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Re: 50 Book Challenge for 2011

#21  Postby NamelessFaceless » Jan 07, 2011 3:11 pm

Oh, wait. I have a question. Do audiobooks count?
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Re: 50 Book Challenge for 2011

#22  Postby EquivoKate » Jan 07, 2011 10:51 pm

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http://katesjc6189.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/books-read-this-year-18-books-including-philosophy-audiobooks-progress-report/

@NamelessFaceless I read 29 last year and 38 the following year. I rely on Audiobooks free from Librivox to get me through and any book that fits the criteria!! just to read even it theoretically raises eyebrows!! :popcorn: :cheers:
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Re: 50 Book Challenge for 2011

#23  Postby EquivoKate » Jan 07, 2011 10:53 pm

http://librivox.org/@namelessfaceless Audiobooks count and they are a readers Best friend, enjoy!! the rules are quite easy you know. People also read Graphic Novels, the aim is just to read the Sacred 50.
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Re: 50 Book Challenge for 2011

#24  Postby EquivoKate » Jan 07, 2011 10:54 pm

They are also free and aim to produce GOOD books in audioversions ie books you would wish to see in audioform.
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Re: 50 Book Challenge for 2011

#25  Postby Darkchilde » Jan 08, 2011 2:01 pm

About Audiobooks: members usually put them in a separate category. So we have Books, Graphic Novels, Audiobooks etc.
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Re: 50 Book Challenge for 2011

#26  Postby EquivoKate » Jan 09, 2011 12:03 am

OK I must remember in the future so books are in proper categories.
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Re: 50 Book Challenge for 2011

#27  Postby RPizzle » Jan 09, 2011 12:19 am

Seems like a good goal for the new year. One book finished so far.

1. The Last Lecture: Randy Pausch (206 pages)
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Re: 50 Book Challenge for 2011

#28  Postby EquivoKate » Jan 09, 2011 1:29 am

AUDIOBOOKS
1.PG Wodehouse 'Damsel in Distress'
2. Edith Wharton 'House of Mirth' :cheers:
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Re: 50 Book Challenge for 2011

#29  Postby Fallible » Jan 09, 2011 1:26 pm

1)The Passage, Justin Cronin
2)Dark Matter, Michelle Paver
3)The Death of Grass, John Christopher
She battled through in every kind of tribulation,
She revelled in adventure and imagination.
She never listened to no hater, liar,
Breaking boundaries and chasing fire.
Oh, my my! Oh my, she flies!
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Re: 50 Book Challenge for 2011

#30  Postby EquivoKate » Jan 10, 2011 10:38 am

AUDIOBOOKS
1.PG Wodehouse 'Damsel in Distress'
2.Edith Wharton 'House of Mirth'

BOOKS
1.Charles Taylor 'Modern Social Imaginaries'
So at total of 3 so far!
ATM ploughing though a 36 hour or 1.5GB worth of Dostoevsky 'The Brother Karamatsov'.
:popcorn: :coffee:
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Re: 50 Book Challenge for 2011

#31  Postby Tbickle » Jan 10, 2011 1:48 pm

1. The Portable Atheist - Hitchens/Assorted others
2. The Moral Landscape - Sam Harris :dunno: meh
"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
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Re: 50 Book Challenge for 2011

#32  Postby NamelessFaceless » Jan 10, 2011 4:06 pm

Thanks for the free audiobooks link EquivoKate! :cheers:
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Re: 50 Book Challenge for 2011

#33  Postby Eric Aiello » Jan 10, 2011 8:20 pm

1. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
2.Born to Run by Christopher McDougall

I'm doing this challenge as a part of Goodreads as well. But Goodreads counts anything you read in 2011, including graphic novels. To compensate for the few graphic novels I put on this list, I hope to reach sixty books this year. Which is a pretty high goal for someone who didn't hit 40 last year. Aim high. So yeah, I'll be including a graphic novel or two on this list without separating them into categories.
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Re: 50 Book Challenge for 2011

#34  Postby vombatiformes » Jan 10, 2011 8:40 pm

Fifty? That's it? :]

I'll keep a list updated here, but here is my actual booklog/blog where I list the books I've read. I need to catch up with my entries as I have a stack of about ten or so by my desk that I haven't reviewed yet, but feel free to take a look if you'd like:

http://www.vombatiformes.com/booklog
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Re: 50 Book Challenge for 2011

#35  Postby Hollis » Jan 10, 2011 11:36 pm

2.) Stephen Fry in America by Stephen Fry
Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race. ~ Gore Vidal

The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral... ~ Jorge Luis Borges
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Re: 50 Book Challenge for 2011

#36  Postby Eric Aiello » Jan 11, 2011 7:16 am

1. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
2. Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
3. Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou with art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna
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Re: 50 Book Challenge for 2011

#37  Postby EquivoKate » Jan 13, 2011 2:53 pm

AUDIOBOOKS
1. PG Wodehouse' Damsel in Distress'
2.Edith Wharton'House of Mirth'
BOOKS
3.Modern Social Imaginaries Charles Taylor
4. He's on Top Erotic Stories about Dominant Men in BDSM Relationships.
My pleasure @NamelessandFacelesss :cheers:
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Re: 50 Book Challenge for 2011

#38  Postby Vipera Berus » Jan 13, 2011 3:31 pm

I wanted to take part before but managed to forget what I've read, so I'm starting this year.

1) the Human Brain by Susan Greenfield
2)The Plains of Passage by Jean M. Auel
3)Tongues of Serpents by Naiomi Novik
4) Three Singles to Adventure by Gerrald Durrell
5)The Aye Aye and I by Gerrald Durrell
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Re: 50 Book Challenge for 2011

#39  Postby Hollis » Jan 14, 2011 9:46 pm

Eric Aiello wrote:1. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
2. Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
3. Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou with art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna


Did you like Logicomix?

3.) Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
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Re: 50 Book Challenge for 2011

#40  Postby EquivoKate » Jan 15, 2011 2:18 pm

[b]Audiobooks in italics
1.PG Wodehouse 'Damsel in Distress'

2.Edith Wharton 'House of Mirth'
Audiobooks in italics
PG Wodehouse 'Damsel in Distress'
Edith Wharton 'House of Mirth'
Charles Taylor'Modern Social Imaginaries'
Rachel Bussel 'Men on Top'
BOOKS
3.Charles Taylor'Modern Social Imaginaries'
4.Rachel Bussel 'Men on Top'
5.The Brothers Karamatsov Fydor Dostoevsky
:cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :popcorn: :coffee: :
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