What's your favorite book that came out in 2005?

I'll do music in January when I get more CDs.

My favorite so far from this year: Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince. Runner up: Al Franken's The Truth (with jokes.)

Rowling just keeps getting more and more interesting...

She really built up the plot nicely.

It's gonna be great. :D :P

in her mind. So she might have started.

she said she'd give it a year before starting the actual writing. She knows exactly where it's going, though.

:hi:

I'll edit that in.

:woohoo:

:hide: :evilgrin: If so, The Last Days of Dogtown, by Anita Diament.

Many more books than that one came out. :hi:

I'm alerting on this post!

Only freepers don't love Harry Potter!

j/k :P

Guess I shouldn't mention my signed Ann Coulter!:7 :7

(It's actually the complete set of around a dozen comics he put out - which I'd never heard of - under one nice hardback roof.)

"The setting is Seattle during the early '70s. A sexually transmitted disease, the "bug," is spreading among teenagers. Those who get it develop bizarre mutations?sometimes subtle, like a tiny mouth at the base of one boy's neck, and sometimes obvious and grotesque. The most visibly deformed victims end up living as homeless campers in the woods, venturing into the streets only when they have to, shunned by normal society. The story follows two teens, Keith and Chris, as they get the bug. Their dreams and hallucinations?made of deeply disturbing symbolism merging sexuality and sickness?are a key part of the tale. The AIDS metaphor is obvious, but the bug also amplifies already existing teen emotions and the wrenching changes of puberty. Burns's art is inhumanly precise, and he makes ordinary scenes as creepy as his nightmare visions of a world where intimacy means a life worse than death."

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/037542380X/

Absolutely brilliant stuff which I've had to stop myself from instantly re-reading. Aside from Alan Moore's "Watchmen", this is the first graphic novel I've read and boy am I a convert to the genre.

Joseph Trento's "Prelude to Terror" was probably the best non-fiction I read. A compelling look at the 'rogue'/private CIA setup in the wake of the Church Committee & the so-called international "Safari Club" which gave it support.

I also enjoyed the paperbacks (okay, the books probably came out in 2004 but sue me!) of "Hiding the Elephant" by Jim Steinmeyer, "The Men Who Stare at Goats" by Jon Ronson and "Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell. The Robbie Williams 'biography' "Feel" by Chris Heath was a good fun read too.

edit - oh yeah, I enjoyed HP! But I did feel like it was a very, very long prologue to book 7.