Movies are surprisingly the more difficult portion of this challenge for me as well. I totally thought that I would fail the book challenge, but I am currently a month ahead on that front. I had to resort to watching those 75-80 minute DC Animated features to meet this month's quota on movies.
50 Books. 50 Movies. 1 Year (2014).
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Movies are surprisingly the more difficult portion of this challenge for me as well. I totally thought that I would fail the book challenge, but I am currently a month ahead on that front. I had to resort to watching those 75-80 minute DC Animated features to meet this month's quota on movies.
Tragicomedy
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Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night; and thus he would never know the rhythms that are at the heart of life. - Hal Borland
Current pace needed for completion (as of 1 October):
GAF totals:
Monthly Progress:
Members who have completed the challenge:
Members currently on pace to complete the challenge:
Top 20 book worms:
Top 20 film buffs:
Most balanced with the force:
Least balanced with the force:
Current pace needed for completion (as of 1 October):
- 37/50 books | 37/50 movies
GAF totals:
- 2,891 Books
- 5,920 Movies
Monthly Progress:
Members who have completed the challenge:
- Glaurungr - 118/50 books | 140/50 movies (completed 27 March)
- TestMonkey - 59/50 books | 59/50 movies (completed 8 August)
- lastflowers - 60/50 books | 57/50 movies (completed 9 August)
- EverythingShiny - 52/50 books | 52/50 movies (completed 18 August)
- kinoki - 57/50 books | 92/50 movies (completed 24 August)
- TheWarrior - 50/50 books | 50/50 movies (completed 17 September)
Members currently on pace to complete the challenge:
- Ephidel - 43/50 books | 135/50 movies
- roosters93 - 43/50 books | 93/50 movies
- Lumiere - 89/50 books | 45/50 movies
- FUBAR McDangles - 40/50 books | 64/50 movies
- avengers23 - 37/50 books | 61/50 movies
- Tragicomedy - 47/50 books | 49/50 movies
- Reyne - 50/50 books | 43/50 movies
- Empty - 45/50 books | 44/50 movies
- DieUnbekannte - 39/50 books | 44/50 movies
- kswiston - 41/50 books | 38/50 movies
Top 20 book worms:
- Glaurungr - 118
- Mumei - 103
- Lumiere - 89
- Cyan - 69
- lastflowers - 60
- TestMonkey - 59
- kinoki - 57
- EverythingShiny - 52
- Reyne - 50
- TheWarrior - 50
- Pau - 48
- Tragicomedy - 47
- Empty - 45
- Ephidel - 43
- rooster93 - 43
- kswiston - 41
- FUBAR McDangles - 40
- DieUnbekannte - 39
- Jintor - 39
- Saphirax - 38
Top 20 film buffs:
- Henry Swanson - 221
- Narag - 210
- Glaurungr - 140
- Ephidel - 135
- ridley182 - 121
- Saya - 115
- jarofbees - 110
- Verdre - 94
- roosters93 - 93
- Kinoki - 92
- siyrobbo - 92
- BrokenEchelon - 86
- SaltyDoughtnut - 82
- zoozilla - 74
- markhimself - 65
- FUBAR McDangles - 64
- Forsaken82 - 64
- Enco - 62
- avengers23 - 61
- white dynamite - 60
Most balanced with the force:
- TestMonkey - 59/50 books | 59/50 movies
- EverythingShiny - 52/50 books | 52/50 movies
- TheWarrior - 50/50 books | 50/50 movies
Least balanced with the force:
Tragicomedy
Member
You are two ahead of pace on books. Remember, it's always a lot easier to catch up on movies towards the end of the year than it is to catch up on books. We had folks who watched 20+ movies last December in order to hit their goal. You've got this!
Also, GO ROYALS!!! They delayed me updating this thread, and it was worth every moment.
Tragicomedy
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WiiRevolution1
Member
Sorry if I am triple posting this. I keep trying to post but it doesn't appear on NeoGAF.
Fake edit: Bah Mobile! Not twlling me that it was too long.
Well I just wanted to say that I read a hundred books :O Not all of them count since they were rereads but still.
I haven't watched any movies thismyear lol. I'm slowly planning to try to do maybe not 50 but a good number of new and old movies next year.
I keep detailed account of my books read so I thought I'd post my list. Andmyes, I know I kinda cheated on January 1st hehe...also please note the new authors section is badly messed up:
And a full list of exacly how long it took me to read each book. (Sorry, I don't have a time for the EXACT hours and minutes lol):
Yeah...I just recently thought to put the author name. I should put number of pages aswell...
