7/10
25) Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga #1) - Peter F. Hamilton - 8/10
26) Judas Unchained (Commonwealth Saga #2) - Peter F. Hamilton - 8/10
27) Wool - Hugh Howey - 6/10
28) The Player of Games (Culture #2) - Iain M. Banks - 8/10
29) Consider Phlebas (Culture #1) - Iain M. Banks - 7/10
30) Necessary Evil (The Milkweed Triptych, #3) - Ian Tregillis - 9/10
31) Blade of Tyshelle - Matthew Stover - 8/10
32) Caine Black Knife - Matthew Stover - 8/10
33) Caine's Law - Matthew Stover - 7/10
34) Feed (Newsflesh #1) - Mira Grant - 7/10
35) Deadline (Newsflesh #2) - Mira Grant - 7/10
36) Blackout (Newsflesh #3) - Mira Grant - 7/10
37) Ringworld (Ringworld #1) - Larry Niven - 7/10
38) Storm Surge (Destroyermen #8) - Taylor Anderson - 6/10
39) The Throne of the Crescent Moon (The Crescent Moon Kingdoms #1) - Saladin Ahmed - 7/10
40) The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. Le Guin - 9/10
41) The Curse of Chalion - Lois McMaster Bujold - 8/10
42) Pushing Ice - Alastair Reynolds - 9/10
43) The Quantum Thief - Hannu Rajaniemi - 8/10
44) Theft of Swords - Michael J. Sullivan - 6/10
45) Burning Chrome - William Gibson - 7/10
46) Orphanage (James Wander #1) - Robert Buetner - 6/10
47) Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century #1) - Cherie Priest - 7/10
48) The Human Division (Old Man's War #5) - John Scalzi - 7/10
49) Hollowland (The Hollows #1) - Amanda Hocking - 5/10
50) Hollowmen (The Hollows #2) - Amanda Hocking - 5/10
51) The Republic of Thieves (Gentlemen Bastards #3) - Scott Lynch - 10/10 Great Book
52) 14 - Peter Clines - 7/10
53) An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 - Rick Atkinson - 9/10
54) Currently Reading - The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 - Rick Atkinson

11/25/2013 8:07:00 PM

54) The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 - Rick Atkinson - 9/10
55) Currently Reading - Abaddon's Gate (Expanse #3) - James S. A. Corey

[Edited on November 30, 2013 at 1:18 PM. Reason : ]

11/30/2013 1:17:26 PM

1) Dear Creature --- Jonathan Case (3/5)
2) The Twelve --- Justin Cronin (3/5)
3) The Book of Beer Awesomeness --- Ben Applebaum and Dan Disorbo (2/5)
4) The Forever War --- John Haldeman (4/5)
5) Maus: My Father Bleeds History --- Art Spiegelman (4/5)
6) The Darkness that Comes Before --- R. Scott Bakker (4/5)
7) American Psycho --- Brett Easton Ellis (1/5)
8) The Warrior-Prophet --- R. Scott Bakker (4/5)
9) The Thousandfold Thought --- R. Scott Bakker (4/5)
10) King City --- Brandon Graham (4/5)
11) A Dirty Job --- Christopher Moore (3/5)
12) Cornered --- Stahnke, Richard (2/5)
13) Homeland --- Cory Doctorow (3/5)
14) Shadowrun: Spells and Chrome --- John Helfers (3/5)
15) Echo: The Complete Anthology --- Terry Moore (4/5)
16) The Bean Trees --- Barbara Kingsolver (3/5)
17) A Study in Scarlet --- Arthur Conan Doyle (2/5)
18) Makers --- Cory Doctorow (4/5)
19) Gulp --- Mary Roach (4/5)
20) Eastern Standard Tribe --- Cory Doctorow (2/5)
21) Congo --- Michael Crichton (3/5)
22) Pigs in Heaven --- Barbara Kingsolver (3/5)
23) The Regulators --- Richard Bachmann [Stephen King] (2/5)
24) Desperation --- Stephen King
25) The Ocean at the End of the Lane --- Neil Gaiman (3/5)
26) The Corrections --- Jonathan Franzen (4/5)
27) Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Boy in the World --- Chris Ware (2/5)
28) The 5th Wave --- Rick Yancey
29) V for Vendetta --- Alan Moore (4/5)
30) Fun Home --- Allison Bechdel (4/5)
31) Are You My Mother? --- Alison Bechdel (3/5)
32) Machine of Death --- ed. Ryan North, Rick Bennardo, David Malki (4/5)
33) The Yiddish Policeman's Union --- Michael Chabon (4/5)
34) Shadows in Flight --- Orson Scott Card (3/5)
35) Blood Done Sign My Name --- Timothy B. Tyson (5/5)
36) Divergent --- Veronica Roth (4/5)
37) Insurgent --- Veronica Roth (3/5)
38) Mercy --- Jodi Picoult (4/5)
39) Warm Bodies --- Isaac Marion (4/5)
40) The Wizard of Oz --- L. Frank Baum (3/5)
41) You --- Austin Grossman (4/5)
42) Ship-Breaker --- Paolo Bacigalupi (3/5)
43) Monster --- Walter Dean Myers (4/5)
44) Boneshaker --- Cherie Priest (2/5)
45) The Judging Eye --- R. Scott Bakker (4/5)
46) Stitches --- David Small (3/5)
47) Fray --- Joss Whedon, Karl Moline, Andy Owens (4/5)
48) Odd Interlude --- Dean Koontz (4/5)
49) The Running Man --- Richard Bachmann [Stephen King] (4/5)
50) Hyperbole and a Half --- Allie Brosh (5/5)
51) Allegiant --- Veronica Roth (3/5)
52) The White-Luck Warrior --- R. Scott Bakker (4/5)

