Sam’s readings

Here is most of what I read. With this list you can guess my personality or find books you would like to borrow from me. I may at one time put little reviews (mostly in French) but of course I don’t have time for that.

Currently reading

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Joanne Kathleen Rowling) aka. "The Great Snapes Kills Dumbledore Meme of 2005"
Crónica de una muerte anunciada (Gabriel García Márquez)

Bought or received, not yet read:

Blanche-Neige et les lance-missiles (Catherine Dufour)
L’Ivresse des Providers (Catherine Dufour)
Merlin l’Ange Chanteur (Catherine Dufour)
Wyrd Sisters (Terry Pratchett)
Pyramids (Terry Pratchett)
Guards! Guards! (Terry Pratchett)
Much ado about nothing (William Shakespeare)
Où va le mouvement altermondialisation ? (Collectif)
La Cité des dieux sauvages (Isabel Allende)
L’innocence perdue (Neil Sheehan)
Patas Arribas (Eduardo Galeano)

Intend to buy:

Good Omens (Pratchett/Gaiman)
Noblesse d’État (Pierre Bourdieu)
Le Testament (Anderi Makine)
Textures et couleurs

Read in 2006

July: Biographie de la faim (Amélie Nothomb)
July: La Ponctuation ou l’art d’accomoder les textes (Olivier Houdart & Sylvie Prioul)
June: Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Lynne Truss)
June: Bouvard et Pécuchet (Gustave Flaubert)
May: Eva Luna (Isabel Allende)
March: Le Procès (Franz Kafka)
February: L’Idiot (Fedor Dostoïevski)
January: Le Canard enchaîné - Histoire d’un journal satirique (1915-2005) (Laurent Martin)

Read in 2005

December: La Pornographie (Witold Gombrowicz)
December: The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper)
November: Le brave soldat Chvéïk (Jaroslav Haček)
October: 99 francs (14,99 €) (Frédéric Beigbeder)
October: Le Rideau (Milan Kundera)
October: L’état de guerre (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
September 19th: L’Amérique (Franz Kafka)
September 2nd: La maison aux esprits (Isabel Allende)
August 16th: Mon pays réinventé (Isabel Allende)
August 1st: La vie sexuelle de Catherine M. (Catherine Millet)
July 23rd: Le château (Franz Kafka)
June 29th: American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
June 17th: L’Ignorance (Milan Kundera)
June 10th: Ferdydurke (Witold Gombrowicz)
May 27th: Le rideau (Milan Kundera)
May 18th: Antéchrista (Amélie Nothomb)
May 13th: The Secret Agent (Joseph Conrad)
April 23rd: L’espionne et le diplomate (Stéphanie Mesnier)
April: Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)
March: Kim (Rudyard Kipling)
February 14th: The Turn of the Screw (Henry James)
January 26th: A Woman of No Importance (Oscar Wilde)
January 22nd: Media Control. The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (Noam Chomsky)
January 20th: The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
January 18th: Les Combustibles (Amélie Nothomb)
January 17th: Ensemble, c’est tout (Anna Gavalda)
January 10th: Mercure (Amélie Nothomb)
January 7th: Péplum (Amélie Nothomb)
January 4th: Stupeur et tremblements (Amélie Nothomb)

Read in 2004

December 24th: La gangrène et l’oubli. La mémoire de la guerre d’Algérie (Benjamin Stora)
December 7th: Robert des noms propres (Amélie Nothomb)
December 2nd: Métaphysique des tubes (Amélie Nothomb)
November 29th: Cosmétique de l’ennemi (Amélie Nothomb)
November 27th: Attentat (Amélie Nothomb)
November 21st: Les Catilinaires (Amélie Nothomb)
November 19th: Hygiène de l’assassin (Amélie Nothomb)
November 17th: La grammaire est une chanson douce (Érik Orsenna)
November 16th: Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
November 2nd: Sacrés Français ! Un Américain nous regarde (Theodore Stanger)
October 20th: De la misère humaine en milieu publicitaire (Groupe Marcuse)
October 15th: Olivia Joules and the overactive imagination (Helen Fielding)
October 10th: Pour un catastrophisme éclairé (Jean-Pierre Dupuy)
September 30th: First Meetings in the Enderverse (Orson Scott Card)
September 26th: Sourcery (Terry Pratchett)
September 17th: Et si c’était vrai ? (Marc Lévy)
September 14th: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Joanne Kathleen Rowling)
September 5th: Je l’aimais (Anna Gavalda)
September 2nd: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Joanne Kathleen Rowling)
August 23rd: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Joanne Kathleen Rowling)
August 17th: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Joanne Kathleen Rowling)
August 9th: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Joanne Kathleen Rowling)
August 8th: The Salmon of Doubt: And Other Writings (Douglas Adams)
July 27th: Sept jours pour une éternité (Marc Lévy)
July 23th: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Douglas Adams)
April 15th: Todo sobre mi madre / (Pedro Almodovar)
January 6th: Jude the obscure (Thomas Hardy)

