{"id":1228,"date":"2018-07-29T06:47:10","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T13:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2019-04-14T16:01:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T23:01:47","slug":"200-books-the-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=1228","title":{"rendered":"200 Books: The List"},"content":{"rendered":"

As promised<\/a>, here’s the list of the most recently read hundred books, this time broken down into ten book bite-sized pieces. For each tenner of books, I’ve provided brief notes on one representative volume. To repeat, I’ve only counted non-comic books towards my number of books read, so the ‘#’ field in the below table only has values (from 101\u2013200) for those books.<\/p>\n\n\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The last hundred books began with this slim volume by Dorothy Sayers, Whose Body?<\/em> Published 95 years ago, the first Lord Peter Wimsey mystery still remains a classic of the British detective story, with an emphasis on ‘British’ and posh affectation. The cover of this Dover reprint tells you everything you want to know, with the essential pince-nez and the puzzling bathtub. Worth a read, though the subsequent Lord Peter books are even moreso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
#<\/th>\nRead<\/th>\nAuthor<\/th>\nTitle<\/th>\nGenre<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
101<\/td>\n10\/13\/16<\/td>\nDorothy Sayers<\/td>\nWhose Body?<\/em><\/td>\nMystery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
102<\/td>\n10\/16\/16<\/td>\nTony Hillerman<\/td>\nCoyote Waits<\/em><\/td>\nMystery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
103<\/td>\n10\/24\/16<\/td>\nFrank Waters<\/td>\nBook of the Hopi<\/em><\/td>\nIndians<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
104<\/td>\n10\/27\/16<\/td>\nTony Hillerman<\/td>\nSacred Clowns<\/em><\/td>\nMystery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
105<\/td>\n10\/29\/16<\/td>\nMargaret Coel<\/td>\nThe Ghost Walker<\/em><\/td>\nMystery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
106<\/td>\n11\/3\/16<\/td>\nDouglas Adams<\/td>\nThe Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul<\/em><\/td>\nSF\/Fantasy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
107<\/td>\n11\/6\/16<\/td>\nEllis Peters<\/td>\nA Nice Derangement of Epitaphs<\/em><\/td>\nMystery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
108<\/td>\n11\/22\/16<\/td>\nTheodore Isaac Rubin<\/td>\nCompassion & Self Hate<\/em><\/td>\nPsychology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
109<\/td>\n11\/29\/16<\/td>\nArthur William Upfield<\/td>\nThe Bone is Pointed<\/em><\/td>\nMystery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
110<\/td>\n12\/16\/16<\/td>\nRaymond T. Bond, ed.<\/td>\nHandbook for Poisoners: A Collection of Great Poison Stories<\/em><\/td>\nMystery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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The Invasion Of Canada<\/em> is the first volume of a two-volume exploration of the War of 1812 — hence the subtitle 1812\u20131813<\/em>. It is, as is often the case with histories of war, a condemnation of war in general and this inept conflict in particular. The book points out especially just how ludicrously the ‘militia’ system performed in actual practice. Written by a Canadian, so there’s that (and something to remember when one sees “National Bestseller” on the cover). I keep meaning to pick up the second volume, though the title sounds like softcore gay political porn (Flames across the Border: The Canadian-American Tragedy<\/em><\/span>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
#<\/th>\nRead<\/th>\nAuthor<\/th>\nTitle<\/th>\nGenre<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
111<\/td>\n12\/18\/16<\/td>\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/td>\nCoriolanus<\/em><\/td>\nLiterature<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
112<\/td>\n12\/31\/16<\/td>\nPierre Berton<\/td>\nThe Invasion of Canada, 1812\u20131813<\/em><\/td>\nHistory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
113<\/td>\n1\/9\/17<\/td>\nErik Larson<\/td>\nThe Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America<\/em><\/td>\nHistory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
