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[Nymerio]

Update

Nymerio - 25/50 Books | 7/50 Movies​

Books

• Pattern Recognition (William Gibson)
• The Emperor's Soul (Brandon Sanderson)
• Ship of Fools (Richard Russo)
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Philip K. Dick)
• I Suck at Girls (Justin Halpern)
• Heart-Shaped Box (Joe Hill)
• Game of Cages: A Twenty Palaces Novel (Harry Connolly)
• Circle of Enemies: A Twenty Palaces Novel (Harry Connolly)
• Stormfront (Jim Butcher)
• Fool Moon (Jim Butcher)
• Grave Peril (Jim Butcher)
• Summer Knight (Jim Butcher)
• Death Masks (Jim Butcher)
• Blood Rites (Jim Butcher)
• Dead Beat (Jim Butcher)
• Proven Guilty (Jim Butcher)
• White Night (Jim Butcher)
• Small Favor (Jim Butcher)
• Turn Coat (Jim Butcher)
• Changes (Jim Butcher)
• Ghost Story (Jim Butcher)
• Cold Days (Jim Butcher)
• Legion (Brandon Sanderson)
• The House on the Borderlands (William Hope Hodgson)
• Sweet Silver Blues (Glenn Cook)

Movies

• Stardust
• A Scanner Darkly
• Savages
• Sinister
• Skyfall
• The Hobbit
• Oz the Great and Powerful

 

[Nezumi]

Update:

Nezumi - 16/50 books | 22/50 movies​

Books:

• The novel my husband wrote for NaNoWriMo
• Before they are hanged - Joe Abercrombie
• A betrayel in winter - Daniel Abrahams
• Last Argument of Kings - Joe Abercrombie
• Shadow of the Torturer - Gene Wolfe
• The great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
• Nero Corleone kehrt zurück - Elke Heidenreich
• An Autumn War - Daniel Abraham
• Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
• The wonderful wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
• Sabriel - Garth Nix
• The Price of Spring - Daniel Abraham
• Ensel und Krete - Walter Moers
• Solange der Haifisch schläft - Milena Agus
• Lirael - Garth Nix

Movies:

• Brick
• Inspector General
• Indie Game the Movie
• Ijon Tichy - Raumpilot Season 2
• Moonrise Kingdom
• Chronicle
• Prometheus
• Speed Racer
• Brave
• The Cabin in the Woods
• Fitzcarraldo
• Eraserhead
• Seven Samurai
• Fire walk with me
• Sherlock: The Great Game
• Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia
• Sherlock:The Hounds of Baskerville
• Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall
• The Intouchables
• Looper
• A town called Panic
• Road to El Dorado

 

[Don]

UPDATE

Don - 5/50 Books | 43/50 Movies​

Books

• 1984 - George Orwell
• A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
• Life of Pi - Yann Martel
• A Feast for Crows - George R. R. Martin
• Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone - J. K. Rowling

Movies

• The Loved Ones
• Taxi Driver
• 30 Minutes or Less
• Big Trouble in Little China
• Martha Marcy May Marlene
• The Roommate
• Army of Darkness
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
• Texas Chainsaw 3D
• Collateral
• Shinjuku Incident
• Apocalypse Now
• Les Misérables
• Mission: Impossible II
• Mission: Impossible III
• The Abyss
• Contagion
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• Source Code
• The Descendants
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• Black Hawk Down
• The Untouchables
• The Incredible Hulk
• Iron Man 2
• Avengers Assemble
• Blue Valentine
• Jeff, Who Lives at Home
• J. Edgar
• John Carter
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Black Snake Moan
• Chronicle
• (500) Days of Summer
• There Will Be Blood
• For a Few Dollars More
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
• Let Me In
• The Island
• The Amazing Spider-Man
• Grave of the Fireflies
• Ratatouille

 

[Tragicomedy]

I love Hitchhiker's but found that most people I know who didn't happen upon the book organically tend to hear the praise heaped upon it and end up less than enthralled. The same thing seems to apply to Monty Python and to a lesser extent, Dr. Who, so I think it's probably something we can blame the Brits for.


Still, I'd feel better about your review if you didn't also give Ready Player One five stars, you rat bastard.

You're exactly right...I came in with ridiculously high expectations. All in all, at three stars I thought it was an enjoyable read. It just didn't blow me away like I hoped it would. I'll still give at least one of the sequels a chance to see if it clicks with me better.

 

[W1SSY]

W1SSY - 8/50 Books | 20/50 Movies

Books

• Wool: Book 1 by Hugh Howey
• Wool: Book 2 by Hugh Howey
• Wool: Book 3 by Hugh Howey
• Wool: Book 4 by Hugh Howey
• Wool: Book 5 by Hugh Howey
• Y: The Last Man by Brian Vaughan (Graphic Novel 60 Issues)
• The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
• A Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rithfuss

Movies

• Battle Royale
• Gasland
• Tetris: from Russia with Love
• Full Metal Jacket
• Zero Dark Thirty
• Expendables 2
• Django Unchained
• Freakonomics
• Snatch
• Catfish
• Buried
• Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters
• Dredd
• X-Men: First Class
• 54
• Craigslist Joe
• Some food documentary
• Wreck It Ralph
• Argo
• Heavy Weights

I got through the second book by Rothfuss and really enjoyed it. I don't see myself getting through all the books unless I can continue the pace that I am currently on. Now I need to find the next book to start because Rothfuss is still working on the next book in the series.

 

[Tragicomedy]

New book:

[*] The Convert by Oliver Broudy. ★★ -- A look into the life of a burn victim who eventually comes to convert from Atheism to Christianity. The protagonist is interesting, but the author gets bogged down with weak religious analogies and his own poor writing skills.

 

[C.Dark.DN]

DeathNote - 3/50 Books | ?/50 Movies

If I can't remember the movies I watched this year I'll start at 0.

 

[Nezumi]

Update:

Nezumi - 17/50 books | 23/50 movies​

Books:

• The novel my husband wrote for NaNoWriMo
• Before they are hanged - Joe Abercrombie
• A betrayel in winter - Daniel Abrahams
• Last Argument of Kings - Joe Abercrombie
• Shadow of the Torturer - Gene Wolfe
• The great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
• Nero Corleone kehrt zurück - Elke Heidenreich
• An Autumn War - Daniel Abraham
• Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
• The wonderful wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
• Sabriel - Garth Nix
• The Price of Spring - Daniel Abraham
• Ensel und Krete - Walter Moers
• Solange der Haifisch schläft - Milena Agus
• Lirael - Garth Nix
• The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Book One - Bill Watterson

Movies:

• Brick
• Inspector General
• Indie Game the Movie
• Ijon Tichy - Raumpilot Season 2
• Moonrise Kingdom
• Chronicle
• Prometheus
• Speed Racer
• Brave
• The Cabin in the Woods
• Fitzcarraldo
• Eraserhead
• Seven Samurai
• Fire walk with me
• Sherlock: The Great Game
• Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia
• Sherlock:The Hounds of Baskerville
• Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall
• The Intouchables
• Looper
• A town called Panic
• Road to El Dorado
• The Dark Knight Rises

Well, I guess there is nothing much to say about Calvin and Hobbes. It is timeless and perfect. I really enjoy the complete edition. Those books are massive though and reading for more than an hour makes my arms cramp up

The Dark Knight Rises was... not as bad as I thought it would be, but still pretty bad.

