Just finished Betrayer (Aaron Dembski-Bowden), and holy piss was it good. I'll give a fuller write-up in the Book thread, when I have time to.
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Trivial games like "the person above you game" should be placed in this forum.
Humor of all kinds also belongs here, like the "Superman has a problem with kinky sex" thread.
What does not belong here would be things like video games, board games. Or humor coming directly out of comic books or discussion of books.
Boardgames and the like would go in the Action Figure and Toys section as could video games, though those could also be posted in the General Forum Section.
also any posts in this Forum Section do not count towards your post count.
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Finally finished Lady Gregory's book on Cuchulain
I'll count this for a book published over a 100 years ago, containing a love triangle, set in a foreign country [Ireland], set in a place I want to visit, and translated.*
[*That is a bit of a cheat since it was translated from Gaelic sources and published simultaneously in modern Gaelic, but it was published in English too. If I have time and might finish the list, I'll try another translated book.]
At this point, I highly doubt I'll meet the challenge and I'm not going to try too hard (I'm turning to an Alfred Bester book that I don't think meets any new criteria), but I am reading a graphic novel (The Fifth Beatle) anyway.
Last edited by Space Cop; 06-29-2015, 12:40 PM.
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Originally posted by W.West View Post
Books Read Since Starting The Challenge:
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Color on Checklist: BLACK)
A book with nonhuman characters
A book a friend recommended
A book set in the future
A book with magic
A book with an author you've never read before.
Seconds by Bryan Lee O'Malley (Color on Checklist: YELLOW)
A book with a one word title
A graphic novel
A book you own but never read
The Martian by Andy Weir (Color on Checklist: RED)
A book that became a movie
A book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit
The QB: The Making of Modern Quarterbacks by Bruce Feldman(Color on Checklist: BLUE)
A nonfiction book
A book from an author that you love but haven't read yet
Top Girls (Color on Checklist: PINK)
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Now Reading:
Controversy Creates Cash by Eric Bischoff
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Yeah, I'm pathetically slow. It looks like I'll have read 20 or so books this year (not including graphic novels or books I only partially read for teaching purposes). I'm going to try to read more in 2016, but I highly doubt I'll try whatever new challenge the interwebs concoct.Last edited by Space Cop; 12-12-2015, 02:09 PM.
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So, in the final analysis I read 21 full titles this year and covered 39 of the 49 categories. A sorry sight, but it could've been worse.
And, yes, there's a 2016 Reading Challenge. I figured on skipping it so I don't feel so bound this year (although there were multiple times I read something that didn't help this year), BUT it is shorter (40 categories, one of which requires two books) and my family is doing it and encouraging me to. I can start another thread of people want it.
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Originally posted by W.West View PostSome of the categories are just silly. "First book you see in a bookstore."
Originally posted by W.West View PostSpace Cop, you should be proud of all that reading!
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So, I obviously didn't finish this challenge in time, but when I saw I was on schedule this year, I decided I'd do the remaining categories no more than a year late and did. I did this partly with books overlapping this year's categories and then (like the last two months) just finishing them. Here's how:
---Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (a book written by someone with the same initials; also a more accurate book my Mom loves)
---Five Miles Away: The Story of the Lawrenceville School by SR Slaymaker II (a book set in High School; a book set in my hometown)
---Little Red Riding Hood: A Casebook, edited by Han Dundes (a book with a color in the title)
---The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe (a book that came out the year you were born)
---The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire (a book with antonyms in the title)
---The Sympathizer by Viet Than Nguyen (a Pullitzer-Prize winner; a book published in 2015)
---Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (a book you were supposed to read in High School but didn't*)
---The Steampunk Trilogy by Paul DiFilippo (a trilogy**)
*This is the only book I can remember not reading in High School (I loved to read even then) and technically I didn't have to. It was summer reading for a class I found out I was wrongly enrolled in. I had started it when I found out I had to transfer.
**I know they really meant three books that form one story (which I wouldn't have had time to do before the one-year mark), but this one book is comprised of three novellas.Last edited by Space Cop; 01-01-2017, 04:00 AM.
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