Stolen from fiddlersgreen

[newnumber6]

In 2004, I read (an '(r)' denotes a reread):

Treason, by Orson Scott Card
Downbelow Station, by C.J. Cherryh
Alas, Babylon, by Pat Frank (r)
Darker Than You Think, by Jack Williamson
Donnerjack, by Roger Zelazny and Jane Lindskold
A Case of Conscience, by James Blish
The Wanderer, by Friz Leiber
Man Plus, by Frederik Pohl
Dreamsnake, by Vonda McIntyre
Double Star, by Robert A. Heinlein
Startide Rising, by David Brin
Hominids, by Robert J. Sawyer
The Moon and the Sun, by Vonda McIntyre
Double Contact, by James White
Moving Mars, by Greg Bear
Babel-17, by Samuel R. Delany
American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
Sirius, by Olaf Stapledon
Wild Cards, book VII: Dead Man's Hand, by George R.R. Martin and John J. Miller
The Vor Game, by Lois McMaster Bujold
Midshipman's Hope, by David Feintuch (r)
Challenger's Hope, by David Feintuch (r)
Prisoner's Hope, by David Feintuch (r)
Fisherman's Hope, by David Feintuch (r)
Voices of Hope, by David Feintuch (r)
Patriarch's Hope, by David Feintuch (r)
Children of Hope, by David Feintuch (r)
Falling Free, by Lois McMaster Bujold
Swan Songs: The Complete Hooded Swan Collection, by Brian Stableford (r x2)
Beggars in Spain, by Nancy Kress
Beggars and Choosers, by Nancy Kress
Jumper, by Steven Gould (r)
The Cassandra Complex, by Brian Stableford
Foundation's Edge, by Isaac Asimov
Wild Cards, Book 8: One-Eyed Jacks (ed. George R. R. Martin)
The Gunslinger, by Stephen King
Darwin's Radio, by Greg Bear
Island in the Sea of Time, by S.M. Stirling (r)
The Drawing of the Three, by Stephen King
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, by Kate Wilhelm
The Waste Lands, by Stephen King
Reflex, by Steven Gould (squeezed in just under the wire before 2005, but for purposes of my next Year In Review I'm saying I read it in 2005).

At least, that's all I can remember for sure reading in 2005.
The first 10 or 11 and the last 3 or 4 are more or less in order of when I read them that year (used LJ backtracking and memory). Everything else is a guesstimate - I got lazy on my Book Foos during the summer when I was doing a bunch of rereads.

Comments

[dressagegrrrl.livejournal.com]

Hi! Sorry to drop in unannounced on your journal, but I searched LJ to see who else out there liked Gould, and you were the first on the list.

Have you read any of his other books? Helm (my favorite Gould) or Wildside? Or the abysmal Jumper: Griffin's Story which just came out? I'm trying to see what other people thought of his novelization of a movie based on his debut novel. Lordy.

[dressagegrrrl.livejournal.com]

PS - This entry is from 2005! Wow! Don't know how I ended up here.

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

I read Wildside. Enjoyed it, but not as much as Jumper, or Reflex for that matter. Haven't read Helm, the plot outline didn't particularly interest me. Same with Blind Waves or whatever it was called.

Haven't read Griffin's story yet, it's not the kind of thing I want to buy in hardcover, but I'll probably still pick it up when it comes out in paperback - even if the story does suck, I still think I'd get a kick out of reading him continuing to explore the teleportation itself and novel uses for it. Since you seem to have read it, does it attempt to work into the continuity of the two other novels at all, or is it strictly movie continuity?

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

Through the magic of search? ;)

[dressagegrrrl.livejournal.com]

Search. Black Hole. Obsessivenes.

You can choose if you like.

[dressagegrrrl.livejournal.com]

I had the same reaction to Wildside. I liked it. I liked the main characters (for the most part), but in my mind it couldn't touch Jumper. Helm, although the back cover sounds as if it's very sci-fi, reads more like a fantasy. It's my favorite of all of Gould's books, and if you liked Jumper, I'd recommend it.

Jumper: Griffin's Story is not so good. There are continuity problems between the books. For example, when you jump in Griffin's story, you create a distortion and can damage items around you when you jump. So, in one instance Griffin jumps out of a bathroom, and all of the fixtures explode.

Griffin comes off like a less interesting, less fleshed out Davy Rice. The enemies are one dimensional. You actually get to LIKE Brian Cox in Jumper. In his new book, all you know are that these "Paladins" are out to kill jumpers because they are just too powerful.

I don't know. I was disappointed.

When you read it, you'll have to let me know what you think.

I'm surprised that so few people have read Gould.