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dustydigger
Posted 2015-10-09 5:22 AM (#11462 - in reply to #10669)
Subject: Re: The Definitive 1960s Reading Challenge		Quote Reply



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Location: UK		I have finally finished the 60s challenge,though only the basic 10 books. Reading only library copies limits the choice a lot,as they can be hard to come by,so I was lucky to find the Open Library site,where I found my reads for 1961,1963,1964,1965.1968 and 1969!.
I have read all 12 of the books which may survive to the 22nd century,and these were my reads by the year
1960 : Mark Clifton - Eight Keys to Eden
1961 : Harry Harrison - The Stainless Steel Rat
1962 : Samuel R Delany - The Jewels of Aptor
1963 : Clifford Simak - Way Station
1964 : Jack Vance - The Star King
1965 : Fred Pohl - A Plague of Pythons
1966 : Samuel R Delany - Babel-17
1967 : Samuel R Delany - Einstein Intersection
1968 : Alexei Panshin - Rite of Passage
1969 : P K Dick - Galactic Pot Healer
That brings me up to 50 books(36%) off the list,with 27 others on my Himilayan TBR for the future. Those are all the books that will be available free online for me.
I probably wont be doing the 1970s challenge anytime soon,if at all. I have read a measly 19/102 from that list,and can barely scrape together perhaps 15 available books I could even bear to read.Mind you,I am even worse with the 90s,a mere 19/136 books.Sorry,I am an old dinosaur,living in the past.
I am having much more fun steeping myself in the 50s list,where I still have 24 books from the list on my TBR. Then of course the 27 from the 60s,its going to be a long time before dutifully reading from the 70s,which seems a bit sparse to say the least.


Edited by dustydigger 2015-10-09 5:27 AM

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