As you can probably guess, Christopher Pike is my favorite author. There is no contest. Read all his books besides Spooksville and the two short story collections and that one book he did in that series that each author wrote one book. I have decided to reread all of his books, one a month
And since I've already spilled a shit ton of info, I leave you with 2013's reads just for comparisons sake. Tomorrow, I will beat last year's number of books :O
Actually one more thing, The Last Vampire series by Christopher Pike is my favorite series of all time. And rereading it was something else. I think I literally went insane reading this many pages so fast:
Fake edit: Bah Mobile! Not twlling me that it was too long.
Well I just wanted to say that I read a hundred books :O Not all of them count since they were rereads but still.
I haven't watched any movies thismyear lol. I'm slowly planning to try to do maybe not 50 but a good number of new and old movies next year.
I keep detailed account of my books read so I thought I'd post my list. Andmyes, I know I kinda cheated on January 1st hehe...also please note the new authors section is badly messed up:
And a full list of exacly how long it took me to read each book. (Sorry, I don't have a time for the EXACT hours and minutes lol):
Yeah...I just recently thought to put the author name. I should put number of pages aswell...
As you can probably guess, Christopher Pike is my favorite author. There is no contest. Read all his books besides Spooksville and the two short story collections and that one book he did in that series that each author wrote one book. I have decided to reread all of his books, one a month
And since I've already spilled a shit ton of info, I leave you with 2013's reads just for comparisons sake. Tomorrow, I will beat last year's number of books :O
Actually one more thing, The Last Vampire series by Christopher Pike is my favorite series of all time. And rereading it was something else. I think I literally went insane reading this many pages so fast:
(The reason I saod "rain" is because I used to walk while reading for anout an hour a day. Those kids were so damn annoying. Bah!)
Tragicomedy
Member
I've never seen someone keep that level of detail regarding their reading. Doesn't Goodreads track a lot of that automatically for you (e.g. total page count, date you start and finish a book, etc.)?
I combed through your entire list and have read exactly one book on it: The Fault in Our Stars. I'm not familiar with anything by Christopher Pike. Does his stuff fall firmly under the YA category? I was glancing at The Last Vampire covers and they seem to be marketed that way. I enjoy a good YA book every now and then, but I find there are certain authors that handle it better without catering too hard to teens and dumbing down the writing. Where would you recommend I start with him?
Tragicomedy
Member
You have a social life? I've found your problem right there!
But seriously, just read every night before going to bed. If you have a long commute to work, listen to an audiobook. That's my system and it hasn't failed me yet.
I do this too. If it seems like a book is taking longer than normal, I just make sure the next one is short. In normal months, I can read 1500-2000 pages, so obviously reading ASOIAF style epics is not the best way to hit that 50 book mark, unless I mix in some novellas. I have been trying to stick to Mumei's around 100+ pages suggestion though.
WiiRevolution1
Member
Yeah, lots of details on goodreads, I just like to have backups/offline stats.
Onto Pike, well I think even his worse stuff is good on some level. His Spooksville series is a middle grade series and is not that good tho. I will try to explain some of his books but I am usually not good at explaining so here I go:
Most of Pike's main books (AKA what I prefer to as not Spooksville) are very high quality, some of then can be predictable, some of them can be whodunits, some of them involve supernatural creatures, some of them can be very spiritual some of them are Scifi, and some are all the above.
The Last Vampire series kinda has a little bit of all the above. The new covers are targeted at the YA but it is not really a YA novel. I must admit, it has a few romance bits that I kinda found out've place besides the first boy she meets since he is supposed to be a reincarnation of her previous husband.
The Last Vampire series (renamed simply Thirst in the new collections) star The Last Vampire, Sita who is over 5,000 years old at the beginning of the series, which takes place in modern times. (Well the 90s since thats when the original six books were published.)
She is obviously very old and powerful but the series starts with her trying to find someone who is tracking her. It leads her having to go undercover at a high school to get a password for a computer which I admit doesn't sound all that interesting and but the story over the span of the series keeps evolving, you see her creation, and her death. You see people die around her. She gets found out by the government and has to stop them from spreading vampirism since she made a promise to Krishna when she met him all those years ago to not make anymore vampires.
