List all the books you have read all the way through in your life. My list at this point is still pretty small being that I have mild dyslexia. I know people who have read this many books in a year. Either way, I'm quite interested on the synchronicities in taste and interests of the ue community.

Dead Souls ~ Nikolai Gogol
The Difficulty of Being ~ Jean Cocteau
Fear And Loathing ~ Hunter S. Thompson
The Trial ~ Franz Kafka
Raja Yoga; The Kybalion; Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism ~ William Walker Atkinson
9 Stories; Catcher In The Rye ~ J. D. Salinger
Hardcore Zen ~ Brad Warner
A Clockwork Orange ~ Anthony Burgess
T.A.Z. ~ Hakim Bey aka Peter Lamborn Wilson
Light On The Path; Through The Gates Of Gold ~ Mabel Collins
Naked Lunch ~ William S. Burroughs
Tropic Of Cancer ~ Henry Miller
Dharma Bums ~ Jack Kerouac
All Quiet on the Western Front ~ Erich Maria Remarque
Bordertown ~ Edited By Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold and written by Farrel Din, Steve Boyett, Bellamy Bach, Charles de Lint, Ellen Kushner.
Lexicon Devil ~ Brendan Mullen
The Book Of The Law ~ Aleister Crowley
Of Mice And Men ~ John Steinbeck
Existentialism and Human Emotions ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Love Is A Dog From Hell ~ Charles Bukowski
Desperation ~ Steven King
The Anarchist Cookbook ~ Crimethinc Ex Workers Collective

So I've added:
Tropic of Capricorn
Ham On Rye
Courtney Love: The Real Story(I forgot I read that some time ago)

I'm still waiting for someone other than me to post their collections.

if you are an avid reader, thats quite a list. heres a few ive read this year that were memorable for one reason or another.

* Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible and Fried: My Life As a Revolting Cock: chris connolly
* the world without us: alan wiseman
* night angel trilogy: brent weeks
* anasazi boys: neil gainman
* american gods: neil gainman
* iron council: china mieville
* perdido street station: china mieville
* the scar: china mieville
* the rebel sell: Potter & Heath
* you suck: chris moore
* bloodsucking fiends: chris moore

edit: added more as i thought of them.

Hooray for China Mieville! Have you read Looking for Jake (short stories)?

You wouldn't want to see my list. I probably couldn't list all of them or even remember all of them.

When I was in school, I read what the require lists were and often would go back to the teacher and ask for more.

I still read a lot. Usually I have 3 or 4 books going at once. Right now, rereading some Hunter Thompson (Hell's Angels, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, among others...The Rum Diaries) and looking for a copy of Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail from 1972.

Some that come to mind...
Watership Down
The Stand
The Dark Tower (all 7 books)
Atlas Shrugged
Hitchhiker's Guide (Also the others)
Christopher Paolini's books (Eragon, Brisingr, Eldest)
Waded through War and Peace once, vowing never to do it again.
On The Beach
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Make Room, Make Room (Soylent Green was based on this book)
Ender's Game (The whole series)
The Road
Right now...The Living Dead, edited by John Joseph Adams.\

Shael

Posted by Shael You wouldn't want to see my list. I probably couldn't list all of them or even remember all of them. When I was in school, I read what the require lists were and often would go back to the teacher and ask for more. I still read a lot. Usually I have 3 or 4 books going at once. Right now, rereading some Hunter Thompson (Hell's Angels, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, among others...The Rum Diaries) and looking for a copy of Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail from 1972. Some that come to mind... Watership Down The Stand The Dark Tower (all 7 books) Atlas Shrugged Hitchhiker's Guide (Also the others) Christopher Paolini's books (Eragon, Brisingr, Eldest) Waded through War and Peace once, vowing never to do it again. On The Beach A Canticle for Leibowitz Make Room, Make Room (Soylent Green was based on this book) Ender's Game (The whole series) The Road Right now...The Living Dead, edited by John Joseph Adams.\ Shael

I wanna give war and peace a try as well. But I won't try that until I can get through Foucault's Pendulum. Eco is a great writer, but most of his references go straight over my head.

