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thomaser · Aug 7, 2013

Update:

Thomaser: 9 books - 3 movies

Books:

Read:
1: Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
2: Tunnel Vision - Sara Paretsky
3: M is for Malice - Sue Grafton
4: Volomari Volotinen's første kone og andre gamle ting - Arto Paasilinna
5: 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
6: The Blue Riband - Peter York
7: A Dream Play - August Strindberg
8: Anya's Ghost - Vera Brosgol
9: 2666 - Roberto Bolaño

Reading:
(10): Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour - Richard Gross (halfway through)

Read partway:
(11): Sociolinguistics. A Reader and Coursebook - Nicolas Coupland and Adam Jaworski
(12): World Englishes - Gunnel Melchers and Philip Shaw

Movies:
1: Frankenweenie
2: Inception
3: Shutter Island

Nezumi · Aug 9, 2013

Update:

Nezumi - 31/50 books | 52/50 movies

Books:

The novel my husband wrote for NaNoWriMo
Before they are hanged - Joe Abercrombie
A betrayel in winter - Daniel Abrahams
Last Argument of Kings - Joe Abercrombie
Shadow of the Torturer - Gene Wolfe
The great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
Nero Corleone kehrt zurück - Elke Heidenreich
An Autumn War - Daniel Abraham
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
The wonderful wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
Sabriel - Garth Nix
The Price of Spring - Daniel Abraham
Ensel und Krete - Walter Moers
Solange der Haifisch schläft - Milena Agus
Lirael - Garth Nix
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Book One - Bill Watterson
Unrast - Olga Tokarczuk
Schilf - Juli Zeh
Sweet Silver Blues - Glen Cook
Abhorsen - Garth Nix
La marche du crabe (book 1) - Arthur de Pins
Bitter Gold Hearts - Glen Cook
Cold Copper Tears - Glen Cook
Leviathan Wakes - James S.A. Corey
Old Tin Sorrows - Glen Cook
Jhereg - Steven Brust
Dread Bass Shadows - Glen Cook
Red Iron Nights - Glen Cook
Deadly Qicksilver Lies - Glen Cook
Yendi - Steven Brust

Movies:

Brick
Inspector General
Indie Game the Movie
Ijon Tichy - Raumpilot Season 2
Moonrise Kingdom
Chronicle
Prometheus
Speed Racer
Brave
The Cabin in the Woods
Fitzcarraldo
Eraserhead
Seven Samurai
Fire walk with me
Sherlock: The Great Game
Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia
Sherlock:The Hounds of Baskerville
Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall
The Intouchables
Looper
A town called Panic
Road to El Dorado
The Dark Knight Rises
The Raid
Stalker
The Princess Bride
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The 36th chamber of Shaolin
I ♥ Huckabees
The Frighteners
Ashura
Wreck it Ralph
Seeking a friend for the End of the World
Silver Linings Playbook
The Perks of being a Wallflower
Star Trek: Into Darkness
Iron Sky
Conan the Barbarian
Key of Life
Thermae Romae
The Kirishima Thing
A letter to Momo
Father Frost
Das kalte Herz (Heart of Stone)
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Les Miserables
Seven Psychopaths
The Thief of Bagdad (1939)
Django Unchained
Fraktus - Das letzte Kapitel der Musikgeschichte
Ace Attorney
OZ - The Great and Powerful
Mother

Really, really great movie.

Kud Dukan · Aug 10, 2013

Update:

Kud Dukan - 13/50 Books | 19/50 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
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson
Wool by Hugh Howey
Inferno by Dan Brown
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Billions and Billions by Carl Sagan
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

Movies:

The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Django Unchained
Contact
Les Misérables
Zero Dark Thirty
Batman: Year One
Mystery Men
The Dark Knight Returns Part 1
The Dark Knight Returns Part 2
The Bourne Legacy
Iron Man 3
Children of Men
Star Trek Into Darkness
Insomnia
X2: X-Men United
Man of Steel
Pacific Rim
The Wolverine
V for Vendetta

Azrael · Aug 11, 2013

Update time again.

Azrael - 27/50 books | 91/50 movies

Books

24. The Road by Cormac McCarthy ★★★★★
25. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut ★★★★
26. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman ★★★★
27. Miracleman 1-16 by Alan Moore ★★★★★

Movies

89. World War Z ★★
90. Tokyo Godfathers ★★★
91. Elysium ★★★

Wok · Aug 11, 2013

UPDATE

Wok - 8/50 books | 15/50 movies

Books

Alessandro Baricco, Emmaüs, 2012. (144 pages, ISBN-13: 9782070131709) ★★★★½
Yann & Roman Surzhenko, Les Trois Soeurs Minkelsönn (T1), 2013. (48 pages, ISBN-13: 9782803631308) ★★★½
Denis Le Bihan, Le cerveau de cristal ; ce que nous révèle la neuro-imagerie, 2012. (220 pages, ISBN-13: 9782738125279) ★★★★
Yann & Roman Surzhenko, Le Royaume du chaos (T3), 2013. (48 pages, ISBN-13: 9782803631964) ★★★
Philippe Valette, George ~~Clooney : Une histoire vrai[e]. La grosse épopée orthographique de qualit[é]~~ (T1-T2-T3-T4), 2013. (300 pages, ISBN-13: 9782756041513) ½
[*]Daniel Pennac, Cabot-Caboche, 1982. (200 pages, ISBN-13: 9782266086417) ★★★★½
[*]Jean Dufaux & Philippe Delaby, Murena: Les épines (T9), 2013. (48 pages, ISBN-13: 9782505016526) ★★
[*]Amin Maalouf, Les jardins de lumière, 1991. (317 pages, ISBN-13: 978-2253061779) ★★★★

Movies

Alice Bissonnet, Aloyse Desoubries-Binet, Sandrine Han Jin Kuang, Juliette Laurent, Sophie Markatatos, In-Between, 2012. (3 min 05 s, Youtube) ★★★½

Simon Klose, TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard, 2013. (1 h 22 min) ★★★½

Claude Zidi, L'Aile ou la cuisse, 1976. (1 h 44 min) ★★★½

Bruno Bozzetto, Yes & No, 2001. (4 min, Youtube) ★★★

Malik Bendjelloul, Searching for Sugar Man, 2012. (1h 26 min) ★★★

Pier Paolo Pasolini, Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo, 1964. (2h 17 min) ★★★★★

Bernard Stora, La Dernière campagne, 2013. (1h 45 min) ★★★

Lars Lundström, Äkta människor, 2012. (TV, 10 x 55min) ★★★

Laurent Cantet, Entre les murs, 2008. (2 h 08 min) ★★★★½

Giulio Base, Terence Hill, Doc West, 2009. (1 h 33 min) ★½

Giulio Base, Terence Hill, Triggerman, 2009. (1 h 37 min) ★

Jakob Belaga, Baptiste Magontier, Can't we be friends?, 2011. (11 min, Youtube) ½

James Swirsky & Lisanne Pajot, Indie Game: The Movie (Special Edition DLC), 2013. (~ 1 h 40 min) ★★★½

Guillermo Del Toro, Pacific Rim, 2013. (2 h 11 min) ★★★

Christian Vincent, Quatre étoiles, 2006. (1 h 40 min) ★★

Kud Dukan · Aug 13, 2013

Update:

Kud Dukan - 14/50 Books | 21/50 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
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson
Wool by Hugh Howey
Inferno by Dan Brown
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Billions and Billions by Carl Sagan
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
The Cuckoo's Calling by "Robert Galbraith" (aka J.K. Rowling)

Movies:

The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Django Unchained
Contact
Les Misérables
Zero Dark Thirty
Batman: Year One
Mystery Men
The Dark Knight Returns Part 1
The Dark Knight Returns Part 2
The Bourne Legacy
Iron Man 3
Children of Men
Star Trek Into Darkness
Insomnia
X2: X-Men United
Man of Steel
Pacific Rim
The Wolverine
V for Vendetta
Elysium
Oblivion

Really enjoyed The Cuckoo's Calling. Definitely one of the better detective stories I've read in recent years. Very pleased to see that there will be a sequel coming.

SaltyDoughnut · Aug 13, 2013

SaltyDoughnut - 22/50 Books | 61/50 Movies | 12/24 TV Seasons | 8/24 Games

Books:
Now reading: The Lord of the Rings, Blood Meridian
-★★★★½- Crime and Punishment [551 pages] - Jan 6th
-★★★- Meditations in an Emergency - Feb 9th
-★★★★½- Hamlet - March 14th
-★½- Dead Man Walking - March 22nd
-★★★★★- Invisible Man [581 pages] - March 26th
-no rating- The Wasteland - March 27th
-★★★- Song of Solomon - April 22nd
-★★★★½- Cosmicomics - April 22nd
-★★- Ishmael - May 11th
-★★★★★- The Catcher in the Rye - May 11th
-★★★★½- The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit - June 12th
-★★★½- An Artist of the Floating World - June 26th
-★★★★- Invisible Cities - June 30th
-★★★½- The Hobbit - July 4th
-★★★- The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters - August 15th
-★★★★- Old School - August 18th
-★- A Short Guide to Writing about History - September 7th
-★★- Atlantic History: Concept and Contours - September 10th
-★★★- Long Day's Journey Into Night - September 22nd
-★★★½- A Streetcar Named Desire - September 29th

Movies:
-★★★½- Les Misérables - Jan 2nd
-★★★★- Shame - Jan 7th
-★★★½- Zero Dark Thirty - Jan 12th
-★★★- Boogie Nights - Jan 13th
-★★★- In Bruges - Jan 24th
-★★★★½- Django Unchained - Jan 26th
-★★★- Blue Valentine - Jan 27th
-★★★★- The Kids Are All Right - Feb 16th
-★★★½- Jean de Florette - Feb 22nd
-★★★★½- Beasts of the Southern Wild - Feb 22nd
-★★★½- Howl's Moving Castle - Feb 28th
-★★★½- Food Inc. - March 21st
-★★½- Sound of Noise - April 3rd
-★★★★½- The Godfather - April 4th
-★★★★½- Reservoir Dogs - April 12th
-★★★★- Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind - April 20th
-★★★- Star Trek Into Darkness - May 17th
-★★★- Behind the Candelabra - May 28th
-★★★- Prometheus - May 28th
-★★★★½- Ain't Them Bodies Saints - June 7th
-★★½- The Way - June 12th
-★★★½- The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit - June 13th
-★★★★½- Silver Linings Playbook - June 15th
-★★★½- The Tree of Life - June 16th
-★★★★★- Fight Club - July 20th
-★★★- The Descendants - July 20th
-★★★★- Hitchcock - July 20th
-★★- Only God Forgives - July 22nd
-★★★- Dear Mr. Watterson - July 23rd
-★★★½- Pacific Rim - July 24th
-★- Turbo - July 26th
-★★★★- Forrest Gump - July 28th
-★★★½- Airplane! - July 29th
-★★★½- The Avengers - July 31st
-★★★- Oldboy - August 8th
-★★★★½- The Big Lebowski - August 8th
-★★★★- Primer - August 10th
-★★★½- Upstream Color - August 13th
-★★★- Street Angel - September 2nd
-★★★½- Docks of New York - September 4th
-★★★½- Badlands - September 4th
-★★★- Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! - September 6th
-★★★½- Castle in the Sky - September 7th
-★★★★★- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - September 7th
-★★- The Bat Whispers - Sept 9
-★★★½- Monkey Business - Sept 11
-★★★- Scarface (1932) - Sept 11
-★★★★★- Being John Malkovich - Sept11th
-★★★½- Titicut Follies - Sept 12th
-★★★★★- Rope - Sept 14th
-★★★★- The Ghost Ship (1943) - Sept 18th
-★★½- This is Spinal Tap - Sept 18th
-★★★★- A Separation - Sept 19th
-★★★★- Much Ado About Nothing - Sept 20th
-★★★½- Soy Cuba - Sept 21th
-★★½- The Trail of the Lonesome Pine - Sept 23rd
-★★★- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) - Sept 25th
-★★★½- Frances Ha - Sept 25th
-★★★½- Rashomon - Sept 28th
-★★★★- The Gang's All Here - Sept 30th
-★★★★- All That Heaven Allows - Oct 2nd
-★★★★- Harold and Maude - Oct 3rd

TV Seasons:
Now watching: Luck, Firefly, House of Cards s1, Breaking Bad the final episodes
-★★★½- Girls season 1 - Jan 11th
-★★½- Anohana - Jan 26th
-★★★½- Downton Abbey season 3 - Feb 17th
-★★★★- Tsuritama - March 9th
-★★★- Girls season 2 - March 20th
-★★★★★- Mad Men season 5 [audio commentary set 2] - April 2nd
-★★★★½- Game of Thrones season 2 - May 18th
-★★★★- Parade's End - May 28th
-★★★★★- Band of Brothers - May 29th
-★★★★★- Samurai Champloo - June 2nd
-★★★★½- Game of Thrones season 3 - June 9th
-★★★★★- Mad Men season 6 - June 25th

Games:
Backloggery
Now playing: Pikmin 3, Malicious
-★★★★- Hotline Miami - Jan 11th
-★★★★- Sound Shapes - Jan 14th
-★★½- Gunman Clive - Jan 25th
-★★★★½- Bit. Trip Runner - April 30th
-★★★★★- Monaco - May 12th
-★★★★- Proteus - June 5th
-★★★★½- Dishonored - June 13th
-★★★½- Gunpoint - June 13th

Tragicomedy · Aug 14, 2013

New movie:

[*] The Raid: Redemption ★★★½ - fun, gritty action movie. The plot is silly and predictable, but the fight scene choreography is superb.

