Rate all of their books (1 Viewer)

[Denny Oubidoux]

Or as many as you've read at least, or the books in a particular series etc

William Maxwell

• Bright Center of Heaven (1934) (havent read this one - off top a bad start with this...)
• They Came Like Swallows (1937) - 10
• The Folded Leaf (1945) - 10
• Time Will Darken It (1948) - 9
• The Chateau (1961) - 8
• So Long, See You Tomorrow (1980) - 10
• All The Days and Nights: The Collected Stories of William Maxwell (1995) - 10

BRIAN ALDISS
Fiction (I'm a bit shocked at the gaps in my reading here...)

• The Rain Will Stop (The Pretentious Press, 2000), written in 1942
• The Brightfount Diaries (1955)
• Space, Time and Nathaniel (1957), collected short fiction
• Non-Stop (1958), US title Starship — A member of a culturally-primordial tribe investigates the dark, jungle filled corridors that surround him to ultimately uncover the true nature of the universe he inhabits.
• Equator (1958), US title Vanguard from Alpha
• The Canopy of Time (1959), US title Galaxies like Grains of Sand, collected short fiction
• No Time Like Tomorrow (1959), collected short fiction —
• The Interpreter (1960); US title Bow down to Nul - 6
• The Male Response (US 1959, UK 1961)
• The Primal Urge (1961) - 8.5
• Hothouse (1962)
• The Airs of Earth (1963), US title Starswarm, collected short fiction - 7
• The Dark Light Years (1964) - 6
• Greybeard (1964) - 9
• Earthworks (1965)
• The Saliva Tree and other strange growths (1966), collected short fiction
• An Age (1967), US title Cryptozoic! - 8.5
• Report on Probability A - 7
• Barefoot in the Head (1969) - 7
• Neanderthal Planet (1970), collected short fiction
• Horatio Stubbs (omnibus edition, The Horace Stubbs Saga, 1985)
  • The Hand-Reared Boy (1970) - 6
  • A Soldier Erect (1971) - 7
  • A Rude Awakening (1978) - 8
• The Moment of Eclipse (1971), collected short fiction - 10
• The Book of Brian Aldiss (1972), UK title The Comic Inferno, collected short fiction
• Frankenstein Unbound (1973) - 10
• The Eighty Minute Hour (1974) - 7.8
• The Malacia Tapestry (1976) - 10
• Brothers of the Head (1977) - 10
• Last Orders and Other Stories (1977)
• Enemies of the System (1978)
• Pile (1979) Poem
• New Arrivals, Old Encounters (1979)
• Moreau's Other Island (1980) - 5
• Squire Quartet
  • Life In The West (1980) - 8
  • Forgotten Life (1988) - 10
  • Remembrance Day (1993) - 10
  • Somewhere East Of Life (1994) - 9
• Helliconia trilogy
  • Helliconia Spring (1982) - 4.9
  • Helliconia Summer (1983) - 9
  • Helliconia Winter (1985) - 4.9
• Seasons in Flight (1984)
• Courageous New Planet (c. 1984)
• Ruins (1987) - 6
• A Man in His Time (1988)
• A Romance of the Equator: The Best Fantasy Stories (1989)
• Cracken At Critical (1989) - 4.5
• Dracula Unbound (1990) - 7.75
• A Tupolev too Far (1994)
• The Secret of This Book (1995), US title Common Clay: 20-Odd Stories - 10
• White Mars or, the Mind Set Free (1999), by Aldiss and Roger Penrose
• Super-Toys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time (2001)
• Super-State (2002) - 7
• The Cretan Teat (2002)
• Affairs at Hampden Ferrers (2004) - 5
• Cultural Breaks (2005), collected short fiction
• Jocasta (2005)
• Sanity and the Lady (2005)
• HARM (2007) - 7.5
• Walcot (2010) - 8.6
• Finches of Mars (2013)

• OTHER ALDISS BITS AND PIECES
• My country 'tis not only of thee (1986) - 4
• The Magic Of The Past (1987) - 10
• Journey to the Goat Star (1991) - 4
• Kindred blood in Kensington Gore : Philip K. Dick in the afterlife, an imaginary conversation - 5.5
• A Chinese Perspective (2000) - 8.2
• The Twinkling of an Eye, or My Life as an Englishman (1998) (autobiography) - 9

In Search Of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

• Swann's Way - 9.5
• Within a Budding Grove - 10
• The Guermantes Way - 9
• Sodom and Gomorrah - 10
• The Captive - 7.5
• The Fugitive - 7.5
• Time Regained - 4.9

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Peter Carey

• Bliss (1981) - 4
• Illywhacker (1985) - 10
• Oscar and Lucinda (1988) - 10
• The Tax Inspector (1991) - 10
• The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith (1994) - 6
• Jack Maggs (1997) - 6.5
• True History of the Kelly Gang (2000)
• My Life as a Fake (2003) - 7
• Theft: A Love Story (2006) - 4.5
• His Illegal Self (2008) - 6
• Parrot and Olivier in America (2010) - 9
• The Chemistry of Tears (2012) - 6.5

 

[Lili Marlene]

In Search Of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

• Swann's Way - 9.5
• Within a Budding Grove - 10
• The Guermantes Way - 9
• Sodom and Gomorrah - 10
• The Captive - 7.5
• The Fugitive - 7.5
• Time Regained - 4.9

Dude wow!