I keep telling myself that I'm done with the Bakker books, and then I pick up the next one in the series because I want to know what happens. They're such bleak books, and everyone is terrible, but I find myself morbidly curious about the next thing to happen in the series.

I have no idea what to read next. I've got a to-read list 40 books long, but I don't know which want I want to pick up next.

12/2/2013 7:44:58 AM

^
post some up and i can tell you if i've read any

[Edited on December 2, 2013 at 8:55 AM. Reason : .]

12/2/2013 8:42:44 AM

my amazon wishlist is getting long, I might be in for some version of this next year. I have to figure out what a realistic goal would be for scientific books and other non-fiction. I currently have no access to a library, mostly dislike e-readers, and a bunch of the books I'm interested in are over $50, so my list might outpace my wallet.

what was your book budget this year, Schndlr?

12/2/2013 8:54:23 AM

^
buy used

[Edited on December 2, 2013 at 8:56 AM. Reason : .]

12/2/2013 8:56:02 AM

Quote :

" [ ] "The Supremacy of Uruguay" [ ] Abbott, Karen. Sin in the second city [ ] Adams, Douglas. mostly harmless [ ] Adams, Douglas. last chance to see [ ] Ashby, Madeline. vN [ ] Ashenburg, Katherine. The Dirt on Clean [ ] Bacigalupi, Paolo. The wind up girl [ ] banks, iain. consider phlebas [ ] Beatty, Paul. Hokum. [ ] before I fall [ ] Black, holly. Zombies vs unicorns [ ] Boese, Alex. Elephants on Acid [ ] Bray, Libba. Diviners [ ] Brin, David. Existence [ ] Bryson, Bill. A short history of nearly everything [ ] Bryson, Bill. A walk in the woods [ ] Bryson, bill. In sunburned country [ ] Butler, Blake. Insomnia [ ] Card, Orson Scott. Earth Unaware [ ] Cody, Joshua. [sic] [ ] Cole, teju. Open city [ ] Conroy, Pat; The Great Santini [ ] coupland, Douglas. microserfs [ ] Delany, Samuel. Dhalgren [ ] Donaldson, Stephen r; chronicles of Thomas covenant the unbeliever [ ] Draper, Sharon. Copper Sun [ ] Eggers, Dave. Zeitoun [ ] Gleick, James. The information [ ] Gollner, Adam Leith. The fruit Hunters [ ] Hamilton, Gabrielle; blood bones and butter [ ] I am the messenger [ ] Jacobs, John Hornor. The Twelve Fingered Boy [ ] Karr, Mary. The Liar's Club [ ] koja, Kafka. going under [ ] Koja, Kathe. Skin. [ ] Kress, Nancy. Beggars in Spain [ ] Kruger, Mark. overpowered [ ] let the right one in [ ] Light [ ] Martel, Yann. Beatrice and Virgil [ ] maze runner [ ] McEwen, Todd. Fisher's hornpipe [ ] McLaughlin, Lauren. cycler [ ] Miller, Walter; a canticle for Leibowitz [ ] Mukherjee, Siddartha; The Emperor of All Maladies [ ] okorafor, nnedi.. akata witch [ ] Parameswaran, Rajesh. I am an executioner. [ ] Patchett, Ann. State of wonder [ ] Pearson, Ridley. Kingdom Keepers [ ] poetry's other place [ ] Revolution: the year I fell in love and jointed the war [ ] Richardson, Leonard. constellation games [ ] Rowling, JK. The casual vacancy [ ] Sacks, Oliver; the mind's eye [ ] Simmons, dan. summer of night [ ] Sloan, Robin. Mr penumbra's 24 hour bookstore [ ] Stephenson, Neal. Some Thoughts [ ] Thompson, Craig. Carnet de Voyage [ ] Thompson, Craig. Good-Bye, Chunky Rice [ ] Walls, Jeannette. The Glass Castle [ ] Wearing, Deborah. Forever Today [ ] Weiss, Daniel Edwin. The roaches have no King [ ] Wilson, Daniel, h.. amped [ ] Yuknavitch, Lidia; the chronology of water "

