What did you read in 2007?

[Joel007]

Hahahaha!

Well, why not? there's bound to be a percentage of the population that will swear HP is the best ever and will never read anything else.

 

[AE35Unit]

I enjoyed Happy Rotter when the first film came out but am bored with it now. He's no longer a cute kid but rather that worst thing imaginable,a Teenager! AAAHHH!

 

[easygoingman]

hi all
here's what I read in 2007 and if I wasn't newly married and still living by myself then life would not be anything like as good as it currently has been this last year but I would have had time to read more!

Sci Fi:

"Pandora's Star" Peter F. Hamilton; very good
"Judas Unchained" Peter F Hamilton; very good
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury - excellent (bought, only watched TV version before)
"Iron Sunrise" Charles Stross; good
"Glasshouse" Charles Stross; excellent
"Accelerando" Charles Stross; ok
"A Colder War" Charles Stross; online story: excellent
"Missile Gap" Charles Stross: online story: excellent
"Atrocity Archives" Charles Stross; good
"The Jennifer Morgue" Charles Stross; ok
"Mona Lisa Overdrive" William Gibson; good
"The Fifth Head of Cerberus"; Gene Wolfe: good
"Schismatrix Plus: Bruce Sterling; excellent
"The Stars My Destination" Alfred Bester;good
"The Lathe of Heaven"; Ursula K. Le Guin: excellent
"Woken furies"; Richard Morgan very good
"Last and First Men " Olaf Stapledon; good
"Planet of Adventure: City of the Chasch / Servants of the Wankh / The Dirdir / The Pnume (4 books in 1 volume)"
Jack Vance;good
"Behold the Man" Michael Moorcock; very good
Stand on Zanzibar (managed to read it this time and finish it and while I can appreciate the story, the writing, the recreation of the world, I wouldn't re read it
"Downward to the Earth": Robert Silverberg: very good
"Spin" ; Robert Wilson: good
The Cornelius Quartet: Michael Moorcock: poor
"Prador Moon: A Novel Of The Polity" Neal Asher; short but ok
"Brassman" Neal Asher; (skipped as tiresome) poor


Fantasy:

The Gormenghast Trilogy - Mervyne Peake (unfinished, too dull)
American Gods Neil Gaiman; very good
Smoke & Mirrors Neil Gaiman; some poor, some good, a few excellent short stories
"Elric"; Michael Moorcock: excellent
"First Book of Lankahmar"; Fritz Leiber: brilliant
"Virconium": M John Harrison: Pastel City: excellent, others not so good, some very tedious
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny: ok



Dectective:

"The Straw Men" Michael Marshall;ok


Non-Fiction:

"Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years"
Jared M. Diamond; excellent
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East" Robert Fisk; brilliant
"King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism" Adam Hochschild; good
"The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire" John Toland: good
"The Invention of Tradition (Canto)" Eric Hobsbawm; Paperback; various contributions,some worthy
"Freedom Next Time" John Pilger: good
"Ataturk" Andrew Mango: OK
"Pity the Nation": Robert Fisk; great
"Raw Spirit":Iain Banks: poor but fair enough I don't like Whiskey & love lots of his novels.



Graphic Novels:

"The Doll's House" Neil Gaiman: good
"Dream Country" Neil Gaiman; ok
"Season Of Mists" Neil Gaiman: excellent
"A Game Of You" Neil Gaiman: good
"Brief Lives" Neil Gaiman: ok
"The Kindly Ones" Neil Gaiman: excellent
"The Wake" - Neil Gaiman: good
"Black Widow Homecoming" - Richard Morgan good
"Palestine" Joe Sacco; very good
"Watchmen" - Alan Moore: very good
"Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood & The Story of a Return: v. 1 & v. 2" Marjane Satrapi: very good

Reread
Iain M Banks: Player of Games: brilliant
Richard Morgan: Altered Carbon: excellent
"I, Robot" Isaac Asimov; good

 

[Rosemary]

I'm afraid I can't remember all of them...

Shadow Play - Tad Williams
The Serpent Bride - Sara Douglass
Time Lords (Bks 1 & 2) - Jennifer Fallon
Path of Revenge - Russel Kirkpatrick
The World Without End - Ken Follett
Reapers Gale - Steven Erikson
Feast of Souls - Celia Friedman
Fallow Blade - Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Runes of the Earth - Stephen Donaldson
The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
The Black God - Greg Keyes
Forest Mage - Robin Hobb
Beyond the Pale - Mark Antony
The Birthday of the World - Ursula Le Guin
Lady of Hay - Barbara Erskine
Swan Season - Caroline Fabre
Dragonlance - Love and War - Weis & Hickman
Dragonlance - The War of the Lance - Weis & Hickman
Trail of the Black Wyrm - Chris Pierson
Storm Caller - Tom Lloyd
The Hills is Lonely - Lillian Beckwith (re-read for the umpteenth time)
The Sea For Breakfast - Lillian Beckwith (also a re-read book)
The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie (re-read)

The book I most enjoyed was 'World Without End' by Ken Follet - an historical novel.

 

[Sylanya]

Well, the Le Guin books were alright, but I found their endings to be rather...anti-climatic. I think she was shooting for a more emotional climax, but it really didn't come across that way...and I really didn't care to much for the main character. The second Earthsea one was better, the Tombs of Atuan. I did like that one. The others -- eh.

Iliad was good, but a little tiring. It's just such a different style than what I'm used to reading. I might have been able to appreciate it more if I had more time to read it, unfortunately because it was also for a class I had to read it in three weeks. Busy with other schoolwork, I just didn't get the time needed to really appreciate it.

And the Eragon books...let's not get into that. Let me just say that they have a certain charm when you first read them, but then on closer inspection they really, well, suck.

I forgot, I also read Stephen King's the Mist last year, as well as a few "how to write/get published" books.