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50 Books. 50 Movies. 1 Year (2014).

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metalslimer

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Mistborn trilogy is definitely worth the read but Sandersons writing certainly has improved since then. I really like the way he writes action sequences.

The thing that bothers me is how he feels the need to catch the reader by explaining in the book what happened in the previous one. Of course this only bothers me because I read them back to back.
 
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TheWarrior

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38/50 for books and movies, will probably be my month end totals.

Just finished Brave New World. I've been on such a dystopian future kick and also an "I need to read more of the classics" kick, so this fit right into both.

This book was all kinds of depressing and messed up. It forces you to ask yourself a lot of questions about human nature. One of the themes I really picked up on with this and Fahrenheit is the fear of being unhappy or offended and the extremes people will go through to eliminate these fears. Brave New World may have not predicted the future technologies, but the mental attitudes of humans is spot on.
Humans are not allowed to have any free time because it's when they are alone in their thoughts that they start to dwell on things, and society provides an ample amount of distractions to prevent any unpleasant thoughts, and if those distractions aren't enough there is always the Soma holiday.
It's a very philosophical novel and if anyone has not read it, I really encourage you do. A lot can be applied to how we live today.
 
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fuzzylogic

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If any of you ever feel overcome with morbid curiosity about the mind of a political radio pundit, don't give into that curiosity. What a waste of time it is.


  • The Conservative's Handbook by Phil Valentine. Holy vast quantities of strawmen arguments, Batman! All the poor reasoning and vehement hatred for anyone left of him. I wanted to read it to see how a crazy political pundit thought. To be fair, at least 15 paragraphs in the book seemed reasonable. Though any moments of lucidity were overwhelmed soon enough by pages and pages of hatred and fallacious arguments. Even when he occasionally uses a legitimate source, such as Nature, the basic structure of his arguments is so poor (98/100 times), that you simply can't trust him. I couldn't finish the book. On some of the topics, I consider myself ignorant, and did not want to learn about them from this guy. So, I stopped reading, but I cleared 100 pages, so I'm counting it.

Sorry for posting again so soon. I don't really consider this an update, and I had to share my horrible idea with everyone. Don't read political pundit's handbooks. Sometimes I wondered if I was reading a parody by Stephen Colbert.
 
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markhimself46

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Markhimself46 - 26/50 Books | 57/50 Movies​


Books

Avatar: The Search ( Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko, Gene Luen Yang, Dave Marshall, and Gurihiru) ★★★★½
Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter (Tom Bissell) ★★½
Seconds (Bryan Lee O'Malley) ★★★★★

Movies

Choke ★★
Room 237 ★★★★
Bernie ★★★½
Noah ★★★

Man, was Seconds an absolute blast to read. I loved this book. As a big fan of O'Malley--see my avatar-- this was exactly what I wanted/expected from him. A bit more mature than the Pilgrim series but definitely still had that goofy charm.
 
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TestMonkey

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TestMonkey - 49/50 Books | 49/50 Movies​

Books


  • Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings
  • Queen of Sorcery by David Eddings
  • Magician's Gambit by David Eddings
  • Castle of Wizardry by David Eddings
  • Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller (608 pages)
  • Enchanters' End Game by David Eddings
  • The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror by Christopher Moore
  • Only In Death by Dan Abnett
  • Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett
  • Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
Movies


  • Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons
  • Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen
  • The Croods
  • Badges of Fury
  • Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
  • Tom Segura: Completely Normal
  • Special ID
  • Jim Norton: Please Be Offended
  • Jim Norton: American Degenerate
  • Mike Birbiglia: My Girlfriend's Boyfriend
  • Guardians of the Galaxy

Almost there. I should finish about a week earlier than when I did last year.
 
