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Oh boyohboyohboy - I have found an entire site dedicated to liszstss, but something tells me if I show it to Amy, were not gonna see her again for a very long time... :P

Btw, I'm really rather liking the Le Monde list. I suppose all lists will have entries you dont like, unless it's your own list. ;)

You are sooo right. Do NOT show me that site!

The whole purpose of other people's lists is to refine my own into shining perfection, I say.

Enabling your OCD, one post list at a time. :D

So, so very true :-)

Methinks the Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge looks worthy. Shall we add a group challenge for that one?

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Looks good, but would it be over time or all in a year? No, it can't be in a year, right?

No, not in a year. So, which ones, Le Monde, maybe, and Gilmore?
..and maybe NYT because thegift has read 35 of those. :D

Traveller wrote: "Shall we just go nuts and post a bunch of them? "

Duh? Being at least slightly OCD (my opinion, my wife might suggest "slightly" is a major understatement), LISTZS!!! is good.

I'd like to ask that anybody who adds to the LISTZS please say where they came from? What's a Rory Gilmore challenge? Radcliffe's rivals?

As for the 1001 books I must read before I die, I'm stopping at 1000. Take that, man with the scythe!

Derek (Guilty of thoughtcrime) wrote: "I'd like to ask that anybody who adds to the LISTZS please say where they came from? What's a Rory Gilmore challenge? Radcliffe's rivals?

As for the 1001 books I must read before I die, I'm stopp..."

Ah, yes, good point. Will do.

Derek (Guilty of thoughtcrime) wrote: "As for the 1001 books I must read before I die, I'm stopping at 1000. Take that, man with the scythe!"

LOL. Perfection, Derek.

The Gilmore looks good to me, if for no other reason than I have already read a bunch of them :)

Okay, let's decide on 3. I vote for the David Bowie, Le Monde and Gilmore. Anybody second me on that?

How did I miss the Bowie and Le Monde? I don't see it here or on the previous page...

Derek (Guilty of thoughtcrime) wrote: "As for the 1001 books I must read before I die, I'm stopping at 1000. Take that, man with the scythe!.."
Very clever ruse, to leave one out, BUT WHICH ONE???? :o

Ruth wrote: "How did I miss the Bowie and Le Monde? I don't see it here or on the previous page..."

We might have added them in the meantime. Get an overview here: /topic/group...

I will go for the Bowie and any other two you like.

Ruth wrote: "How did I miss the Bowie and Le Monde? I don't see it here or on the previous page..."

Traveller's clearly making up for lost time. I added the Bowie list less than an hour before you asked this question!

Traveller wrote: "Very clever ruse, to leave one out, BUT WHICH ONE???? :o"

I don't know, yet. I checked, but Ayn Rand wasn't on the list ;-)

I nominate The Little Prince. Alternatively, Interview with the Vampire.

Hey, I loved The Little Prince (as a child), and although I never finished it, I aim to yet finish IWTV - will let you know if it's worth it. :)

Btw, have you guys seen this little surprise? /topic/show/... O|:-)

2465? You are NUTS! And also evil.

I am SO evil. I just couldn't resist - would you have been able to?
*whistles innocently*
Seriously, though, it's a nicely put together list the way it's done by author. A nice resource - if you have the time - for just dipping into or for checking out what each author had written and also as a reminder of what's out there.

Traveller wrote: "I am SO evil. I just couldn't resist - would you have been able to?
*whistles innocently*"

Maybe not. (As long as I don't have to go through the tedium of adding them all to a shelf. I still haven't fixed my 1001 shelf because I can't bear the thought of doing it over.)

Yes, the shelf-adding is a bit painful if you have many challenges going, unfortunately. Unless you do it piecemeal, gradually.

I tend to be worse even then that. If I am working a list (1001 or say, Bowie's list), I like to put them all on my shelves, and if I'm not going to read them I just mark them not my cup of tea. That way I have the whole list accounted for. I don't think I could do 2465.

I have to confess, I found out about "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon while watching Gilmore Girls. It was only much later that I started reading it but the show alerted me about it's existence :p The Gilmore Girls was one of my favourite shows.

Amy (Other Amy) wrote: "2465? You are NUTS! And also evil."

What Amy said!

Traveller wrote: "I am really going to hate myself for doing this, and I know you will too, but... "

No, I don't hate myself... you on the other hand...

but really, there should be an easier way to create book lists. Looking at the API, it would be possible to create something to take a list of books and create a personal shelf, but not a listopia or group shelf.

