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Update - smiggyRT - 0/50 books 15/50 movies

Books

• Coming Soon

Movies

• Cloud Atlas (1st Jan)
• Dredd (1st Jan)
• Killing Them Softly (2nd Jan)
• Indie Game The Movie (3rd Jan)
• Lincoln (4th Jan)
• Killer Joe (4th Jan)
• Django Unchained (6th Jan)
• Zero Dark Thirty (7th Jan)
• Silver Linings Playbook (12th Jan)
• Les Miserables (14th Jan)
• Seven Psychopaths (16th Jan)
• The Midnight Meat Train (2nd Feb)
• Wreck It Ralph (4th Feb)
• The One (6th Feb)
• Metal Tornado (6th Feb)

 

[SquiddyCracker]

Bought myself a 4th gen Kindle the other day (with buttons, which I'm really glad I picked), and it has made reading books so much easier.

50 movies:

1. Indiana Jones 4
2. Total Recall (2012)
3. Stargate: Ark of Truth
4. That's my boy
5. Dredd 2012
6. Stargate: Continuum
7. Snakes on a plane
8. Unbreakable
9. Looper
10. Underworld: Awakening

50 books:

1. Artemis Fowl 7
2. Pirate Cinema
3. Stories of the Northern Road
4. Sub-human

50 games:

1. The Secret World
2. Arcanum
3. TERA

 

[Tragicomedy]

New book:

[*] The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. ★★★½ -- An introspective look into the final months of a man suffering from pancreatic cancer and what lessons he wants to leave behind for his three children. Very emotionally moving, if not always so well-written. My favorite part is where he quotes Krishtamurti, who was asked what a person should say to a dying friend.

Krishtamurti replied: "Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone."

 

[Kud Dukan]

Kud Dukan - 6/50 Books | 6/50 Movies​

Books:

• The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches From the Front Lines by Michael E. Mann
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
• The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson

Movies:

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• Django Unchained
• Contact
• Les Misérables
• Zero Dark Thirty
• Batman: Year One

 

[kinoki]

New book:

[*] The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. ★★★½ -- An introspective look into the final months of a man suffering from pancreatic cancer and what lessons he wants to leave behind for his three children. Very emotionally moving, if not always so well-written. My favorite part is where he quotes Krishtamurti, who was asked what a person should say to a dying friend.

Krishtamurti replied: "Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone."

I read this last year after being recommended it. It was an intresting way to summerize a life. Well worth the read.

 

[Nappuccino]

Movies

I Saw the Devil (4.5/5)
Dredd (4/5)
MIB 3 (3.5/5) Much better than the second. If the villain was better, I might even say it was better than the first. But he's not so it isn't.

Books

Nemisis by Jo Nesbo. 3.5
Caught by Halen Coben. 2/5
Angels of the House 3.5/5

 

[Wok]

UPDATE

Wok - 1/50 books | 2/50 movies+​

Books​

• Alessandro Baricco, Emmaüs, 2012. (144 pages, ISBN-13: 9782070131709)

Movies​

• Alice Bissonnet, Aloyse Desoubries-Binet, Sandrine Han Jin Kuang, Juliette Laurent, Sophie Markatatos, In-Between, 2012. (3 min 05 s, Youtube)
• Simon Klose, TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard, 2013. (1 h 22 min)

 

[Baconsaurus Rex]

Baconsaurus Rex - 5/50 Books | 16/50 Movies​

Books

• World of the Incredible but True by Charles Berlitz
• Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• Franken Fran Vol. 1-8 by Katsuhisa Kigitsu
• Oyasumi Punpun Vol. 1-11 by Asano Inio
• Deadpool #1
• The Walking Dead #104-106

Movies

1. Contact
2. Minority Report
3. Eden of the East I: The King of Eden
4. The Cabin in the Woods
5. Le Scaphandre et la Papillon
6. The Sky Crawlers
7. The Dark Knight Rises
8. The Hurt Locker
9. Seven Psychopaths
10. Dredd 3D
11. Where the Wild Things Are
12. Looper
13. Eden of the East the East II: Paradise Lost
14. Ivan's Childhood
15. The Fall
16. Control

 