12/2/2013 9:06:48 AM

haven't read any but i bet neal stephenson's essays are really good

12/2/2013 9:11:06 AM

Ya, I figured they would be. I loved Snow Crash, and the The Diamond Age was pretty cool. I figure any of his thoughts on science, the future, and sci-fi would be pretty compelling to read.

12/2/2013 9:13:23 AM

Adams, Douglas. mostly harmless - Great Book Quick read too
Bacigalupi, Paolo. The wind up girl - On my "to read" list and I like the author
banks, iain. consider phlebas - Very Good and Player of Games is great as well
Brin, David. Existence - On my "to read" list
Bryson, Bill. A short history of nearly everything - On my "to read" list
Hamilton, Gabrielle; blood bones and butter - I've heard good things
let the right one in - On my "to read" list
Miller, Walter; a canticle for Leibowitz - On my "to read" list
Mukherjee, Siddartha; The Emperor of All Maladies - is the audible daily deal today for $5

Might I suggest Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs #1) by Richard K. Morgan

Quote :

"what was your book budget this year, Schndlr?"

prolly between $400 to $500

12/3/2013 6:59:08 PM

Quote :

"my amazon wishlist is getting long, I might be in for some version of this next year. I have to figure out what a realistic goal would be for scientific books and other non-fiction. I currently have no access to a library, mostly dislike e-readers, and a bunch of the books I'm interested in are over $50, so my list might outpace my wallet. what was your book budget this year, Schndlr?"

http://www.paperbackswap.com
Only pay for shipping. About $2.50 per book.

12/3/2013 11:55:14 PM

1. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K Dick
2. A Storm of Swords - George RR Martin
3. Kindred - Octavia E. Butler
4. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Mary Roach
5. Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem - Simon Singh
6. The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
7. Shit My Dad Says - Justin Halpern
8. Me of Little Faith - Lewis Black
9. The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum
10. Island - Aldous Huxley
11. Six Not So Easy Pieces - Richard P. Feynman
12. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
13. Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
14. Jesus' Son - Denis Johnson
15. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
16. Dawn - Octavia E Butler
17. Adulthood Rites - Octavia E Butler
18. Imago - Octavia E Butler
19. My Planet - Mary Roach
20. Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk
21. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
22. The Passage - Justin Cronin
23. Adding a Dimension - Isaac Asimov
24. Father Brown: The Essential Tales - G.K. Chesterton
25. Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan (if I may disagree, this book was crap. Not as bad as Snow Crash, but pretty lousy)
26. Clay's Ark - Octavia E. Butler
27. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife - Mary Roach
28. The Doors of Perception; Heaven and Hell - Aldous Huxley
29. Wild Seed - Octavia E. Butler

Audiobooks:
1. A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2. The Sign of the Four - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
3. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
4. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
5. The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
6. The Valley of Fear - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
7. His Last Bow - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
8. Dracula - Bram Stoker
9. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin
10. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
11. The Man Who Was Thursday - GK Chesterton
12. The Man Who Knew Too Much - GK Chesterton
13. Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne


42 total. Don't think I'm gonna hit it, but not too shabby.

12/3/2013 11:58:51 PM

Thanks, SchlndrsFst. I'm currently reading Spin and Odd Apocalypse, but I'll add your suggestion to my list

12/4/2013 9:37:35 AM

has anyone else read Prometheus Rising?

