Thursday 22 May 2008

Books and Films

(last updated February 14th 2010)

Books
- thing number 68 - complete! Continuous list now!
1. "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess
2. "American Psycho" by Bret Easton Ellis
3. "Matter" by Iain M. Banks
4. "The Children of Húrin" by J. R. R. Tolkien
5. "No Country for Old Men" by Cormac McCarthy
6. "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë
7. "Aesop's Fables" by Aesop
8. "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" by Michael Chabon
9. "Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow (can be downloaded freely from here)
10. "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
11. "Live And Let Die" by Ian Fleming
12. "Moonraker" by Ian Fleming
13. "Diamonds Are Forever" by Ian Fleming
14. "From Russia With Love" by Ian Fleming
15. "The Execution Channel" by Ken Macleod
16. "Interworld" by Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves
17. "Join Me" by Danny Wallace
18. "Yes Man" by Danny Wallace
19. "Infected" by Scott Sigler
20. "Three Men in a Boat" by Jerome K. Jerome
21. "The Search for the Dice Man" by Luke Rhinehart
22. "The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins
23. "Happyslapped by a Jellyfish" by Karl Pilkington
24. "The Raw Shark Texts" by Steven Hall
25. "Crooked Little Vein" by Warren Ellis
26. "Spook Country" by William Gibson
27. "Drive Thru America" by Sean Condon
28. "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier" by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill
29. "Physics of the Impossible" by Michio Kaku
30. "Bring the Jubilee" by Ward Moore
31. "Accelerando" by Charles Stross
32. "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe
33. "V For Vendetta" by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
34. "Content" by Cory Doctorow (can be downloaded freely from here)
35. "The Ringmaster's Daughter" by Jostein Gaarder
36. "Hyperion" by Dan Simmons
37. "Batman: The Long Halloween" by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale
38. "Arkham Asylum" by Grant Morrison and Dave McKean
39. "Super Crunchers" by Ian Ayres
40. "Maus" by Art Spiegelman
41. "Nova Swing" by M. John Harrison
42. "Fun Home" by Alison Bechdel
43. "The Temporal Void" by Peter F. Hamilton
44. "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
45. "Epileptic" by David B.
46. "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert Heinlein
47. "The Atrocity Archive" by Charles Stross
48. "Was" by Geoff Ryman
49. "Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut
50. "Halting State" by Charles Stross
51. "World War Z" by Max Brooks
52. "Wrong About Japan" by Peter Carey
53. "Year's Best SF 13" edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
54. "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
55. "House of Suns" by Alastair Reynolds
56. "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson
57. "Pride of Baghdad" by Brian K. Vaughan and Niko Henrichon
58. "Five Little Pigs" by Agatha Christie
59. "Something's Down There" by Mickey Spillane
60. "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!" by Richard P. Feynman
61. "Saturn's Children" by Charles Stross
62. "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Arthur Conan Doyle
63. "Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life" by Bryan Lee O'Malley
64. "The Shack" by William Paul Young
65. "The Man Who Smiled" by Henning Mankell
66. "End of the World Blues" by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
67. "Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World" by Bryan Lee O'Malley
68. "Dr. No" by Ian Fleming
69. "Every Last Drop" by Charlie Huston
70. "The Club of Queer Trades" by G.K. Chesterton
71. "Goldfinger" by Ian Fleming
72. "Down and Out In the Magic Kingdom" by Cory Doctorow (can be freely downloaded from here)
73. "Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness" by Bryan Lee O' Malley
74. "The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction Volume Three" edited by George Mann
75. "Anthropology and a hundred other stories" by Dan Rhodes
76. "For Your Eyes Only" by Ian Fleming
77. "Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together" by Bryan Lee O'Malley
78. "Scott Pilgrim Versus The Universe" by Bryan Lee O'Malley
79. "Pride & Prejudice & Zombies" by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
80. "American Unchained" by Dave Gorman
81. "Eastern Standard Tribe" by Cory Doctorow (can be freely downloaded from here)
82. "Ghost In The Shell 1.5: Human Error Processor" by Masamune Shirow
83. "Year's Best SF 9" edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
84. "The Graduate" by Charles Webb
85. "Friends Like These" by Danny Wallace
86. "A Scientific Romance" by Ronald Wright
87. "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
88. "The Baby Jesus Butt Plug" by Carlton Mellick III
89. "New Moon" by Stephenie Meyer
90. "Eclipse" by Stephenie Meyer
91. "The Jennifer Morgue" by Charles Stross
92. "We Think Therefore We Are" edited by Peter Crowther
93. "The Continental Op" by Dashiell Hammett
94. "Deception Point" by Dan Brown
95. "Faceless Killers" by Henning Mankell
96. "The Enemy" by Charlie Higson
97. "Six Thinking Hats" by Edward De Bono
98. "Miss Wyoming" by Douglas Coupland
99. "Polystom" by Adam Roberts
100. "The Final Solution" by Michael Chabon
101. "Breaking Dawn" by Stephenie Meyer
102. "Dawn of the Dumb" by Charlie Brooker