[-Stranger-]

Update:

-Stranger- - 0/50 Books | 20/50 Movies

Movies:

Punch Drunk Love
The Bourne Legacy
Senna
The Expendables
Avatar
Skyfall
Blue Valentine
Hugo
Memories of Murder
The Hangover Part II
Following
L.A. Confidential
Altered States
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Badlands
The Usual Suspects
Eraserhead
Oceans
Contraband
The Tunnel


Books:

Coming Soon

 

[Mumei]

I have not updated in a tick:

Books​

1. Tarzan of the Apes, by Edward Rice Burroughs (271)
2. Bel Canto: A History of Vocal Pedagogy, by James Stark (258) [529]
3. The Mark of Athena, by Rick Riordan (586) [1115]
4. Challenging Casanova, by Andrew Smiler (204) [1319]
5. Great Singers on Great Singing, by Jerome Hines (358) [1677]
6. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, by Timothy Snyder (417) [2094]
7. Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino (165) [2259]
8. Sonnets: From Dante to the Present, edited by John Hollander (256) [2515]
9. A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexander Solhenitsyn (178) [2693]
   [*]The Complete Dinosaur, Second Edition, edited by Michael K. Brett-Surman, Thomas R. Holtz Jr., and James O. Farlow (1181) [3874]
   [*]The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche and Other Odd Acquaintances, by Peter S. Beagle (180) [4054]
   [*]Unearthing the Dragon: The Great Feathered Dinosaur Discovery, by Mark Norell (244) [4298]
   [*]A Canticle for Liebowitz, by Walter M. Miller (334) [4632]

• Batman & Robin: Batman Reborn (Vol 1), by Grant Morrison
• The Annotated Hobbit: The Hobbit, or, There And Back Again, by J.R.R. Tolkien
• To What Miserable Wretches Have I Been Born: Revenge Poetry for Babies and Toddlers, by Suzanne Weber
• T. rex: Hunter or Scavenger?, by Thomas Holtz
  [*]Akira (Vol 1 - 6)

Movies​

1. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Aliens

• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Extended Edition
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Extended Edition

 

[Madridy]

Madridy - 1/50 books | 10/50 movies

Books

• The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicle, Day One) by Patrick Rothfuss

Movies

• Life Of Pi
• Jack Reacher
• Argo
• Les Misèrables
• Gangster Squad
• Wreck-It Ralph
• Django Unchained
• Silver Linings Playbook
• The Impossible
• Lincoln

 

[Atrophis]

Atrophis - 1/50 Books | 9/50 Movies

Movies

1. Up (3/5, watched 01/01)
2. We Need To Talk About Kevin (4/5, watched 02/01)
3. Deadgirl (2/5, watched 03/01)
4. Jiro Dreams of Sushi (4/5, watched 03/01)
5. Stake Land (4/5, watched 04/01)
6. Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan (3/5, watched 04/01)
7. The Grey (3/5, watched 04/01)
8. Accident (3/5, watched 18/01)
9. Dreams of a Life (3/5, watched 08/02)

Books

1. Haunted - James Herbert (2/5, started 04/01 - finished 06/01)
2. Perdido Street Station - China Mieville (started 06/01...)

Bonus Round

2/?? TV

1. Star Trek: Deep Space 9 - series 3
2. Silent Witness - series 16

Eve Online taking up far too much of my time. Haven't done much reading but PDS is nearly finished now.

 

[Ovid]

UPDATE

Tarius1210 - 2/50 Books | 10/50 Movies

Books

• Game of Thrones
• Outliers: The Story of Success

Movies

• After Porn Ends
• The Flaw (2011)
• Think Like A Man
• Gun Fight (2011)
• Horrible Bosses
• Marathon Man
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• The Social Network
• Red Riding Hood
• Flight

 

[Tragicomedy]

New movie:

[*] Sleepwalk with Me. ★★★★★ -- That's what I'm talking about! Mike Birbiglia made one of the most open and honest biographical movies in a long time. Heartwarming, charming, and a few shocks tossed in to keep you on your toes. Now to check out his stand up.

