Topic: Books for 2012 - List Thread

[wastrel]

Armed with a Kindle and a 3hr daily bus ride, I am going to make a go of this.

#	Title	Author	Pages*	Status	Rating	Completed
01	The Alloy of Law	Sanderson	336	Completed	7/10	10 Feb
02	Snuff	Pratchett	416	Completed	8/10	10 Apr
03	The Hunger Games	Collins	374	Completed	7/10	12 Apr
04	Catching Fire	Collins	391	Completed	8/10	14 Apr
05	Mockingjay	Collins	390	Completed	7/10	15 Apr
06	... Philosopher's Stone	Rowlings	309	Completed**	7/10	16 Apr
07	... Chamber of Secrets	Rowlings	341	Completed**	7/10	17 Apr
08	... Prisoner of Azkaban	Rowlings	435	Completed**	8/10	18 Apr
09	... Goblet of Fire	Rowlings	734	Completed**	9/10	21 Apr
10	... Order of the Phoenix	Rowlings	870	Completed**	8/10	22 Apr
11	... Half-Blood Prince	Rowlings	652	Completed**	9/10	25 Apr
12	... Deathly Hallows	Rowlings	759	Completed**	9/10	28 Apr
13	The Dragon Reborn	Jordan	674	Completed**	7/10	4 May
14	The Shadow Rising	Jordan	1001	Completed**	7/10	14 May
15	The Fires of Heaven	Jordan	963	Completed**	8/10	23 May
16	The Lord of Chaos	Jordan	987	Completed**	8/10	31 May
17	A Crown of Swords	Jordan	855	Completed	7/10	9 Jun
18	The Way of Kings	Sanderson	1008	Completed**	9/10	22 Jun
19	Going Postal	Pratchett	416	Completed**	8/10	24 Jun
20	Neverwhere	Gaiman	400	Completed	8/10	28 Jun
21	Pyramids	Pratchett	352	Completed**	8/10	4 Jul
22	The Name of the Wind	Rothfuss	722	Completed**	9/10	14 Jul
##	The Path of Daggers	Jordan	672	Reading
##	Winter's Heart	Jordan	766	Planned
##	Crossroads of Twilight	Jordan	822	Planned
##	Knife of Dreams	Jordan	837	Planned
##	The Gathering Storm	Sanderson	766	Planned

*Paperback pages (approx)
**Re-read

[moj]

stop winning this thread 

[Hazzel]

Armed with a Kindle and a 3hr daily bus ride, I am going to make a go of this.

(...)

12	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	J.K. Rowlings	Completed (re-read)	9/10	28 Apr
13	The Dragon Reborn	Robert Jordan	Completed (re-read)	7/10	4 May

For real? That's sick... Alright you are reading in your first language, but still, isn't that like more than 200 pages of not so straight forward language/day? It was awhile since I read those though, maybe I just remember them as super long?

[Caffiene]

It was awhile since I read those though, maybe I just remember them as super long?

Dragon Reborn is one of the shortest of the series. My copy is about 650 pages, so depending on whether the 28th is included he did 600 to 700 pages in 6 to 7 days.

100 pages in 3 hours sounds reasonable.

[wastrel]

What Caffiene said.  Dragon Reborn is approx 674 pages, and there is a three day interval, whereas Shadow Rising almost twice as long and there was a ten day interval.

I estimate I read about 90-110 pages an hour while reading the Hunger Games and HP, but those books are really easy reads.  WoT has been a slower read because of the internal languages used (many of which seem to include five syllable words at a minimum), so I'm guessing my speed for those books is about 70-90 pages an hour or so (just a guess, my Kindle copy of these books doesn't have page info, only percentage completed).

Since I started reading again, I remembered how much I love it.  How the hell did I forget that?   I've been forgoing TV most nights to read instead, so I think I'm reading on average 4-5 hours on a weekday, and maybe 4-5 hours total over the weekend.  I should be able to get through any of the WoT books in less than five-seven days, so I'm a little unhappy with how long it took me to read Shadow rising.  I want to finish Fires of Heaven no later than 21 May.

[daemonowner]

Dude, 3 hours? I commute 2 hours a day, including walking.. people I know who do the same hate living where I do.

[pandamonium]

stop winning this thread 

he's not--skeptress is at 31

I blame the death of my last kindle and computer for my paltry 14 books. And Game of Thrones.

[Caffiene]

This thread is making me feel bad. I really need to get back into reading and deal with all these books Ive got sitting on my shelf (and on my amazon wishlist)...

