Your 2008 Book List: As it Develops

[ShadowBoxing]

You can make a list of books you've read here, update it as you like, and discuss anything you might be reading. Although try to keep discussions to a minimum so we don't branch off into too many topic debates.

An Unfinished Life
Plan of Attack (The plan to invade Iraq)
Richard Clarke's Your Government Has Failed You
A Legacy of Ashes (A detailed history of CIA intelligence failures)
Brothers (Robert and John F. Kennedy)
FDR
Barack Obama: The Audacity of Hope
Von Clauswitz's On War
Sun-Tzu's The Art of War
Jim Stopanni's Encyclopedia for Muscle and Strength
Bruce Lee: Mind and Body
Tom Platz's Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding
Tucker Max
David Sedaris You are Engulfed in Flames
Flyboys
Watchmen (again)
Bill Clinton's My Life
....that's all I can think of at the moment.

[Superman4ever]

Don't we have a book thread?

[ShadowBoxing]

I searched "book", unfortunately, that yielded way to many results. So if someone finds it, I guess we can merge.

[NoName86]

I seriously don't understand why people read the art of war still. I think you'll come to the same conclusion after reading it as I did...that the only people who would get anything out of it are motivational speakers for businesses, but even then the knowledge is so common that anyone could read it and realize they already understand most of the "strategic" principles in it and how one could use them in everyday life.

That said, I actually really like Von Clausewitz, one of the first strategists I read about.

My list is small because college and work take up too much time:
Audacity of Hope-Barack Obama

The Joker (the new graphic novel due out in October-Forgot who writes, but Bermejo is involved and that is good enough for me.

Einstein-Walter Isaacson

Flatland-Edwin Abbott

And I'd like to finish up:

Genome-Matt Ridley

[ShadowBoxing]

Yeah, I wasn't impressed with The Art of War to be honest. On War was basically a far better version of Sun-Tzu, anyways.

[Superman4ever]

I searched "book", unfortunately, that yielded way to many results. So if someone finds it, I guess we can merge.

It's pretty much always on the first page.

What's the last book you read? (http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=219330)

[ShadowBoxing]

Yeah, but that's not exactly the same type of thread. This is more like a thread I've seen on the site that shall not be named.

[ComicChick]

I've read:

Twylight - Stephanie Meyer
Lost Behind 12: Glorious Appearing

and am currently on Chapter 11 of Watchmen

[SapphirePrima]

Hero-Micheal Perry
Twilight,New Moon, Eclispe- Stephanie Meyer


:( My list sucks

[tzarinna]

My god, it's the middle of August.
Right now I'm reading Spring's Awakening by Frank Wedekind with an Intro by Eric Bentley. I only had some minor info on the censorship and banning of this book/play, I've learned a lot so far from the intro.
I just finished Abarat II Days of Magic, Nights of War.
Ex Machina vol 5 & 6
Walking Dead vol 8
SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild
Wednesday Witch
Beowulf GN
The Pursuit of Happyness

I'm pretty sure I'm missing something.

[ComicChick]

Twilight,New Moon, Eclispe- Stephanie Meyer

:( My list sucks

how is the rest of the series? is it worth picking up?

[SapphirePrima]

how is the rest of the series? is it worth picking up?

It's okay, I'm not big on romance, so that aspect of the books I wouldn't recommened. I ended up picking the series up because everyone at school was talking abou it. Least favorite is Eclipse, it really annoyed me. Everyone treats Bella likes she 5.. :down:

[Jolie_Desastre]

