sorry e-boo, but I can't comply

1/2/2010 10:56:30 PM

this angers me immensely

[Edited on January 2, 2010 at 10:57 PM. Reason : lawl, I think that I've known Shawna longer (in the biblical sense!!1)]

1/2/2010 10:57:29 PM

oh dear...thread derailed


emce is good at that

1/2/2010 11:01:14 PM

sorry

as you were...

1/2/2010 11:02:04 PM

I believe I was inquiring if mcfluffle would care to share her list of books to be read.

1/2/2010 11:02:44 PM

Why Women Pay More
Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
The Red Pony
The Feminine Mystique
100 Years of Solitude
Franny & Zoey
Mrs. Dalloway
Girl, Interrupted
The Birth of Tragedy
Fear & Trembling
The Doors of Perception: And Heaven and Hell
Inamorata
Of Mice and Men
A Day No Pigs Would Die
Pride and Prejudice
Wuthering Heights
Magister Ludi
Siddhartha
Ethical Theory
Wealth of Nations
The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism
The Lovely Bones
Spark of Life
This Side of Paradise
Tender is the Night
The Last Tycoon
Wiseblood
The Brothers Karamazov
Faust
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Ivanhoe
Washington Square
Shirley
The Blithedale Romance
The Inferno
The Aneid
Candide
The House of the Seven Gables
Remembrance of Things Past
Heart of Darkness
East of Eden
Anna Karenina
The Garden of Eden
Sundiata
Catch Me if You Can
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Islands in the Stream
Main Currents in American Thought I&II
One Man's Meat
Ain't No Making It
The Fantastic Universe
The Pearl

1/2/2010 11:17:49 PM

I've read three books from your list.

Why are some bolded or crossed out?

1/2/2010 11:19:28 PM

i finished the crossed out ones day, i am now reading the bolded ones


i've read parts of a handful of them

1/2/2010 11:23:22 PM

engrish - Week 1:

1/2/2010 11:23:36 PM

52 books in 52 weeks would be like a reading diet for moi.


Oh, and I love my Kindle. My husband got sick of my books cluttering up the place and got me one last month for my birthday. It's actually kinda cool to be able to instantly buy a new book when I finish the last one. No more digging up a book I've already read to keep me occupied until I can run buy a new book the next day.

[Edited on January 3, 2010 at 12:10 AM. Reason : .]

1/3/2010 12:07:31 AM

Correction!

engrish - Week 1:

1/3/2010 7:01:42 PM

I've got to find all my library books and turn them in so I can do this without going broke

But I finished a nicholas sparks book on new year's day (don't judge me. it was an itty bitty library that would shame even robeson county, and I didn't have time to browse. So I was like "what the hell. If anyone gives me a dirty look, I'll tell them I got married at the location on the book, seeing as how I did and all.")

1/4/2010 2:37:19 AM

Which one of his books was it? I have Message in a Bottle but I haven't read it.

I finished The Lovely Bones on January 1st but I don't think I'm gonna count it cause I read most of it last year.

1/4/2010 2:39:18 AM

uhm
at First Sight. It's like a continuation of True Believer. I won't lie: I cried. In public. Eye makeup and all.

Mostly because I TOTALLY didn't see a death coming, and I was totally blindsided

1/4/2010 2:40:41 AM

so...would you ever read another one of his books?

1/4/2010 2:41:41 AM

Yes.

In a few years. Every so often, I go through a super girly phase that involves rocky road ice cream, Laura Ingalls Wilder, blankets, and wanting a foot massage. There's room in there for a NS book or two

(especially since zorthage is pretty much what he writes all his male protagonists to be)

1/4/2010 2:47:27 AM

I like and accept your challenge. Most of the books won't be good, but whatever.

1/4/2010 2:52:07 AM

^^I love Laura Ingalls Wilder...I have a boxset of all her books but I haven't read them in years. I was thinking of maybe doing those for some of my books this year, but I dunno cause they're really short.

^It doesn't matter...I'm sure some of mine are gonna be dumb chick lit.

1/4/2010 2:53:36 AM

Discounting picture books and short stories from childhood, I'm not sure if I've ever read 52 books cover to cover of fiction in my life.

