Book List, Final for 2006
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mlknchzSome good, some bad, some indifferent, ONE atrocious.
The Blooding - Wambaugh
Venus – Bova +
The Dance of Death – Preston & Child
Bombshell – Albright & Kunstel
Kalki – Vidal +
The Night Church – Strieber
Chasing the Dime – Connelly
The Godmakers – Herbert
The Gun Seller – Laurie * +
Baudolino – Eco +
Washington, DC – Vidal +
The Occult Roots of Nazism – Goodrick-Clarke * +
The Bonfire of the Vanities - Wolfe
Nightmare; 30 Terrifying Tales – Weinberg, Greenberg, Dziemianowicz (eds)
Cell – King ~~
The Past That Would Not Die – Lord
Red Rabbit – Clancy *
The Night Boat – McCammon
Earth Abides – Stewart
The Third Secret – Berry
American Bard – Whitman +
The Templar Legacy – Berry ~
The House in the Sand – Neruda +
Spetsnaz; Soviet Special Operations, A Critical Analysis – Burgess (ed)
Where is Joe Merchant? – Buffett +
Nicholas and Alexandra – Massie *
A Salty Piece of Land – Buffett
Skeleton Man – Hillerman
Faerie Tale – Feist
A Hymnal: The Controversial Arts – Buckley
The Ice Limit – Preston & Child ~
Dracula – Stoker *
The Naked Civil Servant – Crisp +
Red Cavalry – Babel +
House of Leaves – Danielewski ~~
Under the Banner of Heaven – Krakauer +
Maximum Ride, The Angel Experiment – Patterson
The Third Chimpanzee – Diamond * +
The Painted Bird – Kosinski +
Speaks the Nightbird: Judgement of the Witch – McCammon +
Thieves of Heaven – Doetsch
A Sort of Life – Greene
Black Wind – Wilson
Map of Bones – Rollins
The Atrocity Archives – Stross +
Declare – Powers +
The Family Trade – Stross
Subterranean – Rollins ~
Riptide – Preston & Child
Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin’s Dream of an Empire in Asia – Hopkirk *+
Birds of Prey – Drake *+
Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire – Hopkirk* +
The Clerkenwell Tales – Ackroyd +
The Book of the Dead - Preston & Child
Doomsday Book – Willis ++
Speaks the Nightbird: Evil Unveiled – McCammon +
The Anubis Gates – Powers * ++
Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Explorations of Tibet – Hopkirk *+
William Blake in This World – Bruce +
The Turning – Armintrout +
Maxwell’s Demons – Bova
The Bormann Testament – Higgins
The Leopard – di Lampedusa +
Requiem – Joyce ++
Colonel Sun – K. Amis (as Robert Markham) +
Conspiracies – Wilson *
Lost Boy, Lost Girl – Straub +
Reading Lolita in Tehran - Nafisi +
Battle Ready – Zinni and Clancy
Vox – Baker *
The Devil in the White City – Larson +
Bright Star – Coyle
Pulp Fiction – Jakubowski (ed)
Mr. Kiplings Army – Farwell *
Ghost Soldiers – Sides ~~
Scenting Hallowed Blood – Constantine
All the Conspirators – Isherwood *
Armies of the Raj – Farwell *
The Hidden Family – Stross
The Confessions of Nat Turner – Styron ++
Three Days to Never – Powers
Among the Thugs – Buford *+
Life of Pi – Martel +
The Visitation – Peretti ~
A Peace to End All Peace – Fromkin *+
The Keep – Wilson *+
The World of Normal Boys – Soehnlein *+
Hot Night in the City – Trevanian +
Singularity Sky – Stross +
The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs – Pryce – Jones +
Tyrannosaur Canyon – Preston
Banner of Souls – Williams +
Way of a Fighter – Chennault +
The Cellar - Laymon ~~ ICK (Worst Book of the Year; badly-written, gratuitously violent, near-child-pornographic trash)
The Longest Night – Keizer
Possession – Byatt ~ (chick-lit silliness)
Anansi Boys – Gaiman (ehh) ~
The Ides of March – Wilder +
Interlopers – Foster*
The Wolf’s Hour – McCammon ~
Lost Cities – Cottrell *+
Marco Polo, If You Can – Buckley *+
Folly – King +
The Last Templar – Khoury ~
An Infinity of Mirrors – Condon +
A Game of Thrones – Martin +
Footfall – Niven & Pournelle * +
* re-read
+ worth-while
~ don't waste your time
The Blooding - Wambaugh
Venus – Bova +
The Dance of Death – Preston & Child
Bombshell – Albright & Kunstel
Kalki – Vidal +
The Night Church – Strieber
Chasing the Dime – Connelly
The Godmakers – Herbert
The Gun Seller – Laurie * +
Baudolino – Eco +
Washington, DC – Vidal +
The Occult Roots of Nazism – Goodrick-Clarke * +
The Bonfire of the Vanities - Wolfe
Nightmare; 30 Terrifying Tales – Weinberg, Greenberg, Dziemianowicz (eds)
Cell – King ~~
The Past That Would Not Die – Lord
Red Rabbit – Clancy *
The Night Boat – McCammon
Earth Abides – Stewart
The Third Secret – Berry
American Bard – Whitman +
The Templar Legacy – Berry ~
The House in the Sand – Neruda +
Spetsnaz; Soviet Special Operations, A Critical Analysis – Burgess (ed)