Nezumi · Aug 15, 2013

Update:

Nezumi - 32/50 books | 53/50 movies

Books:

The novel my husband wrote for NaNoWriMo
Before they are hanged - Joe Abercrombie
A betrayel in winter - Daniel Abrahams
Last Argument of Kings - Joe Abercrombie
Shadow of the Torturer - Gene Wolfe
The great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
Nero Corleone kehrt zurück - Elke Heidenreich
An Autumn War - Daniel Abraham
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
The wonderful wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
Sabriel - Garth Nix
The Price of Spring - Daniel Abraham
Ensel und Krete - Walter Moers
Solange der Haifisch schläft - Milena Agus
Lirael - Garth Nix
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Book One - Bill Watterson
Unrast - Olga Tokarczuk
Schilf - Juli Zeh
Sweet Silver Blues - Glen Cook
Abhorsen - Garth Nix
La marche du crabe (book 1) - Arthur de Pins
Bitter Gold Hearts - Glen Cook
Cold Copper Tears - Glen Cook
Leviathan Wakes - James S.A. Corey
Old Tin Sorrows - Glen Cook
Jhereg - Steven Brust
Dread Bass Shadows - Glen Cook
Red Iron Nights - Glen Cook
Deadly Qicksilver Lies - Glen Cook
Yendi - Steven Brust
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Movies:

Brick
Inspector General
Indie Game the Movie
Ijon Tichy - Raumpilot Season 2
Moonrise Kingdom
Chronicle
Prometheus
Speed Racer
Brave
The Cabin in the Woods
Fitzcarraldo
Eraserhead
Seven Samurai
Fire walk with me
Sherlock: The Great Game
Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia
Sherlock:The Hounds of Baskerville
Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall
The Intouchables
Looper
A town called Panic
Road to El Dorado
The Dark Knight Rises
The Raid
Stalker
The Princess Bride
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The 36th chamber of Shaolin
I ♥ Huckabees
The Frighteners
Ashura
Wreck it Ralph
Seeking a friend for the End of the World
Silver Linings Playbook
The Perks of being a Wallflower
Star Trek: Into Darkness
Iron Sky
Conan the Barbarian
Key of Life
Thermae Romae
The Kirishima Thing
A letter to Momo
Father Frost
Das kalte Herz (Heart of Stone)
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Les Miserables
Seven Psychopaths
The Thief of Bagdad (1939)
Django Unchained
Fraktus - Das letzte Kapitel der Musikgeschichte
Ace Attorney
OZ - The Great and Powerful
Mother
King Arthur

Lolita sure is a wonderfully written book even though I'm sure that 80% of its allusions and what not just went over my head. Took me way to long to finish it though.

While the premise of King Arthur might have been rather interesting everything else was just really mediocre. Plus, as a German it is more than a little amusing watching Till Schweiger "act". Funny that his mumbling isn't actually that bad when he speaks English.

Tragicomedy · Aug 16, 2013

New movie:

[*] The Ides of March ★★★★ - Everything about this movie is great. Superb acting, good pacing to the plot and a great look at the behind the scenes manipulation in politics. What a cast!

TestMonkey · Aug 17, 2013

Challenge complete. Who wants to touch me? I said who wants to #$%ing touch me!?

Tragicomedy · Aug 17, 2013

TestMonkey said:
Challenge complete. Who wants to touch me? I said who wants to #$%ing touch me!?

Congrats! After your last update I knew you would be the first Gaffer. Good stuff.

It's only August...are you going to keep at it and see where you end up?

TestMonkey · Aug 17, 2013

Tragicomedy said:
Congrats! After your last update I knew you would be the first Gaffer. Good stuff.

It's only August...are you going to keep at it and see where you end up?

I'll keep at it. I'm going back to school on Monday so that should stagger the pace. Will try to keep the balance as I found that part very rewarding.

Ashes · Aug 17, 2013

TestMonkey said:
Challenge complete. Who wants to touch me? I said who wants to #$%ing touch me!?

Nezumi · Aug 17, 2013

Congrats TestMonkey!

Update:

Nezumi - 33/50 books | 53/50 movies

Books:

The novel my husband wrote for NaNoWriMo
Before they are hanged - Joe Abercrombie
A betrayel in winter - Daniel Abrahams
Last Argument of Kings - Joe Abercrombie
Shadow of the Torturer - Gene Wolfe
The great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
Nero Corleone kehrt zurück - Elke Heidenreich
An Autumn War - Daniel Abraham
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
The wonderful wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
Sabriel - Garth Nix
The Price of Spring - Daniel Abraham
Ensel und Krete - Walter Moers
Solange der Haifisch schläft - Milena Agus
Lirael - Garth Nix
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Book One - Bill Watterson
Unrast - Olga Tokarczuk
Schilf - Juli Zeh
Sweet Silver Blues - Glen Cook
Abhorsen - Garth Nix
La marche du crabe (book 1) - Arthur de Pins
Bitter Gold Hearts - Glen Cook
Cold Copper Tears - Glen Cook
Leviathan Wakes - James S.A. Corey
Old Tin Sorrows - Glen Cook
Jhereg - Steven Brust
Dread Bass Shadows - Glen Cook
Red Iron Nights - Glen Cook
Deadly Qicksilver Lies - Glen Cook
Yendi - Steven Brust
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Slaughterhouse 5 or The children's crusade - Kurt Vonnegut

Movies:

Brick
Inspector General
Indie Game the Movie
Ijon Tichy - Raumpilot Season 2
Moonrise Kingdom
Chronicle
Prometheus
Speed Racer
Brave
The Cabin in the Woods
Fitzcarraldo
Eraserhead
Seven Samurai
Fire walk with me
Sherlock: The Great Game
Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia
Sherlock:The Hounds of Baskerville
Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall
The Intouchables
Looper
A town called Panic
Road to El Dorado
The Dark Knight Rises
The Raid
Stalker
The Princess Bride
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The 36th chamber of Shaolin
I ♥ Huckabees
The Frighteners
Ashura
Wreck it Ralph
Seeking a friend for the End of the World
Silver Linings Playbook
The Perks of being a Wallflower
Star Trek: Into Darkness
Iron Sky
Conan the Barbarian
Key of Life
Thermae Romae
The Kirishima Thing
A letter to Momo
Father Frost
Das kalte Herz (Heart of Stone)
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Les Miserables
Seven Psychopaths
The Thief of Bagdad (1939)
Django Unchained
Fraktus - Das letzte Kapitel der Musikgeschichte
Ace Attorney
OZ - The Great and Powerful
Mother
King Arthur

Awesome book. Was the first time I read something by Vonnegut. Won't be the last time though since I really enjoyed his prose.

markhimself46 · Aug 17, 2013

IN PROCESS: The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and the Glass (Stephen King)

BOOKS

Building Stories (Chris Ware)
Batman: Year One (Frank Miller, David Mazzucchelli)
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, Lynn Varley)
When David Lost His Voice (Judith Vanistendael)
Francona: The Red Sox Years (Terry Francona, Dan Shaughnessy)
Point Your Face at This (Demetri Martin)
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Under the Dome (Stephen King)
Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise (Gene Luen Yang, Michael Dante DiMartino)
11/22/63 (Stephen King)
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger (Stephen King)
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three (Stephen King)
The Dark Tower III: The Wastelands (Stephen King)
Inferno (Dan Brown)
Hitchhiking with Larry David (Paul Samuel Dolman)
MIND MGMT (Matt Kindt)

MOVIES

Looper
VHS
Argo
Brave
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Indie Game: The Movie
Wreck it Ralph
The Place Beyond the Pines
Django Unchained
The Master
Iron Man 3
Silver Linings Playbook
Star Trek (2009)
Star Trek: Into Darkness
Fast and Furious 6
The Kings of Summer
This is the End
Bottle Rocket
Pelotero (Ballplayer)
Knuckleball!
Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview
The People vs. George Lucas
Death of a Superhero
Pacific Rim
Despicable Me 2
Woody Allen: A Documentary

TV

The Office (Seasons 1-9)
Game of Thrones (Season 1)
Arrested Development (Seasons 1-4)
Scrubs (Season 1-5)

Forsaken82 · Aug 19, 2013

Update: my goal is to knock out a few more Books before I update again... (so next update may be a long ways away!)
Forsaken82 – 6/50 Books | 60/50 Movies

Books:
1. A Dance with Dragons
2. The Road
3. Gone Girl
4. Wool Book 1
5. Wool Book 2
6. Bioshock: Infinite – Mind in Revolt

Movies:
1. Looper
2. V/H/S
3. American Reunion
4. Dredd
5. This Means War
6. Wrath of the Titans
7. Mindhunters
8. Dream House
9. Thats My Boy
10. The Ring 2
11. The Thing (2011)
12. Project X (2012)
13. Paranormal Activity 3
14. Men In Black 3
15. Wanderlust
16. Rock of Ages
17. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
18. Silent Hill: Revelations
19. Snow White and the Huntsman
20. Paranormal Activity 4
21. The Campaign
22. Resident Evil: Retribution
23. Zero Dark Thirty
24. Compliance
25. Django Unchained
26. Premium Rush
27. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
28. Chernobyl Diaries
29. Sinister
30. Silent Night
31. Moonrise Kingdom
32. Hostel: Part 3
33. Brave
34. Deadfall
35. Evil Dead 2
36. Mama
37. Below
38. Dark Shadows
39. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
40. Scoop
41. Man of Steel
42. Pitch Perfect
43. A Good Day to Die Hard
44. The Watch
45. Battleship
46. Restraint
47. The Three Stooges
48. Red Eye
49. Evil Dead (2012)
50. The Switch
51. Savages
52. Bad Girls of Valley High
53. Rise of the Guardians
54. The Apparition
55. Clear History
56. American Psycho 2
57. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
58. The Beach
59. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
60. Ninja

DieUnbekannte · Aug 20, 2013

UPDATE

DieUnbekannte - 34/50 books | 53/50 movies

books
1. Isaac Marion Warm Bodies
2. Kai Meyer Dschinnland
3. Jasper Fforde Something Rotten
4. Arthur Conan Doyle A Study in Scarlet
5. Haruki Murakami Norwegian Wood
6. Jim Butcher Storm Front
7. Jim Butcher Fool Moon
8. Kai Meyer Wunschkrieg
9. Terry Pratchett Small Gods
10. Orson Scott Card Enders Game
11. Jim Butcher Grave Peril
12. L. Frank Baum The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
13. Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
14. Jim Butcher Summer Knight
15. Michael Crichton Jursassic Park
16. Terry Pratchett Men At Arms
17. Terry Pratchett The Fifth Elephant
18. Terry Pratchett Pyramids
19. Haddon Mark The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time
20. Stephen Clarke A Year In The Merde
21. Charlaine Harris Dead Ever After
22. Ernest Cline Ready Player One
23. Gillian Flynn Gone Girl (~560 pages)
24. Max Brooks World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
25. Westerfeld Scott Leviathan
26. Douglas Adams Dirk Gentlys Holistic Detective Agency
27. Dan Brown Inferno (688 pages)
28. Jim Butcher Death Masks
29. Terry Pratchett Reaper Man
30. Eoin Colfer And Another Thing...
31. Bernd Perplies Für die Krone
32. Martin Suter Auf der dunklen Seite des Mondes
33. Bernd Perplies Gegen die Zeit
34. Bernd Perplies In den Abgrund

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)
14. The Lovely Bones (2009)
15. Australia (2008)
16. Es geschah am hellichten Tag (1958)
17. Looper (2012)
18. Skyfall (2012)
19. Death on the Nile (1978)
20. Planet Terror (2007)
21. Hotel Transylvania (2012)
22. Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter 1 Eine andere Zeit (2013)
23. Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter 2 Ein anderer Krieg (2013)
24. Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter 3 Ein anderes Land (2013)
25. Hit and Run (2012)
26. Top Secret (1984)
27. The Three Amigos (1986)
28. Wreck it Ralph (2012)
29. Seven Psychopaths (2012)
30. The Hobbit An Unexpected Journey (2012)
31. Rise of the Guardians (2012)
32. Cloud Atlas (2012)
33. Bachelorette (2012)
34. Forbidden Planet (1956)
35. Coraline (2009)
36. Serenity (2005)
37. Jack Reacher (2012)
38. Dr. Strangelove [] (1964)
39. Django Unchained (2012)
40. Spies Like Us (1985)
41. Gangster Squad (2013)
42. The Last Stand (2013)
43. Les Misérables (2012)
44. Oz The Great And Powerful (2013)
45. A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)
46. Mad Max (1979)
47. Porco Rosso (1992)
48. Pacific Rim (2013)
49. The Lorax (2012)
50. Jack The Giant Slayer (2013)
51. Identity Thief (2013)
52. High Anxiety (1977)
53. Oblivion (2013)

Since I've finally finished the movie part of this challenge, I thought it'd be once again time for an update. The best of the last five movies was definitely High Anxiety (1977). I love films by Mel Brooks and this one was really great too.
Normally I prefer reading in English but the last four books are originally written in German and I'm not even sure if Bernd Perplies' books are translated into any other language. Those three books of him were really great. I read that they are a steampunk trilogy but I thought that this part wasn't that promient - there were just a few little things that are related to this genre. Nevertheless those books were great. I loved the magicsystem Bernd Perplies developed and I thought it was great that he didn't describe the world his trilogy plays in in the first 100 pages but just starts with the story on page one and you learn more and more about everything as the books proceed.

Ashes · Aug 20, 2013

Ashes1396 - 07/50 Books | 15/50 Films

Books

1, Kensuki's Kingdom
2. The Ocean at the end of the lane
3. Wool #1
4. Clockwork Orange
5: Wild Sargasso Sea
6. The Last Vampire
7. The Red Badge of Courage

Films

1. Dredd.
2. The skin I live in
3. Yojimbo
4. The perks of being a wallflower
5: Berserk: The Golden Age Arc - The Egg of the King
6. Goodfellas
7. Blazing Saddles
8. Mystic River
9. Lootera
10. Raanjhanaa
11. The Third Man
12. Table No. 21
13. Chennai Express
14. Kismet (1943)
15. Barsaat (1949)

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Need to quicken my book reading pace. I'm currently reading Neuromancer, which is pretty cool.
I started in July, and should have read 16 books by the end of August. I don't think that will happen for some reason.

Edit:

Films

16. Paris at midnight

Books

8. The man who would be king
9. The adventures of tom sawyer
10. The portrait of dorian grey
11. First love

Tragicomedy · Aug 21, 2013

Ashes1396 said:
Ashes1396 - 07/50 Books | 15/50 Films

Seems like really good progress so far. You got this!