1/4/2010 3:08:00 AM

^^ i went to a school named after her

1/4/2010 9:08:40 AM

i'd do this, but i dont think getting a playstation3 and my social schedule will allow it.. maybe 26 books in 52 weeks.

however, week 1:

1/4/2010 9:10:17 AM

^ that book make me seriously terrified of anal beads

1/4/2010 9:20:44 AM

I like the idea of a book loan swap kind of thing if anyone else wants to do that. I like being able to talk about a book with someone else who has read it recently. More so for non-fiction stuff, but I guess anything really.

1/4/2010 9:35:02 AM

i can't do this until May because i'm taking 2 classes this semester

BUT i think it would be awesome if everyone who is participating would write up a few sentences as a sort of "book report" on what they just read. it could help others when they're looking for their next book

1/4/2010 9:42:58 AM

I want to do this! I really want to read The Help, first, but it is sold out everywhere!

What White people want to know about black people but are too afraid to ask
Life of Pi
A Case for God (started)
Pesepolis
The Kite Runner
The Color Purple (this is a reread)
Guns, Germs, and Steele (I have never read this book in it's entirety)
Emma

so far...

1/4/2010 9:56:37 AM

I've heard great things about The Help. Apparently, I have to read it. My family has always employed African American domestic workers. They're like family to us.

I'm busy reading Naptime is the New Happy Hour and a Kresley Cole novel.

1/4/2010 10:05:39 AM

Quote :

"I want to do this! I really want to read The Help, first, but it is sold out everywhere! "

uh

library?

+ waiting list.

1/4/2010 10:23:53 AM

I want to own The Help. That is why I am looking for it.

I just started a book that MrsCake suggested, Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett. It is good. I am thinking this guy's books are going to be on the list. I am very curious to see what books MrsCake has on her list. I might gank some of them and put them on my list.

1/4/2010 1:09:37 PM

Engrish, I didnt really care for Pirate Latitudes. It seemed to cram too many pirate themes into a book which seemed rushed and juvenile. Let me know what you think once you read it. Although the ending was a bit better.

1/4/2010 2:46:41 PM

I finished a book yesterday and I started a new book

My list
1. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Theif

1/5/2010 11:46:54 AM

Im struggling to get through The Tipping Point now.

1/5/2010 11:55:43 AM

Choke is my favorite Palahniuk book to date and the movie did not disappoint (Sam Rockwell )

I am currently reading:

It's a fuckin' TOME . . . 1074 pages

1/5/2010 12:09:02 PM

^is that a book based off the simpsons movie?

1/5/2010 1:55:47 PM

hah there have been arguments about it's similarities to The Simpson's Movie
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/under-the-dome-by-stephen-king-1818801.html

1/5/2010 2:12:08 PM

I am the initiator of this challenge, and already I'm slacking. I have tried reading a couple books and haven't been able to get into them. This, plus the fact that I have recently become addicted to playing Mario Kart Wii with people around the globe has gotten me off track.

1/5/2010 3:11:10 PM

Just finished my 2nd book. Tomorrow when I get home I think I'll Start a new book.

My list
1. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
3. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

I also plan on reading The Kite Runner.

1/6/2010 1:05:04 AM

Why Women Pay More
Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
The Red Pony
The Feminine Mystique
100 Years of Solitude
Franny & Zoey
Mrs. Dalloway
Girl, Interrupted
The Birth of Tragedy
Fear & Trembling
The Doors of Perception: And Heaven and Hell
Inamorata
Of Mice and Men
A Day No Pigs Would Die
Pride and Prejudice
Wuthering Heights
Magister Ludi
Siddhartha
Ethical Theory
Wealth of Nations
The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism
The Lovely Bones
Spark of Life
This Side of Paradise
Tender is the Night
The Last Tycoon
Wiseblood
The Brothers Karamazov
Faust
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Ivanhoe
Washington Square
Shirley
The Blithedale Romance
The Inferno
The Aneid
Candide
The House of the Seven Gables
Remembrance of Things Past
Heart of Darkness
East of Eden
Anna Karenina
The Garden of Eden
Sundiata
Catch Me if You Can
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Islands in the Stream
Main Currents in American Thought I&II
One Man's Meat
Ain't No Making It
The Fantastic Universe
The Pearl

