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Post subject: Re: 2018 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books & 50 Movies in One Year
Posted: Wed February 21, 2018 12:24 am
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Books 6/50 Sing Unburied Sing - Jesmyn Ward And The Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho Women And Power - Mary Beard Tales Of Ordinary Madness - Charles Bukowski Mystery Train: Images Of America In Rock N Roll Music - Greil Marcus
8/50 - Video Games Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (PS4) Golf Story (Switch) Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (PS4) Pyre (PS4) What Remains of Edit Finch (PS4) Celeste (Switch) Horizon: Zero Dawn, Frozen Wilds (PS4) Super Mario Odyssey (999 moons) (Switch)
4/50 - Movies Logan The Post The Big Sick Justice League
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Post subject: Re: 2018 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books & 50 Movies in One Year
Posted: Mon February 26, 2018 10:26 pm
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Books 8/50 Sing Unburied Sing - Jesmyn Ward And The Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho Women And Power - Mary Beard Tales Of Ordinary Madness - Charles Bukowski Mystery Train: Images Of America In Rock N Roll Music - Greil Marcus Between The World And Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates Wolf In White Van - John Darnielle
Movies 3/50 Hell Or High Water Black Panther Lego Ninjago
Post subject: Re: 2018 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books & 50 Movies in One Year
Posted: Mon February 26, 2018 10:45 pm
Mind Your Tanners
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 6:03 pm Posts: 9359 Location: Washington State
09/50 Books
Son of Retro Pulp Tales by Joe R. Lansdale Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures by Aaron Mahnke A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Hope Larson Cassandra French's Finishing School for Boys: A Novel by Eric Garcia We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope by Ian Doescher A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Null States by Malka Ann Older
Man, I don't know if there's been a book that tormented me the way that one did. There's an assassination in the first few chapters and you're like, OK, we're off! And then the rest of the book is about describing food and locales and love lives and hey a bombing! but we don't care after a couple pages and then another assassination! but actually we don't care about that one either, even though it was carried out by the head of a rival government literally in front of people and cameras but lets not talk about that anymore, ok? And then you find out one of the characters is pregnant almost as an afterthought and the story is wrapped up (maybe?) in the last chapter or two and then it's over. I guess it's effective as a middle book in that the story moved forward only in the sense that it's really just setting up book three* but really it was just poorly done. I stopped knowing who was talking to whom after awhile and just went with it.
The biggest complaint: there's a fake disorder in the book that was approached as if you already knew all about it and how there's a prejudice against people with it because they could be faking it for attention. It wasn't until I was well and truly pissed off about it and did a Google search that I found out there's a 25-page short story written by the author that explains what it is and how it affects people. What? It's not even listed in the Goodreads section for the book series, it's just something I happened to find. Christ this whole thing made me so mad.
And here I am writing more than I've written about a book in ages.
*If I have this same problem with book three I'm just giving up. I can't re-read series every time a new book comes out, it just doesn't work that way.
10/50 Movies
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) The Dark Tower (2017) Kong: Skull Island (2017) Justice League (2017) Geostorm (2017) The Book of Henry (2017) Black Panther (2018) Being Canadian (2015) Willow (1988) Justice League Dark (2017)
I count Willow because it's almost literally been 30 years since I've seen it, I think it counts as a 'new' film at that point.
Also watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail with my son since we're reading Ready Player One and I'm trying to introduce him to the good parts of that book. Apparently I have never seen the beginning where there's a whole other movie that starts to play. I was in legit WTF mode and about to eject the disc when it switched over. He didn't laugh at a lot of the jokes but it's hard to catch them all on a first time.
JLD was pretty good, much better than the usual that DC Animated has been putting out for a few years now. I thought it interesting they killed so many characters, though not so much that only 1 of the 2 were given a send off. I mean, what happened to Swamp Thing? He turned into a spaghetti monster sans person and then everything disappeared. Kind of a bummer.