 

[Forsaken82]

Bigger update than normal. As you can clearly see from my list of movies... i have seen a lot of movies prior to this year that most of the movies I still haven't seen suck :/

Forsaken82 – 2/50 Books | 9/50 Movies

Books:
A Dance with Dragons
The Road

Movies:
Looper
V/H/S
American Reunion
Dredd
This Means War
Wrath of the Titans
Mindhunters
Dream House
Thats My Boy

 

[SaltyDoughnut]

SaltyDoughnut - 3/50 Books | 7/50 Movies | 2/24 TV Seasons | 3/24 Games​

Books:
Now reading: Invisible Man, Hamlet, Game of Thrones, Dead Man Walking
-★★★- Meditations in an Emergency - Feb 9th
-★★★★½- Crime and Punishment [551 pages] - Jan 6th

Movies:
-★★★- Blue Valentine - Jan 27th
-★★★★½- Django Unchained - Jan 26th
-★★★- In Bruges - Jan 24th
-★★★- Boogie Nights - Jan 13th
-★★★½- Zero Dark Thirty - Jan 12th
-★★★★- Shame - Jan 7th
-★★★½- Les Misérables - Jan 2nd

TV Seasons:
Now watching: Samurai Champloo, Band of Brothers, House of Cards s1, Girls s2, Downton Abbey s3
-★★½- Anohana - Jan 26th
-★★★½- Girls season 1 - Jan 11th

Games:
Now playing: Ni no Kuni, Uncharted: GA, Walking Dead, Forza Horizon, GW2
-★★½- Gunman Clive - Jan 25th
-★★★★- Sound Shapes - Jan 14th
-★★★★- Hotline Miami - Jan 11th

 

[EVOL 100%]

Read VALIS. My mind has been fuckkkeedd


EVOL 100% - 6/50 books | 2/50 movies

Books

1. I Have the Right to Destroy Myself - Kim Young-ha ★★½☆☆
2. 아랑은 왜 - Kim Young-ha ★★★★½
3. 남한산성 - Kim Hoon ★★★★☆
4. Notes From Underground - Fyodor Dostoyekvsky ★★★★☆
5. 엘리베이터에 낀 그 남자는 어떻게 되었나 - Kim Young-ha ★★★½☆
6. VALIS - Philip K. Dick ★★★★☆

Movies

1. Adaptation - ★★★★½
2. The Cabin In the Woods ★★★★☆

 

[Tragicomedy]

New book:

[*] Wonder bring R. J. Palacio. ★★★★★ -- Worth every bit of praise it earned last year, and definitely the best I've read so far in 2013. It's the right mix of heartbreak and optimism. It's painful to think of how cruel kids can be to one another, and that's before factoring in deformities and disabilities. I hope this becomes one of those school-aged classics that kids read in middle school, so they can see what bullying does to others.

 

[Teptom]

Teptom - 3/50 Books | 3/50 Movies

Books

1. Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
2. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
3. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Movies

1. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2. Django Unchained
3. The Muppet Movie

 

[TestMonkey]

UPDATE

TestMonkey - 8/50 Books | 10/50 Movies​

Books

• The Bride Wore Black Leather by Simon R. Green
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
• If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell
• World War Z by Max Brooks
• Monster by A. Lee Martinez

Movies

• Wing Chun
• The Warrior's Way
• Demetri Martin. Person.
• Ip Man 2
• Lisa Lampanelli: Long Live the Queen
• Lisa Lampanelli: Take It Like a Man
• Superman vs. the Elite
• Afro Samurai: Resurrection
• Pablo Francisco: Ouch!
• Dr. Seuss' The Lorax

 

[grumpy]

UPDATED 10/02/2013

grumpy - 6/50 Books | 8/50 Movies

Books

• Stephen King - Everything's Eventual
• Stephen King - Cell
• Dan Simmons - Hyperion
• Dan Simmons - The Fall of Hyperion
• Stephen King - Misery
• Stephen King - The Dark Half

Movies

• Cabin in the woods
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
• Paranormal Activity 4
• Silent Hill Revelation
• Bitch Slap
• Black Swan
• The Avengers

 

[DieUnbekannte]

DieUnbekannte - 8/50 books | 13/50 movies

I thought I could make an update again - the last one was some time ago and in the meantime I read four new books and have seen six new movies. I'm really pleased with the amount of books I've read so far - but I think I'll slow down sooner or later. Currently I'm reading Small Gods from Terry Pratchett and after that I'm going to start with the third book of Jim Butchers series about Harry Dresden.


