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As a new year's resolution for 2008, i decided to try to read fifty books over the course of the year - i succeeded (just!), and here is the list of books i read, along with some scattered thoughts.
(sadly, my final opinion of some books was coloured by how difficult it was to prop them upright to take their photos - i'm looking at you, animal farm! the objects used to prop up troublesome books were chosen for maximum entertainment/interest.)
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1. american gods, by neil gaiman
2. the catcher in the rye, by j.d. salinger
3. the light fantastic, by terry pratchett
4. looking for alaska, by john green
5. gödel, escher, bach, by douglas r. hofstadter
6. an abundance of katherines, by john green
7. twilight, by stephenie meyer
8. new moon, by stephenie meyer
9. dracula, by bram stoker
10. eclipse, by stephenie meyer
11. stranger in a strange land, by robert heinlein
12. one flew over the cuckoo's nest, by ken kesey
13. slaughterhouse-five, by kurt vonnegut
14. the dark tower i: the gunslinger, by stephen king
15. lullaby, by chuck palahniuk
16. god is not great, by christopher hitchens
17. the dark tower ii: the drawing of the three, by stephen king
18. the dark tower iii: the wastelands, by stephen king
19. the end of faith, by sam harris
20. the dark tower iv: wizard and glass, by stephen king
21. murder on the orient express, by agatha christie
22. our final century, by martin rees
23. the dark tower v: wolves of the calla, by stephen king
24. animal farm, by george orwell
25. the dark tower vi: song of susannah, by stephen king
26. watership down, by richard adams
27. the dark tower vii: the dark tower, by stephen king
28. fahrenheit 451, by ray bradbury
29. the raw shark texts, by steven hall
30. brave new world, by aldous huxley
31. breaking dawn, by stephenie meyer
32. american purgatorio, by john haskell
33. it, by stephen king
34. a clockwork orange, by anthony burgess
35. the talisman, by stephen king and peter straub
36. snuff, by chuck palahniuk
37. lord of the flies, by william golding
38. ender's game, by orson scott card
39. invisible monsters, by chuck palahniuk
40. fight club, by chuck palahniuk
41. paper towns, by john green
42. crime and punishment, by fyodor dostoevsky
43. choke, by chuck palahniuk
44. black house, by stephen king and peter straub
45. insomnia, by stephen king
46. let it snow, by john green, maureen johnson and lauren myracle
47. stardust, by neil gaiman
48. anansi boys, by neil gaiman
49. we wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families, by philip gourevitch
50. the book with no name, by anonymous
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it was a good year! count the number of times i say "a good read" i dare you.
the music is 'hey there delilah' by plain white t's. i had the slideshow synced to the beat, but something seems to have slipped while publishing.
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