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 Post subject: Re: 2018 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books & 50 Movies in One Year
PostPosted: Thu November 29, 2018 4:00 pm 
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Books 48/50
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
Love Goes To Buildings On Fire - Will Hermes
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Shake It Up: Great American Writing On Rock And Pop From Elvis To Jay-Z - Various Authors (Edited by Jonathan Lethem)
The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Marvel 1602 - Neil Gaiman
Tartuffe - Moliere
Slam - Nick Hornby
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Twilight of the Gods - Steven Hyden
Adjustment Day - Chuck Palahniuk
Dawn - Elie Wiesel
East, West - Salman Rushdie
Salvage The Bones - Jesmyn Ward (best book I've read so far this year)
Milk It - Jim DeRogatis
Barracoon - Zora Neale Hurston
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Go Tell It On The Mountain - James Baldwin
The Complete Stories - Flannery O'Connor
Big Fish - Daniel Wallace
Underworld - Don DeLillo
Player One - Douglas Coupland
Grendel - John Gardner
The Informers - Bret Easton Ellis
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn
The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
Day - Elie Wiesel
You Suck - Christopher Moore
All Our Wrong Todays - Elan Mastai
Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng
The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris
The Night of the Iguana - Tennessee Williams
Fear - Bob Woodward
1989: Bob Dylan Didn't Have This To Sing About - Joshua Clover
Beastie Boys Book - Mike Diamond, Adam Horovitz

Movies 39/50
Hell Or High Water
Black Panther
Lego Ninjago
Bowie The Last Five Years
Baby Driver
Pitch Perfect 3
Coco
Girls Trip
Isle Of Dogs
Andre The Giant
Lady Bird
Avengers Infinity War
It
Atomic Blonde
Disaster Artist
Fahrenheit 451
Deadpool 2
Three Billboards
I, Tonya
Hereditary
Dunkirk
Kong Skull Island
East of Eden
Fist Fight
The Equalizer 2
Justice League
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
Stripes
Battle of the Sexes
The Magnificent Seven
Chips
Happytime Murders
Away We Go
Ready Player One
The Greatest Showman
Elvis Presley: The Searcher
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Solo: A Star Wars Story
The Grinch (2018)


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 Post subject: Re: 2018 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books & 50 Movies in One Year
PostPosted: Sat December 01, 2018 6:52 pm 
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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)
21. Dunkirk (2017)
22. Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
23. Cell (2016)
24. The Florida Project (2017)
25. Moonlight (2016)
26. Jumanji (2017)
27. Ratatouille (2007)
28. The Greatest Showman (2017)
29. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
30. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
31. Justice League vs. Teen Titans (2016)
32. Justice League (2017)
33. The Descent (2005)
34. Curse of Chucky (2013)
35. Cult of Chucky (2017)
36. Cargo (2018)
37. Solo (2018)
38. The Shape of Water (2017)
39. Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
40. Baywatch (2017)
41. Lady Bird (2017)
42. A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
43. Incredibles 2 (2018)
44. It (2017)
45. Batman: The Killing Joke (2016)
46. Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
47. I, Tonya (2017)
48. Annihilation (2018)
49. A Ghost Story (2017)
50. Raging Bull (1980)
51. Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
52. Vertigo (1958)
53. How To Talk To Girls at Parties (2017)
54. Ready Player One (2018)
55. The Quiet Place (2018)
56. Battle of the Sexes (2018)
57. RBG (2018)
58. Venom (2018)
59. Gifted (2017)
60. Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (2018)
61. Eighth Grade (2018)
62. Deadpool 2 (2018)
63. Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (2018)
64. Galaxy Quest (1999)
65. Serpico (1973)