Read in 2003

December 27th: Ma ligne 13 (Pierre-Louis Basse)
December 20th: The picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
December 14th: American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)
December 3th: Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (Douglas Adams)
November 24th: Le cauchemar médiatique (Daniel Schneidermann)
November 16th: L’ignorance (Milan Kundera)
November 12th: Shadow Puppets (Orson Scott Card)
November 5th: Propagandes silencieuses (Ignacio Ramonet)
October 27th: Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Caroll)
October 25th: Comme un roman (Daniel Pennac)
October 22nd: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Caroll)
October 20th: Shadow of the Hegemon (Orson Scott Card)
October 15th: Cause Celeb (Helene Fielding)
October 12th: Lettres d’Algérie (Philippe Bernard & Nathaniel Herzberg)
October 8th: Aux fruits de la passion (Daniel Pennac)
October 6th: Je hais mon chien (Charles Nemes)
September 25th: Messieurs les enfants (Daniel Pennac)
September 21st: Ender’s Shadow (Orson Scott Card)
September 14th: The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Christopher Marlowe)
August 29th: Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)
August 16th: Le dictateur et le hamac (Daniel Pennac)
August 16th: Mort (Terry Pratchett)
August 10th: Monsieur Malaussène (Daniel Pennac)
August 9th: Ravage (René Barjavel)
August 9th: Children of the Mind (Orson Scott Card)
August 4th: Xenocide (Orson Scott Card)
August 2nd: Le Pen, les mots (Maryse Souchard, Stéphane Wahnich, Isabelle Cuminal & Virginie Wathier)
July 24th: Speaker for the Dead (Orson Scott Card)
July 22nd: La petite marchande de prose (Daniel Pennac)
July 20th: Fragilité de la Puissance (Alain Gras)
July 15th: Dégraissez-moi ça ! (Michael Moore)
July: La fée carabine (Daniel Pennac)
July: Pouvoir et Terreur (Noam Chomsky)
July: Au bonheur des ogres (Daniel Pennac)
June: La Fabrique de l’Opinion Publique (Noam Chomsky & Edward S. Herman)
June: Journal d’une combattante (Naomi Klein)
May: Love in a blue time (Hanif Kureishi)
May: L’État voyou (William Blum)
May: Jours et nuits d’amour et de guerre (Eduardo Galeano)
April: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (Helen Fielding)
April: Les petits soldats du journalisme (François Ruffin)
March: La grande désillusion (Joseph E. Stiglitz)
March: 11/9 (Noam Chomsky)
February: Questions de sociologie (Pierre Bourdieu)
February: Bridget Jones’s Diary (Helen Fielding)
January: Mike contre-attaque ! (Michael Moore)
January: No Logo (Naomi Klein)

Read in 2002

December: Je voudrais que quelqu’un m’attende quelque part (Anna Gavalda)
December: Equal Rites (Terry Pratchett)
November: Mostly Harmless (Douglas Adams)
November: So long, and thanks for all the Fish (Douglas Adams)
November: Life, the Universe and Everything (Douglas Adams)
October: L’insoutenable légèreté de l’être (Milan Kundera)
October: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Douglas Adams)
October: De la Propagande (Noam Chomsky)
September: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
September: Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
September: The Light Fantastic (Terry Pratchett)
September: The Colour of Magic (Terry Pratchett)
August: La nuit des temps (René Barjavel)
August: Non-lieux (Marc Augé)
August: Gödel, Escher, Bach (Douglas Hofstadter)