114<\/td>\n1\/17\/17<\/td>\nHugh Greene, ed.<\/td>\nThe Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Early Detective Stories<\/em><\/td>\nMystery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
115<\/td>\n1\/21\/17<\/td>\nSteven Saylor<\/td>\nRoman Blood<\/em><\/td>\nMystery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
116<\/td>\n1\/26\/17<\/td>\nVic Ghidalia, ed.<\/td>\nEight Strange Tales<\/em><\/td>\nSF\/Fantasy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
117<\/td>\n2\/1\/17<\/td>\nSteven Saylor<\/td>\nArms Of Nemesis<\/em><\/td>\nMystery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
118<\/td>\n2\/6\/17<\/td>\nAlistair Maclean<\/td>\nCircus<\/em><\/td>\nMystery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
119<\/td>\n2\/11\/17<\/td>\nArthur William Upfield<\/td>\nThe Bachelors of Broken Hill<\/em><\/td>\nMystery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
120<\/td>\n2\/21\/17<\/td>\nClive Cussler<\/td>\nDragon<\/em><\/td>\nMystery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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Origin Of Life<\/em> is a garbage book. I read this sort of stuff to remind myself that just because it’s in print doesn’t make it true, or even worthy of attention, were it not for the fact that this sort of thing is attaching itself to our cultural body like carbon monoxide attaching itself to a lung. I was given this ‘textbook’ for creation science* by a high school teacher who’d been given this sample copy by a hopeful publisher seeking to introduce this receptacle of bad science into high school science classes. It’s the usual mishmash of broken watch springs and questions about dino bones, in the depressingly cheery ’80s style of crappy textbook art.<\/p>\n

*No actual science content present<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
#<\/th>\nRead<\/th>\nAuthor<\/th>\nTitle<\/th>\nGenre<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
121<\/td>\n2\/26\/17<\/td>\nPoul Anderson<\/td>\nThree Hearts and Three Lions<\/em><\/td>\nSF\/Fantasy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
122<\/td>\n3\/2\/17<\/td>\nLin Yutang, ed.<\/td>\nThe Wisdom of Laotse<\/em><\/td>\nSpiritual<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
123<\/td>\n3\/6\/17<\/td>\nDashiell Hammett<\/td>\nThe Thin Man<\/em><\/td>\nMystery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
124<\/td>\n3\/16\/17<\/td>\nJohn Allegro<\/td>\nLost Gods<\/em><\/td>\nSpiritual<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
125<\/td>\n3\/26\/17<\/td>\nMichael Les Benedict<\/td>\nThe Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson<\/em><\/td>\nHistory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
126<\/td>\n4\/2\/17<\/td>\nJohn Grisham<\/td>\nSycamore Row<\/em><\/td>\nMystery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
127<\/td>\n4\/17\/17<\/td>\nStephen Jay Gould<\/td>\nAn Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas<\/em><\/td>\nScience\/Math<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
128<\/td>\n4\/18\/17<\/td>\nRichard B. Bliss<\/td>\nOrigin of Life<\/em><\/td>\nBad Science<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
129<\/td>\n4\/24\/17<\/td>\nBetty M. Owen, ed.<\/td>\nNine Strange Stories<\/em><\/td>\nLiterature<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
130<\/td>\n4\/30\/17<\/td>\nGeorge Bennett, ed.<\/td>\nGreat Tales of Action and Adventure<\/em><\/td>\nLiterature<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

“The names of these fearless men, martyred in the cause, will live forevermore in the hearts of the Soviet people.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Soviet-era history book The Intervention in Siberia 1918\u20131922<\/em> (from the Workers Library Publishers, natch) contains the expected party-line description of events almost forgotten outside of the former You-Know-What. The line drawings are not quite good or bad enough to be interesting. The history itself, however, is new (to us) and at times quite compelling, and we meet briefly some fascinating characters lost to us moderns, such as the vicious and Buddhist Baron Ungern<\/a>, an adventurer and would-be warlord who fought against the Reds and for his own idea of a new empire. The underlying analysis, even with the plague of Marxist language, is often bracing, as when Parfenov points out that the U.S. had very little desire for the Japanese to create new strongholds in the Russian east out of the collapse of the Romanovs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