1/6/2010 6:28:03 PM

http://onlinecollegedegree.org/2009/05/20/50-banned-books-that-everyone-should-read/

1/6/2010 7:21:59 PM

Quote :

"I also plan on reading The Kite Runner."

just watched the movie the other day, a really great movie

also:

1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

1/7/2010 12:50:36 AM

Finished

1. The Other Woman....Jane Green

1/8/2010 6:04:39 PM

Quote :

"Read the entire ASOIAF series by George R. R. Martin. They're each 900 pages."

I did that this past fall. Awesome books. I wish I had more time to read. Each of those books was taking me about 2 weeks with work all day and stuff I have going on after work. Loved reading growing up all the way through HS...I got real slack on reading in college but started up heavy again last year and I am really glad I did.

With my schedule + the length of books I generally enjoy reading (a lot of speculative fiction tends to be lengthy), I know I won't get 52 books in this year. Maybe more like 25-30.

With that being said, I am about 1/2 through The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch atm with Red Seas Under Red Skies coming up next.

[Edited on January 8, 2010 at 6:33 PM. Reason : ]

1/8/2010 6:18:22 PM

Why Women Pay More
Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
The Red Pony
The Feminine Mystique
100 Years of Solitude
Franny & Zoey
Mrs. Dalloway
Girl, Interrupted
The Birth of Tragedy
Fear & Trembling
The Doors of Perception: And Heaven and Hell
Inamorata
Of Mice and Men
A Day No Pigs Would Die
Pride and Prejudice
Wuthering Heights
Magister Ludi
Siddhartha
Ethical Theory
Wealth of Nations
The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism
The Lovely Bones
Spark of Life
This Side of Paradise
Tender is the Night
The Last Tycoon
Wiseblood
The Brothers Karamazov
Faust
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Ivanhoe
Washington Square
Shirley
The Blithedale Romance
The Inferno
The Aneid
Candide
The House of the Seven Gables
Remembrance of Things Past
Heart of Darkness
East of Eden
Anna Karenina
The Garden of Eden
Sundiata
Catch Me if You Can
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Islands in the Stream
Main Currents in American Thought I&II
One Man's Meat
Ain't No Making It
The Fantastic Universe
The Pearl

1/8/2010 6:47:16 PM

Quote :

"I think fucking around on the internet is preferable to reading. Especially if you're just going to read fiction. I can't think of a bigger waste of time than that."

Quote :

"reading is only productive if the content you are reading is worth a shit. just because someone managed to get a book published doesn't mean it's going to make you a better person if you read it. and fiction is for fags - next time i want to take a trip inside the mind of some hippie writer i'll just eat shrooms thank you very much"

so I take it neither of you enjoy many movies (outside of maybe documentaries and biopics), music, tv shows, video games, etc. ?

1/9/2010 12:32:03 AM

yet to start....will pick up some books this weekend

1/9/2010 10:40:59 AM

^^yes, to all
My festering mario kart addiction is part of what has kept me behind on my reading goal

^Don't worry, I'm not even halfway through my first book...I'm still trying to get on a good routine with the new semester starting.

1/9/2010 11:02:48 AM

books I've finished:

The Lovely Bones
Choral Society
Bending the Rules
Lucky Streak

1/9/2010 11:32:45 AM

^what did you think of The Lovely Bones?

I thought it was kind of weird, especially towards the end

1/9/2010 11:44:11 AM

^ she cannot answer you now. she just stepped in the shower.

1/9/2010 11:49:52 AM

Quote :

"^^yes, to all"

I was just asking the people who said they hated reading fiction or that it was pointless

1/9/2010 12:14:02 PM

Quote :

"what did you think of The Lovely Bones?"

I really enjoyed it. I cried at the start and at the end. I thought it was cool how they described Heaven and I hope that's what it's really like.

I wish a few things had gone differently but I won't say what since some people are going to read the book and we will have to see what they do with the movie.

1/9/2010 2:45:09 PM