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And here's my update:

xyla - 7/50 books | 40/50 movies

Books:

1. A Clash of Kings 7/10
2. Homicide 8/10
   [*]Night Watch 8/10
   [*]The Light Fantastic 7/10
   [*]Equal Rites 8/10

Movies:

1. Pandorum 5/10
2. I Saw the Devil 7/10
3. The Joneses 6/10
4. Conan the Destroyer 6/10
5. Bottle Rocket 7/10
6. Moonrise Kingdom 8/10
7. Synecdoche, New York 9/10
8. Cosmopolis 6/10
9. Dredd 8/10
10. Django Unchained 8/10
11. The Bourne Legacy 6/10
12. Hotel Transylvania 6/10
13. Brazil 8/10
14. 30 minutes or less 7/10
15. Stolen 6/10
16. 21 Jump Street 7/10
17. Parker 6/10
18. Punch Drunk Love 7/10
19. Justice League: Doom 5/10
20. Immortals 6/10
21. Hesher 7/10
    [*]Killing them Softly 6/10
    [*]Jeff who lives at home 7/10
    [*]The Perks of being a Wallflower 9/10
    [*]Young Adult 8/10
    [*]Smoke 7/10
    [*]Beasts of the Southern Wild 8/10
    [*]Argo 7/10
    [*]Whatever Works 8/10
    [*]Flight 8/10
    [*]Turtles Forever 8/10
    [*]The Switch 6/10
    [*]The Raven 5/10
    [*]Terry Parchett: Choosing to die 8/10
    [*]Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 8/10
    [*]Life of Pi 9/10
    [*]Wreck it Ralph 8/10
    [*]Monster House 6/10
    [*]Jo Nesbø's Headhunters 7/10
    [*]House of Cards Season 1 9/10

I liked Young Adult for having a character you can sympathize with, but not really like. It's quite seldom that it works out and it didn't work for me in Killing them Softly - great little monolog at the end, but the overall movie lacked one character I liked.
Whatever Works marks my first Woody Allen film and I was quite suprised how much I liked it. Somehow I had completely wrong expectations regarding his style and humor. Now I'll have to watch some of his older stuff and Midnight in Paris got bumped up in my watchlist.
The Raven was a waste of potential. Dunno if it was always written like this, but the way they tried to mimic Sherlock Holmes didn't work at all. And the end and credit roll was almost offensively bad and out of place.
I can recommend Flight to anybody for the first half hour. Best tension I watched in a long time, even if I knew how it would play out.
House of Cards is an amazing series so far, I hope season 2 won't let me down. And Fincher comes through in the first two episodes. You can see the difference in direction compared to later episodes.

Edit: I think I'll adapt the Netflix five star scale for my ratings. 10 point scala doesn't make a lot of sense when I actively circumvent movies that would end up south of 5 points.
'hated it - 'didn't like it' - 'liked it' - 'really liked it' and 'loved it' says more about a movie anyway than the difference between an 7 and an 8.

 

[Wok]

UPDATE

Wok - 3/50 books | 5/50 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) ★★★★

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) ★★★

 

[Azrael]

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. ★★★★
Currently reading 9.-10. The Passage by Justin Cronin

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 ★★

 

[bggrthnjsus]

UPDATE 3/30/13

bggrthnjsus - 20/50 Books | 6/50 Movies


Books

• the dark tower iii - the wastelands (king)
• the dark tower ii - the drawing of the iii (king)
• pinball, 1973 (murakami)
• the corrections by(franzen)
• fooled by randomness (taleb)
• emotional intelligence (goleman)
• the self destruction handbook (wasson)
• ice cream: a global history (weiss)
• this is how you lose her (diaz)
• call of cthulu (lovecraft)
• the dunwich horror (lovecraft)
• fight club (palahniuk)
• essentials of diagnostic breast pathology (moinfar)
• the dark tower iv - wizard and glass (king)
• snow country (kawabata)
• choke (palahniuk)
• demon haunted world (sagan)
• cat's cradle (vonnegut)
• american born chinese (yang)
• at the mountains of madness (lovecraft)

Movies

• haywire
• brave
• the bourne legacy
• dredd
• the life of pi
• rango

a little ahead with books, a little behind with movies. some of the books are arguably short stories though so i dunno if they should count. also, american born chinese is a graphic novel aimed at teenagers lol. whatever, i'm counting them. right now i'm working on the brief wondrous life of oscar wao and hocus pocus and a couple pathology textbooks. gotta sit down and watch some of the movies on my list too. i'm up to like 65 new albums listened this year too.

