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List added by Raven on 1 January 2009 10:02
2009 Reading List |
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Genre: Children's/Picture Book
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 12  8.6 Genre: Children's/Picture Book
Adapted to film. Synopsis Horton hears a cry for help from a speck of dust, and spends much of the book trying to protect the infinitesimal creatures who live on it from the derision and trickery of other animals, who think their elephant friend has gone quite nutty. Raven's rating:
45 8 Genre: Graphic Novel
Blog Post: Link Adapted to film and then a video game Synopsis The army of Persia - a force so vast it shakes the earth with its march - is poised to crush Greece, an island of reason and freedom in a sea of mysticism and tyranny. Standing between Greece and this tidal wave of destruction is a tiny detachment of but three hundred warriors. But these warriors are more than men... They are Spartans Raven's rating:
 
21 6.8 Genre: Science Fiction/Classic Literature
Adapted to film Synopsis When a mysterious stranger covered in bandages appears at an inn, the locals are suspicious; when equipment arrives for him and tales of bizarre experiments spread, they become frightened. And when the man finally reveals his true nature to the innkeeper's wife, the whole village is terrified. Made invisible by his own experiments, but driven mad by the results, the stranger begins a campaign of terror in the neighbourhood. Stealing, threatening and attacking, he is soon under pursuit from the police. It is only when he meets an old acquaintance that the full horror of the Invisible Man's past is revealed - but will his friend be able to save him from a terrible future too? Raven's rating:
 
5 9.7 Final book in the Mortal Instruments.
Genre: Young Adult/Urban Fantasy Blog Post: Link Followed on by the Prequel trilogy - The Infernal Devices Synopsis Provided for book one, City of Bones, further down. Raven's rating:
 
22 8.9 Also Titled: The Messenger
Genre: Young Adult Blog Post: Link Synopsis Ed Kennedy - cab driving prodigy, pathetic card player, useless at sex - shares coffee with his dog and is in nervous love with Audrey. His life is one of suburban routine and incompetence, until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery. That's when the first ace turns up and Ed becomes the messenger. Protect The Diamonds Survive The Clubs Dig Deep Through Spades Feel The Hearts Chosen to care, he travels through town, helping and hurting, until one question remains. Where are the messages coming from? Raven's rating:
10 9.3 Book two in the Mortal Instruments Trilogy
Genre: Young Adult/Urban Fantasy Synopsis Provided for book one, City of Bones, further down. Raven's rating:
10 8.8 Book One in the Mortal Instruments Trilogy
Genre: Young Adult/Urban Fantasy Synopsis It's after dark in New York City, and Clary Fray is seeing things. The best looking guy in the nightclub just stabbed a boy to death - but the victim has vanished into thin air. Her mother has disappeared, and a hideous monster is lurking in her apartment. With her life spiralling into darkness, Clary realises that she has stumbled into an invisible war between ancient demonic forces and the secretive Shadowhunters - a war in which she has a fateful role to play... Raven's rating:
13 6.7 Genre: Science Fiction/Classic Literature
Adapted to several films Synopsis Shipwrecked and adrift, Edward Prendick is luckily saved by a passing vessel. When the ship docks at an uncharted island, staffed by bizarre looking men, he is offered hospitality by the unsettling Doctor Moreau. Gradually Edward comes to discover the true nature of the inhabitants of the island. Moreau has been stitching together man and beast to create a terrifying new super-breed. These creatures fight a daily battle between their human and animal sides - a battle closely supervised by the Doctor and his 'Laws'. But when one of the experiments escapes unfinished from the lab, chaos is unleashed on the island. Suddenly Prendick finds that he is fighting for his life. Raven's rating:
8 7.5 Book five in the House of Night series
Genre: Young Adult/Vampire Fiction Blog Post: Link Synopsis Provided with the third book, Chosen, further down. Raven's rating:
8 9.5 Genre: Kink Erotica/Classic French Literature
Synopsis In 1928, Georges Bataille published under a pseudonym this first novel, a legendary shocker that uncovers the dark side of the erotic by means of forbidden, obsessive fantasies of excess and sexual extremes. A classic of pornographic literature, Story of The Eye finds parallels in Sade and Nietzsche and in the investigations of contemporary psychology; it also forecasts Bataille's own theories of ecstasy, death and transgression which he developed in later work. Raven's rating:
2 6 Genre: Science Fiction
Synopsis They Wait Among Us... Shapeshifters - immortal creatures gifted with the power to assume any form, damned by an insatiable hunger for human flesh. Their Time Is Near... And their strength is growing, their bloodlust intensifying, their madness exploding. The Horror Will Soon Start... A maelstrom of unspeakable evil, unthinkable death, unbelievable destruction - a bloodbath that the Others alone will begin and end. Raven's rating:
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Books read so far in 2009. All titles are listed in reverse order. So newest to oldest.
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