either/or

Option time again. This year's Super Bowl will be between the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints. Once again, the winner decides which book I'll be reading next. Here's the books: Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge and Night of the Living Rat by Doyle and Macdonald. I've never read Vernor Vinge before and the Saints have never won a Super Bowl. If they do, I'll read Rainbows End. Indy won a Super Bowl a few years ago and if they win this one it will be Manning's 2nd title and I'll read the second book in Daniel Pinkwater's Melvinge of the Megaverse series.

Voodoo Donuts

my 1st Palahniuk

Last year I did this options thing with the Super Bowl, letting the winner decide the next book I would read. I'll be doing that again this year. Haunted is the book represented by last year's NFC champion Cardinals, who lost this weekend.

Neat Stuff

I first got into Peter Bagge in high school, when I was hanging out with a friend who had a copy of Neat Stuff in his car. It was all about Buddy Bradley. I read the whole thing and was quickly hooked, went out and bought all the Neat Stuff comix I could find, and later, HATE.

I be all into readin' and shit

Stadium Pal

1st book of the decade

When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris

annual faves

I love the annual list. I just enjoy looking back and thinking of all the stuff I read this year and last, and the ones before that. A new thing I'm going to do here, starting now, is select a favorite read and a runner up. This is going to be retro-active, meaning I'll pick the previous years' faves as well. Here we go:

2009

Favorite:

Ender's Game

by Orson Scott Card

Runner up:

Vurt

by Jeff Noon

2008

Favorite:

MASH

by Richard Hooker

Runner up:

Me Talk Pretty One Day

by David Sedaris

2007

Favorite:

The Hollow Earth

by Rudy Rucker

Runner up:

Immortality Inc.

by Robert Sheckley

2006

Favorite:

Master of Space and Time

by Rudy Rucker

Runner up:

Swords of Lankhmar

by Fritz Leiber

2005

Favorite:

Fuzzy Dice

by Paul DiFilippo

Runner up:

The Hacker and the Ants

by Rudy Rucker

big comic book of horror

Light reading returns with this collection of horror comics by DC.

2009

Books I read this year.

1. A Scanner Darkly by Philip K .Dick
2. Daddy's Boy by Chris Elliott
3. Store of Infinity by Robert Sheckley
4. Scar Lover by Harry Crews
5. The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard
6. The Penultimate Truth by Philip K. Dick
7. As Above, So Below by Rudy Rucker
8. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
9. Into Hot Air by Chris Elliott
10. Can You Feel Anything When I do This? by Robert Sheckley
11. Lies Inc. by Philip K. Dick
12. JPod by Douglas Coupland
13. How I Learned to Cook, Kimberly Witherspoon and Peter Meehan -eds.
14. All the Visions by Rudy Rucker/ Space Baltic by Anselm Hollo
15. Counter-Clock World by Philip K. Dick
16. Waiter Rant by Steve Dublanica
17. The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends by Adriano Sack and Ingo Niermann
18. The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley
19. The Reach of a Chef by Michael Ruhlman
20. Night of the Living Shark by David Bischoff
21. Shadows With Eyes by Fritz Leiber
22. The Wind From Nowhere by J.G. Ballard
23. The Ticket That Exploded by William S. Burroughs*
24. Vurt by Jeff Noon
25. Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers by Grant Naylor
26. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
27. Journey Beyond Tomorrow by Robert Sheckley
28. Help! I'm a Prisoner in the Library by Eth Clifford
29. A War of Gifts by Orson Scott Card
30. The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues by Harry Harrison

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

Book

at the library 5

at the library 4

Blue Steel

The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues

by Harry Harrison

at the library 3