And that is only a small sample of what happens throughout the series without trying to give too much away. Thirst #1 has The Last Vampire #1-3 and Thirst #2 has TLV #4-6 collections from the original books from the 90s. The series continued in 2010 with Thirst #3 which was TLV #7, then so on with thirst # and #5.
It is just the way TLV and most of his other books are written, their world, their characters, are just so good. When I was reading through his collection for the first time, I was always hooked, even on some of his poorer books.
I highly recommend TLV series, but if you would rather start with a standalone book...man, there are just so many. I'd go with the one I just reread which is actually one of his very few adult books, The Season of Passage which also had a rerelease recently. It stars Lauren, who is going on a US trip to Mars in the future. Which was 2002 because the book was written in the 70s. Don't think about the lack of cell phones too much.
But the Russians went two years before, and all communication from them was lost after a few days. Theres a few different POVs. The other main one being her fiance who is on Earth...and a certain story. This book like most of my most favorites is very spiritual, but perhaps not in the way you would think. Its hard to explain these books without giving too much away. After reading a couple of his books and seeing how many he had, I decided to read the rest blind and it was magical, until I ran out. And he has atleast 40 "main" books. The Season of Passage and The Last Vampire Series are my favorite Standalone and Series of his.
A lot of his books can start slow, but really start going fast by the middle. Most of his books have bittersweet endings but some have completely horrible endings. Some of the plot twists in these books are down right insanity. You will never see The Eternal Enemy one coming. Some books can be quite fast paced. Alot of The Starlight Crystal's chapter last only a page, or even half a page. That one is crazy.
Aside from maybe a very few of his books, I don't think you'll be bored with them atleast. Maybe its just me, who knows? But I have loved every one of his books, especially his batshit insane ones. I'm not good at this pitching stuff, so I hope I did an okay job haha. And I hope you like them if you buy them and not tell me that its only me that likes them. D: (I know theres many others but still.)
I'll just leave with a simple list of some of my favorites in no order, since its hard to choose favorites:
The Last Vampire (Series)
Alosha (Series...well Trilogy. I don't expect the fourth book to come out at this point.)
Remember Me (Trilogy)
The Season of Passage (Standalone)
The Starlight Crystal (Standalone)
The Cold One (Standalone because he never wrote the sequel. The nerve! Works as a actual open ending I suppose)
Witch World (Ongoing series. Only one book. Second is out December 2nd.)
Witch (Standalone. Nothing to do with Witch World)
Magic Fire (Standalone)
Road to Nowhere (Standalone)
Whisper of Death (Standalone)
Sati (Standalone)
The Lost Mind (Standalone)
Those are just some off the top of my head. Probably other favorites that I forgot. Btw most of these werent't released so if you or anyone else gets them then you can buy most of them used on amazon for $4.
PS: Sorry for any typos. I tried, but its 2AM and I gotta sleep.
Tragicomedy
Member
Have you read the book?
The book has spoilers for the film.
Tragicomedy
Member
Well, when you put it that way, I've spoiled 90% of the movies I've seen.
With few exceptions, book > film. I think Gone Girl might be one of those exceptions.
I read 9 novels last month I think. Well finished off anyway. BTW I do count novels I've read before. 1 or 2 a year isn't too bad. I'm a maverick. 
& frankly I don't give a damn. Especially if I read it 20 years ago and can only recall the film it inspired. Or something like that.
I'm a very slow reader. Considering I read a dozen short stories every other weekend, I'm surprised that I am. & I end up analysing some books for no god damn reason. Measuring chapters and paragraphs are a thing now.
But I still do only count novels started this year. I don't care about the number of pages. On one particular weekend I read 500 pages over two ten hour days. Earlier this year, I read two chapters over a similar amount of time.
So it's all kind of crap. In terms of how much investure one has in this sport. Granted I may be an outlier. And to be fair to myself I don't count long half finished books that I sometimes read alongside a novel.
Anyways I could finish 10 this month. We'll know in about 7 days..
& frankly I don't give a damn. Especially if I read it 20 years ago and can only recall the film it inspired. Or something like that. I'm a very slow reader. Considering I read a dozen short stories every other weekend, I'm surprised that I am. & I end up analysing some books for no god damn reason. Measuring chapters and paragraphs are a thing now.
But I still do only count novels started this year. I don't care about the number of pages. On one particular weekend I read 500 pages over two ten hour days. Earlier this year, I read two chapters over a similar amount of time.
