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[Maklershed]

Maklershed - 25/50 books | 41/50 movies | 7 games

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
---END Q1---
17. The Black Dahlia
18. The Big Nowhere
19. Masters of Doom
20. L.A. Confidential
21. White Jazz
22. Escape from Camp 14
23. A Clash of Kings (re-read)
24. Mistborn: The Well of Ascension
25. The Martian



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
---END Q1---
30. Born to Kill
31. End of Watch
32. The Asphalt Jungle
33. Street Fighter
34. Godzilla 1998
35. Oblivion
36. Green Lantern
37. The Campaign
38. The Rundown
39. Gone in 60 Seconds
40. Django Unchained
41. Fast and the Furious



Games
1. Borderlands 2
2. Heavy Rain
3. Far Cry 3
4. Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
---END Q1---
5. Tomb Raider
6. Dishonored
7. Bioshock Infinite

 

[Tragicomedy]

---END Q2---

The second quarter runs through June, so you have another month still.

 

[Maklershed]

Ah what the hell was I thinking? I even work at a place that focuses heavily on fiscal quarters. SMH. That's what I get for posting while half drunk and sleepy.

 

[persongr]

May Update!

persongr: Books, 08/50 | Movies, 22/50

BOOKS: 8/50

• The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes (translated in Greek by Thomas Skassis)
• A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, by Julian Barnes (translated in Greek 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
• Confessions of a Mask, by Yukio Mishima (translated in English by Meredith Weatherby)
  [*]Weaveworld, by Clive Barker
  [*]Mother, by Maxim Gorky

MOVIES: 22/50

• 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
• Anatomy of a Crime
• Iron Man 3
• Chungking Express
• The Grandmaster
  [*]Beasts of the Southern Wild
  [*]Like Someone in Love
  [*]The Last Samurai

 

[Nezumi]

Update:

Nezumi - 26/50 books | 38/50 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
• Sweet Silver Blues - Glen Cook
• Abhorsen - Garth Nix
• La marche du crabe (book 1) - Arthur de Pins
• Bitter Gold Hearts - Glen Cook
• Cold Copper Tears - Glen Cook
• Leviathan Wakes - James S.A. Corey
• Old Tin Sorrows - Glen Cook

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
• The 36th chamber of Shaolin
• I ♥ Huckabees
• The Frighteners
• Ashura
• Wreck it Ralph
• Seeking a friend for the End of the World
• Silver Linings Playbook
• The Perks of being a Wallflower
• Star Trek: Into Darkness
• Iron Sky
• Conan the Barbarian

Iron Sky was trying to hard to be funny. It didn't help that the german actors were horrible.

Conan was amusing. Schwarzenegger is such a bad actor though.

 

[TestMonkey]

UPDATE

TestMonkey - 31/50 Books | 31/50 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 (912 pages)
• 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 (560 pages)
• Witches Incorporated by K.E. Mills (576 pages)
• 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 (684 pages)
• Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey
• Shadow Games by Glen Cook
• How To Analyze People On Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
• Dreams of Steel by Glen Cook
• Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson
• The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff
• The Penultimate Truth by Philip K. Dick
• Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Fischer, Margulies and Mosenfelder
• Superfreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
• Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
• Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
• Wolverine and the X-Men Vol. 3 by Jason Aaron

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)
• Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
• Debra DiGiovanni: Single Awkward Female
• The Hangover Part III
• Knuckleball
• Despicable Me 2

More than halfway through. So far so good.

 

[kinoki]

Under the Dome (2009)
Author: Stephen King
Rating: ★★★★
It was a pleasure to read. It has been a long time since I read something as pulp as this. And I do have a weakness for it.

Some at-the-edge-of-your-seat writing combined with just the right amount of cliché mixed in. This is the same kind of writing that made me enjoy Steig Larsson and The Da Vinci Code but here it's dealing with my favorite subject: science fiction and human nature.

One month left for the TV-show and I'm really looking forward to it. Had no idea why I hadn't heard of it earlier but it's on my radar now. This really adapts well to the tv-series format and hopefully it's as good as the book.


Only God Forgives (2013)
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Rating: ★★★★
I dig the mood and tempo it's building. The music really stands out but it's something to be expected from Mr. Winding Refn who seems to really build his movies with music as unique as the visuals.

The foreshadowing is strong with this one as it spins a surreal classic tragedy. Half-way through I really started feeling for the Devil. He likes his karaoke and spending time with his family while the guy we're rooting for deals in heroine, prositutes and illegal boxing. And here the devil is, stuck between western criminal influence which have hardened him to the point of inhumane cruely and the law which he gladly ignores for a higher purpose. He's not out to forgive.

Most movie-goers will most likely have no clue what they're getting into. The cruelty in some of the scenes are not for the light-hearted. Even I looked away when they cut the guys eyes. But all-in-all a really good movie that stands out.

 

[SlowRevolution]

Update

SlowRevolution - 14/50 books | 38/50 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
• Trimalchio
• Gone
• The Devil in the White City
• Game of Thrones
  

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
• My Week With Marilyn
• Wreck-It Ralph
• Big Fish
• Spirited Away
• Network
• Breakfast on Pluto
• The World According to Dick Cheney
• The Muppets
• Iron Man 3
• Star Trek
• This Is What Winning Looks Like

 

[LuffyZoro]

LuffyZoro - 25/50 Books | 27/50 Movies

Books

• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (A-)
• Shadow Show (B+)
• The Rapture of the Nerds (A)
• Wool - Part One (A-)
• 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-)
• Marvel 1602 (A-)
• Life of Pi (B+)
• Wool - Part Two (B+)
• Wool - Part Three (A-)
• Wool - Part Four (A)
• Wool - Part Five (A+)
  [*]Shift - Part One (A-)
  [*]Shift - Part Two (A+)
  [*]Shift - Part Three (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-)
• Pitch Perfect (A-)
• Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (B+)
• Iron Man 3 (A)
• The Great Gatsby (B)
• Star Trek (A+)
• The Nightmare Before Christmas (A-)

 

[Azrael]

Azrael - 18/50 books | 77/50 movies

Books

17. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain ★★★★★

Another book club selection, I think I was assigned this in grade school, but I don't think I actually read half of it, so I'm counting it on the list. A classic children's story that casts a satirical, but loving gaze upon the good-hearted but ignorant folk of the Mississippi with humor, adventure, and brilliant observations of human nature and adolescence.

18. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume 1 by Alan Moore ★★★★

My first graphic novel of the year. I had been an avid comic reader for a few years in high school but lost interest when I went to college. A book club I joined reads a lot of comics, and I'd like to get back into reading them again, and it will help me get to 50 books this year too. I'm reading Volume 2 now, and then it's on to Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman.