Books
1. Marion Isaac - Warm Bodies
2. Meyer Kai - Dschinnland
3. Fforde Jasper - Something Rotten
4. Doyle Arthur Conan - A Study in Scarlet
5. Murakami Haruki - Norwegian Wood
6. Butcher Jim - Storm Front
7. Butcher Jim - Fool Moon
8. Meyer Kai - Wunschkrieg


Movies
1. Repo Men (2010)
2. Sherlock - A Study in Pink (2010)
3. Sherlock - The Blind Banker (2010)
4. Sherlock - The Great Game (2010)
5. Sherlock - A Scandal in Belgravia (2012)
6. Sherlock - The Hounds of Baskerville (2012)
7. Sherlock - The Reichenbach Fall (2012)
8. The Ghost Writer (2010)
9. The Dark Knight (2008)
10. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
11. The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
12. Frankenweenie (2012)
13. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)

 

[Kelpie]

Books

Currently Reading:

• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer

1. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
2. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
3. Dying of the Light by George R.R. Martin

Movies

1. Iron Sky, 01/12
2. Old Boy, 01/15
3. Ivanhoe (1952), 01/16
4. Thor, 01/19
5. Captain America: The First Avenger, 01/19
6. X-Men: First Class, 01/19
7. The Avengers, 01/19
8. The Hunger Games, 01/30
9. Good Night and Good Luck, 02/06
10. Page Eight, 02/06
11. The Pianist, 02/09
12. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, 02/09

 

[Ovid]

UPDATE

Tarius1210 - 2/50 Books | 13/50 Movies

Books

• Game of Thrones
• Outliers: The Story of Success

Movies

• After Porn Ends (2010)
• The Flaw (2011)
• Think Like A Man
• Gun Fight (2011)
• Horrible Bosses
• Marathon Man
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• The Social Network
• Red Riding Hood
• Flight
• Universal Solider: Regeneration
• Rebel Without a Cause
• Easy A

Jumping into some classic movies over the next couple of weeks.

 

[foomfoom415]

*Updated 2/12*
foomfoom415 - 8/50 Books | 15/50 Movies

Books
01. John Dies at the End by David Wong ★★★★★
02. House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds ★★★★★
03. Bossypants by Tina Fey ★★★
04. 11/22/63 by Stephen King ★★★
05. Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi ★★
06. Gun Machine by Warren Ellis ★★★
07. Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo ★★★★
08. The Twelve by Justin Cronin ★★★★

Movies
01. Skyfall ★★
02. Ted ★
03. Beasts of the Southern Wild ★★★★
04. Dredd ★★
05. Pitch Perfect ★★★★
06. Seven Psychopaths ★★★★
07. Flight ★★
08. The Raid / Serbuan Maut ★★
09. Vulgaria / 低俗喜劇 ★★★★
10. Argo ★★★★
11. Frailty ★★★★
12. Moonrise Kingdom ★★★★★
13. The Grey ★★
14. Cold War / 寒戰 ★★★
15. Deranged / 연가시 ★

 

[d_escudero]

So, I'm back from vacations on Chilean coast, I have a lot of time to read...

d_escudero - 6/50 Books | 7/50 Movies​

Books

2.- Ana Karenina - Leon Tolstoi (+500)

Really good!, a bit slow (like the life in that times), I like reading about the life in that times...

3.- Towards Zero - Agatha Christie

I like the Christie style, never fails

4.- Cell - Stephen King

It's like the Fahrenheit game, 1st half good, 2nd half sooo bad....

5.- From the Dust Returned - Ray Bradbury

The worst of Bradbury that I read...., boring

Movies

4.- Thank you for Smoking

Clever humor, really fun

5.- The Lorax

Is not good as Horton Hears a Who... I expected more....