Books
Key: AB=Audiobook, TP=Trade Paperback, GN=Graphic Novel
1. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (AB)
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 Lewis (GN)
15. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (AB)
16. Shrill by Lindy West
17. In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware (AB)
18. Spider-Gwen: Weapon of Choice (TP)
19. A-Force: Warzones (TP)
20. The Trouble with Reality by Brooke Gladstone
21. You’re Saying It Wrong by Ross Petras
22. Bush by Jean Edward Smith (AB)
23. Darth Vader: Imperial Machine (TP)
* Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (AB)
24. Educated by Tara Westover (AB)
25. Lust and Wonder by Augusten Burroughs (AB)
26. Time Salvager by Wesley Chu (AB)
27. The Life and Death of Superman by Roger Stern
28. Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet by Ta-Nehisi Coates (TP)
29. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer (AB)
30. Saga: Volume 7 (TP)
31. The Radium Girls by Kate Moore (AB)
32. The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers (AB)
33. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (AB)
34. A Higher Loyalty by James Comey (AB)
35. Unicorn of Many Hats by Dana Simpson (GN)
36. Supernatural Enhancements by Edgar Cantero
37. The Divide by Matt Taibbi (AB)
38. Screaming Citadel by Kieron Gillen (TP)
39. The Hard Way by Lee Child (AB)
40. Dear Madam President by Jennifer Palmieri
41. The Incredible Hulk: The Future Imperfect by Peter David (GN)
42. The Power by Naomi Alderman (AB)
43. Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer (AB)
44. Be Prepared by Vera Brosgol (GN)
45. Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly (AB)
46. Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
47. All Star Superman by Grant Morrison (GN)
48. Marvels by Kurt Busiek (GN)
49. The Outsider by Stephen King (AB)
50. Aftermath: Life Debt by Chuck Wendig (AB)
51. Calypso by David Sedaris (AB)
52. The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket (AB)
* The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene (did not finish)
53. The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware (AB)
54. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (AB)
55. The Miserable Mill by Lemony Snicket (AB)
56. The Hunger by Alma Katsu
57. The Last American Vampire by Seth Grahame-Smith (AB)
58. A.D. After Death, Book One by Scott Snyder (GN)
59. The Recovering by Leslie Jamison (AB)
60. No One Can Pronounce My Name by Rakesh Satyal
61. Darth Vader: Legacy’s End by Charles Soule (TP)
62. The Flash: Rebirth by Geoff Johns (TP)
63. #NeverAgain by David & Lauren Hogg
64. The Mighty Thor: Lords of Midgard (TP)
65. The Minority Report and Other Stories by Philip K. Dick (AB)
66. Saga, Volume 8 (TP)
67. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson (AB)
68. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King (AB)
69. I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown (AB)
70. The League of Regrettable Superheroes by Jon Morris
71. Predator Versus Judge Dredd Versus Aliens by John Wagner (TP)
72. The World As It Is by Ben Rhodes (AB)
73. Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan (AB)
74. Wonder Woman: A Celebration of 75 Years by Robert Kanigher (GN)
75. The Jell-o Girls by Allie Rowbottom (AB)
76. Beneath the Book Tower by Steve Hamilton
77. Ms. Marvel: Teenage Wasteland by G. Willow Wilson (TP)
78. The President Is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson (AB)
79. How To Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan (AB)
80. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green (AB)
81. Sex Object by Jessica Valenti
82. Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman (TP)
83. Mace Windu: Jedi of the Republic by Matt Owens (TP)
84. Elizabeth Warren: Her Fight. Her Work. Her Life. by Antonia Felix (AB)
85. Fear by Bob Woodward (AB)
86. Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child (AB)
87. Before She Sleeps by Bina Shah
88. Accessory to War by Neil deGrasse Tyson & Avis Lang (AB)
89. Saga, Volume 9 (TP)
90. Parasite by Mira Grant (AB)
91. Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright (AB)
92. The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Temblay
93. The Walking Dead, Book 15 by Robert Kirkman (GN)
94. Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans by Don Brown (GN)
95: The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees by Don Brown (GN)
96. One Door Away From Heaven by Dean Koontz (AB)
97. The Water Will Come by Jeff Goodell (AB)
*The Map That Changed The World by Simon Winchester (did not finish)
98. Unicorn Theater by Dana Simpson (TP)
99. State of Immunity by James Colgrove
100. Star Wars: Catalyst by James Luceno (AB)
101. Elevation by Stephen King (AB)
102. Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Temblay (AB)
103. The 9/11 Report by Sid Jacobson (GN)
104. Beastie Boys Book by Michael Diamond and Adam Horowitz
105. Bingo Love by Tee Franklin (GN)
106. Nailbiter: There Will Be Blood by by Joshua Williamson (GN)