So it's all kind of crap. In terms of how much investure one has in this sport. Granted I may be an outlier. And to be fair to myself I don't count long half finished books that I sometimes read alongside a novel.
Anyways I could finish 10 this month. We'll know in about 7 days..
Tragicomedy
Member
My math is showing 41.826923, but you should never trust my math...
kinoki
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
I've had little time over these last two weeks with studies and work both demanding more of my time and mental focus.
Books
- Kompendium i miljöskydd, del 1 - Ekologi (2000), Perarvid Skoog - ★★ - It's been re-printed so many times it's surprising the writing is as bad as it is. It's basicly an introductory look at Swedens flora and fauna and their ecology. It fails at giving a clear picture of what's actually relevant even though a lot of facts are scattered in the text. The information is there, it's just hidden in the words.
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1914), James Joyce - ★★★★ - Joyce writes the same way I think. It's a very relaxing style where I often find my mind drifting in parallell with the narrative. The themes of breaking away from structures (childhood, religion, concept of art, socially expected romance, etc) is mirrored in the written word. I have a clearer picture of the Dedalus-persona so now it's back to Ulysses.
lastflowers
Banned
When I first attempted Ulysses, I realized just how inadequate my literary knowledge is. Maybe next year's 50/50 will finally prepare me enough for another attempt. I'm jealous of you right now!
kinoki
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
I feel pretty prepared. I'm also at the point where I know enough about the parts I'm lacking to keep notes of future books to read. Going to have to re-read Joyce sometime to add that reading to the experience. So, Ulysses is resting comfortably in my mind but it's Finnegan's Wake that's feeling like my trial by fire.
For good reason! It's 41.667
One extra book every 6 months, and October is month 4 in the second half.
I'm hoping to finish up Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes by Wednesday. I'm not exactly sure what I will be reading next.
Tragicomedy
Member
For good reason! It's 41.667
One extra book every 6 months, and October is month 4 in the second half.
This is some Common Core level math work! I'm offended at your oversimplification.
50 books over a 365 day period. 31 October will be the 304th day of 2014.
50/365 = 0.136986301369863
0.136986301369863 x 304 = 41.6438561643836
So rounding to standard decimal point notation, the correct answer is 41.64. Which is, ummmm, essentially the exact same number you reached.
TestMonkey
Member
I finished John Dies at the End the book and then watched the movie on Netflix. Never again. Movie took out all of the character development that I enjoyed in the book. When I saw Paul Giamatti was in it I decided to give the movie a chance. I was wrong.
Ashes - Books 29/50 | Films 54/50 | Seasons 16/12 |
updates:
# Divergence.
# The Awakening
# The Hound of the Baskervilles
# Red Harvest
# O Pioneers!
# Shards of Honour
# The Maze Runner
# The Kreutzer Sonata
# The Scortch Trials
[It's only going to be books that consume me going forward.]
updates:
# Divergence.
# The Awakening
# The Hound of the Baskervilles
# Red Harvest
# O Pioneers!
# Shards of Honour
# The Maze Runner
# The Kreutzer Sonata
# The Scortch Trials
[It's only going to be books that consume me going forward.]
With the recent announcement of Twin Peaks coming back,
I want to read David Lynch's book, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity. Has anyone read or listened to this book yet?
Also, which Lynch films should I watch? I have only seen Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet. The latter I plan to rewatch and count for this challenge, since I remember absolutely nothing about it.
OH GOD, YESSSSSSS!!!!!!
Also, which Lynch films should I watch? I have only seen Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet. The latter I plan to rewatch and count for this challenge, since I remember absolutely nothing about it.
CharminUltra
Member
September update:
I saw 30 movies in September, 30! This may not seem like much to some of you, but it's the most movies I've seen in a single month, ever, and it was GREAT. That said, I'm afraid that books suffered a little this month, though. I believe it was a combination of having to work a lot of OT and using what little free time I had left to watch movies instead.
On a side note, I made a small adjustment to my personal scale. "One star" used to mean "avoid" to me. I have now changed it to "Unessential." I won't bore you with the details, but let's just say that regardless how bad *I* feel a movie may have been, I always seem to get a little something out of it, like an ironic or unintended life or work lesson. In fact, had I *avoided* some of the films I have rated as "one-star" throughout this challenge, I would certainly have missed out on several tidbits of wisdom.
