- Eugene V. Dubstep
- Oct 4, 2013
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Counting backwards from today since it doesn't seem likely I'll finish The Blind Assassin by tomorrow...
- The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat
- Almost an Evening by Ethan Coen
- The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
- Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford
- I, Claudius by Robert Graves
- Out of the Whirlwind: Creation Theology in the Book of Job by Kathryn Schifferdecker
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
- Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti
- The Book of Job: Commentary, New Translation and Special Studies by Robert Gordis
- At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
- Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature by S.K. Robisch
- Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- The Gingerbread Woman by Jennifer Johnston
- Miracle and Other Christmas Stories by Connie Willis
- Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
- Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome
- Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
- The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
- Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- Candide by Voltaire (+Walsh's Literary Companion)
- Ancillary Mercy by Anne Leckie
- Dramatic Lyrics by Robert Browning
- Call of the Wild by Jack London
- How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
- Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
- Blue at the Mizzen by Patrick O'Brian
- An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
- Rubicon: The Last Days of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- Tartuffe by Moličre
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (+Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
- A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
- Empires of the Sea by Roger Crowley
- The Best of Myles by Flann O'Brien
- Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
- The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy (+Arnold & Luce's Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy)
- The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- Ancillary Sword by Anne Leckie
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
- Ancillary Justice by Anne Leckie
- Salve Venetia by Francis Marion Crawford
- The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
- Shadow of a Gunman by Sean O'Casey
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
- Dubliners by James Joyce
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The Alienist by Caleb Carr
- The Ill-Made Knight by Christian Cameron
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
- The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker
- The Causal Angel by Hannu Rajaniemi
- Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
- Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
- The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
- A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
- Agent Zigzag by Ben McIntyre
- In Other Worlds by Margaret Atwood
- The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr., and E.B. White
- The Hundred Days by Patrick O'Brian
Out of all of those, I only disliked six: The Martian, The Great and Secret Show, Walden, Guns, Germs, and Steel, and Scott Lynch's Locke Lamora books. I really hit my stride in the latter half of the year as I discovered a strong interest in Irish literature. As for the challenge...
1. The vanilla read a set number of books in a year. - 65 beats any goal I would likely have set for myself a year ago
2. Read a female author - Atwood, St. John Mandel, Schifferdecker, Hansberry, Leckie, Austen
3. The non-white author - probably missing a couple, but Rajniemi and Hansberry seem like safe bets
4. Philosophy - Thoreau
5. History - Diamond, McIntyre, Crowley, Holland
6. An essay - too many to list
7. A collection of poetry - Blake, Browning, Rossetti
8. Something post-modern - The Third Policeman
9. Something absurdist - The Third Policeman
10. The Blind Owl (Free translation if your ok with reading on a screen or cant find a copy!) - hell yeah, just under the wire
11. Something on either hate or love - Love—Austen, Rossetti, Wilde; Hate—Browning's Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
12. Something dealing with space - Ancillary Justice, The Martian, etc.
13. Something dealing with the unreal - The Third Policeman, At Swim-Two-Birds, etc.
14. Wildcard (Some one else taking the challenge will tell you what to read)
15. Something published this year or the past three months - Ancillary Mercy
16. That one book that has been sitting on your desk waiting for a long time - Moby-Dick
17. A play - Coen, O'Casey, Wilde, Hansberry
18. Biography - Agent Zigzag
19. The color red - Red Sky at Morning
20. Something banned or censored - Vonnegut
21. Short story(s) - Hedayat, Willis, Joyce, a bunch of others I didn't keep track of
22. A mystery - The Alienist
Well, almost.
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- Eugene V. Dubstep
- Oct 4, 2013
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Finished Waiting for Godot. I don't know if I am missing context or just don't get it or what, but it just didn't work for me. Honestly, the play is probably the only book challenge category I'd change. Its like saying you need to read movie script - its designed for a different method of consumption and I feel I'm missing something.
This is true, of course—you are missing something—but when are you going to go see a play? Besides, in some cases the way you imagine a play is superior to the performance. Shadow of a Gunman was twice as good on stage for me, but I've never been satisfied with an adaptation of The Importance of Being Earnest.
quote: I'd suggest replacing the category with A Graphic Novel.
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