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 Post subject: Re: 2018 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books & 50 Movies in One Year
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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)
11. Death Without Company (Walt Longmire, #2)
12. Firestarter
13. The Terror
14. Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I
15. The Complete Chronicles of Conan
16. The Jungle Books
17. Tom Sawyer (The Adventures of Tom and Huck #1)
18. Huckleberry Finn (The Adventures of Tom and Huck #2)
19. The Dragon and the George (Dragon Knight, #1)
20. The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
21. Fletch and the Widow Bradley (Fletch, #4)
22. Double Deuce (Spenser #19)
23. The Old Man and the Sea
24. The Dark Half

Movies:
01. Safari (1956)
02. Ice Station Zebra (1968)
03. Knights of the Round Table (1953)
04. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
05. History of Iron Maiden Part 1 (2004)
06. Black Panther (2018)
07. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
08. Baywatch (2017)
09. The Secret of the Incas (1954)
10. History of Iron Maiden Part 2 (2008)
11. The Naked Jungle (1954)
12. Legend Of The Lost (1957)
13. Valley Of The Kings (1954)
14. The Conqueror (1956)
15. History of Iron Maiden Part 3 (2012)
16. Gunga Din (1939)
17. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)
18. The Seven-Ups (1973)
19. Incredibles 2 (2018)
20. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
21. Spectre (2015)
22. Fate Of The Furious (2017)
23. Action Point (2018)
24. Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
25. Pixels (2015)

Video Games:
01. Uncharted: Drake's Fortune Remastered (PS4)
02. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Remastered (PS4)
03. Super Mario Odyssey (Switch)
04. Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception Remastered (PS4)
05. Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (PS4)
06. Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (PS4)
07. Steamworld Dig 2 (PS4)