Life has slowed down my reading peace quite a bit this month, but I've been able to catch up on movies so that's good.

New movie:

[*] Louis C.K.: Oh My God ★★★★ - For a comedian who is so prolific, it's amazing how consistently great he is. This was maybe a minor step down from last year's set, but he still kills it. There's no better storyteller in America right now.

Nezumi · Aug 23, 2013

Update:

Nezumi - 34/50 books | 55/50 movies

Books:

The novel my husband wrote for NaNoWriMo
Before they are hanged - Joe Abercrombie
A betrayel in winter - Daniel Abrahams
Last Argument of Kings - Joe Abercrombie
Shadow of the Torturer - Gene Wolfe
The great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
Nero Corleone kehrt zurück - Elke Heidenreich
An Autumn War - Daniel Abraham
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
The wonderful wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
Sabriel - Garth Nix
The Price of Spring - Daniel Abraham
Ensel und Krete - Walter Moers
Solange der Haifisch schläft - Milena Agus
Lirael - Garth Nix
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Book One - Bill Watterson
Unrast - Olga Tokarczuk
Schilf - Juli Zeh
Sweet Silver Blues - Glen Cook
Abhorsen - Garth Nix
La marche du crabe (book 1) - Arthur de Pins
Bitter Gold Hearts - Glen Cook
Cold Copper Tears - Glen Cook
Leviathan Wakes - James S.A. Corey
Old Tin Sorrows - Glen Cook
Jhereg - Steven Brust
Dread Bass Shadows - Glen Cook
Red Iron Nights - Glen Cook
Deadly Qicksilver Lies - Glen Cook
Yendi - Steven Brust
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Slaughterhouse 5 or The children's crusade - Kurt Vonnegut
Theft of Swords - Michael J. Sullivan

Movies:

Brick
Inspector General
Indie Game the Movie
Ijon Tichy - Raumpilot Season 2
Moonrise Kingdom
Chronicle
Prometheus
Speed Racer
Brave
The Cabin in the Woods
Fitzcarraldo
Eraserhead
Seven Samurai
Fire walk with me
Sherlock: The Great Game
Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia
Sherlock:The Hounds of Baskerville
Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall
The Intouchables
Looper
A town called Panic
Road to El Dorado
The Dark Knight Rises
The Raid
Stalker
The Princess Bride
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The 36th chamber of Shaolin
I ♥ Huckabees
The Frighteners
Ashura
Wreck it Ralph
Seeking a friend for the End of the World
Silver Linings Playbook
The Perks of being a Wallflower
Star Trek: Into Darkness
Iron Sky
Conan the Barbarian
Key of Life
Thermae Romae
The Kirishima Thing
A letter to Momo
Father Frost
Das kalte Herz (Heart of Stone)
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Les Miserables
Seven Psychopaths
The Thief of Bagdad (1939)
Django Unchained
Fraktus - Das letzte Kapitel der Musikgeschichte
Ace Attorney
OZ - The Great and Powerful
Mother
King Arthur
Four Rooms
Life of Pi

I quite enjoyed Theft of Swords. The book doens't do anything especially new to the fantasy genre but the characters are likable, the plot is interesting and the overall prose is also good. Really solid entertainment and I'm actually looking forward to jump into the next book right away.

Four rooms was... I don't know. While I enjoyed the whole concept and idea. I couldn't help that a lot of the humor felt a bit dated to a point were it sometimes got cringeworthy. I liked the Banderas episode the most.

I was really positively surprised by Life of Pi. I loved the book which normally means that I will absolutely hate the movie. I actually remained rather sceptical at the beginning of the movie. The bad CGI animals in the opening made me dread what Richard Parker would look like and I quickly developed a great dislike for both the actors of adult Pi and the author. But l have to say while it was of course at times visable when they were using the CGI tiger instead of a real one it was still really impressing how good they made him look. Kind of explains why all the other animals looked like shit.
And luckily we don't see that much of adult Pi and the author so that too was good and the boy playing young Pi did an absolute fantastic job.
There were of course a few aberrations from the book but I found them to be rather minor and probably nescessary.

markhimself46 · Aug 25, 2013

IN PROCESS: The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and the Glass (Stephen King)

BOOKS

Building Stories (Chris Ware)
Batman: Year One (Frank Miller, David Mazzucchelli)
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, Lynn Varley)
When David Lost His Voice (Judith Vanistendael)
Francona: The Red Sox Years (Terry Francona, Dan Shaughnessy)
Point Your Face at This (Demetri Martin)
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Under the Dome (Stephen King)
Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise (Gene Luen Yang, Michael Dante DiMartino)
11/22/63 (Stephen King)
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger (Stephen King)
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three (Stephen King)
The Dark Tower III: The Wastelands (Stephen King)
Inferno (Dan Brown)
Hitchhiking with Larry David (Paul Samuel Dolman)
MIND MGMT (Matt Kindt)

MOVIES

Looper
VHS
Argo
Brave
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Indie Game: The Movie
Wreck it Ralph
The Place Beyond the Pines
Django Unchained
The Master
Iron Man 3
Silver Linings Playbook
Star Trek (2009)
Star Trek: Into Darkness
Fast and Furious 6
The Kings of Summer
This is the End
Bottle Rocket
Pelotero (Ballplayer)
Knuckleball!
Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview
The People vs. George Lucas
Death of a Superhero
Pacific Rim
Despicable Me 2
Woody Allen: A Documentary
Zelig
Manhattan
Clear History

TV

The Office (Seasons 1-9)
Game of Thrones (Season 1)
Arrested Development (Seasons 1-4)
Scrubs (Season 1-5)

Nymerio · Aug 27, 2013

Update

Nymerio - 50/50 Books | 11/50 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)
Death Masks (Jim Butcher)
Blood Rites (Jim Butcher)
Dead Beat (Jim Butcher)
Proven Guilty (Jim Butcher)
White Night (Jim Butcher)
Small Favor (Jim Butcher)
Turn Coat (Jim Butcher)
Changes (Jim Butcher)
Ghost Story (Jim Butcher)
Cold Days (Jim Butcher)
Legion (Brandon Sanderson)
The House on the Borderlands (William Hope Hodgson)
Sweet Silver Blues (Glenn Cook)
Redshirts (John Scalzi)
Bitter Gold Hearts (Glenn Cook)
Cold Copper Tears (Glenn Cook)
Old Tin Sorrows (Glenn Cook)
Dread Brass Shadows (Glenn Cook)
Red Iron Nights (Glenn Cook)
Deadly Quicksilver Lies (Glenn Cook)
Petty Pewter Gods (Glenn Cook)
Faded Steel Heat (Glenn Cook)
Angry Lead Skies (Glenn Cook)
Whispering Nickel Idols (Glenn Cook)
Cruel Zinc Melodies (Glenn Cook)
Gilded Latten Bones (Glenn Cook)
Gardens of the Moon (Steven Erikson)
The Thirteenth Tale (Diane Setterfield)
Deadhouse Gates (Steven Erikson)
Memories of Ice (Steven Erikson)
House of Chains (Steven Erikson)
Midnight Tides (Steven Erikson)
The Bonehunters (Steven Erikson)
Reaper's Gale (Steven Erikson)
Dust of Dreams (Steven Erikson)
The Crippled God (Steven Erikson)
Coraline (Neil Gaiman)

Movies

Stardust
A Scanner Darkly
Savages
Sinister
Skyfall
The Hobbit
Oz the Great and Powerful
Wreckit Ralph
Man with the Iron Fists
Gran Torino
Evil Dead

choodi · Aug 27, 2013

Update

choodi - 11/50 Books | 49/50 Movies

Films

The Man with the Iron Fists (B)
The Men Who Stare at Goats (C)
The Inbetweeners Movie (A)
The Social Network (A)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (D)
This is 40 (C)
Skyfall (B)
Hotel Transylvania (B)
Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (C)
Bachelorette (D)
Pitch Perfect (D)
Django Unchained (B)
Lincoln (A)
Here comes the boom (C)
10 Years (B)
Wreck-it Ralph (C)
The Secret World of Arrietty (C)
Zero Dark Thirty (A)
TRON: Legacy (B)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (C)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (C)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (C)
The Life of Pi (B)
Blonde Ambition (D)
So Undercover (E)
My Brother the Devil (B)
Iron Man 3 (C)
Jack Reacher (B)
A Separation(B)
Star Trek: Into Darkness (B)
Role Models (B)
The Last Stand (C)
Not Suitable for Children (C)
Balls Deep: The Gary Houseman Story (D)
For a Good Time, Call... (D)
Bernie (C)
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (C)
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (D)
The Croods (C)
The Heat (B)
G.I. Joe: Retribution (C)
Odd Thomas (D)
[*]Oblivion (C)
[*]Save Your Legs (C)
[*]The Big Wedding (B)
[*]Europa Report (B)
[*]Pacific Rim (A)
[*]Pain and Gain (C)
[*]The Great Gatsby (C)

Europa Report was freaking awesome. Pain and Gain was pretty funny and Pacific Rim was everything that I wanted it to be.

Books

Inverting the Pyramid: The history of football tactics - Jonathan Wilson (A)
A Memory of Light - Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson (B)
Pyramids - Terry Pratchett (B)
Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett (A)
The Fall of Hyperion - Dan Simmons (A)
Old Man's War - John Scalzi (A)
The Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brooks (C)
Before they are Hanged - Joe Abercrombie (B)
How to write a sentence and how to read one - Stanley Fish (B)
[*]The Walking Dead book one - Robert Kirkman (B)
[*]300 - Frank Miller (B)

I'm not a big comic reader, but I thoroughly enjoyed The Walking Dead and 300 was nice.

Anyone interested in writing or who writes professionally in any capacity should read the Stanley Fish book. Some great insights into how to construct a sentence and how to improve your own writing.

Wok · Aug 27, 2013

UPDATE

Wok - 8/50 books | 17/50 movies

Books

Alessandro Baricco, Emmaüs, 2012. (144 pages, ISBN-13: 9782070131709) ★★★★½
Yann & Roman Surzhenko, Les Trois Soeurs Minkelsönn (T1), 2013. (48 pages, ISBN-13: 9782803631308) ★★★½
Denis Le Bihan, Le cerveau de cristal ; ce que nous révèle la neuro-imagerie, 2012. (220 pages, ISBN-13: 9782738125279) ★★★★
Yann & Roman Surzhenko, Le Royaume du chaos (T3), 2013. (48 pages, ISBN-13: 9782803631964) ★★★
Philippe Valette, George ~~Clooney : Une histoire vrai[e]. La grosse épopée orthographique de qualit[é]~~ (T1-T2-T3-T4), 2013. (300 pages, ISBN-13: 9782756041513) ½
[*]Daniel Pennac, Cabot-Caboche, 1982. (200 pages, ISBN-13: 9782266086417) ★★★★½
[*]Jean Dufaux & Philippe Delaby, Murena: Les épines (T9), 2013. (48 pages, ISBN-13: 9782505016526) ★★
[*]Amin Maalouf, Les jardins de lumière, 1991. (317 pages, ISBN-13: 978-2253061779) ★★★★

Movies

Alice Bissonnet, Aloyse Desoubries-Binet, Sandrine Han Jin Kuang, Juliette Laurent, Sophie Markatatos, In-Between, 2012. (3 min 05 s, Youtube) ★★★½

Simon Klose, TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard, 2013. (1 h 22 min) ★★★½

Claude Zidi, L'Aile ou la cuisse, 1976. (1 h 44 min) ★★★½

Bruno Bozzetto, Yes & No, 2001. (4 min, Youtube) ★★★

Malik Bendjelloul, Searching for Sugar Man, 2012. (1h 26 min) ★★★

Pier Paolo Pasolini, Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo, 1964. (2h 17 min) ★★★★★

Bernard Stora, La Dernière campagne, 2013. (1h 45 min) ★★★

Lars Lundström, Äkta människor, 2012. (TV, 10 x 55min) ★★★

Laurent Cantet, Entre les murs, 2008. (2 h 08 min) ★★★★½

Giulio Base, Terence Hill, Doc West, 2009. (1 h 33 min) ★½

Giulio Base, Terence Hill, Triggerman, 2009. (1 h 37 min) ★

Jakob Belaga, Baptiste Magontier, Can't we be friends?, 2011. (11 min, Youtube) ½

James Swirsky & Lisanne Pajot, Indie Game: The Movie (Special Edition DLC), 2013. (~ 1 h 40 min) ★★★½

Guillermo Del Toro, Pacific Rim, 2013. (2 h 11 min) ★★★

Christian Vincent, Quatre étoiles, 2006. (1 h 40 min) ★★

Michael Curtiz, Casablanca, 1942. (1 h 42 min) ★★★★

Xavier Dolan, Laurence Anyways, 2012. (2 h 48 min)

BrokenEchelon · Aug 28, 2013

TestMonkey said:
Challenge complete. Who wants to touch me? I said who wants to #$%ing touch me!?

Grats! I hope to finish before winter now that I've started reading again.

Tragicomedy · Aug 28, 2013

New book:

[*] Naoki Higashida - The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism. ★★★★★ This book is a complete masterpiece and unlocks insight into a journey that has largely been a mystery for me during my son's three years of life. Not every question that Naoki addresses directly fits our boy, but a large quantity do and the answers are mesmerizing and amazing. Like my son, the author has an absolutely beautiful soul that not even communication and social delays can hide.

Glaurungr · Aug 29, 2013

Glaurungr - 169/50 books | 38/50 movies

Update! New entries in italic.