OMG where the hell do I start. Eh, I guess I'll list all I recall

Twilight-Stephenie Meyer
New Moon-Stephenie Meyer
Eclipse-Stephenie Meyer
Breaking Dawn-Stephenie Meyer
The Awakening-LJ Smith
The Good, The Bad, and The Undead-Kim Harrison
Every Which Way But Dead-Kim Harrison
A Fistful of Charms-Kim Harrison
The Truth About Forever-Sara Dessen
The Killing Joke-Alan Moore
Along Came a Spider-James Patterson
Kiss the Girls-James Patterson
Jack & Jill-James Patterson
Cat & Mouse-James Patterson
Pop Goes the Weasel-James Patterson
Maximum Ride: The Angle Experiment-James Patterson
Maximum Ride: School's Out-Forever-James Patterson
Maximum Ride: Saving the World and other Extreme Sports-James Patterson
The Final Warning-James Patterson
Candide-Voltaire
The Host-Stephenie Meyer
City of Bones-Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes-Cassandra Clare
7th Heaven-James Patterson
Dead Until Dark-Charlaine Harris
Living Dead in Dallas-Charlaine Harris
Club Dead-Charlaine Harris
Dead to the World-Charlaine Harris
Dead as a Doornail-Charlaine Harris


I guess I'll add whatever else I can remember

[Super Kal]

for now...

E.G. White's The Great Controversy

[Superman4ever]

Yeah, but that's not exactly the same type of thread. This is more like a thread I've seen on the site that shall not be named.

I see. Hey the more book threads the better imo! :)

OMG where the hell do I start. Eh, I guess I'll list all I recall


LOL...exactly what I thought.

My list so far:

It's Superman, Tom De Haven
Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, Robert Pape (I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend this book to ALL American who want to understand the psychology behind suicide terrorism.)
The Essential Chomsky
The Art of the Dark Knight: With Complete Script
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Iian Pappe
Survival in Auzowitz, Primo Levi
Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History, Norman Finklestien
The Case for Israel, Alan Dershowitz (this has a lot of historical inaccuracies...)
Superman vs. Hollywood
The Revolution: A Manifesto, Ron Paul
A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship, Ron Paul
Gilgamesh, Steven Mitchell
The Prophet, Khalil Gibran
The Yiddish Policeman's Union, Michael Chabon
Savage Detective, Roberto Bolano
Baltimore,: Or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire, Mike Mignola
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut (AWESOME...saw the movie a couple of weeks ago and Ms. Tessmacher gave me a raging hard on http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/1052/bananapianolx1.gif (http://imageshack.us))
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Grass Harp, Truman Capote.
The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie (My second reading, this really wasn't worth a Fatwa. I've been studying it for personal reasons, and this book wouldn't be so infamous if it weren't for the Fatwa, it's very average, if that, in my opinion.)
BRS Pathology
BRS Cell Bio & Histology
BRS Anatomy and Physiology
BRS Neurology I LOVE THE BRS series, you have NO idea! :(

Scripts:
Inglorious Bastards (just finished it yesterday...****ING AMAZING!), Quentin Tarantino
Death Proof, Pulp Fuction, Kill Bill
No Country for Old Men
Casablanca
Juno
Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Wanted
Atonement
Clockwork Orange
Memento
Heat
Citizen Kane
Wonderful Life
Pan's Labyrinth
The Assassination of Jesse James (as well as the book, but that was last September)
There Will be Blood

If ANYONE has Lars and the Real Girl PLEASE let me know...I can't find it anywhere. I want a PDF version so I can take it on the go.


Graphic Novels/Comics:
Watchmen (Absolute)
The Long Halloween (Absolute)
Sandman (Absolute Vol 1, I just got 2 from a friend, but haven't even started)
Fables Vol. 1-10
Actually, the list is pretty long, so I'll skip the rest (I've been doing a LOT of catchup with DC...stuff I've missed for the past year and a half (or two); so a LOT of catching up this past summer! :D).

I think that's it.

[a cupcake mess]

Book I just bought: Snuff by Chuck P.

Book I want: Cherry Bomb by Carrie Vrenna (yes, her husband is Chris).

[Landfill]

Book I just bought: Snuff by Chuck P.