 

[Atrophis]

Atrophis - 4/50 Books | 25/50 Movies

Movies

1. Up (3/5, watched 01/01)
2. We Need To Talk About Kevin (4/5, watched 02/01)
3. Deadgirl (2/5, watched 03/01)
4. Jiro Dreams of Sushi (4/5, watched 03/01)
5. Stake Land (4/5, watched 04/01)
6. Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan (3/5, watched 04/01)
7. The Grey (3/5, watched 04/01)
8. Accident (3/5, watched 18/01)
9. Dreams of a Life (3/5, watched 08/02)
10. Rebecca (4/5, watched 14/02)
11. The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey (4/5, watched 06/03)
12. Velvet Goldmine (3/5, watched 09/03)
13. Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (3/5, watched 16/03)
14. Indie Game: The Movie (3/5, watched 17/03)
15. Django Unchained (5/5, watched 29/03)
16. Cloud Atlas (5/5, watched 31/03)
17. The Master (5/5, watched 01/04)
18. Holy Motors (2/5, watched 05/04)
19. Dredd (3/5, watched 11/04)
20. The Raid (4/5, watched 12/04)
21. Armadillo (4/5, watched 12/04)
22. The Devil Came on Horseback (3/5, watched 13/04)
23. Immortals (2/5, watched 13/04)
24. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (3/5, watched 14/04)
25. Kill List (4/5, watched 18/04)

Books

1. Haunted - James Herbert (2/5, started 04/01 - finished 06/01)
2. Perdido Street Station - China Mieville (4/5, started 06/01 - finished 12/02)
3. Starman: David Bowie - The Definitive Biography - Paul Trynka (4/5, started 13/02 - finished 06/04)
4. Generation Kill - Evan Wright (4/5, started 07/04 - finished 13/04)
5. Blind Descent - James M. Tabor (started 14/04)

Bonus Round

9/?? TV

1. Star Trek: Deep Space 9 - series 3
2. Silent Witness - series 16
3. Utopia
4. Black Mirror - series 2
5. The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret - series 1
6. Enterprise - series 2
7. The Walking Dead - series 3
8. Spartacus: War of the Damned
9. Star Trek: Deep Space 9 - series 4

5/?? Games

1. Spec Ops: The Line
2. Uncharted 2
3. Assassins Creed 2
4. Binary Domain
5. Thirty Flights of Loving

 

[Azrael]

Azrael - 12/50 books | 56/50 movies

Books

1. The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett ★★★★
2. The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett ★★★★
3. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain ★★★
4. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer ★★★★
5.-6. Fear and Loathing in America (Gonzo Letters) by Hunter S. Thompson ★★★
7. Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban ★★★★★
8. Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr. ★★★★
9.-10. The Passage by Justin Cronin ★★★
11. Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut ★★★★
12. The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine ★★★★

Movies

1. Rango ★★★
2. Hell is for Heroes ★★★
3. Barton Fink ★★
4. Rope ★★★★
5. How to Train Your Dragon ★★★
6. The Trouble With Harry ★★★★
7. Beasts of the Southern Wild ★★★
8. Thirteen Assassins (2011) ★★
9. The Dhamma Brothers ★★
10. Jack Taylor: The Pikemen ★★
11. Jack Taylor: The Magdalen Martyrs ★★
12. Jack Taylor: The Dramatist ★★
13. Jack Taylor: Priest ★★
14. Sharpe's Eagle ★★
15. The Seventh Seal ★★
16. Zero Dark Thirty ★★★
17. Kill List ★★
18. Harakiri (1963) ★★★★★
19. Death at a Funeral (2007) ★★★
20. Shadow of a Doubt ★★★
21. Beware of Mr. Baker ★★★
22. Synecdoche, New York ★★
23. The Snowtown Murders ★★
24. Astral City: A Spiritual Journey ★
25. Sanjuro ★★★★
26. Side Effects ★★★★
27. The Princess and the Frog ★★★
28. Beautiful Creatures ★★
29. Brewster's Millions (1945) ★★
30. Oslo, August 31st ★★
31. The Anna Nicole Story ★
32. V for Vendetta ★★
33. The Birds ★★★
34. Flight ★★★
35. Robot and Frank ★★★
36. I Sell The Dead ★★★
37. Down Terrace ★★★
38. Uncommon Valor ★★
39. The Hounds ★
40. End of Watch ★★★★
41. Oz: The Great and Powerful ★★
42. The Master ★★
43. The Sessions ★★★★
44. A Simple Life ★★★★★
45. Ray ★★★★
46. Dredd ★★★
47. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia ★★
48. Samurai Rebellion ★★★★
49. Black Death ★★★
50. Bronson ★★★★
51. Gone With The Wind ★★★★
52. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) ★★★
53. Pom Poko ★★★★
54. Napoleon Dynamite ★★★
55. North by Northwest ★★★
56. My Life as a Dog ★★★★★

 

[Wok]

UPDATE

Wok - 4/50 books | 6/50 movies+​

Books​

• Alessandro Baricco, Emmaüs, 2012. (144 pages, ISBN-13: 9782070131709) ★★★★½
• Yann & Roman Surzhenko, Les Trois Soeurs Minkelsönn (T1), 2013. (48 pages, ISBN-13: 9782803631308) ★★★½
• Denis Le Bihan, Le cerveau de cristal ; ce que nous révèle la neuro-imagerie, 2012. (220 pages, ISBN-13: 9782738125279) ★★★★
• Yann & Roman Surzhenko, Le Royaume du chaos (T3), 2013. (48 pages, ISBN-13: 9782803631964) ★★★

Movies​

• Alice Bissonnet, Aloyse Desoubries-Binet, Sandrine Han Jin Kuang, Juliette Laurent, Sophie Markatatos, In-Between, 2012. (3 min 05 s, Youtube) ★★★½
• Simon Klose, TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard, 2013. (1 h 22 min) ★★★½
• Claude Zidi, L'Aile ou la cuisse, 1976. (1 h 44 min) ★★★½
• Bruno Bozzetto, Yes & No, 2001. (4 min, Youtube) ★★★
• Malik Bendjelloul, Searching for Sugar Man, 2012. (1h 26 min) ★★★
• Pier Paolo Pasolini, Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo, 1964. (2h 17 min) ★★★★★

 

[BrokenEchelon]

I read 'Salem's Lot in one sitting, out loud last night while my girlfriend listened. I think we went to bed at like 4AM. It was a fun evening. It was actually my first King novel, having only read some of his short stories prior to this. (I've seen like every movie adaptation of his works though)

 

[Tater Tot]

BOOKS

Its so Easy - Duff McKagan (4/12/2013)
Choke - Chuck Palahniuk (4/13/2013)
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk (4/20/2013)
]Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk (4/23/2013)
The catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger (6/9/2013)
The great gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald (7/10/2013)

 

[cicero]

Can I still get in on this thread or is it too late? I already keep lists of the books and movies I read and watch.

