Books Read in 2004 (Read Any Good Books Lately?)

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[Tanniker Smith]

2004 -- It was a year of catching up on a number of series books.

And it was probably the most books I've read in a long time (even if 12 of them were Lemony Snicket)

• The Return of the King, J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Broken Blade, Ann Marston
• The Bad Beginning, Lemony Snicket
• The Reptile Room, Lemony Snicket
• The Wide Window, Lemony Snicket
• The Miserable Mill, Lemony Snicket
• The Austere Academy, Lemony Snicket
• Cloudbearer's Shadow, Ann Marston
• Rogue Pirate, John Gregory Betancourt
• The King of Shadows, Ann Marston
• The Ersatz Elevator, Lemony Snicket
• The Vile Village, Lemony Snicket
• The Hostile Hospital, Lemony Snicket
• The Carniverous Carnerval, Lemony Snicket
• Let Freedom Ring, Sean Hannity
• Maybe (Maybe Not), Robert Fulgrum
• The Slippery Slope, Lemony Snicket
• The Unauthorized Autobiography of Lemony Snicket
• Eats, Shoots, & Leaves, Lynne Truss
• Tom Clancy's Net Force: Night Moves
• Tom Clancy's Net Force: Breaking Point
• The Kingdom of Infinite Numbers: A Field Guide, Bryan Bunch
• X-Files: Whirlwind, (does it matter who it's by?)
• Tom Clancy's Net Force: Point of Impact
• The Grim Grotto, Lemony Snicket
• Tom Clancy's Net Force: Cybernation (in this one, the title actually had something to do with the story)
• Vulcan!, Kathleen Sky
• Stars & Stripes Forever, Harry Harrison
• Stars & Stripes In Peril, Harry Harrison
• Stars & Stripes Triumphant, Harry Harrison

Also
Graphic Novels: (I don't normally get to read these, but I found a stack at the local library and went through them!)

• Batman: Terror (good)
• Tales of the Slayers (very good, it was worth picking rather than the Buffy books)
• Batman: Child of Dreams (pretty good, but pretty long)
• Spiderman: The Death of Gwen Stacey (excellent -- even for reprints)
• Spyboy/Young Justice (ick)
• Batman: The Arrow, the Ring & the Bat (good story, but the splash pages were annoying)

[Puppage]

American Soldier:Gen Tommy Franks

[FreedomHasACost]

Zell Millers book "A National Party No More". It is real good.
How on earth did you ever get the time to read all those books?
All my extra time I spend here :)

[Tanniker Smith]

you forgot to read Ann Coulter's new book!

Haven't gotten it from the library yet. And when I do, I'll need a disguise in case my wife sees me reading it. I'll probably tell her it's porn -- must easier for her to deal with.

TS

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/title.html

Free on line books

[w1andsodidwe]

Currently reading the "Da Vinci Code". A real page turner. I will however follow up with the book that debunks the misinformation here. It must be read for pure enjoyment, not for taking anything lasting away from it.

[Conspiracy Guy]

The connections from one character to the next are still bad. It's like each character has an unrelated story.

[GeronL]

what is a lemony snicket?

[Conspiracy Guy]

I couldn't get past the opening credits.

[PMCarey]

Here are some books that stick out in my mind from the past year ...

• The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki: A book about how large groups can make more intelligent decisions than even the most intelligent member
• Eats Shoots and Leaves by Lynn Truss: A humerous book about punctuation (really!)
• Carnage and Culture by Victor Hansen: The rise of the Western military tradition as seen from 10 historic battles
• Ripples of Battle by Victor Hansen: The impact of three historic battles (Delium, Shiloh, and Okinawa)
• Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell: A basic introduction to free-market economic theory. Very well written, but I haven't finished it yet!
• Prime Obsession by John Derbyshire: A well-written examination of the Riemann Hypothesis (the most famous unsolved hypothesis in mathematics - now that Fermat's Last Theorem has bit the dust)

[patriciaruth]

Interesting thing happened. I read Johnny Tremaine before sending it to my husband's grandson, and while reading it realized that John Jake had ripped off half the characters and plot when he wrote The Bastard and The Rebels.

[blue-duncan]

But you got to love the short stories!!

[CatoRenasci]

While I read a few dozen amusing, but forgettable works of science fiction, I did read a few good books:

Peter Watson, The Modern Mind
Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence
B. T. Wilkins, Burke's Political Philosophy

all of which I commend to the interested student of ideas.

[Tanniker Smith]

Hm...writing down everything I've read or reread would be tricky.

Start now for 2005. If you're on a PC, open a new file in "My Documents", call it "Books 2005" and write down what you're reading currently (assuming you don't finish it in the next 30 hours or so). Update it as needed.

Someone else can give Mac directions. (Actually, I use a DOS file. Yes, I did just turn 40, how did you know?)

TS

[don-o]

The Long Walk.

My copy of that has vanished. Uh, some say the whole work is a fiction.

[Conspiracy Guy]

It just doesn't flow well.

[Darkwolf377]

The Narnia books are getting the bigscreen treatment--I think Lion, Witch and Wardrobe is coming out late next year. The visuals are being done by WETA, which did the Lord of the Rings movies.

There are several more low-rent TV and video versions avaiable. I suggest waiting for the more lavish versions. Lewis's stepson, I think, has a hand in them.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Dump all your old business books and pick up "Good to Great," by Jim Collins. Best take on what makes a successful organization I've read in a decade.
I also read William Manchester's "American Caesar" (MacArthur's life story) over the Christmas holiday. Very book biography.

[redangus]

Born Fighting-How The Scots-Irish Shaped America
Beowulf(second time)
Just started "Heloise and Abelard, A New Biography"

[RosieCotton]

That's kind of a cool idea! Be interesting to have a record. I should do that.

Currently reading Graham Greene's This Gun for Hire...

[Tanniker Smith]

How on earth did you ever get the time to read all those books?

Well, 12 of them were Lemony Snicket. Heck, I read 1/2 of one of those while waiting in line to have it autographed.

Mostly, it was a half-hour at bedtime and every-so-often on the subway (I usually drive to work, so that's kinda out).

TS