Booklist

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Well, due to a recent thread on the Hampshire Linux User Group mailing list, I thought I'd better start keeping track of books/authors I intend to read. Without further ado.

  • Turn of the screw - Henry James
  • Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Dante's Inferno (Ciaran Carson translation)
  • various Charles Dickens (already read "Great Expectations")
  • Homer's Iliad
  • The cosmic trilogy (Perelandra, Out of the silent planet, That hideous strength)
  • The history of Mr Polly - H G Wells
  • Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
  • The picture of Dorian Gray
  • Tacitus' "Histories"
  • I, Claudius and Claudius the God
  • The 39 steps
  • A clockwork orange
  • The big sleep
  • Moby Dick
  • Lorna Doon
  • Dracula
  • Around the world in 80 days
  • War and Peace
  • The three musketeers
  • Neal Stephenson - Zodiac
  • John Courtenay Grimwood - Arabesk trilogy, Stamping Butterflies
  • George R R Martin - A Song of Ice and Fire (gritty fantasy)
  • Charles Stross - Singularity Sky (hard sci-fi)
  • Sin City graphic novels
  • Sandman graphic novels
  • Guns germs and steel

Books since read from this list:

  • Robert Rankin - The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse (funny)
  • Iain (M) Banks - all remaining Sci-fi and contemporary books (great, amazing - even better! respectively)
  • All George Orwell (including 1984, Animal farm)
  • Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (fabulous)
  • Great expectations - Clarles Dickens (good)
  • Lord of the flies - William Golding (loved it at school, not reread recently)
  • Lord of the rings - J R R Tolkien (enjoyed, but preferred the dragonbone chair trilogy)
  • Ringworld - Larry Niven (good)
  • Snow crash - Neal Stephenson (enjoyed)
  • Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson (I think I got a bit disinterested)
  • Neuromancer - William Gibson (loved it)
  • 2001,2010,2061,3001 - Arthur C Clarke - couldn't read as a child, but liked them (not loved them)
  • Rama I,II,III,IV - Arthur C Clarke - interesting, prefer Stephen Baxter
  • Homer's odyssey - classic book, just skip any analysis stuff
  • Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (overlong, but amusing)
  • War of the worlds - H G Wells (very good)
  • The Dice Man - George Cockcroft (as Luke Rhinehart) (very funny and twisted, then a bit repetitive)
  • The man who mistook his wife for a hat - Oliver Sachs (interesting)
  • Dr Tatianas sex advice to all creation - Olivia Judson (interesting, coffee table book)
  • Flatland - Edwin A. Abbott (bizarre, but fun in a a sad, mathmo way)
  • Alice's adventures in wonderland - Lewis Carroll (classic, enjoyed it)
  • Through the looking glass - Lewis Carroll (part II)
  • Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig (didn't got on with that at all)
  • The Undercover Economist (gdb recommended, enlighening)
  • Cat's cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
  • Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
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