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So... Kaldric Send a noteboard - 15/12/2010 04:13:27 PM
I would be discouraged from picking up Gulliver's Travels to get

The Not-So-Dirty Half Dozen Challenge.

The Tasks:
1. Read a work of Classic literature - one you've never read before.
5. Read a book and then watch a film of that book (again, you can have read the book before).

Genre Challenge

- Allegory/parody/satire
The 50 Book Challenge.


It's a good time for you to pick up a book you've been meaning to read for ages.
Kaldric

P.S. The "NSSP" is implied.

Of course, [Quixote] carried it a bit too far. He thought that every windmill was a giant. That's insane. But, thinking that they might be...
--Justin Playfair, They Might Be Giants
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2011: a year of RAFO challenges. Rebekah - 13/12/2010 10:45:30 PM 2626 Views
What do we win? *NM* Tavi - 13/12/2010 10:59:45 PM 952 Views
Pride? A feeling of accomplishment? Rebekah - 13/12/2010 11:01:55 PM 1420 Views
Seems worth it. ? - 16/12/2010 09:51:48 PM 1442 Views
I demand pie! Myrdhyn - 22/12/2010 08:16:19 PM 1380 Views
That looks like fun ranagrande - 14/12/2010 12:50:54 AM 1427 Views
I like. Darth_Katie - 14/12/2010 01:08:36 AM 1493 Views
I think it says "challenge" Camilla - 15/12/2010 02:04:34 AM 1471 Views
Competition with yourself, then. Darth_Katie - 15/12/2010 03:52:13 AM 1503 Views
I refuse to watch film versions of books if I can help it Larry - 14/12/2010 01:20:21 AM 1449 Views
I generally agree, but sometimes the movies are better than the books. *NM* ranagrande - 14/12/2010 01:27:44 AM 859 Views
Most of my favorite books are unfilmable. *NM* Larry - 14/12/2010 01:40:04 AM 841 Views
Just like Watchmen! *NM* Craig - 14/12/2010 02:46:14 AM 840 Views
Yup. Darth_Katie - 14/12/2010 04:06:14 AM 1476 Views
I never watched that. Cockatiel of Doom - 19/12/2010 01:12:19 AM 1551 Views
You are a lucky lady. Darth_Katie - 19/12/2010 03:53:30 AM 1609 Views
Name one. *NM* Tom - 14/12/2010 05:07:36 AM 820 Views
Mansfield Park. Rebekah - 14/12/2010 08:36:23 AM 1568 Views
I'll name a dozen. ranagrande - 14/12/2010 10:32:04 AM 1525 Views
Not all of those are valid choices. Tom - 14/12/2010 03:32:55 PM 1537 Views
Also Big Fish. Craig - 14/12/2010 08:02:07 PM 1621 Views
I prefer the book version of that, by the way Larry - 14/12/2010 10:45:54 PM 1547 Views
Weird. *NM* Craig - 15/12/2010 05:47:21 AM 848 Views
Lots of poor movies there Larry - 14/12/2010 10:48:59 PM 1470 Views
Yeah, I don't know how any movie could be as bad as that book. *NM* BlackAdder - 15/12/2010 08:06:20 AM 1005 Views
Wonderboys *NM* Mark - 14/12/2010 04:49:47 PM 863 Views
I'm in. *NM* Camilla - 14/12/2010 10:43:14 AM 946 Views
Seems nice, I will try to do the half-dozen challange *NM* ursidae - 14/12/2010 07:32:20 PM 988 Views
This is a really good idea. I like the challenges. I wonder if I can be arsed to do one. Or more. *NM* M & M Maddy - 14/12/2010 08:23:42 PM 987 Views
Question: Can books count for multiple challenges? *NM* Great Lord of Chaos - 14/12/2010 09:34:28 PM 928 Views
Preferably not. But we can be tolerant if you're running out of time. Rebekah - 14/12/2010 09:49:26 PM 1425 Views
But the challenge-books can count towards the 50 and the book you'd been meaning to read. Legolas - 14/12/2010 10:17:12 PM 1456 Views
Re: But the challenge-books can count towards the 50 and the book you'd been meaning to read. Rebekah - 14/12/2010 10:22:06 PM 1479 Views
So... Kaldric - 15/12/2010 04:13:27 PM 1707 Views
A single book can count for many things... Jacob - 15/12/2010 04:17:59 PM 1576 Views