anyone interested philosophy/psychology/sociology/futurology, pick it up

12/4/2013 9:47:43 AM

1) Altered Carbon - Richard K. Morgan (Amazing book!) - 10/10
2) Broken Angels - Richard K. Morgan - 9/10
3) Woken Furies - Richard K. Morgan - 8/10
4) A Memory of Light - Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson - 9/10
5) The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick - 7/10
6) I Drink for a Reason - David Cross - 7/10
7) Tough Shit! - Kevin Smith - 7/10
8) Into the Storm (Destroyermen #1) - Taylor Anderson - 7/10
9) Crusade (Destroyermen #2) - Taylor Anderson - 7/10
10) Maelstrom (Destroyermen #3) - Taylor Anderson - 6/10
11) Distant Thunders (Destroyermen #4) - Taylor Anderson - 6/10
12) Rising Tides (Destroyermen #5) - Taylor Anderson - 6/10
13) Firestorm (Destroyermen #6) - Taylor Anderson - 6/10
14) Iron Grey Sea (Destroyermen #7) - Taylor Anderson - 7/10
15) Downbelow Station (Company Wars #1) - C. J. Cherryh - 7/10
16) Ship Breaker (Ship Breaker #1) - Paolo Gacigalupi - 7/10
17) The Drowned Cities (Ship Breaker #2) - Paolo Gacigalupi - 8/10
18) Warbreaker - Brandon Sanderson - 7/10
19) Shattered Hourglass (Day by Day Armageddon #3) - J.L. Bourne - 5/10
20) Roadside Picnic - Arkady Strugatsky - 9/10
21) Gun Machine - Warren Ellis - 6/10
22) A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness - 10/10
23) Wild Cards (Wild Cards #1) - George R. R. Martin - 6/10
24) Perdido Street Station - China Miéville - 7/10
25) Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga #1) - Peter F. Hamilton - 8/10
26) Judas Unchained (Commonwealth Saga #2) - Peter F. Hamilton - 8/10
27) Wool - Hugh Howey - 6/10
28) The Player of Games (Culture #2) - Iain M. Banks - 8/10
29) Consider Phlebas (Culture #1) - Iain M. Banks - 7/10
30) Necessary Evil (The Milkweed Triptych, #3) - Ian Tregillis - 9/10
31) Blade of Tyshelle - Matthew Stover - 8/10
32) Caine Black Knife - Matthew Stover - 8/10
33) Caine's Law - Matthew Stover - 7/10
34) Feed (Newsflesh #1) - Mira Grant - 7/10
35) Deadline (Newsflesh #2) - Mira Grant - 7/10
36) Blackout (Newsflesh #3) - Mira Grant - 7/10
37) Ringworld (Ringworld #1) - Larry Niven - 7/10
38) Storm Surge (Destroyermen #8) - Taylor Anderson - 6/10
39) The Throne of the Crescent Moon (The Crescent Moon Kingdoms #1) - Saladin Ahmed - 7/10
40) The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. Le Guin - 9/10
41) The Curse of Chalion - Lois McMaster Bujold - 8/10
42) Pushing Ice - Alastair Reynolds - 9/10
43) The Quantum Thief - Hannu Rajaniemi - 8/10
44) Theft of Swords - Michael J. Sullivan - 6/10
45) Burning Chrome - William Gibson - 7/10
46) Orphanage (James Wander #1) - Robert Buetner - 6/10
47) Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century #1) - Cherie Priest - 7/10
48) The Human Division (Old Man's War #5) - John Scalzi - 7/10
49) Hollowland (The Hollows #1) - Amanda Hocking - 5/10
50) Hollowmen (The Hollows #2) - Amanda Hocking - 5/10
51) The Republic of Thieves (Gentlemen Bastards #3) - Scott Lynch - 10/10 Great Book
52) 14 - Peter Clines - 7/10
53) An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 - Rick Atkinson - 9/10
54) The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 - Rick Atkinson - 9/10
55) Abaddon's Gate (Expanse #3) - James S. A. Corey - 9/10
56) Currently Reading - A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller, Jr.

Byrn inspired me.

12/6/2013 6:08:03 PM

srs question....... when do y'all read? i like to read in bed, but i usually only get through 1 chapter before falling asleep.

[Edited on December 7, 2013 at 12:42 AM. Reason : maybe i should spend less time on tww.... and facebook... and internet-ing in general.]

12/7/2013 12:42:22 AM

My students and I read in class a few minutes everyday. I also read on my own whenever I'm waiting somewhere, when I'm on the toilet, when I'm winding down before sleep. I probably end up reading at least an hour and a half total each day.