 

[Tragicomedy]

New movie:

[*] Undefeated. ★★★★★ -- This is the single best sports movie I've ever watched. Follows the struggles and successes of an inner city football team in Memphis as they fight towards a winning record and the playoffs. It touches on everything from character and perseverance to race relations and paternal love. It's on Netflix and is a must see in my opinion.

 

[daydream]

Reposting for the first time. I'm doing well so far.

daydreaming | 23/50 Books | 17/50 Movies

Edit: New post!

 

[Illithid Dude]

Illithid Dude -4/50 books | 48/50 movies

Movies:

Killer Joe
The Frighteners
Primer
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Extended Edition
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Django Unchained
Leon: The Professional
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King Extended Edition
Dazed and Confused
Charade
Dark City
Orpheus
Sunset Boulevard
The Innkeepers
Chungking Express
Mean Streets
Act of Valor
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
The Sweet Smell of Success
Kingdom of Heaven: Directors Cut
Night of the Hunter
Kiss Me Deadly
The Royal Tenebaums
Battle of Algiers
Purple Noon
Dances with Wolves
Stoker
Thirst
Election
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
Collateral
Brothers Bloom
Catch Me If You Can
Swingers
Bringing Out the Dead
The Long Goodbye
Evil Dead 2
Jack and Jill
Rain Man
Evil Dead (2013)
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Idiocracy
Mother
The Place Beyond the Pines
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Eyes Wide Shut
Almost Famous

Books:

Catcher in the Rye
Hot Pink
Towards a New Architecture
The City of Tomorrow and it's Planning

 

[LuffyZoro]

LuffyZoro - 16/50 Books | 21/50 Movies

Books

• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (A-)
• Shadow Show (B+)
• The Rapture of the Nerds (A)
• Wool - Part One (B)
• Nebula Awards Showcase 2012 (A-)
• Ready Player One (A++)
• The Windup Girl (A)
• Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea (B)
• Deathworld (B)
• Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2012 (B+)
• Stuff White People Like (B-)
• The Eyre Affair (A-)
  [*]Across The Universe (A-)
  [*]The Sacrifice and Other Steam-Powered Stories (A-)
  [*]Superman: Red Sun (A)
  [*]Secret Identity (A-)

Movies

• Brave (A-)
• Bruce Almighty (A)
• Chronicle (B)
• Dr. Strangelove (B)
• Minority Report (B+)
• Paranorman (A-)
• American Pop (C+)
• The Color of Magic: Night 1 (B+)
• The Color of Magic: Night 2 (B)
• Limitless (A)
• Stardust (A+)
• All Star Superman (A)
• Batman: Year One (B)
• The Muppet Movie (A-)
• Atlantis: The Lost Empire (B+)
  [*]The Pirates! Band of Misfits (A+)
  [*]Lilo & Stich (A-)
  [*]High School Musical 2 (C-)
  [*]Les Miserables (B+)
  [*]Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (A)
  [*]The Princess and the Frog (A-)
  

 

[Tragicomedy]

• Superman: Red Sun (A)
• Secret Identity (A-)

My two favorite Superman comics. Glad you liked them.

 

[Tragicomedy]

New movie:

[*] John Carter. ★★★ -- Fun summer popcorn type movie. Some cheesy dialogue and acting, but that's to be expected. Riggins as John Carter was not the most inspired choice, but outside of FNL I doubt he ever will be.

 

[Nymerio]

Update

Nymerio - 28/50 Books | 9/50 Movies​

Books

• Pattern Recognition (William Gibson)
• The Emperor's Soul (Brandon Sanderson)
• Ship of Fools (Richard Russo)
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Philip K. Dick)
• I Suck at Girls (Justin Halpern)
• Heart-Shaped Box (Joe Hill)
• Game of Cages: A Twenty Palaces Novel (Harry Connolly)
• Circle of Enemies: A Twenty Palaces Novel (Harry Connolly)
• Stormfront (Jim Butcher)
• Fool Moon (Jim Butcher)
• Grave Peril (Jim Butcher)
• Summer Knight (Jim Butcher)
• Death Masks (Jim Butcher)
• Blood Rites (Jim Butcher)
• Dead Beat (Jim Butcher)
• Proven Guilty (Jim Butcher)
• White Night (Jim Butcher)
• Small Favor (Jim Butcher)
• Turn Coat (Jim Butcher)
• Changes (Jim Butcher)
• Ghost Story (Jim Butcher)
• Cold Days (Jim Butcher)
• Legion (Brandon Sanderson)
• The House on the Borderlands (William Hope Hodgson)
• Sweet Silver Blues (Glenn Cook)
• Redshirts (John Scalzi)
• Bitter Gold Hearts (Glenn Cook)
• Cold Copper Tears (Glenn Cook)

Movies

• Stardust
• A Scanner Darkly
• Savages
• Sinister
• Skyfall
• The Hobbit
• Oz the Great and Powerful
• Wreckit Ralph
• Man with the Iron Fists

I really need to work on my movie list. Man with the Iron Fists was so bad though I can't bring myself to watch anything else at the moment :/

 

[Nezumi]

Update:

Nezumi - 17/50 books | 24/50 movies​

Books:

• The novel my husband wrote for NaNoWriMo
• Before they are hanged - Joe Abercrombie
• A betrayel in winter - Daniel Abrahams
• Last Argument of Kings - Joe Abercrombie
• Shadow of the Torturer - Gene Wolfe
• The great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
• Nero Corleone kehrt zurück - Elke Heidenreich
• An Autumn War - Daniel Abraham
• Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
• The wonderful wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
• Sabriel - Garth Nix
• The Price of Spring - Daniel Abraham
• Ensel und Krete - Walter Moers
• Solange der Haifisch schläft - Milena Agus
• Lirael - Garth Nix
• The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Book One - Bill Watterson

Movies:

• Brick
• Inspector General
• Indie Game the Movie
• Ijon Tichy - Raumpilot Season 2
• Moonrise Kingdom
• Chronicle
• Prometheus
• Speed Racer
• Brave
• The Cabin in the Woods
• Fitzcarraldo
• Eraserhead
• Seven Samurai
• Fire walk with me
• Sherlock: The Great Game
• Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia
• Sherlock:The Hounds of Baskerville
• Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall
• The Intouchables
• Looper
• A town called Panic
• Road to El Dorado
• The Dark Knight Rises
• The Raid

I guess the movie was OK. The action was solid, even though a lot of the shots looked a bit too much like music videos for me and I thought it was maybe too brutal at some times. I also didn't get what happend at the end but the story was thin as hell anyway.

