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Viking's Reading List 2011

_{Being a list of books that [Viking] is planning to read, is reading, and/or has read in the year 2011 CE.}

I rather enjoyed keeping track of my reading goal and progress in 2010, so I'm going to do it again for 2011. Last year my goal was 52 books - one per week. I only made it to 39. I still have the same goal this year and hopefully I'll make it. Or at the very least, get closer to 52. My other goal is to write reviews for all of the books. And to write good reviews, because I know some (most? all?) of them I wrote last year were quite poor.

Currently Reading

The Night Eternal by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan

Bourbon for Breakfast: Living Outside the Statist Quo by Jeffrey Tucker
_{Get it here for frees: http://mises.org/resources/5509/Bourbon-for-Breakfast}

Planned Reading

_{In no particular order}

Left over from 2010
1) Uncorking the Past: The quest for wine, beer and other alcoholic beverages by Patrick McGovern (was too lazy to find it)
2) Time Travelers Never Die by Jack McDevitt (was too lazy to read it)
3) A Dance With Dragons by George R. R. Martin (author was too lazy to finish it)
4) How to Be Inappropriate by Daniel Nester (was too lazy to find it)
5) The Long Ships by Frans Bengtsson (was too lazy to find it)
6) 100 Myths About the Middle East by Fred Halliday (was too lazy to read it)
7) Small Gods by Terry Pratchett (was too lazy to find it)
8) Shadows Linger by Glen Cook (started, but too lazy to finish it)
9) The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch (author was too lazy to finish it)

New Additions for 2011
1) The White Rose by Glen Cook
2) The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
3) The Zen of Zombie: Better Living Through the Undead by Scott Kenemore
4) Queen of the Iron Sands by Scott Lynch (online serial: <URL:http://www.scottlynch.us/ironsands.html>)
5) Agatha H. and the Airship City by Kaja and Phil Foglio
6) Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
7) Magic Kingdom for Sale -- SOLD! by Terry Brooks
8) The Black Unicorn by Terry Brooks
9) Wizard at Large by Terry Brooks
10) Blood Ties by Pamela Freeman
11) Deep Water by Pamela Freeman
12) Full Circle by Pamela Freeman
13) Pale Demon by Kim Harrison

Completed Reading

	Title	Author(s)	Date Completed	Rating	Review Link
01	Shadows Linger	Glen Cook	2 January 2011	4	Cook - Shadows Linger review
02	The White Rose	Glen Cook	6 January 2011	5	Cook - The White Rose review
03	The Dragons of Babel	Michael Swanwick	17 January 2011	4	Swanwick - The Dragons of Babel review
04	Shadow Games	Glen Cook	23 January 2011	4	Cook - Shadow Games review
05	Dreams of Steel	Glen Cook	24 January 2011	5	Cook - Dreams of Steel review
06	Bleak Seasons	Glen Cook	1 February 2011	3	Cook - Bleak Seasons review
07	She Is the Darkness	Glen Cook	17 February 2011	3	Cook - She Is the Darkness review
08	Water Sleeps	Glen Cook	22 February 2011	5	Cook - Water Sleeps review
09	Soldiers Live	Glen Cook	26 February 2011	5	Cook - Soldiers Live review
10	The Silver Spike	Glen Cook	16 March 2011	3	Cook - The Silver Spike review
11	Agatha H. and the Airship City	Kaja & Phil Foglio	11 April 2011	3	Foglio - Agatha H. and the Airship City review
12	The Way of Kings	Brandon Sanderson	4 June 2011	4	Sanderson - The Way of Kings review
13	The Zen of Zombie: Better Living Through the Undead	Scott Kenemore	10 June 2011	3	forthcoming
14	Boneshaker	Cherie Priest	20 June 2011	3	Priest - Boneshaker review
15	Pale Demon	Kim Harrison	25 June 2011	4	Harrison - Pale Demon review
16	JavaScript Patterns	Stoyan Stefanov	27 June 2011	4	forthcoming
17	The Desert of Souls	Howard Andrew Jones	2 July 2011	5	Jones - The Desert of Souls review
18	Magic Kingdom for Sale — SOLD!	Terry Brooks	14 July 2011	4	forthcoming
19	A Dance with Dragons	George R.R. Martin	6 August 2011	3	Martin - A Dance with Dragons review
20	A Dreamer's Tales	Lord Dunsany	8 August 2011	4	Dunsany - A Dreamer's Tales review
21	The Maltese Falcon	Dashiell Hammett	15 August 2011	5	Hammett - The Maltese Falcon review
22	Halting State	Charles Stross	23 August 2011	4	forthcoming
23	Ready Player One	Ernest Cline	6 October 2011	5	forthcoming
24	Blood Ties	Pamela Freeman	31 October 2011	3	Freeman - The Castings Trilogy review
25	Deep Water	Pamela Freeman	28 November 2011	3	Freeman - The Castings Trilogy review
26	Full Circle	Pamela Freeman	12 December 2011	3	Freeman - The Castings Trilogy review

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2011-01-17 [All_Most PUNK]: You finally started with the Black Company books?

2011-01-17 [Viking]: Yeah, started late last year. They're really good, so thanks for recommending them! I've got 3 or 4 more waiting for me after Shadow Games.

2011-01-18 [All_Most PUNK]: I have one more, but I lack a whole series in the middle. I mean, I finished The White Rose and the next one I have is Bleak Seasons.

2011-01-23 [Viking]: I was going to read the Girl Genius book, but after Shadow Games I had to continue with the Black Company stuff.

2011-01-23 [Viking]: Ah, I think Bleak Seasons comes after Dreams of Steel.

I have three volumes:
Chronicles of the Black Company (The Black Company, Shadows Linger, The White Rose)
The Books of the South (Shadow Games, Dreams of Steel, The Silver Spike)
The Return of the Black Company (Bleak Seasons, She Is the Darkness)

I'm just about to order The Many Deaths of the Black Company that has Water Sleeps and Soldiers Live.

2011-01-23 [All_Most PUNK]: I will probably see if I can find them online.

2011-01-23 [Viking]: Just looked. There are a couple torrents on TPB:
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4336878/Glen_Cook_Collection
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5940370/Glen_Cook_PDFs

They look like they've got some seeds, but TPB can sometimes be wildly inaccurate on those numbers.

2011-04-02 [All_Most PUNK]: I do think I had downloaded them before, though.

2011-10-30 [Imperator]: My dear [Viking], I'd like to give you a hug since you know the Mises Institute... *hug*

2011-10-31 [Viking]: I'm a big fan of anarch-capitalism.

2011-11-01 [Imperator]: I recently purchased Rothbard's books on the subject. For a New Liberty!

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