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I've always had an image of myself just reading science fiction, but I don't think that is quite valid. In any event, I am consciously trying to read other books as well now, including classics (that I missed earlier) and non-fiction. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Books in red are currently being read (or
abandoned). Books in the Kids column I read to Jordan and Connor. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
Book | Kids | Rerun | E-book | Audio | Library | Author | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2011 | Tinker, Tailor Soldier, Spy | John Le Carré | ||||||
| Nov 2011 | On Stranger Tides | Tim Powers | ||||||
| Sep 2011 | Hull Zero Three | Greg Bear | ||||||
| Aug 2011 | Betrayer of Worlds |
Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner |
Silly retcons - stop it! | |||||
| Feb 2011 | Destroyer of Worlds |
Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner |
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| Nov 2010 | Ringworld's Children |
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|
Larry Niven | ||||
| Nov 2010 | Protector |
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|
Larry Niven | ||||
| Sep 2010 | And Another Thing... | Eoin Colfer | I think he tried a little too hard. | |||||
| Aug 2010 | Mostly Harmless |
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|
Douglas Adams | ||||
| Aug 2010 | So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish |
|
Douglas Adams | |||||
| Jul 2010 | Life, the Universe and Everything |
|
Douglas Adams | |||||
| Jun 2010 | The Restaurant at the End of the Universe |
|
Douglas Adams | |||||
| May 2010 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
|
Douglas Adams | |||||
| Nov 2009 | A Fire Upon the Deep | Vernor Vinge | ||||||
| Aug 2009 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows |
|
J. K. Rowling | I knew he was a hero | ||||
| Aug 2009 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince |
|
J. K. Rowling | |||||
| Jul 2009 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix |
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J. K. Rowling | Emo Potter and the Tirade of the Petulant Brat | ||||
| Jul 2009 | Juggler of Worlds |
Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner |
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| Jul 2009 | Fleet of Worlds |
Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner |
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| Jun 2009 | Angels and Demons | Dan Brown | Well, that certainly got silly | |||||
| May 2009 | Crashlander |
|
Larry Niven | |||||
| May 2009 | Tales of Known Space |
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|
Larry Niven | ||||
| Feb 2009 | Neutron Star |
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|
Larry Niven | ||||
| Jan 2009 | A Scientific Romance | Ronald Wright | Very interesting | |||||
| Dec 2008 | The Great Time Machine Hoax | Keith Laumer | ||||||
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Sep 2000 Dec 2008 |
Down Under | Bill Bryson | Every Australian should read this book | |||||
| Nov 2008 | Behind the Wind | Patricia Wrightson | ||||||
| Nov 2008 | The Dark Bright Water | Patricia Wrightson | ||||||
| Nov 2008 | The Ice Is Coming |
|
Patricia Wrightson | |||||
| Oct 2008 | Ringworld's Children | Larry Niven | ||||||
| Oct 2008 | The Ringworld Throne |
|
Larry Niven | |||||
| Sep 2008 | The Ringworld Engineers |
|
Larry Niven | |||||
| Sep 2008 | Ringworld |
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|
Larry Niven | ||||
| Sep 2008 | The Anubis Gates |
|
Tim Powers | |||||
| Aug 2008 | True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier | James Frenkel (Editor) | ||||||
| Aug 2008 | Marooned In Realtime | Vernor Vinge | ||||||
| Aug 2008 | The Peace War | Vernor Vinge | ||||||
| Jul 2008 | The Adventures of Johnny Bunko | Daniel H. Pink | ||||||
| Jul 2008 | A Short History of Nearly Everything | Bill Bryson | ||||||
| Jun 2008 | The World's Stupidest Laws | David Crombie | ||||||
| Jun 2008 | Colony | Rob Grant | ||||||
| May 2008 | A Long Way Gone | Ishmael Beah | ||||||
| Apr 2008 | Rama Revealed | Arthur C. Clarke | ||||||
| Mar 2008 | The Garden of Rama | Arthur C. Clarke | ||||||
| Feb 2008 | Rama II |
|
Arthur C. Clarke | |||||
| Jan 2008 | Rendezvous with Rama |