 

[ReiGun]

Update: 3/30

Current Books: 5

• Sula by Toni Morrison
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• On Writing by Stephen King
• Superman: Secret Origin by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank
• Jungle Action: "Panther's Rage" and "Panther vs the Klan" by Don McGregor and Various Artists

Current Movies: 15

• Django Unchained
• Skyfall
• Back to the Future
• Craiglist Joe
• Freakonomics
• Back to the Future 2
• Back to the Future 3
• The Goonies
• The Untouchables
• Memento
• Roger Dodger
• The Apartment
• Bad Teacher
• Waiting for Superman
• Friends with Benefits

 

[SlowRevolution]

Update

SlowRevolution - 10/50 books | 27/50 movies

Books

• The Price of Politics
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
• The New Jim Crow
• American Gods
• America Again: Re-becoming The Greatness We Never Weren't
• Firestarter
• Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
• Columbine
• Neverwhere
• John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood

Movies

• Looper
• John Dies At The End
• Arbitrage
• Zero Dark Thirty
• What To Expect When You're Expecting
• The Way
• Craigslist Joe
• Jackie Brown
• Following
• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
• In Bruges
• Alien
• The Five-Year Engagement
• Adaptation.
• Rachel Getting Married
• Tales from the Script
• Argo
• Side by Side
• The Expendables 2
• All-Star Superman
• We're Not Broke
• In Time
• Alex Cross
• We Bought a Zoo
• Playing For Keeps
• Magic Mike
• Wet Hot American Summer
  

managed to catch up to close where I wanted to be by now with books and I'm ahead with movies, had a cold for a few days so I didn't really do anything but read/watch TV.

 

[thomaser]

Update:

Thomaser: 3 books - 3 movies

Books:
1: Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
2: Tunnel Vision - Sara Paretsky
3: M is for Malice - Sue Grafton
(4): Sociolinguistics. A Reader and Coursebook - Nicolas Coupland and Adam Jaworski (halfway through)
(5): World Englishes - Gunnel Melchers and Philip Shaw (just started)

Movies:
1: Frankenweenie
2: Inception
3: Shutter Island

 

[Empty]

update

Empty - 19/50 Books | 37/50 Movies

1. never let me go by kazuo ishiguro
2. the left hand of darkness by ursula k. le guin
3+4. middlesex by jeffrey eugidenes (533 pages)
5. nothing to envy: real lives in north korea by barbara demick
6. a life too short: the tragedy of robert enke by ronald reng
7. sputnik sweetheart by haruki murakami
8. good omens by terry pratchett & neil gaiman
9. pale blue dot by carl sagan
10 + 11. a feast for crows by george r. r martin (684 pages)
12. lolita by vladimir nabokov
13. eating animals by jonathon safron foer
14. neverwhere by neil gaiman
15. the complete maus by art spiegelman
16. night falls fast by kay redfield jamison
17. what i talk about when i talk about running by haruki murakami
18. scorsese by ebert
19. a tree grows in brooklyn by betty smith
20. breakfast of champions by kurt vonnegut
Films -

1. the bicycle thief
2. brokeback mountain
3. the thin blue line
4. mission: impossible
5. life of pi 3d
6. the girl who leapt through time
7. les miserables
8. mean streets
9. ocean waves
10. kill bill vol. 1 & 2
11. jiro dreams of sushi
12. mission: impossible 2
13. a separation
14. tangled
15. queen of versailles
16. django unchained
17. searching for sugarman
18. cache (hidden)
19. prometheus
20. the lives of others
21. wreck it ralph
22. amour
23. argo
24. paris, texas
25. to the wonder
26. wings
27. the passion of joan of arc
28. cloud atlas
29. sunrise a song of two humans
30. the general
31. safety last
32. nosferatu
33. the triplets of bellville
34. grizzly man
35. pitch perfect
36. the terminator
37. election
38. mishima a life in four chapters
39. three colours red

the general is a light-hearted action film about a train chase during the american civil war. it's a lot of fun, buster keaton deadpans his way through a sequence of imaginative and silly action scenes that turn two trains chasing eachother into something genuinely exciting. there's maybe a few too many obvious physical comedy bits but then there's also stuff like this http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loybhtrO2r1qclzo6.gif

safety last was okay. the big skyscraper climbing setpiece made the whole thing.

haven't read anything in a while, but i'm going abroad next week so hopefully i'll get lots of poolside reading done.

 

[Tragicomedy]

These actors are the reason I still have it on my watchlist. Maybe I'll better not watch it though.

Do you like yourself? Do you value your time?

If you answer yes to either question, don't bother. Laughably bad movie.

 

[guest1321]

What does the red highlighting indicate?

 

[Bonethug]

What does the red highlighting indicate?

1st quarter favorites.

 

[guest1321]

1st quarter favorites.

Cool, need to update soon, I'll make sure to put something down then. Thanks!

 

[Forsaken82]

New Update:

Forsaken82 – 4/50 Books | 19/50 Movies

Books:
A Dance with Dragons
The Road
Gone Girl
Wool Book 1 (Not sure if this should qualify since I am reading the Omnibus edition... but they are each individual "books" are they not?)

