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Re: 50-book challenge complete! imlad Send a noteboard - 01/01/2010 07:11:32 PM
The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
The Sparrow – Mary Doria Russell


Read the Banks one last year, um I mean 2008. I had The Sparrow on deck for a while to read, but had to get it back to the library before it became over due. I plan to try it sometime this year. Hearing lots of good stuff about it.

Use of Weapons – Iain M. Banks

Read Use of Weapons in '08 as well, and it is my favorite of Banks' books so far.


The Eye in the Pyramid – Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

That part of the "Illuminatus!" trilogy (I read it as one book)? Read that a couple years ago. Frakking fun and hilarious series!!!


A Canticle for Leibowitz – Walter M. Miller, Jr

Read this when I was young, and had thought about rereading it lately. Possible will this year if I have time.


(The Gone-Away World – Nick Harkaway)

Got this planned for this coming month or so.
Magician's Gambit – David Eddings
Contract Law in Scotland – Hector MacQueen and Joe Thomson
Summer Knight – Jim Butcher
Foucault's Pendulum – Umberto Eco
Castle of Wizardry – David Eddings

Hmm... haven't touched Eddings in ages. Always planned on reading Umberto Eco.

Looks like you had a nice year in reading!
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50-book challenge complete! Tim - 31/12/2009 10:02:42 PM 1939 Views
What did you think of Three Men on a Boat? One of the more underrated comedies out there, IMO. *NM* RandAllThor - 01/01/2010 12:02:36 AM 455 Views
I think Jerome K Jerome was brilliant, and wish there were more like him. Tim - 01/01/2010 11:21:07 AM 750 Views
That is a great dedication. *NM* Jacob - 05/01/2010 06:12:34 PM 281 Views
Good job, Tim! rebelaessedai - 01/01/2010 01:09:20 AM 724 Views
Not only that: my current read is Matter, the last Culture novel. Tim - 01/01/2010 11:16:34 AM 772 Views
Nice. rebelaessedai - 01/01/2010 11:45:27 PM 733 Views
Servant of a Dark God is Out Kristen - 02/01/2010 12:02:58 AM 839 Views
Re: Nice. Tim - 02/01/2010 12:22:37 AM 829 Views
Re: Nice. rebelaessedai - 02/01/2010 08:15:10 PM 852 Views
I should correct myself... Tim - 02/01/2010 08:49:21 PM 738 Views
I also completed the 50 Book Challenge, in a nick of time. Spriteling - 01/01/2010 11:07:42 AM 763 Views
another nice list imlad - 01/01/2010 07:19:46 PM 732 Views
Me too. Camilla - 01/01/2010 11:53:57 AM 843 Views
did you read "Gone-Away World" twice?? imlad - 01/01/2010 07:23:16 PM 745 Views
Yes. It is that good. Camilla - 01/01/2010 10:18:34 PM 635 Views
My 50 and a half books Linda - 01/01/2010 01:00:17 PM 861 Views
so, how you liking Pandora's Star? imlad - 01/01/2010 07:25:24 PM 670 Views
You counted a book about contract law??? Tom - 01/01/2010 04:16:53 PM 743 Views
fnords!!!!! imlad - 01/01/2010 07:29:09 PM 666 Views
by the way imlad - 01/01/2010 07:30:04 PM 666 Views
Three. If they were originally published separately, the fact that someone collected them into... Tim - 01/01/2010 11:55:22 PM 798 Views
thats what I was doing too imlad - 02/01/2010 07:13:47 PM 789 Views
The Night Watch series just got progressively worse. I liked all of them, though. *NM* Ghavrel - 01/01/2010 10:18:15 PM 326 Views
Ha! When you first said "mastering"- rebelaessedai - 01/01/2010 11:51:16 PM 632 Views
Of course. It's the 50-book challenge, not the 50-SciFi-or-Fantasy-book challenge. Tim - 02/01/2010 12:14:59 AM 763 Views
I would never have considered case books "books" for purposes of the 50-book challenge. Tom - 02/01/2010 05:41:02 PM 832 Views
It's a textbook, not a case book. Tim - 02/01/2010 08:43:42 PM 979 Views
I think even books we called textbooks were essentially case books. Tom - 03/01/2010 05:42:45 PM 747 Views
Re: You counted a book about contract law??? everynametaken - 04/01/2010 10:30:24 AM 683 Views
We both speak Spanish already. Tom - 04/01/2010 02:00:06 PM 680 Views
Do you really figure... Legolas - 05/01/2010 01:57:54 AM 780 Views
