Books you've read in 2005

[CrispyQ]

List which books you've read during 2005 & which were your favorites.

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I read most of the Book Club books, but not all. Of those books, three titles stand out for me: Unequal Protection, Confessions of an Economic Hitman & Don't Think of an Elephant.

Other books that I thought were excellent:

We the People: A Call to Take Back America (no surprise there, huh?)
Worse Than Watergate
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
Thieves in High Places

[MrBenchley]

1. 1776 by David McCullough

Ten Rings-Yogi Berra
Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
Foul Ball--Jim Bouton

Just started on Mad Mary Lamb by Susan Hitchcock...

[terrya]

2. "Reading Lolita in Tehran"...

"The Truth - With Jokes" - Al Franken's new one

"Worse Than Watergate"

"Don't Think Of An Elephant" - I definitely agree with you about how good this is.

"The Committment" - Dan Savage's book about how him and partner contemplates getting married...and a great discussion of same-sex marriage in general.

[Igel]

3. I didn't actually finish many books, alas.

Cancer Ward. Some Russian war and sci-fi novels. And 1491.

Of the handful, probably 1491 was my favorite, and one of the few I'll keep for content.

[bammertheblue]

4. I've read a lot

of good books for my classes, but not a lot for fun, unfortunately.
My favourite "fun" books were The Poisonwood Bible and the last three books in the Dark Tower series by Stephen King.

For classes, my favourites were:
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Maus
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Satanic Verses (not quite done with this one yet)
Death and the King's Horseman
Notes from the Underground

I couldn't list all the books I've read in 2005...it's too many. :)

[lovelaureng]

6. I really enjoyed Maus as well. nt

[Dr.Phool]

5. The Pet Goat

The amazing story of a cowardly President who shits his pants in front of a classroom full of children, and his struggle to fight impeachment for forgeting to wipe himself.

[pstans]

7. After the election my goal was to read 1 book a month

It was a big goal for a college student who is working full time too. Here is what I accomplished

Highly Recommend these 4...
Don't Think of An Elephant by George Lakoff- must read
Confessions of An Economic Hitman by John Perkins- really opened my eyes about how deep the Corporatocracy is
The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell by John Crawford- I am so thankful that I am not over there
Homegrown Democrat by Garrison Keillor- very funny and gets to the heart of what a Democrat is all about

The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler- a little dispointed, but the topic of Peak Oil is very important
Dreams From My Father by Barak Obama- a little long, but good.
Crimes Against Nature by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - didn't finish cause I was getting too angry, joined the Sierra Club after reading it
What's the Matter with Kansas by Thomas Frank- some interesting stuff, couldn't finish cause it was due back at the library

1984 by George Orwell- 1984 or 2004?

I have also read parts of Thoreau's Walden and A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.

I want to read some of Thom Hartmann's books and some more of Zinn over the Holiday (haha take that O'Reilly) Break.

[CrispyQ]

9. Impressive list for all the other committments you have!

"1984 by George Orwell- 1984 or 2004?" So true!!


It seems my "to read" book pile grows faster than I can read them! I've had Homegrown Democrat for a few months & haven't even started it. I order a few books, then go to the library & find more books, then come here & add even more books to my list. If I could just win the lotto I would probably sit around & read all day!



Oh and :rofl: at "...the Holiday (haha take that O'Reilly) Break."

[Richardo]

8. Let's see.

Non-Fiction:
- 1776
- The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell
- Confessions of an Economic hit Man
- Freakonomics
- Blink
- Three Nights in August
- Driven to Distraction (ADD)

Fiction:
- The Lincoln Lawyer
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
- Flush (Hiaasen)
and others I can't remember right now.

[Lefergus70]

10. "Snow" by the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk

I bought it after a very favorable review by John Updike in the New Yorker, who is a very demanding critic. It is a masterpiece: an intense personal drama set in a remote, snowbound corner of Turkey where tensions between Moslem and secularists erupt in violence. I'm about to start another of Pamuk's novels, "My Name is Red." Next week he faces trial in Turkey on charges for, I believe, treason, for statements he had made about Turkey's genocide against Armenians a century ago.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

12. It began today: Turkey Suspends Pamuk Trial Amid Demos, EU Warnings

A Turkish court suspended on Friday the high-profile trial against author Orhan Pamuk for insulting the nation amid violent demonstrations and EU warnings it could jeopardize the country's hopes of joining the bloc.

The ruling at the opening hearing to suspend the case until February 7 came in a brief but tense hearing marred by far-right demonstrators attacking and booing the author as he made his way into and out of the cramped courtroom amid throngs of reporters.

The court had ruled on December 2 that since the alleged offence was committed before Turkey amended its penal code earlier this year, Pamuk should be judged under the old law, which requires a direct order from the justice ministry for the trial to proceed. With no authorization coming by the time the hearing began, the court agreed to a prosecution request to suspend the trial until the ministry decides on whether or not to try Pamuk.

The ruling came despite opposition from Pamuk's lawyer, Haluk Inanici, who asked the court to either proceed and hear his client's testimony, or drop the case altogether.

(...)

http://www.armenialiberty.org/armeniareport/report/en/2005/12/2416DC67-1261-4C2D-8728-91B2505A407D.ASP

The case was also the lead editorial in today's Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/turkey/story/0,12700,1668556,00.html

[dennisnyc]

11. Don't think of an Elephant--highly recommended

Empire by Hardt and Negri
Multitude by Hardt and Negri
Empire's New Clothes ed. by Passavant and Dean
Debating Empire ed. by Balakrishnan
The Heart's Code by Pearsall
The Corporation by Bakan
The Second Bill of Rights by Sunstein
The Elite Consensus: When Corporations Wield the Constitution by Draffan
What's the Matter with Kansas by Frank
Lies and the Lying Liars... Franken
Quintessence: Realizing the Archaic Future by Mary Daly
i've have started Manufacturing Consent by Chomski
and
am re-reading Zinn's A People's History of the United States
i can't seem to stay interested in any fiction.....

[djeseru]

13. It's mostly non-fiction, but I read through:

The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
A Movable Feast - Hemingway
Zelda - Nancy Milford
Praying for Gil Hodges - Tom Oliphant
The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell - John Crawford
The Truth (With Jokes) - Al Franken
New Rules - Bill Maher
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
The Divine Garbo - (can't remember the author, oops)
Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter - Souhami
Killing Yourself to Live - Chuck Klosterman
Booknotes Life Stories - Brian Lamb

I'm still in the middle of Rome from the Ground Up, and I couldn't finish Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. It would appear that I can only take my historical re-education a little at a time. I also read through more titles earlier this year, but I've only documented these for some reason this last fall.