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Old 12-02-2016, 12:58 PM   #11
RobertoOG
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Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Bolivia, South America
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Talking 52 in 2017!!!!

52 in 2017!!!! - (52/52)
Challenge completed on December 28.

Secondary goals :
  • Read 6 books of bolivian authors (1/6)
  • Finish Asimov's foundation series (2/2)

2017 read books: (52/52)
  1. The blade itself (the first law #1) - Joe Abercrombie ★★★★☆ (I reserve five stars for really outstanding books, this one was great)
  2. Story of your life and others - Ted Chiang ★★★★☆ (It's a collection of some great stories: "Story of your life" and "Hell is the abscence of god" are really great)
  3. Brave new world - Aldous Huxley ★★★★☆
  4. Prelude to Foundation - Isaac Asimov ★★★★☆
  5. Young bloods - Simon Scarrow ★★★★★
  6. Invitation to a decapitation - Vladimir Nabokov ★★☆☆☆
  7. Lord of the flies - William Golding ★★★★☆
  8. The never ending story - Michael Ende ★★★★★
  9. The Generals - Simon Scarrow ★★★★★
  10. I'm legend - Richard Matheson ★★★★☆
  11. Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach ★★★★☆
  12. The book of Ivo - Juan Cuadra Perez ★★★★★
  13. Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell ★★★☆☆
  14. Ángeles del abismo - Enrique Serna ★★★★★
  15. El amor en los tiempos del cólera - Gabriel García Marquez ★★★★☆
  16. La isla del Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells ★★★★★
  17. Ghost Story - Peter Straub ★★★★☆
  18. Fire and Sword - Simon Scarrow ★★★★★
  19. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury ★★★★★
  20. Forward the foundation - Isaac Asimov ★★★★☆
  21. A scanner darkly - Philip K. Dick ★★★★★
  22. A Maze of death - Philip K. Dick ★★★★☆
  23. Relatos de la Villa Imperial de Potosí - Vela, Bartolomé Arzáns de Orsúa ★★☆☆☆
  24. The fields of death - Simon Scarrow ★★★★★
  25. Hiroshima - John Hersey ★★★☆☆
  26. We Can Remember It for You Wholesale - Philip K. Dick ★★★☆☆
  27. Spin - Robert Wilson ★★★★★
  28. Rosemary's baby - Ira Levin ★★★★☆
  29. The idiot brain - Dean Burnett ★★★★☆
  30. The penultimate truth - Philip K. Dick ★★★☆☆
  31. The green mile - Stephen King ★★★★★
  32. River out of Eden - Richard Dawkins ★★★★★
  33. The omen - David Seltzer ★★★☆☆
  34. 2001: A space odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke ★★★★☆
  35. Darwinia - Robert Wilson ★★★★☆
  36. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ★★★★★★ (six stars!)
  37. The inner world - Robert Silverberg ★★☆☆☆
  38. Tell me your dreams - Sidney Sheldon ★★★★☆
  39. Axiomatic - Greg Evgan ★★★★☆
  40. Dark Water - Kōji Suzuki ★★★★☆
  41. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes ★★★★★
  42. The ring - Koji Suzuki ★★★★★
  43. Las cuatro estaciones I. Primavera y verano - Stephen King ★★★★★
  44. Contact - Carl Sagan ★★★★☆
  45. Houses without doors - Peter Straub ★★★★☆
  46. Reparar a los vivos - Maylis de Kerangal ★★★★★
  47. My beliefs - Albert Einstein ★★★★☆
  48. I Robot - Isaac Asimov ★★★★☆
  49. Las cuatro estaciones II. Invierno y otoño - Stephen King ★★★★★
  50. A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing - Lawrence M. Krauss ★★★★☆
  51. Doña Perfecta - Benito Pérez Galdós ★★★★☆
  52. Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved - Frans de Waal ★★★★☆

Now reading:

- Memories (Isaac Asimov)
- Underground (Haruki Murakami) --> didn't like it, stopped reading
- Before they are hanged (Joe Abercrombie)

Last edited by RobertoOG; 12-28-2017 at 09:44 PM. Reason: Completed the challenge
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