This is a really fun Avengers, Justice League style superhero team formed of 19th Century literary characters like Dr. Jekyll, the Invisible Man, and Captain Nemo, and was a great reintroduction to the world of comics.

Movies

76. Adventureland ★★★

Comedy about set in the '80s about a college grad who hits hard financial times and spends a summer working at Adventureland (Kennywood) to pay for grad school. I'm very picky about comedies and this wasn't my cup of tea, but there was nothing I could find bad about it either. It didn't leave much of an impression on me at all.

77. Star Trek Into Darkness ★★★★

I never got into any of the Star Trek TV series, but I really like the two J.J. Abrams star Trek movies, accessible as they are to a non-fan such as myself. Maybe this is Star Trek lite and the hardcore fans are divided about it, but this is exactly what I'm looking for in a summer movie. There were a few minor plot points that weren't explained as well as they should have been, but otherwise you've got well written characters, a solid plot that is fairly straightforward to follow and doesn't require an encyclopedic knowledge of the series history to follow, touches of humor, and exciting action sequences.

 

[Nymerio]

Update

Nymerio - 41/50 Books | 10/50 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)
• Faded Steel Heat (Glenn Cook)
• Angry Lead Skies (Glenn Cook)
• Whispering Nickel Idols (Glenn Cook)
• Cruel Zinc Melodies (Glenn Cook)
• Gilded Latten Bones (Glenn Cook)
• Gardens of the Moon (Steven Erikson)
• The Thirteenth Tale (Diane Setterfield)
• Deadhouse Gates (Steven Erikson)

Movies

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

Went right on to the next Malazan Book. I'm really into it now after a very rocky start.

 

[markhimself46]

IN PROCESS: Inferno (Dan Brown), The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three (Stephen King), Marvel Comics: The Untold Story (Sean Howe)

BOOKS

1. Building Stories (Chris Ware)
2. Batman: Year One (Frank Miller, David Mazzucchelli)
3. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, Lynn Varley)
4. When David Lost His Voice (Judith Vanistendael)
5. Francona: The Red Sox Years (Terry Francona, Dan Shaughnessy)
6. Point Your Face at This (Demetri Martin)
7. The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
8. Under the Dome (Stephen King)
9. Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise (Gene Luen Yang, Michael Dante DiMartino)
10. 11/22/63 (Stephen King)
11. The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger (Stephen King)

MOVIES

1. Looper
2. VHS
3. Argo
4. Brave
5. Beasts of the Southern Wild
6. Indie Game: The Movie
7. Wreck it Ralph
8. The Place Beyond the Pines
9. Django Unchained
10. The Master
11. Iron Man 3
12. Silver Linings Playbook
13. Star Trek (2009)
14. Star Trek: Into Darkness
15. Fast and Furious 6
16. The Kings of Summer
17. This is the End

TV

1. The Office (Seasons 1-9)
2. Game of Thrones (Season 1)
3. Arrested Development (Seasons 1-4)
4. Scrubs (Season 1)

 

[latinlikeaviolin]

UPDATE

latinlikeaviolin - 22/50 Books | 19/50 Movies

Books
Noli Me Tangere by Jose Rizal
A Lost Lady by Willa Carther
Watchmen by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons
Embassytown by China Miéville
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
El Filibusterismo by Jose Rizal
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin
Goodbye, Columbus by Phillip Roth
The Game by Neil Strauss
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
World War Z by Max Brooks
There but for the by Ali Smith
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell

Movies
Rashomon (1950) dir. Akira Kurosawa
Raising Arizona (1987) dir. Coen brothers
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) dir. Terry Gilliam
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) dir. David O. Russell
The Cabin in the Woods (2012) dir. Drew Goddard
Argo (2012) dir. Ben Affleck
Zero Dark Thirty (2012) dir. Katheryn Bigelow
The Legend of the Drunken Master (1994) dir. Lau Kar-leung
José Rizal (1998) dir. Marilou Diaz-Abaya
Lincoln (2012) dir. Steven Speilberg
Ran (1985) dir. Akira Kurosawa
Spring Breakers (2013) dir. Harmony Korine
The Place Beyond the Pines (2013) dir. Derek Cianfrance
Iron Man (2013) dir. Shane Black
Los Cronocímenes [or Timecrimes] (2007) dir. Nacho Vigalondo
Vivre Sa Vie (1962) dir. Jean-Luc Goddard
Furious 6 (2013) dir. Justin Lin
Casa de mi Padre (2012) dir. Matt Piedmont
OSS 117: Le Caire, nid d'espions (2006) dir. Michel Hazanavicius

My favourite books so far has been Small Gods and Filibusterismo. My favourite movie has been Ran.

 

[Glaurungr]