#<\/th>\nRead<\/th>\nAuthor<\/th>\nTitle<\/th>\nGenre<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
131<\/td>\n5\/3\/17<\/td>\nMary E. MacEwen, ed.<\/td>\nStories of Suspense<\/em><\/td>\nLiterature<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
132<\/td>\n5\/8\/17<\/td>\nV. Parfenov<\/td>\nThe Intervention in Siberia 1918\u20131922<\/em><\/td>\nHistory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
133<\/td>\n5\/20\/17<\/td>\nC.C. Benison<\/td>\nDeath at Buckingham Palace: Her Majesty Investigates<\/em><\/td>\nMystery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
134<\/td>\n5\/22\/17<\/td>\nRandall Garrett<\/td>\nLord Darcy<\/em> [3-in-1 volume]<\/td>\nSF\/Fantasy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n5\/24\/17<\/td>\nWalt Kelly<\/td>\nPogo: We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us<\/em><\/td>\nComics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
135<\/td>\n6\/12\/17<\/td>\nW.G. Forrest<\/td>\nA History of Sparta, 950\u2013192 B. C.<\/em><\/td>\nHistory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
136<\/td>\n6\/13\/17<\/td>\nClive Cussler<\/td>\nFlood Tide<\/em><\/td>\nMystery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
137<\/td>\n6\/17\/17<\/td>\nHeinrich Hoffmann<\/td>\nStruwwelpeter in English Translation<\/em><\/td>\nChildren’s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
138<\/td>\n6\/22\/17<\/td>\nBaljit Singh & Mei Ko-Wang<\/td>\nTheory and Practice of Modern Guerrilla Warfare<\/em><\/td>\nMilitaria<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
139<\/td>\n7\/6\/17<\/td>\nRudyard Kipling<\/td>\nLife’s Handicap – Being Stories of Mine Own People<\/em><\/td>\nLiterature<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
140<\/td>\n7\/8\/17<\/td>\nIsaac Asimov<\/td>\nEarth Is Room Enough<\/em><\/td>\nSF\/Fantasy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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The Long Goodbye<\/em> is the best book by one of the five best authors of detective novels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
#<\/th>\nRead<\/th>\nAuthor<\/th>\nTitle<\/th>\nGenre<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
141<\/td>\n7\/11\/17<\/td>\nVic Ziegel<\/td>\nThe Non-Runner’s Book<\/em><\/td>\nHumor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
142<\/td>\n7\/19\/17<\/td>\nKenneth Robeson<\/td>\nThe Fantastic Island<\/em><\/td>\nSF\/Fantasy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n7\/30\/17<\/td>\nJules Feiffer<\/td>\nGreat Comic Book Heroes<\/em><\/td>\nComics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
143<\/td>\n8\/3\/17<\/td>\nTu Fu & Li Po<\/td>\nPoems<\/em><\/td>\nLiterature<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
144<\/td>\n8\/7\/17<\/td>\nCamden Benares<\/td>\nZen Without Zen Masters<\/em><\/td>\nSpiritual<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
145<\/td>\n8\/8\/17<\/td>\nFung Yu-Lan<\/td>\nA Short History of Chinese Philosophy<\/em><\/td>\nSpiritual<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
146<\/td>\n8\/12\/17<\/td>\nRaymond Chandler<\/td>\nThe Long Goodbye<\/em><\/td>\nMystery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
147<\/td>\n8\/15\/17<\/td>\nW. H. St. John Hope<\/td>\nAn Introduction to Heraldry<\/em><\/td>\nHistory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
148<\/td>\n8\/26\/17<\/td>\nMargaret Coel<\/td>\nThe Dream Stalker<\/em><\/td>\nMystery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
149<\/td>\n9\/1\/17<\/td>\nMargaret Coel<\/td>\nThe Story Teller<\/em><\/td>\nMystery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