 

[Baconsaurus Rex]

Baconsaurus Rex - 9/50 Books | 29/50 Movies​

Books

• World of the Incredible but True by Charles Berlitz
• Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• World of the Odd and the Awesome by Charles Berlitz
• Franken Fran Vol. 1-8 by Katsuhisa Kigitsu
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Cable & Deadpool #1-6
• Deadpool #1-7
• Oyasumi Punpun Vol. 1-11 by Asano Inio
• The Walking Dead #104-109
• Hawkeye #1-9

Movies

1. Contact (1997)
2. Minority Report (2002)
3. Eden of the East I: The King of Eden (2009)
4. The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
5. Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (2007)
6. The Sky Crawlers (2008)
7. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
8. The Hurt Locker (2008)
9. Seven Psychopaths (2012)
10. Dredd 3D (2012)
11. Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
12. Looper (2012)
13. Eden of the East the East II: Paradise Lost (2010)
14. Ivan's Childhood (1962)
15. The Fall (2006)
16. Control (2007)
17. Blood: The Last Vampire (2000)
18. Vals im Bashir (2008)
19. Forbidden Planet (1956)
20. The Raid: Redemption (2011)
21. Chunking Express (1994)
22. Go-ji-jeon (2011)
23. Argo (2012)
24. Doomsday Book (2012)
25. Incendies (2010)
26. Exit Through the Gift shop (2010)
27. Dawn of the Dead (2004)
28. Shaolin Soccer (2001)
29. Modern Times (1936)

 

[Maklershed]

Maklershed - 19/50 books | 32/50 movies

New stuff in bold...

Books
1. The Heroes
2. The Dispossessed
3. In the Garden of Beasts
4. Foundation
5. Foundation and Empire
6. Second Foundation
7. Wilderness: A Novel
8. Foundation's Edge
9. Foundation and Earth
10. Make Room! Make Room!
11. Dune Messiah
12. Raised Eyebrows
13. Red Country
14. L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories
15. The Big Sleep
16. Farewell, My Lovely
---
17. The Black Dahlia
18. The Big Nowhere
19. Masters of Doom


Movies
1. Dredd
2. The Dark Knight Rises
3. Headhunters
4. Chronicle
5. The Hunger Games
6. Wrath of the Titans
7. Quantum of Solace
8. The Immortals
9. Skyfall
10. Margin Call
11. Shooter
12. The Naked City
13. The Maltese Falcon
14. Reservoir Dogs
15. The Warriors
16. Double Indemnity
17. Lawless
18. Once Upon a Time in the West
19. A Night in Casablanca
20. Go West
21. In the Name of the King
22. Duck Soup
23. Murder, My Sweet
24. They Drive By Night
25. Gun Crazy
26. Gigli
27. Season of the Witch
28. Trespass
29. Drive Angry
---
30. Born to Kill
31. End of Watch
32. The Asphalt Jungle


Games
1. Borderlands 2
2. Heavy Rain
3. Far Cry 3
4. Ghost Recon: Future Soldier

 

[Tragicomedy]

New movie:

[*] Zero Dark Thirty. ★★★★½ -- Basically two separate films, each wonderful in its own way. The intelligence gathering/analytical manhunt was my favorite, as it closely mirrors my line of work. There were some clear embellishments, but Bigelow took the time to get an accurate portrayal of what went down. The actual raid sequence was intense, action packed, and made it a point to not glorify the act of killing. Some great minor characters in the film top complement the excellent lead actress.

 

[Azrael]

Azrael - 13/50 books | 59/50 movies

Books

1. The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett ★★★★
2. The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett ★★★★
3. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain ★★★
4. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer ★★★★
5.-6. Fear and Loathing in America (Gonzo Letters) by Hunter S. Thompson ★★★
7. Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban ★★★★★
8. Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr. ★★★★
9.-10. The Passage by Justin Cronin ★★★
11. Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut ★★★★
12. The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine ★★★★
13. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy ★★★★★

Movies

1. Rango ★★★
2. Hell is for Heroes ★★★
3. Barton Fink ★★
4. Rope ★★★★
5. How to Train Your Dragon ★★★
6. The Trouble With Harry ★★★★
7. Beasts of the Southern Wild ★★★
8. Thirteen Assassins (2011) ★★
9. The Dhamma Brothers ★★
10. Jack Taylor: The Pikemen ★★
11. Jack Taylor: The Magdalen Martyrs ★★
12. Jack Taylor: The Dramatist ★★
13. Jack Taylor: Priest ★★
14. Sharpe's Eagle ★★
15. The Seventh Seal ★★
16. Zero Dark Thirty ★★★
17. Kill List ★★
18. Harakiri (1963) ★★★★★
19. Death at a Funeral (2007) ★★★
20. Shadow of a Doubt ★★★
21. Beware of Mr. Baker ★★★
22. Synecdoche, New York ★★
23. The Snowtown Murders ★★
24. Astral City: A Spiritual Journey ★
25. Sanjuro ★★★★
26. Side Effects ★★★★
27. The Princess and the Frog ★★★
28. Beautiful Creatures ★★
29. Brewster's Millions (1945) ★★
30. Oslo, August 31st ★★
31. The Anna Nicole Story ★
32. V for Vendetta ★★
33. The Birds ★★★
34. Flight ★★★
35. Robot and Frank ★★★
36. I Sell The Dead ★★★
37. Down Terrace ★★★
38. Uncommon Valor ★★
39. The Hounds ★
40. End of Watch ★★★★
41. Oz: The Great and Powerful ★★
42. The Master ★★
43. The Sessions ★★★★
44. A Simple Life ★★★★★
45. Ray ★★★★
46. Dredd ★★★
47. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia ★★
48. Samurai Rebellion ★★★★
49. Black Death ★★★
50. Bronson ★★★★
51. Gone With The Wind ★★★★
52. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) ★★★
53. Pom Poko ★★★★
54. Napoleon Dynamite ★★★
55. North by Northwest ★★★
56. My Life as a Dog ★★★★★
57. Jiro Dreams of Sushi ★★★
58. Where the Buffalo Roam ★★
59. The Color of Magic ★★★

I was a little disappointed with Jiro Dreams of Sushi. It is a good documentary, with wonderful cinematography of the craft of preparing sushi. But the problem I had with it is such a single-minded dedication of a life to doing one thing and doing it really well, to the complete neglect of everything else life has to offer, is more sad than admirable or inspirational.