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|
Arthur C. Clarke | ||||
| Nov 2007 | The Prestige | Christopher Priest | Different from the movie in interesting ways | |||||
| Nov 2006 | Anvil of Stars | Greg Bear | ||||||
| Oct 2006 | The Forge of God |
|
Greg Bear | |||||
| Sep 2006 | Casino Royale | Ian Fleming | ||||||
| Aug 2006 | The Starcrossed | Ben Bova | ||||||
| Jul 2006 | Phoenix Without Ashes |
Edward Bryant and Harlan Ellison |
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| Jun 2006 | The Exiles Trilogy | Ben Bova | ||||||
| May 2006 | Birdy |
|
William Wharton | |||||
| Apr 2006 | The Dungeon Master: The Disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III | William Dear | ||||||
| Mar 2006 | A Bear Called Paddington |
|
Michael Bond | |||||
| Mar 2006 | The Watch Below |
|
James White | Great story! | ||||
| Feb 2006 | Captive Universe | Harry Harrison | ||||||
| Feb 2006 | Orphans of the Sky |
|
Robert Heinlein | |||||
| Feb 2006 | Non-Stop |
|
Brian Aldiss | |||||
| Jan 2006 | ||||||||
| Dec 2005 | Raising Boys |
|
Steve Biddulph | |||||
| Dec 2005 | Manhood |
|
Steve Biddulph | |||||
| Nov 2005 | High Fidelity | Nick Hornby | ||||||
| Sep 2005 | Furious Gulf | Gregory Benford | ||||||
| Aug 2005 | Dune Messiah | Frank Herbert | ||||||
| Aug 2005 | Tides of Light |
|
Gregory Benford | |||||
| Jul 2005 | National Lampoon's Doon | Ellis Weiner | Many pages too long | |||||
| Jul 2005 | Dune | Frank Herbert | ||||||
| Jul 2005 | Great Sky River |
|
Gregory Benford | |||||
| Jun 2005 | Windows Script Host 2.0 Developer's Guide | Günter Born | very lightweight | |||||
| Jun 2005 | Across the Sea of Suns |
|
Gregory Benford | |||||
| May 2005 | In the Ocean of Night |
|
Gregory Benford | |||||
| May 2005 | Roadside Picnic | Arkady and Boris Strugatsky | ||||||
| May 2005 | Cryptonomicon | Neal Stephenson | Great! Wish I hadn't put it off for 4 years now! | |||||
| Feb 2005 | The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | ||||||
| Nov 2004 | UFO | Robert Miall | ||||||
| May 2004 | The Time Ships |
|
Stephen Baxter | I love this book! | ||||
| Apr 2004 | The Definitive Time Machine |
H G Wells (ed. Harry M. Geduld) |
1924 Atlantic Edition | |||||
| Mar 2004 | The Time Machine: An Invention (A Critical Text) |
H G Wells (ed. Leon Stover) |
1895 London First Edition (Heinemann) | |||||
| Mar 2004 | Mockingbird |
|
Walter Tevis | |||||
| Feb 2004 | Life of Pi | Yann Martel | ||||||
| Feb 2004 | Timeline | Michael Crichton | ||||||
| Feb 2004 | C# and the .NET Platform | Andrew Troelsen | ||||||
| Nov 2003 | Learning Perl (2nd edition) | Randal L. Schwartz | ||||||
| Jan 2003 | Starship Troopers | Robert Heinlein | ||||||
| Dec 2002 | Thinner | Stephen King | ||||||
| Sep 2002 | The Bourne Identity | Robert Ludlum | Have to finish it before I see the movie! | |||||
| Aug 2002 | Solaris |
|
Stanislaw Lem | 45% fascinating, 45% boring and 10% missing | ||||
| May 2002 Nov 2002 |
The Lost World | Sir A C Doyle | Because of the BBC mini-series | |||||
| Mar 2002 | Quarantine | Greg Egan | ||||||
| Mar 2002 | A Programmer's Introduction to C# | Eric Gunnerson | NOT a good book | |||||
| Feb 2002 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | J. K. Rowling | Uh oh - when's the next one?!? | |||||
| Feb 2002 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | J. K. Rowling | I guess I am hooked... | |||||
| Feb 2002 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | J. K. Rowling | Hey, this stuff is ok... | |||||
| Feb 2002 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | J. K. Rowling | To find out what all the fuss is about | |||||
| Dec 2001 | Time | Stephen Baxter | Reminded me a lot of "The Time Ships" | |||||
| Jul 2001 | Reinventing Your Life | Jeffrey E. Young Janet S. Klosko |
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| Apr 2001 | Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus | John Gray | Because they are! | |||||
| May 2001 | You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation |
Deborah Tannen | Because I don't! | |||||
| Mar 2001 | Destination: Void | |
Frank Herbert | Gobbledygook | ||||
| Mar 2001 | 3001 The Final Odyssey | Arthur C. Clarke | Independence Day, starring Buck Rogers | |||||
| Mar 2001 | 2061 Odyssey Three | |
Arthur C. Clarke | Completely pointless - added nothing to the series | ||||
| Mar 2001 | 2010 Odyssey Two | |