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 (not the one with Monkeys... and no where near as good)
Paranormal Activity 3
Men In Black 3
Wanderlust
Rock of Ages
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Silent Hill: Revelations
Snow White and the Huntsman

 

[Atrophis]

Atrophis - 2/50 Books | 15/50 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)

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 (started 13/02)

Bonus Round

5/?? 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

4/?? Games

1. Spec Ops: The Line
2. Uncharted 2
3. Assassins Creed 2
4. Binary Domain

 

[Maklershed]

Maklershed - 16/50 books | 29/50 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


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


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

 

[McCloud?]

Update

McCloud? - 14/50 Books | 16/50 Movies

Books
1. Magic Hours, Tom Bissell
2. You're Not Doing It Right, Michael Ian Black
3. The Beautiful Struggle, Ta-nehisi Coates
4. Black Sabbath’s Master of Reality (33 1/3), John Darnielle
5. The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
6. Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die, Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo, David Malki!
7. Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
8. Game Change, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
9. Black Spring, Henry Miller
10. Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries, Jon Ronson
11. By Blood, Ellen Ullman
12. Things the Grandchildren Should Know, Mark Oliver Everett
13. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, Anthony Bourdain
14. Cosmicomics, Italo Calvino

Movies
1. Tiny Furniture
2. Detropia
3. From Russia With Love
4. No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson
5. The American
6. UHF
7. Bottle Rocket
8. After Porn Ends
9. Game Change
10. V/H/S
11. Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. New York
12. Moonrise Kingdom
13. The Loneliest Planet
14. Mulholland Drive
15. Argo
16. Beware of Mr. Baker

Game Change is probably kind of old hat by this point, but I tore through it and badly want a 2012 sequel. Moonrise Kingdom is a narrow favorite for movies; it's easily my favorite Wes Anderson film.

 

[Baconsaurus Rex]

Baconsaurus Rex - 7/50 Books | 26/50 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
• Franken Fran Vol. 1-8 by Katsuhisa Kigitsu
• Cable & Deadpool #1-2
• Deadpool #1-6
• Oyasumi Punpun Vol. 1-11 by Asano Inio
• The Walking Dead #104-108
• Hawkeye #1-8

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)

 

[Tragicomedy]

UPDATE

Tragicomedy - 27/50 Books | 22/50 Movies​

Books

• Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew by Ellen Notbohm. ★★★★
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman. ★★★
• The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson. ★★★½
• The Black Company by Glen Cook. ★★★★★
• Uncanny X-Force (complete series, issues 1-35). ★★★★½
• Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett. ★★★
• The Convert by Oliver Broudy. ★★
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. ★★★
• Insurgent by Veronica Roth. ★★★
• Divergent by Veronica Roth. ★★★★
• Storm Front by Jim Butcher. ★★★
• Persuasion by Jane Austen. ★★★
• Phoenix by Chuck Palahniuk. ★★★½
• Body by You by Mark Lauren. ★★★
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. ★★★
• Wonder bring R. J. Palacio. ★★★★★
• The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. ★★★½
• Sourcery by Terry Pratchett. ★★★½
• The Trunk Key by Carolyn Nash. ★★½
• 5/3/1: The Simplest and Most Effective Training System to Increase Raw Strength by Jim Wendler. ★★★★
• Guns by Stephen King. ★★★½
• The Call of the Wild by Jack London. ★
• Mort by Terry Pratchett. ★★★
• Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett. ★★★★
• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Stevenson. ★★★★½
• The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett. ★★★★
• The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett. ★★★½

Movies

• Dredd. ★★
• Silver Linings Playbook. ★★★★
• 48 Hours. ★½
• Zero Dark Thirty. ★★★★½
• John Carter. ★★★
• Undefeated. ★★★★★
• Les Miserables. ★★★
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. ★★★★
• Deadfall. ★½
• Breaking Dawn, part 2. ★
• Moonrise Kingdom. ★★★★
• The Two Escobars. ★★★½
• Bernie. ★★½
• Skyfall. ★★★★½
• Pulling John. ★★★
• Sleepwalk with Me. ★★★★★
• Casa de mi Padre. ★
• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. ★★★★
• Drive. ★★★★★
• Looper. ★★★½
• Indie Game: The Movie. ★★★★
• The Queen of Versailles. ★★★

 

[Tragicomedy]

Quarter of the way through the year, so sharing my two biggest highlights so far.

Best book:
Wonder bring R. J. Palacio. ★★★★★ -- This will become a modern classic, and it deserves the status. Deals with the life of a young boy born with significant facial deformities. Even with a loving family, he still has to face less understanding classmates and strangers. I look forward to this becoming mandatory reading for school age kids, as it strikes the ideal balance of being emotionally engaging and teaching love and acceptance for people regardless of how they look. Every bully in detention should be required to read this book.