 

[Forsaken82]

Another update

Forsaken82 – 4/50 Books | 25/50 Movies

Books:
A Dance with Dragons
The Road
Gone Girl
Wool Book 1

Movies:
Looper
V/H/S
American Reunion
Dredd
This Means War
Wrath of the Titans
Mindhunters
Dream House
Thats My Boy
The Ring 2
The Thing (2011)
Project X (2012)
Paranormal Activity 3
Men In Black 3
Wanderlust
Rock of Ages
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Silent Hill: Revelations
Snow White and the Huntsman
Paranormal Activity 4 Ok... can this series just die already?
GI Joe: Retaliation
The Campaign
Resident Evil: Retribution
Zero Dark Thirty
Compliance

 

[Teptom]

Update

Teptom - 15/50 Books | 17/50 Movies​

Books

• Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders
• Pyramids by Terry Pratchett
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum
  [*]Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction by Kurt Vonnegut
  [*]Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
  [*]Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
  [*]Alone Against Tomorrow: Stories of Alienation in Speculative Fiction by Harlan Ellison
  [*]The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
  [*]The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

Movies

• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• Django Unchained
• The Muppet Movie
• High and Low
• City Lights
• The Circus
• Malibu Express
• Seven Samurai
• Modern Times
• The Kid
• The Seventh Seal
• The Great Dictator
• The Hidden Fortress
• Wild Strawberries
• Wreak-It-Ralph
  [*]Argo
  [*]Skyfall

 

[Nymerio]

Update

Nymerio - 31/50 Books | 9/50 Movies​

Books

• Pattern Recognition (William Gibson)
• The Emperor's Soul (Brandon Sanderson)
• Ship of Fools (Richard Russo)
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Philip K. Dick)
• I Suck at Girls (Justin Halpern)
• Heart-Shaped Box (Joe Hill)
• Game of Cages: A Twenty Palaces Novel (Harry Connolly)
• Circle of Enemies: A Twenty Palaces Novel (Harry Connolly)
• Stormfront (Jim Butcher)
• Fool Moon (Jim Butcher)
• Grave Peril (Jim Butcher)
• Summer Knight (Jim Butcher)
• Death Masks (Jim Butcher)
• Blood Rites (Jim Butcher)
• Dead Beat (Jim Butcher)
• Proven Guilty (Jim Butcher)
• White Night (Jim Butcher)
• Small Favor (Jim Butcher)
• Turn Coat (Jim Butcher)
• Changes (Jim Butcher)
• Ghost Story (Jim Butcher)
• Cold Days (Jim Butcher)
• Legion (Brandon Sanderson)
• The House on the Borderlands (William Hope Hodgson)
• Sweet Silver Blues (Glenn Cook)
• Redshirts (John Scalzi)
• Bitter Gold Hearts (Glenn Cook)
• Cold Copper Tears (Glenn Cook)
• Old Tin Sorrows (Glenn Cook)
• Dread Brass Shadows (Glenn Cook)
• Red Iron Nights (Glenn Cook)

Movies

• Stardust
• A Scanner Darkly
• Savages
• Sinister
• Skyfall
• The Hobbit
• Oz the Great and Powerful
• Wreckit Ralph
• Man with the Iron Fists

Garrett P.I. series is amazing, I'm pleasantly surprised.

 

[grumpy]

UPDATED 23/04/2013

grumpy - 16/50 Books | 17/50 Movies

Books

1. Stephen King - Everything's Eventual
2. Stephen King - Cell
3. Dan Simmons - Hyperion
4. Dan Simmons - The Fall of Hyperion
5. Stephen King - Misery
6. Stephen King - The Dark Half
7. Stephen King - Lisey's Story
8. Dan Simmons - Endymion
9. Dan Simmons - The Rise of Endymion
10. Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic
11. Terry Pratchett - The Light Fantastic
12. Terry Pratchett - Equal Rites
13. Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves
14. Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games
15. Suzanne Collins - Catching Fire
16. Suzanne Collins - Mockingjay
    

Movies

1. Cabin in the woods
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
4. Paranormal Activity 4
5. Silent Hill Revelation
6. Bitch Slap
7. Black Swan
8. The Avengers
9. Grave Encounters
10. Grave Encounters 2
11. Twilight
12. New Moon
13. Eclipse
14. Breaking Dawn - Part 1
15. Breaking Dawn - Part 2
16. The Dark Knight Rises
17. The Hunger Games

 

[Tragicomedy]

New movie:

[*] 48 Hours. ★½ -- Guess I'm 20+ years late to the party on this one. So awful. Blatant 80s racism as humor elements, no plot to speak of, Nolte was trash, and Murphy wasn't funny. Not sure I'll make it through the sequel.

 

[Squirrel Killer]

Just got to 50 movies, odd thing is that I had said I was going to concentrate on re-watching movies that I liked this year, but not a single one of these is a re-watched movie. Books, not nearly so far...

Squirrel Killer - 3/50 Books | 50/50 Movies

Books

1. The Art of Racing in the Rain (2008) - Garth Stein ★★★★
2. Wool (Omnibus) (2012) - Hugh Howey ★★★
3. The Last Policeman (2012) - Ben H. Winters (in progress)

Notes: Not counting King Lear since I started it last year and because it's a play.