Books:

Agatha Christie - Poirot Investigates (1924)
Agatha Christie - The Secret of Chimneys (1925)
Agatha Christie - The Big Four (1927)
Agatha Christie - Lord Edgware Dies (1933)
Agatha Christie - Murder in the Mews (1937)
Agatha Christie - Sad Cypress (1940)
Agatha Christie - The Body in the Library (1942)
Agatha Christie - Taken at the Flood (1948)
Agatha Christie - A Murder Is Announced (1950)
Agatha Christie - Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (1950)
Agatha Christie - Hickory Dickory Dock (1955)
Agatha Christie - 4.50 from Paddington (1957)
Agatha Christie - The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960)
Agatha Christie - The Clocks (1963)
Agatha Christie - At Bertram's Hotel (1965)
Agatha Christie - Third Girl (1966)
Agatha Christie - Hallowe'en Party (1969)
Agatha Christie - Nemesis (1971)
Agatha Christie - Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories (1979)
Agatha Christie - Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories (1991)
Agatha Christie - While the Light Lasts and Other Stories (1997)
Agatha Christie and Charles Osborne - Black Coffee (1998)
Alfred S. Bradford - Flying the Black Flag: A Brief History of Piracy (2007)
Alf R. Jacobsen - Attack at Dawn: Narvik, 9.-10. April 1940 (2012)
Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper - Paris: After the Liberation 1944-1949 (1994)
Aristotle - The Nicomachean Ethics (1861)
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)
Bart D. Ehrman - Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew (2003)
Bart D. Ehrman - Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine (2004)
Bart D. Ehrman - Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (and Why We Don't Know About Them) (2009)
Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Fury (2006)
Birger Sivertsen - For noen troll: Creatures and Monsters in Folklore (2000)
Brandon Sanderson - Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians (2007)
Brandon Sanderson - Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones (2008)
Brandon Sanderson - Legion (2012)
Brandon Sanderson - The Emperor's Soul (2012)
Brandon Sanderson - The Rithmatist (2013)
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol (1843)
Chris Smith - The Lord of the Rings: Weapons and Warfare (2003)
Christopher Gravett - Medieval Siege Warfare (1990)
C.S. Forester - Lieutenant Hornblower (1952)
Dan Brown - Inferno (2013)
David Brawn - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Creatures (2002)
David Gemmell - Quest for Lost Heroes: Book Four of The Drenai Tales (1990)
Deborah Blum - The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (2010)
Derek Collins - Magic in the Ancient Greek World (2008)
Diana Wynne Jones - Charmed Life (1977)
Diana Wynne Jones - Howl's Moving Castle (1986)
Diana Wynne Jones - Dark Lord of Derkholm (1998)
Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
Douglas Starr - The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science (2010)
Edith Pargeter - A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury (1972)
Edwin A. Abbott - Flatland (1884)
Egil Ulateig - The Long Journey Home: The Royal Family During the Second World War (2011)
E.J. Wagner - The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear, the Real Forensics Behind the Great Detective's Greatest Cases (2006)
Frances Gies and Joseph Gies - Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages (1994)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - A Weak Heart (1848)
Georges Simenon - Maigret and the Enigmatic Lett (1931)
Gerry Embleton - Medieval Military Costume: Recreated in Colour Photographs (2001)
Gregory Daly - Cannae: The Experience of Battle in the Second Punic War (2002)
Gro Steinsland (ed.) - The Dream Poem and Texts from the Nordic Middle Ages (2004)
Hans Christian Andersen - The Tinderbox (1835)
Helge Nordahl (ed./trans.) - The Song of Roland (1090)
Henrik Ibsen - The Pillars of Society (1877)
Hermann Pálsson (intr./not.) and Liv Kjørsvik Schei (trans.) - The Book of Settlements: Landnámabók (1997)
Ian Mortimer - The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century (2008)
Ingjerd Hoëm (ed.) and Egil Halmøy (trans.) - The Dreamtime: Myths and Legends from the Indigenous Peoples of Australia (2006)
Jakob Fjalestad (trans.) - The Saga of Gunnlaug the Worm-tongue (late 1200s)
James Brady - Hero of the Pacific: The Life of Marine Legend John Basilone (2010)
Jan Deberitz - Iron Age: In the Moon's Sign (1983)
Jan Guillou - Enemy's Enemy (1989)
Jan Guillou - The Honourable Murderer (1990)
Jan Guillou - Vendetta (1991)
Jan Guillou - No Man's Land (1992)
Jan Guillou - The Only Victory (1993)
Jan Guillou - In Her Majesty's Service (1994)
Jan Guillou - A Citizen Raised Above Every Suspicion (1995)
Jim Butcher - Storm Front (2000)
Jim Butcher - Dead Beat (2005)
Jim Butcher - Proven Guilty (2006)
Jim Butcher - White Night (2007)
Jim Butcher - Small Favor (2008)
Jim Butcher - Turn Coat (2009)
Jim Butcher - Changes (2010)
Jim Butcher - Side Jobs (2010)
Jim Butcher - Ghost Story (2011)
Jim Butcher - Cold Days (2012)
Jim Butcher - Furies of Calderon: Book One of The Codex Alera (2004)
Jim Butcher - Academ's Fury: Book Two of The Codex Alera (2005)
Jim Butcher - Cursor's Fury: Book Three of The Codex Alera (2006)
Jim Butcher - Captain's Fury: Book Four of The Codex Alera (2007)
Jim Butcher - Princeps' Fury: Book Five of The Codex Alera (2008)
Jim Butcher - First Lord's Fury: Book Six of The Codex Alera (2009)
J.K. Rowling - The Tales of Beedle the Bard (2008)
John Clements - Medieval Swordsmanship: Illustrated Methods and Techniques (1998)
John Curtis (ed.) and Nigel Tallis (ed.) - Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia (2005)
John Douglas and Mark Olshaker - Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit (1995)
Jo Nesbø - Police (2013)
Jón Viðar Sigurðsson - The Norse Society: The Viking, King, Archbishop, and Farmer (2008)
Joseph Campbell - The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949)
Joseph P. Byrne - The Black Death (2004)
J.R.R. Tolkien - Bilbo's Last Song (1990)
J.R.R. Tolkien, et al. - Tolkien's World: Paintings of Middle-earth (1992)
J.R.R. Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien (ed.) - The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún (2009)
J.R.R. Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien (ed.) - The Fall of Arthur (2013)
Jude Fisher - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Visual Companion (2002)
Jude Fisher - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Visual Companion (2003)
Jurgen Brauer and Hubert van Tuyll - Castles, Battles, & Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History (2008)
Jørn Lier Horst - Key Witness (2004)
Jørn Lier Horst - Disappearance of Felicia (2005)
Jørn Lier Horst - When the Sea Calms (2006)
Jørn Lier Horst - The Only One (2007)
Jørn Lier Horst - Nocturnal Man (2009)
Kelly DeVries and Robert D. Smith - Medieval Weapons: An Illustrated History of Their Impact (2007)
Knut Lindh - Vikings: The Discovery of America (2004)
Leif G.W. Persson - Between Summer's Longing and Winter's Cold (2002)
Leif G.W. Persson - Another Time, Another Life (2003)
Leif G.W. Persson - Falling Freely, as in a Dream (2007)
Lloyd Alexander - The Book of Three: Book One of The Chronicles of Prydain (1964)
Marcus Tullius Cicero - Selected Letters (1925)
Melitta Weiss Adamson - Food in Medieval Times (2004)
Neil Gaiman - Odd and the Frost Giants (2008)
Neil Gaiman - The Graveyard Book (2008)
Nicholas Hooper and Matthew Bennett - The Cambridge Illustrated Atlas of Warfare: The Middle Ages, 768-1487 (1996)
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe - Tyrihans who Made the Princess Laugh (1995)
Peter Connolly - The Roman Fort (1991)
Peter Tremayne - Absolution by Murder (1994)
Philip Newth - Spook: A Ghost Story (1998)
Raymond Khoury - The Last Templar (2005)
Robert Bly - My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy (2005)
Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson - A Memory of Light: Book Fourteen of The Wheel of Time (2013)
Robert Wilson - The Hidden Assassins (2006)
Robert Wilson - The Ignorance of Blood (2009)
Robert Wilson - Capital Punishment (2012)
Roger Zelazny - Nine Princes in Amber (1970)
Rolf Sagen - Steinar Foten and the Waking Man (2002)
Simon Anglim, et al. - Fighting Techniques of the Ancient World 3000 BC to 500 AD: Equipment, Combat Skills, and Tactics (2002)
Siri Walen Simensen - Women During the War (2009)
Skjalg Bye - Without Illusions (1995)
Stefan Brink (ed.) and Neil Price (ed.) - The Viking World (2008)
Sverre Brandt - The Journey to the Christmas Star (1924)
Sverre Sivertsen - A Demanding Watch: Notes from a Warsailor (2011)
Terry Pratchett - The Dark Side of the Sun (1976)
Terry Pratchett - Strata (1981)
Terry Pratchett - Truckers: Book One of The Bromeliad Trilogy (1989)
Terry Pratchett - The Carpet People (1992)
Terry Pratchett - Only You Can Save Mankind: Book One of The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy (1992)
Terry Pratchett - Johnny and the Dead: Book Two of The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy (1993)
Terry Pratchett - Johnny and the Bomb: Book Three of The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy (1996)
Terry Pratchett - The Last Hero (2001)
Terry Pratchett - Where's My Cow? (2005)
Terry Pratchett - Nation (2008)
Terry Pratchett - The World of Poo (2012)
Terry Pratchett - Dodger (2012)
Terry Pratchett - A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction (2012)
Terry Pratchett, et al. - Nanny Ogg's Cookbook: A Useful and Improving Almanack of Information Including Astonishing Recipes from Terry Pratchett's Discworld (1999)
Terry Pratchett and Jacqueline Simpson - The Folklore of Discworld (2008)
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (1990)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter - The Long Earth (2012)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs (ed.) - The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld (2007)
Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen - The Science of Discworld (1999)
Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen - The Science of Discworld II: The Globe (2002)
Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen - The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch (2005)
Tim Taylor (ed.) - The Time Team Guide to the History of Britain: Everything You Need to Know About Our History Since 650,000 BC (2010)
Tone Hødnebø - The Storm Ladder (2002)
Vālmīki and Signe Cohen (ed.) - Ramayana: A Selection from the Old Indian Epic About Prince Rama (2006)
Vernor Vinge - A Fire Upon the Deep (1992)
Vivien Bellamy - The Making of Shrewsbury: The History of a Border Town (2004)
Øystein Wingaard Wolf - We Came Through the Desert (1997)

David Howarth - We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance (1957)
Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island (1883)
Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic (1983)

Films:

A Good Day to Die Hard - John Moore (2013)
Argo - Ben Affleck (2012)
Code Name Coq Rouge - Pelle Berglund (1989)
Darkman - Sam Raimi (1990)
Despicable Me - Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud (2010)
End of Watch - David Ayer (2012)
Epic - Chris Wedge (2013)
Frankenweenie - Tim Burton (2012)
Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation - Kathrine Windfeld (2012)
Hamilton: But Not If It Concerns Your Daughter - Tobias Falk (2012)
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters - Tommy Wirkola (2013)
Happy Feet Two - George Miller (2011)
Iron Man 3 - Shane Black (2013)
Jack Reacher - Christopher McQuarrie (2012)
Jack the Giant Slayer - Bryan Singer (2013)
Jim Jefferies: Fully Functional - Jim Jefferies (2012)
Johnny Mnemonic - Robert Longo (1995)
Les Misérables - Tom Hooper (2012)
Life of Pi - Ang Lee (2012)
Lincoln - Steven Spielberg (2012)
Louis C.K.: Chewed Up - Louis C.K. (2008)
Minority Report - Steven Spielberg (2002)
Olympus Has Fallen - Antoine Fuqua (2013)
Pale Rider - Clint Eastwood (1985)
ParaNorman - Sam Fell and Chris Butler (2012)
Red Dawn - Dan Bradley (2012)
Rise of the Guardians - Peter Ramsey (2012)
RoboCop - Paul Verhoeven (1987)
Skyfall - Sam Mendes (2012)
Star Trek: Into Darkness - J.J. Abrams (2013)
Taken 2 - Olivier Megaton (2012)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Peter Jackson (2012)
The Last Stand - Kim Ji-woon (2013)
The Philadelphia Experiment - Stewart Raffill (1984)
Tron - Steven Lisberger (1982)
War - Philip Atwell (2007)
Wreck-It Ralph - Rich Moore (2012)
Zero Dark Thirty - Kathryn Bigelow (2012)

Now reading:

Katherine Ramsland - The Devil's Dozen

Tragicomedy · Aug 30, 2013

A few updates.

New movies:

[*] Contagion ★★★★ - Watch this great film.

[*] Man on a Ledge ★½ - Skip this trash.

New book:

[*] James S.A. Corey - Leviathan Wakes ★★★★★ - This book is a modern sci-fi masterpiece, with imagination and creativity to spare. The plot pacing and character interaction was excellent and really drew me in from beginning to end. Looking forward to the next book in the series.

Nymerio · Aug 30, 2013

Glaurungr said:
Glaurungr - 169/50 books | 38/50 movies

Update! New entries in italic.

Woah, you're a beast! How many hours a day do you manage to read, if you don't mind me asking? I wish I could invest that much time into reading.

Glaurungr · Aug 30, 2013

Nymerio said:
Woah, you're a beast! How many hours a day do you manage to read, if you don't mind me asking? I wish I could invest that much time into reading.

Thanks! I try to read at least a couple of hours a day, with more on the weekends. I'll slip in some reading whenever I can, such as when I'm eating breakfast/lunch and on the train/bus, and I'll also read an hour or two before I go to sleep. According to the Goodreads total page number I've read about 210 pages each day this year, which I'm pretty satisfied with.

Nymerio · Aug 30, 2013

That's amazing. I think I'll start taking my kindle with me wherever I go to get some more reading done.

Tragicomedy · Aug 30, 2013

Nymerio said:
That's amazing. I think I'll start taking my kindle with me wherever I go to get some more reading done.

Kindles have made reading so much more convenient for me. I doubt I've ever read more that 15 books in a year before, but with my tablet +the Kindle app I'm tearing through books this year.

An hour or so a day at night and some other random sessions here and there makes it easy to finish a book or two a week, size depending.

