Spoonie Posted September 10, 2014 Report Share Posted September 10, 2014 Quite a few years ago this forum had a thread where everyone posted all of the books they'd read that calendar year, with the aim of increasing the amount that we all read and getting ideas for new books to pick up. I go through phases of reading nothing and then phases of reading like a demon and since I got a kindle for my birthday at the end of May, it's really reignited my passion for it and I've plowed through a tonne of different books so I thought it'd be nice to revisit the idea. Here's my reading list for 2014 (not including some books that I read in the first half of the year in paper format but can't recall right now!) 1: Simon Zutshi - Property Magic2: Michael Lewis - The Big Short: Inside The Doomsday Machine3: Michael Lewis - The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game4: Michael Lewis - Liar's Poker5: Brett King - Branch Today, Gone Tomorrow6: Steven Tyler - Does the nosise in my head bother you?7: Chris Brown - The Essential Smart Football8: Steven D Levitt - Freakonomics9: Ron Jaworski - The Games that Changed the Game10: Stephen King - The Green Mile11: Nikki Sixx - The Heroin Diaries12: Steven Adler - My Appetite For Destruction13: Jack Kerouac - On The Road14: Ian Fraser - Shredded: Inside RBS: The Bank that Broke Britain15: Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study in Scarlet16: Arthur Conan Doyle - The Sign of the Four17: Tom Sharpe - Wilt18: Tom Sharpe - The Wilt Alternative19: Charles Bukowski - Women20: J.D. Roth - Your Money: The Missing Manual Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaTsunami Posted September 10, 2014 Report Share Posted September 10, 2014 Ooh, I'm doing this on goodreads but I'm aiming for 52 (roughly one a week) Not sure if this will work linkwise, but they're here: https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/1129709 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted September 10, 2014 Report Share Posted September 10, 2014 I did it a couple of years ago, I only managed 30 or so, I can't seem to find the list though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted September 10, 2014 Report Share Posted September 10, 2014 Quite a few years ago this forum had a thread where everyone posted all of the books they'd read that calendar year, with the aim of increasing the amount that we all read and getting ideas for new books to pick up. I go through phases of reading nothing and then phases of reading like a demon and since I got a kindle for my birthday at the end of May, it's really reignited my passion for it and I've plowed through a tonne of different books so I thought it'd be nice to revisit the idea. Here's my reading list for 2014 (not including some books that I read in the first half of the year in paper format but can't recall right now!) 1: Simon Zutshi - Property Magic2: Michael Lewis - The Big Short: Inside The Doomsday Machine3: Michael Lewis - The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game4: Michael Lewis - Liar's Poker5: Brett King - Branch Today, Gone Tomorrow6: Steven Tyler - Does the nosise in my head bother you?7: Chris Brown - The Essential Smart Football8: Steven D Levitt - Freakonomics9: Ron Jaworski - The Games that Changed the Game10: Stephen King - The Green Mile11: Nikki Sixx - The Heroin Diaries12: Steven Adler - My Appetite For Destruction13: Jack Kerouac - On The Road14: Ian Fraser - Shredded: Inside RBS: The Bank that Broke Britain15: Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study in Scarlet16: Arthur Conan Doyle - The Sign of the Four17: Tom Sharpe - Wilt18: Tom Sharpe - The Wilt Alternative19: Charles Bukowski - Women20: J.D. Roth - Your Money: The Missing Manual If you could recommend one (except Freakonomics, the Heroin Diaries or On the Road which I've read) which would it be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Broonbreed Posted September 12, 2014 Report Share Posted September 12, 2014 A study in Scarlet is a jolly good read, what what. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stroopy121 Posted September 15, 2014 Report Share Posted September 15, 2014 This year I've managed:Robert Rankin - The Mechanical Messiah and Other Marvels of the Modern Ageand Ray Celestin - The Axeman's Jazz At my current rate of 4.75 months per book, I might just squeeze a third in this year. xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottyboy Posted September 15, 2014 Report Share Posted September 15, 2014 Because I've been a student this year, I've got a list... however that fact is reflected in the RIVETING academic material contained therein. It's at 22 at the moment; maybe I'll post it at the end of the year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted September 15, 2014 Report Share Posted September 15, 2014 Mine has been poor this year as well. An most of them have been audiobooks. The first two Harry Potter books, an old Stephen King book, 86% of Jurassic Park, The Picture Of Dorian Gray, and Dustin Diamond (Screech)'s tell-all-story about how every on Saved By The Bell was a cunt except him. I'll never look at Kelly Kapowski the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattJimF Posted September 16, 2014 Report Share Posted September 16, 2014 and Dustin Diamond (Screech)'s tell-all-story about how every on Saved By The Bell was a cunt except him. I'll never look at Kelly Kapowski the same.That reminds me, I need to download the TV movie made of that book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted September 16, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2014 If you could recommend one (except Freakonomics, the Heroin Diaries or On the Road which I've read) which would it be?It would be one of the following two: 4: Michael Lewis - Liar's Poker19: Charles Bukowski - Women Liars Poker is the true story of when Lewis was a bond salesman foir Salomon Brothers in the 80s and it's tremendous. If you've never read any Bukowski, I'd recommend it to anyone. Factotum or Post Office might be better places to start but this is a filthy nonsense. