Reading
Books: on balance, I'm for them. These are most of the ones I've read since 2007 or so. The star ratings correspond more closely to "how worth my time this felt" than "how good this is."
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)
Stieg Larsson, Reg Keeland
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2)
Stieg Larsson, Reg Keeland
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
Stieg Larsson, Reg Keeland
Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn
Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II
Marc Weidenbaum
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
Cormac McCarthy
Burning Daylight
Jack London
No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein
This novel is deeply racist, gleefully misogynist, and unpleasantly cynical. It's smug, didactic, and thinly plotted. There are a couple of neat concepts buried in here. But my oh my, there's a lot to put up with in exchange. Bleh!
Made me think about:
- Red Mars
The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolaño, Natasha Wimmer
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
RASL
Jeff Smith, Steve Hamaker
1Q84
Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Philip Gabriel
True Grit
Charles Portis
History of the State of Washington
Edmond S. Meany
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthy
The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)
Philip Pullman
High Lonesome
Louis L'Amour
The Quick and the Dead
Louis L'Amour
The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)
Philip Pullman
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
Philip Pullman
Nowhere Men, Vol. 1: Fates Worse Than Death
Eric Stephenson, Nate Bellegarde, Jordie Bellaire, Fonografiks
Saga, Vol. 3
Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
Saga, Vol. 2
Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
Saga, Vol. 1
Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard
Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson, Rodney Ramos
The Sea Wolf
Jack London
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin
Bitters: A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All, with Cocktails, Recipes, and Formulas
Brad Thomas Parsons, Ed Anderson
The City & the City
China Miéville
Made me think about:
- Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy, Henry Gifford, Aylmer Maude, Louise Maude
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition
Mark Twain, Harriet E. Smith, Benjamin Griffin, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Sharon K. Goetz, Leslie Diane Myrick
The Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government
Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 4: The New Scum
Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson, Rodney Ramos, Keith Akin