Glaurungr - 96/50 books | 29/50 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. Birger Sivertsen - For noen troll: Creatures and Monsters in Folklore (2000)
29. Brandon Sanderson - Legion (2012)
30. Brandon Sanderson - The Emperor's Soul (2012)
31. Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol (1843)
32. C.S. Forester - Lieutenant Hornblower (1952)
33. David Brawn - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Creatures (2002)
34. David Gemmell - Quest for Lost Heroes: Book Four of The Drenai Tales (1990)
35. Derek Collins - Magic in the Ancient Greek World (2008)
36. Diana Wynne Jones - Charmed Life (1977)
37. Diana Wynne Jones - Howl's Moving Castle (1986)
38. Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
39. Edwin A. Abbott - Flatland (1884)
40. Georges Simenon - Maigret and the Enigmatic Lett (1931)
41. Gro Steinsland (ed.) - The Dream Poem and Texts from the Nordic Middle Ages (2004)
42. Ian Mortimer - The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century (2008)
43. Jakob Fjalestad (trans.) - The Saga of Gunnlaug the Worm-tongue (late 1200s)
44. James Brady - Hero of the Pacific: The Life of Marine Legend John Basilone (2010)
45. Jan Guillou - Enemy's Enemy (1989)
46. Jan Guillou - The Honourable Murderer (1990)
47. Jan Guillou - Vendetta (1991)
48. Jan Guillou - No Man's Land (1992)
49. Jan Guillou - The Only Victory (1993)
50. Jan Guillou - In Her Majesty's Service (1994)
51. Jan Guillou - A Citizen Raised Above Every Suspicion (1995)
52. Jim Butcher - Storm Front (2000)
53. Jim Butcher - Furies of Calderon: Book One of The Codex Alera (2004)
54. John Clements - Medieval Swordsmanship: Illustrated Methods and Techniques (1998)
55. Jón Viðar Sigurðsson - The Norse Society: The Viking, King, Archbishop, and Farmer (2008)
56. Joseph Campbell - The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949)
57. Joseph P. Byrne - The Black Death (2004)
58. J.R.R. Tolkien - Bilbo's Last Song (1990)
59. J.R.R. Tolkien - Tolkien's World: Paintings of Middle-earth (1992)
60. Knut Lindh - Vikings: The Discovery of America (2004)
61. Leif G.W. Persson - Between Summer's Longing and Winter's Cold (2002)
62. Leif G.W. Persson - Another Time, Another Life (2003)
63. Leif G.W. Persson - Falling Freely, as in a Dream (2007)
64. Melitta Weiss Adamson - Food in Medieval Times (2004)
65. Neil Gaiman - Odd and the Frost Giants (2008)
66. Neil Gaiman - The Graveyard Book (2008)
67. Nicholas Hooper and Matthew Bennett - The Cambridge Illustrated Atlas of Warfare: The Middle Ages, 768-1487 (1996)
68. Peter Connolly - The Roman Fort (1991)
69. Peter Tremayne - Absolution by Murder (1994)
70. Robert Bly - My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy (2005)
71. Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson - A Memory of Light: Book Fourteen of The Wheel of Time (2013)
72. Robert Wilson - The Hidden Assassins (2006)
73. Robert Wilson - The Ignorance of Blood (2009)
74. Robert Wilson - Capital Punishment (2012)
75. Simon Anglim, et al. - Fighting Techniques of the Ancient World 3000 BC to 500 AD: Equipment, Combat Skills, and Tactics (2002)
76. Siri Walen Simensen - Women During the War (2009)
77. Sverre Sivertsen - A Demanding Watch: Notes from a Warsailor (2011)
78. Terry Pratchett - The Dark Side of the Sun (1976)
79. Terry Pratchett - Strata (1981)
80. Terry Pratchett - Only You Can Save Mankind: Book One of The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy (1992)
81. Terry Pratchett - Johnny and the Dead: Book Two of The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy (1993)
82. Terry Pratchett - Johnny and the Bomb: Book Three of The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy (1996)
83. Terry Pratchett - The Last Hero (2001)
84. Terry Pratchett - Where's My Cow? (2005)
85. Terry Pratchett - Nation (2008)
86. Terry Pratchett - The World of Poo (2012)
87. Terry Pratchett - Dodger (2012)
88. Terry Pratchett - A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction (2012)
89. Terry Pratchett, et al. - Nanny Ogg's Cookbook: A Useful and Improving Almanack of Information Including Astonishing Recipes from Terry Pratchett's Discworld (1999)
90. Terry Pratchett and Jacqueline Simpson - The Folklore of Discworld (2008)
91. Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (1990)
92. Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen - The Science of Discworld (1999)
93. Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen - The Science of Discworld II: The Globe (2002)
94. Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen - The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch (2005)
95. 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)
96. Vernor Vinge - A Fire Upon the Deep (1992)

• David Howarth - We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance (1957)
• Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic (1983)

Films:

1. A Good Day to Die Hard - John Moore (2013)
2. Argo - Ben Affleck (2012)
3. Code Name Coq Rouge - Pelle Berglund (1989)
4. Darkman - Sam Raimi (1990)
5. Despicable Me - Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud (2010)
6. End of Watch - David Ayer (2012)
7. Frankenweenie - Tim Burton (2012)
8. Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation - Kathrine Windfeld (2012)
9. Hamilton: But Not If It Concerns Your Daughter - Tobias Falk (2012)
10. Happy Feet Two - George Miller (2011)
11. Jack Reacher - Christopher McQuarrie (2012)
12. Jim Jefferies: Fully Functional - Jim Jefferies (2012)
13. Johnny Mnemonic - Robert Longo (1995)
14. Les Misérables - Tom Hooper (2012)
15. Louis C.K.: Chewed Up - Louis C.K. (2008)
16. Minority Report - Steven Spielberg (2002)
17. Pale Rider - Clint Eastwood (1985)
18. ParaNorman - Sam Fell and Chris Butler (2012)
19. Red Dawn - Dan Bradley (2012)
20. Rise of the Guardians - Peter Ramsey (2012)
21. RoboCop - Paul Verhoeven (1987)
22. Skyfall - Sam Mendes (2012)
23. Taken 2 - Olivier Megaton (2012)
24. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Peter Jackson (2012)
25. The Last Stand - Kim Ji-woon (2013)
26. The Philadelphia Experiment - Stewart Raffill (1984)
27. War - Philip Atwell (2007)
28. Wreck-It Ralph - Rich Moore (2012)
29. Zero Dark Thirty - Kathryn Bigelow (2012)

Now reading:

• Egil Ulateig - The Long Journey Home

 

[Illithid Dude]

Illithid Dude -5/50 books | 62/50 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
Badlands
Upstream Color
Hamlet (1996)
Pain and Gain
The French Connection
Repo Man
The Fury
Medium Cool
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
The Tree of Life
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
The Kings of Summer
The East
Band of Outsiders


Books:

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

 

[Nezumi]

Update:

Nezumi - 26/50 books | 39/50 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
• Sweet Silver Blues - Glen Cook
• Abhorsen - Garth Nix
• La marche du crabe (book 1) - Arthur de Pins
• Bitter Gold Hearts - Glen Cook
• Cold Copper Tears - Glen Cook
• Leviathan Wakes - James S.A. Corey
• Old Tin Sorrows - Glen Cook

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
• The 36th chamber of Shaolin
• I ♥ Huckabees
• The Frighteners
• Ashura
• Wreck it Ralph
• Seeking a friend for the End of the World
• Silver Linings Playbook
• The Perks of being a Wallflower
• Star Trek: Into Darkness
• Iron Sky
• Conan the Barbarian
• Key of Life
  
  Saw this as part of a japanese movie festival. A great and funny movie that even though its overall plot was predictable still had its surprsing moments. It apparently won something like the japanese oscar for best screenplay.