Book I want: Cherry Bomb by Carrie Vrenna (yes, her husband is Chris).
ive read survivor, fight club, and haunted by Chuck Palahniuk and i have to say theyre all pretty good.

im half way through stephen kings the dark tower series, right in the middle of wizard and glass. anybody else read any of the dark tower books?

next book i plan on reading is the road by cormac mccarthy.

[Darthphere]

All those ****ing Twilight books.

I feel gayer.

Current Level: 56% gay. :(

[a cupcake mess]

Yeah, he's the only one I can read. I mostly love books that deal with celebrities/murders.

And as far as the Twilight books go, I crack up at all the haters on the books. Especially the most recent one.

[Jolie_Desastre]

All those ****ing Twilight books.

I feel gayer.

Current Level: 56% gay. :(

Psshht whatever. You are a manly man!:o

[Darthphere]

Yeah, he's the only one I can read. I mostly love books that deal with celebrities/murders.

And as far as the Twilight books go, I crack up at all the haters on the books. Especially the most recent one.

Well to be fair, Breaking Dawn was the most horrible thing I've ever ****ing read.

[a cupcake mess]

LOL I feel so bad for people who've read it.

I read a chapter by chapter play by play of the book out of curiosity and just laughed my butt off at the commentary.

Vampires who sparkle?!?!?!?!?!

[Darthphere]

LOL I feel so bad for people who've read it.

I read a chapter by chapter play by play of the book out of curiosity and just laughed my butt off at the commentary.

Vampires who sparkle?!?!?!?!?!

Out of all the things in Twilight you chose that? I mean come on, that's not even on the same radar as some of the **** they have in those books.

[a cupcake mess]

Did I waste my time reading the book?

No.

Was I going to mention other parts that might spoil it for someone who might not be done reading it/hasn't read it yet?

No.

[Darthphere]

Did I waste my time reading the book?

No.

Was I going to mention other parts that might spoil it for someone who might not be done reading it/hasn't read it yet?

No.

So you're criticizing a book you haven't read based on some summaries you read online. Ok, that makes sense.

Also, we have spoiler tags for a reason.

[SLVRSR4]

Y the last man

Watchmen

Wanted

Jpods

Microserfs

Catch-22

Girlfriend in a coma

The bubblegum thief

A long way down

Green Arrow

Death Note- Another note

Where are the children? (school):cmad:

[Manic]

Not counting graphic novels?
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie.


Otherwise, here's my list of graphic novels for the year:

Welcome to Tranquility v.1-2 by Gail Simone
Y: The Last Man v.9-10 by Brian K. Vaughan
The Question: Zen & Violence by Dennis O'Neil
DC: The New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke
Ex Machina v.5-6 by Brian K. Vaughan
Devi v.2-4 by Shekhar Kapur
Ramayan 3392AD by Shamik Dasgupta
John Woo's 7 Brothers v.1 by Garth Ennis
Wanted by Mark Millar
Formerly Known as the Justice League by Keith Giffen and JM DeMatteis
I Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League by Keith Giffen and JM DeMatteis

Reading those last 2 books after knowing DC's current status quo... was awkward.

[Alexia Dark]

Oh my... Hmm...

Wideacre by Phillipa Gregory
The Favored Child by Phillipa Gregory
Meridon by Phillipa Gregory
Morning, Noon and Night by Sidney Sheldon
A Great and Terrible Beauty... can't remember the author's name
A Stranger in the Mirror by Sidney Sheldon
Making It On Broadway - can't remember the author(s)
Audition by Michael Shurtleff
Orphans by V. C. Andrews
Runaways by V. C. Andrews
Pocahontas by Susan Donnel
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
The Sky is Falling by Sidney Sheldon
Rage of Angels by Sidney Sheldon
Falling Stars by V. C. Andrews

That's all I can remember right now...

