The 50 Book Challenge

[r-18]

well lets see....since jan 1 eh???
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistborn_series

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elantris

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(Durbin_novel)

i read a lot actually ....it is not unusual to read one book a night if it is new to me or to take several nights to reread one i have gone through before...i don't think it will take all that long to read 50 books...

[Jakarrd]

Originally Posted by r-18

i read a lot actually ....it is not unusual to read one book a night if it is new to me or to take several nights to reread one i have gone through before...i don't think it will take all that long to read 50 books...

I can only do that really on weekends anymore. On a good read I can ship thru 500 pages+ if the book is really fast paced. On avg I get about 150 pages a day in (usually from my hour lunch and then an hour left before end of work) so small books go inside of 2-3 days while 1k+ monsters can take a week or more. Just all depends on what I'm skipping to get that reading in.

Luckily I've got a decent backlog with the current books to keep me occupied but soon enough I'll be back in the store picking up 30+ dollars worth of paperbacks to peruse.

[Cicada]

Paperbacks here often cost about that much. Just checked the shelves, of the last four paperback books I bought one was $40, one was $30, two were $25.

[Jakarrd]

Originally Posted by Cicada

Paperbacks here often cost about that much. Just checked the shelves, of the last four paperback books I bought one was $40, one was $30, two were $25.

That has to be the large paperbacks or something. In my area most normal paperbacks I get are 6.99 - 7.99 us, so 4 hit me near 30 on avg. If I get the larger size ones they can go for 14.99 or more. The really expensives I just ignore and buy the hardback with since they usually are the same price by then.

Of course with the advent of the e-readers you have an option that's cheaper than paperback... assuming they don't go and delete it *cough*Amazon*cough*.

[Cicada]

No. The latter two were small (~150 pages), the $30 a little thicker. You'd have to do the currency conversion yourself, but books are very expensive here.

[Dralha]

Originally Posted by Jakarrd

Of course with the advent of the e-readers you have an option that's cheaper than paperback... assuming they don't go and delete it *cough*Amazon*cough*.

Once these become more common (i.e. start costing around $100), I'd like to get one. Sony's ebook reader looks slick.

[r-18]

just started warbreaker i should have it done in a few days .....taking my time since i have already read this one...
Brandon Sanderson: WARBREAKER Rights and Downloads

not sure which way to go after this one maybe sci-fi with the dune books ....

[Jakarrd]

I'm kinda up in arms about Brandon Sanderson. The Mist trilogy was a really really good read. But him taking over writing of the Last wheel of time novel makes me kinda iffy. I got tired of Jordan's writing way back when book 7 came out And since they've declared the last book a "thirds book" I don't know if I'll ever get back into the series anytime soon. And by soon I mean since book 7 was released back in the day. XD

Just finished up The Stepsister Scheme which was a pretty good take on old fairytales (sleeping beauty as an assassin? oh my...) so I'm interested in its sequel The Mermaid's Madness to see if it'll be just as lively.

House of Leaves on the other hand is going aggonizingly slow. It's a great concept book but the pace at which you read it is astoundingly slow. I'm barely past page 92 and it feels like I've read over 500 pages in 6 years. I need a wormhole to finish this thing.

[r-18]

Jakarrd:
I'm kinda up in arms about Brandon Sanderson. The Mist trilogy was a really really good read. But him taking over writing of the Last wheel of time novel makes me kinda iffy. I got tired of Jordan's writing way back when book 7 came out And since they've declared the last book a "thirds book" I don't know if I'll ever get back into the series anytime soon. And by soon I mean since book 7 was released back in the day. XD

this kinda surprised me when it was announced....i had sort of given up on the wheel of time considering the length of time between installments....ands then he has the nerve to go and die .....so i had all but written the series off .....but after reading the books that sanderson has written i may just pick it up again......i have not read any of the books except the first one .....i generally prefer to wait till an author has finished with a series before reading it..

[Cicada]

1. Tanigawa Nagaru - The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
2. Jay McRoy - Nightmare Japan: Contemporary Japanese Horror Cinema

Talk about off to a slow start.