30 Book Challenge for 2012

logical bob · **#41** by **logical bob** » Jan 16, 2012 1:55 am

I'm never going to get to 30 sat on the internet like this.

Spinozasgalt · **#42** by **Spinozasgalt** » Jan 16, 2012 5:00 am

1. The House Next Door - Anne Rivers Siddons

2. The Bhagavad Gita - Anonymous

Darkchilde · **#43** by **Darkchilde** » Jan 17, 2012 1:07 pm

Books:

Dead as a Doornail - Charlaine Harris [Sookie Stackhouse #5] [295 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 first 4 e-books of this I found free for my iPad through iBooks. Being all day waiting in lines or taking trains, etc. I read this one and half of Winnie the Pooh, another free e-book for the iPad.

smudge · **#44** by **smudge** » Jan 17, 2012 7:49 pm

3) Titus Alone, Mervyn Peak.
Final part of the trilogy on Audio. Seven and a half hours of madness!

logical bob · **#45** by **logical bob** » Jan 18, 2012 10:21 am

1. Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
2. To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf

Lizard_King · **#46** by **Lizard_King** » Jan 18, 2012 10:21 pm

And the next.

1) George R.R. Martin - A Dance with Dragons [1016 pages]
2) Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy [180 pages]

Darkchilde · **#47** by **Darkchilde** » Jan 19, 2012 1:03 pm

Books:

Dead as a Doornail - Charlaine Harris [Sookie Stackhouse #5] [295 pages]
Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne [138 pages, e-book]

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]

Right, seems now with the iPad, I can get some extra reading done, as I can easily take it with me everywhere.

smudge · **#48** by **smudge** » Jan 20, 2012 7:22 am

4) 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, Ha-Joon Chang.
263 pgs. 19/1/12

Does what it says on the tin! Provocatively picks apart free market dogma.

3) Titus Alone, the final part of Mervyn Peak's Gormenghast trilogy.
7.5 hours on Audio. 16/1/12

2) Before They Are Hanged, part two of The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie.
570pgs. 13/1/12

1) Gormenghast, part two of Mervyn Peak's trilogy on audio.
About 18 hours. 4/1/12

Doubtdispelled · **#49** by **Doubtdispelled** » Jan 20, 2012 10:06 am

7 Ann Veronica, H.G. Wells

Wiðercora · **#50** by **Wiðercora** » Jan 20, 2012 8:44 pm

Mark Thomas' The People's Manifesto, Kindle edition.

Wiðercora · **#51** by **Wiðercora** » Jan 20, 2012 8:45 pm

smudge wrote:4) 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, Ha-Joon Chang.
263 pgs. 19/1/12

I read that a while ago. Have you read Good Samaritans?

smudge · **#52** by **smudge** » Jan 22, 2012 9:04 am

Wiðercora wrote:
smudge wrote:4) 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, Ha-Joon Chang.
263 pgs. 19/1/12

I read that a while ago. Have you read Good Samaritans?

I imagine you meant 'Bad' Samaritans?! But no, not read it, might pick it up at some point.....

Wiðercora · **#53** by **Wiðercora** » Jan 22, 2012 10:21 am

smudge wrote:
Wiðercora wrote:
smudge wrote:4) 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, Ha-Joon Chang.
263 pgs. 19/1/12

I read that a while ago. Have you read Good Samaritans?

I imagine you meant 'Bad' Samaritans?! But no, not read it, might pick it up at some point.....

Yes, I did mean Bad. I don't know why I said good. Freudian slip, perhaps.

Anyway, I thought it was better than 23 Things, it felt more comprehensive.

smudge · **#54** by **smudge** » Jan 22, 2012 11:35 am

Wiðercora wrote:

Anyway, I thought it was better than 23 Things, it felt more comprehensive.

Thanks, I'll keep it on my book list (though my list is rather loooooong!)!

:smile:

Lizard_King · **#55** by **Lizard_King** » Jan 23, 2012 10:16 am

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]

Darkchilde · **#56** by **Darkchilde** » Jan 24, 2012 1:39 pm

Books:

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]

Lizard_King · **#57** by **Lizard_King** » Jan 24, 2012 4:12 pm

Maybe at the end of the year, those who listed how many pages their books had could add those pages up to get a more accurate account of how much they actually read. :ask:

If I still remember that in 11 months, I'm probably gonna do it.

Darkchilde · **#58** by **Darkchilde** » Jan 24, 2012 6:01 pm

Lizard_King wrote:Maybe at the end of the year, those who listed how many pages their books had could add those pages up to get a more accurate account of how much they actually read. If I still remember that in 11 months, I'm probably gonna do it.

Well, it's not going to be as accurate, because of the various formats available today. Plus not all pages are readable, like for example, some have excerpts from other books, or they are in hardcover which means a different font... So the reading speed depends on how the page is done.

Lizard_King · **#59** by **Lizard_King** » Jan 24, 2012 6:27 pm

Darkchilde wrote:
Lizard_King wrote:Maybe at the end of the year, those who listed how many pages their books had could add those pages up to get a more accurate account of how much they actually read. If I still remember that in 11 months, I'm probably gonna do it.

Well, it's not going to be as accurate, because of the various formats available today. Plus not all pages are readable, like for example, some have excerpts from other books, or they are in hardcover which means a different font... So the reading speed depends on how the page is done.

You're right, didn't think about that. It would probably be more accurate to count the words in all the books and add those, or even the characters, but that might be overdoing it... :shifty:

Darkchilde · **#60** by **Darkchilde** » Jan 25, 2012 12:14 pm

Books:

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)

I don't know if Dylan Dog has been translated in English, but for those of you who speak italian, you better read it. Some of the stories are really good. It is all in black and white, at least the one that came out monthly (I don't know whether it is still being published, need to check that). Dylan Dog is an investigator. But he is not any investigator; he investigates strange phenomena, like zombies and vampires. And he does it, by not initially believing in those. He is skeptical, and he is a womanizer. He lives in London, and his assistant, Groucho, is a bad replica of Groucho Marx. But for some reason, the whole setup works.

The first story is reminiscent of the Romero film; although we are introduced to a character that probably will feature in later stories, one of the nemesis of Dylan Dog. I have read this story before, but never clicked really. That's because I had already read some of the later and much better stories. But hey, the artists/writers have to start from somewhere. I think though, that for a first story, first character appearance this is a good one.

Dylan Dog stories come in book format, they are as long as mangas, but they are read like Western comic books and not like mangas.

Now to go over to the 50 Book challenge and post this as well.

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