Where is Joe Merchant? – Buffett +
Nicholas and Alexandra – Massie *
A Salty Piece of Land – Buffett
Skeleton Man – Hillerman
Faerie Tale – Feist
A Hymnal: The Controversial Arts – Buckley
The Ice Limit – Preston & Child ~
Dracula – Stoker *
The Naked Civil Servant – Crisp +
Red Cavalry – Babel +
House of Leaves – Danielewski ~~
Under the Banner of Heaven – Krakauer +
Maximum Ride, The Angel Experiment – Patterson
The Third Chimpanzee – Diamond * +
The Painted Bird – Kosinski +
Speaks the Nightbird: Judgement of the Witch – McCammon +
Thieves of Heaven – Doetsch
A Sort of Life – Greene
Black Wind – Wilson
Map of Bones – Rollins
The Atrocity Archives – Stross +
Declare – Powers +
The Family Trade – Stross
Subterranean – Rollins ~
Riptide – Preston & Child
Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin’s Dream of an Empire in Asia – Hopkirk *+
Birds of Prey – Drake *+
Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire – Hopkirk* +
The Clerkenwell Tales – Ackroyd +
The Book of the Dead - Preston & Child
Doomsday Book – Willis ++
Speaks the Nightbird: Evil Unveiled – McCammon +
The Anubis Gates – Powers * ++
Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Explorations of Tibet – Hopkirk *+
William Blake in This World – Bruce +
The Turning – Armintrout +
Maxwell’s Demons – Bova
The Bormann Testament – Higgins
The Leopard – di Lampedusa +
Requiem – Joyce ++
Colonel Sun – K. Amis (as Robert Markham) +
Conspiracies – Wilson *
Lost Boy, Lost Girl – Straub +
Reading Lolita in Tehran - Nafisi +
Battle Ready – Zinni and Clancy
Vox – Baker *
The Devil in the White City – Larson +
Bright Star – Coyle
Pulp Fiction – Jakubowski (ed)
Mr. Kiplings Army – Farwell *
Ghost Soldiers – Sides ~~
Scenting Hallowed Blood – Constantine
All the Conspirators – Isherwood *
Armies of the Raj – Farwell *
The Hidden Family – Stross
The Confessions of Nat Turner – Styron ++
Three Days to Never – Powers
Among the Thugs – Buford *+
Life of Pi – Martel +
The Visitation – Peretti ~
A Peace to End All Peace – Fromkin *+
The Keep – Wilson *+
The World of Normal Boys – Soehnlein *+
Hot Night in the City – Trevanian +
Singularity Sky – Stross +
The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs – Pryce – Jones +
Tyrannosaur Canyon – Preston
Banner of Souls – Williams +
Way of a Fighter – Chennault +
The Cellar - Laymon ~~ ICK (Worst Book of the Year; badly-written, gratuitously violent, near-child-pornographic trash)
The Longest Night – Keizer
Possession – Byatt ~ (chick-lit silliness)
Anansi Boys – Gaiman (ehh) ~
The Ides of March – Wilder +
Interlopers – Foster*
The Wolf’s Hour – McCammon ~
Lost Cities – Cottrell *+
Marco Polo, If You Can – Buckley *+
Folly – King +
The Last Templar – Khoury ~
An Infinity of Mirrors – Condon +
A Game of Thrones – Martin +
Footfall – Niven & Pournelle * +
* re-read
+ worth-while
~ don't waste your time
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Date: 12/28/06 08:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 12/28/06 08:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 12/28/06 08:54 pm (UTC)I stopped trying a few years back. He's got this strong reputation in 'Horror Circles' though, that....puzzles me.
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Date: 12/28/06 10:16 pm (UTC)you read too much, mang
Date: 12/29/06 12:08 am (UTC)also, why'd you put that as yr location?
Re: you read too much, mang
Date: 12/29/06 01:07 am (UTC)Re: you read too much, mang
Date: 12/29/06 02:29 am (UTC)huh. i love tht movie but for the life of me i can't remember the hanging upside-down part.
brainfart.
ya made me think of this:
Re: you read too much, mang
Date: 12/29/06 02:59 am (UTC)IIRC, The Hell of Hanging Upside-Down was where the got sent when they first broke into Lo-Pans hideout...in the elevator?
Re: you read too much, mang
Date: 12/29/06 04:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 12/30/06 02:41 am (UTC)There's no way I could list everything I've read in a year - it's just too much.
Wow.
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Date: 12/30/06 03:44 am (UTC)DitWC is a good read, you'll enjoy it.
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Date: 12/30/06 03:50 am (UTC)It reads a lot like Michael Crighton's The Great Train Robbery
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Date: 12/30/06 03:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 1/3/07 01:19 am (UTC)