10-14-2011, 02:59 PM | #122 |
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10-14-2011, 09:18 PM | #123 |
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Thanks!
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10-16-2011, 09:51 AM | #124 |
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10 to go...
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11-19-2011, 10:40 AM | #125 |
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i'm on 51 now ... with 6 weeks to go. not gonna make it. but, this is the first time in 39 years that i have tracked my progress, so it is what it is.
the last 4 weeks of not working really sped things up ... hopefully that will no longer be the case very soon |
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11-19-2011, 08:29 PM | #126 |
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I'm throwing in the towel too. I haven't updated the counter for a bit, so I'm not quite as far behind as it indicates, but reading has not been a priority recently, and it's time for a reality check--100 books just ain't gonna happen.
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11-20-2011, 02:41 AM | #127 |
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I probably won't make it to 100 books either but seeing how many I do read is the real challenge for me. I just finished book 65 and that's pretty good for me and if I don't make it this year to 100 books then next years goal will be for me to surpass what I read this year even if only by one book.
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12-19-2011, 07:43 AM | #128 |
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Unless I can read another 20 books in two weeks I will not manage to make the finish line. In other words its aint going to happen. Next year my goal is 90 books rather than the one hundred.
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12-21-2011, 02:57 PM | #129 |
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Not gonna make it either
Well, in somewhat in my defense, I started in July, so 30 books in 6 months doesn't seem too bad for me. I started reading #31 (Dune by Frank Herbert) but haven't felt motivated to read since I got back from Afghanistan. Too much decompression from a 9 month deployment.
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12-21-2011, 03:13 PM | #130 |
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^You betcha and welcome back.
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Anyway, thank you again. Edit: Of course, if I was paying any attention I would have realized I was going to be back in a few minutes. LOL Oh well, I'm off again. Last edited by Nyssa; 12-21-2011 at 03:33 PM. |
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12-31-2011, 03:42 PM | #132 |
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So given that I intend to get a start on the Iliad tonight, and I am unlikely to complete it today I can announce my total for 2011 is 115 books. According to the Goodreads statistics that totals 39783 pages, or 350 pages average per book. My book list for 2011 with my rating out of maximum of : 5:
Foundation's Edge (Foundation, #4); Asimov, Isaac; 4 Foundation and Earth (Foundation, #5); Asimov, Isaac; 4 Forward the Foundation; Asimov, Isaac; 3 Orders of Magnitude; Bilstein, Roger E.; 1 American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer; Bird, Kai; 3 The Tortilla Curtain; Boyle, T.C.; 2 The Illustrated Man; Bradbury, Ray; 4 The Master and Margarita; Bulgakov, Mikhail; 1 The Wanting Seed; Burgess, Anthony; 4 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Carré, John le; 4 Tales From the White Hart; Clarke, Arthur C.; 2 The Children of Odin; Colum, Padraic; 3 Heart of Darkness; Conrad, Joseph; 2 The Shadow Witch; Crownfield, Gertrude; 3 The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Defoe, Daniel; 1 Bleak House; Dickens, Charles; 3 The Clockwork Universe; Dolnick, Edward; 3 Room; Donoghue, Emma; 2 Time and the Gods; Dunsany, Lord; 4 The Book of Wonder; Dunsany, Lord; 4 The 19th Wife; Ebershoff, David; 3 So Big; Ferber, Edna; 2 The Great Gatsby; Fitzgerald, F. Scott; 4 A Passage to India; Forster, E.M.; 3 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; Franklin, Benjamin; 2 Charlie Muffin; Freemantle, Brian; 3 Comrade Charlie; Freemantle, Brian; 3 The Spies of Warsaw; Furst, Alan; 3 The Great War and Modern Memory; Fussell, Paul; 4 Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography; Graves, Robert; 2 Riders of the Purple Sage; Grey, Zane; 1 The Chinese Maze Murders: A Judge Dee Mystery; Gulik, Robert Hans van; 3 Winner-Take-All Politics; Hacker, Jacob S.; 4 The Demon Under the Microscope; Hager, Thomas; 3 The Alchemy of Air; Hager, Thomas; 3 Collider: The Search for the Worlds Smallest Particles; Halpern, Paul; 3 The Maltese Falcon; Hammett, Dashiell; 1 A Discovery of