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I follow my own personal 4 star scale:
★★★★ = Timeless Masterpiece
★★★ = Buy
★★ = Rent/Borrow
★ = Unessential
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ridley182 - 28/50 Books | 151/50 Movies
Books:
No Country For Old Men ★★ < Favorite Book of the Month
Movies:
Black Narcissus ★★★
Lost Highway ★★
Lola ★★★
Attack of the Giant Leeches ★
The Wasp Woman ★
Creature From The Haunted Sea ★
House (1977) ★★★
A Bucket of Blood ★★
Spartacus ★★★
Blood Simple ★★★
Last Woman on Earth ★
The Little Shop of Horrors ★★
9/11 ★★★
The Man From Earth ★★
Breathless ★★★
Tusk ★
Ted ★★
Wall Street ★★★
Man of Steel ★★
The Emperor's New Groove ★★
Blue Ruin ★★
9/11: Science and Conspiracy ★★
Eyes Wide Shut ★★★
Pleasantville ★★
12 Years A Slave ★★★
Stand By Me ★★
Following ★
The Boxtrolls ★★
There Will Be Blood ★★★★ < Favorite Movie of the Month
After Earth ★
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Favorite Book - September: No Country For Old Men
I don't have much to say about No Country. It was a fun little book. I believe my favorite part about it was the style in which it was written; I love the sparse, economical prose and minimal punctuation. I have to say that I enjoyed the movie a little bit more, however.
Favorite Movie - September: There Will Be Blood
I have to say that I may have cheated a little bit here. I did see There Will Be Blood back when it was released... or to be precise, I saw the last half of it in theaters, then saw bits and pieces of the first half over the years. This is the first time I've seen the movie from beginning to end without interruption. Anyway, I'm not sure my rather poor command of the English language will allow me to do the film justice in this write up, so let me just say that I feel this movie is, hands down, the finest movie of the decade bar none. Buy it, watch it, love it.
I saw 30 movies in September, 30! This may not seem like much to some of you, but it's the most movies I've seen in a single month, ever, and it was GREAT. That said, I'm afraid that books suffered a little this month, though. I believe it was a combination of having to work a lot of OT and using what little free time I had left to watch movies instead.
On a side note, I made a small adjustment to my personal scale. "One star" used to mean "avoid" to me. I have now changed it to "Unessential." I won't bore you with the details, but let's just say that regardless how bad *I* feel a movie may have been, I always seem to get a little something out of it, like an ironic or unintended life or work lesson. In fact, had I *avoided* some of the films I have rated as "one-star" throughout this challenge, I would certainly have missed out on several tidbits of wisdom.
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I follow my own personal 4 star scale:
★★★★ = Timeless Masterpiece
★★★ = Buy
★★ = Rent/Borrow
★ = Unessential
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ridley182 - 28/50 Books | 151/50 Movies
Books:
No Country For Old Men ★★ < Favorite Book of the Month
Movies:
Black Narcissus ★★★
Lost Highway ★★
Lola ★★★
Attack of the Giant Leeches ★
The Wasp Woman ★
Creature From The Haunted Sea ★
House (1977) ★★★
A Bucket of Blood ★★
Spartacus ★★★
Blood Simple ★★★
Last Woman on Earth ★
The Little Shop of Horrors ★★
9/11 ★★★
The Man From Earth ★★
Breathless ★★★
Tusk ★
Ted ★★
Wall Street ★★★
Man of Steel ★★
The Emperor's New Groove ★★
Blue Ruin ★★
9/11: Science and Conspiracy ★★
Eyes Wide Shut ★★★
Pleasantville ★★
12 Years A Slave ★★★
Stand By Me ★★
Following ★
The Boxtrolls ★★
There Will Be Blood ★★★★ < Favorite Movie of the Month
After Earth ★
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Favorite Book - September: No Country For Old Men
I don't have much to say about No Country. It was a fun little book. I believe my favorite part about it was the style in which it was written; I love the sparse, economical prose and minimal punctuation. I have to say that I enjoyed the movie a little bit more, however.
Favorite Movie - September: There Will Be Blood
I have to say that I may have cheated a little bit here. I did see There Will Be Blood back when it was released... or to be precise, I saw the last half of it in theaters, then saw bits and pieces of the first half over the years. This is the first time I've seen the movie from beginning to end without interruption. Anyway, I'm not sure my rather poor command of the English language will allow me to do the film justice in this write up, so let me just say that I feel this movie is, hands down, the finest movie of the decade bar none. Buy it, watch it, love it.
