Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Pointless Filler

What's on my eBook Reader.
  1. 1984 (everyone should read this book)
  2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (plus volumes 2, 3 and 4, which I haven't read)
  3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  4. Agrippa (a fair number of short stories in this list)
  5. All Tomorrow's Parties
  6. Andromeda Strain (from before he went crazy)
  7. Beowulf
  8. The Bicentennial Man
  9. Brave New World
  10. The Bridge Trilogy
  11. Burning Chrome
  12. Childhood's End
  13. A Christmas Carol (classic)
  14. The Chronicles of Narnia Books 1-7 (haven't read 'em)
  15. Contact
  16. The Count of Monte Cristo (superb)
  17. Count Zero
  18. Cradle
  19. Carrion Comfort
  20. Democracy in America, parts 1 and 2 (fascinating reading)
  21. The Demolished Man
  22. The Difference Engine
  23. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
  24. Dune books 1-5 (only book 1 is worth reading though)
  25. Earthsea books 1-4
  26. Encounter at Dawn
  27. Fantastic Voyage
  28. Feeling of Power
  29. Fight Club (if you've seen the movie, don't bother)
  30. Footfall
  31. The Forever War (they're making a movie)
  32. Found
  33. Foundation, books 1-6
  34. Fountains of Paradise
  35. Fragments of a Hologram Rose
  36. The Fun They Had
  37. A Game of Thrones (LotR meets Dallas, and then everyone dies)
  38. Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, volumes 1-6 (heavy with a big honkin' H)
  39. Great Expectations
  40. Harry Potter, books 1-4 (still haven't read 5, 6 or 7)
  41. Hide and Seek
  42. High Fidelity (the book came first)
  43. History of England - the Normans
  44. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy, volumes 1-5 (you read that right)
  45. The Hobbit
  46. I, Robot
  47. Interview with the Vampire (meh)
  48. Johnny Mnemonic
  49. Last Chance to See
  50. The Lord of the Rings
  51. Mars Trilogy, books 1-3
  52. The Meaning of Liff
  53. Miles Vorkosigan, books 1-8
  54. Mona Lisa Overdrive
  55. Mote in God's Eye
  56. Nebula Stories, several volumes
  57. Neuromancer (best novel ever)
  58. New Rose Hotel
  59. The Next Tenants
  60. Nightfall (also a classic)
  61. One Night of Song
  62. Perdido Street Station
  63. Principa Discordia (hail, Eris!)
  64. Red Star, Winter Orbit
  65. Renaissance Italian Civilization
  66. Rendezvous with Rama
  67. Stand on Zanzibar (haven't read it, believe it or not -- it's next)
  68. The Star
  69. Dracula (awful)
  70. Superiority
  71. Tigana (wonderful)
  72. Transience
  73. William the Conqueror
  74. Collected Jeeves & Wooster (always fun)
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2 comments:

Jack said...

A great read is "World War Z".

Brave New World brings back painful memories of grade 10. That and The Chrysalids.

I don't understand why they gave us two Sci-Fi novels. They should've made us read a war novel or a mystery. You know, broaden the spectrum.

9:50 AM
You Look Like A Nail said...

I heart John Wyndham, but I never got why you'd read The Chrysalids in school (and we did). Entertaining book, not really edumacational.

Brave New World was okay, but there are better things to read.

If I had to pick two science fictioney books to give children to read, it'd be 1984 by Orwell and The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner. If that didn't scare the crap out of 'em, nothing would.

4:39 PM

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