150<\/td>\n9\/5\/17<\/td>\nAlistair MacLean<\/td>\nThe Satan Bug<\/em><\/td>\nMystery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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Erik Routley’s beautiful prose style complements his powerful thoughts upon the place of music in the Christian church. His history is never dry, his insights never forced. The writing in this thin pr\u00e9cis thrills with the charge of a believer who never uses his beliefs as an excuse, and never loses sight of truth nor of humanity in the pursuit of his topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
#<\/th>\nRead<\/th>\nAuthor<\/th>\nTitle<\/th>\nGenre<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
151<\/td>\n9\/7\/17<\/td>\nMelville Davisson Post<\/td>\nUncle Abner, Master of Mysteries<\/em><\/td>\nMystery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n9\/9\/17<\/td>\n<\/td>\nThe Comic Cavalcade Archives, Vol. 1<\/em><\/td>\nComics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
152<\/td>\n9\/18\/17<\/td>\nErik Routley<\/td>\nChristian Hymns Observed: When in Our Music God Is Glorified<\/em><\/td>\nSpiritual<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
153<\/td>\n9\/22\/17<\/td>\nE. C. Bentley<\/td>\nTrent’s Last Case<\/em><\/td>\nMystery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
154<\/td>\n9\/25\/17<\/td>\nRichard Appignanesi<\/td>\nIntroducing Existentialism<\/em><\/td>\nPhilosophy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
155<\/td>\n10\/2\/17<\/td>\nBram Stoker<\/td>\nThe Jewel of Seven Stars<\/em><\/td>\nHorror<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
156<\/td>\n10\/4\/17<\/td>\nLloyd Alexander<\/td>\nThe Book of Three<\/em><\/td>\nSF\/Fantasy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
157<\/td>\n10\/9\/17<\/td>\nSeymour M. Pitcher<\/td>\nThe Case for Shakespeare’s Authorship of “The Famous Victories”<\/em><\/td>\nDrama<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
158<\/td>\n10\/11\/17<\/td>\nLloyd Alexander<\/td>\nThe Black Cauldron<\/em><\/td>\nSF\/Fantasy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
159<\/td>\n10\/18\/17<\/td>\nCara Black<\/td>\nMurder In Belleville : An Aimee Leduc Investigation<\/em><\/td>\nMystery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
160<\/td>\n10\/23\/17<\/td>\nIsaac Asimov<\/td>\nFoundation<\/em><\/td>\nSF\/Fantasy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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Michael Crichton’s Eaters Of The Dead<\/em> (known to most, as in this edition, from the movie title: The 13th Warrior<\/em>) turns out to be a retelling of an ancient tale, in the fascinating frame of a traveling scholar during the height of Islam and the near nadir of the West. It is well to remember that the torch of civilization was kept alight by the various Muslim states for much of the first half millennium of their existence, but Crichton never lets up on the adventure and the inherent fascination of his story. You won’t find Antonio Banderas in this novel, but the brooding observer on the strange and the familiar found there is worthy of your attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
#<\/th>\nRead<\/th>\nAuthor<\/th>\nTitle<\/th>\nGenre<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
161<\/td>\n10\/27\/17<\/td>\nElmore Leonard<\/td>\nGet Shorty<\/em><\/td>\nMystery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
162<\/td>\n11\/5\/17<\/td>\nWilliam S. Burroughs<\/td>\nExterminator!<\/em><\/td>\nLiterature<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
163<\/td>\n11\/09\/17<\/td>\nLewis Carroll<\/td>\nAlice’s Adventures In Wonderland \/ Through The Looking-Glass and Other Writings<\/em><\/td>\nLiterature<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
164<\/td>\n11\/10\/17<\/td>\nLloyd Alexander<\/td>\nThe Castle of Llyr<\/em><\/td>\nSF\/Fantasy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
165<\/td>\n11\/15\/17<\/td>\nErik Routley<\/td>\nConversion<\/em><\/td>\nSpiritual<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
166<\/td>\n1\/2\/18<\/td>\nS. Morris Engel<\/td>\nFallacies and Pitfalls of Language: The Language Trap<\/em><\/td>\nLanguage<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