6.- An Education

Catched in TV, I started watching it with different expectations of the plot, liked it

7.- Taken 2

I prefer the first one... I don't like the movies with a perfect character that bullets don't touch him

 

[Tragicomedy]

New movie:

[*] Pulling John. ★★★ -- Ummmmm, it was a movie about arm wrestling. Some likable characters, but very average.

 

[Tragicomedy]

1. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

My favorite book of all-time. Hope you liked it!

 

[-Stranger-]

Update:

-Stranger- - 0/50 Books | 21/50 Movies

Movies:

Punch Drunk Love
The Bourne Legacy
Senna
The Expendables
Avatar
Skyfall
Blue Valentine
Hugo
Memories of Murder
The Hangover Part II
Following
L.A. Confidential
Altered States
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Badlands
The Usual Suspects
Eraserhead
Oceans
Contraband
The Tunnel
Lost in Translation


Books:

Coming Soon

 

[Illithid Dude]

Illithid Dude -2/50 books | 25/50 movies

Movies:

Killer Joe
The Frighteners
Primer
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Extended Edition
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Django Unchained
Leon: The Professional
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King Extended Edition
Dazed and Confused
Charade
Dark City
Orpheus
Sunset Boulevard
The Innkeepers
Chungking Express
Mean Streets
Act of Valor
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
The Sweet Smell of Success
Kingdom of Heaven: Directors Cut
Night of the Hunter
Kiss Me Deadly
The Royal Tenebaums
Battle of Algiers

Books:

Catcher in the Rye
Hot Pink

 

[SlowRevolution]

SlowRevolution - 6/50 books | 13/50 movies

Books

• The Price of Politics
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
• The New Jim Crow
• American Gods
• America Again: Re-becoming The Greatness We Never Weren't
• Firestarter

Movies

• Looper
• John Dies At The End
• Arbitrage
• Zero Dark Thirty
• What To Expect When You're Expecting
• The Way
• Craigslist Joe
• Jackie Brown
• Following
• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
• In Bruges
• Alien
• The Five-Year Engagement

 

[Maklershed]

^ How dare you defile a Pilkington head! :b

 

[AndyD]

AndyD - 3/50 books | 8/50 movies

Movies:
Iron Skies, Extreme Measures, Midnight in Paris, Predator, True Lies, Duck Soup, The Producers, Django Unchained

Books:
The Historian, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Gone Girl

 

[Glaurungr]

Glaurungr - 20/50 books | 05/50 movies

New entries in italic.

Books:

1. Agatha Christie - Poirot Investigates (1924)
2. Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper - Paris: After the Liberation 1944-1949 (1994)
3. Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Fury (2006)
4. David Gemmell - Quest for Lost Heroes: Book Four of The Drenai Tales (1990)
5. Diana Wynne Jones - Howl's Moving Castle (1986)
6. Edwin A. Abbott - Flatland (1884)
7. Jón Viðar Sigurðsson - The Norse Society: The Viking, King, Archbishop, and Farmer (2008)
8. Joseph Campbell - The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949)
9. Neil Gaiman - The Graveyard Book (2008)
10. Peter Connolly - The Roman Fort (1991)
11. Robert Bly - My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy (2005)
12. Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson - A Memory of Light: Book Fourteen of The Wheel of Time (2013)
13. Siri Walen Simensen - Women During the War (2009)
14. Terry Pratchett - Only You Can Save Mankind: Book One of The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy (1992)
15. Terry Pratchett - Johnny and the Dead: Book Two of The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy (1993)
16. Terry Pratchett - Nation (2008)
17. Terry Pratchett - Dodger (2012)
18. Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (1990)
19. Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen - The Science of Discworld (1999)
20. Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen - The Science of Discworld II: The Globe (2002)

Films:

1. Happy Feet Two - George Miller (2011)
2. Johnny Mnemonic - Robert Longo (1995)
3. Skyfall - Sam Mendes (2012)
4. Taken 2 - Olivier Megaton (2012)
5. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Peter Jackson (2012)

Now reading:

• Terry Pratchett - Johnny and the Bomb

 

[Empty]

-★★★- Meditations in an Emergency - Feb 9th

nice avatar and post combination

 

[-Stranger-]

Update:

-Stranger- - 0/50 Books | 22/50 Movies

Movies:

Punch Drunk Love
The Bourne Legacy
Senna
The Expendables
Avatar
Skyfall
Blue Valentine
Hugo
Memories of Murder
The Hangover Part II
Following
L.A. Confidential
Altered States
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Badlands
The Usual Suspects
Eraserhead
Oceans
Contraband
The Tunnel
Lost in Translation
Never Let Me Go



Books:

Coming Soon

 

[Ovid]

UPDATE

Tarius1210 - 2/50 Books | 14/50 Movies

Books

• Game of Thrones
• Outliers: The Story of Success

Movies

• After Porn Ends (2010)
• The Flaw (2011)
• Think Like A Man
• Gun Fight (2011)
• Horrible Bosses
• Marathon Man
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• The Social Network
• Red Riding Hood
• Flight
• Universal Solider: Regeneration
• Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
• Easy A
• Casablanca (1942)

I had to watch what is considered to be one of the greatest movies of all time. Also, Ingrid Bergman was absolutely stunning in this film.

 

[Kelpie]

My favorite book of all-time. Hope you liked it!

Thanks, I did really enjoy it. It wasn't easy for me to get into it at first. I thought the pace seemed a little off. It actually bothered me enough that I searched to see if it started as a screenplay and found that it was meant to be a graphic novel. It eventually grew on me. Plus, the Sumarians are my favorite ancient civilization so I was pleasantly surprised that it showed up in this story.

 

[Nymerio]

Update

Nymerio - 11/50 Books | 5/50 Movies​

Books

• Pattern Recognition (William Gibson)
• The Emperor's Soul (Brandon Sanderson)
• Ship of Fools (Richard Russo)
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Philip K. Dick)
• I Suck at Girls (Justin Halpern)
• Heart-Shaped Box (Joe Hill)
• Game of Cages: A Twenty Palaces Novel (Harry Connolly)
• Circle of Enemies: A Twenty Palaces Novel (Harry Connolly)
• Stormfront (Jim Butcher)
• Fool Moon (Jim Butcher)
• Grave Peril (Jim Butcher)

Movies

• Stardust
• A Scanner Darkly
• Savages
• Sinister
• Skyfall

 

[Atrophis]

Atrophis - 2/50 Books | 9/50 Movies

Movies

1. Up (3/5, watched 01/01)
2. We Need To Talk About Kevin (4/5, watched 02/01)
3. Deadgirl (2/5, watched 03/01)
4. Jiro Dreams of Sushi (4/5, watched 03/01)
5. Stake Land (4/5, watched 04/01)
6. Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan (3/5, watched 04/01)
7. The Grey (3/5, watched 04/01)
8. Accident (3/5, watched 18/01)
9. Dreams of a Life (3/5, watched 08/02)

Books

1. Haunted - James Herbert (2/5, started 04/01 - finished 06/01)
2. Perdido Street Station - China Mieville (4/5, started 06/01 - finished 12/02)
3. Starman: David Bowie - The Definitive Biography - Paul Trynka (started 13/02)

Bonus Round

2/?? TV

1. Star Trek: Deep Space 9 - series 3
2. Silent Witness - series 16

PSS done! Damn that took far too long to read. A good book, very well written but a shame it ended up as a bog standard quest to kill the monster. Looking forward to reading more by him though.

 

[Tragicomedy]

New movie:

[*] Skyfall. ★★★★½ -- Yes, there were the silly plot contrivances throughout solely to help the plot plod along, but I don't watch Bond for the realism. This movie was plain fun, and one of the best of the series.

 

[ReiGun]

Update: 2/13

Current Books: 1

• Sula by Toni Morrison

Current Movies: 10

• Django Unchained
• Skyfall
• Back to the Future
• Craiglist Joe
• Freakonomics
• Back to the Future 2
• Back to the Future 3
• The Goonies
• The Untouchables
• Memento

I'm reading like 3 or 4 books at once. I'll finish one eventually. lol

 

[Wok]

I'm reading like 3 or 4 books at once. I'll finish one eventually. lol

Ditto. Prepare for the updates!

