Book List 2010
*I usually did not have a goal, but over a few years I realized that I tended to read about 30 books a year. So I set that as my goal and immediately had a year where I had very little time to read at all.
*I didn't keep up with lists and reviews, so I'm missing stuff. I added the comic books at the last minute from memory, and it's all recent memory.
*My "to-be-fair" statement, I moved all the way across the world to the UAE after being unemployed and stressed out, only to have my life subsumed by work, filmmaking, and travelling. Most of my reading was during plane rides around the world. I regret nothing.
*Another reviewer mentioned reading 2000 pages of case reviews for law school? I too am not counting the pages of technical manuals I've had to read through.
*Quick comments hopefully self-explanatory.
1) Collected Fictions -- Jorge Luis Borges (trans. Andrew Hurley) (Everything I love about everything.)
2) Directory of World Cinema: Japan -- ed. John Berra (Already knew most of it, but good to have)
3) The Children's Book -- AS Byatt (Completely directionless and boring)
4) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao -- Junot Diaz (good times)
5) The Arabian Nights V1 -- trans. Richard F. Burton (Need to get back to these)
6) Vellum -- Hal Duncan (Thought I should have liked it but didn't)
7) Ink -- Hal Duncan (Realized it's just total crap)
8) Anna Karenina -- Leo Tolstoy (Amusing but forgetful)
9) The End of History and the Last Man -- Francis Fukuyama (Damned spiffy)
10) Against the Day -- Thomas Pynchon (reread, love it even more)
11) Pale Fire -- Vladamir Nabokov (YES)
12) Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand (Didn't know much, got some movies to watch)
13) White Noise -- Don DeLillo (YESSS)
14) Walking Dead V1: Days Gone Bye -- Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore (Good start)
15) Preacher B1 -- Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon (I get it. You cuss)
16) Scott Pilgrim V1 -- Brian Lee O'Malley (YESSSSSSS)
17) Red -- Warren Ellis (How did they turn this into a movie? I'm curious...)
18) Watchmen -- Alan Moore and David Gibbons (reread. Love it even more)
I used to be very active in reviewing/recording every media I consumed, lists of CDs and movies and whatnot. I'm not really sure I care anymore, but looking back over this list makes me realize how long a year it's been. Better to record, never know what memories will pop back up.
--PolarisDiB
*I didn't keep up with lists and reviews, so I'm missing stuff. I added the comic books at the last minute from memory, and it's all recent memory.
*My "to-be-fair" statement, I moved all the way across the world to the UAE after being unemployed and stressed out, only to have my life subsumed by work, filmmaking, and travelling. Most of my reading was during plane rides around the world. I regret nothing.
*Another reviewer mentioned reading 2000 pages of case reviews for law school? I too am not counting the pages of technical manuals I've had to read through.
*Quick comments hopefully self-explanatory.
1) Collected Fictions -- Jorge Luis Borges (trans. Andrew Hurley) (Everything I love about everything.)
2) Directory of World Cinema: Japan -- ed. John Berra (Already knew most of it, but good to have)
3) The Children's Book -- AS Byatt (Completely directionless and boring)
4) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao -- Junot Diaz (good times)
5) The Arabian Nights V1 -- trans. Richard F. Burton (Need to get back to these)
6) Vellum -- Hal Duncan (Thought I should have liked it but didn't)
7) Ink -- Hal Duncan (Realized it's just total crap)
8) Anna Karenina -- Leo Tolstoy (Amusing but forgetful)
9) The End of History and the Last Man -- Francis Fukuyama (Damned spiffy)
10) Against the Day -- Thomas Pynchon (reread, love it even more)
11) Pale Fire -- Vladamir Nabokov (YES)
12) Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand (Didn't know much, got some movies to watch)
13) White Noise -- Don DeLillo (YESSS)
14) Walking Dead V1: Days Gone Bye -- Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore (Good start)
15) Preacher B1 -- Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon (I get it. You cuss)
16) Scott Pilgrim V1 -- Brian Lee O'Malley (YESSSSSSS)
17) Red -- Warren Ellis (How did they turn this into a movie? I'm curious...)
18) Watchmen -- Alan Moore and David Gibbons (reread. Love it even more)
I used to be very active in reviewing/recording every media I consumed, lists of CDs and movies and whatnot. I'm not really sure I care anymore, but looking back over this list makes me realize how long a year it's been. Better to record, never know what memories will pop back up.
--PolarisDiB