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DieUnbekannte

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July update: DieUnbekannte 33/50 books | 33/50 movies

I only read two books this month: Shadowheart by Tad Williams and The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi and I enjoyed both very much. Unfortunately I didn't have much time to read, so I switched to graphic novels a few times. Now I finally read the first volume of Saga and Sandman by Neil Gaiman - The Sandman is exactly what I'm looking for in a graphic novel and I loved the style of drawing (even more than the one from Saga).

The movie part was a little bit better this month and I enjoyed every one - but the two animes were something special:
  • My Neighbour Totoro (1988)
  • Blazing Saddles (1974)
  • The Troops In New York (1965)
  • Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
 
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Maklershed

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Maklershed - 27/50 books | 27/50 movies | 14 games

Books
25. One Summer: America 1927
26. Ahvarra: The Heart of the World
27. Mr. Mercedes

Movies
22. Lucy
23. Hard to Kill
24. Above the Law
25. Point Break
26. Fast and Furious 5
27. Fast and Furious 6

Games
13. Splinter Cell: Blacklist
14. Call of Duty: Ghosts
 
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kswiston

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Tragicomedy said:
I'm traveling for work but plan on getting the thread updated this evening. Please update your master lists accordingly.
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I had planned on watching another film to make my end of the month tally 31/31, but don't have the time. Oh well.

Getting close to the 60% point in Words of Radiance already. Going to have to think of what I will read next shortly!
 
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Glaurungr

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Glaurungr - 91/50 Books | 108/50 Movies​

Update!

Books:

  • Al Franken - Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them (2003)
  • Ben Macintyre - Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II (2010)
  • David Gemmell - Winter Warriors (1997)
  • Fred S. Kleiner - Gardner's Art Through the Ages: The Western Perspective, Volume I (2012)
  • Harry Turtledove - Worldwar: In the Balance (1994)
  • Italo Calvino - If on a winter's night a traveler (1979)
  • James M. McPherson - Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988)
  • Jens Bjørneboe - Uten en tråd (Without a Stitch) (1966)
  • John Garth - Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth (2003)
  • Snorri Sturluson - Heimskringla: Norske kongesagaer - Andre del (Heimskringla: Norwegian Kings' Sagas - Part Two) (ca. 1230)

Films:

  • 300: Rise of an Empire - Noam Murro (2014)
  • Alice in Wonderland - Clyde Geronimi and Wilfred Jackson (1951)
  • Batman Forever - Joel Schumacher (1995)
  • Kari-gurashi no Arietti (Arrietty) - Hiromasa Yonebayashi (2010)
  • Mad Max 2 - George Miller (1981)
  • Mr. Peabody & Sherman - Rob Minkoff (2014)
  • Noah - Darren Aronofsky (2014)
  • Pompeii - Paul W.S. Anderson (2014)
  • Rio 2 - Carlos Saldanha (2014)
  • Sabotage - David Ayer (2014)
  • The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! - Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt (2012)
  • Winnie the Pooh - Stephen J. Anderson and Don Hall (2011)
 
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Tragicomedy

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kswiston said:
I had planned on watching another film to make my end of the month tally 31/31, but don't have the time. Oh well.

Getting close to the 60% point in Words of Radiance already. Going to have to think of what I will read next shortly!
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Cyan said:
Hang on, need to watch like 20 movies in the next few hours.
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You're in luck! My loaner work laptop crapped out tonight and I can't get a new one until tomorrow. I'm halfway across the country from home and not about to try and do this month's update on my tablet.

Long story short: update should go up tomorrow night after I pick up a replacement laptop. Sorry!
 