I don't think it would take less time than for Portuguese or French, but... Tom - 05/01/2010 04:53:27 AM 796 Views
Right, fair enough. Legolas - 06/01/2010 05:21:09 AM 696 Views
I spent 8 months of those 2 years in Russia. Tom - 07/01/2010 06:08:14 AM 664 Views
I think you should teach her Koine before French Larry - 05/01/2010 04:01:44 AM 685 Views
If I could convince my wife, I would Tom - 05/01/2010 04:57:05 AM 732 Views
There's always Amharic, I suppose Larry - 05/01/2010 07:32:50 AM 863 Views
For some reason I always want to read that word as though it were in Gaelic Tom - 05/01/2010 01:49:44 PM 679 Views
Well, at least it's not Klingon! Larry - 05/01/2010 11:30:48 PM 683 Views
I have a cursory knowledge of Old Persian and a smattering of Gatha Avestan...why do you ask? Tom - 07/01/2010 06:09:20 AM 652 Views
You languageist! jh - 05/01/2010 03:09:59 PM 610 Views
Don't misunderestimate me or my verbology *NM* Tom - 07/01/2010 06:10:02 AM 295 Views
Oh, come on. Finnish is all kinds of awesome. Legolas - 05/01/2010 05:01:16 PM 684 Views
I know the word "omenapiraaka" means "apple pie" - I went to the Helsinki McDonald's. Tom - 07/01/2010 06:10:49 AM 711 Views
Congratulations, that is twice my total Stephen - 01/01/2010 04:18:06 PM 635 Views
Since 50 and a half seems to be quite a popular number this year, here are mine. wahooka - 01/01/2010 04:38:09 PM 872 Views
I think I managed, too. However, after that, my reading just... ceased. jh - 01/01/2010 06:02:16 PM 762 Views
There's a lot of those I have not heard of. rebelaessedai - 01/01/2010 11:57:04 PM 770 Views
Oh. jh - 02/01/2010 11:19:25 AM 750 Views
Re: 50-book challenge complete! imlad - 01/01/2010 07:11:32 PM 705 Views
I failed my challenge. Rebekah - 01/01/2010 11:13:59 PM 767 Views
What did you think of Foucault's Pendulum? Camilla - 02/01/2010 08:42:02 PM 685 Views
Because I'm not American. Tim - 03/01/2010 05:50:36 AM 634 Views
Yes, but you lot have lost so much more... Larry - 03/01/2010 06:03:38 AM 654 Views
Is the subjunctive any more alive in America than in Britain? Tim - 03/01/2010 06:23:09 AM 676 Views
It is where I live Larry - 03/01/2010 07:46:15 AM 804 Views
Not in any meaningful sense. I suppose there are some irregularities which could be subjunctive... Ghavrel - 03/01/2010 09:54:46 AM 723 Views
Are you talking about African-American English? Tim - 03/01/2010 11:34:30 PM 834 Views
I think he is Larry - 03/01/2010 11:43:24 PM 770 Views
The example I used was AAVE, yes. Ghavrel - 04/01/2010 02:10:23 AM 742 Views
Would y'all ( ) say it's the same situation as with French (and I think Spanish)? Legolas - 05/01/2010 02:05:59 AM 663 Views
Not exactly Larry - 05/01/2010 04:00:04 AM 673 Views
Isn't that just a gerund? Ghavrel - 06/01/2010 08:20:00 AM 673 Views
Close, but not exactly Larry - 06/01/2010 10:17:34 AM 760 Views
All I know about French is what's in Louisiana, and it's just completely incomprehensible. Ghavrel - 06/01/2010 08:20:53 AM 643 Views
I was referring to Quebecois. Legolas - 06/01/2010 05:49:43 PM 719 Views
Aaah. Camilla - 03/01/2010 09:04:45 AM 693 Views
I should have mentioned... Tim - 03/01/2010 11:39:27 PM 704 Views
Re: I should have mentioned... Camilla - 04/01/2010 08:30:50 AM 628 Views
Possibly. It'd probably be worth checking what he meant. *NM* Tim - 05/01/2010 10:59:32 AM 287 Views
Illuminatus! is so great. I finished the trilogy last year, I think. Panorphaeon - 05/01/2010 06:58:14 AM 675 Views
If this will be your first Eco, I definitely recommend The Name of the Rose rather than FP. *NM* Tim - 05/01/2010 11:13:07 AM 295 Views
THE NAME OF THE ROSE is certainly a better introduction to Eco. Jacob - 05/01/2010 06:09:04 PM 658 Views
I finished as well. Craig - 08/01/2010 03:51:25 AM 775 Views
I finished with 90 books. Jessie - 09/01/2010 09:45:29 PM 748 Views
You should read Niffenegger's new book. Legolas - 10/01/2010 07:52:37 PM 637 Views
I have. Jessie - 11/01/2010 01:59:45 AM 738 Views
Excellent. (spoilers) Legolas - 11/01/2010 04:31:17 PM 637 Views
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