And I'd say that someone really likes Conan Doyle 

Although I still claim I did not participate in the challenge per se, I see the value of keeping a record of what you read, and being able to see what other people read. It is interesting. Mine were
Do Butlers Burgle Banks? -- P. G. Wodehouse
American Gods -- Neil Gaiman
Little Dorrit -- Charles Dickens
Denis Duval -- William Makepeace Thackeray
The Scarlet Pimpernel -- Baroness Orczy
Weir of Hermiston -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Absolute Sandman vol 1 -- Neil Gaiman
The Unbearable Lightness of Being -- Milan Kundera
The Book With No Name -- Anonymous
Franz Kafka. A Biography -- Max Brod
The Politics of Friendship -- Jacques Derrida
The Work of Mourning -- Jacques Derrida
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -- James Joyce
The Time Traveler's Wife -- Audrey Niffenegger
PopCo -- Scarlett Thomas
Time and the Other -- Emmanuel Levinas
The Last Watch -- Sergei Lukyanenko
Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience -- Howard Caygill
The Lost World -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
What do you care what people think? -- Richard P. Feynman
1066 and All That -- Walter Carruthers Sellar & Robert Julian Yeatman
The Dark Volume -- G. W. Dahlquist
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Two Other Stories -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Phases of Dickens -- J. Cuming Walters
The Good Terrorist -- Doris Lessing
The Gone-Away World -- Nick Harkaway
Soul Music -- Terry Pratchett
The D. Case -- Charles Dickens, Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini
Maurice Blanchot -- Ulrich Haase & William Large
Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong -- Pierre Bayard
The Space of Literature -- Maurice Blanchot
Moving Pictures -- Terry Pratchett
Coraline -- Neil Gaiman
Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down from the Stars -- Frank Key
The Last Dickens -- Matthew Pearl
Glasslottet -- Amitav Ghosh
Ibid: A Life -- Mark Dunn
Edwin Drood: Antichrist in the Cathedral -- John Thacker
Arthur Conan Doyle -- Jacqueline A. Jaffe
Arthur Conan Doyle: A Memoir -- John Lamond
Memories and Adventures -- Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Conan Doyle -- Pierre Nordon
Something Rotten -- Jasper Fforde
The Pursuit of Crime. Art and Ideology in Detective Fiction -- Dennis Porter
Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters -- Daniel Stashower, Jon L. Lellenberg, Charles Foley & Arthur Conan Doyle
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes -- Arthur Conan Doyle
S/Z -- Roland Barthes
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone -- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets -- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban -- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire -- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix -- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince -- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- J.K. Rowling
The Turn of the Screw -- Henry James
My Man Jeeves -- P.G. Wodehouse
The Scarlet Pimpernel -- Baroness Orczy
Talk to the Hand -- Lynne Truss
Unseen Academicals -- Terry Pratchett
Aunts Aren't Gentlemen -- P.G. Wodehouse
The Last Cavalier -- Alexandre Dumas
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie -- Muriel Spark
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of A Justified Sinner -- James Hogg
Robinson Crusoe -- Daniel Defoe
Endgame -- Samuel Beckett
The Importance of Being Earnest -- Oscar Wilde
The Decay of Lying -- Oscar Wilde
Mr Bliss -- J.R.R. Tolkien
The Gone-Away World -- Nick Harkaway
The Count of Monte-Cristo -- Alexandre Dumas
I could have sorted them into dates, as I kept a record in my calendar, but I can't be bothered to get up from the sofa and get it.
Do Butlers Burgle Banks? -- P. G. Wodehouse
American Gods -- Neil Gaiman
Little Dorrit -- Charles Dickens
Denis Duval -- William Makepeace Thackeray
The Scarlet Pimpernel -- Baroness Orczy
Weir of Hermiston -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Absolute Sandman vol 1 -- Neil Gaiman
The Unbearable Lightness of Being -- Milan Kundera
The Book With No Name -- Anonymous
Franz Kafka. A Biography -- Max Brod
The Politics of Friendship -- Jacques Derrida
The Work of Mourning -- Jacques Derrida
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -- James Joyce
The Time Traveler's Wife -- Audrey Niffenegger
PopCo -- Scarlett Thomas
Time and the Other -- Emmanuel Levinas
The Last Watch -- Sergei Lukyanenko
Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience -- Howard Caygill
The Lost World -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
What do you care what people think? -- Richard P. Feynman
1066 and All That -- Walter Carruthers Sellar & Robert Julian Yeatman
The Dark Volume -- G. W. Dahlquist
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Two Other Stories -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Phases of Dickens -- J. Cuming Walters
The Good Terrorist -- Doris Lessing
The Gone-Away World -- Nick Harkaway
Soul Music -- Terry Pratchett
The D. Case -- Charles Dickens, Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini
Maurice Blanchot -- Ulrich Haase & William Large
Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong -- Pierre Bayard
The Space of Literature -- Maurice Blanchot
Moving Pictures -- Terry Pratchett
Coraline -- Neil Gaiman
Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down from the Stars -- Frank Key
The Last Dickens -- Matthew Pearl
Glasslottet -- Amitav Ghosh
Ibid: A Life -- Mark Dunn
Edwin Drood: Antichrist in the Cathedral -- John Thacker
Arthur Conan Doyle -- Jacqueline A. Jaffe
Arthur Conan Doyle: A Memoir -- John Lamond
Memories and Adventures -- Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Conan Doyle -- Pierre Nordon
Something Rotten -- Jasper Fforde
The Pursuit of Crime. Art and Ideology in Detective Fiction -- Dennis Porter
Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters -- Daniel Stashower, Jon L. Lellenberg, Charles Foley & Arthur Conan Doyle
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes -- Arthur Conan Doyle
S/Z -- Roland Barthes
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone -- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets -- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban -- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire -- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix -- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince -- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- J.K. Rowling
The Turn of the Screw -- Henry James
My Man Jeeves -- P.G. Wodehouse
The Scarlet Pimpernel -- Baroness Orczy
Talk to the Hand -- Lynne Truss
Unseen Academicals -- Terry Pratchett
Aunts Aren't Gentlemen -- P.G. Wodehouse
The Last Cavalier -- Alexandre Dumas
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie -- Muriel Spark
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of A Justified Sinner -- James Hogg
Robinson Crusoe -- Daniel Defoe
Endgame -- Samuel Beckett
The Importance of Being Earnest -- Oscar Wilde
The Decay of Lying -- Oscar Wilde
Mr Bliss -- J.R.R. Tolkien
The Gone-Away World -- Nick Harkaway
The Count of Monte-Cristo -- Alexandre Dumas
I could have sorted them into dates, as I kept a record in my calendar, but I can't be bothered to get up from the sofa and get it.
