Booklist 2004

[featherynscale]

Since I'm doing 50bookchallenge again this year, I expect that I ought to bother to write down what I'm reading, so that I can keep track of it. (Especially since I've got so much more time for reading these days...)
EDIT: WOOT! DONE!

1. The Gunslinger - S. King
2. New Spring - Robert Jordan
3. The Tain - T. Kinsella, translator
4. The Drawing of the Three - S. King
5. The Waste Lands - S. King
6. Screw the Roses, Send Me the Thorns - P. Miller & M. Devon
7. Queen Maeve and Her Lovers - S.B. Perera
8. Wolves of the Calla - S. King
9. The Elementals - Morgan Llewellyn
10. Manual of the Planes, 3rd Ed.
11. A Canticle for Leibowitz
12. The Island of the Day Before - Umberto Eco
13. The Princess Bride - William Goldman
14. Guilty Pleasures - Laurel K. Hamilton
15. The Laughing Corpse - Laurel K. Hamilton
16. Circus of the Damned - Laurel K. Hamilton
17. A Game of Thrones - George Martin
18. Child of an Ancient City - Tad Williams
19. The Stone and the Flute - Hans Bemmer
20. A Clash of Kings - George R.R. Martin
21. Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
22. Lammas Night - Katherine Kurtz
23. A Storm of Swords - George R.R. Martin
24. Finite and Infinite Games
25. Caress of Twilight (or some such thing) - Laurel K. Hamilton
26. Seduced by Moonlight - Laurel K. Hamilton
27. Dune: House Corrino - Brian Herbert
28. Dune: Butlerian Jihad - Brian Herbert
29. Quartet - George R.R. Martin
30. Kushiel's Chosen - Jacqueline Carey
31. The Lunatic Cafe - Laurel K. Hamilton
32. Bloody Bones - Laurel K. Hamilton
33. Windhaven - George Martin & Lisa Tuttle
34. Song of Susannah - Stephen King
35. Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori)- ?
36. War of the Flowers - Tad Williams
37. Newton's Cannon - J. Gregory Keyes
38. Dune: The Machine Crusade - Brian Herbert
39. The Mote in God's Eye - Niven & Pournelle
40. A Calculus of Angels - J. Gregory Keyes
41. Age of Unreason - J. Gregory Keyes
42. The Killing Dance - Laurel K. Hamilton
43. Burnt Offerings - Laurel K. Hamilton
44. Blue Moon - Laurel K. Hamilton
45. Obsidian Butterfly - Laurel K. Hamilton
46. Narcissus in Chains - Laurel K. Hamilton
47. The Dark Tower - Stephen King
48. Cerulean Sins - Laurel K. Hamilton
49. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling
50. Kushiel's Avatar - Jacqueline Carey
51. Incubus Dreams - Laurel K. Hamilton
52. A History of Pagan Europe
53. Simple Living Guide
54. The Magical Dilemma of Victor Neuberg
55. Analog's Best Science Fiction
56. Goblins! (This doesn't really count, as it is mostly an art book)

I re-read some of Wizard and Glass as well, but am not counting it, as I only read the beginning and the end, and skipped the 400 pages in the middle.


italics = in progress

Comments

mmm

[delascabezas.livejournal.com]

gunslinger = good
jordan = better
thoughts?

Re: mmm

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. I'm re-reading the Dark Tower series so that I can bust into Wolves of the Calla, which triadruid was kind enough to give me for Winter Avarice. And I've been a Jordan junkie for years... although if he's going to continue to publish prequels before getting back into the present-day story line, I'm going to have to re-read all of those as well when the next book comes out.

I've got a serious soft spot for epics (and complex story-lines of all kinds, really).

ditto

[delascabezas.livejournal.com]

I just finished Calla - good stuff. i was actualyl a bit dissapointed by the annoucement of prequels - jordan is not a young man, and i would be loathe to linger in a situation similar to what frank herbert left us with.

Re: ditto

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

More with the agreement -- Although New Spring is tasty and good, I would have rather just finished more of The Story, especially since, based on the last several books, we're all going to the Last Battle in increments of one week per year...

Re: Herbert - I must preface this with the obligatory "I love Dune" statement: I love Dune. However, if he were going to check out in the middle of the series, he might have done so before Chapterhouse: Dune...

Saints preserve us!

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

There will be rioting in the streets if he pulls a Frank...

Seriously though, my understanding from reading Tor's press releases is that there will likely be three prequels, each spaced between a 'current storyline' book.

New Spring

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

So New Spring did not disappoint in the end?

heh

[delascabezas.livejournal.com]

yeah, supposedly, jordan has the plot outlined, just not the books written. if he were to die, i would be saddened that he doesn't get to reveal the ending the right way, but at least we woulnd't be in limbo

magic is on our side...

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Amusing anecdote from an interview with RJ:

Ern: And what was this (first) novel that we will never see?

Robert: It's title was Warriors of the Altaii, and you will never see it, or know anything about it. I have not destroyed the manuscript, because it has powerful juju...but in my will I have provisions to have that manuscript burned. But until then I'm afraid to get rid of the juju that resides in it.

Re: mmm

[drummel.livejournal.com]

FYI instead of re-reading the Dark Tower Series there is a book available that summarizes each book and provides all the key information to remind you of the characters and whats been going on. I can't remember its title but if You do a quick search I'm sure you'll come across it. Just a suggestion so as you can spend more time on the books you havn't read.

Re: New Spring

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

No, I was pretty happy with it. I would have been happier if it had run for another fifty - a hundred pages, as a lot of the multiplicity of perspective that I like so much in his other stuff is lacking, though. There are a few things that happen really fast in the endgame, leaving me to say, as zylch does, "Quoi?" but none of them are impossible or unjustifiable, I just would have liked to see a little more development...

Ramble ramble ramble...

Re: mmm

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I know, but that's cheating :)
Besides, I don't at all mind re-reading - it's a lot like hanging out with friends you haven't seen in ages.