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100/50 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 (AB)
    A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
    Null States by Malka Ann Older
    Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (Red Dwarf #1) by Grant Naylor (AB)
    Better than Life (Red Dwarf #2) by Grant Naylor (AB)
    Backwards (Red Dwarf #4) by Rob Grant (AB)
    Last Human (Red Dwarf #3) by Doug Naylor (AB)
    Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories by Mike Birbiglia
    Shadow Moon (Chronicles of the Shadow War #1) by Chris Claremont, George Lucas
    Who Could That Be at This Hour? (All the Wrong Questions #1) by Lemony Snicket
    You're Saying It Wrong: A Pronunciation Guide to the 150 Most Commonly Mispronounced Words by Ross Petras and Kathryn Petras
    Mr. and Mrs. Bunny—Detectives Extraordinaire! by Polly Horvath
    When Did You See Her Last? (All the Wrong Questions #2) by Lemony Snicket
    Lord and Lady Bunny--Almost Royalty! by Polly Horvath
    File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents (All the Wrong Questions, #2.5) by Lemony Snicket
    Shadow Dawn (Chronicles of the Shadow War #2) by Chris Claremont, George Lucas
    1984 by George Orwell (AB)
    Moone Boy: The Blunder Years by Chris O'Dowd
    Dragonslayer by Wayland Drew
    Willow (Chronicles of the Shadow War) by Wayland Drew
    Moone Boy: The Fish Detective by Chris O'Dowd
    The Last Jedi by Jason Fry (AB)
    The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein (AB)
    All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1) by Martha Wells (AB)
    The Smartest Book in the World by Greg? Proops (AB)
    Only Human (Themis Files #3) by Sylvain Neuvel (AB)
    Shadow Star (Chronicles of the Shadow War #3) by Chris Claremont
    20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill (AB)
    Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo
    Shouldn't You Be in School? (All the Wrong Questions #3) by Lemony Snicket
    Pines (Wayward Pines #1) by Blake Crouch
    Wayward (Wayward Pines #2) by Blake Crouch
    Horns by Joe Hill (AB)
    The Last Town (Wayward Pines #3) by Blake Crouch
    Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
    Mustache Shenanigans: Making Super Troopers and Other Adventures in Comedy by Jay Chandrasekhar
    Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights? (All the Wrong Questions #4) by Lemony Snicket
    Guardians of the Whills by Greg? Rucka
    FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven
    The Escape Artist by Brad Meltzer
    Savage Season (Hap and Leonard #1) by Joe R. Lansdale
    The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack (Burton & Swinburne #1) by Mark Hodder
    Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk
    False Idols (The Dragon Lords #2) by Jon Hollins
    Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman
    Night Shift by Stephen King
    Blindsight (Firefall #1) by Peter Watts (AB)
    The Blade Itself (The First Law #1) by Joe Abercrombie
    Gideon's Sword (Gideon Crew #1) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
    Gideon's Corpse (Gideon Crew #2) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
    The Hatching (The Hatching #1) by Ezekiel Boone
    The Lost Island (Gideon Crew #3) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
    Beyond the Ice Limit (Gideon Crew #4) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
    The Pharaoh Key (Gideon Crew #5) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
    The Authorities™ by Scott Meyer
    Frank Miller's RoboCop by Frank Miller (GN)
    Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe (Deadpool Killogy #1) by Cullen Bunn (GN)
    Deadpool Kills Deadpool (Deadpool Killogy #3) by Cullen Bunn (GN)
    Deadpool vs. Carnage (Deadpool VS) by Cullen Bunn (GN)
    Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets: The Official Movie Novelization by Christie Golden (AB)
    Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
    A-Force Presents Vol. 1 by Nathan Edmondson (GN)
    Mechanical Failure (Epic Failure #1) by Joe Zieja (AB)
    A-Force Presents Vol. 2 by Nathan Edmondson (GN)
    A-Force Presents Vol. 3 by Nathan Edmondson (GN)
    Run Program by Scott Meyer (AB)
    Ghosts of Greenglass House (Greenglass House #2) by Kate Milford
    The Elementals by Michael McDowell
    The Circle by Dave Eggers
    The Mysterious Howling (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place #1) by Maryrose Wood
    Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Lost Command by W. Haden Blackman (GN)
    The World of Lore: Wicked Mortals by Aaron Mahnke
    The X-Files: Cold Cases (The X-Files (Audible Original) #1) by Joe Harris (AB)
    Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky (AB)
    The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues by Ellen Raskin
    Year Zero by Rob Reid (AB)
    The Hidden Gallery (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place #2) by Maryrose Wood
    Nightbooks by J.A. White
    The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel) by Ellen Raskin
    The Unseen Guest (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place #3) by Maryrose Wood
    The Interrupted Tale (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place #4) by Maryrose Wood
    Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge
    The Unmapped Sea (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place #5) by Maryrose Wood
    The Long-Lost Home (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place #6) by Maryrose Wood
    The Thanos Quest (The Thanos Quest #1-2) by Jim Starlin (GN)
    The Infinity Gauntlet (The Infinity Gauntlet #1-6) by Jim Starlin (GN)
    The Criminal Mastermind of Baker Street by Rob Nunn
    Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
    Sheets by Brenna Thummler (GN)
    Semiosis by Sue Burke
    Marvel's Spider-Man: Hostile Takeover by David Liss
    Bad Faith (The Dragon Lords #3) by Jon Hollins
    Black Bolt, Vol. 1: Hard Time by Saladin Ahmed
    Bird Box by Josh Malerman

83/50 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)
    The Music of Strangers (2015)
    The Big Sick (2017)
    Chronicle (2012)
    Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
    Darkest Hour (2017)
    The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
    The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
    Ready Player One (2018)
    Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)
    Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
    Peter Rabbit (2018)
    Paddington 2 (2017)
    The Greatest Showman (2017)
    Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
    Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
    Solo (2018)
    Annihilation (2018)
    Incredibles 2 (2018)
    The Shape of Water (2017)
    A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
    Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)
    Sherlock Gnomes (2018)
    CHiPS (2017)
    The Equalizer (2014)
    Bubble Boy (2001)
    Beerfest (2006)
    Best in Show (2000)
    Keeping Up with the Joneses (2016)
    Inside Man (2006)
    Mission Impossible 2 (2000)
    Downsizing (2017)
    Collateral Beauty (2016)
    Mission Impossible 3 (2006)
    Teen Wolf (1985)
    Hellboy (2004)
    Star Trek Beyond (2016)
    The Monster Squad (1987)
    Deadpool 2 (2018)
    Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
    Ant-Man & The Wasp (2018)
    Weird Science (1985)
    War on Everyone (2016)
    Inherent Vice (2014)
    It Follows (2014)
    Atomic Blonde (2017)
    Tomb Raider (2017)
    The Stepford Wives (2004)
    Death Becomes Her (1992)
    300: Rise of an Empire (2014)
    Super Troopers 2 (2018)
    The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016)
    Much Ado About Nothing (2012)
    Dragon Warriors (2015)
    Lady in the Water (2006)
    Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
    The Mummy (2017)
    Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
    The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010)
    Apollo 18 (2011)
    Ocean's Eight (2018)
    Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
    Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
    Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
    Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
    In Bruges (2008)
    Hotel Transylvania 3 (2018)
    Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
    Aquaman (2018)
    Early Man (2018)
    Meet the Patels (2014)
    Lion (2016)

