29 & 30
30. Misery, Stephen King
29. Spook Country, William Gibson (audio)
28. The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America, Bill Bryson
27. People are Unappealing*: True Stories of Our Collective Capacity to Irritate and Annoy *Even Me, Sara Barron
26. The Green Mile, Stephen King*
25. Bag of Bones, Stephen King*
24. The New Dead: A Zombie Anthology, ed. Christopher Golden
23. Relentless, Dean Koontz
22. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off: The Yarn Harlot's Guide to the Land of Knitting
21. The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson
20. Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
19. The Stand, Stephen King*
18. Hollywood's Stephen King, Tony Magistrale
17. Hidden Empire, Orson Scott Card
16. Harem, Dora Levy Mossanen
15. Dies the Fire, S.M. Stirling
14. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Carl Sagan
13. Knitting Rules! The Yarn Harlot Unravels the Mysteries of Swatching, Stashing, Ribbing, & Rolling to Free Your Inner Knitter, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, aka the Yarn Harlot
12. Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America, Linda Lawrence Hunt
11. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells
10. Patient Zero, Jonathon Maberry
9. God's Country, Percival Everett
8. Heart of Stone, C. E. Murphy
7. The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero, William Kalush and Larry Sloman
6. The Good Fairies of New York, Martin Millar
5. Limeys: The True Story of One Man's War Against Ignorance, the Establishment and the Deadly Scurvy, David I. Harvie
4. The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
3. Tatham Mound, Piers Anthony
2. Alas, Babylon, Pat Frank
1. Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
Spook Country I listened to on the drive down here. The first disc didn't capture my interest very well, but that could have been because I was worried about the first leg of the trip and the cats and all. There are three story lines, the first involving Hollis Henry, a journalist working for Node, a magazine that will publish its first issue in a few months; the second, Tito, a Cuban-Chinese young man who speaks Russian and works for the mob or something like it; and Milgrim, a junkie in the hands of Brown, stuck translating a bastard Russian. All of these story lines stay separate, then slowly, then suddenly interweave. Good stuff.
Misery is one of the few King novels I hadn't read. (Christine is the other, and I've not read Danse Macabre and Storm of the Century.) It's good, but it's another of his novels that have a novelist or artist in trouble (Duma Key, Lisey's Story, The Shining, 'Salem's Lot). His later novels following that route (Duma Key especially) aren't so fantastic and *are* preachy about the REDEMPTIVE POWER OF ART, and that makes them suck. Misery actually has a good story and is better than the later REDEMPTIVE ART novels.
29. Spook Country, William Gibson (audio)
28. The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America, Bill Bryson
27. People are Unappealing*: True Stories of Our Collective Capacity to Irritate and Annoy *Even Me, Sara Barron
26. The Green Mile, Stephen King*
25. Bag of Bones, Stephen King*
24. The New Dead: A Zombie Anthology, ed. Christopher Golden
23. Relentless, Dean Koontz
22. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off: The Yarn Harlot's Guide to the Land of Knitting
21. The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson
20. Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
19. The Stand, Stephen King*
18. Hollywood's Stephen King, Tony Magistrale
17. Hidden Empire, Orson Scott Card
16. Harem, Dora Levy Mossanen
15. Dies the Fire, S.M. Stirling
14. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Carl Sagan
13. Knitting Rules! The Yarn Harlot Unravels the Mysteries of Swatching, Stashing, Ribbing, & Rolling to Free Your Inner Knitter, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, aka the Yarn Harlot
12. Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America, Linda Lawrence Hunt
11. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells
10. Patient Zero, Jonathon Maberry
9. God's Country, Percival Everett
8. Heart of Stone, C. E. Murphy
7. The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero, William Kalush and Larry Sloman
6. The Good Fairies of New York, Martin Millar
5. Limeys: The True Story of One Man's War Against Ignorance, the Establishment and the Deadly Scurvy, David I. Harvie
4. The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
3. Tatham Mound, Piers Anthony
2. Alas, Babylon, Pat Frank
1. Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
Spook Country I listened to on the drive down here. The first disc didn't capture my interest very well, but that could have been because I was worried about the first leg of the trip and the cats and all. There are three story lines, the first involving Hollis Henry, a journalist working for Node, a magazine that will publish its first issue in a few months; the second, Tito, a Cuban-Chinese young man who speaks Russian and works for the mob or something like it; and Milgrim, a junkie in the hands of Brown, stuck translating a bastard Russian. All of these story lines stay separate, then slowly, then suddenly interweave. Good stuff.
Misery is one of the few King novels I hadn't read. (Christine is the other, and I've not read Danse Macabre and Storm of the Century.) It's good, but it's another of his novels that have a novelist or artist in trouble (Duma Key, Lisey's Story, The Shining, 'Salem's Lot). His later novels following that route (Duma Key especially) aren't so fantastic and *are* preachy about the REDEMPTIVE POWER OF ART, and that makes them suck. Misery actually has a good story and is better than the later REDEMPTIVE ART novels.