Movies

1. Limitless (2011) ★★★
2. Brave (2012) ★★★
3. The Ice Storm (1997) ★★★
4. In the Mood for Love (2000) ★★★★
5. Melancholia (2011) ★★★★
6. Hanna (2011) ★★★★
7. Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) ★★★★
8. Three Colors: Red (1994) ★★★★
9. 3-Iron (2004) ★★★★★
10. The Hangover Part II (2011) ★★
11. Synecdoche, New York (2008) ★★★
12. 50/50 (2011) ★★★★
13. The Five-Year Engagement (2012) ★★★
14. Silver Linings Playbook (2012) ★★★★
15. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) ★★★
16. The Dark Knight Rises (2012) ★★★★
17. Baby Mama (2008) ★★
18. Bridesmaids (2011) ★★★
19. Requiem for a Dream (2000) ★★★★★
20. Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) ★★★★★
21. Sita Sings the Blues (2008) ★★★
22. Win Win (2011) ★★★★★
23. The Sacrifice (1986) ★★★
24. Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) ★
25. The Avengers (2012) ★
26. A Night at the Opera (1935) ★★★
27. As You Like It (2006) ★★★★
28. Super 8 (2011) ★★★
29. The Cabin in the Woods (2012) ★★★★
30. The Giant Mechanical Man (2012) ★★★★
31. The Forgotten (2004) ★
32. The Winning Season (2009) ★★
33. Le Cercle rouge (1970) ★★★
34. Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) ★★★
35. I Am Number Four (2011) ★
36. The Social Network (2010) ★★★
37. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) ★★★★
38. Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) ★★
39. Secret Sunshine (2007) ★★★
40. Constantine (2005) ★★
41. Prometheus (2012) ★★
42. Your Sister's Sister (2012) ★★★
43. Elizabethtown (2005) ★
44. Intolerable Cruelty (2003) ★★★
45. Little Miss Sunshine (2006) ★★★
46. Killer Joe (2011) ★★★★
47. Haywire (2011) ★★★
48. The Green Hornet (2011) ★
49. You Only Live Twice (1967) ★
50. The Grey (2012) ★★★★

Notes: The Tree of Life is next on tap, but then I think I'm going to do a Wes Anderson marathon (all of which would be re-watches.)

 

[Wok]

UPDATE

Wok - 4/50 books | 7/50 movies+​

Books​

• Alessandro Baricco, Emmaüs, 2012. (144 pages, ISBN-13: 9782070131709) ★★★★½
• Yann & Roman Surzhenko, Les Trois Soeurs Minkelsönn (T1), 2013. (48 pages, ISBN-13: 9782803631308) ★★★½
• Denis Le Bihan, Le cerveau de cristal ; ce que nous révèle la neuro-imagerie, 2012. (220 pages, ISBN-13: 9782738125279) ★★★★
• Yann & Roman Surzhenko, Le Royaume du chaos (T3), 2013. (48 pages, ISBN-13: 9782803631964) ★★★

Movies​

• Alice Bissonnet, Aloyse Desoubries-Binet, Sandrine Han Jin Kuang, Juliette Laurent, Sophie Markatatos, In-Between, 2012. (3 min 05 s, Youtube) ★★★½
• Simon Klose, TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard, 2013. (1 h 22 min) ★★★½
• Claude Zidi, L'Aile ou la cuisse, 1976. (1 h 44 min) ★★★½
• Bruno Bozzetto, Yes & No, 2001. (4 min, Youtube) ★★★
• Malik Bendjelloul, Searching for Sugar Man, 2012. (1h 26 min) ★★★
• Pier Paolo Pasolini, Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo, 1964. (2h 17 min) ★★★★★
• Bernard Stora, La Dernière campagne, 2013. (1h 45 min) ★★★

 

[Tragicomedy]

Notes: Not counting King Lear since I started it last year and because it's a play.

Per the FAQ:

5) What if I’ve read a few pages or seen a few clips of a movie already?
As long as more than half (50%) of it is new to you, you’re good to go – count it!

So unless you were over 50% done with King Lear in 2012, I'd definitely count it. There's nothing against counting a play, either.

 

[white dynamite]

Movies
1. Sleepwalk With Me
2. Moonrise Kingdom
3. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
4. Argo
5. Crazy, Stupid, Love
6. Wreck It Ralph
7. High Fidelity
8. Head Over Heels
9. Ruby Sparks

Books
1. Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain
2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

 

[Nezumi]

Update:

Nezumi - 18/50 books | 26/50 movies​

Books:

• The novel my husband wrote for NaNoWriMo
• Before they are hanged - Joe Abercrombie
• A betrayel in winter - Daniel Abrahams
• Last Argument of Kings - Joe Abercrombie
• Shadow of the Torturer - Gene Wolfe
• The great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
• Nero Corleone kehrt zurück - Elke Heidenreich
• An Autumn War - Daniel Abraham
• Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
• The wonderful wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
• Sabriel - Garth Nix
• The Price of Spring - Daniel Abraham
• Ensel und Krete - Walter Moers
• Solange der Haifisch schläft - Milena Agus
• Lirael - Garth Nix
• The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Book One - Bill Watterson
• Unrast - Olga Tokarczuk

Movies:

• Brick
• Inspector General
• Indie Game the Movie
• Ijon Tichy - Raumpilot Season 2
• Moonrise Kingdom
• Chronicle
• Prometheus
• Speed Racer
• Brave
• The Cabin in the Woods
• Fitzcarraldo
• Eraserhead
• Seven Samurai
• Fire walk with me
• Sherlock: The Great Game
• Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia
• Sherlock:The Hounds of Baskerville
• Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall
• The Intouchables
• Looper
• A town called Panic
• Road to El Dorado
• The Dark Knight Rises
• The Raid
• Stalker
• The Princess Bride

Now that I finally managed to finish the Tokarczuk book I hope I can catch up with my reading again. With 18 books in 17 weeks I'm still good but there are some books that I really want to re-read and I might need a bigger cushion than that... maybe I just go for some more OZ books, since they are rather short...

Stalker was OK I guess. I just thought that the whole philosophy behind it was a bit forced. I absolutely loved Princess Bride. I can't believe ever never saw it before. I could see my younger self having a total crush on Wesley

 

[Azrael]

I'm just going to follow Tragicomedy's example and only include new books and movies with my weekly updates from now on. My lists are getting too long.

Azrael - 14/50 books | 64/50 movies

Books

14. Journey Back to Eden: My Life And Times Among the Desert Fathers by Mark Gruber ★★★★

Movies

60. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ★★
61. Thor ★★
62. You Only Live Once ★★★
63. Amelie ★★★★
64. Moneyball ★★★★

Journey Back to Eden is an unusual choice for me. It is the spiritual journal of a Benedictine monk, who happens to be a former professor of mine, who spent a year in Egypt living among the Copts for his dissertation in anthropology. It's probably of no interest to anyone here, but as an old acquaintance his recollections from Egypt were fascinating to me.

If it weren't for Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, which is the most boring film I have ever sat through, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy would have been the most boring film I've seen all year. It's got a fantastic cast of British actors with Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Toby Jones, Ciaran Hinds, and Tom Hardy, and received high reviews, so I was extremely disappointed with it. It's based on a novel and was previously adapted as a miniseries, and I got the impression some prior familiarity with the story is almost required to follow this movie (I had none). I was too emotionally detached from it to pay attention to the plot or care about who the mole was. I think a good spy story has to balance two conflicting demands. There has to be mystery, so you're never quite sure if anyone or anything is really what it appears to be, but at the same time you have to be able to relate to the characters and plot so you have some emotional investment in what's happening. This film is completely lacking in any human element. TV shows like The Americans and Homeland do a much better job of telling a good spy story.