Didn't know that Soylent green was based off a book. I have the movie coming in the mail as we speak.

From what I hear of Ender's Game, I think you'd like both Foulcaults Pendulum, and Bordertown. http://en.wikipedi..._Borderland_Series

Posted by neX_ if you are an avid reader, thats quite a list.

That's all the books I've read in my life.

I'm dyslexic, so it's kinda hard.

Posted by dirt I wanna give war and peace a try as well. But I won't try that until I can get through Foucault's Pendulum. Eco is a great writer, but most of his references go straight over my head. Didn't know that Soylent green was based off a book. I have the movie coming in the mail as we speak. From what I hear of Ender's Game, I think you'd like both Foulcaults Pendulum, and Bordertown. http://en.wikipedi..._Borderland_Series

Umberto Eco wrote "In the Name of the Rose" which might be something you'd be interested in. It was made into a motion picture with Sean Connery and Christian Slater. It was decent, but the book was better. Eco's hard to read unless you get a good translation.

Shael

dirt wrote: That's all the books I've read in my life. I'm dyslexic, so it's kinda hard.

understandable. acquaintance of mine is dyscalculate.

the remark was just a statement of fact. no slight intended.

Posted by metawaffle Hooray for China Mieville! Have you read Looking for Jake (short stories)?

not yet. just havent come across a comp containing them. i still need to pick up a copy of king rat at some point.

im currently reading that top one in the list -- Connelly makes Al Jourgensen out to be a complete asshat. after im done this one, im going to read "the stupidest angel" by chris moore. nothing says holidays like Santa taking a shovel in the head.

Posted by neX_ understandable. acquaintance of mine is dyscalculate. the remark was just a statement of fact. no slight intended.

None Taken. I was answering your question.

also read:

* Widdershins: Charles De Lint

Oh man I've read so many books. I'll list them all in a few days. It will take a while to figure them all out and I'll most likely have missed a few. I used to have a hard time reading when I was younger. I'd get to the bottom of a page then have to reread it because I'd forget what I had just read. I kept at it and now I can recall specific points and minute details from books I've read years ago. Reading Sherlock Holmes stories helped that a lot. I've become very analytical and observant.

For this summer:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Doors of Perception
The Art of War

All rereads except the Art of War

Books I've read and my rating. [+] = Liked it, [-] = Neutral, [x] = Didn't like

ART

Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling [+]
Ross King

Gardner's Art through the Ages, Volume I, Chapters 1-18 [+]
by Fred S. Kleiner and Christin J. Mamiya

Gardner's Art Through the Ages, Volume II (Chapters 19-34) [+]
Fred S. Kleiner and Christin J. Mamiya

The Louvre [+]
Alexandra Bonfante-Warren

Dali [-]
Robert Descharnes and Gilles Neret

Tolerance: The Art of Chris Mars [+]
Chris Mars

Wall and Piece [+]
Banksy

Art of the Middle Ages: Masterpieces in Painting, Sculpture and Architecture [-]
Giulia Marrucchi Riccardo Belcari

The Art of the Italian Renaissance: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Drawing [+]
Rolf Toman

Michelangelo: The Complete Sculpture, Painting, Architecture [+]
William E. Wallace

H. R. Giger's Necronomicon [+]
H. R. Giger

HR GIGER [+]
Angelika Taschen

Fantasy Art Now: The Very Best in Contemporary Fantasy Art & Illustration [-]
Martin Mckenna

E Pluribus Venom [-]
Shepard Fairey

The Book of Joe: The Art of Joe Coleman [+]
Joe Coleman

The Book of Kells: Selected Plates in Full Color [+]
Blanche Cirker

Neoclassicism: Masterpieces in Painting, Sculpture and Architecture [+]
Carlotta Lenzi