War on Everyone was pretty good, you can find it on Netflix. Jurassic World was pretty straightforward and didn't show me anything new or exciting other than wondering how BD Wong keeps getting the nod.

Ralph was well done and surprised me in a few spots.

In Bruges was just brilliant. I mean, sure it was softened a bit with the memification of several key scenes but the only one that was played opposite intent was the scene in the art museum. I was so happy when I saw it as one of the options on the flight this morning. My wife was trying to sleep but I kept laughing and shaking her and the scenes on the screen were not at all helpful as to why I was laughing. I think my favorite parts were the scene when they were talking about the old lollipop man who knew karate and then the two callbacks later in the film where he punches that Canadian lady with the bottle ("Bottle!" *wham*) and when he karate chops the midget, "You don't know karate!"

Oh and "You're an inanimate fucking object!" "I apologize for calling you an inanimate object."

B - I'm sorry I recommended the Sheets book to you. It sounded like what you were asking for a few months ago but after I read it I realized the blurb was hyping the story up just a bit.


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bune wrote:
B - I'm sorry I recommended the Sheets book to you. It sounded like what you were asking for a few months ago but after I read it I realized the blurb was hyping the story up just a bit.


I don't remember you recommending it. Is it a graphic novel? I don't think my kid will read it if it's not. He loves graphic novels about awkward tween girls. I don't know why.

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 Post subject: Re: 2018 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books & 50 Movies in One Year
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It was on goodreads, not here. It's a graphic novel, and there's an awkward teen girl, but there's also a ghost.

Has he read "I Kill Giants"? Because that's an awkward teen girl graphic novel.


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Books 50/50
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
Love Goes To Buildings On Fire - Will Hermes
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Shake It Up: Great American Writing On Rock And Pop From Elvis To Jay-Z - Various Authors (Edited by Jonathan Lethem)
The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Marvel 1602 - Neil Gaiman
Tartuffe - Moliere
Slam - Nick Hornby
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Twilight of the Gods - Steven Hyden
Adjustment Day - Chuck Palahniuk
Dawn - Elie Wiesel
East, West - Salman Rushdie
Salvage The Bones - Jesmyn Ward (best book I've read so far this year)
Milk It - Jim DeRogatis
Barracoon - Zora Neale Hurston
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Go Tell It On The Mountain - James Baldwin
The Complete Stories - Flannery O'Connor
Big Fish - Daniel Wallace
Underworld - Don DeLillo
Player One - Douglas Coupland
Grendel - John Gardner
The Informers - Bret Easton Ellis
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn
The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
Day - Elie Wiesel
You Suck - Christopher Moore
All Our Wrong Todays - Elan Mastai
Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng
The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris
The Night of the Iguana - Tennessee Williams
Fear - Bob Woodward
1989: Bob Dylan Didn't Have This To Sing About - Joshua Clover
Beastie Boys Book - Mike Diamond, Adam Horovitz
Moonglow - Michael Chabon
The Order of the Day - Eric Vuillard

Movies 42/50
Hell Or High Water
Black Panther
Lego Ninjago
Bowie The Last Five Years
Baby Driver
Pitch Perfect 3
Coco
Girls Trip
Isle Of Dogs
Andre The Giant
Lady Bird
Avengers Infinity War
It
Atomic Blonde
Disaster Artist
Fahrenheit 451
Deadpool 2
Three Billboards
I, Tonya
Hereditary
Dunkirk
Kong Skull Island
East of Eden
Fist Fight
The Equalizer 2
Justice League
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
Stripes
Battle of the Sexes
The Magnificent Seven
Chips
Happytime Murders
Away We Go
Ready Player One
The Greatest Showman
Elvis Presley: The Searcher
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Solo: A Star Wars Story
The Grinch (2018)
Taxi Driver
Annihilation
Re-Animator