Best movie:
Drive. ★★★★★ -- A calm, collected loner living on the fringe of society is forced to protect a girl and her son from some dangerous folks. This follows a classic archetype with the reluctant hero who just wants to protect the people he cares for and to be left alone, but finds himself forced to action. This film is slick and oozes cool, but has a very dark and sinister undertone which will shock you. Ryan Gosling continues to be the best young actor in Hollywood.

 

[Atrophis]

Atrophis - 2/50 Books | 17/50 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)

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 (started 13/02)

Bonus Round

5/?? 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

5/?? Games

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

Three 5/5 films in a row, need to try and keep up this awesome streak.

 

[Glaurungr]

Glaurungr - 67/50 books | 16/50 movies

Update! New entries in italic.

Books:

1. Agatha Christie - Poirot Investigates (1924)
2. Agatha Christie - The Big Four (1927)
3. Agatha Christie - Lord Edgware Dies (1933)
4. Agatha Christie - Murder in the Mews (1937)
5. Agatha Christie - Sad Cypress (1940)
6. Agatha Christie - The Body in the Library (1942)
7. Agatha Christie - Taken at the Flood (1948)
8. Agatha Christie - A Murder Is Announced (1950)
9. Agatha Christie - Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (1950)
10. Agatha Christie - Hickory Dickory Dock (1955)
11. Agatha Christie - 4.50 from Paddington (1957)
12. Agatha Christie - The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960)
13. Agatha Christie - The Clocks (1963)
14. Agatha Christie - At Bertram's Hotel (1965)
15. Agatha Christie - Third Girl (1966)
16. Agatha Christie - Hallowe'en Party (1969)
17. Agatha Christie - Nemesis (1971)
18. Agatha Christie - Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories (1979)
19. Agatha Christie - Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories (1991)
20. Agatha Christie - While the Light Lasts and Other Stories (1997)
21. Agatha Christie and Charles Osborne - Black Coffee (1998)
22. Alfred S. Bradford - Flying the Black Flag: A Brief History of Piracy (2007)
23. Alf R. Jacobsen - Attack at Dawn: Narvik, 9.-10. April 1940 (2012)
24. Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper - Paris: After the Liberation 1944-1949 (1994)
25. Bart D. Ehrman - Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine (2004)
26. Bart D. Ehrman - Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (and Why We Don't Know About Them) (2009)
27. Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Fury (2006)
28. Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol (1843)
29. David Brawn - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Creatures (2002)
30. David Gemmell - Quest for Lost Heroes: Book Four of The Drenai Tales (1990)
31. David Howarth - We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance (1957)
32. Diana Wynne Jones - Charmed Life (1977)
33. Diana Wynne Jones - Howl's Moving Castle (1986)
34. Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
35. Edwin A. Abbott - Flatland (1884)
36. Gro Steinsland (ed.) - The Dream Poem and Texts from the Nordic Middle Ages (2004)
37. Ian Mortimer - The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century (2008)
38. James Brady - Hero of the Pacific: The Life of Marine Legend John Basilone (2010)
39. Jón Viðar Sigurðsson - The Norse Society: The Viking, King, Archbishop, and Farmer (2008)
40. Joseph Campbell - The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949)
41. J.R.R. Tolkien - Bilbo's Last Song (1990)
42. J.R.R. Tolkien - Tolkien's World: Paintings of Middle-earth (1992)
43. Knut Lindh - Vikings: The Discovery of America (2004)
44. Melitta Weiss Adamson - Food in Medieval Times (2004)
45. Neil Gaiman - Odd and the Frost Giants (2008)
46. Neil Gaiman - The Graveyard Book (2008)
47. Nicholas Hooper and Matthew Bennett - The Cambridge Illustrated Atlas of Warfare: The Middle Ages, 768-1487 (1996)
48. Peter Connolly - The Roman Fort (1991)
49. Robert Bly - My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy (2005)
50. Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson - A Memory of Light: Book Fourteen of The Wheel of Time (2013)
51. Simon Anglim, et al. - Fighting Techniques of the Ancient World 3000 BC to 500 AD: Equipment, Combat Skills, and Tactics (2002)
52. Siri Walen Simensen - Women During the War (2009)
53. Terry Pratchett - The Dark Side of the Sun (1976)
54. Terry Pratchett - Only You Can Save Mankind: Book One of The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy (1992)
55. Terry Pratchett - Johnny and the Dead: Book Two of The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy (1993)
56. Terry Pratchett - Johnny and the Bomb: Book Three of The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy (1996)
57. Terry Pratchett - The Last Hero (2001)
58. Terry Pratchett - Nation (2008)
59. Terry Pratchett - The World of Poo (2012)
60. Terry Pratchett - Dodger (2012)
61. Terry Pratchett - A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction (2012)
62. Terry Pratchett and Jacqueline Simpson - The Folklore of Discworld (2008)
63. Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (1990)
64. Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen - The Science of Discworld (1999)
65. Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen - The Science of Discworld II: The Globe (2002)
66. Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen - The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch (2005)
67. Tim Taylor (ed.) - The Time Team Guide to the History of Britain: Everything You Need to Know About Our History Since 650,000 BC (2010)