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted October 14, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 Read a few more since I last posted and got a few other ones underway. Looking at it, I'd be on pace for something like 64 books in a year if I'd started in January. Although if every book was like Moby Dick, I'd get to about 4! 1: Simon Zutshi - Property Magic2: Michael Lewis - The Big Short: Inside The Doomsday Machine3: Michael Lewis - The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game4: Michael Lewis - Liar's Poker5: Brett King - Branch Today, Gone Tomorrow6: Steven Tyler - Does the noise in my head bother you?7: Chris Brown - The Essential Smart Football8: Steven D Levitt - Freakonomics9: Ron Jaworski - The Games that Changed the Game10: Stephen King - The Green Mile11: Nikki Sixx - The Heroin Diaries12: Steven Adler - My Appetite For Destruction13: Jack Kerouac - On The Road14: Ian Fraser - Shredded: Inside RBS: The Bank that Broke Britain15: Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study in Scarlet16: Arthur Conan Doyle - The Sign of the Four17: Tom Sharpe - Wilt18: Tom Sharpe - The Wilt Alternative19: Charles Bukowski - Women20: J.D. Roth - Your Money: The Missing Manual21: Richard S Grayson - British Politics22: Herman Melville - Moby Dick or the White Whale23: Greg B. Smith - Nothing but Money: How the Mob Infiltrated Wall Street24: Lewis Grassic Gibbon - Sunset Song Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkaline Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 I've managed the following so far (just started American Tabloid by James Ellroy as well)1. Clandestine- James Ellroy2. The Black Dahlia- James Ellroy3. The Big Nowhere- James Ellroy4. LA Confidential- James Ellroy5. White Jazz- James Ellroy6. A Drink Before the War- Dennis Lehane7. A Song for the Dying- Stuart MacBride8. Birthdays for the Dead- Stuart MacBride9. Inferno- Dan Brown10. Deception Point- Dan Brown11. Heat Wave- Richard Castle12. The Hunger Games- Suzanne Collins13. Catching Fire- Suzanne Collins14. Mockingjay- Suzanne Collins15. Harlequin- Bernard Cornwell16. Sanctus- Simon Toyne17. Pentecost- J F Penn18. The Road to Woodbury- Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga19. Planet of the Apes- Pierre Boulle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted October 14, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 American tabloid is excellent! I got into that trilogy from the book club thread on here years ago and was glad I did. I read the first two and was waiting for the third to be released and it's been sitting on my shelf ever since. Will have to start them again and power through all three (and I've just checked and that was 5 years ago, so the book has followed me through five different flats and still not been read!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted November 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2014 Added a few more on recently, some great stuff too and a few more underway: 1: Simon Zutshi - Property Magic2: Michael Lewis - The Big Short: Inside The Doomsday Machine3: Michael Lewis - The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game4: Michael Lewis - Liar's Poker5: Brett King - Branch Today, Gone Tomorrow6: Steven Tyler - Does the noise in my head bother you?7: Chris Brown - The Essential Smart Football8: Steven D Levitt - Freakonomics9: Ron Jaworski - The Games that Changed the Game10: Stephen King - The Green Mile11: Nikki Sixx - The Heroin Diaries12: Steven Adler - My Appetite For Destruction13: Jack Kerouac - On The Road14: Ian Fraser - Shredded: Inside RBS: The Bank that Broke Britain15: Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study in Scarlet16: Arthur Conan Doyle - The Sign of the Four17: Tom Sharpe - Wilt18: Tom Sharpe - The Wilt Alternative19: Charles Bukowski - Women20: J.D. Roth - Your Money: The Missing Manual21: Richard S Grayson - British Politics22: Herman Melville - Moby Dick or the White Whale23: Greg B. Smith - Nothing but Money: How the Mob Infiltrated Wall Street24: Lewis Grassic Gibbon - Sunset Song25: Larry Bossidy - Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done26: Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland27: Michael Holley - War Room: The Legacy of Bill Belichick and the Art of Building the Perfect Team28: Daniel Pink - Drive29: Martin Amis - Money30: Malcolm X with Alex Haley - The Autobiography of Malcolm X Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted January 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2015 Ended the year on 36 books, which given I only started at the end of May, would have worked out at something like 61 over the whole year. Hoping to get up over 50 this year! 1: Simon Zutshi - Property Magic 2: Michael Lewis - The Big Short: Inside The Doomsday Machine 3: Michael Lewis - The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game 4: Michael Lewis - Liar's Poker 5: Brett King - Branch Today, Gone Tomorrow 6: Steven Tyler - Does the noise in my head bother you? 7: Chris Brown - The Essential