Books to read, 2006

[featherynscale]

triadruid, as always, reminds me that if I don't make a list, I'll never freaking remember.

My goal this year is to increase the ratio of non-fiction to fiction books that actually get read, and also to continue to move towards having read all of the books in the house.

To-Read: Fiction
- Re-read Wheel of Time Series, Robert Jordan (we own it!)
- Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman (when triadruid finishes it) (we own it)
- Life of Pi, Yann Martel (we own it)
- Siddhartha, Herman Hesse (have to get a copy)
- Finnegan's Wake, James Joyce (have to get one)
- Perdido Street Station, China Mieville (need to get)
- Promethea series (borrow from gamera_spinning)

To-Read: Nonfiction
- Metamagical Themas, Douglas Hofstedter (we own it, and have for years. Has anyone read it? No.)
- Zero: Biography of a Dangerous Idea (we own it)
- Training Trances (we own it)
- Generation Hex (have to get a copy)
- The Laughing Jesus (in the book club queue)
- The Hidden Messages in Water (in the book club queue)
- Chance, Amir Aczel (in the book club queue)
- The Shadow Club, Roberto Casati (in the book club queue)
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Mary Roach (need to get)
- Strategies for Success

Also, taking suggestions: What have you read lately that was of interest? I'm interested in pretty much any fiction that isn't a romance or a western (with preference for sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and alternate history), and any non-fiction about math, science, philosophy, psychology/sociology, ethnography, religion, magic, language or non-military history. Thanks!

Comments

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I'll probably finish them out. I hate to start something and leave it unfinished (although I will, in certain circumstances. Simon Green's Deathstalker series comes to mind *eyeroll*).

I saw the second one in the Half-Price Books the other day, and was extremely disheartened to see something that looked perilously like Gandalf arriving on his white horse at the battle of Helm's Deep on the cover. :( Still, the style is good, if nothing else. I'm thinking it's a library-borrowing grade series, though.

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

We have read Simon Greens "Tales of the Nightside" We being Zacha and me. I have no idea what attracts me to these, they are badly written and mangled and he has to announce he's "John Taylor" three thousand times each book, but for some reason we keep reading them.

You might try "Dunn's Lady Jess" by Dorana Durgan, an older book but a favorite of mine.