Bosch: Masters of Art [+]
Carl Linfert

FICTION

Diary of a Drug Fiend
Aleister Crowley
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
World War Z
Max Brooks
The Zombie Survival Guide
Max Brooks
Plague of the Dead (The Morningstar Strain)
Z. A. Recht
Thunder and Ashes
Z. A. Recht
Day by Day Armageddon
J. L. Bourne
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski
Choke
Chuck Palahniuk
Lullaby
Chuck Palahniuk
Invisible Monsters
Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
1984
George Orwel
Animal Farm
George Orwell
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
Anthem
Ayn Rand
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
Othello
William Shakespeare
Macbeth
William Shakespeare
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Travels with Charley in Search of America
John Steinbeck
The Crucible
Arthur Miller
Grendel
John Gardner
The Old Man and The Sea
Ernest Hemingway
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Ordinary People
Judith Guest
The Giver
Lois Lowry
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Scott O'Dell
The Call of the Wild
Jack London
Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
The Chronicles of Narnia
C. S. Lewis
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl
The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
Interview With a Vampire
Anne Rice
Tale of the Body Theif
Anne Rice
Oryx & Crake
Margaret Atwood
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
Sleeping Murder
Agatha Christie
Death on the Nile
Agatha Christie
Sherlock Holmes (too many to name)
Sir A Conan Doyle
"A" is for Alibi
Sue Grafton
"B" is for Burglar
Sue Grafton
"C" is for Corpse
Sue Grafton
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
Digital Fortress
Dan Brown
Pandora
Alan Rodgers
Bone Music
Alan Rodgers
Alien Secrets
Annette Curtis Klause
Blood and Chocolate
Annette Curtis Klause
Dead Until Dark
Charlaine Harris


Probably a lot more that I forgot too.

So, I haven't replied to this because it seemed like such a daunting task. Here are a few that I've read, though, that stand out (you should know that I read a LOT of Young Adult books, because I'm a writer, and that's what I write):

Uglies trilogy by Scott Westerfeld
Bloody Jack series by LA Meyer
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (don't hate me...I thought they were pretty good)
Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis (several times)
Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
Hell's Prisoner by Christopher Parnell (I haven't QUITE finished this yet...I'm on the last like twenty pages. But I can tell you I'm going to.)
Timeline by Michael Chrichton
Catch Me If You Can by Frank Abignale (Excellent, EXCELLENT book for infiltration ideas and techniques. This guy was a freaking genius.)
Bringing Down the House by Ben Mizrich
Self-Made Man by Norah Vincent
Redwall series by Brian Jacques
Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series by Brian Jacques
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Ever by Gail Carson Levine

Okay, that's all I can come up with right now. I know there are more, but I'm tired and it's late, so that's all you get.

Posted by snap228 So, I haven't replied to this because it seemed like such a daunting task. Here are a few that I've read, though, that stand out (you should know that I read a LOT of Young Adult books, because I'm a writer, and that's what I write):

What books have you written? I'll read em

Posted by Oryx What books have you written? I'll read em

Haha nothing published. I wish. One YA Historical fiction, and one romance. I'm working on a UE related novel (also YA) that I'm excited about. At this point, neither are worth the read, especially the romance. The historical fiction I'm editing.

Edit: It's late and I'm tired. mmkay?

Every book I've ever read? OK, I'll start with Baby's FIrst ABC's... or maybe not. How about this year?

No Country for Old Men - McCarthy
The Book of Lost Things - Connelly
Walden - Thoreau
Danse Macabre - King
The Far Side of the World - O'Brien
Treason's Harbor - O'Brien
Sourcery - Pratchett
A Fishkeeper's Guide to South American Cichlids
Agincourt - Cornwell
Agincourt - Barker
Creepers - Morrell
Fool - Moore
Lords & Ladies - Pratchett
Men at Arms - Pratchett
Storm Front - Butcher
Mort - Pratchett
Lost Ohio - McNutt

I also listen to a lot of audio books...

Every one? I'll do the ones on the bookshelf in front of me, alphabetically by author.