 

[Wok]

UPDATE

Wok - 7/50 books | 12/50 movies​

Books​

1. Alessandro Baricco, Emmaüs, 2012. (144 pages, ISBN-13: 9782070131709) ★★★★½
2. Yann & Roman Surzhenko, Les Trois Soeurs Minkelsönn (T1), 2013. (48 pages, ISBN-13: 9782803631308) ★★★½
3. Denis Le Bihan, Le cerveau de cristal ; ce que nous révèle la neuro-imagerie, 2012. (220 pages, ISBN-13: 9782738125279) ★★★★
4. Yann & Roman Surzhenko, Le Royaume du chaos (T3), 2013. (48 pages, ISBN-13: 9782803631964) ★★★
5. Philippe Valette, George Clooney : Une histoire vrai[e]. La grosse épopée orthographique de qualit[é] (T1-T2-T3-T4), 2013. (300 pages, ISBN-13: 9782756041513) ½
   [*]Daniel Pennac, Cabot-Caboche, 1982. (200 pages, ISBN-13: 9782266086417) ★★★★½
   [*]Jean Dufaux & Philippe Delaby, Murena: Les épines (T9), 2013. (48 pages, ISBN-13: 9782505016526) ★★
   

Movies​

1. Alice Bissonnet, Aloyse Desoubries-Binet, Sandrine Han Jin Kuang, Juliette Laurent, Sophie Markatatos, In-Between, 2012. (3 min 05 s, Youtube) ★★★½
2. Simon Klose, TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard, 2013. (1 h 22 min) ★★★½
3. Claude Zidi, L'Aile ou la cuisse, 1976. (1 h 44 min) ★★★½
4. Bruno Bozzetto, Yes & No, 2001. (4 min, Youtube) ★★★
5. Malik Bendjelloul, Searching for Sugar Man, 2012. (1h 26 min) ★★★
6. Pier Paolo Pasolini, Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo, 1964. (2h 17 min) ★★★★★
7. Bernard Stora, La Dernière campagne, 2013. (1h 45 min) ★★★
8. Lars Lundström, Äkta människor, 2012. (TV, 10 x 55min) ★★★
9. Laurent Cantet, Entre les murs, 2008. (2 h 08 min) ★★★★½
10. Giulio Base, Terence Hill, Doc West, 2009. (1 h 33 min) ★½
11. Giulio Base, Terence Hill, Triggerman, 2009. (1 h 37 min) ★
12. Jakob Belaga, Baptiste Magontier, Can't we be friends?, 2011. (11 min, Youtube) ½

 

[Atrophis]

Atrophis - 5/50 Books | 31/50 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)
26. Oblivion (3/5, watched 05/05)
27. Argo (3/5, watched 12/05)
28. Star Trek Into Darkness (4/5, watched 13/05)
29. Chasing Ice (4/5, watched 17/06)
30. The Flat (4/5, watched 18/06)
31. Of Dolls and Murder (4/5, watched 21/06)

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 (3/5, started 14/04 - finished 21/06)
6. Lancaster & York - The Wars of the Roses - Alison Weir (started 04/06)

Bonus Rounds

11/?? 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
10. Broadchurch - series 1
11. Game of Thrones - series 3

8/?? Games

1. Spec Ops: The Line (PC)
2. Uncharted 2 (PS3)
3. Assassins Creed 2 (PC)
4. Binary Domain (PC)
5. Thirty Flights of Loving (PC)
6. God of War: Chains of Olympus (PSP)
7. Uncharted 3 (PS3)
8. Killzone 2 (PS3)

 

[DieUnbekannte]

Update:

DieUnbekannte - 24/50 books | 40/50 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
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
19. Haddon Mark – The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time
20. Stephen Clarke – A Year In The Merde
21. Charlaine Harris – Dead Ever After
22. Ernest Cline – Ready Player One
23. Gillian Flynn – Gone Girl
24. Max Brooks – World War Z

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. The Three Amigos (1986)
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)
35. Jack Reacher (2012)
36. Django Unchained (2012)
37. Spies Like Us (1985)
38. Gangster Squad (2013)
39. The Last Stand (2013)
40. Les Misérables (2012)

I'm still not sure if I should use the possibility to count books with more than 500 pages as two. Is it ok to decide at the end of the year? So far it looks like I may achieve the goal of 50 books but you never know
From the new books I really liked Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, even though I sometimes was a little bit annoyed by the way the main character behaved. Gone Girl was a great book I absolutely enjoyed reading. There was one twist that really took me by surprise and this doesn't happen often. Just finished World War Z yesterday evening and I'm still not sure what to think about it. It has great ideas but I found out that I don't like books without a main character.
About the movies: I liked Les Miserables - I'm always impressed how good some actors can sing And the other movie that standed out was Forbidden Planet. Even though it's from 1956 I never saw it until a few weeks ago when a friend recommended it to me.

 

[Azrael]

Azrael - 19/50 books | 79/50 movies

Books

19. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume 2 by Alan Moore ★★★★

A retelling of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds as a superhero comic. I enjoyed this one a bit more than volume 1 because of the team dynamics and stronger character dynamics, whereas Volume 1 spent a lot of time just getting everyone together.

Movies

78. Cronos ★★★

Guilermo del Toro's first film. It's not up to the standards set by his later work like Pan's Labyrinth, but it's a decent take on the vampire genre.

79. La Strada ★★★★

My first Fellini film. A tragic love story with strong performances from Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart, and Giulietta Masina. I was most impressed with how, despite my hate for Zampano, I also came to pity him for his self-destructive behavior, and the purity and innocence of Gelsomina and its inevitable destruction by our cruel and cynical world, is heartbreaking and profound.

 

[Tragicomedy]

New book:

[*] Punisher (2008-2010 series). ★★★ - Decent, but didn't meet my expectations. The Frankencastle ending in particular strayed way too far from the reasons I like the character in the first place.

 

[Nezumi]

Update:

Nezumi - 27/50 books | 42/50 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
• Sweet Silver Blues - Glen Cook
• Abhorsen - Garth Nix
• La marche du crabe (book 1) - Arthur de Pins
• Bitter Gold Hearts - Glen Cook
• Cold Copper Tears - Glen Cook
• Leviathan Wakes - James S.A. Corey
• Old Tin Sorrows - Glen Cook
• Jhereg - Steven Brust

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
• The 36th chamber of Shaolin
• I ♥ Huckabees
• The Frighteners
• Ashura
• Wreck it Ralph
• Seeking a friend for the End of the World
• Silver Linings Playbook
• The Perks of being a Wallflower
• Star Trek: Into Darkness
• Iron Sky
• Conan the Barbarian
• Key of Life
• Thermae Romae
• The Kirishima Thing
• A letter to Momo
• Father Frost

 

[Forsaken82]

Update!