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Mumei

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Update:

Mumei - 90/50 Books | 35/50 Movies

Books:


  • There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories, by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
  • Masters of the Planet, by Ian Tattersall
  • Authority, by Jeff VanderMeer
  • Memory, by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Miles in Love, by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Miles, Mutants and Microbes, by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Captain Vorpatril's Alliance, by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Cryoburn, by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
  • A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent, by Marie Brennan
  • Beauty and Sadness, by Yasunari Kawabata
  • The Tropic of Serpents: A Memoir by Lady Trent, by Marie Brennan
  • The Dragon Reborn, by Robert Jordan
  • The Shadow Rising, by Robert Jordan
  • I Don't Know: In Praise of Admitting Ignorance (Except When You Shouldn't), by Leah Hager Cohen
Comics / Manga / Books That Aren't Being Counted For Some Reason:


  • Claymore (Vol. 24 - 26), by Norihiro Yagi
Movies:


  • Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
  • Mean Girls
  • Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2
  • Planet Hulk
  • Frier Fall (Free Fall)
  • The Croods
  • Lucy
  • Zodiac
 
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Guamu

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DieUnbekannte said:
July update: DieUnbekannte 33/50 books | 33/50 movies

I only read two books this month: Shadowheart by Tad Williams and The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi and I enjoyed both very much. Unfortunately I didn't have much time to read, so I switched to graphic novels a few times. Now I finally read the first volume of Saga and Sandman by Neil Gaiman - The Sandman is exactly what I'm looking for in a graphic novel and I loved the style of drawing (even more than the one from Saga).

The movie part was a little bit better this month and I enjoyed every one - but the two animes were something special:
  • My Neighbour Totoro (1988)
  • Blazing Saddles (1974)
  • The Troops In New York (1965)
  • Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
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I'm on a studio Ghibli mood myself and I plan to watch kiki's this weekend (if the baby lets me ¬_¬)
 
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Makai

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I'm only three chapters into 1984 but I have to wonder why it's popular to reference. We do not live in this society at all. We're hardly on a slippery slope towards a communist society where writing "I don't like the government" in your private diary is punishable by vaporization or where public executions are popular entertainment for children.
 
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TheWarrior

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Makai said:
I'm only three chapters into 1984 but I have to wonder why it's popular to reference. We do not live in this society at all. We're hardly on a slippery slope towards a communist society where writing "I don't like the government" in your private diary is punishable by vaporization or where public executions are popular entertainment for children.
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It's an extremely important novel that is also the most misquoted and misrepresented. I'd go as far to make the generalization that most people who reference it haven't even read it.

North Korea is probably the best real world example of the 1984 universe. This world also existed in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Its a novel that worked well for its time.

However, I find the important warnings to be more subtle. The attack on and twisting of language is alive and well today. I would also say the media acts as a 4th branch of government. I don't know how far you are into it so I won't spoil anything.

I'm not sure that Orwell meant this as a warning but rather a nightmare, its a very good political thriller.

I find Fahrenheit 451 to be much closer of a warning to what our society is headed towards.
 
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Makai

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I'm joining the challenge now and I hope I'm allowed to enter the few media I've consumed this year. I basically stopped reading fiction for pleasure when I became an adult, but I'm trying to get back into it now. Reading books is a huge time commitment, and when I do I choose nonfiction. More commonly, I will read articles or relevant parts of nonfiction books. I remember Flowers for Algernon being my favorite childhood book.

MOVIES
The Lego Move ★★★★★
KUMARE ★★★★
American Psycho ★★★½
The Running Man ★★★½
The King of Kong ★★★★
Grand Budapest Hotel ★★★★★
Noah ★★★½
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 ★★★

BOOKS
Double Down ★★★½
Game Change ★★★
How to Win Friends and Influence People ★½
Hitchhiker's Guide to The Universe ★

TheWarrior said:
It's an extremely important novel that is also the most misquoted and misrepresented. I'd go as far to make the generalization that most people who reference it haven't even read it.

North Korea is probably the best real world example of the 1984 universe. This world also existed in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Its a novel that worked well for its time.

However, I find the important warnings to be more subtle. The attack on and twisting of language is alive and well today. I would also say the media acts as a 4th branch of government. I don't know how far you are into it so I won't spoil anything.

I'm not sure that Orwell meant this as a warning but rather a nightmare, its a very good political thriller.