In keeping with Onyx's post [+] = Liked it, [-] = Neutral, [x] = Didn't like

Secret Rendezvous - Kobo Abe [+]
The Woman in the Dunes - Kobo Abe [+]
The Ruined Map - Kobo Abe [+]
The Face of Another - Kobo Abe [+]
Fermat's Last Theorem - Amir Aczel [+]
Time's Arrow - Martin Amis [-]
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius [-]
Oracle Night - Paul Auster [+]
Going to Meet the Man - James Baldwin [-]
Concrete Island - J.G. Ballard [+]
Jennifer Government - Max Barry [-]
Recreations in the Theory of Numbers - Albert Beiler [+]
Zen Without Zen Masters - Camden Benares [+]
Stalking the Wild Pendulum - Itzhak Benthov [-]
Timescape - Gregord Benford [+]
Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges [-]
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess [+]
If on a winter's night a traveler - Italo Calvino [+]
Difficult Loves - Italo Calvino [+]
Cosmicomics - Italo Calvino[+]
The Stranger - Albert Camus [+]
Brain Droppings - George Carlin [+]
The Teachings of Don Juan - Carlos Casteneda [+]
Veronica - Nicolas Christopher [+]
The Contortionist's Handbook - Craig Clevenger [-]
The Book of the Law - Aleister Crowley [-]
House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski [+]
The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir [-]
The Consolations of Philosophy - Alain de Botton [+]
Mao II - Don DeLillo [-]
Americana - Don DeLillo [-]
White Noise - Don DeLillo [+]
Collapse - Jared Diamond [+]
The Third Chimpanzee - Jared Diamond [+]
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick [+]
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer - Philip K. Dick [+]
We Can Build You - Philip K. Dick [+]
Dr. Bloodmoney - Philip K. Dick [-]
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - Philip K. Dick [+]
The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick [+]
Time Out of Joint - Philip K. Dick [-]
Valis - Philip K. Dick [+]
The Discreet Art of Luis Bunuel - Gwynne Edwards [+]
You Shall Know Our Velocity! - Dave Eggers [-]
Relativity - Albert Einstein [+]
Pilgrim - Timothy Findley [+]
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald [+]
Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald [-]
Critical Path - R. Buckminster Fuller [+]
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth - R. Buckminster Fuller [+]
The Immoralist - Andre Gide [+]
Lafcadio's Adventures - Andre Gide [+]
The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene [-]
The 9/11 Commision Report: Omissions and Distortions - David Ray Griffin [+]
Meetings With Remarkable Men - G.I. Gurdjieff [+]
Black Holes and Baby Universes - Stephen Hawking [+]
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking [+]
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [x]
How to Be Good - Nick Hornby [-]
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby [+]
The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley [-]
Heaven and Hell - Aldous Huxley [-]
Man and His Symbols - Carl Jung [+]
The Short Stories of Franz Kafka - Franz Kafka [+]
The Castle - Franz Kafka [+]
Beyond Einstein - Michio Kaku [+]
Hyperspace - Michio Kaku [+]
Visions - Michio Kaku [-]
Boiling Energy - Richard Katz [-]
On the Road - Jack Kerouac [+]
Culture Jam - Kalle Lasn [+]
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out - Timothy Leary [+]
Your Brain is God - Timothy Leary [+]
Neuropolotique - Timothy Leary [+]
The Intelligence Agents - Timothy Leary [-]
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis [+]
The Great Divorce - C.S. Lewis [+]
Letters to Malcolm - C.S. Lewis [+]
Of Other Worlds - C.S. Lewis [-]
Programming the Human Biocomputer - Dr. John C. Lilly [+]
The Black Science - Haha Lung [+]
Ninja Shadowhand: The Art of Invisibility - Haha Lung [+]
Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things - Jon McGregor [x]
Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman [-]
Dennis Miller - I Rant, Therefore I Am [+]
The Elephant Vanishes - Haruki Murakami [+]
Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami [+]
Dance Dance Dance - Haruki Murakami [+]
Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami [+]
