Author Topic: Favorite books you've read this year? (2009) (Read 1127 times)

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

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #1 on:** December 30, 2009, 06:51:21 PM »

I think they're those things you play on your kindle.

Barry Egan · « **Reply #2 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

demi · « **Reply #3 on:** December 30, 2009, 07:02:54 PM »

New Moon
Halo: Uprising
Mass Effect: Revelation

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #4 on:** December 30, 2009, 07:17:15 PM »

I read The Illuminatus Trilogy and Foucault's Pendulum back to back, and it was awesome.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #5 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.

Umberto Eco

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #6 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

Powerslave · « **Reply #7 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.

Nintendosbooger · « **Reply #8 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.

Rman · « **Reply #9 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.

Powerslave · « **Reply #10 on:** December 30, 2009, 07:46:08 PM »

How is that witty?

Flannel Boy · « **Reply #11 on:** December 30, 2009, 07:54:51 PM »

The Law of Evidence: Casebook 2.

This has been a horrible year.

Flannel Boy · « **Reply #12 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!

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #13 on:** December 30, 2009, 07:57:45 PM »

I feel like that always turns out to be the case.

Flannel Boy · « **Reply #14 on:** December 30, 2009, 07:58:06 PM »

Some people say The Law of Evidence: Casebook 1 is better, but that's all hearsay!

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #15 on:** December 30, 2009, 07:59:39 PM »

I have no objection to that statement.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #16 on:** December 30, 2009, 08:00:24 PM »

The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball
Catch-22
The Stand

All pretty sweet.

Robo · « **Reply #17 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.

Robo · « **Reply #18 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.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #19 on:** December 30, 2009, 09:13:51 PM »

What, you didn't like the twist ending?

Robo · « **Reply #20 on:** December 30, 2009, 09:16:29 PM »

Just didn't seem to be quite complete.

Kestastrophe · « **Reply #21 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.

Tauntaun · « **Reply #22 on:** December 30, 2009, 10:01:06 PM »

Atlas Shrugged

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Prob some 40k novels.

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Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #23 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

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Author Topic: Favorite books you've read this year? (2009) (Read 1127 times)