12/7/2013 1:01:54 AM

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"1) Dear Creature --- Jonathan Case (3/5) 2) The Twelve --- Justin Cronin (3/5) 3) The Book of Beer Awesomeness --- Ben Applebaum and Dan Disorbo (2/5) 4) The Forever War --- John Haldeman (4/5) 5) Maus: My Father Bleeds History --- Art Spiegelman (4/5) 6) The Darkness that Comes Before --- R. Scott Bakker (4/5) 7) American Psycho --- Brett Easton Ellis (1/5) 8) The Warrior-Prophet --- R. Scott Bakker (4/5) 9) The Thousandfold Thought --- R. Scott Bakker (4/5) 10) King City --- Brandon Graham (4/5) 11) A Dirty Job --- Christopher Moore (3/5) 12) Cornered --- Stahnke, Richard (2/5) 13) Homeland --- Cory Doctorow (3/5) 14) Shadowrun: Spells and Chrome --- John Helfers (3/5) 15) Echo: The Complete Anthology --- Terry Moore (4/5) 16) The Bean Trees --- Barbara Kingsolver (3/5) 17) A Study in Scarlet --- Arthur Conan Doyle (2/5) 18) Makers --- Cory Doctorow (4/5) 19) Gulp --- Mary Roach (4/5) 20) Eastern Standard Tribe --- Cory Doctorow (2/5) 21) Congo --- Michael Crichton (3/5) 22) Pigs in Heaven --- Barbara Kingsolver (3/5) 23) The Regulators --- Richard Bachmann [Stephen King] (2/5) 24) Desperation --- Stephen King 25) The Ocean at the End of the Lane --- Neil Gaiman (3/5) 26) The Corrections --- Jonathan Franzen (4/5) 27) Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Boy in the World --- Chris Ware (2/5) 28) The 5th Wave --- Rick Yancey 29) V for Vendetta --- Alan Moore (4/5) 30) Fun Home --- Allison Bechdel (4/5) 31) Are You My Mother? --- Alison Bechdel (3/5) 32) Machine of Death --- ed. Ryan North, Rick Bennardo, David Malki (4/5) 33) The Yiddish Policeman's Union --- Michael Chabon (4/5) 34) Shadows in Flight --- Orson Scott Card (3/5) 35) Blood Done Sign My Name --- Timothy B. Tyson (5/5) 36) Divergent --- Veronica Roth (4/5) 37) Insurgent --- Veronica Roth (3/5) 38) Mercy --- Jodi Picoult (4/5) 39) Warm Bodies --- Isaac Marion (4/5) 40) The Wizard of Oz --- L. Frank Baum (3/5) 41) You --- Austin Grossman (4/5) 42) Ship-Breaker --- Paolo Bacigalupi (3/5) 43) Monster --- Walter Dean Myers (4/5) 44) Boneshaker --- Cherie Priest (2/5) 45) The Judging Eye --- R. Scott Bakker (4/5) 46) Stitches --- David Small (3/5) 47) Fray --- Joss Whedon, Karl Moline, Andy Owens (4/5) 48) Odd Interlude --- Dean Koontz (4/5) 49) The Running Man --- Richard Bachmann [Stephen King] (4/5) 50) Hyperbole and a Half --- Allie Brosh (5/5) 51) Allegiant --- Veronica Roth (3/5) 52) The White-Luck Warrior --- R. Scott Bakker (4/5)"

53) Spin --- Richard Charles Wilson (4/5)

Spin is a really neat sci-fi novel that poses some really neat questions and focuses on the human side of the events.

12/11/2013 11:16:43 AM

1) Altered Carbon - Richard K. Morgan (Amazing book!) - 10/10
2) Broken Angels - Richard K. Morgan - 9/10
3) Woken Furies - Richard K. Morgan - 8/10
4) A Memory of Light - Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson - 9/10
5) The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick - 7/10
