100 Books in 1 Year 2003

This was a gift from Travis for Christmas and was much appreciated. I dove right into it, but more and more I had an impression that I shouldn't be reading this as I went. I finished it for the sake of finishing it and realized I wish I hadn't. Somethings just seemed too personal. I got the feeling I was adding to the profit driven by someone's death and invaded someone's personal life, while going against all he was.

One of my favorite books ever... in a favorite series. Magical, mystical, fun. Reliving childhood, remembering things are grand. The whole purpose of re-reading a good book.

Gift from grandparents when I was about 10. Great words by a great man. Means a lot more to me now, esp read while war was looming.

A rather dissappointing book. The back boasts a very strong recommendation by a fav author of mine, Chuck Palaniuk. Billed as exceedingly funny, I found it rather drab and predictable. The funny parts were not worth the monotonus whinings and wonderings of the main character.

This book was a huge surprise. A required text for my Western Civilization class, I figured it to be drab and boring. Rather, Voltaire turns outs to be very humourous and ultimately timeless.

A good book about a man's real-life journey living off the kindness of others and his own will. Funny, sad, heartwarming. Strikes all chords, but just made me more resolved to go on my own journey.

Another great book in the series.

Palaniuk never disappoints me. When I finally got to this i couldn't put it down. read almost straight through twice in a row. A must for any Palaniuk fans, recommended to everyone else.

One of my all-time fav books. Have heard people, esp older readers, describing this book as unbelieveable and implausible, but I do not see that. Of course it's a work of fiction, so it is somewhat exaggerated, but def portrays suburban teen life nowadays. Please pick it up, ask me to borrow a copy if you'd like.

Wow, what a trip. An insanely metaphorical novel disguised as a children's novel. Beautifully illustrated. Beginning and end tie together very nicely.

My favorite of Vonnegut's work that I have read. It's like I thought of this novel to write, then I settled down with this book and he had already written it. Use of language, character, style and setting are amazing.

Many great essays, jouranl selections and stories about Canada's wilderness. Whitman, Thoreau, Audobon. etc. Can't remember the title offhand, but I loved one essay/story about when beaver's ruled North America's landscape. Overall, a great anthology.

One of my fav in the series, getting good.

A requested gift from my Grandparents. Rather dull and repetitive. Each chaper describes a different front and the Christmas happenings, but each front was similar. Poems and journal entries made it worth finishing.

A gift from Logan awhile back. I read this in sections before bed at night and when I woke up and it got me through a lot. It is a great montage of great thought, and it's interesting the quotes are often timeless and were what many of my heroes might have studied.

Originally read this in 7th grade, because of the poem "If". Still is one of my favorite poems. Western Civilization sparked my interest again into Kipling's political motives, and it's surprising what as a 7th grader you do not see.

Kind of a forced read in the sense I had been doing nothing with my life. The book was written in early 90's and published by Mtv, so some of the jokes were corny. Did have some good ideas in investing money, would be nice if the stock market was better....or if anyone had any money anymore.

Complete shit. Picked up in the library because of a brief interest in dreams. Entirely academic and unprovocative. Result=loss in intrest.

A good guide. Learned about some new places close to home.

Required reading. Find Dickens unamusing, irrelevant and overrated.

Read a short story by writer. Enjoyed. Picked up this novel at the library and think she needs to stick to short stories.

Simply put, challenged me to find religion again.

Knew very little about Luther and his movement, basically figured I should. Seems to be a good compliation of his work.

Author's first. Like her later work better, but has great metaphors and great relavence to what I had been feeling.

Seemed interesting, got boring.

A decent read for a political essay. Hard to follow at times, but once you get into it, Mill's arguements and theroies are intriguing and fresh even now.

Vonnegut should stick to novels and short stories. Entertaining none the less.

A good book to read multiple times in life. Absorbed it as a middle schooler. Beliefs have changed a bit since then, but definetly reminded me of a lot of things.

Great book. Great author. Less entertaining than his drug binge writing, but hopped up on humorous incidents, random ranting enhanced by alcohol.

Wow. Great collection. Good introduction to Native American wisdom and religion. A good starting point to more reading I want to do.

