aethercowboy's Reading List

Here starts my reading list. I have defined a book to include periodicals and textbooks. This year marked a year I read a lot of the horrid books I had accumulated throughout my life. I had to take a sabbatical from reading them (and then promptly taking them to Half Price Books), and had to add some books I actually liked in the mix. I doubt I'll be able to get to 75 this year, as I had a few reading setbacks, like NaNoWriMo and months at a time without a lunch hour at my job (hence, no reading for me!).

Nevertheless, here is my list to date:

01/01/2008-02/22/2008
01. Algorithms by Richard Johnsonbaugh
02. The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket
03. Marvel 1602: Fantastick Four by Peter David
04. 100 Selected Stories by O. Henry
05. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 2008 edited by Gordon Van Gelder
06. 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Winter 2007-2008 edited by Emmanuel Goldstein
07. Castle Murders by John DeChancie
08. Roc and a Hard Place by Piers Anthony (ugh)
09. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 2008 edited by Gordon Van Gelder
10. Discover Biology, Second Edition by Michael L. Cain

02/22/2008-03/30/2008
11. Yon Ill Wind by Piers Anthony (ugh)
12. Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
13. Faun and Games by Piers Anthony (ugh)
14. The Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey (ugh)
15. Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets by Dav Pilkey (ugh)
16. Captain Underpants and the Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies from Outer Space by Dav Pilkey (ugh)
17. Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants by Dav Pilkey (ugh)
18. The One Minute Bible by the Holman Bible Staff
19. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 2008 edited by Gordon Van Gelder
20. Morning Light by Steve Green

03/30/2008-05/17/2008
21. The Alternate Asimovs by Isaac Asimov
22. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2008 edited by Gordon Van Gelder
23. Star Wars: Return of the Jedi Manga, Volume 2 by Shin-Ichi Hiromoto
24. The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks
25. Turbo Pascal Owner's Handbook, Version 4.0 by Borland International
26. Intermediate Perl, Second Edition by Randall Schwartz
27. The Merlin Trilogy by Mary Stewart
28. The Walking Dead: Days Gone Bye by Robert Kirkman
29. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2008 edited by Gordon Van Gelder
30. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 2008 edited by Gordon Van Gelder

05/17/2008-07/14/2008 (yay, Bastille Day!)
31. Using Computers by D. H. Dologite
32. 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Spring 2008 edited by Emmanuel Goldstein
33. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier by Alan Moore
34. Robots and Empire by Isaac Asimov
35. World War Z by Max Brooks
36. The Walking Dead: Miles Behind Us by Robert Kirkman
37. Understanding Analysis by Stephen Abbott
38. The Program Development Process: The Individual Programmer by Joel D. Aron
39. Asimov's Mysteries by Isaac Asimov
40. 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Summer 2008 edited by Emmanuel Goldstein (hey, I'm in this one!)

07/14/2008-9/28/2008
41. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2008 edited by Gordon Van Gelder
42. The Guardians of Time by Poul Anderson
43. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
44. The Program Development Process: The Programming Team by J. D. Aron
45. Business Data Communications: Basic Concepts, Security and Design by Jerry FitzGerald
46. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
47. 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Spring 2004 edited by Emmanuel Goldstein
48. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 2008 edited by Gordon Van Gelder
49. 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Summer 2004 edited by Emmanuel Goldstein
50. 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Fall 2004 edited by Emmanuel Goldstein

09/28/2008-12/20/2008
51. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 2008 edited by Gordon Van Gelder
52. A Dream of Kinship by Richard Cowper
53. 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Winter 2004-2005 edited by Emmanuel Goldstein
54. The Roads Between the Worlds by Michael Moorcock
55. What If? Classic, Volume 1 by Roy Thomas
56. Contact by Carl Sagan
57. Software Configuration Management Patterns by Stephen P. Berczuk
58. The Road to Corlay by Richard Cowper
59. Open Source Development with CVS by Moshe Bar and Karl Fogel
60. Papillon by Henri Charriere

12/20/2008-12/31/2008
61. The Lump of Coal by Lemony Snicket

Welcome :)

Ditto!

I can't believe you actually read Finnegans Wake. **shocked and awed** I did a dissertation at college on Joyce (well, actually on just one section of Ulysess). My husband bought me a first ed of FW as a wedding present. And still I have never managed to get much past about page 10.

(oh, and welcome by the way :))

Welcome! Be sure and stop by the 2009 challenge as well!

4

Yeah. It took me two times to actually finish it. It's quite an interesting book, and I'm sure there's plenty in it that I didn't get in that first read and a half.

Welcome to the group! Be prepared for all kinds of conversation, comments and questions - we are a nosy bunch (at least where books are concerned).

58. The Road to Corlay by Richard Cowper

How is The Road to Corlay? It looks very interesting.

It's definitely something I wouldn't have discovered on my own. A coworker gave it to me, after giving me it's sequel A Dream of Kinship, so I actually red them in the wrong order, which caused me to not fully get book 2 and know what was going to happen in book 1.

It's somewhere between science fiction and fantasy, but I'm not quite sure where exactly between.

Though, I liked it, and am planning on getting A Tapestry of Time one of these days...

OK, I will put it (and the others you mentioned) on Continent TBR. Thanks - I am trying to expand my science fiction and fantasy reading over the course of the next year.

59. Open Source Development with CVS, Third Edition by Moshe Bar and Karl Fogel

Well, book number 59 sounds like a specialist's manual! Hope you enjoyed it!

13 About half the books I read are Computer or Mathematics-related. It comes with the territory.

LOL--I read dictionaries and grammar books for the same reason.

I like how you are logging all of your reading, not just books.

@16 You mean the inclusion of periodicals? Heck, I'd catalogue cereal boxes if I wasn't afraid of my wife calling the men in the white coats...but those cereal boxes would have to have some pretty danged good plots.

"No way! Riboflavin offed Xanthan Gum using Blue 41!"

Ssssh! You have lots of company in the cereal aisle!

welcome! And, do join us in 2009!

60. Papillon by Henri Charriere

>60 Aether, if you enjoyed Papillon you might consider Shantaram. My manager lent me Shantaram and I recommended Papillon to him!

- TT

21 I'll definitely check it out eventually, Tortoise. Unfortunately, I have a whole lot of books in my queue.

I haven't even catalogued my unread books in LibraryThing. But I did finish the read/owned ones. Yay.

> 22 That's a shame. Shantaram is no more than a novella - a mere 934 pages!

- TT

Oh, in that case...

61. The Lump of Coal by Lemony Snicket.

I forgot that I read this with my wife shortly after we bought it...