Best Friend Forever Login

Months ago I made up this quick site called junklog to track my reading habits. I had been rolling through a lot of books and wanted a simple del.icio.us style tool to let me log and rate them and nothing I tried did what I wanted. I’ve decided to open it up and see if it’s useful to anyone but me. Still pretty rough around the edges but I’ve been using it for a few months and it seems to work. It has tagging, rss feeds, uses the amazon.com database, lets you log books, music and dvds, etc.

You can check out my logged items here. And here’s where I test posting my last 5 read books to my blog:

• Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
  This had some interesting ideas in it but mostly bored me. I nearly gave up reading it right near the end but forced myself to stay with it.
  (tags: scifi mars)
• The Time Traveler’s Wife (Harvest Book) by Audrey Niffenegger
  This was more of a romance novel than anything sci-fi which was disappointing to me. And I found it kind of just wandered and ultimately was pretty boring.
  (tags: timetravel romance scifi)
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
  Pretty good. A simple story told in an interesting setting with some fun characters (like Hatsumomo).
  (tags: geisha fiction)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
  This is a great book. I’ve read it twice now and I guess I should see the movie.
  (tags: mentalillness classics)
• The Stand : Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet) by Stephen King
  This was the first Stephen King book I read. It was pretty good, though some of the god mumbo jumbo lost me.
  (tags: stephenking horror)

Posted on - January 16, 2006 [at] 2:13 pm by Brad
Tagged in - books, misc

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5 Comments on this post

Evan Erwin on junklog & latest books I’ve read
January 16, 2006 at 4:23 pm

One Flew is definitely a classic. I LOVED the book and after reading it saw the flick. What can I say, I was disappointed in what was left out, but for what it was…it was a damn fine flick. Jack Nicholson is perfect, the big indian is represented well (forgive me, it’s been a few years since I read/watch) and Nurse Ratchet is, indeed, scary stuff.

You’ll dig it.

Brad on junklog & latest books I’ve read
January 16, 2006 at 4:35 pm

If there was a video store worth a damn around here I would have rented it by now, but no such luck.

Jason on junklog & latest books I’ve read
January 17, 2006 at 11:15 am

Very cool site idea. Suggestion, how about adding games to it as well?

Brad on junklog & latest books I’ve read
January 17, 2006 at 4:07 pm

Games would be easy enough to add if there’s demand for it.

Brad on junklog & latest books I’ve read
January 18, 2006 at 11:13 pm

Games are now in. Thank ye.