Films:

1. Argo - Ben Affleck (2012)
2. Frankenweenie - Tim Burton (2012)
3. Happy Feet Two - George Miller (2011)
4. Johnny Mnemonic - Robert Longo (1995)
5. Louis C.K.: Chewed Up - Louis C.K. (2008)
6. Minority Report - Steven Spielberg (2002)
7. Pale Rider - Clint Eastwood (1985)
8. ParaNorman - Sam Fell and Chris Butler (2012)
9. Red Dawn - Dan Bradley (2012)
10. Rise of the Guardians - Peter Ramsey (2012)
11. RoboCop - Paul Verhoeven (1987)
12. Skyfall - Sam Mendes (2012)
13. Taken 2 - Olivier Megaton (2012)
14. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Peter Jackson (2012)
15. The Philadelphia Experiment - Stewart Raffill (1984)
16. Wreck-It Ralph - Rich Moore (2012)

Now reading:

• Vernor Vinge - A Fire Upon the Deep

Congrats! 50 books seems to be the harder part for most people, but you just powered through that in less than a quarter of the time. Pretty amazing.

Thanks! It's a bit of a change after only managing 25 books last year.

I said DAMN. Very impressive, good sir. I'm also riding the "read an hour or two every night" train and it is serving me well. I'm finishing up book #18 right now. Nothing close to what you've managed, but we're sitting in mid-March and I've read more this year than any previous one.

We're both sitting in a similar spot in terms of movies. I watch everything with my wife, so once she finishes her current project we're going to dive into the award season winners.

I used to read a lot of books, but this is the most I've read since 2007. I probably won't beat my record (224 in 2004), but I've upped my goal to 100 this year.

I'm oddly struggling with the movies now, though. I've started watching a few (Darkman, End of Watch, Tron) and I just get bored and go do something else. Maybe I should take your recommendation and watch Drive.

 

[Nymerio]

Update

Nymerio - 23/50 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)

Movies

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

Quick question: Are we allowed to count stuff like Legion, or is there some kind of minimum page requirement?

 

[Glaurungr]

Quick question: Are we allowed to count stuff like Legion, or is there some kind of minimum page requirement?

I would personally count it. I've got three books on my list that are under 50 pages, and as long as they've been released as books I'll list them.

 

[persongr]

March Update!

persongr: Books, 05/50 | Movies, 15/50

BOOKS: 5/50

• The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes (greek translation by Thomas Skassis)
• A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, by Julian Barnes (greek translation by Thomas Skassis)
• Edgar Allan Poe: 21 Stories and "The Raven" (compiled and translated in greek by Katerina Sxina)
  [*]The Murderess, by Alexandros Papadiamantis
  [*]Our Man in Havana, by Graham Greene

MOVIES: 15/50

• Life of Pi
• Django Unchained
• The Master
• Sleepwalk with Me
• Tower Heist
• The Perks of being a Wallflower
• Seven Psychopaths
• Lincoln
• Argo
• Amour
• Rango
• Wreck-it Ralph
  [*]In the Mood for Love
  [*]De rouille et d'os
  [*]La Mujer sin Cabeza

 

[Tragicomedy]

I would personally count it. I've got three books on my list that are under 50 pages, and as long as they've been released as books I'll list them.

I agree...I've read a couple great Amazon singles this year that were 50 to 100 pages and definitely worth reading and counting.

 

[TestMonkey]

UPDATE

TestMonkey - 21/50 Books | 26/50 Movies​

Books

• The Bride Wore Black Leather by Simon R. Green
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
• If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell
• World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
• Monster by A. Lee Martinez
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
• Divine Misfortune by A. Lee Martinez
• The Accidental Sorcerer by K.E. Mills
• Witches Incorporated by K.E. Mills
• The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
• Wolverine and the X-Men Vol. 2 by Jason Aaron
• Kick-Ass 2 Prelude: Hit-Girl by Mark Millar
• Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures by Walter Moers
• Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey
• Shadow Games by Glen Cook

Movies

• Wing Chun
• The Warrior's Way
• Demetri Martin. Person.
• Ip Man 2
• Lisa Lampanelli: Long Live the Queen
• Lisa Lampanelli: Take It Like a Man
• Superman vs. the Elite
• Afro Samurai: Resurrection
• Pablo Francisco: Ouch!
• Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
• A Good Day to Die Hard
• The Raven
• Get Bruce!
• Live at the Beacon Theater
• Felipe Esparza: The're Not Gonna Laugh At You
• Batman: Year One
• All-Star Superman
• Doctor Strange
• Captain America: The First Avenger
• The Avengers
• Bodyguards and Assassins
• Craig Ferguson: I'm Here to Help
• Jim Jefferies: I Swear to God
• Jim Jefferies: Fully Functional
• Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007
• Evil Dead (2013)

 

[Nymerio]

I would personally count it. I've got three books on my list that are under 50 pages, and as long as they've been released as books I'll list them.

