30 Book Challenge for 2012
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Re: 30 Book Challenge for 2012
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by Doubtdispelled » Jan 25, 2012 10:36 pm
8 Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens.
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Re: 30 Book Challenge for 2012
#62 by logical bob » Jan 25, 2012 11:45 pm
Dickens? As your 8th book? Before the end of January? Those books are the size of bricks I tell you, bricks! 
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Re: 30 Book Challenge for 2012
#63 by Doubtdispelled » Jan 26, 2012 2:21 pm
logical bob wrote:Dickens? As your 8th book? Before the end of January? Those books are the size of bricks I tell you, bricks!
Not when they're audio, Bob.
It's only 15 hours long. And that time soon goes when you are working and listening. I'm just scouring Librivox for my next listen.....Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
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Re: 30 Book Challenge for 2012
#64 by Wiðercora » Jan 26, 2012 2:24 pm
It's Dickens' bicentennial this year.
I don't know how you're up to 8. I've only read one.
I don't know how you're up to 8. I've only read one.
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Re: 30 Book Challenge for 2012
#65 by Doubtdispelled » Jan 26, 2012 2:31 pm
Wiðercora wrote:It's Dickens' bicentennial this year.
I don't know how you're up to 8. I've only read one.
Perhaps you need to get off the xbox sometimes?
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Re: 30 Book Challenge for 2012
#66 by Wiðercora » Jan 26, 2012 2:36 pm
Nah, my Xbox is back in the UK. I'm reading a bastard big book though.
Gives me an idea though. There's software - or wetware, or firmware or whatever the hell it's called - which allows you to control your camera through the internet (provided it's plugged into a laptop) - maybe we could do the same for games consoles. So I could play my Xbox on my laptop, but still use the Xbox's hardware.
Hmm
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Re: 30 Book Challenge for 2012
#67 by Doubtdispelled » Jan 26, 2012 2:48 pm
Que? 
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Re: 30 Book Challenge for 2012
#68 by smudge » Jan 26, 2012 6:31 pm
5) The Upside of Irrationality, Dan Ariely.
8 hours Audio. 26/1/12
Interesting enough but not as good as Predictably Irrational.
8 hours Audio. 26/1/12
Interesting enough but not as good as Predictably Irrational.
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Re: 30 Book Challenge for 2012
#69 by Spinozasgalt » Jan 26, 2012 11:07 pm
1. The House Next Door - Anne Rivers Siddons
2. The Bhagavad Gita - Anonymous
3. The Moral Interpretation of Religion - Peter Byrne
2. The Bhagavad Gita - Anonymous
3. The Moral Interpretation of Religion - Peter Byrne
You've got a famous last name, but you're not to blame.
Baby, I see you for who you are.
Norah Jones
Baby, I see you for who you are.
Norah Jones
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Re: 30 Book Challenge for 2012
#70 by Darkchilde » Jan 27, 2012 1:07 pm
Books:
Short stories, novellas, anything less than 50 pages:
Manga and similar:
Continuing my Dylan Dog reading. The stories are quite good, and i have found up to No. 248 for my iPad. Have the first 10 on the iPad, will put more once I have read those.
- Dead as a Doornail - Charlaine Harris [Sookie Stackhouse #5] [295 pages]
- Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne [138 pages, e-book]
- The Manual of Detection - Jedediah Berry [280 pages]
Short stories, novellas, anything less than 50 pages:
- The Lost tribe of the Sith #1: Precipice - John Jackson Miller [e-book, 43 pages]
- The Lost Tribe of the Sith #2: Skyborn - John Jackson Miller [e-book, 49 pages]
Manga and similar:
- Dylan Dog #1: L'alba dei morti viventi (Dawn of the Living Dead) - Tiziano Sclavi (story) & Angelo Stano (illustrator)
- Dylan Dog #2: Jack Lo Squartatore (jack the Ripper) - Tiziano Sclavi (story) & Gustavo Trigo(illustrator)
- Dylan Dog #3: Le Notti di Luna Piena (The nights of full moon) - Tiziano Sclavi (story) & Giuseppe Montanari, Ernesto Grassani (illustrators)
Continuing my Dylan Dog reading. The stories are quite good, and i have found up to No. 248 for my iPad. Have the first 10 on the iPad, will put more once I have read those.