Thor is an utterly forgettable popcorn flick. Nothing much to say really. I thought Thor was one of Marvel's least interesting superheroes back when I read comics, but this was free on Amazon Prime and I liked The Avengers, so I gave it a shot.

You Only Live Once is a classic Bonnie and Clyde-type story from Fritz Lang. It was enjoyable, but I've read that about 10 minutes of film was cut because it was considered too violent by Hollywood in the 1930s, and it does feel pretty neutered at times. The 1967 Bonnie and Clyde film follows the same formula and surpasses it, which perhaps made it harder for me to fully appreciate this one.

Amelie is one of the best movies I've seen all year, and I don't normally go for romantic comedies. It's a little too art house for my tastes, which kept it just shy of greatness for me. One of those films that leaves you feeling really happy after you watch it.

Moneyball is another really good film in a genre I don't normally like. Very bittersweet, because in the end, people like Billie Beane can't win against the big money, as any effective strategy they devise in the short term will just be assimilated by teams like the Yankees and Red Sox.

 

[Tragicomedy]

60. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ★★

If it weren't for Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, which is the most boring film I have ever sat through, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy would have been the most boring film I've seen all year.

That's a shame. It's on my watch list for this year and I had high hopes since I'm familiar with the story and find it interesting. I'll probably slip it back to later in the list.

As far as my progress, I'm currently struggling through Wyrd Sisters by Pratchett. It's not particularly bad, but we have a lot of real-life issues going on right now and I'm having difficulty getting more than 10-15 minutes of reading at a time. I thought of abandoning it for a different book, but I guess I'll press through it for now.

 

[Azrael]

That's a shame. It's on my watch list for this year and I had high hopes since I'm familiar with the story and find it interesting. I'll probably slip it back to later in the list.

As far as my progress, I'm currently struggling through Wyrd Sisters by Pratchett. It's not particularly bad, but we have a lot of real-life issues going on right now and I'm having difficulty getting more than 10-15 minutes of reading at a time. I thought of abandoning it for a different book, but I guess I'll press through it for now.

If you've read the novel or seen the BBC miniseries I think there's a good chance you'll appreciate Tinker Tailor more than I did. I'm in the minority opinion on that one.

What did you think of Equal Rites and Mort? I'm definitely going to make time to read those this year, but I didn't want to burn myself out on Discworld by reading too many at once.

 

[Tragicomedy]

If you've read the novel or seen the BBC miniseries I think there's a good chance you'll appreciate Tinker Tailor more than I did. I'm in the minority opinion on that one.

What did you think of Equal Rites and Mort? I'm definitely going to make time to read those this year, but I didn't want to burn myself out on Discworld by reading too many at once.

I dug them both, but Wyrd Sisters is making me retroactively like Equal Rites less...if that makes sense. It follows the same main character from that storyline.

The Death novels are the ones I have the highest hopes for long term. I'm reading everything in publication order and hoping for a big payoff, but it's been a bit uneven so far. None of them have been bad, but this one in particular is not holding my interest.

 

[Atrophis]

Tinker Tailor was a big disappointment to me too. After all the hype and top reviews I was expecting much more. When you find out who the mole is and you don't even give a shit the movie has totally failed.

 

[Bonethug]

Updated May 19, 2013

Bonethug - 21/50 Books | 20/50 Movies

Books
01. Mistborn: The Final Empire - Brandon Sanderson
02. The Long Ships - Frans G. Bengtsson
03. Gun Machine - Warren Ellis (published Jan 1, 2013)
04. Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
05. The Well of Ascension - Brandon Sanderson
06. The Tomb (Repairman Jack 1) - F. Paul Wilson
07. Legacies (Repairman Jack 2) - F. Paul Wilson
08. Wool Omnibus - Hugh Howey
09. Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan
10. The Hero of Ages - Brandon Sanderson
11. Dead Things - Stephen Blackmoore (published Feb 5, 2013)
12. Star Wars: Heir to the Empire - Timothy Zahn
13. Star Wars: Dark Force Rising - Timothy Zahn
14. Star Wars: The Last Command - Timothy Zahn
15. Zero Day - Mark Russinovich
16. Donnybrook - Frank Bill (published Mar. 5, 2013)
17. On Stranger Tides - Tim Powers
18. You - Austin Grossman (published Apr. 16, 2013)
19. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
20. Legion - Brandon Sanderson
21. The Rithmatist - Brandon Sanderson

Movies
01. Underworld: Awakening
02. Men in Black 3
03. Looper
04. Seven Psychopaths
05. The Bourne Legacy
06. Dredd
07. Skyfall
08. Wreck-It Ralph
09. Justice League: Doom
10. The Raid: Redemption
11. Lockout
12. Haywire
13. Predators
14. John Carter
15. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
16. The Pirates! Band of Misfits
17. All-Star Superman
18. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
19. Django Unchained
20. Jack Reacher

 

[Nezumi]

Update:

Nezumi - 19/50 books | 27/50 movies​

Books:

• The novel my husband wrote for NaNoWriMo
• Before they are hanged - Joe Abercrombie
• A betrayel in winter - Daniel Abrahams
• Last Argument of Kings - Joe Abercrombie
• Shadow of the Torturer - Gene Wolfe
• The great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
• Nero Corleone kehrt zurück - Elke Heidenreich
• An Autumn War - Daniel Abraham
• Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
• The wonderful wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
• Sabriel - Garth Nix
• The Price of Spring - Daniel Abraham
• Ensel und Krete - Walter Moers
• Solange der Haifisch schläft - Milena Agus
• Lirael - Garth Nix
• The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Book One - Bill Watterson
• Unrast - Olga Tokarczuk
• Schilf - Juli Zeh

Movies:

• Brick
• Inspector General
• Indie Game the Movie
• Ijon Tichy - Raumpilot Season 2
• Moonrise Kingdom
• Chronicle
• Prometheus
• Speed Racer
• Brave
• The Cabin in the Woods
• Fitzcarraldo
• Eraserhead
• Seven Samurai
• Fire walk with me
• Sherlock: The Great Game
• Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia
• Sherlock:The Hounds of Baskerville
• Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall
• The Intouchables
• Looper
• A town called Panic
• Road to El Dorado
• The Dark Knight Rises
• The Raid
• Stalker
• The Princess Bride
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show

 

[Nymerio]

