by Quentin Lewis

2010 books

Title Author Date Finished Rating Publisher Comments
The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones Anthony Bourdain 2010/12/29 4 Bloomsbury USA, 2006
Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England Carolyn Merchant 2010/11/30 5 University of North Carolina Press, 1989
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Jim Turner, H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, August Derleth, Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner, Fritz Leiber, Brian Lumley, Ramsey Campbell, Colin Wilson, Joanna Russ, Karl Edward Wagner, Philip José Farmer, Stephen King, Richard A. Lupoff, J.K. Potter, Lee Brown Coye 2010/10/26 5 Arkham House Publishers, 1990
The Time Machine Did It John Swartzwelder 2010/10/26 4 Kennydale Books, 2006 Read My Notes
Pedagogy of the Oppressed Paulo Freire, Myra Bergman Ramos, Donaldo Macedo 2010/10/18 4 Continuum, 2000
The Warded Man (The Demon Cycle, #1) Peter V. Brett 2010/10/18 3 Random House, 2009
Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America Robert Charles Wilson 2010/09/03 3 Tor Books, 2009
Buda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb Mike Davis 2010/08/16 5 Verso, 2007
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America David Hajdu 2010/08/06 4 Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
The Strain (The Strain Trilogy, #1) Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan 2010/08/02 3 William Morrow, 2009 This is a fun vampire book that actually manages to be decently scary. It’s a quick read but also the first part of a planned trilogy so don’t get your hopes up for complete resolution. It’s reasonably well written and quickly paced. You’ll like it.
The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu Mike Davis 2010/05/20 3 Holt McDougal, 2006 Read My Notes
Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3) Joe Abercrombie 2010/02/01 4 Gollancz, 2008
Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2) Joe Abercrombie 2010/01/28 4 Gollancz, 2007
Small Gods (Discworld, #13) Terry Pratchett 2010/01/01 0 Corgi, 2005
Infected (Infected, #1) Scott Sigler 2010/01/01 3 Crown Publishing Group (NY), 2008
Songs of a Dead Dreamer Thomas Ligotti 2010/01/01 3 Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1991 “It’s worth it for ““The Sect of the Idiot””, maybe one of my favorite Lovecraft inspired stories ever written.”
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 Michael Azerrad 2010/01/01 5 Back Bay Books, 2002
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly Anthony Bourdain 2010/01/01 4 Ecco/Harper Perennial, 2007
Monstrous Affections David Nickle 2010/01/01 3 ChiZine Publications, 2009
The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1) Charles Stross 2010/01/01 4 Ace, 2006 A fun mix of lovecraft and dilbert
The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt Volume 2 Al Feldstein, Joe Dante 2010/01/01 5 William M. Gaines Agent, Inc., 2007
The EC Archives: Shock SuspenStories Volume 1 Al Feldstein, Steven Spielberg, William M. Gaines, Jack Kamen, Jack Davis, Joe Orlando, Graham Ingels, Wallace Wood, Marie Severin 2010/01/01 5 William M. Gaines Agent, INC., 2006 Read My Notes
Leviathan (Leviathan, #1) Scott Westerfeld, Keith Thompson 2010/01/01 3 Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2009
The EC Archives: The Vault of Horror, Vol. 1 Al Feldstein, R.L. Stine 2010/01/01 5 William M. Gaines Agent, Inc., 2007
The Scar (New Crobuzon, #2) China Miéville 2010/01/01 4 Del Rey, 2004
The Survivors (Ragnarok, #1) Tom Godwin 2010/01/01 2 Wildside Press, 2007 “This is free on project Gutenberg under the name ““the space prison””. It’s not very well written, and it is excruciatingly depressing for the first 50% or so, but it has a fairly satisfying conclusion and it’s free!”
The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems Van Jones 2010/01/01 5 HarperOne, 2008
The City & the City China Miéville 2010/01/01 5 Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 2009
Light (Kefahuchi Tract, #1) M. John Harrison 2010/01/01 3 Spectra, 2004

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