Smart Football 8: Steven D Levitt - Freakonomics 9: Ron Jaworski - The Games that Changed the Game 10: Stephen King - The Green Mile 11: Nikki Sixx - The Heroin Diaries 12: Steven Adler - My Appetite For Destruction 13: Jack Kerouac - On The Road 14: Ian Fraser - Shredded: Inside RBS: The Bank that Broke Britain 15: Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study in Scarlet 16: Arthur Conan Doyle - The Sign of the Four 17: Tom Sharpe - Wilt 18: Tom Sharpe - The Wilt Alternative 19: Charles Bukowski - Women 20: J.D. Roth - Your Money: The Missing Manual 21: Richard S Grayson - British Politics 22: Herman Melville - Moby Dick or the White Whale 23: Greg B. Smith - Nothing but Money: How the Mob Infiltrated Wall Street 24: Lewis Grassic Gibbon - Sunset Song 25: Larry Bossidy - Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done 26: Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland 27: Michael Holley - War Room: The Legacy of Bill Belichick and the Art of Building the Perfect Team 28: Daniel Pink - Drive 29: Martin Amis - Money 30: Malcolm X with Alex Haley - The Autobiography of Malcolm X 31: Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom - The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organisations 32: John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath 33: Daniel Coyle - The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born. It's grown 34: Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird 35: Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 36: Muhammad Yunus - Banker to the Poor: The Story of the Grameen Bank Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottyboy Posted January 6, 2015 Report Share Posted January 6, 2015 27 for me, I think; I mainly read a lot of stuff beside books this year. I think I could do 50 in 2015; getting hold of them in Poland is the main headache. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted January 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 I should work for Amazon, because I spend a lot of my life advertising Kindles - but I would recommend that you get a Kindle ;-) Books downloaded in seconds and I presume that you could still get the full catalog of English language books from Amazon, irrespective of where you are! And it's possible to get tonnes of free eBooks too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottyboy Posted January 8, 2015 Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 Just the small problem of getting hold of a Kindle in Poland.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted January 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2015 Seriously? You could get someone in the UK to send you one... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottyboy Posted January 9, 2015 Report Share Posted January 9, 2015 Half-seriously: obviously I could get one if I really put my mind to it (otherwise, yeah, seriously I don't think they are sold much here if at all). Having it posted would probably be too much of a theft risk (think I've bitched about that on here before), it bearing a resemblance to an ipad or something else that can access Facebook and Candy Crush. Taxes would also up the price tag considerably (glorious socialist paradise). More likely I'll pick one up next time in another part of Poland, in which people read thngs other than Doremon. Cheers though, I had been thinking about it - I borrowed a Kindle Fire for a bit and didn't like the feel much (and too many distractions with the apps and net access on that model) but have been thinking it's pragmatic just for storage and portability, as I seem to find myself moving between Poland and wherever, . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted January 9, 2015 Report Share Posted January 9, 2015 I thought about getting tucked into this challenge but 50 seems like a big ask. I probably do about half that in a year and I read almost every day (in short bursts on public transport right enough but still). Couldn't get into the kindle. Tried it for a while but ultimately missed real books too much. I like reading to be an analog experience. Just about everything else in our daily lives is digitized these days, it's nice to keep some things that aren't. I totally understand the appeal though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted January 9, 2015 Report Share Posted January 9, 2015 (edited) Im going to try for 30 this year. I can usually only read in one hour bursts tho. Reading makes me sleepy... I'm on to #2 already, although I did start #1 in 2014 so I'm not sure it counts. Edited January 9, 2015 by Loopy Racist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted January 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2015 The paper white is great - no distractions and you can just power through the books! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaTsunami Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 I got a paperwhite just before Christmas and that's what I've found. I managed to get through 56 books last year and I'm aiming for 60 this year. I've already read 6, which in fairness included a pulpy tie-in novel and a young adult novel which was pretty fucking good. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 6 already?! you're not human! The more I think about it, the more i'm into the idea of giving it a go. I'm ploughing through my current book to make it 2 in 2 What's the advantage of a paperwhite over other kindles/ereaders? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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