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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > Challenged Reading 2015 Editon
 
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High Warlord Zog
Dec 12, 2012
 I'll have a crack at the Stravinsky Challenge.

In addition I'm going to try to do 52 books by authors I haven't read before.

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High Warlord Zog
Dec 12, 2012

The Berzerker posted:

First update:
I also know what I'll be reading for 8, 9, 11, 15, 16, and 20, so I'm off to a good start. If someone else taking the Booklord challenge would like to give me a wildcard, I'm game for it now - something funny would be appreciated.

Black Ajax by George MacDonald Fraser. There's a lot of period vernacular in this one, but if you can get get through stuff like the Aubrey/Maturin books or Huck Finn with no problems then you should be fine. If not, I suggest Arthur Conan Doyle's Rodney Stone as an ease in read (it's also worth reading since Ajex is Fraser's response Doyle's treatment of the regency era, and, because you asked for something humorous, a big influence on the work of PG Wodehouse).

High Warlord Zog fucked around with this message at 07:18 on Jan 19, 2015

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High Warlord Zog
Dec 12, 2012
 The Year So Far...

1) Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
2) Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper by Diablo Cody*
3) The Dark Defiles by Richard K Morgan
4) Off Season by Jack Ketchum*
5) The 39 Steps by John Buchan*
6) The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey*
7) Feed by Mira Grant*
8) Old Man's War by John Scalzi*
9) The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan*
10) Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov*
11) Pronto by Elmore Leonard*
12) Brothers by William Goldman*
13) Flashman and the Tiger by George MacDonald Fraser
14) Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin*
15) An Act of Courage by Allan Mallinson
16) Superman: Secret Identity by Kurt Busiek*
17) Fly Away Peter by David Malouf*
18) The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross*
19) Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks*
20) The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
21) Trouble is My Business by Raymond Chandler*
22) Sharpe's Sword by Bernard Cornwell
23) Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson*
24) Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley*
25) A Model World and Other Stories by Michael Chabon*
26) By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart*
27) The Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story by Stephen Donaldson*
28) The Prince by Machiavelli*
29) The First Person and Other Stories by Ali Smith
30) The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater*
31) Ms. Marvel, Vol. 2: Generation Why by G. Willow Wilson
32) First Love, Last Rites by Ian McEwan*
33) Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom by Bell Hooks*
34) Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie*
35) Close Quarters by William Golding
36) At the Mouth of the River of Bees by Kij Johnson*
37) Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng*
38) Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin
39) The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
40) The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House by Neil Gaiman
41) The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country by Neil Gaiman
42) The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman
43) The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You by Neil Gaiman
44) The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections by Neil Gaiman
45) Nightworld by F Paul Wilson*
46) The Children of Men by PD James
47) The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien*
48) The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy*
49) Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
50) The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton*
51) Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein*

Booklord Challenge Bingo

1. The vanilla read a set number of books in a year (34/52 authors not read before - indicated by asterix).
2. Read a female author (17)
3. The non-white author (4)
4. Philosophy (Machiavelli)
5. History
6. An essay (Hooks - a collection)
7. A collection of poetry
8. Something post-modern (Pale Fire)
9. Something absurdist
10. The Blind Owl
11. Something on either hate or love (The Narrow Road to Deep North)
12. Something dealing with space (Use of Weapons)
13. Something dealing with the unreal (Something Wicked This Way Comes)
14. Wildcard (I need one!)
15. Something published this year or the past three months (The Dark Defiles)
16. That one book that has been sitting on your desk waiting for a long time (The Luminaries)
17. A play
18. Biography
19. The colour red (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
20. Something banned or censored
21. Short story (4 collections - Chabon, Smith, Johnson, McEwan)
22. A mystery (Trouble is My Business)

High Warlord Zog fucked around with this message at 11:12 on Sep 9, 2015

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High Warlord Zog
Dec 12, 2012

Fellwenner posted:

Also, someone give me a wildcard book!

Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan

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High Warlord Zog
Dec 12, 2012
 Over to You by Roald Dahl

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High Warlord Zog
Dec 12, 2012
 Read the Dahl book.