Nymerio · Aug 31, 2013

Yeah, same here. I think I've at least trippled the amount of books I read since I got a kindle.

persongr · Sep 1, 2013

August Update!

persongr: Books, 15/50 | Movies, 32/50

BOOKS: 15/50

The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes (translated in Greek by Thomas Skassis)
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, by Julian Barnes (translated in Greek by Thomas Skassis)
Edgar Allan Poe: 21 Stories and "The Raven" (compiled and translated in Greek by Katerina Sxina)
The Murderess, by Alexandros Papadiamantis
Our Man in Havana, by Graham Greene
Confessions of a Mask, by Yukio Mishima (translated in English by Meredith Weatherby)
Weaveworld, by Clive Barker
Mother, by Maxim Gorky
Slapstick or Lonesome no More!, by Kurt Vonnegut
A Night in the Galactic Railway, by Kenji Miyazawa (translated in Greek by Maria Argyraki)
Norwegian Wood, by Haruki Murakami (translated in Greek by Argyro Mandoglou)
Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
Immortality, by Milan Kundera (translated in Greek by Katerina Daskalaki)
[*]Life in the Tomb, by Stratis Myrivilis
[*]Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevski (translated in Greek by Eleki Mpakopoulou)

MOVIES: 32/50

Life of Pi
Django Unchained
The Master
Sleepwalk with Me
Tower Heist
The Perks of being a Wallflower
Seven Psychopaths
Lincoln
Argo
Amour
Rango
Wreck-it Ralph
In the Mood for Love
De rouille et d'os
La Mujer sin Cabeza
Anatomy of a Crime
Iron Man 3
Chungking Express
The Grandmaster
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Like Someone in Love
The Last Samurai
Man of Steel
Just Like Heaven
Trance
Hot Fuzz
My Neighbor Totoro
[*]Madeo
[*]The Wolverine
[*]The Dreamers
[*] 8 1/2
[*]Fallen Angels

Maklershed · Sep 1, 2013

Maklershed - 39/50 books | 59/50 movies | 10 games

New stuff in bold...

Books
1. The Heroes
2. The Dispossessed
3. In the Garden of Beasts
4. Foundation
5. Foundation and Empire
6. Second Foundation
7. Wilderness: A Novel
8. Foundation's Edge
9. Foundation and Earth
10. Make Room! Make Room!
11. Dune Messiah
12. Raised Eyebrows
13. Red Country
14. L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories
15. The Big Sleep
16. Farewell, My Lovely
---END Q1---
17. The Black Dahlia
18. The Big Nowhere
19. Masters of Doom
20. L.A. Confidential
21. White Jazz
22. Escape from Camp 14
23. A Clash of Kings (re-read)
24. Mistborn: The Well of Ascension
25. The Martian
26. The Chase
27. Joyland
28. The Maltese Falcon
29. American Tabloid
30. Caliban's War
31. Abaddon's Gate
---END Q2---
32. Altered Carbon
33. Empire Falls
34. These Is My Words
35. Neuromancer
36. The Mist
37. 600 Hours of Edward
38. The Terror
39. Shift Omnibus

Movies
1. Dredd
2. The Dark Knight Rises
3. Headhunters
4. Chronicle
5. The Hunger Games
6. Wrath of the Titans
7. Quantum of Solace
8. The Immortals
9. Skyfall
10. Margin Call
11. Shooter
12. The Naked City
13. The Maltese Falcon
14. Reservoir Dogs
15. The Warriors
16. Double Indemnity
17. Lawless
18. Once Upon a Time in the West
19. A Night in Casablanca
20. Go West
21. In the Name of the King
22. Duck Soup
23. Murder, My Sweet
24. They Drive By Night
25. Gun Crazy
26. Gigli
27. Season of the Witch
28. Trespass
29. Drive Angry
---END Q1---
30. Born to Kill
31. End of Watch
32. The Asphalt Jungle
33. Street Fighter
34. Godzilla 1998
35. Oblivion
36. Green Lantern
37. The Campaign
38. The Rundown
39. Gone in 60 Seconds
40. Django Unchained
41. Fast and the Furious
42. 2 Fast 2 Furious
43. Man of Steel
44. The Glass Key
45. Nocturne
46. Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift
---END Q2---
47. The Postman Always Rings Twice
48. Fast & Furious
49. World War Z
50. Cowboys & Aliens
51. Pacific Rim
52. Heat
53. The Bourne Legacy
54. Jack Reacher
55. Argo
56. Over the Top
57. The Wolverine
58. Elysium
59. Gangster Squad

Games
1. Borderlands 2
2. Heavy Rain
3. Far Cry 3
4. Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
---END Q1---
5. Tomb Raider
6. Dishonored
7. Bioshock Infinite
8. Spec Ops
---END Q2---
9. Crysis 2
10. Gunpoint

Empty · Sep 1, 2013

update

Empty - 48/50 Books | 56/50 Movies

1. never let me go by kazuo ishiguro
2. the left hand of darkness by ursula k. le guin
3+4. middlesex by jeffrey eugidenes (533 pages)
5. nothing to envy: real lives in north korea by barbara demick
6. a life too short: the tragedy of robert enke by ronald reng
7. sputnik sweetheart by haruki murakami
8. good omens by terry pratchett & neil gaiman
9. pale blue dot by carl sagan
10 + 11. a feast for crows by george r. r martin (684 pages)
12. lolita by vladimir nabokov
13. eating animals by jonathon safron foer
14. neverwhere by neil gaiman
15. the complete maus by art spiegelman
16. night falls fast by kay redfield jamison
17. what i talk about when i talk about running by haruki murakami
18. scorsese by ebert
19. a tree grows in brooklyn by betty smith
20. breakfast of champions by kurt vonnegut
21. the orphan masters son by adam johnson
22. cold spring harbour by richard yates
23. outliers by malcom gladwell
24. slaugherhose v by kurt vonnegut
25 + 26. the art of fielding by chad harbuch (515 pages)
27. the easter parade by richard yates
28. where angels fear to tread by e.m forster
29. pnin by vladamir nabokov
30. the real life of sebastian knight by vladamir nabokov
31. thirst for love by yukio mishima
32. nine stories by j.d salinger
33. the spy who came in from the cold by john le carre
34. johnson's life of london by boris johnson
35+36. white teeth by zadie smith (542 pages)
37. the hobbit by j.r.r tolkein
38. consider the lobster by david foster wallace
39. sandman vol.1: preludes and nocturnes by neil gaiman
40. franny and zooey by j.d salinger
41. midnight days by neil gaiman
42. unknown man #89 by elmore leonard
43. the quiet american by graham greene
44. when we were orphans by kazuo ishiguro
45. a good school by richard yates
46. confessions of a mask by yukio mishima
47. brighton rock by graham greene
48. fun home by alison bechdel

Films -

1. the bicycle thief
2. brokeback mountain
3. the thin blue line
4. mission: impossible
5. life of pi 3d
6. the girl who leapt through time
7. les miserables
8. mean streets
9. ocean waves
10. kill bill vol. 1 & 2
11. jiro dreams of sushi
12. mission: impossible 2
13. a separation
14. tangled
15. queen of versailles
16. django unchained
17. searching for sugarman
18. cache (hidden)
19. prometheus
20. the lives of others
21. wreck it ralph
22. amour
23. argo
24. paris, texas
25. to the wonder
26. wings
27. the passion of joan of arc
28. cloud atlas
29. sunrise a song of two humans
30. the general
31. safety last
32. nosferatu
33. the triplets of bellville
34. grizzly man
35. pitch perfect
36. the terminator
37. election
38. mishima a life in four chapters
39. three colours red
40. iron man 3
41. flesh and the devil
42. fish tank
43. paris is burning
44. monsters university
45. groundhog day
46. la strada
47. passport to pimlico
48. synecdoche, new york
49. alan partidge: alpha papa
50. 21 jump street
51. blue jasmine
52. the bling ring
53. before midnight
54. stop making sense
55. 50/50
56. hoop dreams

pretty happy. i didn't think i could do 50 books without counting ones over 500 pages double but i should be able to do it without that rule. should probably just watch something on netflix tonight to take me up to 50 films.

Tragicomedy · Sep 1, 2013

UPDATE

Tragicomedy - 48/50 Books | 43/50 Movies

Books

Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ★★★
Jane Austen - Persuasion ★★★
L. Frank Baum - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ★★★
Peter S. Beagle - The Last Unicorn ★★★★★
Oliver Broudy - The Convert ★★
Jim Butcher - Storm Front ★★★
Jim Butcher - Fool Moon ★★★
Glen Cook - The Black Company ★★★★★
Glen Cook - Shadows Linger ★★★
Glen Cook - The White Rose ★★★★
James S.A. Corey - The Butcher of Anderson Station ★★★½
James S.A. Corey - Leviathan Wakes ★★★★★
James S.A. Corey - Caliban's War ★★★★½
James S.A. Corey - Gods of Risk ★★★
James S.A. Corey - Abaddon's Gate ★★★★½
Andy Diggle - Shadowland (2010 series) ★★½
Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl ★★★½
Ben Fountain - Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk ★★★★★
Neil Gaiman - American Gods ★★★
Neil Gaiman - The Ocean at the End of the Lane ★★★
John Green - The Fault in Our Stars ★★★★
Naoki Higashida - The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism. ★★★★★
Chad Johnston - Nightmarriage ★★★★½
Stephen King - Guns ★★★½
Mark Lauren - Body by You ★★★
Jack London - The Call of the Wild ★
Carolyn Nash - The Trunk Key ★★½
Ellen Notbohm - Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew ★★★★
R. J. Palacio - Wonder ★★★★★
Chuck Palahniuk - Phoenix ★★★½
Randy Pausch - The Last Lecture ★★★½
Terry Pratchett - The Color of Magic ★★★½
Terry Pratchett - The Light Fantastic ★★★★
Terry Pratchett - Equal Rites ★★★★
Terry Pratchett - Mort ★★★
Terry Pratchett - Sourcery ★★★½
Terry Pratchett - Wyrd Sisters ★★★
Terry Pratchett - Pyramids ★★
Rick Remender - Uncanny X-Force (issues 1-35) ★★★★½
Rick Remender - Punisher (2008-2010 series) ★★★
Veronica Roth - Divergent ★★★★
Veronica Roth - Insurgent ★★★
Brandon Sanderson - The Emperor's Soul ★★★½
Brandon Sanderson - Legion ★★★
Brandon Sanderson - Steelheart ★★★½
John Scalzi - Old Man's War ★★★
Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ★★★★½
Jim Wendler - 5/3/1: The Simplest and Most Effective Training System to Increase Raw Strength ★★★★

Movies

48 Hours ★½
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter ★★★½
Bernie ★★½
Breaking Dawn, part 2 ★
Broke ★★★
Bull Runners of Pamplona ★★★
Casa de mi Padre ★
Chasing Ice ★★★★★
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope ★★★½
Contagion ★★★★
Deadfall ★½
Dredd ★★
Drive ★★★★★
Elysium ★★★
Indie Game: The Movie ★★★★
John Carter ★★★
Knuckleball! ★★★★
Les Miserables ★★★
Life of Pi ★★★½
Lincoln ★★★★½
Looper ★★★½
Louis C.K.: Oh My God ★★★★
Man on a Ledge ★½
Mike Birbiglia: My Girlfriend's Boyfriend ★★★★
Moonrise Kingdom ★★★★
Pulling John ★★★
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World ★★★★
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows ★★★★
Silver Linings Playbook ★★★★
Skyfall ★★★★½
Sleepwalk with Me ★★★★★
Star Trek Into Darkness ★★★½
The Amazing Spider-Man ★★★½
The Bourne Legacy ★★★
The Campaign ★★½
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey ★★★★
The Ides of March ★★★★
The Queen of Versailles ★★★
The Raid: Redemption ★★★½
The Two Escobars ★★★½
Undefeated ★★★★★
You Don't Know Bo ★★★½
Zero Dark Thirty ★★★★½

Headed off to enjoy the morning with my family, but if xyla hasn't done a monthly update but this evening I will when I get home. Go ahead and post your latest updates so I don't miss anyone in the tally. It sucks to see 3 or 4 posts right after putting out the new stats since I want to include everyone.

Ashes · Sep 1, 2013

Ashes1396 - 11/50 Books | 16/50 Films

End of August update

Books

1. Kensuki's Kingdom
2. The Ocean at the End of the Lane
3. Wool #1
4. Clockwork Orange
5: Wild Sargasso Sea
6. The Last Vampire
7. The Red Badge of Courage
8. The Man Who Would Be King
9. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
10. The Portrait of Dorian Grey
11. First Love

Films

1. Dredd.
2. The Skin I Live in
3. Yojimbo
4. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
5: Berserk: The Golden Age Arc - The Egg of the King
6. Goodfellas
7. Blazing Saddles
8. Mystic River
9. Lootera
10. Raanjhanaa
11. The Third Man
12. Table No. 21
13. Chennai Express
14. Kismet (1943)
15. Barsaat (1949)
16. Paris at Midnight
----

I need to quicken my book reading pace. 11 books in eight weeks is OK, but I could do better. I appear to be slacking a whole lot in my week on at work [I work on alternate weeks], so I suppose night shift work is taking its toll.
On the other hand, a film every couple of days is easy work. At least for now.

