Books Ron Read in 2001
Comments on the Year 2001
I read more books in 2001 than in 2000, since I stayed at home
writing and had more leisure time, but I didn't record that
many more because of disruptions caused by prolonged illness, and a
trivial occurrence known as 9/11. I hope to write more comments on
individual books soon.
A year in (parentheses) is the book's publication date; a date in
[brackets] is the date I finished the book.
The Books
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (1948/1955)
... Reread. [15 Jan?]
- Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic
(1982) ... [25 Jan?]
- Matt Ruff, Sewer, Gas & Electric (1997) ... [1
Feb]
- Richard Garfinkle, All of an Instant (1999)
... Stellar! [2 Feb]
- William Sleator, Others See Us (1993)
... Excellent juvenile SF. Reread. [5 Feb]
- John M. Ford, Growing Up Weightless (1993)
... Good. [28 Feb]
- John M. Ford, How Much for Just the Planet? (1987)
... A Star Trek musical comedy in novel form. Lame, but with
good bits. [1 Mar]
- John M. Ford, The Final Reflection (1984)
... Ford's other Star Trek novel. Far better than you might
expect. Centers around Klin Zha, or Klingon Chess. Pretty good ludic fiction. [10 Mar]
- David Parlett, The Oxford History of Board Games
(1999) ... [18 Mar]
- J.R.R. Tolkien, Tree and Leaf (1964) ... Reread
in hospital. [25 Mar]
- J.R.R. Tolkien, Smith of Wootton Major (1967)
... Read in hospital. [25 Mar]
- H.G. Wells, The Time Machine (1898) ... [15
Apr?]
- Some books I didn't record. (Recovering from illness.)
- John M. Ford, The Scholars of Night (1988)
... [13 May?]
- Fred and Joan Saberhagen (ed.), Pawn to Infinity
(1982) ... Good ludic SF
anthology. [15 May]
- Colin Wilson, Tree by Tolkien (1974) ... [15
May]
- Gene Wolfe, Return to the Whorl (2001) ... [16
May]
- Robert Charles Wilson, Darwinia (1998) ... Fun,
but full of horseshit -- Wilson is no Greg Egan. [26 May]
- Some books I didn't record. (Still recovering from
illness.)
- Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God (2000)
... [27 Aug]
- Ellis Parker Butler, Kilo: Being the Love Story
of Eliph' Hewlitt Book Agent (1907) ... [30 Aug?]
- Yet more books I didn't record. Or was I just watching CNN?
Current events seemed more important than keeping a book
list.
- H.G. Wells, Floor Games (1911) ... (Project
Gutenberg) [23 Sep]
- Greg Costikyan, First Contract (2000) ... [30
Sep]
- David Langford, The Space Eater (1983) ... [2
Oct]
- Edmund Cooper, The Overman Culture (1972) ... [4
Oct]
- Roger Wells, Happy to Burn: Meditation to energise the
spirit (1997) ... One of the most helpful books on meditation
I have ever read. Vipassana explained simply and clearly. [5
Oct]
- Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon (1999) ... [17
Oct]
- James Branch Cabell, The High Place (1923, 1928)
... [23 Oct]
- Barrington J. Bayley, The Pillars of Eternity
(1982) ... Reread. [27 Oct]
- Barrington J. Bayley, Empire of Two Worlds (1972)
... [7 Nov]
- Stefan Fatsis, Word Freak (2001) ... Reviewer's
copy picked up in remainders bookstore.[22 Nov]
- Stephen Leacock, Arcadian Adventures With the Idle
Rich (1914) ... Project Gutenberg etext. [2 Dec]
- Stephen Leacock, Moonbeams From the Larger Lunacy
(1915) ... Project Gutenberg etext. [6 Dec]
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