Tragicomedy
Member
Tragicomedy - 50/50 Books | 51/50 Movies
I'm adding my name to the list of 2014 finishers. I finished on 14 October last year, so I was right on track again this year. There weren't as many early finishers last year as this year, and I'm super impressed with how many people are on track to finish. We had 18 total finishers in 2013, and I have a strong feeling we'll surpass that in 2014.
I didn't participate in the 2012 edition of this, but I want to go back and find some silly way to recognize past winners going forward. I'm thinking of creating some sort of Hall of Fame category where I can place a star or something next to the names of past finishers. I know we have some folks on here that are three for three, which is dang impressive.
Anyway, time to get back to reading some books. I hope to surpass my 56/56 from last year.
I'm adding my name to the list of 2014 finishers. I finished on 14 October last year, so I was right on track again this year. There weren't as many early finishers last year as this year, and I'm super impressed with how many people are on track to finish. We had 18 total finishers in 2013, and I have a strong feeling we'll surpass that in 2014.
I didn't participate in the 2012 edition of this, but I want to go back and find some silly way to recognize past winners going forward. I'm thinking of creating some sort of Hall of Fame category where I can place a star or something next to the names of past finishers. I know we have some folks on here that are three for three, which is dang impressive.
Anyway, time to get back to reading some books. I hope to surpass my 56/56 from last year.
Did you go on a comic binge this week?
I think I can finish the book challenge by the end of November, but I will probably need the entire year for the movie challenge.
Tragicomedy
Member
I read issues 1-23 of Saga, 1-18 of Avengers Arena, and then went through Ghost World by Daniel Clowes, which I'd heard very positive stuff about. Loved the first, liked the second, and the third is definitely not for me. The biggest comic book investment for me this year was going through all 83 issues (main series and side stories) of Punisher MAX. I loved it, but that's a heck of a lot of comic books.
On the non-comic front, I'm hoping to finish up the last book in the Southern Reach trilogy in the next day or two. Kudos to Mumei and Besada for turning me on to this series. It's so far out there I'm not even sure how to describe it, but I love the pacing, characters, and general trajectory of the story. I do hope there's some firm resolution at the end of this book, but it doesn't strike me as that kind of a story.
Movies are movies. I'm less concerned with watching "quality" films this year and just slapping on whatever. My idea to watch the entire Police Academy series stalled out with the fifth film, but I still plan to put them to rest. Forever. They are quite painful, unfunny movies, but a commitment is a commitment.
BrokenEchelon
Banned
I've read five years worth of batman comics this year. I may need to figure out how to collect those together to finish up my book count because it looks sad right now.
Every Batman comic for those 5 years, or Morrison's/Snyder's run? Pretty impressive if it is the former.
Tragicomedy
Member
I try my best to list them by "completed" stories, if that makes sense. Like Punisher MAX was five years worth of comics, but it was all one interconnected story. If you read the last few years of the Snyder run, I would definitely count it. I would also count the Morrison run in its entirety as a separate book for the purpose of this list.
BrokenEchelon
Banned
'90 - '95 actually.
Working off this list and trying to go in release order because I'm a masochist:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Batman_comics
So all of this stuff:
Batman: Run, Riddler, Run
Gotham Nights
Batman: Sword of Azrael
Robin 3000
Robin III: Cry of the Huntress
Batman: Two-Face Strikes Twice!
Huntress volume 2
Batman: Gotham Nights II
Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight: Jazz
And the graphic novels, and the ongoing stuff (DC, Batman, Legends of the Dark Knight).
I've been chipping away at it over the last three years or so and I just have these spurts where I'll spend a couple of weeks reading them before bed or while working from home during downtime.
So if it gets to be close to the end of the year, I might try to bundle them up as you guys suggested. I've been working through a lot of Heinlein's stuff but I kinda burned up on it. I wanted to hit a lot of Sci-Fi this year, and I haven't read nearly as much as I planned to.
Also, grats on finishing!
I find if I concentrate on the same genre for too long I start to lose interest. For instance, the last 5 books I have finished have either been historical fiction or historical non-fiction. I am now in the mood for something completely different.
Tragicomedy
Member
For sure. I read a ton of fantasy and science fiction, but have to break it up every few books to keep things fresh.
