Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Light Reading

The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends
A Very Trippy Miscellany
by Adriano Sack and Ingo Niermann
This is my secondary read of the moment. I like to always have another book to read, for when I get tired of my primary book. Ususally it's a graphic novel or something with lots of pictures in it, something funny or non fiction. These usually take me a lot longer to read because I keep them in my car and sometimes forget about them for weeks or even months at a time.

2008

Books I read this year.
  1. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
  2. White Noise by Don DeLillo
  3. MASH by Richard Hooker
  4. The Soul of a Chef by Michael Ruhlman
  5. Naked by David Sedaris
  6. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
  7. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice
  8. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
  9. Spacetime Donuts by Rudy Rucker
  10. Mind Swap by Robert Sheckley
  11. Confessions of a Crap Artist by Philip K. Dick
  12. Confessions of a Part-Time Sorceress by Shelly Mazzanoble
  13. Dress your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
  14. Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
  15. Myth-Gotten Gains by Robert Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye
  16. Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
  17. Interzone by William S. Burroughs
  18. End Zone by Don DeLillo
  19. Tales of Ordinary Madness by Charles Bukowski
  20. High Culture by William Novak
  21. The Crack in Space by Philip K. Dick
  22. Public Enemy #2 by Aaron McGruder
  23. Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog by Kitty Burns Florey
  24. The Making of a Chef by Michael Ruhlman
  25. Food Court Druids, Cherohonkees & Other Creatures Unique to the Republic by Robert Lanham
  26. Mathematicians in Love by Rudy Rucker
  27. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
  28. Barrel Fever by David Sedaris
  29. Flow my Tears the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
  30. Dreams of Terror and Death by H.P. Lovecraft
  31. The Cosmic Puppets by Philip K. Dick
  32. The Hipster Handbook by Robert Lanham
  33. I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max
  34. Radio Free Albemuth by Philip K. Dick
  35. Celebration by Harry Crews

Monday, December 29, 2008

Currently Reading

Celebration by Harry Crews

2007

Books I read in '07.

  1. The Hollow Earth by Rudy Rucker
  2. The Green Millennium by Fritz Leiber
  3. No Plot? No Problem!* by Chris Baty
  4. Blood Curdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre by H.P. Lovecraft
  5. Mad Proffessor by Rudy Rucker
  6. Saucer Wisdom By Rudy Rucker
  7. Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
  8. The Sinful Ones by Fritz Leiber
  9. A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain
  10. Writing on Drugs* by Sadie Plant
  11. Tender at the Bone: Growing up at the Table by Ruth Reichl
  12. Cthulhu 2000 edited by Jim Turner
  13. Ships to the Stars by Fritz Leiber
  14. Red Dwarf: Better Than Life by Grant Naylor
  15. Tetherballs of Bougainville* by Mark Leyner
  16. Count Zero by William Gibson
  17. Options by Robert Sheckley
  18. The Borribles by Michael DeLarrabeiti
  19. Dimension of Miracles by Robert Sheckley
  20. The Zen of Fish by Trevor Corson
  21. The Big Time by Fritz Leiber
  22. Neuromancer by William Gibson
  23. Immortality Inc. By Robert Sheckley
  24. Burning Chrome by William Gibson
  25. The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs
  26. Coraline by Neil Gaiman
  27. Star wars Tales Vol. 4
  28. The 10th Victim by Robert Sheckley
  29. That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
  30. Citizen in Space by Robert Sheckley
  31. The Sushi Economy by Sasha Issenberg
  32. Star Wars Tales Vol. 5
  33. Concrete Island by J.G. Ballard
  34. The Nasty Bits by Anthony Bourdain
  35. Star Wars Tales Vol. 6
  36. The Wizard's Dilemma by Diane Duane

*indicates book that I started prior to this year and finished reading this year.

2006

Books I read in '06.
  1. Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
  2. Master of Space and Time by Rudy Rucker
  3. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
  4. Toothpaste For Dinner by Drew
  5. Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress by Debra Ginsberg
  6. Shroud of the Thwacker by Chris Elliott
  7. Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
  8. Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs
  9. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time By Mark Haddon
  10. Perelandra by C.S. Lewis
  11. Swords of Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber
  12. The Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum
  13. Swords Against Wizardry by Fritz Leiber
  14. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
  15. Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum
  16. Swords in the Mist by Fritz Leiber
  17. Sweet Myth-tery of Life by Robert Asprin
  18. Star Wars Tales Vol. 1
  19. Swords and Ice Magic by Fritz Leiber
  20. Star Wars Tales Vol. 2
  21. Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum
  22. Star Wars Tales Vol. 3
  23. Drift House by Dale Peck

2005

List of books I read in '05.
  1. The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus by Harry Harrison
  2. The Dreamfields by KW Jeter
  3. The Hacker and the Ants by Rudy Rucker
  4. Spaceland by Rudy Rucker
  5. Frek and the Elixir by Rudy Rucker
  6. Fuzzy Dice by Paul DiFilippo
  7. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by David Eggers
  8. The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams
  9. Myth-Taken Identity by Robert Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye
  10. Naked Pictures of Famous People by Jon Stewart
  11. The Mulching of America by Harry Crews
  12. High Wizardry by Diane Duane
  13. The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis
  14. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
  15. The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis
  16. Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis
  17. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis
  18. The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis
  19. The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis
  20. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
  21. A Wizard Abroad by Diane Duane

A Blog is Born

For the last few years I've been keeping track of the books I've read. Recently I'd been thinking that I'd like a more formal place to chronicle and discuss my reads. This is that place.