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Books 51/50
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
Love Goes To Buildings On Fire - Will Hermes
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Shake It Up: Great American Writing On Rock And Pop From Elvis To Jay-Z - Various Authors (Edited by Jonathan Lethem)
The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Marvel 1602 - Neil Gaiman
Tartuffe - Moliere
Slam - Nick Hornby
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Twilight of the Gods - Steven Hyden
Adjustment Day - Chuck Palahniuk
Dawn - Elie Wiesel
East, West - Salman Rushdie
Salvage The Bones - Jesmyn Ward (best book I've read so far this year)
Milk It - Jim DeRogatis
Barracoon - Zora Neale Hurston
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Go Tell It On The Mountain - James Baldwin
The Complete Stories - Flannery O'Connor
Big Fish - Daniel Wallace
Underworld - Don DeLillo
Player One - Douglas Coupland
Grendel - John Gardner
The Informers - Bret Easton Ellis
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn
The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
Day - Elie Wiesel
You Suck - Christopher Moore
All Our Wrong Todays - Elan Mastai
Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng
The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris
The Night of the Iguana - Tennessee Williams
Fear - Bob Woodward
1989: Bob Dylan Didn't Have This To Sing About - Joshua Clover
Beastie Boys Book - Mike Diamond, Adam Horovitz
Moonglow - Michael Chabon
The Order of the Day - Eric Vuillard
Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Movies 47/50
Hell Or High Water
Black Panther
Lego Ninjago
Bowie The Last Five Years
Baby Driver
Pitch Perfect 3
Coco
Girls Trip
Isle Of Dogs
Andre The Giant
Lady Bird
Avengers Infinity War
It
Atomic Blonde
Disaster Artist
Fahrenheit 451
Deadpool 2
Three Billboards
I, Tonya
Hereditary
Dunkirk
Kong Skull Island
East of Eden
Fist Fight
The Equalizer 2
Justice League
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
Stripes
Battle of the Sexes
The Magnificent Seven
Chips
Happytime Murders
Away We Go
Ready Player One
The Greatest Showman
Elvis Presley: The Searcher
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Solo: A Star Wars Story
The Grinch (2018)
Taxi Driver
Annihilation
Re-Animator
Blockers
Split
John Wick Chapter 2
Lynyrd Skynyrd: If I Leave Here Tomorrow
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs


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what did you think about moonglow, mr. champion?

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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
what did you think about moonglow, mr. champion?


I should probably start by saying that I love Chabon's writing. Even when I don't always love the storylines, his prose seems to pull me in.

As for the story itself, I felt certain storylines very compelling, especially any retelling of his grandfather's war experiences. Parts of it slowed significantly at the end, and I definitely rushed a little bit towards the conclusion. The family dynamics at play felt very genuine, and I really liked the way this book was able to express grief and sadness.

Have you read it? Thoughts?


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Stardog Champion wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
what did you think about moonglow, mr. champion?


I should probably start by saying that I love Chabon's writing. Even when I don't always love the storylines, his prose seems to pull me in.

As for the story itself, I felt certain storylines very compelling, especially any retelling of his grandfather's war experiences. Parts of it slowed significantly at the end, and I definitely rushed a little bit towards the conclusion. The family dynamics at play felt very genuine, and I really liked the way this book was able to express grief and sadness.