167<\/td>\n1\/13\/18<\/td>\nJane Austen<\/td>\nPersuasion<\/em><\/td>\nLiterature<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1\/14\/18<\/td>\nMike Baron<\/td>\nBadger #42<\/em><\/td>\nComics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1\/15\/18<\/td>\nSergio Aragon\u00e9s<\/td>\nGroo the Wanderer vol. 2 #73<\/em> (Marvel)<\/td>\nComics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1\/16\/18<\/td>\nSergio Aragon\u00e9s<\/td>\nGroo the Wanderer vol. 2 #74<\/em> (Marvel)<\/td>\nComics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1\/17\/18<\/td>\nSergio Aragon\u00e9s<\/td>\nGroo the Wanderer vol. 2 #75<\/em> (Marvel)<\/td>\nComics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
168<\/td>\n1\/18\/18<\/td>\nMargaret Coel<\/td>\nThe Lost Bird<\/em><\/td>\nMystery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
169<\/td>\n2\/14\/18<\/td>\nMarian Calabro<\/td>\nThe Perilous Journey of the Donner Party<\/em><\/td>\nHistory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
170<\/td>\n2\/21\/18<\/td>\nMichael Crichton<\/td>\nThe 13th Warrior (Eaters of the Dead)<\/em><\/td>\nLiterature<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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Read the Brigadier Gerard stories of Arthur Conan Doyle, if you possibly can. The brave and stupid Napoleonic hussar would have made a wonderful junior executive in the Internet age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
#<\/th>\nRead<\/th>\nAuthor<\/th>\nTitle<\/th>\nGenre<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
171<\/td>\n2\/26\/18<\/td>\nEllis Peters<\/td>\nRainbow’s End<\/em><\/td>\nMystery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
172<\/td>\n3\/2\/18<\/td>\nGeorges Simenon<\/td>\nMaigret and the Wine Merchant<\/em><\/td>\nMystery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
173<\/td>\n3\/9\/18<\/td>\nN.K. Sandars<\/td>\nThe Epic of Gilgamesh<\/em><\/td>\nMyth\/Folklore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
174<\/td>\n3\/15\/18<\/td>\nEpicurus<\/td>\nLetters, Principal Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings<\/em><\/td>\nPhilosophy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
175<\/td>\n3\/20\/18<\/td>\nSir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/td>\nThe Exploits of Brigadier Gerard<\/em><\/td>\nLiterature<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
176<\/td>\n4\/8\/18<\/td>\nJames Strachan<\/td>\nPictures From A Medieval Bible<\/em><\/td>\nSpiritual<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
177<\/td>\n4\/8\/18<\/td>\nGustave Flaubert<\/td>\nBibliomania<\/em><\/td>\nLiterature<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
178<\/td>\n4\/12\/18<\/td>\nW.M. Thackeray<\/td>\nThe English Humourists \/ The Four Georges<\/em><\/td>\nLiterature<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
179<\/td>\n4\/16\/18<\/td>\nClive Cussler<\/td>\nRaise The Titanic!<\/em><\/td>\nMystery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
180<\/td>\n4\/19\/18<\/td>\nPhilip K. Dick & Ray Nelson<\/td>\nThe Ganymede Takeover<\/em><\/td>\nSF\/Fantasy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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As is often the case, the movie Starship Troopers<\/em> alludes to the social commentary of the source material, while making it sexy and exciting with boobies and explosions. Read the book, and you’ll find that Heinlein is quite serious with his idea that only soldiers should have the right to vote; so serious, in fact, that his novel veers off into 5-, 6-, even 8-page disquisitions upon the flaws of the failed democratic ideal and the wonderful promise of military-only suffrage. Heinlein’s writing skill is so profound, however, that the action never drags and the story remains compelling in spite of the weird political basecoat. Which is why I try to judge the art, not the artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
#<\/th>\nRead<\/th>\nAuthor<\/th>\nTitle<\/th>\nGenre<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
181<\/td>\n4\/20\/18<\/td>\nBernard Fischman<\/td>\nThe Man Who Rode His 10-Speed Bicycle To The Moon<\/em><\/td>\nLiterature<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
182<\/td>\n4\/25\/18<\/td>\nJulian Havil<\/td>\nImpossible?: Surprising Solutions to Counterintuitive Conundrums<\/em><\/td>\nScience\/Math<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
183<\/td>\n4\/28\/18<\/td>\nR.M. Grant<\/td>\nGnosticism and Early Christianity<\/em><\/td>\nSpiritual<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
