{"id":759,"date":"2012-01-08T09:40:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T09:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?p=759"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:29:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:29:55","slug":"read-and-watched-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/read-and-watched-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Read and watched in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the record &#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>Read:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780385619264\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Snuff<\/a>, Terry Pratchett<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780552153690\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ark Royal<\/a>, Mike Rossiter<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780156027595\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Cyberiad<\/a>, Stanislaw Lem<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9781596923072\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Crow Road<\/a>, Iain Banks<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780747596486\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Suspicions of Mr Whicher<\/a>, Kate Summerscale<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780340820469\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On Writing<\/a>, Stephen King<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9781903689738\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pig&#8217;s Progress<\/a>, Jeanette Sears<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780575079199\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peace and War<\/a>, Joe Haldeman<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780802723314\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Time Riders<\/a>, Alex Scarrow<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780007428540\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Game of Thrones<\/a>, George R.R. Martin<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9781451637502\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cryoburn<\/a>, Lois McMaster Bujold<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780304355204\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Death of the Scharnhorst<\/a>, John Winton<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9781907519994\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Recollection<\/a>, Gareth L. Powell<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780552551199\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Margrave of the Marshes<\/a>, John Peel<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780099511243\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Woman in White<\/a>, Wilkie Collins<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780141041155\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Perfume: The Story of a Murderer<\/a>, Patrick S\u00fcskind<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780718154837\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Fry Chronicles<\/a>, Stephen Fry<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9781847390899\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whitehall: The Street that Shaped a Nation<\/a>, Colin Brown<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780571272389\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy<\/a>, Andy Briggs<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780007194865\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Deserter<\/a>, Peadar \u00d3 Guil\u00edn<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780007194865\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Death of Dalziel<\/a>, Reginald Hill<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9781408800522\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David<\/a>, Mary Hoffman<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780330512008\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Young Sherlock Holmes: Black Ice<\/a>, Andrew Lane<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780857890108\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Midwinter of the Spirit<\/a>, Phil Rickman<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780307473462\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Reader<\/a>, Bernhard Schlink<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9781409102380\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Good Hanging and Other Stories<\/a>, Ian Rankin<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780141318608\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blood Fever<\/a>, Charlie Higson<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780141040080\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mother Tongue<\/a>, Bill Bryson<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780007313051\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An April Shroud<\/a>, Reginald Hill<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780007313020\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Clubbable Woman<\/a>, Reginald Hill<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780552773898\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Book Thief<\/a>, Markus Zusak<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780007343904\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Woodcutter<\/a>, Reginald Hill<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780385610810\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lob<\/a>, Linda Newbery<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9781841499475\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Degrees of Freedom<\/a>, Simon Morden<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780006511717\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reave the Just and Other Tales<\/a>, Stephen Donaldson<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9781406310498\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scorpia Rising<\/a>, Anthony Horowitz<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9781841499468\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Theories of Flight<\/a>, Simon Morden<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9781841499482\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Equations of Life<\/a>, Simon Morden<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9781841191751\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Mammoth Book of Life Before the Mast: Firsthand Accounts of Naval Warfare from the Age of Nelson and Fighting Sail<\/a>, ed. Jon E. Lewis<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780007304776\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Vivero Letter<\/a>, Desmond Bagley<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9781844860982\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scrimgeour&#8217;s Scribbling Diary: The Truly Astonishing Diary and Letters of an Edwardian Gentleman, Naval Officer, Boy and Son<\/a>, Alexander Scrimgeour<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780330493109\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The City and the City<\/a>, China Mi\u00e9ville<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780141031255\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Man Who Was Thursday<\/a>, G.K. Chesterton<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780743226875\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iron Tears: America&#8217;s Battle for Freedom, Britain&#8217;s Quagmire: 1775-1783<\/a>, Stanley Weintraub<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780552555593\/?a_aid=benjeapes\">I Shall Wear Midnight<\/a>, Terry Pratchett<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9781860460517\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Black Arrow<\/a>, Robert Louis Stevenson<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780192817402\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Jekyll &amp; Mr Hyde and Weir of Hermiston<\/a>, Robert Louis Stevenson<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780007113224\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography<\/a>, Claire Harman<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780007156481\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mr Golightly&#8217;s Holiday<\/a>, Salley Vickers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Gave up on:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780571224623\/?a_aid=benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wormwood<\/a>, G.P. Taylor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Watched:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0074452\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Eagle Has Landed<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0469494\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">There Will Be Blood<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1615918\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alvin &amp; the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0089360\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jagged Edge<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0936501\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taken<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1458175\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Next Three Days<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1034389\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Eagle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0945513\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source Code<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0313542\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Runaway Jury<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0081070\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Long Good Friday<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0864761\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Duchess<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0980970\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0059319\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Ipcress File<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0104006\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Consenting Adults<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0460810\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Great Buck Howard<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1104001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tron: Legacy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0031448\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hound of the Baskervilles<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1440728\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The American<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0452624\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Good German<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1371155\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Made in Dagenham<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0099052\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arachnophobia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0457430\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pan&#8217;s Labyrinth<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0064541\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1343097\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet&#8217;s Nest<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0054698\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breakfast at Tiffany&#8217;s<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1285016\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Social Network<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1323594\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Despicable Me<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1027718\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1403865\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">True Grit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0358273\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Walk the Line<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1245526\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Red<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0910970\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wall-E<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0073195\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jaws<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0444653\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keeping Mum<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0094291\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wall Street<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0892791\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shrek Forever After<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1216487\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Girl Who Played with Fire<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0134119\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Talented Mr Ripley<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1234548\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Men Who Stare at Goats<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1504320\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The King&#8217;s Speech<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the record &#8230; Read: Snuff, Terry Pratchett Ark Royal, Mike Rossiter The Cyberiad, Stanislaw Lem The Crow Road, Iain Banks The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Kate Summerscale On Writing, Stephen King Pig&#8217;s Progress, Jeanette Sears Peace and War, Joe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/read-and-watched-in-2011\/\">Continue reading <span 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