BrokenEchelon
Banned
Yeah. Usually what ends up happening is that I start craving a different genre or topic, and once I finish whatever I'm reading, I move on to that. Sometimes all it takes is one book to clear my palette.
Freeza Under The Shower
Member
only six movies and I'm done with the movie part. I'll be lucky if I hit twenty books though. 
Nope and I'm glad I didn't.
Was a great film. Fincher is brilliant but he has made better ones (Zodiac, The Game).
Hit 20 books, 63 movies.
Hopefully get at least 25 books.
11/50 books - 0/50 movies
Books:
1 - Pratchett, Terry: Snuff
2 - Lampedusa, Tomasi di: The Leopard
3 - Kahneman, Daniel: Thinking, Fast and Slow
4 - Wilde, Oscar: Complete Plays (in Complete Works of Oscar Wilde)
5 - Forsyth, Mark: The Etymologicon
6 - Camus, Albert: The Plague
7 - Wilde, Oscar: Complete Poems (in Complete Works of Oscar Wilde)
8 - Hayder, Mo: Tokyo
9 - Wilde, Oscar: Essays, Selected Joutnalism, Lectures and Letters (in Complete Works of Oscar Wilde)
10 - Díaz, Junot: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
11 - Pushkin, Alexander: The Collected Stories
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12 - Sorensen, Herb: Inside the Mind of the Shopper - The Science of Retailing (reading)
Plus a few short stories in Major American Short Stories, 3rd ed.
An uncharacteristically shallow year reading-wise. But the first half was hindered by reading for school, and I also spent a LOT of time on that complete Oscar Wilde-volume. Will probably come close to 20 before year-end.
Books:
1 - Pratchett, Terry: Snuff
2 - Lampedusa, Tomasi di: The Leopard
3 - Kahneman, Daniel: Thinking, Fast and Slow
4 - Wilde, Oscar: Complete Plays (in Complete Works of Oscar Wilde)
5 - Forsyth, Mark: The Etymologicon
6 - Camus, Albert: The Plague
7 - Wilde, Oscar: Complete Poems (in Complete Works of Oscar Wilde)
8 - Hayder, Mo: Tokyo
9 - Wilde, Oscar: Essays, Selected Joutnalism, Lectures and Letters (in Complete Works of Oscar Wilde)
10 - Díaz, Junot: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
11 - Pushkin, Alexander: The Collected Stories
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12 - Sorensen, Herb: Inside the Mind of the Shopper - The Science of Retailing (reading)
Plus a few short stories in Major American Short Stories, 3rd ed.
An uncharacteristically shallow year reading-wise. But the first half was hindered by reading for school, and I also spent a LOT of time on that complete Oscar Wilde-volume. Will probably come close to 20 before year-end.
Decided to quit Wizard's First Rule at the halfway mark. There is nothing redeemable about that novel, and if I am only dreading my reading time by reading this by the halfway point, I can safely give this an one star and move onto greener pastures. At least I have enough info to crap on the series now. Since I read a few hundred pages of it, I'm going to mark it down as one novel (yes I know that's slightly cheating, if I don't do that, I will be oblige to power through it!).
Next book is going to be I am Malala. I'll have a two month vacation, starting in late November, so I hope to bang out the books I missed during that period.
Next book is going to be I am Malala. I'll have a two month vacation, starting in late November, so I hope to bang out the books I missed during that period.
I'm on an astronomy kick at the moment
Just finished reading
And I'm currently reading
Can someone recommend something similar? Basically i'm looking for something a little above than "science for dummies" but below high-level hard science. English or Spanish
Just finished reading
- The pluto files - Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Cosmos - Carl Sagan
- How i killed pluto - Mike Brown
And I'm currently reading
- Bad astronomy - Philip Plait
- 100 preguntas sobre la ciencia (sorry, don't know the original english title yet - 100 scientific questions?) - Asimov
Can someone recommend something similar? Basically i'm looking for something a little above than "science for dummies" but below high-level hard science. English or Spanish
kinoki
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
My time restraints are real. Found out that Ulysseus is more or less impossible to read on a subway trip to work so I started reading A Dance with Dragons. So, now I'm stuck with two giant novels. Hence, not making any progress except one page at a time. Combine that with full-time studies, full-time work, working out and all the other little things that life demands of you and you're left with very little time.
Movies
- Gone Girl (2014, dir. David Finscher) - ★★★★½
- My Blueberry Nights (2007, dir. Kar Wai Wong) - ★★★
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