6) I Drink for a Reason - David Cross - 7/10
7) Tough Shit! - Kevin Smith - 7/10
8) Into the Storm (Destroyermen #1) - Taylor Anderson - 7/10
9) Crusade (Destroyermen #2) - Taylor Anderson - 7/10
10) Maelstrom (Destroyermen #3) - Taylor Anderson - 6/10
11) Distant Thunders (Destroyermen #4) - Taylor Anderson - 6/10
12) Rising Tides (Destroyermen #5) - Taylor Anderson - 6/10
13) Firestorm (Destroyermen #6) - Taylor Anderson - 6/10
14) Iron Grey Sea (Destroyermen #7) - Taylor Anderson - 7/10
15) Downbelow Station (Company Wars #1) - C. J. Cherryh - 7/10
16) Ship Breaker (Ship Breaker #1) - Paolo Gacigalupi - 7/10
17) The Drowned Cities (Ship Breaker #2) - Paolo Gacigalupi - 8/10
18) Warbreaker - Brandon Sanderson - 7/10
19) Shattered Hourglass (Day by Day Armageddon #3) - J.L. Bourne - 5/10
20) Roadside Picnic - Arkady Strugatsky - 9/10
21) Gun Machine - Warren Ellis - 6/10
22) A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness - 10/10
23) Wild Cards (Wild Cards #1) - George R. R. Martin - 6/10
24) Perdido Street Station - China Miéville - 7/10
25) Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga #1) - Peter F. Hamilton - 8/10
26) Judas Unchained (Commonwealth Saga #2) - Peter F. Hamilton - 8/10
27) Wool - Hugh Howey - 6/10
28) The Player of Games (Culture #2) - Iain M. Banks - 8/10
29) Consider Phlebas (Culture #1) - Iain M. Banks - 7/10
30) Necessary Evil (The Milkweed Triptych, #3) - Ian Tregillis - 9/10
31) Blade of Tyshelle - Matthew Stover - 8/10
32) Caine Black Knife - Matthew Stover - 8/10
33) Caine's Law - Matthew Stover - 7/10
34) Feed (Newsflesh #1) - Mira Grant - 7/10
35) Deadline (Newsflesh #2) - Mira Grant - 7/10
36) Blackout (Newsflesh #3) - Mira Grant - 7/10
37) Ringworld (Ringworld #1) - Larry Niven - 7/10
38) Storm Surge (Destroyermen #8) - Taylor Anderson - 6/10
39) The Throne of the Crescent Moon (The Crescent Moon Kingdoms #1) - Saladin Ahmed - 7/10
40) The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. Le Guin - 9/10
41) The Curse of Chalion - Lois McMaster Bujold - 8/10
42) Pushing Ice - Alastair Reynolds - 9/10
43) The Quantum Thief - Hannu Rajaniemi - 8/10
44) Theft of Swords - Michael J. Sullivan - 6/10
45) Burning Chrome - William Gibson - 7/10
46) Orphanage (James Wander #1) - Robert Buetner - 6/10
47) Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century #1) - Cherie Priest - 7/10
48) The Human Division (Old Man's War #5) - John Scalzi - 7/10
49) Hollowland (The Hollows #1) - Amanda Hocking - 5/10
50) Hollowmen (The Hollows #2) - Amanda Hocking - 5/10
51) The Republic of Thieves (Gentlemen Bastards #3) - Scott Lynch - 10/10 Great Book
52) 14 - Peter Clines - 7/10
53) An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 - Rick Atkinson - 9/10
54) The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 - Rick Atkinson - 9/10
55) Abaddon's Gate (Expanse #3) - James S. A. Corey - 9/10
56) A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller, Jr. - 8/10
57) Currently Reading - Century Rain - Alastair Reynolds