Re-reads (30/50) - thing number 69
1. "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
2. "The Player of Games" by Iain M. Banks
3. "Virtual Light" by William Gibson
4. "Idoru" by William Gibson
5. "All Tomorrow's Parties" by William Gibson
6. "Blood Music" by Greg Bear
7. "Pattern Recognition" by William Gibson
8. "Casino Royale" by Ian Fleming
9. "The Great Outdoor Fight" by Chris Onstad
10. "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
11. "George's Marvellous Medicine" by Roald Dahl
12. "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
13. "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
14. "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
15. "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" by C. S. Lewis
16. "The Horse and His Boy" by C. S. Lewis
17. "Prince Caspian" by C. S. Lewis
18. "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" by C. S. Lewis
19. "The Silver Chair" by C. S. Lewis
20. "The Last Battle" by C. S. Lewis
21. "Earth Abides" by George R. Stewart
22. "Use Of Weapons" by Iain M. Banks
23. "Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow
24. "Jpod" by Douglas Coupland
25. "Microserfs" by Douglas Coupland
26. "Excession" by Iain M. Banks
27. "Crooked Little Vein" by Warren Ellis
28. "Glasshouse" by Charles Stross
29. "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4" by Sue Townsend
30. "The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole" by Sue Townsend

Films at the cinema - thing number 70 - complete! Continuous list now!
1. "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" - 23/05/2008
2. "Iron Man" - 31/05/2008
3. "The Incredible Hulk" - 20/06/2008
4. "Wanted" - 30/06/2008
5. "The Dark Knight" - 23/07/2008
6. "WALL-E" - 01/08/2008
7. "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" - 15/08/2008
8. "Tropic Thunder" - 22/09/2008
9. "Burn After Reading" - 21/10/2008
10. "Quantum of Solace" - 04/11/2008
11. "Waltz With Bashir" - 21/11/2008
12. "Changeling" - 02/12/2008
13. "Far North" - 30/12/2008
14. "Watchmen" - 13/03/2009
15. "Coraline" - 03/05/2009
16. "Star Trek" - 09/05/2009, 15/05/2009
17. "Terminator Salvation" - 07/06/2009
18. "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" - 19/06/2009
19. "The Hangover" - 01/07/2009
20. "Bruno"
21. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"
22. "GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra" - 09/08/2009
23. "The Time Traveler's Wife" - 20/08/2009
24. "Inglourious Basterds" - 05/09/2009
25. "District 9" - 07/09/2009
26. "The Ugly Truth"
27. "X-Men Origins: Wolverine"
28. "The Taking of Pelham 123"
29. "Up" - 10/09/2009
30. "Zombieland"
31. "A Christmas Carol"
32. "New Moon" - 22/11/2009
33. "Nativity!" - 13/12/2009
34. "Avatar" - 20/12/2009
35. "Sherlock Holmes"
36. "The Road" - 18/01/2010
37. "Daybreakers" - 30/01/2010
38. "The Wolfman" - 13/02/2010
39. "Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea" - 14/02/2010

Classic Films (11/25) - thing number 71
1. "My Neighbor Totoro" - 25/05/2008
2. "Copland" - 19/10/2008
3. "No Country for Old Men" - 13/2/2009
4. "The Maltese Falcon" - 20/3/2009
5. "Citizen Kane" - 21/3/2009
6. "Tron" - 3/4/2009
7. "Casablanca" - 17/4/2009
8. "Breakfast At Tiffany's" - 08/06/2009
9. "Scrooged" - 13/11/2009
10. "The Postman Always Rings Twice" - 30/12/2009
11. "A Kiss Before Dying" - 02/01/2010

1 comment:

Bethany said...

What did you think of the movie?