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Year in summary - books

Books I have read over the past year (2004)

1. The Da Vinci Code
2. The Rule of Four
3. An Imperial Progress
4. The Agony and the Ecstasy - Terrific
5. Lust for Life - Good
6. To Sir With Love
7. Capt. Corelli’s Mandolin - V. Crappy
8. The Great Indian Novel – Excellent Read!
9. The Name of the Rose – Terrific
10. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the night-time- Fair
11. The Chronicles of Narnia (about 4 books in the series) – fair
12. The Crooked House – An Agatha Christie after years!
13. The Leopard – Decent read, a bit heavy and depressing
14. ALL the short stories by Saki
15. A few books by P G Wodehouse
16. Revisited old favorites – Ivanhoe, the Talisman, etc
17. Peter the Great – His Life & His world – simply amazing, if you like history
18. A very forgettable Frederick Forsyth- don’t even remember its name!
19. Gone with the wind – okay - not particularly impressive. To be fair, that’s mostly because of the hype
20. Scarlett – Don’t touch it with a barge pole!
21. Les Miserables- Don’t remember if I read it this year or the last.
22. Leonardo Da Vinci by Freud – decent.
23. Drawing – A complete Course – by Jenny Rodwell. Excellent, if you want to learn.
24. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown - blah-blah- very very mediocre
    
    Not much, aint it? L let me see if I can make the next year any better. Don’t think I have missed out any books. I might have, but not too many.

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posted by Aish @ 10:53 AM