I find Fahrenheit 451 to be much closer of a warning to what our society is headed towards.
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I was just talking with my friend and I said exactly the bolded. I'm not too into it yet, but I'll finish it since it's a classic. I don't have Farenheit 451, but I enjoyed The Illustrated Man as a kid, so I might give it a go. I think I have Brave New World on the shelf.
 
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TheWarrior

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Makai said:
I was just talking with my friend and I said exactly the bolded. I'm not too into it yet, but I'll finish it since it's a classic. I don't have Farenheit 451, but I enjoyed The Illustrated Man as a kid, so I might give it a go. I think I have Brave New World on the shelf.
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One of the things this challenge has done was get me to read some of the classics I either never bothered with in school. I didn't start reading until I hit my 30's so I missed out on a lot of classic novels. I just finished Brave New World last week, which I also see some similarities to Fahrenheit with. They both really make you think, and are good books if you are into philisophy and psychology. Fahrenheit has probably been my favorite of these "dystopian" novels

A good follow up to these novels is A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. It's only 140 pages, and follows the day of a prisoner in the Siberian gulag. I say it's a follow up because it's based on a true story of someone who was sent to prison for political crimes. Gives you an idea what really happened to people sent away for speaking their mind in Soviet Russia.
 
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Tragicomedy

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“Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun .” - Kent Nerburn


Current pace needed for completion (as of 1 August:

  • 29/50 books | 29/50 movies


GAF totals:

  • 2,409 Books
  • 5,086 Movies


Monthly Progress:
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Members who have completed the challenge:

  • Glaurungr - 91/50 Books | 108/50 Movies (completed 27 March)


Members currently on pace to complete the challenge:

  • 22 in total...too many to list!


Top 20 book worms:
  • Glaurungr - 91
  • Mumei - 90
  • Lumiere - 71
  • Cyan - 53
  • TestMonkey - 49
  • lastflowers - 46
  • EverythingShiny - 43
  • kinoki - 42
  • Reyne - 42
  • rooster93 - 40
  • TheWarrior - 39
  • Tragicomedy - 38
  • bggrthnjsus - 37
  • Pau - 36
  • Empty - 35
  • Saphirax - 35
  • DieUnbekannte - 33
  • Jintor - 33
  • avengers23- 32
  • kswiston - 31
  • Nezumi - 31


Top 20 film buffs:

  • Henry Swanson - 207
  • Narag - 192
  • Saya - 115
  • jarofbees - 110
  • Glaurungr - 108
  • Ephidel - 102
  • siyrobbo - 92
  • ridley182 - 82
  • SaltyDoughtnut - 82
  • Kinoki - 80
  • BrokenEchelon - 65
  • roosters93 - 61
  • Verdre - 59
  • markhimself - 56
  • number11 - 56
  • white dynamite - 56
  • lastflowers - 51
  • daffy - 50
  • killertofu - 50
  • zoozilla - 50


Most balanced with the force:



Least balanced with the force:

 
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kswiston

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Woohoo, I made the top 20 book worms!

I am about 70% of the way through Words of Radiance, but have a wedding to attend tomorrow. I will probably finish it up during the middle of next week. After that, I only need to read 1 book for the rest of the month, so that shouldn't be much of a problem. I am hoping to get well ahead, since my pace will slow in September.

It's been hard to find time for movies recently. I guess that happens when you make your way through two 1000+ page novels in 2 weeks.
 
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roosters93

Member
Whoops forgot to update. (Even after seeing Tragicomedy's post saying he'd update the totals later lul)
I'm glad I did a mid-monthly update at least!


Book:

Consider The Lobster - David Foster Wallace ★★★★★

Wallace is the dude. I'm about halfway through his short story collection Oblivion at the moment.

Films:

I've been watching lots of Korean flicks

All The President's Men ★★★½
The Chaser ★★★★★
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance ★★★★
Nameless Gangster ★★★½
Once Upon A Time In High School ★★★★
Shiri ★½
Infernal Affairs ★★★★
I Saw the Devil ★★★★
Captain America: The Winter Soldier ★★★
 
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Forsaken82

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Forsaken82 – 6/50 Books | 52/50 Movies


No book update (Started The Strain a few days ago), but I have crossed the 50 films.

