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dreamer_easy) wrote2007-12-31 09:59 pm
dreamer_easy) wrote2007-12-31 09:59 pm
Entry tags:
- australia,
- book-mucking,
- books read/bought/borrowed,
- comics,
- feminist science fiction,
- homer sexuality,
- it's the mind: chess and crosswords etc,
- melanin,
- religion,
- religion: tehology,
- religion: the view from babylon,
- science fiction,
- tv: top gear apparently,
- words words words,
- writers: george orwell,
- writers: hunter s. thompson,
- writers: niall griffiths
Books read, 2007
Greg Bear. Slant.
Brian Michael Bendis. Fortune and Glory.
William S. Burroughs. Queer.
Dominique Collon. The Queen of the Night (British Museum Objects in Focus).
Marcel Cohen. In Search of a Lost Ladino.
Michael David Coogan. Stories from Ancient Canaan.
Douglas Coupland. JPod.
Piers Moore Ede. Honey and Dust.
Stefan Fatsis. Word Freaks.
Ian Fleming. Casino Royale.
- Live and Let Die.
Wanda Gag. Millions of Cats.
Niall Griffiths. Runt.
- Sheepshagger.
- Stump.
- Wreckage.
Richard Hammond. On The Edge.
Jonathan Harley. Lost in Transmission.
bell hooks. Bone Black.
Nick Hornby. The Complete Polysyllabic Spree.
- Fever Pitch.
- How to be Good.
Aldous Huxley. Brave New World
- Crome Yellow.
Arvid S. Kapelrud. The Violent Goddess.
Etgar Keret. The Nimrod Flip-Out.
Betty MacDonald. The Egg and I.
Magnus Mills. The Restraint of Beasts.
Me. Return of the Living Dad.
George Orwell. A Clergyman's Daughter.
- Coming up for Air.
- The Road to Wigan Pier.
Paul Radin. The Trickster: a study in American Indian mythology.
Rainbow Spirit Elders. Rainbow Spirit Theology.
Ali Rattansi. Racism: A Very Short Introduction.
Ruth Rendell. A Guilty Thing Surprised.
Lionel Shriver. Ordinary Decent Criminals (aka The Bleeding Heart).
Neal Stephenson. Cryptonomicon. Oy gevalt.
Jacqueline Susann. Valley of the Dolls.
Hunter S. Thompson. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72.
- Kingdom of Fear.
Fred Waitzkin. Searching for Bobby Fischer.
Tom Wolfe. Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers.
Notable short stories
John Baxter. The Hands. In Carnell, John (ed) New Writings in SF: 6. Corgi, London, 1965. Argh!!
James Tiptree Jr. The Women Men Don't See. Wanted to see if this had any relevance to DW S3. It doesn't. But I did understand the story much better on the re-read. And Tiptree's relentless prose!
Brian Michael Bendis. Fortune and Glory.
William S. Burroughs. Queer.
Dominique Collon. The Queen of the Night (British Museum Objects in Focus).
Marcel Cohen. In Search of a Lost Ladino.
Michael David Coogan. Stories from Ancient Canaan.
Douglas Coupland. JPod.
Piers Moore Ede. Honey and Dust.
Stefan Fatsis. Word Freaks.
Ian Fleming. Casino Royale.
- Live and Let Die.
Wanda Gag. Millions of Cats.
Niall Griffiths. Runt.
- Sheepshagger.
- Stump.
- Wreckage.
Richard Hammond. On The Edge.
Jonathan Harley. Lost in Transmission.
bell hooks. Bone Black.
Nick Hornby. The Complete Polysyllabic Spree.
- Fever Pitch.
- How to be Good.
Aldous Huxley. Brave New World
- Crome Yellow.
Arvid S. Kapelrud. The Violent Goddess.
Etgar Keret. The Nimrod Flip-Out.
Betty MacDonald. The Egg and I.
Magnus Mills. The Restraint of Beasts.
Me. Return of the Living Dad.
George Orwell. A Clergyman's Daughter.
- Coming up for Air.
- The Road to Wigan Pier.
Paul Radin. The Trickster: a study in American Indian mythology.
Rainbow Spirit Elders. Rainbow Spirit Theology.
Ali Rattansi. Racism: A Very Short Introduction.
Ruth Rendell. A Guilty Thing Surprised.
Lionel Shriver. Ordinary Decent Criminals (aka The Bleeding Heart).
Neal Stephenson. Cryptonomicon. Oy gevalt.
Jacqueline Susann. Valley of the Dolls.
Hunter S. Thompson. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72.
- Kingdom of Fear.
Fred Waitzkin. Searching for Bobby Fischer.
Tom Wolfe. Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers.
Notable short stories
John Baxter. The Hands. In Carnell, John (ed) New Writings in SF: 6. Corgi, London, 1965. Argh!!
James Tiptree Jr. The Women Men Don't See. Wanted to see if this had any relevance to DW S3. It doesn't. But I did understand the story much better on the re-read. And Tiptree's relentless prose!
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There was a big envelop from Australia waiting for me when I returned from uni this evening. Both "Room with no Doors" and "Walking to Babylon" survived the long flight prefectly well and I can't wait to read them. I'm especially curious about what you did to poor Seven this time. Hmmmpf.. according to my own weired set of rules of not reading anything from the same authors in a succession of four books I still have to be patient for about 14 days. I just finished Vampire Science, which I really enjoyed. A wonderful introduction to the Eight books for me; I loved him immediately. Aww, the cute kittens and the vampire snail made me giggle hopelessly while sitting in the cramped commuter train. Thanks a lot.
I wonder, for which Doctor/Benny did you personally enjoy writing the most and why?
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The Seventh Doctor, I think. I may have lusted embarrassingly after Paul McGann, but the Seventh Doctor feels like my "home turf". :-)
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