Arthur C. Clarke | |||||
| Feb 2001 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | |
Arthur C. Clarke | Because it's Arthur's year | ||||
| Feb 2001 | Journey to the Centre of the Earth (new translation by Dr.William Butcher) |
|
Jules Verne | Because I'm going to Snæfellsjökull | ||||
| Dec 2000 | Halo | |
Tom Maddox | |||||
| Jul 2000 | Catweazle | |
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Richard Carpenter | ||||
| Jul 2000 | Being Digital | Nicholas Negroponte | ||||||
| Jun 2000 | Notes From a Small Island | Bill Bryson | Wonderful book | |||||
| May 2000 | Raising Boys | |
Steve Biddulph | I went to see him talk at the Dorking Halls | ||||
| May 2000 | Running Blind | |
Desmond Bagley | Good fun | ||||
| Apr 2000 | The Time Machine (Everyman Edition) |
|
H G Wells | |||||
| Mar 2000 | Misery | Stephen King | Not much different than the movie | |||||
| Mar 2000 | The Custodians | Richard Cowper | Excellent short stories | |||||
| Feb 2000 | The Positronic Man | |
Isaac Asimov Robert Silverberg |
Same again. Why did they bother? | ||||
| Jan 2000 | The Bicentennial Man | Isaac Asimov | ||||||
| Jan 2000 | The Ringworld Throne | Larry Niven | Larry goes all Heinlein on us | |||||
| Dec 1999 | Ringworld Engineers | |
|
Larry Niven | ||||
| Dec 1999 | Ringworld | |
|
Larry Niven | Excellent | |||
| Dec 1999 | The Difference Engine | |
William Gibson Bruce Sterling |
Indifferent | ||||
| Nov 1999 | The Two Towers | |
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JRR Tolkien | ||||
| Nov 1999 | The Pool of Fire | |
|
John Christopher | ||||
| Oct 1999 | All the Sounds of Fear | Harlan Ellison | To find out what Karen Rodrigues liked | |||||
| Sep 1999 | The Shipping News | E. Annie Proulx | Doubting Reader Pleasantly Surprised | |||||
| Sep 1999 | The Nick of Time | G. A. Effinger | The Waste of Time | |||||
| Sep 1999 | The Fellowship of the Ring | |
|
JRR Tolkien | Reading it to the kids this time | |||
| Sep 1999 | Hemmingway's Chair | Michael Palin | I'll have to think about this one | |||||
| Sep 1999 | Jizzle | John Wyndham | ||||||
| Jul 1999 | Hannibal | Thomas Harris | Hannibal the Cannibal as James Bond - What an amazingly bad book. |
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| Jul 1999 | The Silence of the Lambs | |
Thomas Harris | Bloody brilliant | ||||
| Jul 1999 | The City of Gold and Lead | |
|
John Christopher | Reading it to the kids this time | |||
| Jul 1999 | Red Dragon | |
|
Thomas Harris | Brilliant | |||
| Jul 1999 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Sir A C Doyle | Possibly not the best choice for my first Holmes? | |||||
| Jun 1999 | Rainbow Mars | Larry Niven | He used to be so good! | |||||
| May 1999 | Flight of the Horse | |
|
Larry Niven | ||||
| May 1999 | Time's Arrow | Martin Amis | Very clever idea! | |||||
| May 1999 | Traces | |
Stephen Baxter | Yes! Real science fiction! Yes! | ||||
| Apr 1999 | The White Mountains | |
|
John Christopher | The kids didn't like it as much as I did. :-( | |||
| Mar 1999 | The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins | ||||||
| Apr 1999 | Tales From Watership Down | |
|
Richard Adams | Hraka Sandwich | |||
| Mar 1999 | The Anubis Gates | |
Tim Powers | Bloody good! | ||||
| Mar 1999 | Wizards of Odd | |
Various | So many great authors - so many dud stories! | ||||
| Feb 1999 | Watership Down | |
Richard Adams | Excellent. The kids loved it as much as I did. | ||||
| Feb 1999 | Manhood | Steve Biddulph | Very good! Recommended. | |||||
| Jan 1999 | Lord of the Flies | William Golding | Is this a kids book? | |||||
| Dec 1998 | Destiny's Road | Larry Niven | ||||||
| Dec 1998 | Raising Boys | Steve Biddulph | ||||||
| Nov 1998 | Timescapes - Stories of Time Travel | |
Various | |||||
| Nov 1998 | Breathing Lessons | Anne Tyler | I didn't like it. | |||||
| Oct 1998 | Involution Ocean | Bruce Sterling | The last couple of chapters were ok. | |||||
| 1998 | Dolores Claiborne | Stephen King | ||||||
| Jul 1998 | War of the Worlds | |
|
H G Wells | Ulla! | |||
| May 1998 | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul |
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|
Douglas Adams | ||||
| Apr 1998 | The Accidental Tourist | Anne Tyler | Quite liked it. | |||||
| Mar 1998 | The Time Machine II | George Pal |
| Last updated 10-Dec-11 | email: Kirk.Davies@pobox.com |
