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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Nintendosbooger on December 30, 2009, 06:16:34 PM

Title: Favorite books you've read this year? (2009)
Post by: Nintendosbooger on December 30, 2009, 06:16:34 PM: Here are three of mine:

1. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
2. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
3. The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
Title: Re: Favorite books you've read this year? (2009)
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 30, 2009, 06:51:21 PM: I think they're those things you play on your kindle.
Title: Re: Favorite books you've read this year? (2009)
Post by: Barry Egan on December 30, 2009, 06:57:31 PM: 1. Illuminations, a collection of Walter Benjamin's work
2. The Emigrants by Walter Sebald
3. On The Psychotheology of Everyday Life by Eric Santner
Title: Re: Favorite books you've read this year? (2009)
Post by: demi on December 30, 2009, 07:02:54 PM: New Moon
Halo: Uprising
Mass Effect: Revelation
Title: Re: Favorite books you've read this year? (2009)
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 30, 2009, 07:17:15 PM: I read The Illuminatus Trilogy and Foucault's Pendulum back to back, and it was awesome.
Title: Re: Favorite books you've read this year? (2009)
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 30, 2009, 07:25:18 PM: Quote from: Joe Molotov® EDGE™ on December 30, 2009, 07:17:15 PM
I read The Illuminatus Trilogy and Foucault's Pendulum back to back, and it was awesome.

:bow Umberto Eco :bow2
Title: Re: Favorite books you've read this year? (2009)
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 30, 2009, 07:27:07 PM: Quote from: Genghis Cohen on December 30, 2009, 07:26:18 PM
Atlas Shrugged, Anthem and The Fountainhead

leper this filth
Title: Re: Favorite books you've read this year? (2009)
Post by: Powerslave on December 30, 2009, 07:31:42 PM: Quote from: Green Man on December 30, 2009, 06:49:59 PM
What are books?

I was gonna post this, but decided not to anyway.
Title: Re: Favorite books you've read this year? (2009)
Post by: Nintendosbooger on December 30, 2009, 07:43:42 PM: The one genre that I've neglected for years is the fantasy genre. I've stopped reading those books at the conclusion of A Feast for Crows by GRRM. I haven't found any fantasy book that quite reaches to the level of ASoIaF.
Title: Re: Favorite books you've read this year? (2009)
Post by: Rman on December 30, 2009, 07:45:10 PM: Quote from: Powerslave on December 30, 2009, 07:31:42 PM
Quote from: Green Man on December 30, 2009, 06:49:59 PM
What are books?

I was gonna post this, but decided not to anyway.
How witty of you.
Title: Re: Favorite books you've read this year? (2009)
Post by: Powerslave on December 30, 2009, 07:46:08 PM: How is that witty?
Title: Re: Favorite books you've read this year? (2009)
Post by: Flannel Boy on December 30, 2009, 07:54:51 PM: The Law of Evidence: Casebook 2.

This has been a horrible year.
Title: Re: Favorite books you've read this year? (2009)
Post by: Flannel Boy on December 30, 2009, 07:56:41 PM: Quote from: Genghis Cohen on December 30, 2009, 07:55:44 PM
How was the sequel? The first one kind of wrapped everything up at the end, or at least I thought it did.

You were wrong; it turned out there was more evidence!
Title: Re: Favorite books you've read this year? (2009)
Post by: The Fake Shemp on December 30, 2009, 07:57:45 PM: I feel like that always turns out to be the case.
Title: Re: Favorite books you've read this year? (2009)
Post by: Flannel Boy on December 30, 2009, 07:58:06 PM: Some people say The Law of Evidence: Casebook 1 is better, but that's all hearsay!
Title: Re: Favorite books you've read this year? (2009)
Post by: The Fake Shemp on December 30, 2009, 07:59:39 PM: I have no objection to that statement.
Title: Re: Favorite books you've read this year? (2009)
Post by: CajoleJuice on December 30, 2009, 08:00:24 PM: The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball
Catch-22
The Stand

All pretty sweet.
Title: Re: Favorite books you've read this year? (2009)
Post by: Robo on December 30, 2009, 08:58:01 PM: It would be just as easy to rattle off everything that I've read this year, none of it new, all of it good: a few Evelyn Waugh titles, Devil in the White City, Freakonomics, Martian Time-slip, a Nikolai Gogol collection that I stole from the charity table at Safeway, lotta Roald Dahl short stories, Please Kill Me: the Oral History of Punk Rock, Sartre's Nausea.

I think that's it.
Title: Re: Favorite books you've read this year? (2009)
Post by: Robo on December 30, 2009, 09:08:12 PM: The worst thing I read this year was that issue of Playboy with Olivia Munn where she wasn't naked.
Title: Re: Favorite books you've read this year? (2009)
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 30, 2009, 09:13:51 PM: What, you didn't like the twist ending?
Title: Re: Favorite books you've read this year? (2009)
Post by: Robo on December 30, 2009, 09:16:29 PM: Just didn't seem to be quite complete.
Title: Re: Favorite books you've read this year? (2009)
Post by: Kestastrophe on December 30, 2009, 09:59:32 PM: Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely and The Myth of the Rational Market by Justin Fox were the two best books I read this year. I also really enjoyed Lords of Finance and Let the Right One In.
Title: Re: Favorite books you've read this year? (2009)
Post by: Tauntaun on December 30, 2009, 10:01:06 PM: Atlas Shrugged :smug

spoiler (click to show/hide)
Prob some 40k novels. :-*
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Title: Re: Favorite books you've read this year? (2009)
Post by: Mr. Gundam on December 30, 2009, 11:32:01 PM: I haven't read enough books this year to make a list, and most of them aren't even from this year. I'm still getting used to reading for pleasure, even though I've been done with graduate school since 2006. Instead, I'll just list what books I did read in 2009.

Kafka on the Shore -- Haruki Murakami
Zeitoun -- Dave Eggers
Tokyo Vice -- Jake Adelstein
Norweigan Wood -- Haruki Murakami
Yiddish Policeman's Union -- Michael Chabon