For September, the goal is to read a book every three days, or ten in about five weeks. I've got at least four books lined up, and a couple I've decided to leave for the end of the year. I will try to finish off the remaining novels in the Wool series. They're mercifully short, and just now hitting their stride.

edit:

Books

12. Wool #2
13. Crying of Lot 49
14. The Optimist's Daughter
15. White Fang
16. The Bell Jar
17. Unless it Moves the Human Heart: the Craft and Art of Writing
18. Hector and the Search for Happiness
19. The Return of the Soldier
20. Wool #3
21. Wool #4

Films

17. Porko Rosso
18. World War Z
19. Despicable Me 1
20. Despicable Me 2
21. Summer Wars
22. Iron Man 3

TestMonkey · Sep 1, 2013

UPDATE (September)

TestMonkey - 58/50 Books | 55/50 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 (912 pages)
If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
Monster by A. Lee Martinez
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Divine Misfortune by A. Lee Martinez
The Accidental Sorcerer by K.E. Mills (560 pages)
Witches Incorporated by K.E. Mills (576 pages)
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
Wolverine and the X-Men, Vol. 2 by Jason Aaron
Kick-Ass 2 Prelude: Hit-Girl by Mark Millar
Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures by Walter Moers (684 pages)
Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey
Shadow Games by Glen Cook
How To Analyze People On Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Dreams of Steel by Glen Cook
Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson
The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff
The Penultimate Truth by Philip K. Dick
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Fischer, Margulies and Mosenfelder
Superfreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
Wolverine and the X-Men, Vol. 3 by Jason Aaron
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder (513 pages)
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (709 pages)
Wool by Hugh Howey (528 pages)
Feed by Mira Grant (571 pages)
Deadline by Mira Grant (581 pages)
Blackout by Mira Grant (634 pages)
I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
Dad is Fat by Jim Gaffigan
Heroes Die by Matthew Woodring Stover (535 pages)
Satan is Alive and Well on Planet Earth by Hal Lindsey
Batman Incorporated by Grant Morrison
Avengers vs. X-Men: Consequences by Kieron Gillen
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
First and Only by Dan Abnett
Under the Dome by Stephen King (1072 pages)
Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts (504 pages)
Life in Prison by Stanley Williams
Uncanny X-men, Vol 1: Revolution by Brian Michael Bendis

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
A Good Day to Die Hard
The Raven
Get Bruce!
Louis C.K.: Live at the Beacon Theater
Felipe Esparza: The're Not Gonna Laugh At You
Batman: Year One
All-Star Superman
Doctor Strange
Captain America: The First Avenger
The Avengers
Bodyguards and Assassins
Craig Ferguson: I'm Here to Help
Jim Jefferies: I Swear to God
Jim Jefferies: Fully Functional
Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007
Evil Dead (2013)
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
Debra DiGiovanni: Single Awkward Female
The Hangover Part III
Knuckleball
Despicable Me 2
Tai Chi Zero
The Lone Ranger
The Sorcerer and the White Snake
Dragon (2011)
Flash Point
Malice in Wonderland
The Heroic Trio
Gary Owen: True Story
Juston McKinney: A Middle Class Hole
Pacific Rim
Done the Impossible
Don Friesen: Ask Your Mom
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
Tokyo Godfathers
American Chain Gang
WWE: For All Mankind- The Life and Career of Mick Foley
The Good, the Bad, the Weird
Maxed Out
The Four
Trigun: Badlands Rumble
Dredd
Doug Stanhope: Beer Hall Putsch
Her Master's Voice
Kathleen Madigan: Madigan Again

Should slow down quite a bit now that I'm back in school. Am gonna try to keep the balance but I can see it shifting towards movies due to before bed Netflix.

Atrophis · Sep 1, 2013

Atrophis - 6/50 Books | 45/50 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)
10. Rebecca (4/5, watched 14/02)
11. The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey (4/5, watched 06/03)
12. Velvet Goldmine (3/5, watched 09/03)
13. Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (3/5, watched 16/03)
14. Indie Game: The Movie (3/5, watched 17/03)
15. Django Unchained (5/5, watched 29/03)
16. Cloud Atlas (5/5, watched 31/03)
17. The Master (5/5, watched 01/04)
18. Holy Motors (2/5, watched 05/04)
19. Dredd (3/5, watched 11/04)
20. The Raid (4/5, watched 12/04)
21. Armadillo (4/5, watched 12/04)
22. The Devil Came on Horseback (3/5, watched 13/04)
23. Immortals (2/5, watched 13/04)
24. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (3/5, watched 14/04)
25. Kill List (4/5, watched 18/04)
26. Oblivion (3/5, watched 05/05)
27. Argo (3/5, watched 12/05)
28. Star Trek Into Darkness (4/5, watched 13/05)
29. Chasing Ice (4/5, watched 17/06)
30. The Flat (4/5, watched 18/06)
31. Of Dolls and Murder (4/5, watched 21/06)
32. Man of Steel (3/5, watched 09/07)
33. The Fast and The Furious (3/5, watched 22/07)
34. I Got Next (3/5, watched 25/07)
35. 2 Fast 2 Furious (3/5, watched 25/07)
36. Fast & Furious (4/5, watched 26/07)
37. The Worlds End (5/5, watched 26/07)
38. Fast Five (4/5, watched 27/07)
39. Looper (4/5, watched 30/07)
40. Fast & Furious 6 (3/5, watched 30/07)
41. Zenith (2/5, watched 31/07)
42. Pacific Rim (5 Gundams/5, watched 06/08)
43. The Hunger Games (3/5, watched 31/08)
44. Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol (3/5, watched 31/8)
45. Elysium (4/5, watched 06/09)

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 (4/5, started 13/02 - finished 06/04)
4. Generation Kill - Evan Wright (4/5, started 07/04 - finished 13/04)
5. Blind Descent - James M. Tabor (3/5, started 14/04 - finished 21/06)
6. Lancaster & York - The Wars of the Roses - Alison Weir (started 04/06)
7. The Secret Race - Tyler Hamilton & Daniel Coyle (4/5, started 22/07 - finished 25/07)
8. The Perfect Heresy - Stephen O'Shea (started 29/07)

Bonus Rounds

20/?? TV

1. Star Trek: Deep Space 9 - series 3
2. Silent Witness - series 16
3. Utopia
4. Black Mirror - series 2
5. The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret - series 1
6. Enterprise - series 2
7. The Walking Dead - series 3
8. In The Flesh
9. Spartacus: War of the Damned
10. Star Trek: Deep Space 9 - series 4
11. Broadchurch - series 1
12. Game of Thrones - series 3
13. The Fall - series 1
14. Defiance - series 1
15. Luther - series 3
16. Hannibal - series 1
17. Banshee - series 1
18. Southcliff
19. Bokurano
20. A Touch of Cloth 2

11/?? Games

1. Spec Ops: The Line (PC)
2. Uncharted 2 (PS3)
3. Assassins Creed 2 (PC)
4. Binary Domain (PC)
5. Thirty Flights of Loving (PC)
6. God of War: Chains of Olympus (PSP)
7. Uncharted 3 (PS3)
8. Killzone 2 (PS3)
9. Heavy Rain (PS3)
10. Bioshock Infinite (PC)
11. Dishonored (PC)

Tragicomedy · Sep 2, 2013

New month, new update!

WE HAVE A WINNER!!!

TestMonkey - 51/50 books | 54/50 movies

Current pace needed for completion (as of 1 September):

33/50 books | 33/50 movies

Members currently on pace to complete the challenge:

Glaurungr - 169/50 books | 38/50 movies
BrokenEchelon - 34/50 books | 117/50 movies
Maklershed - 39/50 books | 59/50 movies
Empty 40/50 books | 49/50 movies
Nezumi - 34/50 books | 55/50 movies
DieUnbekannte - 34/50 books | 53/50 movies
Tragicomedy - 43/50 books | 37/50 movies

Sorted by overall total (books + movies):

Glaurungr - 169/50 books | 38/50 movies
BrokenEchelon - 34/50 books | 117/50 movies
TJ Bennett - 1/50 books | 145/50 movies
Azrael - 27/50 books | 91/50 movies
TestMonkey - 51/50 books | 54/50 movies
Ephidel - 31/50 books | 70/50 movies
Maklershed - 39/50 books | 59/50 movies
Empty - 40/50 books | 49/50 movies
Nezumi - 34/50 books | 55/50 movies
-Stranger- - 0/50 books | 88/50 movies
DieUnbekannte - 34/50 books | 53/50 movies
xyla - 18/50 books | 63/50 movies
Tragicomedy - 43/50 books | 37/50 movies
RatskyWatsky - 14/50 books | 65/50 movies
kinoki - 11/50 books | 67/50 movies
Illithid Dude - 5/50 books | 72/50 movies
Forsaken82 - 6/50 books | 60/50 movies
LuffyZoro - 29/50 books | 34/50 movies
Bright Side of Life - 5/50 books | 58/50 movies
Nymerio - 50/50 books | 11/50 movies
choodi - 11/50 books | 49/50 movies
Cyan - 39/50 books | 18/50 movies
SaltyDoughnut - 18/50 books | 37/50 movies
Mumei - 38/50 books | 15/50 movies
Squirrel Killer - 3/50 books | 50/50 movies
SlowRevolution - 14/50 books | 38/50 movies
mu cephei - 9/50 books | 42/50 movies
March14th - 4/50 books | 47/50 movies
Atrophis - 6/50 books | 44/50 movies
grumpy - 24/50 books | 24/50 movies
Don - 5/50 books | 43/50 movies
persongr - 15/50 books | 32/50 movies
Markhimself46 - 16/50 books | 29/50 movies
SirFisher - 25/50 books |18/50 movies
Baconsaurus Rex - 10/50 books | 33/50 movies
smiggyRT - 2/50 books | 41/50 movies
Nathan Muir - 10/50 books | 32/50 movies
guest1321 - 9/50 books | 33/50 movies
latinlikeaviolin - 22/50 books | 19/50 movies
Bonethug - 21/50 books | 20/50 movies
Teptom - 20/50 books | 18/50 movies
VegaNine - 5/50 books | 32/50 movies
ReiGun - 10/50 books | 26/50 movies
Kud Dukan - 14/50 books | 21/50 movies
Setre - 6/50 books | 28/50 movies
foomfoom415 - 13/50 books | 19/50 movies
Tarius1210 - 4/50 books | 28/50 movies
McCloud? - 14/50 books | 16/50 movies
cashman - 12/50 books | 16/50 movies
W1SSY - 8/50 books | 20/50 movies
Ashes1396 - 11/50 books | 16/50 movies
bggrthnjsus - 20/50 books | 6/50 movies
Manik - 9/50 books | 16/50 movies
Wok - 8/50 books | 17/50 movies
gloomy - 3/50 books | 22/50 movies
Leopold - 5/50 books | 19/50 movies
sammyCYBORG - 3/50 books | 21/50 movies
O.DOGG - 4/50 books | 18/50 movies
Jimothy - 3/50 books | 19/50 movies
kaztar - 9/50 books | 12/50 movies
desu - 11/50 books | 9/50 movies
Crunched - 3/50 books | 17/50 movies
Rokal - 3/50 books | 16/50 movies
AndyD - 7/50 books | 11/50 movies
cacophony - 7/50 books | 10/50 movies
MajorGravy - 0/50 books | 17/50 movies
IamMattFox - 5/50 books | 11/50 movies
tim_south - 5/50 books | 11/50 movies
RichardAM - 2/50 books | 14/50 movies
Yobalt - 2/50 books | 14/50 movies
SolKane - 5/50 books | 10/50 movies
EvaristeG - 5/50 books | 10/50 movies
tris - 4/50 books | 11/50 movies
Kelpie - 3/50 books | 12/50 movies
white dynamite - 3/50 books | 12/50 movies
Gila - 3/50 books | 11/50 movies
Cartman86 - 1/50 books | 13/50 movies
d_escudero - 6/50 books | 7/50 movies
Thomaser - 9/50 books | 3/50 movies
Somnia - 4/50 books | 8/50 movies
KuwabaraTheMan - 8/50 books | 3/50 movies
dvolovets - 5/50 books | 6/50 movies
bryan12112 - 1/50 books | 10/50 movies
Madridy - 1/50 books | 10/50 movies
taoofjord - 4/50 books | 6/50 movies
BenjaminBirdie - 3/50 books | 7/50 movies
Kingslunk - 2/50 books | 8/50 movies
Yager - 2/50 books | 8/50 movies
AlexM - 4/50 books | 5/50 movies
TetraxShards - 4/50 books | 5/50 movies
Kwixotik - 3/50 books | 6/50 movies
Maximilian E. - 2/50 books | 7/50 movies
TheSchwab_7 - 2/50 books | 7/50 movies
Petit Melon - 2/50 books | 7/50 movies
Cookie18 - 1/50 books | 8/50 movies
EVOL 100% - 6/50 books | 2/50 movies
AdrianWerner - 3/50 books | 5/50 movies
FUBAR McDangles - 3/50 books | 5/50 movies
Larsa - 2/50 books | 6/50 movies
Frustrated_Grunt - 1/50 books | 7/50 movies
Nub - 1/50 books | 7/50 movies
Chuck - 0/50 books | 8/50 movies
xena - 1/50 books | 6/50 movies
Mr. Sandman - 2/50 books | 4/50 movies
Mastadon - 1/50 books | 5/50 movies
Chaset - 1/50 books | 5/50 movies
Tater Tot - 5/50 books | 0/50 movies
GasProblem - 2/50 books | 3/50 movies
Zippedpinhead - 2/50 books | 3/50 movies
Plywood - 1/50 books | 4/50 movies
TronLight - 1/50 books | 4/50 movies
Aggrotek - 0/50 books | 5/50 movies
SourCinnamon - 0/50 books | 5/50 movies
Fari - 0/50 books | 5/50 movies
Kiraly - 2/50 books | 2/50 movies
Daebo - 2/50 books | 2/50 movies
Stravinsky - 2/50 books | 2/50 movies
Jedeye Sniv - 1/50 books | 3/50 movies
doogles - 1/50 books | 3/50 movies
Kerrinck - 0/50 books | 4/50 movies
Pnn - 0/50 books | 4/50 movies
HampsterPampster - 0/50 books | 4/50 movies
Luiztfc - 0/50 books | 4/50 movies
GqueB - 0/50 books | 4/50 movies
Schattenjäger - 0/50 books | 4/50 movies
TriangleOfCorruption - 0/50 books | 4/50 movies
C.Dark.DN - 3/50 books | 0/50 movies
Rukland - 1/50 books | 2/50 movies
FillerB - 1/50 books | 2/50 movies
Vincent Alexander - 1/50 books | 2/50 movies
Hazmat - 1/50 books | 2/50 movies
Yamamoto - 0/50 books | 3/50 movies
Mr. F - 0/50 books | 3/50 movies
Son1x - 0/50 books | 3/50 movies
Laekon - 0/50 books | 3/50 movies
Gambit61 - 0/50 books | 3/50 movies
BuddyJoeHooker - 0/50 books | 3/50 movies
Wilsham - 0/50 books | 3/50 movies
Danielsan - 0/50 books | 3/50 movies
BlazingDarkness - 2/50 books | 0/50 movies
Crewnh - 2/50 books | 0/50 movies
Suariyu - 1/50 books | 1/50 movies
Percephone - 1/50 books | 1/50 movies
iirate - 1/50 books | 1/50 movies
Baller, PhD - 1/50 books | 1/50 movies
Spider from mars - 0/50 books | 2/50 movies
bloodbeard - 0/50 books | 2/50 movies
t-ramp - 0/50 books | 2/50 movies
Jerbol - 0/50 books | 2/50 movies
Cronosblade - 0/50 books | 2/50 movies
Fixed1979 - 0/50 books | 2/50 movies
carpediemdp - 0/50 books | 2/50 movies
Technomancer - 1/50 books | 0/50 movies
Mutantcyborg - 1/50 books | 0/50 movies
pete_townshend - 0/50 books | 1/50 movies
LoneTraveler - 0/50 books | 1/50 movies
Absoludacrous - 0/50 books | 1/50 movies
Mindcollizion - 0/50 books | 1/50 movies
Nateeasy - 0/50 books | 1/50 movies
ColtraineGF - 0/50 books | 1/50 movies
Vicktormerv - 0/50 books | 1/50 movies
Sai-kun - 0/50 books | 1/50 movies
Cindres - 0/50 books | 1/50 movies
lunch - 0/50 books | 1/50 movies