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Re: 30 Book Challenge for 2012
#71 by logical bob » Jan 29, 2012 10:39 pm
1. Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
2. To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
3. The War Of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts Louis de Bernieres
2. To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
3. The War Of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts Louis de Bernieres
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Re: 30 Book Challenge for 2012
#72 by reddix » Jan 30, 2012 3:05 am
1) Holes by Louis Sachar
2) City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
2) City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
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Re: 30 Book Challenge for 2012
#73 by smudge » Feb 01, 2012 7:24 pm
6) Keep The Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell.
9 hours Audio. 1/2/12
What a great book.
9 hours Audio. 1/2/12
What a great book.
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Re: 30 Book Challenge for 2012
#74 by Lizard_King » Feb 01, 2012 8:12 pm
1) George R.R. Martin - A Dance with Dragons [1016 pages]
2) Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy [180 pages]
3) Douglas Adams - The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe [180 pages]
3) Victor J. Stenger - God: The Failed Hypothesis [293 pages]
A good read, that last one. Learned a few things from it, though most of it I had already read elsewhere. Still, I'd recommend it.
2) Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy [180 pages]
3) Douglas Adams - The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe [180 pages]
3) Victor J. Stenger - God: The Failed Hypothesis [293 pages]
A good read, that last one. Learned a few things from it, though most of it I had already read elsewhere. Still, I'd recommend it.
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Re: 30 Book Challenge for 2012
#75 by Lizard_King » Feb 02, 2012 7:45 pm
1) George R.R. Martin - A Dance with Dragons [1016 pages]
2) Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy [180 pages]
3) Douglas Adams - The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe [180 pages]
4) Victor J. Stenger - God: The Failed Hypothesis [293 pages]
5) Douglas Adams - Life, The Universe, And Everything [190 pages]
2) Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy [180 pages]
3) Douglas Adams - The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe [180 pages]
4) Victor J. Stenger - God: The Failed Hypothesis [293 pages]
5) Douglas Adams - Life, The Universe, And Everything [190 pages]
"Yet again it is demonstrated that monotheistic religion is a plagiarism of a plagiarism of a hearsay of a hearsay, of an illusion of an illusion, extending all the way back to a fabrication of a few nonevents."
- Christopher Hitchens
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Re: 30 Book Challenge for 2012
#76 by logical bob » Feb 02, 2012 11:36 pm
1. Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
2. To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
3. The War Of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts Louis de Bernieres
4. Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters Rick Riordan
Read this with the kids, but it's good and other people are posting kids' books so I'm counting it.
2. To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
3. The War Of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts Louis de Bernieres
4. Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters Rick Riordan
Read this with the kids, but it's good and other people are posting kids' books so I'm counting it.
It's got nothing to do with your Vorsprung durch Technik, you know, and it's not about you joggers who go round and round and round.
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Re: 30 Book Challenge for 2012
#77 by Darkchilde » Feb 03, 2012 9:17 am
logical bob wrote:
Read this with the kids, but it's good and other people are posting kids' books so I'm counting it.
I read them on my own... I don't have kids, and I enjoy them nonetheless.
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Re: 30 Book Challenge for 2012
#78 by Doubtdispelled » Feb 03, 2012 9:26 am
logical bob wrote:
4. Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters Rick Riordan
Read this with the kids, but it's good and other people are posting kids' books so I'm counting it.
No reason not to count it, Bob, and may I recommend another which it reminded me of....
My boys and I all enjoyed this offering from Rushdie, although I can't say I enjoyed any others of his I tried.
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Re: 30 Book Challenge for 2012
#79 by Wiðercora » Feb 05, 2012 11:03 am
- Mark Thomas' The People's Manifesto, Kindle edition.
- JK Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Audio book edition read by Stephen Fry
- James Scott Bell's The Art of War for Writers, Kindle edition.
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Re: 30 Book Challenge for 2012
#80 by Doubtdispelled » Feb 08, 2012 11:30 am
9 World without End, Ken Follett - All 45 hours of it! 
I'm listening again straight away as there are so many characters to keep up with.
I'm listening again straight away as there are so many characters to keep up with.Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
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