[Caffiene]

Right... Time to get started. I dont know why I havent been reading much this year, so its time to fix that.

My to-read list so far:



Plus any earlier Wheel of Time and Steven Erikson books necessary to remember wtf is going on. And Im not sure about the RA Salvatore book... I won it as part of a competition, and its the second book in a series.

After I get through those I have about another 12 on a list of books I want to buy.

[pandamonium]

Hey, the Erikson saga thing (I forget the exact name of the series) is on my to-read list, too. I've got the ebook version of the first book of the series and a hard copy I picked up for $0.50 of one of the later books.

[Caffiene]

I forget the exact name of the series

Seriously, they dont make it easy to refer to the series...

The series subtitle on the Erikson books is "A tale of the Malazan book of the fallen". Except the book by Esslemont on the top of the pile is part of that world too, and his ones are subtitled "A novel of the Malazan empire". So if you say just "the Malazan books" it confuses the two slightly separate series... but if you say "the malazan book of the fallen series" then youre just using too many words.

[wastrel]

I want to finish Fires of Heaven no later than 21 May.

Fail

Didn't finish until 23 May.

I'm only going to read four books this month if I'm lucky, instead of the seven I completed in Apr.  Maybe I should intersperse some Pratchett books in between the WoT books, since I'm in the arduous section of the series.  I still like the books, but the books are a bit overly descriptive right now.

[pandamonium]

I was a bit amazed at your reading rate...but then, you've got a really long commute, yes?

[Neon Genesis]

Hey, the Erikson saga thing (I forget the exact name of the series) is on my to-read list, too. I've got the ebook version of the first book of the series and a hard copy I picked up for $0.50 of one of the later books.

I've been wanting to read it too and they have it at our Booksamillion but they never seem to have a copy of the first book of the series available.

[Tatyana]

New year, new books. New thoughts, new lists - both long and short. Enjoy!

(I need a list and I need it now, bandaged left hand or not.)


1) 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
2) Sector C - Phoenix Sullivan
3) Future babble - Dan Gardner
4) Carrion comfort - Dan Simmons
5) Coming of age in the Milky Way - Timothy Ferris
6) The hitman's guide to housekeeping - Hallgrimur Helgason
7) Puswhisperer - Mark Crislip
Singularity: Star Carrier: 3 - Ian Douglas
9) Smarter backpacking - Jorgen Johansson
10) Them - Jon Ronson
11) The psycopath test - Jon Ronson
12) The book of the bivvy - Ronald Turnbull
13) Hodejegerne - Jo Nesbø
14) Why are you atheists so angry? 99 things that piss off the godless - Greta Christina
15) Off Armageddon reef - David Weber
16) Why we get sick: the new science of darwinian medicine - Randolph M. Nesse and George C. Williams
17) By schism rent asunder - David Weber
18) Profeten fra Snåsa - Ronnie Johanson
19) By heresies distressed - David Weber
20) Why we believe in god(s): A concise guide to the science of faith - J. Anderson Thomson and Clare Aukofer
21) A mighty fortress - David Weber
22) How firm a foundation - David Weber
23) The ultimate hiker's gearguide - Andrew Skurka
24) Biblical Nonsense: A review of the Bible for doubting Christians - Jason Long
25) The lost fleet: Beyond the frontier: Invincible - Jack Campbell
26) An encyclopedia of claims, frauds, and hoaxes of the occult and supernatural - James Randi
27) A universe from nothing - Lawrence Krauss
28) Extreme fear - Jeff Wise
29) Goat dance - Douglas Clegg
30) Wicked: life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West - Gregory Maguire
31) The gods themselves - Issac Asimov
32) Nailed: Ten Christian myths that show Jesus never existed at all - David Fitzgerald
33) Redshirts - John Scalzi
34) The god delusion - Richard Dawkins
35) Not the impossible faith: why Christianity didn't need a miracle to succeed - Richard Carrier
36) Wild - Cheryl Strayed
37) Wool Omnibus - Hugh Howery
38) Dyrlegen forteller - Halvor Paus
39) En helt vanlig dag på jobben - Halvard Mållnes
40) Mizt - Jon Bing
41) 50 popular beliefs that people think are true - Guy P. Harrison
42) The end of money: counterfeiters, preachers, techies, dreamers - David Wolman

Damn, Calinthalus has a point...

1) 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami

How do you rate this book?