I agree...I've read a couple great Amazon singles this year that were 50 to 100 pages and definitely worth reading and counting.

Ok then, I'll count them as well.

 

[DieUnbekannte]

DieUnbekannte - 13/50 books | 27/50 movies

books
1. Isaac Marion – Warm Bodies
2. Kai Meyer – Dschinnland
3. Jasper Fforde – Something rotten
4. Arthur Conan Doyle – A Study in Scarlet
5. Haruki Murakami – Norwegian Wood
6. Jim Butcher – Storm Front
7. Jim Butcher – Fool Moon
8. Kai Meyer – Wunschkrieg
9. Terry Pratchett – Small Gods
10. Orson Scott Card – Ender’s Game
11. Jim Butcher – Grave Peril
12. L. Frank Baum – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
13. Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter

currently reading: Ulysses by James Joyce

movies
1. Repo Men (2010)
2. Sherlock – A Study in Pink (2010)
3. Sherlock – The Blind Banker (2010)
4. Sherlock – The Great Game (2010)
5. Sherlock – A Scandal in Belgravia (2012)
6. Sherlock – The Hounds of Baskerville (2012)
7. Sherlock – The Reichenbach Fall (2012)
8. The Ghost Writer (2010)
9. The Dark Knight (2008)
10. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
11. The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
12. Frankenweenie (2012)
13. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
14. The Lovely Bones (2009)
15. Australia (2008)
16. Es geschah am hellichten Tag (1958)
17. Looper (2012)
18. Skyfall (2012)
19. Death on the Nile (1978)
20. Planet Terror (2007)
21. Hotel Transylvania (2012)
22. Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter 1 – Eine andere Zeit (2013)
23. Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter 2 – Ein anderer Krieg (2013)
24. Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter 3 – Ein anderes Land (2013)
25. Hit and Run (2012)
26. Top Secret (1984)
27. Three Amigos (1986)

It is really difficult to just name one movie and one book highlight, because I enjoyed every episode of the BBC tv series Sherlock and Skyfall was great too and I can't remember why I haven't watched The Three Amigos so far because it is really funny. And there are also a lot of book highlights so far - Something Rotten from Jasper Fforde was a great fourth part of his series and I really enjoyed reading The Dresden Files from Jim Butcher and Ender's Game - and last but not least Norwegian Wood was a great book too.

 

[persongr]

currently reading: Ulysses by James Joyce

I want to read Ulysses too, but my English isn't up to par, and I'd like to avoid a translation. Is it too difficult?

 

[DieUnbekannte]

I want to read Ulysses too, but my English isn't up to par, and I'd like to avoid a translation. Is it too difficult?

I wasn't sure if I'd understand everything if I would read the book in English, so I chose the German version instead. There are a few different translations and I picked one that should be one of the best. It's not the easiest book I've ever read and there are some chapters that are incredible exhausting or absolutely uninteresting, but after about 30% I can say that I enjoy reading it.

 

[grumpy]

UPDATED 02/04/2013

grumpy - 13/50 Books | 16/50 Movies

Books

• Stephen King - Everything's Eventual
• Stephen King - Cell
• Dan Simmons - Hyperion
• Dan Simmons - The Fall of Hyperion
• Stephen King - Misery
• Stephen King - The Dark Half
• Stephen King - Lisey's Story
• Dan Simmons - Endymion
• Dan Simmons - The Rise of Endymion
• Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic
• Terry Pratchett - The Light Fantastic
• Terry Pratchett - Equal Rites
• Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves

Movies

• Cabin in the woods
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
• Paranormal Activity 4
• Silent Hill Revelation
• Bitch Slap
• Black Swan
• The Avengers
• Grave Encounters
• Grave Encounters 2
• Twilight
• New Moon
• Eclipse
• Breaking Dawn - Part 1
• Breaking Dawn - Part 2
• The Dark Knight Rises

 

[SaltyDoughnut]

SaltyDoughnut - 12/50 Books | 16/50 Movies | 6/24 TV Seasons | 4/24 Games​

Books:
Now reading: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
-★★★★½- Crime and Punishment [551 pages] - Jan 6th
-★★★- Meditations in an Emergency - Feb 9th
-★★★★½- Hamlet - March 14th
-★½- Dead Man Walking - March 22nd
-★★★★★- Invisible Man [581 pages] - March 26th
-no rating- The Wasteland - March 27th
-★★★- Song of Solomon - April 22nd
-★★★★- Cosmicomics - April 22nd
-★★- Ishmael - May 11th
-★★★★★- The Catcher in the Rye - May 11th