Update

Nymerio - 33/50 Books | 9/50 Movies​

Books

• Pattern Recognition (William Gibson)
• The Emperor's Soul (Brandon Sanderson)
• Ship of Fools (Richard Russo)
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Philip K. Dick)
• I Suck at Girls (Justin Halpern)
• Heart-Shaped Box (Joe Hill)
• Game of Cages: A Twenty Palaces Novel (Harry Connolly)
• Circle of Enemies: A Twenty Palaces Novel (Harry Connolly)
• Stormfront (Jim Butcher)
• Fool Moon (Jim Butcher)
• Grave Peril (Jim Butcher)
• Summer Knight (Jim Butcher)
• Death Masks (Jim Butcher)
• Blood Rites (Jim Butcher)
• Dead Beat (Jim Butcher)
• Proven Guilty (Jim Butcher)
• White Night (Jim Butcher)
• Small Favor (Jim Butcher)
• Turn Coat (Jim Butcher)
• Changes (Jim Butcher)
• Ghost Story (Jim Butcher)
• Cold Days (Jim Butcher)
• Legion (Brandon Sanderson)
• The House on the Borderlands (William Hope Hodgson)
• Sweet Silver Blues (Glenn Cook)
• Redshirts (John Scalzi)
• Bitter Gold Hearts (Glenn Cook)
• Cold Copper Tears (Glenn Cook)
• Old Tin Sorrows (Glenn Cook)
• Dread Brass Shadows (Glenn Cook)
• Red Iron Nights (Glenn Cook)
• Deadly Quicksilver Lies (Glenn Cook)
• Petty Pewter Gods (Glenn Cook)

Movies

• Stardust
• A Scanner Darkly
• Savages
• Sinister
• Skyfall
• The Hobbit
• Oz the Great and Powerful
• Wreckit Ralph
• Man with the Iron Fists

Garrett P.I. series is amazing, I'm pleasantly surprised.

 

[Tragicomedy]

I can't vouch for the quality of any of these books since I haven't read them, but here you go:

Choose from 20 different Kindle books for $1 per book (up to 20).
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?ie=UTF8&docId=1001174961

If anyone has read our can recommend any, that would be greatly appreciated. Might apply to US only.

List is:
Adventures of the Karaoke King by Harold Taw
Aftermath by Jerry S. Drake
Augusta by Carolyn Brown
Bone River by Megan Chance
China Jack by Karl Lassiter
Current of Love by Sandra Leesmith
Finding Emma by Steena Holmes
In the Dismal Swamp by Patrick Balester
Mulligan Girl by Rebecca L. Boschee
Murder Express by Robert Scott
One Bitten by Stephen Leather
She Can Run by Melinda Leigh
Strings Attached by Nick Nolan
The Dove by Carolyn Brown
The First Assassin by John J. Miller
The King of Kahle by Tierno Monénembo
The Kingdom Of Strange by Shula Klinger
The Last Voyage of the Steamer Barnard Clinton by David E. Unruh
The Spy Lover by Kiana Davenport
Tune In Tokyo: The Gaijin Diaries by Tim Anderson

 

[BrokenEchelon]

BrokenEchelon - 25/50 Books | 48/50 Movies​

Books

• Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented
• Dead Souls
• Les Misérables
• A Hero of Our Time
• Sense and Sensibility
• Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
• Ivanhoe
• Fathers and Children
• In Search of Lost Time
• Candide: or, Optimism
• L'Assommoir
• Steppenwolf
• Naked Lunch
• The Stranger
• The Magus
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
• To the Lighthouse
• The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
• One Hundred Years of Solitude
• On the Road
• 'Salem's Lot
• Nausea
• The Magic Mountain
• Brazil
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Movies

• Ip Man
• Nosferatu (1922)
• Rosemary's Baby
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
• Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior
• Mary and Max
• Trainspotting
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• V/H/S
• Chinatown
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Leviathan (1989)
• The Andromeda Strain
• Justice League: Doom
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• Seven Psychopaths
• Lockout
• Dracula 3000
• Django Unchained
• Zero Dark Thirty
• Silver Linings Playbook
• Les Misérables (2012)
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
• The Girl Who Played with Fire
• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
• Cloud Atlas
• Life of Pi
• The Master (2012)
• Wreck-It Ralph
• Vertigo
• Warrior
• Witness for the Prosecution
• Secondhand Lions
• The Fighter
• The Wrestler
• Love Actually
• Big Fish
• Papillon
• Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
• Ironclad
• Life is Beautiful (1997)
• Cinema Paradiso
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• Gangster Squad
• Brick
• Unforgiven
• Iron Man 3
• Parker

 

[Tragicomedy]

New book:

[*] Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett. ★★★ -- This was the first Discworld novel I struggled to finish, so it's time to jump over to something else for a bit. The story was predictable given how it riffs off Macbeth, but even the characters began to wear out their welcome by the last few chapters.

 

[DieUnbekannte]

DieUnbekannte - 18/50 books | 34/50 movies

books
14. Jim Butcher – Summer Knight
15. Michael Crichton – Jursassic Park
16. Terry Pratchett – Men At Arms
17. Terry Pratchett – The Fifth Elephant
18. Terry Pratchett - Pyramids

movies
28. Wreck it Ralph (2012)
29. Seven Psychopaths (2012)
30. The Hobbit – An Unexpected Journey (2012)
31. Rise of the Guardians (2012)
32. Cloud Atlas (2012)
33. Bachelorette (2012)
34. Forbidden Planet (1956)

I really enjoyed all five books I've read recently. Wouldn't have watched Seven Psychopaths or Bachelorette if it hadn't been a movie night with a few friends. I was really looking forward to the first part of the Hobbit but unfortunately I was really disappointed in the end - maybe I had too high expectations. Wreck it Ralph and Forbidden Planet were great movies!

Currently I'm reading Ready Player One and have still a few pages in Ulysses but I hope I'll finish it soon.

 

[Tragicomedy]

Double post, sorry.

 

[MajorGravy]

MajorGravy 0/50 Books | 17/50 Movies

Books: 0/50
Count Zero (in progress)

Movies: 17/50
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol - 7/10
Django Unchained - 9/10
Killing Them Softly - 7/10
No Strings Attached - 6/10
Ong Bak 1 - 7/10
Casa De mi Padre - 5/10
A Good Day to Die Hard - 6/10 (nice action sequences)
Resident Evil: Retribution - 7/10
Source Code - 8/10
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - 8/10
Due Date - 7/10
Jack the Giant Slayer - 7/10 (cheesy movie)

New Movies - April:
Wreck it Ralph - 7/10
G.I. Joe 2 - 6/10
Taxi Driver - 8/10
They Live - 8/10
Godzilla: King of Monsters - 7/10

Video games: 7/50
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
Dead Space 2
Metro 2033
Red Faction: Armageddon
Splinter Cell: Conviction
Mafia II
Bioshock Infinite

In progress games:
Darksiders
Fallout 3
Miasmata