A great modern short story writer. Funny and provacative to social conditions. Some memorable stories. Good read.

Lots of info, lots of common sense, lots of good ideas to add to hiking. I'd say a definitive guide to backpacking.

I think Kerouac is a better poet than prose writer now. That's saying a lot.

Gift from grandparents that took awhile to get too, but enjoyed. Very informative, clears up many misteachings about the Founding Fathers and makes them seem more human. Got me more interested in the time period.

A must read for any male. Hemingway follows the common searching many men go through, useing unmatched metaphors, highly personal stories and modern parables.

Like many contemporary poets, the struggles seem highly personal. Great poet, but sometimes hard to relate to.

Required reading, but so worth it a third time around. More powerful in a time of war. Makes you wonder if we ever learn from our mistakes. Recommended to everyone.

Became interested in the artist during an assignment for Art Now. Interesting background of artist, but his art intrigues me more.

Very definitive guide and as such has no real motives but to inform. Lots of good information on Second Amendment and original meaning.

Highly defensive, and opinionated. Lacks a lot of evidence for arguement.

Western Civ required reading. A great book. Haunting. Intriguing.

Extremely entertaining. Hilarious. Motivating. Oh God I love this book! Maintain. Must get a hold of yourself, mahn.

Compostion 101 textbook. Very successful at what it sets out to do. Timely and timeless essays to work off of.

Very great representation of the events and the leading up to and the actual Constitutional Convention. Very interesting text and pictures.

Forget where I got interested in Ota Benga. Think it was something on the internet. Anyways a very sad tale about the ignorance of western ethnocentrisim, early anthropology, and Social Darwinism. Shocking tale, in a very long drawn out book that deals mostly with the author's grandfather and his journey to bring Ota Benga out of Africa and how he profited. Many irrelevant uninteresting tangents and ficticious dealings of what 'most have' gone through Ota Benga's head. Basically a grandson profitting of the misfortune that his grandfather profited off of. Learn about the story, but don't read this book.

Very interesting and educating. Chemistry reading can get boring, but that's cause my limited background makes it hard to follow

Picked this up at the used book store and am very happy with the purchase. Some famous stuff by Bradbury and Arthur C. Clarke but also has a lot of unknown (at least to me) writers from the 50's. Two stories that are great reads: "And Now The News..." by Theodore Sturgeon and "Immortality" by Fredric Brown

Nonfiction by one of my favorite fiction writers. Thought provoking, although not revealing. Vonnegut is a great literary commentator and I agreed with many his views, except of that of writer Hunter S. Thompson. If you read this and know both authors you may know why. One article wants me to go out and read more of Herman Hesse's work. So I shall.

This novel is outrageously hilarious at first. The characters are very unique but never really become rounded, they hardly change their course, or have any real struggle. Entertaining nonetheless.

Amusing, but not Vonnegut's best.

A great character of history, and very insightful work. A lot can be learned from this book, a lot can be relearned from this book.

Took me awhile to get to this one. A fun read, Harry and friends adventures are always crazy.

Great insider tale of one of the first major tragedy of modern warfare. Insight into the lives of a prisoner of war. As a daily log of strife, the pages can get very monotonous, but then again prison life probably was also. If you are interested in the subject, then read it. If not don't.

Came out with the Sesquicentennial of my town in 1999. This has a lot of interesting information about the area surrounding, lots of great pictures and intriguing articles. I think it's a must to know the history surrounding oneself.

Comic genius. Calvin and Hobbes are unforgetable and so much fun.

Franklin was a great man, full of knowledge, creativity and humor, but not full of himself. If you can read through the old english language barrier, he is extremely amusing. A great read.

A little morbid maybe, but a fascinating book. Well researched with great black and white photos. Covers a broad base of 20th century familars in the art, music and political world.

Somewhat humourous. Not very imaginative, but sold as such. Nicely illustrated and designed, wish the words were to such par.

A collection of experience and photographs on building High Point State Park in New Jersey, a place I hike often. Found it very interesting.