 

[Nymerio]

How does reading multiple books at once work? I'm genuinely interested. I was thinking about doing this but I don't think I can do this. If you read like 3 hours a day and you read 3 books, do you change books every hour? Or do you have a book for your commute, one at home and one at work? I can't imagine doing this, if I'm reading a book I just read through it and move on the next when I'm done.

 

[Nezumi]

How does reading multiple books at once work? I'm genuinely interested. I was thinking about doing this but I don't think I can do this. If you read like 3 hours a day and you read 3 books, do you change books every hour? Or do you have a book for your commute, one at home and one at work? I can't imagine doing this, if I'm reading a book I just read through it and move on the next when I'm done.

It is not for everyone. I do this at the moment. I'm reading Atlas Shrugged for GafBookclub, Shadow of the torturer for fun, Wild shee chase, for learning japanese and listen to Harry Potter5 and Name of the Wind. As for the Atlas shrugged and Wild Sheep Chase I try to read them at least once per day. If that did not satisfy my reading needs I go for a bit of Wolfe for fun. The audiobooks I choose depending on mood since i mostly listen to them before sleep or when I'm swimming.
I guess in my case it is not so hard to do that because I have a lot of time at my hands (and will so for some time longer I fear) which makes it a lot easier.

 

[Maklershed]

How does reading multiple books at once work? I'm genuinely interested. I was thinking about doing this but I don't think I can do this. If you read like 3 hours a day and you read 3 books, do you change books every hour? Or do you have a book for your commute, one at home and one at work? I can't imagine doing this, if I'm reading a book I just read through it and move on the next when I'm done.

I always have two books going at once. I read one book on my kindle during commutes and at work and I read a hard copy book (I acquired tons and tons of them for about $1-$2 each at a book sale) at home.

 

[Wok]

How does reading multiple books at once work? I'm genuinely interested. I was thinking about doing this but I don't think I can do this. If you read like 3 hours a day and you read 3 books, do you change books every hour? Or do you have a book for your commute, one at home and one at work? I can't imagine doing this, if I'm reading a book I just read through it and move on the next when I'm done.

It really depends on the books: if there are not too many names to remember, it is easy to read multiple books. I tend to do it with one big book and one or two smaller books, so that I can read the smaller one when I travel for a short time and cannot focus for too long.

TIL about the club.

 

[DieUnbekannte]

I gave up reading more than one book at the same time. There is always one that is way more interesting than the other and eventually I stop reading the less captivating book completely and can't bring myself to go back to it - even though I certainly would enjoy it.

 

[Nymerio]

Update

Nymerio - 12/50 Books | 5/50 Movies​

Books

• Pattern Recognition (William Gibson)
• The Emperor's Soul (Brandon Sanderson)
• Ship of Fools (Richard Russo)
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Philip K. Dick)
• I Suck at Girls (Justin Halpern)
• Heart-Shaped Box (Joe Hill)
• Game of Cages: A Twenty Palaces Novel (Harry Connolly)
• Circle of Enemies: A Twenty Palaces Novel (Harry Connolly)
• Stormfront (Jim Butcher)
• Fool Moon (Jim Butcher)
• Grave Peril (Jim Butcher)
• Summer Knight (Jim Butcher)

Movies

• Stardust
• A Scanner Darkly
• Savages
• Sinister
• Skyfall

Yeah, I could imagine reading a book during the commute and one at home, but I don't think I could do it.

 

[McCloud?]

Update

McCloud? - 9/50 Books | 11/50 Movies

Books
1. Magic Hours, Tom Bissell
2. You're Not Doing It Right, Michael Ian Black
3. The Beautiful Struggle, Ta-nehisi Coates
4. Black Sabbath’s Master of Reality (33 1/3), John Darnielle
5. The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
6. Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die, Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo, David Malki!
7. Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
8. Game Change, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
9. Black Spring, Henry Miller

Movies
1. Tiny Furniture
2. Detropia
3. From Russia With Love
4. No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson
5. The American
6. UHF
7. Bottle Rocket
8. After Porn Ends
9. Game Change
10. V/H/S
11. Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. New York

I watched Game Change immediately after reading it, which was probably a mistake. V/H/S surprised me; it was often light on plot, but the more inventive segments made up for it.