Movies:
-★★★½- Les Misérables - Jan 2nd
-★★★★- Shame - Jan 7th
-★★★½- Zero Dark Thirty - Jan 12th
-★★★- Boogie Nights - Jan 13th
-★★★- In Bruges - Jan 24th
-★★★★½- Django Unchained - Jan 26th
-★★★- Blue Valentine - Jan 27th
-★★★★- The Kids Are All Right - Feb 16th
-★★★½- Jean de Florette - Feb 22nd
-★★★★½- Beasts of the Southern Wild - Feb 22nd
-★★★½- Howl's Moving Castle - Feb 28th
-★★★½- Food Inc. - March 21st
-★★½- Sound of Noise - April 3rd
-★★★★½- The Godfather - April 4th
-★★★★½- Reservoir Dogs - April 12th
-★★★★- Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind - April 20th


TV Seasons:
Now watching: Samurai Champloo, Band of Brothers, Game of Thrones s2, Parade's End
-★★★½- Girls season 1 - Jan 11th
-★★½- Anohana - Jan 26th
-★★★½- Downton Abbey season 3 - Feb 17th
-★★★★- Tsuritama - March 9th
-★★★- Girls season 2 - March 20th
-★★★★★- Mad Men season 5 [audio commentary set 2] - April 2nd

Games:
Now playing: Monaco, Halo 4
-★★★★- Hotline Miami - Jan 11th
-★★★★- Sound Shapes - Jan 14th
-★★½- Gunman Clive - Jan 25th
-★★★★- Bit. Trip Runner - April 30th

 

[choodi]

choodi - 4/50 Books | 23/50 Movies​

Films

1. The Man with the Iron Fists (B)
2. The Men Who Stare at Goats (C)
3. The Inbetweeners Movie (A)
4. The Social Network (A)
5. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (D)
6. This is 40 (C)
7. Skyfall (B)
8. Hotel Transylvania (B)
9. Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (C)
10. Bachelorette (D)
11. Pitch Perfect (D)
12. Django Unchained (B)
13. Lincoln (A)
14. Here comes the boom (C)
15. 10 Years (B)
16. Wreck-it Ralph (C)
17. The Secret World of Arrietty (C)
18. Zero Dark Thirty (A)
19. TRON: Legacy (B)
20. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (C)
21. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (C)
22. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (C)
23. The Life of Pi (B)

Books

1. Inverting the Pyramid: The history of football tactics - Jonathan Wilson (A)
2. A Memory of Light - Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson (B)
3. Pyramids - Terry Pratchett (B)
4. Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett (A)

TRON: Legacy - Finally watched it on my second attempt. The first time I tried I was thoroughly bored after 10 minutes and got distracted by something else. Glad I went back to it because it actually turned into a pretty cool effects film.

The Diary of a Wimpy Kid movies were ok kids stuff. Wouldn't really recommend them to anyone unless they had a bunch of young kids to keep entertained for an afternoon.

The Life of Pi - I originally gave this an A, but revised that to a B after some reflection.

Spoiler

I just felt that there was not enough screen time given to the hyena/chef and orangutan/mother. They felt like insignificant characters in the story and once the twist was revealed, I was left a little deflated as there were not enough indications that they were actually animal representations of real people.

Maybe I am nitpicking or just didn't pay enough attention to the film. However, I still enjoyed it a lot.

Guards! Guards! - This has to be my favourite Discworld book by far (I am reading chronologically). Really enjoyed the humour and I thought the characters and subversion of the "million to one chance, but it just might work" thing was great fun. So many great quotes. It felt like I was constantly highlighting passages on my Kindle.



I have now moved on to Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons

I loved Hyperion and can't wait to find out what happens next.

 

[Gintamen]

The Life of Pi - I originally gave this an A, but revised that to a B after some reflection.

Spoiler

I just felt that there was not enough screen time given to the hyena/chef and orangutan/mother. They felt like insignificant characters in the story and once the twist was revealed, I was left a little deflated as there were not enough indications that they were actually animal representations of real people.

Nah, I felt the same, the movie was long,

Spoiler

but those moments with the other animals were far to short to make much out of it.

A good musical and CGI fest despite it's flaws.

Don't think I will get done with so many books, but will try the move one.

 

[grumpy]

I have now moved on to Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
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I loved Hyperion and can't wait to find out what happens next.[/QUOTE]

Man, you're in for a treat. I wish I could erase those two books from my memory just so that I could experience them all over again.

 

[choodi]

Man, you're in for a treat. I wish I could erase those two books from my memory just so that I could experience them all over again.