Alright, think everyone ought to read this book prior to this upcoming presidential election. This book is very eyeopening. Many chapters are purely factual, others purely entertaining and some a mix of both. Moore is a brillant man to be bold and bring issues to the fore front. He does not just gripe about the problems our country and our so-called "leaders" face, but also calls for action towards our own regime change, as well as giving many helpful ideas on how to accomplish such a task. Great chapter manuscriptinga letter from God, although I think the end of the letter trails into other issues that soften Moore's arguemnt....another great chapter is an open letter from Moore to Bush thanking him for his large tax cut asa bestselling author and how he plans on useing it to out Bush from the White House. Brillant book. Brillant man.

Interesting book of the dawn of interstate travel fueled by boom of automobiles. Much (maybe too much) attention paid to Yosemite and Niagra Falls. Also interesting how popular it was to visit famous graves at the time. Author writes a nice conclusion, tieing to the current trends of visiting natural wonders and gravesites (ie Yellowstone and Elvis' Graceland). Good read for a history dork.

Did you know New York was once known for it's abundance of oil. Upstate NY was home to a spring fed lake that produced a layer of oil, a place where Native Americans held sacred. Now a historical marker marks the clear oil free lake. Anyways this book points out many of New York's natural wonders, many half ruined or commercialized, but God damn this used to be a beautiful state, pick up a book like this and travel to the beauty before books like these aren't guides to travel, but guides to history.

Infinitely interesting book for me. So many marvelous charcters in the art world. The authors do a great job with tieing in socioeconomic and political conditions and the philosophies of a time period to the art and artist.

Written by the Society of American Historians, it maybe a definitive volume to sum up our presidents and their actions while in office. Each president is represented in an approx 5 page essay. Each historian portraying the president is an expert of the time period and readersa get a sense of the cheif executive's character. Spurred interest in further reading of many of our former presidents.

Dissapointing because the title suggests it's philosophies on life from the Muppets eyes. Rather this book is a biography of the man (Spinney) that brings Big Bird and Oscar to life through the use of Muppetry. Still an pleasurable read.

A constant critic of Bush's policies even as Governor of Texas, Ivins is an authority on Bush's politics. She doesn't really present much arguement but rather facts, the facts that don't reach most Americans. This book can be depressing, with all the corruption, scandal, environmental destruction....GRRRR....don't get me started. Read the book. Act by vote.

A very well researched book. Book report book for a college class, so somewhat forced reading. The publishers could have done a better job editing. Still a good read for anyone into the subject. Very unbiased, in a historically sided subject.

Pulitzer prize winning. Exceptional book. A must for Civil War, Lincoln and history buffs.

A young adult novel that is suspensful. Being the first real fiction I had read in a long time, I indulged in it. Very provoking read.

One of my favorite authors, one of my favorite books. Polaroids of the Dead follows a cast of characters throughout a number of early 90's Grateful Dead concerts. Each a story of introspection fueled by drug use and music. The second half follows Coupland to his most thought provoking places. Always a refreshing read.

A book of lists, journal entries, notes for a novel and solid prose and fanciful poetry, this book is more a psychedelic work of art than an actual novel. Because of it's nature, many people have often suggested reading it by carry it for days and flipping threw it. It is more of a skimming book than a cover to cover book. I would agree after having read it as such. But take it off the shelf occasionally and flip to any page and you would not be disappointed. Patchen is a genius. Moonlight is crazy.

Textbook for Civil War class. Supposedly the definitive one-volume history of the American Civil War. Very intimidating at almost 900 pages, but a very easy read. McPherson has narrative flow that many historical writers lack. Good choice as a textbook.

English textbook. Good essays chosen, seen the information preseted better in other texts before though. Required read.

Feeds my interest in junk to treasure stories and maybe the hopes of having an antique store.

Dated but still relevant as directions and jist of a place. Looking for cheap reasons to get out of the OC this coming year.

Funny funny book. Best of "Titter" magazine and other old favs. The pictorals are sexy, and hilarious. No nudity. Thank you Ross, for a great gift.

Gift from John, extremely thoughtful gift and beautifully inscribed. The book pairs words witha picture of it's writer or sometimes of a man from their company or a man in the appearance of whom they speak. Very wide spread book, following many battles of the Civil War. Good read for the civil war buffs.