Books: 6/50: 1. Ernest Hemingway on Writing 2. The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost 3. Raven Girl by Audrey Niffenegger 4. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 5. Pattern Recognition by Wiiliam Gibson 6. Ancient History - David Ives
Movies: 14/50: 1.The Last Jedi 2. The Force Awakens 3. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 4. What If 5. Logan 6. The Shape of Water 7. Call Me By Your Name 8. Phantom Thread 9. A Bad Moms Christmas 10. A Ghost Story 11. The Phantom Menace 12. A Futile and Stupid Gesture 13. Attack of the Clones 14. Black Panther
9/50 - Video Games Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (PS4) Golf Story (Switch) Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (PS4) Pyre (PS4) What Remains of Edit Finch (PS4) Celeste (Switch) Horizon: Zero Dawn, Frozen Wilds (PS4) Super Mario Odyssey (999 moons) (Switch) Yoshi's Island (SNES Classic)
4/50 - Movies Logan The Post The Big Sick Justice League
Post subject: Re: 2018 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books & 50 Movies in One Year
Posted: Wed February 28, 2018 3:32 pm
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I think I'll drop my list in at the end of every month, eh?
Movies 1. Bright (2017) 2. An Inconvenient Sequel (2017) 3. Alien: Covenant (2017) 4. Paddington 2 (2018) 5. Inside Man (2006) 6. Baby’s Day Out (1994) 7. Dave Made a Maze (2017) 8. Hidden Figures (2016) 9. Brad’s Status (2017) 10. The Cloverfield Paradox (2018) 11. Ingrid Goes West (2017) 12. North by Northwest (1959) 13. Primer (2004) 14. Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) 15. Boy (2010) 16. Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017) 17. Icarus (2017) 18. Eagle vs. Shark (2007) 19. 1922 (2017) 20. Black Panther (2018)
Books Key: AB=Audiobook, TP=Trade Paperback, GN=Graphic Novel 1. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 2. What Unites Us by Dan Rather (AB) 3. Aphra (TP) 4. Endurance by Scott Kelly (AB) 5. The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz 6. The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavich (AB) 7. Hacks by Donna Brazile (AB) 8. Woman Rebel by Peter Bagge (GN) 9. Strange Weather by Joe Hill (AB) 10. Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff (AB) 11. Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About by Mil Millington (bailed at 230/394p) 12: Star Wars: Last Flight of the Harbinger (TP) 13. One Shot by Lee Child (AB) 14. March (Books 1-3) by John Lews (GN) 15. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (AB)
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Post subject: Re: 2018 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books & 50 Movies in One Year
Posted: Thu March 01, 2018 4:30 pm
See you in another life, brother
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Books (4/50) 1. Infinite Jest--David Foster Wallace 2. The Anti-Capitalistic Mindset--Ludwig von Mises 3. The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution 1783-1789--Joseph Ellis 4. Thoughts on Government--John Adams
Movies (7/50) 1. Braveheart 2. Baby Driver 3. Ocean's Eleven 4. Inside Llewyn Davis 5. Tinker Tailor Solider Spy 6. An Invisible Sign 7. Black Panther
_________________ "I want to see the whole picture--as nearly as I can. I don't want to put on the blinders of 'good and bad,' and limit my vision."-- In Dubious Battle
Post subject: Re: 2018 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books & 50 Movies in One Year
Posted: Mon March 05, 2018 4:51 pm
Mind Your Tanners
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 6:03 pm Posts: 9359 Location: Washington State
14/50 Books
Son of Retro Pulp Tales by Joe R. Lansdale Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures by Aaron Mahnke A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Hope Larson Cassandra French's Finishing School for Boys: A Novel by Eric Garcia We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope by Ian Doescher A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Null States by Malka Ann Older Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (Red Dwarf #1) by Grant Naylor Better than Life (Red Dwarf #2) by Grant Naylor Backwards (Red Dwarf #4) by Rob Grant Last Human (Red Dwarf #3) by Doug Naylor Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories by Mike Birbiglia
I think I should have watched at least one episode of the show before reading that series. I read 4 before 3 because I saw a review that said it followed from book 2 a lot better and just sampling the intro to 3 I had to agree. Now that I've finished 3...yeah, I should have read these in order. I think Rob Grant had a much better grasp of the characters than Doug Naylor.