I don't read much SciFi (I prefer fantasy) so wasnt expecting to like hyperion anywhere near as much as I did.

I would happily put it in my top 5 of all time and am really liking where the sequel is going too.

 

[Nezumi]

Update:

Nezumi - 15/50 books | 20/50 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

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

Ok, so I'm a few days light with my best of the quarter highlights.

Both of the books that I last read are not available in English at the moment. I love Moers' books. He just has such a vast imagination and so much love for writing and literature that his books are a blast to read.

The Agus book was a gift from my stepmom. It was... well... strange.

Looper was OK. I thought the whole tk aspect was a bit much though.

 

[MajorGravy]

MajorGravy 0/50 Books | 14/50 Movies

Books: 0/50
Count Zero (in progress)

Movies: 14/50
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

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

Can't wait until Spring break next week. Will be time to wind down and read a couple books.

 

[Atrophis]

Atrophis - 3/50 Books | 18/50 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)

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 (started 07/04)

Bonus Round

7/?? 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

5/?? Games

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

Streak of good movies quite succinctly ended with Holy Motors. I can understand what it was aiming for but it was too dull overall.

Finally finished my third book. Should not have taken nearly that long to read but I have so many other distractions taking up my time.

 

[Azrael]

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 ★★★

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 ★★★★

 

[Nymerio]

Update

Nymerio - 24/50 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)

Movies

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

 

[Wok]

UPDATE

Wok - 3/50 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) ★★★★

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) ★★★★★

 

[kinoki]

New book! number9dream by David Mitchell. On a train now so I'll write a review when I get home. Haven't given up on 50 books even though I'm only 10% done.

 

[EvaristeG]

Update :

Books :

Greg Egan - Axiomatic
François Mauriac - Viper's Tangle (Le Noeud de Vipères)
Immanuel Kant - The critique of Pure Reason (not finished yet, reading it for a class)
K.Dick - The Man In the High Castle
HP Lovecraft - Démons et Merveilles (the dream cycle)

Movies :

The Master
Les Tontons Flingueurs
Apocalypse Now
Django Unchained
Le Fanfaron (Dino Risi, don't know the english title)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
The Thin Red Line
Fire Walk With Me (Twin Peaks)
The Host
The Fall

 

[Wok]

Le Fanfaron (Dino Risi, don't know the english title)

The Easy Life (Italian: Il sorpasso)

 

[Baconsaurus Rex]

Baconsaurus Rex - 9/50 Books | 27/50 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 #1-6
• Oyasumi Punpun Vol. 1-11 by Asano Inio
• The Walking Dead #104-108
• Hawkeye #1-8

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)

 

[BrokenEchelon]

BrokenEchelon - 23/50 Books | 45/50 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

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

 

[Tragicomedy]

New book:

[*] The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. ★★★ -- Came in overly hyped, left mildly disappointed. My largest complaint is that the humor felt very forced and not particularly effective. Too zany for me.

 

[foomfoom415]

New book:

[*] The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. ★★★ -- Came in overly hyped, left mildly disappointed. My largest complaint is that the humor felt very forced and not particularly effective. Too zany for me.

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.

 

[guest1321]

guest1321 - 5/50 Books | 27/50 Movies

Books

• The Lean Startup
• Mass Effect: Revelation
• Tenth of December
• Mass Effect: Ascension
• Bioshock: Mind in Revolt

Movies

• The Usual Suspects
• The Bourne Legacy
• Blade Runner
• Unknown
• Snow White and the Huntsman
• Batman: Year One
• Hit & Run
• Road to Perdition
• Taken 2
• Thor
• Die Hard
• Die Hard 2: Die Harder
• Die Hard with a Vengeance
• Risky Business
• Dredd
• Super 8
• The Dark Knight Rises: Part 2
• Lawless
• Battle Royale
• Savages
• End of Watch
• The Expendables
• The Expendables 2
• Looper
• Life of Pi
• Wreck It Ralph
• Django Unchained

EXTRAS

14/24 TV Shows | 8/24 Games

TV Shows

• Bones - Season 1
• Californication - Season 5
• Avengers: Earths Mightiest Heroes - Season 1
• The Walking Dead - Season 1
• Bones - Season 2
• Bones - Season 3
• The Walking Dead - Season 2
• Bones - Season 4
• Top Gear - Season 19
• Workaholics - Season 3
• Californication - Season 6
• The Walking Dead - Season 3
• Avengers: Earths Mightiest Heroes - Season 2
• House of Lies - Season 2

Games

• Forza Horizon (360)
• Need for Speed: Most Wanted (360)
• Far Cry 3 (360)
• Sleeping Dogs (360)
• The Room (iOS)
• Year Walk (iOS)
• NBA 2K13 (360)
• Mark of the Ninja (360)