thedavidx ([info]thedavidx) wrote,
@ 2008-12-31 19:49:00
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Current mood: happy
Current music:Help Yourself (Rude Version) - me & Anna

My only books were women's looks. Apart from these ones ...
Reading list 2008:

1. The Subterranean Railway - Christian Wolmar
2. 20,000 Streets Under The Sky - Patrick Hamilton
3. Northern Lights - Phillip Pullman
4. Rent Boy - Pete May
5. The Subtle Knife - Phillip Pullman
6. Do Not Pass Go - Tim Moore
7. Brighton Rock - Graham Green
8. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
9. Under the Skin - Michel Faber
10. Camden Parasites - Daniel Lux
11. Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton
12. What Might Have Been - Andrew Roberts
13. Fat - Rob Grant
14. Of Love and Hunger - Julian McLaren Ross
15. Fup - Jim Dodge
16. London Orbital - Iain Sinclair
17. The Amber Spyglass - Phillip Pullman
18. Crash - JG Ballard
19. Octopussy - Ian Fleming
20. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susannah Clarke
21. On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
22. Time's Arrow - Martin Amis
23. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
24. A Bit of a Blur - Alex James
25. My Booky Wook - Russell Brand
26. Love All The People - Bill Hicks
27. Occult London - Merlin Coverley
28. The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
29. Tricks of the Mind - Derren Brown
30. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
31. The Bus We Loved - Travis Elborough
32. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
33. The Time Machine - HG Wells
34. The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart
35. Lost Worlds - Michael Bywater
36. The Dog Catcher - Alexei Sayle
37. Christie Malry's Own Double Entry - JB Johnson
38. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
39. Heavy Words Lightly Thrown - Chris Roberts
40. London's Dead - Ed Glinert
41. The East End Nobody Knows - Andrew Davies
42. The East End - Alan Palmer
43. From Hell - Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell
44. The Third Man - Graham Greene
45. A Spot of Bother - Mark Haddon
46. Jack the Ripper: the Final Solution - Stephen Knight
47. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
48. The World According To Garp - John Irving
49. The Illustrated Mum - Jacqueline Wilson
50. The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
51. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
52. Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Edgar Allen Poe
53. London: the Biography - Peter Ackroyd
54. Dancing in the Darkness - Frankie Poulain
55. An Utterly Impartial History of Britain - John O'Farrell
56. London Lore - Steve Roud
56.5. Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius - Terrance Dicks (not finished yet)




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[info]neil_scott
2009-01-01 08:43 pm UTC (link)
And the best one is ????

I really really liked Under the Skin when I read it.

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[info]thedavidx
2009-01-02 12:14 pm UTC (link)
Hard to say, I enjoyed them all to varying degrees. Rebecca and Frankenstein were the ones that surprised me the most by their brilliance. Have you read Michel Faber's Crimson Petal? That was easily my favourite read of 2007.

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[info]glitter_thing
2009-01-01 10:18 pm UTC (link)
Wow! That's a lot of books. I think I only read about 20 books...

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[info]thedavidx
2009-01-02 12:16 pm UTC (link)
It was one of my New Year's Resolutions to read a lot more. To be honest I cheated a bit by choosing a lot of very short books from the library. Although Jonathan Strange, London Orbital and Pickwick Papers were quite massive, to balance things out a bit ...

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[info]artysmokes
2009-01-02 03:07 am UTC (link)
You read more than one man's book every week of the year? I wish I had such discipline. The only ones on that that have passed my eyes are "Do Not Pass Go" and "Crash", both of which I enjoyed immensely.

Oh. And I read most of "Rebecca" at uni. Didn't like that so much. Mrs Danvers from the film gives me nightmares to this day. :(

Happy New Whatever!

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[info]thedavidx
2009-01-02 12:19 pm UTC (link)
Well Russell Brand had "Read at least a book a week" as part of his 10-steps to recovery from shag-addiction or whatever. So I thought, if he can do that, so can I. Some don't really count as books, though. From Hell is a comic and Octopussy and the Third Man are more short stories or novellas ...


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