Top 20 book worms:

Glaurungr - 169
TestMonkey - 51
Nymerio - 50
Tragicomedy - 43
Empty - 40
Maklershed - 39
Cyan - 39
Mumei - 38
BrokenEchelon - 34
Nezumi - 34
DieUnbekannte - 34
Ephidel - 31
LuffyZoro - 29
Azrael - 27
SirFisher - 25
grumpy - 24
latinlikeaviolin - 22
Bonethug - 21
Teptom - 20
bggrthnjsus - 20

Top 20 film buffs:

TJ Bennett - 145
BrokenEchelon - 117
Azrael - 91
-Stranger- - 88
Illithid Dude - 72
Ephidel - 70
kinoki - 67
RatskyWatsky - 65
xyla - 63
Forsaken82 - 60
Maklershed - 59
Bright Side of Life - 58
Nezumi - 55
TestMonkey - 54
DieUnbekannte - 53
Squirrel Killer - 50
Empty - 49
choodi - 49
March14th - 47
Don - 43

Most balanced with the force:

grumpy - 24 books, 24 movies
Bonethug - 21 books, 20 movies
TestMonkey - 51 books, 54 movies

Least balanced with the force:

TJ Bennett - 1 book, 145 movies
-Stranger- - 0 books, 88 movies

GAF totals:

1,312 Books (+117 for the month)
2,859 Movies (+153 for the month)

LuffyZoro · Sep 2, 2013

Aw, I lost my balance. I've got a couple more books in the works though, so hopefully I'll go back in the right direction.

Azrael · Sep 2, 2013

Azrael - 29/50 books | 96/50 movies

Books

28-29. The Secret History by Donna Tartt ★★★★

Movies

92. X2 ★★★
93. Seven Dials Mystery ★★★
94. Why Didn't They Ask Evans? ★★★
95. Lee Daniels' The Butler ★★★
96. The World's End ★★★★

Mumei · Sep 2, 2013

Yeah, I read a lot of comics. Italicized entries were updated; bold entries are new.

Books

Tarzan of the Apes, by Edward Rice Burroughs (271)
Bel Canto: A History of Vocal Pedagogy, by James Stark (258) [529]
The Mark of Athena, by Rick Riordan (586) [1115]
Challenging Casanova, by Andrew Smiler (204) [1319]
Great Singers on Great Singing, by Jerome Hines (358) [1677]
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, by Timothy Snyder (417) [2094]
Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino (165) [2259]
Sonnets: From Dante to the Present, edited by John Hollander (256) [2515]
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]
Maria Callas: A Musical Biography (224) [4856]
"Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity, by Beverly Tatum Daniels (220) [5076]
The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkien (388) [5464]
Oddly Normal: One Family's Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality, by John Schwartz (271) [5684]
Miles, Mystery & Mayhem, by Lois McMaster Bujold (556) [6240]
Reading Without Limits: Teaching Strategies to Build Independent Reading for Life, by Maddie Witter (361) [6601]
Hyperion, by Dan Simmons (482) [7083]
Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert (356) [7439]
Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in School, edited by Mica Pollock (361) [7800]
The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison (224) [8024]
What's Wrong with Fat?, by Abigail C. Saguy (182) [8206]
The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There, by Catherynne M. Valente (258) [8464]
What's Wrong with Homosexuality?, by John Corvino (154) [8618]
The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter Than You Think, by Brian hare (286) [8904]
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis (290) [9194]
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, by Michael Lewis (335) [9529]
A History of Opera, by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker (548) [10077]
The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English, by Roy Peter Clark (300) [10377]
The Reformation: A History, by Diarmaid MacCulloch (684) [11061]
Men and Feminism: Seal Studies, by Shira Tarrant (163) [11224]
The Master of Go, by Yasunari Kawabata (185) [11409]
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference, by Cordelia Fine (287) [11696]
Metamorphoses, by Ovid (598) [12294]
Rape Is Rape: How Denial, Distortion, and Victim Blaming are Fueling a Hidden Acquaintance Rape Crisis, by Jody Raphael (250) [12544]
The Story of the Stone, by Cao Xueqin (2559) [15103]
[*]Troilus and Criseyde, by Geoffrey Chaucer (322) [15425]
[*]I Am Not A Serial Killer, by Dan Wells (271) [15696]
[*]The Annotated Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov (457) [16153]
[*]Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, by Tony Judt (835) [16988]
[*]Barabbas, by Pär Lagerkvist (144) [17132]
[*]Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal, by Michael D'Antonio (378) [17510]

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)
The Lord of the Rings
Sharaz-de, by Sergio Toppi
Captain America: Winter Soldier Ultimate Collection, by Ed Brubaker
X-Men: Days of Future Past, by Chris Claremont
Hulk WWH: World War Hulk, by Greg Pak
The Books of Magic, by Neil Gaiman
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (Vol 1 - 3), by Naoto Takeuchi
[*]Ultimate Comics Spider-Man (Vol.1 - 2), by Brian Michael Bendis
Lucifer (Vol. 1 - 4), by Mike Carey
The Flash: Rebirth, by Geoff Johns
Green Lantern: Rebirth, by Geoff Johns
Gotham Central: In the Line of Duty (Vol. 1, #1 - 5)), by Ed Brubaker & Greg Rucka
Gotham Central: Jokers and Madmen (Book 2, #11 - 22), by Ed Brubaker & Greg Rucka
Gotham Central: On the Freak Beat (Book 3, #23 - 31), by Ed Brubaker & Greg Rucka
Wonder Woman: Gods and Mortals, by George Pérez
Hawkeye: My Life As A Weapon, by Matt Fraction (#1 - 5, YA #6)
reMIND (Vol. 2), by Jason Brubaker
[*]Daredevil (Vol 1. - 4, #1 - 21), by Mark Waid
Chew (Vol. 1 - 2), by John Layman
Green Lantern: No Fear (#1 - 6), by Geoff Johns
Wonder Woman: Down to Earth, by Greg Rucka
[*]Green Lantern: Wanted, Hal Jordan, by Geoff Johns
[*]Green Lantern: Revenge of the Green Lanterns, by Geoff Johns
[*]Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps War (Vol. 1 - 2), by Geoff Johns
[*]Green Lantern: Rage of the Red Lanterns, by Geoff Johns
[*]Green Lantern: Agent Orange, by Geoff Johns
[*]Runaways (VOl. 1 - 3), by Brian K. Vaughan
[*]Planetary (Vol. 1 - 4), by Warren Ellis
[*]The Unwritten (Vol. 1 - 3), by Mike Carey
[*]Green Lantern Corps: Sins of the Star Sapphires (Vol 4), by Peter J. Tomasi
[*]JLA: A League of One, by Christopher Moeller
[*]Saga (Vol. 1), by Brian K Vaughan
[*]I Kill Giants, by Joe Kelly
[*]Ireland: Land of the Poets, by David Lyons

Movies

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2001: A Space Odyssey
Aliens
Django Unchained
The Abyss
The Animatrix
The Amazing Spider-Man
Iron Man 3
How To Train Your Dragon
Despicable Me
Rise of the Guardians
Star Trek: Into Darkness
Man of Steel
[*]Green Lantern
[*]Pacific Rim
[*]Green Lantern: First Flight
[*]Wonder Woman
[*]Despicable Me 2
[*]Blackfish

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

Video Games

Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm

Bonus:

Television Shows

Breaking Bad, Seasons 1 - 4
[*]Justified, Seasons 1 - 3

The X-Files, Season 1

Spartacus, Season 1

Dexter, Seasons 6 - 7

Hannibal, Season 1
[*]Fringe, Season 1 - 4
[*]Ben 10, Season 1

RatskyWatsky · Sep 4, 2013

RatskyWatsky - 19/20 TV | 14/25 Books | 90/50 Movies

TV

Bob's Burgers (1 season so far)
The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret (2 seasons)
Xam'd: Lost Memories (1 season)
Crash (2 seasons)
Sleeper Cell (2 seasons)
Afro Samurai (1 season)
TO (2 episode OVA)
House of Cards (1 season)
Lilyhammer (1 season)
Elfen Lied (1 season)
Lights Out (1 season)
Terriers (1 season)
Generation Kill (miniseries)
From the Earth to the Moon (miniseries)
Carnivale (2 seasons)
Elizabeth I (miniseries)
The Pacific (miniseries)
Empire Falls (miniseries)
Six Feet Under (5 seasons)

Books

V for Vendetta (Alan Moore and David Lloyd)
Bone (Jeff Smith)
Maus (Art Spiegelman)
Batwoman: Elegy (Greg Rucka and J.H. Williams III)
Batman: Year One (Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli)
Batman: The Killing Joke (Alan Moore and Brian Bolland)
Batman: The Long Halloween (Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale)
Alan's War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope (Emmanuel Guibert)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Walking Dead Volume 17 (Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard)
The Walking Dead Volume 18 (Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard)
The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Michael Chabon)
The Final Solution (Michael Chabon)
Gentlemen of the Road (Michael Chabon)

Movies

~ January ~
How to Steal a Million
Crash
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Shakespeare in Love
Tiny Furniture
Arabian Nights
Bottle Rocket
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
Take Her, She's Mine
Jackie Chan's Project A
Dead Space: Downfall
Dead Space: Aftermath
Beasts of the Southern Wild
The Fighter
A Cat in Paris
The Grey
Let's Make Love
Paris is Burning
The Thing (1982)
Alakazam The Great
Chris and Don: A Love Story
Harold and Maude
Small Town Gay Bar
Enter The Void
Winter's Bone
Wasabi
Irreversible
The Usual Suspects
We're Not Married
The Ambassador's Daughter
Chinatown
Robocop
Apocalypse Now Redux
Groundhog Day
~ February ~
Sexual Chronicles of a French Family
The Workshop
Ned Kelly
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Marriage Italian Style
Jim Jefferies: Fully Functional
The Graduate
~ March ~
Wreck It Ralph
The Amazing Spider-Man
~ May ~
The Secret World of Arrietty
Pitch Perfect
~ June ~
Oz The Great and Powerful
The Mexican
~ July ~
The Beaver
Fargo
The Beast of Hollow Mountain
Minority Report
The King's Speech
Mystic River
The Queen
Lars and the Real Girl
X-Men: First Class
Jack the Giant Slayer
The Shawshank Redemption
The Princess Bride
Gallipoli
Australia
Brave
The Squid and the Whale
Calendar Girls
~ August ~
The Astronaut's Wife
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Danger - Love at Work
True Grit (2010)
This Above All
There's Always Tomorrow
The Son-Daughter
The Cat And The Fiddle
Ziegfeld Girl
Ex-Lady
American Beauty
Slander
The Student Prince
Made For Each Other
The Model and the Marriage Broker
The Great Gatsby (2013)
~ September ~
The Squaw Man (1914)
Way Down East
Stardust
Intolerable Cruelty
The Cave of Forgotten Dreams
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Aviator
The Triplets of Belleville
Iron Man 3

Nymerio · Sep 4, 2013

Update

Nymerio - 52/50 Books | 11/50 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)
Death Masks (Jim Butcher)
Blood Rites (Jim Butcher)
Dead Beat (Jim Butcher)
Proven Guilty (Jim Butcher)
White Night (Jim Butcher)
Small Favor (Jim Butcher)
Turn Coat (Jim Butcher)
Changes (Jim Butcher)
Ghost Story (Jim Butcher)
Cold Days (Jim Butcher)
Legion (Brandon Sanderson)
The House on the Borderlands (William Hope Hodgson)
Sweet Silver Blues (Glenn Cook)
Redshirts (John Scalzi)
Bitter Gold Hearts (Glenn Cook)
Cold Copper Tears (Glenn Cook)
Old Tin Sorrows (Glenn Cook)
Dread Brass Shadows (Glenn Cook)
Red Iron Nights (Glenn Cook)
Deadly Quicksilver Lies (Glenn Cook)
Petty Pewter Gods (Glenn Cook)
Faded Steel Heat (Glenn Cook)
Angry Lead Skies (Glenn Cook)
Whispering Nickel Idols (Glenn Cook)
Cruel Zinc Melodies (Glenn Cook)
Gilded Latten Bones (Glenn Cook)
Gardens of the Moon (Steven Erikson)
The Thirteenth Tale (Diane Setterfield)
Deadhouse Gates (Steven Erikson)
Memories of Ice (Steven Erikson)
House of Chains (Steven Erikson)
Midnight Tides (Steven Erikson)
The Bonehunters (Steven Erikson)
Reaper's Gale (Steven Erikson)
Dust of Dreams (Steven Erikson)
The Crippled God (Steven Erikson)
Coraline (Neil Gaiman)
The Last Unicorn (Peter S. Beagle)
I'm not a Serial Killer (Dan Wells)

Movies

Stardust
A Scanner Darkly
Savages
Sinister
Skyfall
The Hobbit
Oz the Great and Powerful
Wreckit Ralph
Man with the Iron Fists
Gran Torino
Evil Dead

Nymerio · Sep 4, 2013

Yep, I actually saw a part of the movie before and really liked it. So I stopped the movie and decided to read the book and then go back to the movie. Really charming movie/book.