Forsaken82 – 5/50 Books | 41/50 Movies

Books:
1. A Dance with Dragons
2. The Road
3. Gone Girl
4. Wool Book 1
5. Wool Book 2

Movies:
1. Looper
2. V/H/S
3. American Reunion
4. Dredd
5. This Means War
6. Wrath of the Titans
7. Mindhunters
8. Dream House
9. Thats My Boy
10. The Ring 2
11. The Thing (2011)
12. Project X (2012)
13. Paranormal Activity 3
14. Men In Black 3
15. Wanderlust
16. Rock of Ages
17. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
18. Silent Hill: Revelations
19. Snow White and the Huntsman
20. Paranormal Activity 4
21. The Campaign
22. Resident Evil: Retribution
23. Zero Dark Thirty
24. Compliance
25. Django Unchained
26. Premium Rush
27. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
28. Chernobyl Diaries
29. Sinister
30. Silent Night
31. Moonrise Kingdom
32. Hostel: Part 3
33. Brave
34. Deadfall
35. Evil Dead 2
36. Mama
37. Below
38. Dark Shadows
39. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
40. Scoop
41. Man of Steel

 

[Tragicomedy]

Nooooo...what happened to Nezumi? One of the more active people on this thread.

Okay, it was a self-requested one month ban. Less worried now.

 

[markhimself46]

IN PROCESS: Inferno (Dan Brown), The Dark Tower III: The Wastelands (Stephen King)

BOOKS

1. Building Stories (Chris Ware)
2. Batman: Year One (Frank Miller, David Mazzucchelli)
3. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, Lynn Varley)
4. When David Lost His Voice (Judith Vanistendael)
5. Francona: The Red Sox Years (Terry Francona, Dan Shaughnessy)
6. Point Your Face at This (Demetri Martin)
7. The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
8. Under the Dome (Stephen King)
9. Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise (Gene Luen Yang, Michael Dante DiMartino)
10. 11/22/63 (Stephen King)
11. The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger (Stephen King)
12. The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three (Stephen King)

MOVIES

1. Looper
2. VHS
3. Argo
4. Brave
5. Beasts of the Southern Wild
6. Indie Game: The Movie
7. Wreck it Ralph
8. The Place Beyond the Pines
9. Django Unchained
10. The Master
11. Iron Man 3
12. Silver Linings Playbook
13. Star Trek (2009)
14. Star Trek: Into Darkness
15. Fast and Furious 6
16. The Kings of Summer
17. This is the End

TV

1. The Office (Seasons 1-9)
2. Game of Thrones (Season 1)
3. Arrested Development (Seasons 1-4)
4. Scrubs (Season 1-3)

 

[MikeJAMoran]

Hi guys.

I had set myself a goal a bit like this and am failing horribly. Never have the time to read.

 

[Forsaken82]

Reading is definitely the most difficult part for me... I am going for 15 by the end of the year...

 

[TheKaeptain]

I finished the movies. I'm like on 15 for the books. I'm counting comic book trades too. Most of them are over 200 pages tho.

 

[Nymerio]

Update

Nymerio - 43/50 Books | 10/50 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)
• Faded Steel Heat (Glenn Cook)
• Angry Lead Skies (Glenn Cook)
• Whispering Nickel Idols (Glenn Cook)
• Cruel Zinc Melodies (Glenn Cook)
• Gilded Latten Bones (Glenn Cook)
• Gardens of the Moon (Steven Erikson)
• The Thirteenth Tale (Diane Setterfield)
• Deadhouse Gates (Steven Erikson)
• Memories of Ice (Steven Erikson)
• House of Chains (Steven Erikson)

Movies

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

I'm surprised by how good the Malazan series has become after a very rocky start. Next up: Midnight Tides.

 

[deleted]

Sorry I didn't update the thread in such a long time. The last few weeks have been rather stressful, but I should be able to make a proper update in the coming week.

 

[Azrael]

Azrael - 21/50 books | 83/50 movies

Books

20-21. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis ★★★★

First novel in Willis' series about time traveling Oxford historians. It's a 20-year-old book, so its vision of the future can be dated at times, but its anachronisms are charming in a way, and its depiction of medieval society is in turns touching and horrifying. This can be an extremely dark book, but very funny as well.

Movies

80. Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret ★

More Lifetime original movie trash. I didn't have a choice as to watching this. I was vaguely familiar with this story from The Daily Show, and it's a reminder of why I never watch TV "news."

81. Sweet Music ★★★

Forgettable, silly '30s musical without much plot, but it was entertaining.

82. Man of Steel ★★★

It's getting mixed reviews, but I thought Man of Steel was pretty good. The beginning jumps around too much and was pretty confusing, and the explanation of his powers requires a lot of suspension of disbelief, but after the origin bit was out of the way, it gets much better. I think Superman can be pretty boring as far as superheroes go, but the focus of his alienation from both humanity and his own kind was an interesting take on the character. Great action and effects too. A better comic book movie than Iron Man 3.

83. Mama ★★

A decent premise for a horror film, but it never lives up to its potential and falls apart by the end.

 

[Tragicomedy]

New book:

[*] Shadowland (2010 series). ★★½ - Read the full miniseries event, to include the tie-ins. Like most Marvel crossover events, this one was very uneven from issue to issue. I struggled to get through all 29, even though Daredevil is my favorite hero. About the best thing I can say about this event was Daredevil's all black suit. Top class.

 

[BrokenEchelon]

Sorry I didn't update the thread in such a long time. The last few weeks have been rather stressful, but I should be able to make a proper update in the coming week.

No worries, you've done a great job so far considering how many of these lists there are!

 

[Bright Side of Life]

Just joining in

3/50 books

Books:
My Year of Meats (Ruth Ozeki)
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (Cory Doctorow)
The Order of Odd-Fish (James Kennedy)

42/50
Tire
Django Unchained
Safety not Guanteed
The Butcher, the Swordsman, and the Cook
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (must watch for foodie)
Julie and Julia
Hunger Games
Battle Royale
Paranorman
First Position (amazing ballet documentary)
Mao's Last Dancer
Like Water for Chocolate
Today's Special
Groundhog Day
Perks of a Wallflower
Silver Lining Playbock
Lincoln
Skyfall
The Sessions
Wreck-it-Ralph
Beasts of the Southern Wind
The Impossible
Mission Impossible 3
Chocolat
I'm a Cyborg and That's OK
Ramen Girl
12 and Holding
Drive
Mulholland Dr
Quill
Sleeping with the Enemy
The Artist
Batman Year One
Batman Under the Red Hood
Lars and the Real Girl
Take Me Home
The Countess
Along Came a Spider
Brokeback Mountain
Cider House Rules
Boy in Striped Pajamas Chinatown
Zombieland

 

[Tragicomedy]

New movie:

[*] Chasing Ice. ★★★★★ -- Mesmerizing and terrifying, this is the film to see if you remain skeptical about climate change. Some of the most beautiful imagery of glaciers ever recorded steadily disappearing from our planet forever. If you're a Netflix subscriber, I highly recommend you give this a view.