Oooh. This sounds great, count me in! Avendesora - 15/12/2010 12:38:39 AM 1878 Views
A challenge I'm toying with for 2011: Tom - 15/12/2010 04:00:36 AM 1578 Views
Inspired somewhat by Tom's post, here's one I'm toying with for next year Larry - 15/12/2010 04:46:05 AM 1527 Views
I'm in. *NM* Missa Sedai - 15/12/2010 05:20:04 AM 846 Views
Hmm, exciting BlackAdder - 15/12/2010 08:10:50 AM 1789 Views
A condition and an observation Camilla - 15/12/2010 11:27:29 AM 1510 Views
Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian? Larry - 15/12/2010 01:08:04 PM 1641 Views
I liked The Road and No Country For Old Men as well. Jessie - 22/12/2010 06:23:23 PM 1507 Views
Is The Road really a western, though? *NM* Legolas - 22/12/2010 10:30:44 PM 892 Views
true. Not so much, I just always pigeonhole McCarthy as a westernish writer. *NM* Jessie - 25/12/2010 02:20:54 AM 787 Views
Karl May? Legolas - 15/12/2010 07:27:03 PM 1583 Views
I'm sorry, but I keep reading "Karl Marx?" *NM* Tom - 18/12/2010 04:51:40 AM 734 Views
Yeah, they're rather different. *NM* Legolas - 18/12/2010 01:33:23 PM 810 Views
Hm nossy - 15/12/2010 03:15:50 PM 1601 Views
I've read a western. I'm counting that! snoopcester - 30/12/2010 10:50:46 PM 1684 Views
snoopcester - 30/12/2010 10:51:55 PM 1466 Views
You'd think two things here that aren't true snoopcester - 30/12/2010 11:56:22 PM 1521 Views
Re: <will watch interestedly as you play> Danae al'Thor - 16/12/2010 12:22:54 PM 1477 Views
I think you should try to do one challenge now issued by myself Larry - 16/12/2010 01:07:18 PM 1499 Views
Re: If I can afford it, then of course I'll read it. Danae al'Thor - 17/12/2010 12:35:02 PM 1545 Views
I am so doing this! ? - 16/12/2010 09:55:19 PM 1440 Views
Question: ? - 17/12/2010 01:56:50 AM 1596 Views
I think we can accept that. Legolas - 17/12/2010 09:05:55 PM 1683 Views
Ok cool. Thanks *NM* ? - 17/12/2010 09:34:30 PM 804 Views
Dirty half dozen and genre challenges for me Stephen - 17/12/2010 12:14:00 PM 1494 Views
I think that would definitely qualify. Legolas - 17/12/2010 09:07:28 PM 1532 Views
Re: I think that would definitely qualify. Stephen - 20/12/2010 12:45:42 AM 1525 Views
As always, I won't succeed at the 50 book challenge, but the others... A Deathwatch Guard - 20/12/2010 07:05:30 AM 1445 Views
I'm going for the 120 book challenge. Jessie - 22/12/2010 06:18:25 PM 1509 Views
I think you missed a trick here. Michael - 30/12/2010 09:19:20 AM 1605 Views
I think that one is always understood. *NM* Camilla - 30/12/2010 09:36:38 AM 930 Views
I don't think it is. Michael - 30/12/2010 04:20:41 PM 1414 Views
Well. Rebekah - 30/12/2010 04:55:00 PM 1508 Views
More questions Camilla - 16/01/2011 08:39:01 PM 1435 Views
Re: More questions Larry - 16/01/2011 08:48:09 PM 1465 Views
Re: More questions Camilla - 16/01/2011 08:51:37 PM 1547 Views
Faulkner? Larry - 16/01/2011 08:58:12 PM 1524 Views
Hmmm. Maybe. *NM* Camilla - 16/01/2011 09:11:25 PM 1622 Views
Re: More questions Rebekah - 16/01/2011 08:57:51 PM 1489 Views
Re: More questions Camilla - 16/01/2011 09:00:23 PM 1493 Views
Hm. Rebekah - 16/01/2011 09:11:29 PM 1650 Views
Re: Hm. Camilla - 16/01/2011 09:13:50 PM 1442 Views
Rebekah - 16/01/2011 09:16:42 PM 1477 Views
Re: Camilla - 16/01/2011 09:50:09 PM 1793 Views
Re: Rebekah - 16/01/2011 10:09:10 PM 1574 Views
Re: Camilla - 16/01/2011 10:15:09 PM 1725 Views
Re: More questions Legolas - 16/01/2011 10:35:07 PM 1628 Views
I have read a Family Chronicle ranagrande - 18/01/2011 03:03:48 AM 1675 Views
Nice try. *NM* Legolas - 18/01/2011 06:19:48 PM 744 Views
You disagree? ranagrande - 19/01/2011 01:30:45 AM 1502 Views
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