47. Fright Night(2011)
48. Oculus
49. Lucy
50. Divergent
51. The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
52. A Haunted House 2
 
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Secks4Food

Member
Whoops I meant to update my old post but I guess this is an update lol

Secks4Food - 19/50 Books | 25/50 Movies

Books:
1.) Wild at Heart by John Eldredge
2.) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
3.) The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
4.) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
5.) Lord of the Flies by William Golding
6.) Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
7.) The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
8.) The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
9.) Inferno by Dante Alighieri
10.) As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
11.) Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
12.) Good-bye, Mr. Chips (and other stories) by James Hilton
13.) Peace is Every Step by Thich Naht Hanh
14.) Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
15.) The Creative Companion by SARK
16.) Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
17.) Porno by Irvine Welsh
18.) The Richest Man in Babylon by George S Clarkson
19.) Filth by Irvine Welsh


Movies:
1.) Aladdin
2.) The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
3.) The Jerk
4.) Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
5.) August: Osage County
6.) Dallas Buyers Club
7.) That Awkward Moment
8.) The LEGO Movie
9.) Vampire Academy
10.) Spirited Away
11.) Muppets Most Wanted
12.) Divergent
13.) Mr. Peabody and Sherman
14.) Noah
15.) Captain America: The Winter Soldier
16.) The Count of Monte Cristo (2000)
17.) The Grand Budapest Hotel
18.) Neighbors
19.) A Million Ways to Die in the West
20.) Godzilla (2014)
21.) The Fault in Our Stars[/QUOTE]
22.) 22 Jump Street
23.) How to Train Your Dragon 2
24.) Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
25.) Hercules
 
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DieUnbekannte

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TheWarrior said:
I've got this in my saved cart on Barnes and Noble. Will probably read it sometime in August.


Looks like an interesting book
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I chose The Windup Girl because of its (english) cover which looked quite promising. And I'm happy that it caught my eye, because it not only has a very interesting setting, but I also really enjoyed reading about the characters. btw I gave it four out of five stars.

Guamu said:
I'm on a studio Ghibli mood myself and I plan to watch kiki's this weekend (if the baby lets me ¬_¬)
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I couldn't decide if I liked Kiki's Delivery Service or My Neighbour Totoro better - they were both amazing. In the last couple of months I (re)watched quite a few Ghibli films and I never get bored - no matter how many times I've watched a movie. But to be honest, I also saw a newer film from studio Ghibli and I didn't really enjoy it as much as the older ones.
 
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LProtag

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I totally failed this when I got thrown into a long term substitute position near the beginning of the year, but I've read a ton this summer, so I'm pretty happy about that.
 
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Pau

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Slacked off for a month and now I'm 14 books behind my personal goal of 90 books. Gotta do a lot of reading during my two week summer vacation!

Haven't been watching films since I decided to marathon Sailor Moon instead!
 
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Jintor

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this might be just the post-movie afterglow talking but Raiders of the Lost Arc might be cinematic fucking perfection

Ironically, Moby Dick is currently my reading White Whale. It's clogging up all my other reading time!
 
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choodi

Banned
OK, massive update time.