12/15/2013 12:54:33 PM

Congrats Schnldr!

1) Universe Down To Earth by Neil deGrasse Tyson
2) The Nearest Exit by Olen Steinhauer
3) The Exile by Andrew Britton
4) No Higher Honor by Condoleezza Rice
5) The Death of Common Sense by Philip K. Howard
6) The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer
7) The Universe - At Home in the Cosmos by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Charles Liu, Robert Irion
8) At Dawn We Slept - The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor by Gordon W. Prange
9) The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
10) The Stuff of Thought: Language As A Window Into Human Nature by Steven Pinker
11) Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain by David Eagleman
12) Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam by John A. Nagl
13) The Price of Politics by Bob Woodward
14) Present Shock by Douglas Rushkoff
15) Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
16) The Social Conquest of Earth by Edward Wilson
17) The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar
18) Space Chronicles by Neil deGrasse Tyson
19) Gravity's Engines by Caleb Scharf
20) Organizational Behavior by Talya Bauer and Berrin Erdogan
21) The Next 100 Years by George Friedman

[Edited on December 18, 2013 at 5:13 PM. Reason : jank]

12/18/2013 5:13:00 PM

^Thanks!

1) Altered Carbon - Richard K. Morgan (Amazing book!) - 10/10
2) Broken Angels - Richard K. Morgan - 9/10
3) Woken Furies - Richard K. Morgan - 8/10
4) A Memory of Light - Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson - 9/10
5) The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick - 7/10
6) I Drink for a Reason - David Cross - 7/10
7) Tough Shit! - Kevin Smith - 7/10
8) Into the Storm (Destroyermen #1) - Taylor Anderson - 7/10
9) Crusade (Destroyermen #2) - Taylor Anderson - 7/10
10) Maelstrom (Destroyermen #3) - Taylor Anderson - 6/10
11) Distant Thunders (Destroyermen #4) - Taylor Anderson - 6/10
12) Rising Tides (Destroyermen #5) - Taylor Anderson - 6/10
13) Firestorm (Destroyermen #6) - Taylor Anderson - 6/10
14) Iron Grey Sea (Destroyermen #7) - Taylor Anderson - 7/10
15) Downbelow Station (Company Wars #1) - C. J. Cherryh - 7/10
16) Ship Breaker (Ship Breaker #1) - Paolo Gacigalupi - 7/10
17) The Drowned Cities (Ship Breaker #2) - Paolo Gacigalupi - 8/10
18) Warbreaker - Brandon Sanderson - 7/10
19) Shattered Hourglass (Day by Day Armageddon #3) - J.L. Bourne - 5/10
20) Roadside Picnic - Arkady Strugatsky - 9/10
21) Gun Machine - Warren Ellis - 6/10
22) A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness - 10/10
23) Wild Cards (Wild Cards #1) - George R. R. Martin - 6/10
24) Perdido Street Station - China Miéville - 7/10
25) Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga #1) - Peter F. Hamilton - 8/10
26) Judas Unchained (Commonwealth Saga #2) - Peter F. Hamilton - 8/10
27) Wool - Hugh Howey - 6/10
28) The Player of Games (Culture #2) - Iain M. Banks - 8/10
29) Consider Phlebas (Culture #1) - Iain M. Banks - 7/10
30) Necessary Evil (The Milkweed Triptych, #3) - Ian Tregillis - 9/10
31) Blade of Tyshelle - Matthew Stover - 8/10
32) Caine Black Knife - Matthew Stover - 8/10
33) Caine's Law - Matthew Stover - 7/10
34) Feed (Newsflesh #1) - Mira Grant - 7/10
35) Deadline (Newsflesh #2) - Mira Grant - 7/10
36) Blackout (Newsflesh #3) - Mira Grant - 7/10
37) Ringworld (Ringworld #1) - Larry Niven - 7/10
38) Storm Surge (Destroyermen #8) - Taylor Anderson - 6/10
39) The Throne of the Crescent Moon (The Crescent Moon Kingdoms #1) - Saladin Ahmed - 7/10
40) The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. Le Guin - 9/10
41) The Curse of Chalion - Lois McMaster Bujold - 8/10
42) Pushing Ice - Alastair Reynolds - 9/10
43) The Quantum Thief - Hannu Rajaniemi - 8/10
44) Theft of Swords - Michael J. Sullivan - 6/10
45) Burning Chrome - William Gibson - 7/10
46) Orphanage (James Wander #1) - Robert Buetner - 6/10
47) Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century #1) - Cherie Priest - 7/10
48) The Human Division (Old Man's War #5) - John Scalzi - 7/10
49) Hollowland (The Hollows #1) - Amanda Hocking - 5/10
50) Hollowmen (The Hollows #2) - Amanda Hocking - 5/10
51) The Republic of Thieves (Gentlemen Bastards #3) - Scott Lynch - 10/10 Great Book
52) 14 - Peter Clines - 7/10
53) An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 - Rick Atkinson - 9/10
54) The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 - Rick Atkinson - 9/10
55) Abaddon's Gate (Expanse #3) - James S. A. Corey - 9/10
56) A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller, Jr. - 8/10
57) Century Rain - Alastair Reynolds - 7/10
58) Currently Reading - Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae - Steven Pressfield

[Edited on December 25, 2013 at 3:28 PM. Reason : kthx]

12/25/2013 3:26:46 PM

1) Universe Down To Earth by Neil deGrasse Tyson
2) The Nearest Exit by Olen Steinhauer
3) The Exile by Andrew Britton
4) No Higher Honor by Condoleezza Rice
5) The Death of Common Sense by Philip K. Howard
6) The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer
7) The Universe - At Home in the Cosmos by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Charles Liu, Robert Irion
8) At Dawn We Slept - The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor by Gordon W. Prange
9) The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
10) The Stuff of Thought: Language As A Window Into Human Nature by Steven Pinker
11) Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain by David Eagleman
12) Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam by John A. Nagl
13) The Price of Politics by Bob Woodward
14) Present Shock by Douglas Rushkoff
15) Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
16) The Social Conquest of Earth by Edward Wilson
17) The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar
18) Space Chronicles by Neil deGrasse Tyson
19) Gravity's Engines by Caleb Scharf
20) Organizational Behavior by Talya Bauer and Berrin Erdogan
21) The Next 100 Years by George Friedman
22) The Mind & The Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force by Jeffrey Schwartz