Mike's book is, if you've seen any of his stand-ups, basically that but you have to read it instead of watch it. There's some other stuff but it's basically the same. Still hilarious though. I read it with my son and we were laughing at some parts so hard we were crying. It was fun. Up next: Terry Pratchett! It'll be a first for both of us.
13/50 Movies
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) The Dark Tower (2017) Kong: Skull Island (2017) Justice League (2017) Geostorm (2017) The Book of Henry (2017) Black Panther (2018) Being Canadian (2015) Willow (1988) Justice League Dark (2017) Despicable Me 3 (2017) Journey Through the Past (1974) Coco (2017)
Coco was just OK until the end, I wasn't expecting that at all.
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Books: 6/50: 1. Ernest Hemingway on Writing 2. The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost 3. Raven Girl by Audrey Niffenegger 4. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 5. Pattern Recognition by Wiiliam Gibson 6. Ancient History - David Ives
Movies: 15/50: 1.The Last Jedi 2. The Force Awakens 3. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 4. What If 5. Logan 6. The Shape of Water 7. Call Me By Your Name 8. Phantom Thread 9. A Bad Moms Christmas 10. A Ghost Story 11. The Phantom Menace 12. A Futile and Stupid Gesture 13. Attack of the Clones 14. Black Panther 15. David Bowie: The Last Five Years
Post subject: Re: 2018 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books & 50 Movies in One Year
Posted: Sat March 10, 2018 12:48 am
See you in another life, brother
Joined: Thu December 20, 2012 4:45 pm Posts: 6646
Books (5/50) 1. Infinite Jest--David Foster Wallace 2. The Anti-Capitalistic Mindset--Ludwig von Mises 3. The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution 1783-1789--Joseph Ellis 4. Thoughts on Government--John Adams 5. The Three Languages of Politics--Arnold Kling
Movies (7/50) 1. Braveheart 2. Baby Driver 3. Ocean's Eleven 4. Inside Llewyn Davis 5. Tinker Tailor Solider Spy 6. An Invisible Sign 7. Black Panther
_________________ "I want to see the whole picture--as nearly as I can. I don't want to put on the blinders of 'good and bad,' and limit my vision."-- In Dubious Battle
Post subject: Re: 2018 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books & 50 Movies in One Year
Posted: Mon March 12, 2018 1:12 pm
I've been POOSSTTIiiEEnngeeaahh
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 5:53 pm Posts: 12081
Books: 01. The Cold Dish (Walt Longmire, #1) 02. Pastime (Spenser, #18) 03. Fletch's Fortune (Fletch, #3) 04. Pacific Vortex! (Dirk Pitt, #1) 05. True Grit 06. Stardust 07. Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West 08. Norse Mythology 09. The Bat (Harry Hole, #1) 10. Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)
Movies: 01. Safari (1956) 02. Ice Station Zebra (1968) 03. Knights of the Round Table (1953) 04. The Maltese Falcon (1941) 05. Black Panther (2018)
Video Game: 01. Uncharted: Drake's Fortune Remastered (PS4) 02. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Remastered (PS4)
9/50 - Video Games Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (PS4) Golf Story (Switch) Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (PS4) Pyre (PS4) What Remains of Edit Finch (PS4) Celeste (Switch) Horizon: Zero Dawn, Frozen Wilds (PS4) Super Mario Odyssey (999 moons) (Switch) Yoshi's Island (SNES Classic)
5/50 - Movies Logan The Post The Big Sick Justice League Get Out
Post subject: Re: 2018 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books & 50 Movies in One Year
Posted: Tue March 13, 2018 1:48 am
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Joined: Sun January 06, 2013 6:05 pm Posts: 743
Books 10/50 Sing Unburied Sing - Jesmyn Ward And The Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho Women And Power - Mary Beard Tales Of Ordinary Madness - Charles Bukowski Mystery Train: Images Of America In Rock N Roll Music - Greil Marcus Between The World And Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates Wolf In White Van - John Darnielle A Mercy - Toni Morrison The Importance Of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays - Oscar Wilde
Movies 5/50 Hell Or High Water Black Panther Lego Ninjago Bowie The Last Five Years Baby Driver
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I found that series a bit sloggy in parts. A lot of National Convention voting politics and tricks. Same thing that put me to sleep in House of Cards.