Derek (Guilty of thoughtcrime) wrote: "Traveller wrote: "I am really going to hate myself for doing this, and I know you will too, but... "

No, I don't hate myself... you on the other hand...

but really, there should be an easier way ..."

I meant that to say that you will all hate me too. But through the hatred, you all love me because I'm the pot-stirrer.

To create a shelf from a list - that would be extremely useful yes. Suggest it to GR?
Btw, I STILL have not heard back from GR, and I had reported my problem via 3 separate channels.

Here is my review of Matter 8th book in Culture series by Iain M Banks.

Ok, listen up everybody, there have been requests to change our schedule a bit - remember that I said the schedule is not set in stone - our "forthcoming attractions" calendar was just laid out ahead of time so that we can get a rough idea.

In the meantime 3 issues have arisen:
1) People have asked that we postpone The Chimes, because they have problems getting hold of a copy. Is everybody okay with that?

2) Apparently some people have asked that we read the rest of the Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy sooner, because they've really been liking Annihilation.
I was thinking that we can perhaps then replace The Chimes with Authority. What say you?
...and if people then still want to do the last in the Southern reach, we could try and fit that in a bit farther up the line. I'll set up a poll around this, I think.

3) A core group of us have realized that we're brave enough to want to discuss T.S. Eliot. We want to start with The Hollow Men followed later on by The Waste Land.

Since The Hollow Men is a short-ish poem, I was thinking that we could perhaps fit that in next to Authority, or somewhere around there, because soon after that we're going to become pretty busy for those more interested in the classics, with our twin-read of Hamlet the play by William Shakespeare together with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead a play by Tom Stoppard which adds commentary to Hamlet; which will be followed quite shortly by various literatures around Charles Dickens and his friend/rival Wilkie Collins.

Are you guys ready for The Hollow Men so soon?

I'd be happy to do Authority. Even though I skipped the read of Annihilation, Authority is one of those books that's on my to-read list, but can't seem to make it to the top.

And I'd definitely like to do the Eliot.

That sounds good to me. My copy of The Chimes is apparently on a slow boat from, well, the UK actually, and that would give it time to arrive. (Anyone in the US who is wanting to read that one may wish to start locating a copy now.) I'm ready to go on Authority and Eliot.

All right, let's just get the green light from the group in general, and then, since you're rearing to go on Authority and I'm not close to ready for it, would you mind leading Authority for us as well, please Amy? I'll take care of the other discussions.

Btw, is there anybody who would like to volunteer to lead any discussions for us? A work that you love and cherish, perhaps?

I'd be happy to lead Authority, pending group green light.

Traveller wrote: "Ok, listen up everybody, there have been requests to change our schedule a bit - remember that I said the schedule is not set in stone - our "forthcoming attractions" calendar was just laid out ahe..."

I'm happy to read anything in any order. Authority is good. have it booked from library.

Here is my my review of Mad ship, 2nd book in Live ship traders.

Here is my review of Tombs of Atuan, 2nd book in Earth sea cycle.

Here is my review of Hyperion, in Hyperion cantos series. Simply loved it!.

Here is my review of Kushiel's dart, first book in Kushiel's universe.

This isn't an attempt to promote a review or anything like that, but the passage I quote at the beginning of this review is one I can't get off my mind and I have to share it. Also, Carole Maso is a badass.

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I have read this past month :

White Noise
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici
The Enchanted

Jennifer wrote: "I have read this past month :

White Noise
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici
The Enchanted"

Ah! White Noise! Funny, I actually made contact with it obliquely via my studies and know about a lot of the themes touched on in the novel, without having read the novel itself. I must remedy that soon...

I read an excerpt from White Noise in our American literature anthology in college, loved it, and have never gotten back to it. I am a terrible reader :) It's on my list sometime this year, assuming I actually get anything on my list done.

Here is my review for 4th book of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.

Here my review of The Claw of the Conciliator which is the 2nd book in The Book of the New Sun series .

Here is my review of 3rd book in the Gap series, this book was simple amazing!

I think that was the first of the Gap books I read. I had a hard time finding them, and ended up losing interest just because I had no sense of continuity.

Derek wrote: "I think that was the first of the Gap books I read. I had a hard time finding them, and ended up losing interest just because I had no sense of continuity."

Series is really good, I think they are available on amazon.

Yeah, there was no Amazon when I read the first one. I'm not sure there was even a WWW.