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[booklog 2005]
Jan. 5th, 2006 10:08 pmi read a whole pile of books before the year ended, so here's the wrap-up.
80. Extreme Exposure -- a collection of monologue texts from a huge range of solo performers.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
asarwate lent it to me after a conversation in which we finally figured out the piece that the "Art! Soup! Soup! Art! Now which is which?" line came from. dense, but an excellent read, and it makes me want to go find audio/video of many of the performers. might re-read it again, or skim through for the ones i liked best, before i hand it back.
81. Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler. good solid dystopian scifi/fantasy. the preachy bits were a bit too preachy and not actually all that interesting, but it wasn't hard to ignore them. if i can find more of her writing, i'll read it.
82. comics:
Y: The Last Man (#1&2), Brian Vaughan & Pia Guerra. a mysterious, sudden, and gorily fatal illness strikes every male mammal on earth except this one guy and his pet monkey. hilarity ensues. (no, not really. a lot of it is violent and dramatic. some of it's funny, but hilarity does not ensue. i just said that 'cause i wanted to. but, anyhow, it's a well-told story and a well-done comic, and now i have to go out and find the rest of it and read it all.)
Fell, Warren Ellis & Ben Templesmith. a series of one-shot stories, revolving around a police detective (Richard Fell) in a shithole called Snowtown. it's good Ellis work, and Templesmith's art reminds me of Dave McKean's pen-and-ink style...not realistic, kinda jagged and stylized but able to convey the essence of expression or action very well.
The Pro, Garth Ennis. aliens grant superpowers to a prostitute, and she joins the elite ranks of the city's superhero parodies as "The Pro". fucking hilarious, in exactly as painful a way as you'd expect.
(thanks toviolin for feeding the addiction...)
83. Trickster's Queen, Tamora Pierce. mmm tasty.
84. The Escapist, Michael Chabon. an odd little book, but entertaining. a rather academic history of one of the characters (the Escapist) created by Kavalier and Clay, with clips of various incarnations though the years.
85. Smoke and Mirrors, Neil Gaiman. a re-read, and still excellent. (violin, the short story i referenced in that conversation about beer and goats was "Shoggoth's Old Peculiar", and it's in this book.)
86. & 87. The Firebird and The Gates of Sleep, Mercedes Lackey. mmm escapist reading. good stuff. both are retellings of old fairy-tales.
...and i think that's all of it, at least all that i remember, for 2005. kinda neat to keep track of it, so i suppose i'll do it again this year.
80. Extreme Exposure -- a collection of monologue texts from a huge range of solo performers.
asarwate lent it to me after a conversation in which we finally figured out the piece that the "Art! Soup! Soup! Art! Now which is which?" line came from. dense, but an excellent read, and it makes me want to go find audio/video of many of the performers. might re-read it again, or skim through for the ones i liked best, before i hand it back. 81. Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler. good solid dystopian scifi/fantasy. the preachy bits were a bit too preachy and not actually all that interesting, but it wasn't hard to ignore them. if i can find more of her writing, i'll read it.
82. comics:
Y: The Last Man (#1&2), Brian Vaughan & Pia Guerra. a mysterious, sudden, and gorily fatal illness strikes every male mammal on earth except this one guy and his pet monkey. hilarity ensues. (no, not really. a lot of it is violent and dramatic. some of it's funny, but hilarity does not ensue. i just said that 'cause i wanted to. but, anyhow, it's a well-told story and a well-done comic, and now i have to go out and find the rest of it and read it all.)
Fell, Warren Ellis & Ben Templesmith. a series of one-shot stories, revolving around a police detective (Richard Fell) in a shithole called Snowtown. it's good Ellis work, and Templesmith's art reminds me of Dave McKean's pen-and-ink style...not realistic, kinda jagged and stylized but able to convey the essence of expression or action very well.
The Pro, Garth Ennis. aliens grant superpowers to a prostitute, and she joins the elite ranks of the city's superhero parodies as "The Pro". fucking hilarious, in exactly as painful a way as you'd expect.
(thanks to
violin for feeding the addiction...)83. Trickster's Queen, Tamora Pierce. mmm tasty.
84. The Escapist, Michael Chabon. an odd little book, but entertaining. a rather academic history of one of the characters (the Escapist) created by Kavalier and Clay, with clips of various incarnations though the years.
85. Smoke and Mirrors, Neil Gaiman. a re-read, and still excellent. (
violin, the short story i referenced in that conversation about beer and goats was "Shoggoth's Old Peculiar", and it's in this book.)86. & 87. The Firebird and The Gates of Sleep, Mercedes Lackey. mmm escapist reading. good stuff. both are retellings of old fairy-tales.
...and i think that's all of it, at least all that i remember, for 2005. kinda neat to keep track of it, so i suppose i'll do it again this year.