Quick preview from YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC3VTgIPoGU

 

[Tragicomedy]

New book:

[*] The White Rose by Glen Cook. ★★★★ - The conclusion of the first Black Company trilogy, and what a way to go out! This has been one of the most enjoyable series I've ever read. The plot itself is full of adventure and dark humor, but the characters are what make these books so special. The physician Croaker is way up there on my list of favorite book protagonists.

 

[Tragicomedy]

New book:

[*] Legion by Brandon Sanderson. ★★★ - Short novella about a schizophrenic man who relies on the talents of his other personalities to solve things, in this case the search for a stolen artifact. Well written and good science fiction plot, though at 89 pages I wish it were more fleshed out.

 

[BrokenEchelon]

New book:

[*] Legion by Brandon Sanderson. ★★★ - Short novella about a schizophrenic man who relies on the talents of his other personalities to solve things, in this case the search for a stolen artifact. Well written and good science fiction plot, though at 89 pages I wish it were more fleshed out.

89 pages should translate well into an 89 minute hollywood movie

 

[Tragicomedy]

89 pages should translate well into an 89 minute hollywood movie

I hadn't heard of Sanderson until a month or so ago, and now I want to read everything he's done. He is that good.

 

[Glaurungr]

Glaurungr - 115/50 books | 29/50 movies

Update! New entries in italic.

Books:

1. Agatha Christie - Poirot Investigates (1924)
2. Agatha Christie - The Secret of Chimneys (1925)
3. Agatha Christie - The Big Four (1927)
4. Agatha Christie - Lord Edgware Dies (1933)
5. Agatha Christie - Murder in the Mews (1937)
6. Agatha Christie - Sad Cypress (1940)
7. Agatha Christie - The Body in the Library (1942)
8. Agatha Christie - Taken at the Flood (1948)
9. Agatha Christie - A Murder Is Announced (1950)
10. Agatha Christie - Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (1950)
11. Agatha Christie - Hickory Dickory Dock (1955)
12. Agatha Christie - 4.50 from Paddington (1957)
13. Agatha Christie - The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960)
14. Agatha Christie - The Clocks (1963)
15. Agatha Christie - At Bertram's Hotel (1965)
16. Agatha Christie - Third Girl (1966)
17. Agatha Christie - Hallowe'en Party (1969)
18. Agatha Christie - Nemesis (1971)
19. Agatha Christie - Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories (1979)
20. Agatha Christie - Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories (1991)
21. Agatha Christie - While the Light Lasts and Other Stories (1997)
22. Agatha Christie and Charles Osborne - Black Coffee (1998)
23. Alfred S. Bradford - Flying the Black Flag: A Brief History of Piracy (2007)
24. Alf R. Jacobsen - Attack at Dawn: Narvik, 9.-10. April 1940 (2012)
25. Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper - Paris: After the Liberation 1944-1949 (1994)
26. Aristotle - The Nicomachean Ethics (1861)
27. 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)
28. Bart D. Ehrman - Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (and Why We Don't Know About Them) (2009)
29. Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Fury (2006)
30. Birger Sivertsen - For noen troll: Creatures and Monsters in Folklore (2000)
31. Brandon Sanderson - Legion (2012)
32. Brandon Sanderson - The Emperor's Soul (2012)
33. Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol (1843)
34. C.S. Forester - Lieutenant Hornblower (1952)
35. David Brawn - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Creatures (2002)
36. David Gemmell - Quest for Lost Heroes: Book Four of The Drenai Tales (1990)
37. Derek Collins - Magic in the Ancient Greek World (2008)
38. Diana Wynne Jones - Charmed Life (1977)
39. Diana Wynne Jones - Howl's Moving Castle (1986)
40. Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
41. Edwin A. Abbott - Flatland (1884)
42. Egil Ulateig - The Long Journey Home: The Royal Family During the Second World War (2011)
43. Georges Simenon - Maigret and the Enigmatic Lett (1931)
44. Gregory Daly - Cannae: The Experience of Battle in the Second Punic War (2002)
45. Gro Steinsland (ed.) - The Dream Poem and Texts from the Nordic Middle Ages (2004)
46. Hans Christian Andersen - The Tinderbox (1835)
47. Ian Mortimer - The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century (2008)
48. Jakob Fjalestad (trans.) - The Saga of Gunnlaug the Worm-tongue (late 1200s)
49. James Brady - Hero of the Pacific: The Life of Marine Legend John Basilone (2010)
50. Jan Deberitz - Iron Age: In the Moon's Sign (1983)
51. Jan Guillou - Enemy's Enemy (1989)
52. Jan Guillou - The Honourable Murderer (1990)
53. Jan Guillou - Vendetta (1991)
54. Jan Guillou - No Man's Land (1992)
55. Jan Guillou - The Only Victory (1993)
56. Jan Guillou - In Her Majesty's Service (1994)
57. Jan Guillou - A Citizen Raised Above Every Suspicion (1995)
58. Jim Butcher - Storm Front (2000)
59. Jim Butcher - Dead Beat (2005)
60. Jim Butcher - Proven Guilty (2006)
61. Jim Butcher - White Night (2007)
62. Jim Butcher - Furies of Calderon: Book One of The Codex Alera (2004)
63. J.K. Rowling - The Tales of Beedle the Bard (2008)
64. John Clements - Medieval Swordsmanship: Illustrated Methods and Techniques (1998)
65. Jo Nesbø - Police (2013)
66. Jón Viðar Sigurðsson - The Norse Society: The Viking, King, Archbishop, and Farmer (2008)
67. Joseph Campbell - The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949)
68. Joseph P. Byrne - The Black Death (2004)
69. J.R.R. Tolkien - Bilbo's Last Song (1990)
70. J.R.R. Tolkien - Tolkien's World: Paintings of Middle-earth (1992)
71. Jude Fisher - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Visual Companion (2002)
72. Jude Fisher - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Visual Companion (2003)
73. Knut Lindh - Vikings: The Discovery of America (2004)
74. Leif G.W. Persson - Between Summer's Longing and Winter's Cold (2002)
75. Leif G.W. Persson - Another Time, Another Life (2003)
76. Leif G.W. Persson - Falling Freely, as in a Dream (2007)
77. Melitta Weiss Adamson - Food in Medieval Times (2004)
78. Neil Gaiman - Odd and the Frost Giants (2008)
79. Neil Gaiman - The Graveyard Book (2008)
80. Nicholas Hooper and Matthew Bennett - The Cambridge Illustrated Atlas of Warfare: The Middle Ages, 768-1487 (1996)
81. Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe - Tyrihans who Made the Princess Laugh (1995)
82. Peter Connolly - The Roman Fort (1991)
83. Peter Tremayne - Absolution by Murder (1994)
84. Philip Newth - Spook - A ghost story (1998)
85. Robert Bly - My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy (2005)
86. Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson - A Memory of Light: Book Fourteen of The Wheel of Time (2013)
87. Robert Wilson - The Hidden Assassins (2006)
88. Robert Wilson - The Ignorance of Blood (2009)
89. Robert Wilson - Capital Punishment (2012)
90. Simon Anglim, et al. - Fighting Techniques of the Ancient World 3000 BC to 500 AD: Equipment, Combat Skills, and Tactics (2002)
91. Siri Walen Simensen - Women During the War (2009)
92. Skjalg Bye - Without Illusions (1995)
93. Sverre Brandt - The Journey to the Christmas Star (1924)
94. Sverre Sivertsen - A Demanding Watch: Notes from a Warsailor (2011)
95. Terry Pratchett - The Dark Side of the Sun (1976)
96. Terry Pratchett - Strata (1981)
97. Terry Pratchett - The Carpet People (1992)
98. Terry Pratchett - Only You Can Save Mankind: Book One of The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy (1992)
99. Terry Pratchett - Johnny and the Dead: Book Two of The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy (1993)
100. Terry Pratchett - Johnny and the Bomb: Book Three of The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy (1996)
101. Terry Pratchett - The Last Hero (2001)
102. Terry Pratchett - Where's My Cow? (2005)
103. Terry Pratchett - Nation (2008)
104. Terry Pratchett - The World of Poo (2012)
105. Terry Pratchett - Dodger (2012)
106. Terry Pratchett - A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction (2012)
107. Terry Pratchett, et al. - Nanny Ogg's Cookbook: A Useful and Improving Almanack of Information Including Astonishing Recipes from Terry Pratchett's Discworld (1999)
108. Terry Pratchett and Jacqueline Simpson - The Folklore of Discworld (2008)
109. Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (1990)
110. Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen - The Science of Discworld (1999)
111. Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen - The Science of Discworld II: The Globe (2002)
112. Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen - The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch (2005)
113. 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)
114. Vernor Vinge - A Fire Upon the Deep (1992)
115. Vivien Bellamy - The Making of Shrewsbury: The History of a Border Town (2004)