184<\/td>\n5\/7\/18<\/td>\nErnest Hemingway<\/td>\nA Farewell to Arms<\/em><\/td>\nLiterature<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
185<\/td>\n5\/10\/18<\/td>\nColin McEvedy<\/td>\nThe Penguin Atlas of African History<\/em><\/td>\nHistory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
186<\/td>\n5\/12\/18<\/td>\nRobert A. Heinlein<\/td>\nStarship Troopers<\/em><\/td>\nSF\/Fantasy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
187<\/td>\n5\/16\/18<\/td>\nAesop<\/td>\nFables of Aesop<\/em><\/td>\nMyth\/Folklore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
188<\/td>\n5\/19\/18<\/td>\nJohn Le Carr\u00e9<\/td>\nThe Looking Glass War<\/em><\/td>\nMystery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
189<\/td>\n5\/26\/18<\/td>\nThomas Doherty<\/td>\nPre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930\u20131934 (Film and Culture Series)<\/em><\/td>\nFilm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
190<\/td>\n5\/29\/18<\/td>\nAlan Axelrod<\/td>\nThe Complete Idiot’s Guide To The Civil War<\/em><\/td>\nHistory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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Strangely enough, Pierre Boulle actually lived the story he wrote in The Bridge Over The River Kwai<\/em>, as he was both a commando operator in the CBI theatre and then a prisoner in the brutal work gangs described in this novel. The novel was transmuted into a major motion picture with little destruction of the source material, though the ending may surprise you. Strangely enough, during his long career as a novelist M. Boulle also wrote another work which became a Hollywood blockbuster, La plan\u00e8te des singes<\/em>, better known to most under the film’s title, Planet Of The Apes<\/em> (which is both truer to the original French, as well as better than the title of the first English novelization, Monkey Planet<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
#<\/th>\nRead<\/th>\nAuthor<\/th>\nTitle<\/th>\nGenre<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
191<\/td>\n5\/29\/18<\/td>\nJ.A. McMurtrey<\/td>\nLetters To Lucinda 1862\u20131864<\/em><\/td>\nHistory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
192<\/td>\n5\/31\/18<\/td>\nArt Linkletter<\/td>\nI Wish I’d Said That! (My Favorite Ad-Libs of All Time)<\/em><\/td>\nHumor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
193<\/td>\n6\/1\/18<\/td>\nPierre Boulle<\/td>\nThe Bridge Over the River Kwai<\/em><\/td>\nLiterature<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
194<\/td>\n6\/4\/18<\/td>\nAndrew Dickson White<\/td>\nFiat Money Inflation in France<\/em><\/td>\nHistory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
195<\/td>\n6\/6\/18<\/td>\nRon Goulart<\/td>\nBroke Down Engine and Other Troubles with Machines<\/em><\/td>\nSF\/Fantasy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
196<\/td>\n6\/10\/18<\/td>\nTony Hoagland<\/td>\nDonkey Gospel: Poems<\/em><\/td>\nPoetry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
197<\/td>\n6\/10\/18<\/td>\nHarry Medved & Michael Medved<\/td>\nHollywood Hall of Shame: The Most Expensive Flops in Movie History<\/em><\/td>\nFilm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
198<\/td>\n6\/11\/18<\/td>\nC. M. Kornbluth<\/td>\nThe Syndic<\/em><\/td>\nSF\/Fantasy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
199<\/td>\n6\/14\/18<\/td>\nFrederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth<\/td>\nGladiator-at-Law<\/em><\/td>\nSF\/Fantasy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
200<\/td>\n6\/21\/18<\/td>\nMartin Gardner<\/td>\nThe 2nd Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions<\/em><\/td>\nScience\/Math<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

The listing of the first hundred books read may be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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As promised, here’s the list of the most recently read hundred books, this time broken down into ten book bite-sized pieces. For each tenner of books, I’ve provided brief notes on one representative volume. To repeat, I’ve only counted non-comic books towards my number of books read, so the ‘#’ field in the below table … <\/p>\n

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