Books Read in 2000
Well, this is more like it. I must've been motivated by the turn of the century to read more.
Total number of pages read: 8639
Pages read in 1990: 7743
Pages read in 1991: 4870
Pages read in 1992: 5395
Pages read in 1993: 7568
Pages read in 1994: 4441
Pages read in 1995: 5417
Pages read in 1996: 4268
Pages read in 1997: 6890
Pages read in 1998: 6546
Pages read in 1999: 4324
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Star Trek: Vulcan's Glory by D.C. Fontana
Great Books by David Denby
Mrs. Dalloway by Virgina Woolf
Grown Up All Wrong: 75 Great Rock and Pop Artists from Vaudeville to Techno by Robert Christgau
The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell
Battle of the Books by James Atlas
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene
Star Trek: The Ashes of Eden by William Shatner
The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace by Terry Brooks
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson
Selections from the First Two Issues of "The New York Review of Books" edited by Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein
In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike
Get a Life! by William Shatner and Chris Kreski
The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike
Star Wars: Rogue Planet by Greg Bear
I Am Not Spock by Leonard Nimoy
Star Trek DS9: The Fall of Terok Nor by Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens
Flashforward by Robert Sawyer
The Same Door by John Updike
ST Voyager: Mosaic by Jeri Taylor
Wartime by Paul Fussell
I Am Spock by Leonard Nimoy
Over the Edge by Harlan Ellison
Total number of pages read: 8639
Pages read in 1990: 7743
Pages read in 1991: 4870
Pages read in 1992: 5395
Pages read in 1993: 7568
Pages read in 1994: 4441
Pages read in 1995: 5417
Pages read in 1996: 4268
Pages read in 1997: 6890
Pages read in 1998: 6546
Pages read in 1999: 4324
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Star Trek: Vulcan's Glory by D.C. Fontana
Great Books by David Denby
Mrs. Dalloway by Virgina Woolf
Grown Up All Wrong: 75 Great Rock and Pop Artists from Vaudeville to Techno by Robert Christgau
The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell
Battle of the Books by James Atlas
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene
Star Trek: The Ashes of Eden by William Shatner
The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace by Terry Brooks
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson
Selections from the First Two Issues of "The New York Review of Books" edited by Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein
In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike
Get a Life! by William Shatner and Chris Kreski
The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike
Star Wars: Rogue Planet by Greg Bear
I Am Not Spock by Leonard Nimoy
Star Trek DS9: The Fall of Terok Nor by Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens
Flashforward by Robert Sawyer
The Same Door by John Updike
ST Voyager: Mosaic by Jeri Taylor
Wartime by Paul Fussell
I Am Spock by Leonard Nimoy
Over the Edge by Harlan Ellison
Labels: Reading Lists
posted by Chazzbot at 7:52 AM
3 Comments:
Just yesterday I saw "The English Patient". I like this passage:
Almásy: Let me tell you about winds. There is a whirlwind from southern Morrocco, the aajej, against which the fellahin defend themselves with knives. And there is the ghibli, from Tunis ...
Katharine Clifton: [giggling] The "ghibli"?
Almásy: [smiling] - the ghibli, which rolls and rolls and rolls and produces a rather strange nervous condition. And then there is the harmattan, a red wind, which mariners call the sea of darkness. And red sand from this wind has flown as far as the south coast of England, apparently producing showers so dense they were mistaken for blood.
How did you find the book?
I like the movie, but the book is much better, especially if you like passages like the one you quoted. The book also concentrates less on the romance between the Patient and his nurse, and gives more attention to Hana and Kip. My favorite passasge of the book relates Kip's reaction to the atomic bombing of Japan. It's a beautifully constructed novel.
Thanks. I'll add this book to my... uhmm... proram )
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