• David Howarth - We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance (1957)
• Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic (1983)

Films:

1. A Good Day to Die Hard - John Moore (2013)
2. Argo - Ben Affleck (2012)
3. Code Name Coq Rouge - Pelle Berglund (1989)
4. Darkman - Sam Raimi (1990)
5. Despicable Me - Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud (2010)
6. End of Watch - David Ayer (2012)
7. Frankenweenie - Tim Burton (2012)
8. Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation - Kathrine Windfeld (2012)
9. Hamilton: But Not If It Concerns Your Daughter - Tobias Falk (2012)
10. Happy Feet Two - George Miller (2011)
11. Jack Reacher - Christopher McQuarrie (2012)
12. Jim Jefferies: Fully Functional - Jim Jefferies (2012)
13. Johnny Mnemonic - Robert Longo (1995)
14. Les Misérables - Tom Hooper (2012)
15. Louis C.K.: Chewed Up - Louis C.K. (2008)
16. Minority Report - Steven Spielberg (2002)
17. Pale Rider - Clint Eastwood (1985)
18. ParaNorman - Sam Fell and Chris Butler (2012)
19. Red Dawn - Dan Bradley (2012)
20. Rise of the Guardians - Peter Ramsey (2012)
21. RoboCop - Paul Verhoeven (1987)
22. Skyfall - Sam Mendes (2012)
23. Taken 2 - Olivier Megaton (2012)
24. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Peter Jackson (2012)
25. The Last Stand - Kim Ji-woon (2013)
26. The Philadelphia Experiment - Stewart Raffill (1984)
27. War - Philip Atwell (2007)
28. Wreck-It Ralph - Rich Moore (2012)
29. Zero Dark Thirty - Kathryn Bigelow (2012)

Now reading:

• Jim Butcher - Small Favor

I'm really enjoying The Dresden Files. I bought number 2 to 6 at a library sale back in 2007 and read all of them then, and I have no idea why I've never read any of the others in the series. Glad I've started again!

The Secret of Chimneys is probably the worst Christie book I've read, apart from The Big Four, but at least the latter had Poirot and Hastings going for it. Quick read, though.

 

[BrokenEchelon]

BrokenEchelon - 30/50 Books | 88/50 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
• World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
• Sons and Lovers
• Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha
• Casino Royale
• Live and Let Die

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
• The Last Stand
• In the Mood for Love
• Roman Holiday
• Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
• A Good Day to Die Hard
• Star Trek Into Darkness
• The Raven (2012)
• Trek Nation
• Coriolanus
• Halo: Forward Unto Dawn
• Jackie Brown
• Ju-on: The Grudge
• Harvey
• Act of Valor
• The Last House on the Left (2009)
• The Sum of All Fears
• Festen
• La Dolce Vita
• La Haine
• The Numbers Station
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
• The Bicycle Thief
• Rope
• Capote
• Infernal Affairs
• Barry Lyndon
• The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
• Sleuth (1972)
• Memories of a Murder
• Stalag 17
• The Hustler
• Incendies
• Dog Day Afternoon
• Stalker (1979)
• Fanny and Alexander
• All-Star Superman
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• The Man From Nowhere

I need to start reading again. <--- Still true. I always do that. I get these spurts where I read like a maniac and then don't want to touch a book for months.

 

[markhimself46]

IN PROCESS: Inferno (Dan Brown), The Dark Tower III: The Wastelands (Stephen King)

BOOKS

1. Building Stories (Chris Ware)
2. Batman: Year One (Frank Miller, David Mazzucchelli)
3. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, Lynn Varley)
4. When David Lost His Voice (Judith Vanistendael)
5. Francona: The Red Sox Years (Terry Francona, Dan Shaughnessy)
6. Point Your Face at This (Demetri Martin)
7. The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
8. Under the Dome (Stephen King)
9. Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise (Gene Luen Yang, Michael Dante DiMartino)
10. 11/22/63 (Stephen King)
11. The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger (Stephen King)
12. The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three (Stephen King)

MOVIES

1. Looper
2. VHS
3. Argo
4. Brave
5. Beasts of the Southern Wild
6. Indie Game: The Movie
7. Wreck it Ralph
8. The Place Beyond the Pines
9. Django Unchained
10. The Master
11. Iron Man 3
12. Silver Linings Playbook
13. Star Trek (2009)
14. Star Trek: Into Darkness
15. Fast and Furious 6
16. The Kings of Summer
17. This is the End
18. Bottle Rocket

TV

1. The Office (Seasons 1-9)
2. Game of Thrones (Season 1)
3. Arrested Development (Seasons 1-4)
4. Scrubs (Season 1-3)

 

[Ashes]

Maybe I should start now and read 50 books in the remaining half of the year.