I haven't updated in months so sorry for the big post.

choodi - 8/50 Books | 34/50 Movies
New books
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (B)
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (A)
The Weight of Blood - David Dalglish (C)
Moving Pictures - Terry Pratchett (B)
World War Z - Max Brooks (B)
The Ghost Brigades -John Scalzi (B)
Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll (D)

New movies
Last Vegas (A)
To Rome with Love (B)
Anchorman 2 (C)
Grudge Match (B)
Ender's Game (B)
Last days on Mars (D)
Dredd (C)
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (D)
Labor Day (A)
Walking with Dinosaurs (C)
Blackfish (B)
RoboCop (B)
I, Frankenstein (D)
The Monuments Men (C)
Now You See Me (C)
Snowpiercer (C)
About Time (A)
The Place Beyond the Pines (D)
Mandela: Long walk to freedom (C)
Maleficent (B)
300 Rise of an Empire (D)
How I Live Now (C)

Full list http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=94921360&postcount=175
 
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kinoki

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

Books​
  • Hönsa-Tores saga (ca. 1200) - ★★★ - Some interesting stuff of how Iceland was formed. For once a saga that doesn't end without everyone living happily ever after with Christianity. A completely unlikeable main character makes the reading more fun.
  • De sammansvurnas saga (ca. 1250) - ★★★½ - There's some tidbits here about how law and order worked in pre-Christian Icelandic society and it's really fun to read how important the authors felt that certain aspects of the story was (like killing several people fits in a single sentence without ever being mentioned again).
  • Människohamn (2008), John Ajvide Lindqvist - ★★★★ - Set in Stockholm's archipelago and juxtaposes the rather "lagom" Swedish country life with horror and the supernatural succesfully. Really fun to read and I could imagine someone reading the translation would miss out on the essentials.
  • No Country for Old Men (2005), Cormac McCarthy - ★★★½ - Self-aware pulp. It's good but I feel the better parts of the novel is over-shadowed by the movie. I get this strange feeling that the movie made the book better. It's so perfectly realised from the source material.

Movies​
  • Idiots and Angels (2008, dir. Bill Plympton) - ★★★ - Some fun to be had with this animated movie. I liked the main narrative but it comes off as overly plump. There's some good iconography going on but I feel that it's wasted on me.
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005, dir. Garth Jennings) - ★★½ - Martin Freeman has really been typecast. While I get that the book would be hard to make a movie out of they do a good job at it... too bad it doesn't translate into a better movie. It never feels like it's going anywhere.
  • Surrogates (2009, dir. Jonathan Mostow) - ★★½ - A solid concept with some odd plotholes and weird pacing. Any movie where Bruce Willis gets to wear a stupid headpiece gets a thumbs up in my book but there's not much else carrying this movie.
 
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Guamu

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DieUnbekannte said:
I couldn't decide if I liked Kiki's Delivery Service or My Neighbour Totoro better - they were both amazing. In the last couple of months I (re)watched quite a few Ghibli films and I never get bored - no matter how many times I've watched a movie. But to be honest, I also saw a newer film from studio Ghibli and I didn't really enjoy it as much as the older ones.
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Well, Actually both kiki's and totoro are two of the movies by studio Ghibli in my to-watch list. I'm trying to see them all since January.

I'm doing an awful job.
 
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Necrovex

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Jintor said:
Whispers of the Heart is my GOAT, but I also love Mononoke-hime.

That said... Totoro and Kiki are so good. ;___;
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Reminds me I need to get the Blu Ray of Whisper of the Heart.

And are you on some country roads right now? Or will that be in a few weeks when you live in Nihon?

Jintor said:
take me home... country roads~

...wait, what are they saying about me? D:
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That you're a weeabo, ugggguuuuuu.
 
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kswiston

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TheWarrior said:
Congrats!

I'm about to finish 42/50

I've given Neil Gaiman a 2nd chance. I read Neverwhere and really didn't like it. Just picked up The Ocean at the End of the Lane and I'm really enjoying it so far.
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Neverwhere was an adaptation of a story that was written as a television miniseries and probably one of Gaiman's weaker books.


I finished Words of Radiance on Tuesday. Definitely some great bits in there, but I saw the final epilogue twist coming. Both that and The Way of Kings were really hard to put down. Getting through ~2000 pages in 16 days has to be close to a record for me.

I started The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss on Wednesday, but my baby decided that sleep should come in 45 minute chunks with up to an hour in between these past few days, so I'm not very far into the novel.
 
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