Underground - Haruki Murakami [+]
Norweigian Wood - Haruki Murakami [+]
The Windy-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami [+]
South of the Border, West of the Sun - Haruki Murakami [+]
A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami [+]
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami [+]
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami [+]
After the Quake - Haruki Murakami [+]
Invitation to a Beheading - Vladimir Nabokov [+]
Transparent Things - Vladimir Nabokov [-]
The Enchanter - Vladimir Nabokov [-]
Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov [+]
The Eye - Vladimir Nabokov[+]
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov [+]
Laughter in the Dark - Vladimir Nabokov [+]
Mary - Vladimir Nabokov [+]
King, Queen, Knave - Vladimir Nabokov [-]
Despair - Vladimir Nabokov [+]
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight - Vladimir Nabokov [-]
Being Digital - Nicholas Negroponte [+]
Vurt - Jeff Noon [+]
Word Made Flesh - Jack O'Connell [-]
Animal Farm - George Orwell [+]
1984 - George Orwell[+]
Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk [-]
Choke - Chuck Palahniuk [+]
Stranger Than Fiction - Chuck Palahniuk [+]
Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk [+]
Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk [-]
Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk [+]
Diary - Chuck Palahniuk [-]
Fugitives and Refugees - Chuck Palahniuk [+]
Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk [+]
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy - Greg Palast [+]
Great Dialogues - Plato [+]
Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman [-]
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon [+]
Anthem - Ayn Rand [+]
Philosophy: Who Needs It - Ayn Rand [+]
We the Living - Ayn Rand [-]
The Romantic Manifesto - Ayn Rand [-]
Return of the Primitive - Ayn Rand [-]
The Early Ayn Rand - Ayn Rand [-]
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand [+]
Before the Beginning - Martin Rees [-]
Lynch on Lynch - Chris Rodley [+]
Why I Am Not a Christian - Bertrand Russell [+]
Existentialism and Human Emotion - Jean-Paul Sartre [+]
Barrel Fever - David Sedaris [+]
Letters From a Stoic - Seneca [+]
Pygmalion - Bernard Shaw [+]
Hamlet - William Shakespeare [+]
MacBeth - William Shakespeare [+]
Naked Pictures of Famous People - Jon Stewart [+]
Perfume - Patrick Suskind [+]
Future Shock - Alvin Toffler [x]
The Conference of the Birds - Farid Ud-Din Attar [-]
Timequake - Kurt Vonnegut [+]
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut [+]
Th Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut [+]
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut [+]
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut [-]
The Evolution of Culture - Julian White [+]
The Illuminatus! Trilogy - Robert Anton Wilson [+]
Cosmic Trigger (Volume I)- Robert Anton Wilson [+]
Cosmic Trigger (Volume II): Down to Earth - Robert Anton Wilson [+]
Cosmic Trigger (Volume III): My Life After Death - Robert Anton Wilson [+]
Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy - Robert Anton Wilson [+]
Coincidance: A Head Test - Robert Anton Wilson [-]
The Earth Will Shake - Robert Anton Wilson [+]
The Widow's Son - Robert Anton Wilson [+]
Nature's God - Robert Anton Wilson [+]
The Walls Came Tumbling Down - Robert Anton Wilson [-]
Prometheus Rising - Robert Anton Wilson [+]
Right Where You Are Sitting Now - Robert Anton Wilson [-]
Ishtar Rising - Robert Anton Wilson [+]
Quantum Psychology - Robert Anton Wilson [+]
The World and Other Places - Jeannette Winterson [+]
Amrita - Banana Yoshimoto [+]
Asleep - Banana Yoshimoto [+]
Goodbye Tsugumi - Banana Yoshimoto [+]
NP - Banana Yoshimoto [+]
Lizard - Banana Yoshimoto [+]
Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto [+]

Now I'm just reminded how many more there are that I have been meaning to get to for years (just on this shelf)...and how many I loaned out that have not been returned.

Currently trying to find time to finish D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow