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2015 Book Thread
« on: January 19, 2015, 09:58:14 PM »

All righty, I'll start this one off.  I ended up finishing this one today:

1. The Turing Option by Harry Harrison and Marvin Minsky


And I started Ur by Stephen King.
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Re: 2015 Book Thread
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2015, 12:27:26 AM »

Currently reading So Anyway... by John Cleese

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Re: 2015 Book Thread
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2015, 07:51:40 PM »

1.  The Turing Option by Harry Harrison and Marvin Minsky
2.  Ur by Stephen King.

Okay, apparently Ur was actually more of a novella or a long short story, because I'm done with it already.  I didn't have anything else on my Kindle over lunch that looked interesting, and I didn't feel like surfing around for something, so I started reading Cell by Stephen King, which I first read when it came out, but I've been meaning to revisit.

I forgot how "Snowcrash" this book is.
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Re: 2015 Book Thread
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2015, 10:02:11 PM »

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1.  The Turing Option by Harry Harrison and Marvin Minsky
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3.  Cell by Stephen King

Now I'm reading Gridlinked by Neal Asher.
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Re: 2015 Book Thread
« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2015, 12:48:02 PM »

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Re: 2015 Book Thread
« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2015, 03:07:12 PM »

A Crown of Swords, Book 7 of the Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan.
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Re: 2015 Book Thread
« Reply #6 on: March 02, 2015, 03:21:44 PM »

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Re: 2015 Book Thread
« Reply #7 on: March 13, 2015, 04:57:19 PM »

Coming into this in March, I have a bit of a backlog of read books to list:

1. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
2. LIFE Wonders of the Deep: The Astonishing Splendor of the Seven Seas
3. Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman
4. The Collector by John Fowles
5. The God Engines by John Scalzi
6. The Grin of the Dark by Ramsey Campbell
7. White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi 
8. The Thief of Always by Clive Barker
9. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
10. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Currently reading The Mothman Prophecies by John A. Keel.
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Re: 2015 Book Thread
« Reply #8 on: March 13, 2015, 06:10:35 PM »

Read a short story called Red Button by my friend Faith Gardner.  It's in the anthology/book-like magazine Gargoyle number 62

It's five pages long but is really haunting me.  It's expanded my mind, fucked with my emotions as much as a three volume trilogy.  I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the poetry and short stories in the issue and see what kind of company she's keeping.

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Re: 2015 Book Thread
« Reply #9 on: March 22, 2015, 09:05:46 PM »

6. The Grin of the Dark by Ramsey Campbell
7. White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi 
8. The Thief of Always by Clive Barker
9. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
10. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
11. The Mothman Prophecies by John A. Keel

I am now re-re-re-reading The Princess Bride by S. Morgenstern William Goldman
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Re: 2015 Book Thread
« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2015, 05:27:43 PM »

6. The Grin of the Dark by Ramsey Campbell
7. White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi 
8. The Thief of Always by Clive Barker
9. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
10. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
11. The Mothman Prophecies by John A. Keel
12. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
13  A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab.
14. Beneath the Cassock: the Real-Life Vicar of Dibley by Joy Carroll

Currently reading Nightmares! by Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller.
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Re: 2015 Book Thread
« Reply #11 on: May 20, 2015, 06:50:38 PM »

Received my pre-ordered copy of Seveneves by Neal Stephenson yesterday.  Started reading it today.  With maybe 30 minutes a day for 3 or 4 days a week to read, this will take me a while to finish although at only 860 pages it's quite small by Stephenson standards.

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Re: 2015 Book Thread
« Reply #12 on: May 30, 2015, 07:04:35 PM »

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1.  The Turing Option by Harry Harrison and Marvin Minsky
2.  Ur by Stephen King
3.  Cell by Stephen King
4.  Gridlinked by Neal Asher

Now I'm reading The Line of Polity by Neal Asher.
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Re: 2015 Book Thread
« Reply #13 on: July 06, 2015, 03:23:57 AM »

6. The Grin of the Dark by Ramsey Campbell
7. White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi 
8. The Thief of Always by Clive Barker
9. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
10. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
11. The Mothman Prophecies by John A. Keel
12. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
13  A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab.
14. Beneath the Cassock: the Real-Life Vicar of Dibley by Joy Carroll

15. A Storm of Swords by George RR Martin
16. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
17. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Currently reading about six books, but trying to focus on Aquagenesis: The Origin and Evolution of Life in the Sea by Richard Ellis.
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Re: 2015 Book Thread
« Reply #14 on: July 27, 2015, 01:25:35 PM »

Received my pre-ordered copy of Seveneves by Neal Stephenson yesterday.  Started reading it today.  With maybe 30 minutes a day for 3 or 4 days a week to read, this will take me a while to finish although at only 860 pages it's quite small by Stephenson standards.

Finished about a week ago, then started The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove by Christopher Moore.

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Re: 2015 Book Thread
« Reply #15 on: July 30, 2015, 07:45:38 AM »

12. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
13  A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab.
14. Beneath the Cassock: the Real-Life Vicar of Dibley by Joy Carroll
15. A Storm of Swords by George RR Martin
16. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
17. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

18. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
19. Stupid Sexy Flanders and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling
20. Stupid Sexy Flanders and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
21. All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
22. The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

Wow, that's an interesting filter. Imagine if instead of saying 'You-Know-Who' they'd said 'Stupid Sexy Flanders.'
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Re: 2015 Book Thread
« Reply #16 on: August 20, 2015, 08:31:39 PM »

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Re: 2015 Book Thread
« Reply #17 on: September 01, 2015, 10:55:31 PM »

Finished Luckiest Girl Alive

Started Perdita by my friend Faith Gardner.

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Re: 2015 Book Thread
« Reply #18 on: September 12, 2015, 12:36:05 PM »

18. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
19. Stupid Sexy Flanders and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling
20. Stupid Sexy Flanders and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
21. All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
22. The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

23-34. Darren Shan's Cirque du Freak series
35. Stupid Sexy Flanders and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
36. Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids edited by Meghan Daum
37. The Ghost and the Goth by Stacey Kade
38. Queen of the Dead by Stacey Kade
39. Body & Soul by Stacey Kade
40. Armada by Ernest Cline
41. Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
42. Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
43. You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) by Felicia Day
44. The Girl in the Glass by Jeffrey Ford
45. Lasso the Moon by Dennis Covington
46. Supernatural America: A Cultural History by Lawrence R. Samuelson
47. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

I'm currently reading Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting by W. Scott Poole.
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Re: 2015 Book Thread
« Reply #19 on: November 23, 2015, 02:05:47 PM »

Reading Good Omens by Gaiman and Pratchett right now.  I'm too lazy/scared to go back and see how many I've read this year.

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Re: 2015 Book Thread
« Reply #20 on: November 30, 2015, 09:00:49 AM »

40. Armada by Ernest Cline
41. Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
42. Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
43. You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) by Felicia Day
44. The Girl in the Glass by Jeffrey Ford
45. Lasso the Moon by Dennis Covington
46. Supernatural America: A Cultural History by Lawrence R. Samuelson
47. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

48. Bird Box by Josh Malerman.
49. Dumplin' by Julie Murphy
50. Paranormal Nation: Why America Needs Ghosts, UFOs and Bigfoot by Marc E. Fitch

I'm currently reading The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma.
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