 

[David Kronenbourg]

ah jaysis now.

 

[rettucs]

I think Shaney is going to own this thread.

that is all.

If I can contribute I will. Give me time.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Sure I'll do Orwell and Camus

Orwell
Down and Out in Paris and London - 8
Burmese Days - 6
A Clergyman's Daughter - 7
Keep the Aspidistra Flying - 8
Homage to Catalonia - never read
Coming Up for Air - 7
The Road to Wigan Pier - never read
Animal Farm - 7
Nineteen Eighty-Four - 10

Camus
A Happy Death - 5
The Stranger - 10
The Plague - 9
The Fall - 8
The First Man - can't even remember, it's unfinished anyway. I know I was enjoying it and a bit unhappy that HE HAD TO GO AND DIE.

 

[rettucs]

Jeffrey Eugenides
The Virgin Suicides - 9
MiddleSex - 10
The Marriage Plot - 4

 

[rettucs]

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird - 11

 

[Jill Hives]

Jeffrey Eugenides
The Virgin Suicides - 9
MiddleSex - 10
The Marriage Plot - 4

I'd give The Marriage Plot at least a 7.

 

[hermie]

I'd give The Marriage Plot at least a 7.

Me too. And the Virgin Suicides would also be a 10.

 

[Lili Marlene]

I'd give it a 6 at best. Hateful book, written well.

Here's a great interview with him where he talks about how he's the next Joyce

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6117/the-art-of-fiction-no-215-jeffrey-eugenides


edit: sorry I say 'at best', I also mean at worst. That is to say, i give it 6/10.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Enid Blyton.

ok wait.

 

[Jim Daniels]

Douglas Coupland

1991: Generation X: 9
1992: Shampoo PLanet: 7.5
1995: Microserfs: 9.5
1998: Girlfriend in a Coma: 8.5 (mainly for the occasional Morrissey lyric buried in the narrative)
2000: Miss Wyoming: 7
2001: All Families are Pcychotic: 7
2003: Hey Nostradamus: 8
2004: Eleanor Rigby: 8.5
2006: JPod: 5
2007: The Gum Thief: 8.5
2009: Generation A: 7.5
2010: Player One: 8.5

 

[Jill Hives]

Can't find the quote button on the phone but add Life After God -9 for Coupland.

 

[Jim Daniels]

Can't find the quote button on the phone but add Life After God -9 for Coupland.

God yeah, definitely. Forgot that one!

 

[hugh]

Redmond O'Hanlon

Into The Heart Of Borneo - 8
In Trouble Again - 6
Congo Journey - 9
Trawler -2

It's actually hard to think of a writer whose entire oeuvre I have read. It was also hard to figure out how to construct that last sentence without using the word oeuvre.

 

[Jim Daniels]

David Mitchell

1999: Ghostwritten: 9
2001: Number9Dream: 9
2004: Cloud Atlas: 8 (individual stories range from 4 to 9.5)
2006: Black Swan Green: 8.5
2010: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: 5 (never gave it a chance really)

 

[Jim Daniels]

Haruki Murakami

1989: A Wild Sheep Chase: 8
1991: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: 9
1994: Dance-Dance-Dance: 8.5
1997: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: 9
2000: Norweigan Wood: 7.5
2000: South of the Border, West of the Sun: 7
2001: Sputnik Sweetheart: 6
2005: Kafka on the Shore: 7
2007: After Dark: 6
2011: 1Q84: 6.5Non Fiction2000: Underground: 92008: What I Talk about When I Talk About Running: 8.5

 

[Jim Daniels]

Paul Auster

1987 The New York Trilogy: 8.5
1987 In The Country of Last Things: 6
1989: Moon Palace: 9
1990: The Music of Chance: 9
1992: Leviathan: 7.5
1999: Timbuktu: 9
2002: The Book of Illusions: 6.5
2003: Oracle Night: 6 - actually can't really remember much
2005: The Brooklyn Follies: 6 - actually can't really remember much
2009: Invisible: 7
2010: Sunset Park: 6

There's a few I haven't read. Like Murakami - I've kind of lost interest

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

The few people I know that read Black Swan Green didn't like it at all, but I really liked it too.