12/25/2013 6:55:42 PM

1) Altered Carbon - Richard K. Morgan (Amazing book!) - 10/10
2) Broken Angels - Richard K. Morgan - 9/10
3) Woken Furies - Richard K. Morgan - 8/10
4) A Memory of Light - Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson - 9/10
5) The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick - 7/10
6) I Drink for a Reason - David Cross - 7/10
7) Tough Shit! - Kevin Smith - 7/10
8) Into the Storm (Destroyermen #1) - Taylor Anderson - 7/10
9) Crusade (Destroyermen #2) - Taylor Anderson - 7/10
10) Maelstrom (Destroyermen #3) - Taylor Anderson - 6/10
11) Distant Thunders (Destroyermen #4) - Taylor Anderson - 6/10
12) Rising Tides (Destroyermen #5) - Taylor Anderson - 6/10
13) Firestorm (Destroyermen #6) - Taylor Anderson - 6/10
14) Iron Grey Sea (Destroyermen #7) - Taylor Anderson - 7/10
15) Downbelow Station (Company Wars #1) - C. J. Cherryh - 7/10
16) Ship Breaker (Ship Breaker #1) - Paolo Gacigalupi - 7/10
17) The Drowned Cities (Ship Breaker #2) - Paolo Gacigalupi - 8/10
18) Warbreaker - Brandon Sanderson - 7/10
19) Shattered Hourglass (Day by Day Armageddon #3) - J.L. Bourne - 5/10
20) Roadside Picnic - Arkady Strugatsky - 9/10
21) Gun Machine - Warren Ellis - 6/10
22) A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness - 10/10
23) Wild Cards (Wild Cards #1) - George R. R. Martin - 6/10
24) Perdido Street Station - China Miéville - 7/10
25) Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga #1) - Peter F. Hamilton - 8/10
26) Judas Unchained (Commonwealth Saga #2) - Peter F. Hamilton - 8/10
27) Wool - Hugh Howey - 6/10
28) The Player of Games (Culture #2) - Iain M. Banks - 8/10
29) Consider Phlebas (Culture #1) - Iain M. Banks - 7/10
30) Necessary Evil (The Milkweed Triptych, #3) - Ian Tregillis - 9/10
31) Blade of Tyshelle - Matthew Stover - 8/10
32) Caine Black Knife - Matthew Stover - 8/10
33) Caine's Law - Matthew Stover - 7/10
34) Feed (Newsflesh #1) - Mira Grant - 7/10
35) Deadline (Newsflesh #2) - Mira Grant - 7/10
36) Blackout (Newsflesh #3) - Mira Grant - 7/10
37) Ringworld (Ringworld #1) - Larry Niven - 7/10
38) Storm Surge (Destroyermen #8) - Taylor Anderson - 6/10
39) The Throne of the Crescent Moon (The Crescent Moon Kingdoms #1) - Saladin Ahmed - 7/10
40) The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. Le Guin - 9/10
41) The Curse of Chalion - Lois McMaster Bujold - 8/10
42) Pushing Ice - Alastair Reynolds - 9/10
43) The Quantum Thief - Hannu Rajaniemi - 8/10
44) Theft of Swords - Michael J. Sullivan - 6/10
45) Burning Chrome - William Gibson - 7/10
46) Orphanage (James Wander #1) - Robert Buetner - 6/10
47) Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century #1) - Cherie Priest - 7/10
48) The Human Division (Old Man's War #5) - John Scalzi - 7/10
49) Hollowland (The Hollows #1) - Amanda Hocking - 5/10
50) Hollowmen (The Hollows #2) - Amanda Hocking - 5/10
51) The Republic of Thieves (Gentlemen Bastards #3) - Scott Lynch - 10/10 Great Book
52) 14 - Peter Clines - 7/10
53) An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 - Rick Atkinson - 9/10
54) The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 - Rick Atkinson - 9/10
55) Abaddon's Gate (Expanse #3) - James S. A. Corey - 9/10
56) A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller, Jr. - 8/10
57) Century Rain - Alastair Reynolds - 7/10
58) Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae - Steven Pressfield - 8/10

2013 is Finished with 2013. Onwards and upwards to 2014. I hope to see you all there for the next challenge.

12/31/2013 6:28:52 PM

I think I finished two books this year.

12/31/2013 6:35:42 PM

^Hell Yeah u did!

12/31/2013 7:41:05 PM

1. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K Dick
2. A Storm of Swords - George RR Martin
3. Kindred - Octavia E. Butler
4. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Mary Roach
5. Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem - Simon Singh
6. The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
7. Shit My Dad Says - Justin Halpern
8. Me of Little Faith - Lewis Black
9. The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum
10. Island - Aldous Huxley
11. Six Not So Easy Pieces - Richard P. Feynman
12. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
13. Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
14. Jesus' Son - Denis Johnson
15. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
16. Dawn - Octavia E Butler
17. Adulthood Rites - Octavia E Butler
18. Imago - Octavia E Butler
19. My Planet - Mary Roach
20. Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk
21. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
22. The Passage - Justin Cronin
23. Adding a Dimension - Isaac Asimov
24. Father Brown: The Essential Tales - G.K. Chesterton
25. Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan
26. Clay's Ark - Octavia E. Butler
27. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife - Mary Roach
28. The Doors of Perception; Heaven and Hell - Aldous Huxley
29. Wild Seed - Octavia E. Butler
30. Mind of My Mind - Octavia E. Butler
31. Patternmaster - Octavia E. Butler

Audiobooks:
1. A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2. The Sign of the Four - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
3. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
4. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
5. The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
6. The Valley of Fear - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
7. His Last Bow - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
8. Dracula - Bram Stoker
9. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin
10. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
11. The Man Who Was Thursday - GK Chesterton
12. The Man Who Knew Too Much - GK Chesterton
13. Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne


halfway through The Twelve - Justin Cronin

[Edited on December 31, 2013 at 10:09 PM. Reason : ]

12/31/2013 10:09:26 PM