[tuffenoughtoroc]

Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? - Steven Best

Four and Twenty Blackbirds - Cherie Priest

Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine De Cleyre

The Revolution of Everyday Life - Raoul Vaneigem

Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche

Dead Meat - Sue Coe

Lving My Life - Emma Goldman

Woman in the Mists - Farley Mowat


These are the ones I can remember right now...

[JLBats]

I recently read "I Married a Communist" by Phillip Roth. The first two times I got deathly bored and stopped reading, then later came back to it and started over from the beginning.

Despite the tedium of the reading process, that was probably the most rewarding thing I ever read. The last two pages made me feel like I was actually experiencing that transcendent "art taking you to a place emotionally that you didn't expect to go" thing.

[tzarinna]

I recently read "I Married a Communist" by Phillip Roth. The first two times I got deathly bored and stopped reading, then later came back to it and started over from the beginning.

Despite the tedium of the reading process, that was probably the most rewarding thing I ever read. The last two pages made me feel like I was actually experiencing that transcendent "art taking you to a place emotionally that you didn't expect to go" thing.

Whoa, whoa, whoa!!!!:wow:

[Addendum]

Graphic Novel wise:

Fables Volumes 1-10
Rex Mundi Volumes 1-4
DC: The New Frontier

Book wise:

The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane by Robert E Howard
Time Bandit: Two Brothers, the Bering Sea, and One of the World's Deadliest Jobs by Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand
An Incomplete and Inaccurate History of Sport by Kenny Mayne
America: The Book
Monster Island by David Wellington
Monster Nation by David Wellington

Book I'm reading now is in sig.

Books on my list to read:

13 Bullets by David Wellington
99 Coffins by David Wellington
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg
Infected by Scott Sigler
Black Hole by Charles Burns
Homo Politicus by Dana Milbank
Worse than Watergate: The Secret Government of George W Bush by John Dean
Conservatives Without Conscience by John Dean
Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Branches by John Dean
What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception by Scott McClellan
The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism by Ron Suskind
The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
Unweaving The Rainbow by Richard Dawkins
Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
Last Men in London by Olaf Stapledon
Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
1984 by George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan by Eiji Yoshikawa

[doc ock rules!]

Graphic Novels:
The Killing Joke
The Joker's Last Laugh
The Joker: The Greatest Stories Ever Told
Batman: Year One
Kraven's Last Hunt

Books:
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Beloved by Toni Morrison

On My Reading List:
Watchmen
Dr. Strange Essentials Vol. 2
Daredevil Essentials Vol. 1
The Best of Curse of the Spawn
Arkham Asylum
The Long Halloween
Chomsky on Anarchism by Noam Chomsky
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
Misery by Stephen King
Duma Key by Stephen King
I Am America (And So Can You) by Stephen Colbert
Weird New York by Chris Gethard
Weird England by Matt Lake
The World's Most Haunted by Jeff Belanger
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
Big Bang by Simon Singh
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
The Dark Knight by Dennis O'Neil

[redmarvel]

I'm currently reading:

Cube Route

(yes it's a pun and the book itself is a Fantasy full of puns)

[ComicChick]

A Little Journey Through Time! Littles of Johnston County 1819-1987

its a genealogy book my cousin wrote in the late 70s/early 80s

[SapphirePrima]

Oh my... Hmm...

Wideacre by Phillipa Gregory
The Favored Child by Phillipa Gregory
Meridon by Phillipa Gregory
Morning, Noon and Night by Sidney Sheldon
A Great and Terrible Beauty... can't remember the author's name
A Stranger in the Mirror by Sidney Sheldon
Making It On Broadway - can't remember the author(s)
Audition by Michael Shurtleff
Orphans by V. C. Andrews
Runaways by V. C. Andrews
Pocahontas by Susan Donnel
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
The Sky is Falling by Sidney Sheldon
Rage of Angels by Sidney Sheldon
Falling Stars by V. C. Andrews

That's all I can remember right now...

Girl, I can't believe you read that much V.C. Andrews this year. My head would of exploded.