 

[mu cephei]

Update

mu cephei - 9/50 books | 42/50 films​

Books

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Wool Omnibus - Hugh Howey
The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness
Exchange of Hostages - Susan Matthews
Prisoner of Conscience - Susan Matthews
Foreign Studies - Shusaku Endo
The Ask and the Answer - Patrick Ness
The Hairdresser of Harare - Tendai Huchu
Hawkeye 1: My Life as a Weapon

Films

Brief Encounter
Total Recall (the remake)
Shadow of a Doubt
Wendy and Lucy
Dredd
Lawless
All That Heaven Allows
Shane
Xala
Chocolate (some action film)
The Reckoning
Looper
Taken 2
Chronicles of Riddick
Shenandoah
Down With Love
The Amazing Spiderman
Bad News Bears
End of Watch
Oblivion
The Hobbit
Ted
Lucky Number Slevin
Undefeated
Resident Evil: Retribution
Gunman's Walk
Iron Man 3
Public Enemies
Bully
The Social Network
Fish Story
Shinjuku Incident
Father Goose
Django Unchained
Ashes of Time Redux
Gun Fury
The Neon Bible
Election (some action film, not the one with Reese Witherspoon)
Dakota Incident
A Good Day to Die Hard
Jack Reacher
Stranded

 

[choodi]

choodi - 8/50 Books | 37/50 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)
24. Blonde Ambition (D)
25. So Undercover (E)
26. My Brother the Devil (B)
27. Iron Man 3 (C)
28. Jack Reacher (B)
29. A Separation(B)
30. Star Trek: Into Darkness (B)
    [*]Role Models (B)
    [*]The Last Stand (C)
    [*]Not Suitable for Children (C)
    [*]Balls Deep: The Gary Houseman Story (D)
    [*]For a Good Time, Call... (D)
    [*]Bernie (C)
    [*]The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (C)

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)
5. The Fall of Hyperion - Dan Simmons (A)
6. Old Man's War - John Scalzi (A)
7. The Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brooks (C)
8. Before they are Hanged - Joe Abercrombie (B)

I really liked Star Trek, it was good fun.

I didn't think I was going to like Before they are Hanged as much as I did because I didn't really like the first book in the series. The characters became much more likable this time though. I still don't like his writing style very much and most of the setting is just Fantasy 101 stuff. Some of the names are laughable and really border on stupidity.

I have moved on to Gulliver's Travels as I would like to start exploring some of the older classics rather than my usual diet of predictable fantasy. Plus, I need to try to up my reading rate as I am going to fall woefully short of the 50 book target.

 

[markhimself46]

IN PROCESS: Inferno (Dan Brown), The Dark Tower III: The Wastelands (Stephen King)

BOOKS

1. Building Stories (Chris Ware)
2. Batman: Year One (Frank Miller, David Mazzucchelli)
3. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, Lynn Varley)
4. When David Lost His Voice (Judith Vanistendael)
5. Francona: The Red Sox Years (Terry Francona, Dan Shaughnessy)
6. Point Your Face at This (Demetri Martin)
7. The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
8. Under the Dome (Stephen King)
9. Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise (Gene Luen Yang, Michael Dante DiMartino)
10. 11/22/63 (Stephen King)
11. The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger (Stephen King)
12. The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three (Stephen King)

MOVIES

1. Looper
2. VHS
3. Argo
4. Brave
5. Beasts of the Southern Wild
6. Indie Game: The Movie
7. Wreck it Ralph
8. The Place Beyond the Pines
9. Django Unchained
10. The Master
11. Iron Man 3
12. Silver Linings Playbook
13. Star Trek (2009)
14. Star Trek: Into Darkness
15. Fast and Furious 6
16. The Kings of Summer
17. This is the End
18. Bottle Rocket
19. Pelotero (Ballplayer)
20. Knuckleball!
21. Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview

TV

1. The Office (Seasons 1-9)
2. Game of Thrones (Season 1)
3. Arrested Development (Seasons 1-4)
4. Scrubs (Season 1-3)

 

[Bright Side of Life]

update

45/50 movies
Super: So good, so weird seeing Ellen Page act like a costumed psychopath after Last of Us (laugh). Definitely recommended.
Extremely Goofy Movie
World War Z

 

[Kud Dukan]

Update:

Kud Dukan - 12/50 Books | 16/50 Movies​

Books:

• The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches From the Front Lines by Michael E. Mann
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
• The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson
• The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
• The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson
• Wool by Hugh Howey
• Inferno by Dan Brown
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• Billions and Billions by Carl Sagan

Movies:

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• Django Unchained
• Contact
• Les Misérables
• Zero Dark Thirty
• Batman: Year One
• Mystery Men
• The Dark Knight Returns Part 1
• The Dark Knight Returns Part 2
• The Bourne Legacy
• Iron Man 3
• Children of Men
• Star Trek Into Darkness
• Insomnia
• X2: X-Men United
• Man of Steel

 

[Tragicomedy]

New book:

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;½ - Started slowly for me but quickly becomes a page turner. Twisted characters and a really messed up marriage...kept me guessing throughout.

 

[guest1321]

Pre-note: I see the TV shows & games included here and there and I wasn't sure how people felt about it in this thread (to be fair I made another one for that purpose), so if it is a nuisance please let me know

​

guest1321 - 9/50 Books | 33/50 Movies

Books

• The Lean Startup
• Mass Effect: Revelation
• Tenth of December
• Mass Effect: Ascension
• Bioshock: Mind in Revolt
• Rework
• Halo: Silentium
• Running Lean
• Wool Book 1 - Holston

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
• Superman: Unbound
• Iron Man 3
• American History X
• Indie Game: The Movie
• Senna
• Infernal Affairs
• Battle Royale 2

EXTRAS

28/24 TV Shows | 13/24 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
• Bones - Season 5
• Bones - Season 6
• Bones - Season 7
• Batman Beyond - Season 1
• Bones - Season 8
• Person of Interest - Season 2
• CSI: NY - Season 9
• How I Met Your Mother - Season 8
• Arrow - Season 1
• Family Guy - Season 11
• Grimm - Season 2
• Hawaii Five-O - Season 3
• CSI - Season 13
• Game of Thrones - Season 3

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)
• Bioshock Infinite (Steam)
• Tomb Raider (360)
• DH Supreme (iOS)
• Impossible Road (iOS)
• Kerbal Space Program (Steam)