Don · Sep 4, 2013

UPDATE

Don - 15/50 Books | 58/50 Movies

Books

1984 - George Orwell
A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
A Feast for Crows - George R. R. Martin
Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone - J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J. K. Rowling
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
A Dance with Dragons 1: Dreams and Dust - George R. R. Martin
A Dance with Dragons 2: After the Feast - George R. R. Martin
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

Movies

The Loved Ones
Taxi Driver
30 Minutes or Less
Big Trouble in Little China
Martha Marcy May Marlene
The Roommate
Army of Darkness
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
Texas Chainsaw 3D
Collateral
Shinjuku Incident
Apocalypse Now
Les Misérables
Mission: Impossible II
Mission: Impossible III
The Abyss
Contagion
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Source Code
The Descendants
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Black Hawk Down
The Untouchables
The Incredible Hulk
Iron Man 2
Avengers Assemble
Blue Valentine
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
J. Edgar
John Carter
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Black Snake Moan
Chronicle
(500) Days of Summer
There Will Be Blood
For a Few Dollars More
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Let Me In
The Island
The Amazing Spider-Man
Grave of the Fireflies
Ratatouille
28 Days Later
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
Brave
Evil Dead
Only Yesterday
Prometheus
Howl's Moving Castle
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
The Exorcist
127 Hours
Dredd
Paranormal Activity 4
Skyfall
Monster, Inc.
Hick

I hadn't made any updates for a few months now. I've passed my movie goal but still way behind in books. I will be satisfied if I can reach 25 books by the end of the year.

kinoki · Sep 5, 2013

kinoki - 14/50 Books | 76/50 Movies

Books

Dawnkins, Richard (2006), The God Delusion - ★★★
Fexeus, Henrik (2009), Konsten att läsa tankar - ★★★
Lotass, Lotta (2006), Min röst skall nu komma från en annan plats i rummet - ★★★
Silver, Nate (2012), The Signal and the Noise - ★★★★
Mitchell, David (2001), number9dream - ★★★½
Murakami, Haruki (2006), Kafka on the Shore - ★★★½
Mitchell, David (2004), Cloud Atlas - ★★★★
Woolf, Virginia (1929), A Room of One's Own - ★★★★★
King, Stephen (2006), On Writing - ★★★★½
Hymowitz, Kay S. (2011), Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys - ★★★½
King, Stephen (2009), Under the Dome - ★★★★
Andersson, Ola (2012), Vykort från Utopia - ★★★★
Smith, Zadie (2012), NW: A Novel - ★★★ - Most of the time you have to string together what is happening since the text is really cryptic. But it does add to the experience. Too bad I'm not too much into social realism. Some really creative writing, though.
Saramago, José (2008), The Elephant's Journey - ★★★½ - A joyful little adventure of an elephant's journey from Lisbon to Vienna. Endearing and interestingly written. It's very charming.

Movies

Moonrise Kingdom (2012, dir. Wes Anderson) - ★★★★★
Carnage (2011, dir. Roman Polanski) - ★★★★
Secretary (2002, dir. Stephen Shainberg) - ★★★
9 (2009, dir. Shane Acker) - ★★½
Four Rooms (1995, dir. Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, +2) - ★★
Paul (2011, dir. Greg Mottola) - ★★★
Bottle Rocket (1996, dir. Wes Anderson) - ★★½
The Butterfly Effect (2004, dir. Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber) - ★★★
Revolver (2005, dir. Guy Richie) - ★★
Impostor (2001, dir. Gary Fleder) - ★★
Pinapple Express (2008, dir. David Gordon Green) - ★★★
The Terminal (2004, dir. Steven Spielberg) - ★★
Rushmore (1998, dir. Wes Anderson) - ★★★
Moneyball (2001, dir. Bennett Miller) - ★★★½
J. Edgar (2011, dir. Clint Eastwood) - ★★
Doubt (2008, dir. John Patrick Shanley) - ★★★★
Valkyrie (2008, dir. Bryan Singer) - ★★★
Iron Sky (2012, dir. Timo Vuorensola) - ★★★
Cloverfield (2008, dir. Matt Reeves) - ★★★
Crash (2004, dir. Paul Haggis) - ★★★½
The Magnificent Seven (1960, dir. John Sturges) - ★★★½
Stardust (2007, dir. Matthew Vaughn) - ★★★½
Cassandra's Dream (2007, dir. Woody Allen) - ★★★
Rango (2011, dir. Gore Verbinski) - ★★★½
Haywire (2011, dir. Steven Soderbergh) - ★★★
Horrible Bosses (2011, dir. Seth Gordon) - ★★½
Wrath of the Titans (2012, dir. Jonathan Liebesman) - ★★★
Winter's Bone (2010, dir. Debra Granik) - ★★★
The Station Agent (2003, dir. Thomas McCarthy) - ★★★½
The Island (2005, dir. Michael Bay) - ★★½
This is England (2006, dir. Shane Meadows) - ★★★★
Control (2007, dir. Anton Corbijn) - ★★★★
The Town (2010, dir. Ben Affleck) - ★★★★
Legend of the Guardians: The Owles of Ga'hoole (2010, dir. Zack Snyder) - ★★½
Django Unchained (2012, dir. Quentin Tarantino) - ★★★★
Cloud Atlas (2012, dir. Wachowskis + Tom Tykwer) - ★★★★
Metropia (2009, dir. Tarik Saleh) - ★★★
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011, dir. Stephen Daldry) - ★★
Due Date (2010, dir. Todd Phillips) - ★★★½
Stranger Than Fiction (2006, dir. Marc Forster) - ★★½
Before Night Falls (2000, dir. Julian Schnabel) - ★★★½
Dark Shadows (2012, dir. Tim Burton) - ★★★
Bee Movie (2007, dir. Steve Hickner, Simon J. Smith) - ★★
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010, dir. David Yates) - ★★½
Gothicka (2003, dir. Mathiue Kassovitz) - ★★
Tron: Legacy (2010, dir. Joseph Kosinski) - ★★★½
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007, dir. Julian Schnabel) - ★★★½
Outlander (2008, dir. Howard McCain) - ★★★
The Box (2009, dir. Richard Kelly) - ★★½
Fish Tank (2009, dir. Andrea Arnold) - ★★★½
The Conspirator (2010, dir. Robert Redford) - ★★★
Youth in Revolt (2009, dir. Miguel Arteta) - ★★
The Flowers of War (2011, dir. Yimou Zhang) - ★★★½
Eden Lake (2008, dir. James Watkins) - ★★½
Iron Man Three (2013, dir. Shane Black) - ★★★★
The Expendables 2 (2012, dir. Simon West) - ★★
Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013, dir. J.J. Abrahms) - ★★★½
Indie Game: The Movie (2012, dir. Lisanne Pajot, James Swirsky) - ★★
The Great Gatsby (2013, dir. Baz Luhrmann) - ★★★★★
Only God Forgives (2013, dir. Nicolas Winding Refn) - ★★★★
Chronicle (2012, dir. Josh Trank) - ★★★½
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns - Part 1 (dir. Jay Oliva) - ★★★
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011, dir. Rupert Wyatt) - ★★★★
Carrie (1976, dir. Brian De Palma) - ★★★½
Silent Hill Revelations (2012, dir. Michael J. Bassett) - ★½
The Dead Zone (1983, dir. David Cronenberg) - ★★★
The Dictator (2012, Larry Charles) - ★★★
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns - Part 2 (2013, dir. Jay Oliva) - ★★★
Elysium (2013, dir. Neill Blomkamp) - ★★★½
Tangled (2010, dir. Nathan Greno, Byron Howard) - ★★★½ - Fun and sweet with a dash of charming. It told a simple tale really well, something that's often lacking today.
Dredd (2012, dir Pete Travis) - ★★★★ - This movie proves that boiling down something to its essence helps. Dredd in a Training Day-esque setting, golden. Urban delivers and it's a joy to watch. You'd almost think that Hollywood might see this as a kick to the head on how R-rated action is supposed to be made.
The Hunger Games (2012, dir. Gary Ross) - ★★ - It never amounts to anything. Perhaps it was me not paying enough attention but I never "got" it. Never boring but never good either.
End of Watch (2012, dir. David Ayer) - ★★★ - I hate crime. I don't really want to know how bad it actually gets in these places but after seeing this in such close proximity to Dredd (2012) I'd take a wild stab at what the future holds for these places. As for the movie, it's tight and caries some nice weight to its action. Good performances all around.
Midnight in Paris (2011, dir. Woody Allen) - ★★★ - This is the second Woody Allen movie I liked and I've seen about a dozen of them. It's whimsical and fun. It reminded me a lot about the movie in which his mother starts living in heaven barking orders at him (or something) but this time the movie was good. The most dissappointing thing in it was that there wasn't much of substance in it.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011, dir. Michael Bay) - ★★ - I don't really know how to rate this one. I did enjoy it. I did find it good. But to the question "Would you like to see it again?" I'd have to answer, "NO! Not in a million years." and that would be the answer to "Would you recommend it to anyone?" too. But but, it was really well put together. Some fine editing and some good action scenes thought it was all pointless and a bit of a mess.
Argo (2012, dir. Ben Affleck) - ★★★★ - Spy films don't come around very often. A couple of years ago we had Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and now we have Argo. We need to take every chance we get to see them or they all get turned into Bourne. Affleck can now safely be considered a good director and his movies should be kept an eye on.

Bonus: 18/24 TV | 31/50 Video Games

TV

True Blood (Season 5, 2012) - ★★½
Game of Thrones (Season 2, 2012) - ★★★★
House of Cards (Season 1, 2013) - ★★★★½
Boardwalk Empire (Season 2, 2011) - ★★★½
Banshee (Season 1, 2013) - ★★½
Star Trek (Season 1, 1966-67) - ★★★★★
Hemlock Grove (Season 1, 2013) - ★★★½
Spartacus: Blood and Sand (Season 1, 2010) - ★★★½
Girls (Season 1, 2012) - ★★★½
The Walking Dead (Season 2, 2011-12) - ★★★★
Mad Men (Season 4, 2010) - ★★★★
Arrested Development (Season 4, 2013) - ★★★★
Game of Thrones (Season 3, 2013) - ★★★★½
The Walking Dead (Season 3, 2012-13) - ★★★★
Mad Men (Season 5, 2012) - ★★★★
Dexter (Season 7, 2012) - ★★★½
True Blood (Season 6, 2013) - ★★★
Sherlock (Season 2, 2011) - ★★★½ - I like it but I'm not overly fond of the serious-when-we-feel-like-it vibe. I have a hard time taking it serious. Moriarty is a joke. But, it keeps me entertained and it puts on a good show.

Video Games

Deadlight [PC] (2012, Tequila Works) - ★★★★
Middle Manager of Justice [iOS] (2012, Double Fine) - ★★★½
Sleeping Dogs [PC] (2012, United Front Games) - ★★★
Spec Ops: The Line [PC] (2012, Yager Development) - ★★★
The Cave [PC] (2013, Double Fine) - ★★★
Quantum Conundrum [PC] (2012, Airtight Games) - ★
God of War III [PS3] (2010, Santa Monica Studio) - ★★★
Iron Brigade [PC] (2011, Double Fine) - ★★★
The Walking Dead [PC] (2012, Telltale Games) - ★★★★
Machinarium [PS3] (2012, Amanita Design) - ★★★
Brütal Legend [PC] (2013, Double Fine) - ★★★★½
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Dragonborn [PC] (2013, Bethesda Softworks) - ★★★
Tropico 4 [PC] (2011, Haemimont Games) - ★★★½
StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm [PC] (2013, Blizzard Entertainment) - ★★★★
BioShock Infinite [PC] (2013, Irrational Games) - ★★★½
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception [PS3] (2011, Naughty Dog) - ★★½
Guacamelee! [PS3] (2013, Drinkbox Studios) - ★★★★
Little Inferno [PC] (2012, Tomorrow Corperation) - ★★
Thomas Was Alone [PS3] (2012, Mike Bithell) - ★★
Proteus [PC] (2013, Ed Key & David Kananga) - ★★½
Tiny Wings [iOS] (2011, Andreas Illiger) - ★★½
Tomb Raider [PC] (2013, Crystal Dynamics) - ★★★★
Sid Meier's Civilization V: Brave New World [PC] (2013, Firaxis Games) - ★★★★
The Last of Us [PS3] (2013, Naughty Dog) - ★★★★½
Kentucky Route: Zero - Act I [PC] (2013, Cardboard Computer) - ★★★½
Kentucky Route: Zero - Act II [PC] (2013, Cardboard Computer) - ★★★½
FEZ [PC] (2013, Polytron) - ★★★
Shadowrun Returns [PC] (2013, Harebrained Schemes) - ★★★★
Dishonored [PC] (2012, Arkane Studios) - ★★★
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn (2013, Square Enix) - ★★★ - It's pretty good at times but far from the refined crack we know as World of Warcraft. It's pretty to look at and there's some great character customization. Too bad it's boring for long stretches of time when you go from point A to point B with no real clue why you have to. It's a step in the right direction but it can still be further improved upon.
Grand Theft Auto V [PS3] (2013, Rockstar North) - ★★★★ - It's great. It really is. It's getting a bit too formulatic for its own good. It doesn't help it that every other game wants to be it either. But for what it is it always excels. Michael, Franklin and Trevor are great "protagonists". For all the great stuff they put in I can't help feeling that this series isn't for me anymore. I had fun. I had great fun but somewhere in the back of my head I knew I had more fun with Vice City and San Andreas.

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