Witches; Harkness, Deborah; 2 Covenant With Death; Harris, John; 4 The Grand Design; Hawking, Stephen; 3 The House of the Seven Gables; Hawthorne, Nathaniel; 3 Hal Spacejock; Haynes, Simon; 1 Citizen of the Galaxy; Heinlein, Robert A.; 1 Siddhartha; Hesse, Hermann; 3 Good-Bye, Mr. Chips; Hilton, James; 3 Hitch-22; Hitchens, Christopher; 3 The Red Garden; Hoffman, Alice; 1 Peer Gynt; Ibsen, Henrik; 3 Black Rain; Ibuse, Masuji; 5 The Finkler Question; Jacobson, Howard; 2 Three Men on the Bummel; Jerome, Jerome K.; 3 A Canticle for Leibowitz; Jr., Walter M. Miller; 3 Hypatia; Kingsley, Charles; 1 Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality; Kumar, Manjit; 3 Yama: The Pit; Kuprin, Aleksandr; 4 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo; Larsson, Stieg; 2 The Girl Who Played With Fire; Larsson, Stieg; 2 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest; Larsson, Stieg; 1 To Kill a Mockingbird; Lee, Harper; 5 The Evolution Man: Or, How I Ate My Father; Lewis, Roy; 3 The Thrall of Leif the Lucky; Liljencrantz, Ottilie; 3 How Green Was My Valley; Llewellyn, Richard; 5 The People of the Abyss; London, Jack; 3 The Iron Heel; London, Jack; 4 The Call of the Wild; London, Jack; 3 Phantastes; MacDonald, George; 2 Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West; Maguire, Gregory; 2 The Naked and the Dead; Mailer, Norman; 3 Spring Snow; Mishima, Yukio; 5 Runaway Horses; Mishima, Yukio; 5 The Temple of Dawn; Mishima, Yukio; 4 The Decay of the Angel; Mishima, Yukio; 5 Utopia; More, Thomas; 3; Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman; Murakami, Haruki; 4 The Enchanted Castle; Nesbit, E.; 3 The Ringworld Engineers; Niven, Larry; 2 Galactic Derelict; Norton, Andre; 2 The Stars Are Ours; Norton, Andre; 2 Japanese Fairy Tales; Ozaki, Yei Theodora; 2 Anasazi: Ancient People of the Rock; Pike, Donald; 3 To Hold the Crown: The Story of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York; Plaidy, Jean; 2 Gravity's Rainbow; Pynchon, Thomas; 3 Insurgent Mexico; Reed, John F.; 3 All Quiet on the Western Front; Remarque, Erich Maria; 4 The Feast of All Saints; Rice, Anne; 3 Life; Richards, Keith; 3 The Sparrow; Russell, Mary Doria; 3 Doc; Russell, Mary Doria; 3 Straight Man; Russo, Richard; 2 Beasts and Super-Beasts; Saki, Saki; 3 Rabbit Boss; Sanchez, Thomas; 4 Faust in Copenhagen; Segre, Gino; 3 Zero; Seife, Charles; 1 Henry VI (Parts I, II and III); Shakespeare, William; 5 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency; Smith, Alexander McCall; 2 Topper; Smith, Thorne; 3 Longitude; Sobel, Dava; 3 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; Spark, Muriel; 3 The Coast of Utopia: Voyage, Shipwreck, Salvage; Stoppard, Tom; 4 The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady; Stuckey-French, Elizabeth; 3 Seven Japanese Tales; Tanizaki, Junichiro; 5 Anna Karenina; Tolstoy, Leo; 4 The Winter Garden: A Novel; Verweerd, Joke; 1 Candide; Voltaire, Voltaire; 4 The Castle of Otranto; Walpole, Horace; 2 The Financial Lives of the Poets; Walter, Jess; 3 Our Bones Are Scattered: The Cawnpore Massacres and The Indian Mutiny Of 1857; Ward, Andrew; 4 The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves; Ward, Andrew; 4 In Defence of The Soul; Ward, Keith; 1 A Martian Odyssey and Other Classic Science Fiction Stories; Weinbaum, Stanley G.; 2 The Island of Dr. Moreau; Wells, H.G.; 4 Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization; Wells, T. 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01-05-2012, 10:32 AM | #133 |
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Here are the 82 books I read in 2011 ("MR" denotes MobileRead authors):
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Here are the 26 Letters of the Ante-Nicene Fathers (Philip Schaff) I read in 2011: Spoiler:
Ha! I just realized when posting this list that I immediately followed What Ukulele Players REALLY Want to Know by MobileRead's own Barry Maz with All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum. No, that's not a comment of ukulele players (of which I am one)! Last edited by WT Sharpe; 01-05-2012 at 10:38 AM. Reason: Add ("MR" denotes MobileRead authors). |
03-14-2012, 12:17 AM | #134 |
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They have had contests like this at my local library for years. Even as a kid I wasn't allowed to enter. I average 150-200 books a month, every month of the year. No kidding. Reading fast and comprehending it all that is my genius thing, shrug. I'm always the first one to cheer people on for reading anything, anytime though. Kudos to all of you who managed 100+ in 2011. Way to go!
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03-14-2012, 06:23 AM | #135 |
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It's me, I know, but I just can't see the point....................
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