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High Warlord Zog
Dec 12, 2012
 The Year So Far...

1) Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
2) Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper by Diablo Cody*
3) The Dark Defiles by Richard K Morgan
4) Off Season by Jack Ketchum*
5) The 39 Steps by John Buchan*
6) The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey*
7) Feed by Mira Grant*
8) Old Man's War by John Scalzi*
9) The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan*
10) Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov*
11) Pronto by Elmore Leonard*
12) Brothers by William Goldman*
13) Flashman and the Tiger by George MacDonald Fraser
14) Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin*
15) An Act of Courage by Allan Mallinson
16) Superman: Secret Identity by Kurt Busiek*
17) Fly Away Peter by David Malouf*
18) The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross*
19) Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks*
20) The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
21) Trouble is My Business by Raymond Chandler*
22) Sharpe's Sword by Bernard Cornwell
23) Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson*
24) Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley*
25) A Model World and Other Stories by Michael Chabon*
26) By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart*
27) The Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story by Stephen Donaldson*
28) The Prince by Machiavelli*
29) The First Person and Other Stories by Ali Smith
30) The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater*
31) Ms. Marvel, Vol. 2: Generation Why by G. Willow Wilson
32) First Love, Last Rites by Ian McEwan*
33) Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom by Bell Hooks*
34) Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie*
35) Close Quarters by William Golding
36) At the Mouth of the River of Bees by Kij Johnson*
37) Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng*
38) Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin
39) The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
40) The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House by Neil Gaiman
41) The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country by Neil Gaiman
42) The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman
43) The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You by Neil Gaiman
44) The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections by Neil Gaiman
45) Nightworld by F Paul Wilson*
46) The Children of Men by PD James
47) The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien*
48) The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy*
49) Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
50) The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton*
51) Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein*
52) The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro*
53) The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives by Neil Gaiman
54) Dark Visions by Steven King, Dan Simmons and George RR Martin
55) The End of the Affair by Graham Greene*
56) Filth by Irvine Welsh*
57) The Sandman, Vol. 8: Worlds' End by Neil Gaiman
58) The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman
59) The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake by Neil Gaiman
60) Magic For Beginners by Kelly Link*
61) How to Be Both by Ali Smith
62) The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood*
63) Get In Trouble by Kelly Link
64) High Rise by JG Ballard*
65) The Sandman: Endless Nights by Neil Gaiman
66) The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson*
67) Aquarium by David Vann*
68) Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck*
69) Kindred by Octavia Butler
70) Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters*
71) 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill*
72) Ariel by Sylvia Plath*
73) The Wilds by Julia Elliott*
74) Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson
75) Bluegrass Symphony by Lisa L. Hannett*
76) The Best of Connie Willis by Connie Willis*
77) Slade House by David Mitchell
78) Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden*
79) July's People by Nadine Gordimer*
80) Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond*
81) Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner*
82) Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika by Tony Kushner
83) Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor*
84) Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

Booklord Challenge

1. The vanilla read a set number of books in a year (53/52 authors not read before - indicated by asterix).
2. Read a female author (30)
3. The non-white author (5)
4. Philosophy (Machiavelli)
5. History (Guns Germs and Steel)
6. An essay (Hooks - a collection)
7. A collection of poetry (Ariel)
8. Something post-modern (Pale Fire)
9. Something absurdist (Cat's Cradle)
10. The Blind Owl
11. Something on either hate or love (The Narrow Road to Deep North)
12. Something dealing with space (Use of Weapons)
13. Something dealing with the unreal (Something Wicked This Way Comes)
14. Wildcard: The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert (Reading)
15. Something published this year or the past three months (The Dark Defiles)
16. That one book that has been sitting on your desk waiting for a long time (The Luminaries)
17. A play (Angels in America)
18. Biography (Escape from Camp 14)
19. The colour red (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
20. Something banned or censored (The Handmaid's Tale)
21. Short story (11 collections - Chabon, Smith, Johnson, McEwan, O'Brian, Link, Tidbeck, Elliott, Willis, O'Connor)
22. A mystery (Trouble is My Business)

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High Warlord Zog
Dec 12, 2012
 2015 Reads

1) Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
2) Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper by Diablo Cody*
3) The Dark Defiles by Richard K Morgan
4) Off Season by Jack Ketchum*
5) The 39 Steps by John Buchan*
6) The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey*
7) Feed by Mira Grant*
8) Old Man's War by John Scalzi*
9) The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan*
10) Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov*
11) Pronto by Elmore Leonard*
12) Brothers by William Goldman*
13) Flashman and the Tiger by George MacDonald Fraser
14) Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin*
15) An Act of Courage by Allan Mallinson
16) Superman: Secret Identity by Kurt Busiek*
17) Fly Away Peter by David Malouf*
18) The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross*
19) Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks*
20) The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
21) Trouble is My Business by Raymond Chandler*
22) Sharpe's Sword by Bernard Cornwell
23) Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson*
24) Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley*
25) A Model World and Other Stories by Michael Chabon*
26) By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart*
27) The Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story by Stephen Donaldson*
28) The Prince by Machiavelli*
29) The First Person and Other Stories by Ali Smith
30) The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater*
31) Ms. Marvel, Vol. 2: Generation Why by G. Willow Wilson
32) First Love, Last Rites by Ian McEwan*
33) Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom by Bell Hooks*
34) Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie*
35) Close Quarters by William Golding
36) At the Mouth of the River of Bees by Kij Johnson*
37) Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng*
38) Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin
39) The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
40) The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House by Neil Gaiman
41) The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country by Neil Gaiman
42) The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman
43) The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You by Neil Gaiman
44) The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections by Neil Gaiman
45) Nightworld by F Paul Wilson*
46) The Children of Men by PD James
47) The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien*
48) The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy*
49) Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
50) The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton*
51) Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein*
52) The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro*
53) The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives by Neil Gaiman
54) Dark Visions by Steven King, Dan Simmons and George RR Martin
55) The End of the Affair by Graham Greene*
56) Filth by Irvine Welsh*
57) The Sandman, Vol. 8: Worlds' End by Neil Gaiman
58) The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman
59) The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake by Neil Gaiman
60) Magic For Beginners by Kelly Link*
61) How to Be Both by Ali Smith
62) The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood*
63) Get In Trouble by Kelly Link
64) High Rise by JG Ballard*
65) The Sandman: Endless Nights by Neil Gaiman
66) The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson*
67) Aquarium by David Vann*
68) Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck*
69) Kindred by Octavia Butler
70) Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters*
71) 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill*
72) Ariel by Sylvia Plath*
73) The Wilds by Julia Elliott*
74) Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson
75) Bluegrass Symphony by Lisa L. Hannett*
76) The Best of Connie Willis by Connie Willis*
77) Slade House by David Mitchell
78) Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden*
79) July's People by Nadine Gordimer*
80) Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond*
81) Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner*
82) Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika by Tony Kushner
83) Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor*
84) Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
85) The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert*
86) Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
87) The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter*
88) Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente*
89) The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
90) Sula by Toni Morrison
91) The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat*

Booklord Challenge

1. The vanilla read a set number of books in a year (57/52 authors not read before - indicated by asterix).
2. Read a female author (34)
3. The non-white author (7)
4. Philosophy (Machiavelli)
5. History (Guns Germs and Steel)
6. An essay (Hooks - a collection)
7. A collection of poetry (Ariel)
8. Something post-modern (Pale Fire)
9. Something absurdist (Cat's Cradle)
10. The Blind Owl
11. Something on either hate or love (The Narrow Road to Deep North)
12. Something dealing with space (Use of Weapons)
13. Something dealing with the unreal (Something Wicked This Way Comes)
14. Wildcard: The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert (Reading)
15. Something published this year or the past three months (The Dark Defiles)
16. That one book that has been sitting on your desk waiting for a long time (The Luminaries)
17. A play (Angels in America)
18. Biography (Escape from Camp 14)
19. The colour red (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
20. Something banned or censored (The Handmaid's Tale)
21. Short story (11 collections - Chabon, Smith, Johnson, McEwan, O'Brian, Link, Tidbeck, Elliott, Willis, O'Connor, Carter)
22. A mystery (Trouble is My Business)

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