review roundup
by John at 12/29/2005 07:58:00 PM
Here's a year end roundup of each 30 second book review from the last two years, covering all the books I've read since around Christmas 2003:
30 second book reviews (3/25/2004)
1) Singularity Sky - Charles Stross
2) Teranesia - Greg Egan
3) Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich
4) Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser
5) Why Things Break - Mark Eberhart
6) Tatja Grimm's World - Vernor Vinge
7) Eastern Standard Tribe - Cory Doctorow
8) Everything and More - David Foster Wallace
9) Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson
son of 30 second book reviews (6/4/2004)
10) Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water - Marc Reisner
11) The Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster - Mike Davis
12) The Confusion - Neal Stephenson
13) The Polynesians: Prehistory of an Island People - Peter S. Bellwood
more 30 second book reviews (8/17/2004)
14) Pattern Recognition - William Gibson
15) Reason : Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America - Robert B. Reich
16) Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future - edited by Gardner Dozois
17) Supertoys Last All Summer Long: And Other Stories of Future Time - Brian Aldiss
18) The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. LeGuin
19) Jupiter - Ben Bova
20) Heal Your Headache - David Buchholz
21) Forty Signs of Rain - Kim Stanley Robinson
22) Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software - Steven Johnson
23) War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning - Chris Hedges
even more 30 second book reviews (11/15/2004)
24) The River Why - David James Duncan
25) Iron Sunrise - Charles Stross
26) Camelot 30K - Robert L. Forward
27) Distraction - Bruce Sterling
28) America the Broke: How the Reckless Spending of The White House and Congress are Bankrupting Our Country and Destroying Our Children's Future - Gerald J. Swanson
29) The System of the World - Neal Stephenson
stop the madness: 30 second book reviews (2/8/2005)
30) Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
31) Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
32) The Prophet - Khalil Gibran
33) Mind Wide Open - Steven Johnson
34) Little, Big - John Crowley
35) The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy - Stanislaw Lem
36) Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking - Malcolm Gladwell.
37) Plum Island - Nelson Demille
30 second book review: special physics edition (4/20/2005)
38) Einstein's Dreams - Alan Lightman
30 second book reviews: back in the saddle (5/11/2005)
39) The Science of Good and Evil - Michael Shermer
40) How to be Good - Nick Hornby
41) Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate - George Lakoff
42) Hospital of the Transfiguration - Stanislaw Lem
43) The Family Trade - Charles Stross
44) The Expectant Father - Armin Brott and Jennifer Ash
30 second book reviews: has it been that long? edition (9/8/2005)
45) Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - Jared Diamond
46) Accelerando - Charles Stross
47) Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town - Cory Doctorow
48) Starfish - Peter Watts
49) Maelstrom - Peter Watts
50) Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth - Andrew Smith
51) Wildside - Stephen Gould
30 second book reviews: the final countdown? (12/19/2005)
52) A Princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
53) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
54) After London or Wild England - Richard Jeffries
55) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
56) Agent to the Stars - John Scalzi
57) Inversions - Iain M. Banks
58) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
59) Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals - Robert M. Sapolsky
60) Saturday - Ian McEwan
61) A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby
62) The Case for Christmas: A Journalist Investigates the Identity of the Child in the Manger - Lee Strobel
Awards:
Best Fiction - Forty Signs of Rain
Best Non-fiction - War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
Worst Fiction (tie) - Camelot 30K, A Princess of Mars
Worst Non-fiction - Why Things Break
Update: Now I've included the Special Physics Edition.
30 second book reviews (3/25/2004)
1) Singularity Sky - Charles Stross
2) Teranesia - Greg Egan
3) Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich
4) Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser
5) Why Things Break - Mark Eberhart
6) Tatja Grimm's World - Vernor Vinge
7) Eastern Standard Tribe - Cory Doctorow
8) Everything and More - David Foster Wallace
9) Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson
son of 30 second book reviews (6/4/2004)
10) Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water - Marc Reisner
11) The Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster - Mike Davis
12) The Confusion - Neal Stephenson
13) The Polynesians: Prehistory of an Island People - Peter S. Bellwood
more 30 second book reviews (8/17/2004)
14) Pattern Recognition - William Gibson
15) Reason : Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America - Robert B. Reich
16) Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future - edited by Gardner Dozois
17) Supertoys Last All Summer Long: And Other Stories of Future Time - Brian Aldiss
18) The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. LeGuin
19) Jupiter - Ben Bova
20) Heal Your Headache - David Buchholz
21) Forty Signs of Rain - Kim Stanley Robinson
22) Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software - Steven Johnson
23) War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning - Chris Hedges
even more 30 second book reviews (11/15/2004)
24) The River Why - David James Duncan
25) Iron Sunrise - Charles Stross
26) Camelot 30K - Robert L. Forward
27) Distraction - Bruce Sterling
28) America the Broke: How the Reckless Spending of The White House and Congress are Bankrupting Our Country and Destroying Our Children's Future - Gerald J. Swanson
29) The System of the World - Neal Stephenson
stop the madness: 30 second book reviews (2/8/2005)
30) Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
31) Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
32) The Prophet - Khalil Gibran
33) Mind Wide Open - Steven Johnson
34) Little, Big - John Crowley
35) The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy - Stanislaw Lem
36) Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking - Malcolm Gladwell.
37) Plum Island - Nelson Demille
30 second book review: special physics edition (4/20/2005)
38) Einstein's Dreams - Alan Lightman
30 second book reviews: back in the saddle (5/11/2005)
39) The Science of Good and Evil - Michael Shermer
40) How to be Good - Nick Hornby
41) Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate - George Lakoff
42) Hospital of the Transfiguration - Stanislaw Lem
43) The Family Trade - Charles Stross
44) The Expectant Father - Armin Brott and Jennifer Ash
30 second book reviews: has it been that long? edition (9/8/2005)
45) Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - Jared Diamond
46) Accelerando - Charles Stross
47) Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town - Cory Doctorow
48) Starfish - Peter Watts
49) Maelstrom - Peter Watts
50) Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth - Andrew Smith
51) Wildside - Stephen Gould
30 second book reviews: the final countdown? (12/19/2005)
52) A Princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
53) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
54) After London or Wild England - Richard Jeffries
55) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
56) Agent to the Stars - John Scalzi
57) Inversions - Iain M. Banks
58) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
59) Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals - Robert M. Sapolsky
60) Saturday - Ian McEwan
61) A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby
62) The Case for Christmas: A Journalist Investigates the Identity of the Child in the Manger - Lee Strobel
Awards:
Best Fiction - Forty Signs of Rain
Best Non-fiction - War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
Worst Fiction (tie) - Camelot 30K, A Princess of Mars
Worst Non-fiction - Why Things Break
Update: Now I've included the Special Physics Edition.