Have you read it? Thoughts?

yeah i loved it... very engaging and heartfelt

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Books: 24/50:
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
7. Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
8. Crapalachia - Scott McClanahan
9. Exit Ghost - Philip Roth
10. The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin
11. To Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday - Sarah Ruhl
12. Universal Harvester - John Darnielle
13. Paris Nocturne - Patrick Modiano
14. The Cave - Jose Saramago
15. How To Win A War (first draft) - Brady Gerber
16. Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders
17. The Mars Room - Rachel Kushner
18. When Women Were Birds - Terry Tempest Williams
19. Needful Things - Stephen King
20. Adjustment Day - Chuck Palahniuk
21. The Dead Mountaineer's Inn - Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
22. The Changeling- Joy Williams
23. Unsheltered - Barbara Kingsolver
24. The Cloven - Brian Catling

Movies: 35/50:
1. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2. What If
3. Logan
4. The Shape of Water
5. Call Me By Your Name
6. Phantom Thread
7. A Bad Moms Christmas
8. A Ghost Story
9. A Futile and Stupid Gesture
10. Black Panther
11. David Bowie: The Last Five Years
12. Annihilation
13. Girls Trip
14. The House
15. A Quiet Place
16. License to Wed
17. Kodachrome
18. Downsizing
19. Coco
20. Thor: Ragnarok
21. Disobedience
22. Tully
23. Solo: A Star Wars Story
24. Won't You Be My Neighbor?
25. Sorry to Bother You
26. Black Klansman
27. Crazy Rich Asians
28. A Simple Favor
29. A Star is Born (2018)
30. Game Night
31. Border
32. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
33. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
34. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
35. Mary Poppins Returns


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Chabon's on my list for 2019. And I've been promising my brother in law that I'd read the Wheel of Time books for three years now so I gotta fit those in too.

I just have one more book to finish for my Goodreads challenge. I should be able to get it done before the 31st, I'm about halfway through it now.


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bune wrote:
Chabon's on my list for 2019. And I've been promising my brother in law that I'd read the Wheel of Time books for three years now so I gotta fit those in too.

I just have one more book to finish for my Goodreads challenge. I should be able to get it done before the 31st, I'm about halfway through it now.

You can do it!


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Books: 24/50:
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
7. Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
8. Crapalachia - Scott McClanahan
9. Exit Ghost - Philip Roth
10. The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin
11. To Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday - Sarah Ruhl
12. Universal Harvester - John Darnielle
13. Paris Nocturne - Patrick Modiano
14. The Cave - Jose Saramago
15. How To Win A War (first draft) - Brady Gerber
16. Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders
17. The Mars Room - Rachel Kushner
18. When Women Were Birds - Terry Tempest Williams
19. Needful Things - Stephen King
20. Adjustment Day - Chuck Palahniuk
21. The Dead Mountaineer's Inn - Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
22. The Changeling- Joy Williams
23. Unsheltered - Barbara Kingsolver
24. The Cloven - Brian Catling

Movies: 36/50:
1. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2. What If
3. Logan
4. The Shape of Water
5. Call Me By Your Name
6. Phantom Thread
7. A Bad Moms Christmas
8. A Ghost Story
9. A Futile and Stupid Gesture
10. Black Panther
11. David Bowie: The Last Five Years
12. Annihilation
13. Girls Trip
14. The House
15. A Quiet Place
16. License to Wed
17. Kodachrome
18. Downsizing
19. Coco
20. Thor: Ragnarok
21. Disobedience
22. Tully
23. Solo: A Star Wars Story
24. Won't You Be My Neighbor?
25. Sorry to Bother You
26. Black Klansman
27. Crazy Rich Asians
28. A Simple Favor
29. A Star is Born (2018)
30. Game Night
31. Border
32. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
33. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
34. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
35. Mary Poppins Returns
36. The Christmas Chronicles


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You really didn't even come close.


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Nope. But I knew I wouldn't. Especially once I realized I was only movies watched FOR THE FIRST TIME in 2018 were allowed. I watched 50 movies this year but a lot of them were repeat viewings.

There was never a chance I was gonna come close in the book category. I'm actually surprised I got to 24. My Goodreads goal this year was like 14, I think.


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This is actually my post about this on Jan 5th when I decided to participate in this thread/challenge. :lol:

durdencommatyler wrote:
There is zero chance that I'll read 50 books this year. But I'll go ahead and try to keep track of the books I do read here. I might get to 50 movies. But probably not. We'll see.

Books: 1/50: Ernest Hemingway on Writing
Movies: 1/50: The Last Jedi


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OK. Well how about I'll be disappointed in you and you can be happy about this failure?

I'll carry this load for you.


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OK. Well how about I'll be disappointed in you and you can be happy about this failure?

I'll carry this load for you.

What a mensch!


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