Death to the Regressives of the GOP and the TeaParty. No mercy for Conservatives. Burn them all at the stake for the hateful satanists they are.
50-book challenge complete!
- 31/12/2009 10:02:42 PM
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What did you think of Three Men on a Boat? One of the more underrated comedies out there, IMO. *NM*
- 01/01/2010 12:02:36 AM
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I think Jerome K Jerome was brilliant, and wish there were more like him.
- 01/01/2010 11:21:07 AM
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Good job, Tim!
- 01/01/2010 01:09:20 AM
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Not only that: my current read is Matter, the last Culture novel.
- 01/01/2010 11:16:34 AM
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Me too.
- 01/01/2010 11:53:57 AM
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did you read "Gone-Away World" twice??
- 01/01/2010 07:23:16 PM
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You counted a book about contract law???
- 01/01/2010 04:16:53 PM
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fnords!!!!!
- 01/01/2010 07:29:09 PM
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by the way
- 01/01/2010 07:30:04 PM
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Three. If they were originally published separately, the fact that someone collected them into...
- 01/01/2010 11:55:22 PM
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The Night Watch series just got progressively worse. I liked all of them, though. *NM*
- 01/01/2010 10:18:15 PM
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Of course. It's the 50-book challenge, not the 50-SciFi-or-Fantasy-book challenge.
- 02/01/2010 12:14:59 AM
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I would never have considered case books "books" for purposes of the 50-book challenge.
- 02/01/2010 05:41:02 PM
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It's a textbook, not a case book.
- 02/01/2010 08:43:42 PM
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I think even books we called textbooks were essentially case books.
- 03/01/2010 05:42:45 PM
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Re: You counted a book about contract law???
- 04/01/2010 10:30:24 AM
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We both speak Spanish already.
- 04/01/2010 02:00:06 PM
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- 04/01/2010 02:00:06 PM
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Do you really figure...
- 05/01/2010 01:57:54 AM
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I don't think it would take less time than for Portuguese or French, but...
- 05/01/2010 04:53:27 AM
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I think you should teach her Koine before French
- 05/01/2010 04:01:44 AM
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- 05/01/2010 04:01:44 AM
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If I could convince my wife, I would
- 05/01/2010 04:57:05 AM
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- 05/01/2010 04:57:05 AM
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There's always Amharic, I suppose
- 05/01/2010 07:32:50 AM
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For some reason I always want to read that word as though it were in Gaelic
- 05/01/2010 01:49:44 PM
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Well, at least it's not Klingon!
- 05/01/2010 11:30:48 PM
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I have a cursory knowledge of Old Persian and a smattering of Gatha Avestan...why do you ask?
- 07/01/2010 06:09:20 AM
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Oh, come on. Finnish is all kinds of awesome.
- 05/01/2010 05:01:16 PM
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I know the word "omenapiraaka" means "apple pie" - I went to the Helsinki McDonald's.
- 07/01/2010 06:10:49 AM
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Since 50 and a half seems to be quite a popular number this year, here are mine.
- 01/01/2010 04:38:09 PM
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I think I managed, too. However, after that, my reading just... ceased.
- 01/01/2010 06:02:16 PM
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What did you think of Foucault's Pendulum?
- 02/01/2010 08:42:02 PM
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Because I'm not American.
- 03/01/2010 05:50:36 AM
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Yes, but you lot have lost so much more...
- 03/01/2010 06:03:38 AM
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Is the subjunctive any more alive in America than in Britain?
- 03/01/2010 06:23:09 AM
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Not in any meaningful sense. I suppose there are some irregularities which could be subjunctive...
- 03/01/2010 09:54:46 AM
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Would y'all (
) say it's the same situation as with French (and I think Spanish)?
- 05/01/2010 02:05:59 AM
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) say it's the same situation as with French (and I think Spanish)?
- 05/01/2010 02:05:59 AM
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Not exactly
- 05/01/2010 04:00:04 AM
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All I know about French is what's in Louisiana, and it's just completely incomprehensible.
- 06/01/2010 08:20:53 AM
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Aaah.
- 03/01/2010 09:04:45 AM
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I should have mentioned...
- 03/01/2010 11:39:27 PM
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Illuminatus! is so great. I finished the trilogy last year, I think.
- 05/01/2010 06:58:14 AM
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If this will be your first Eco, I definitely recommend The Name of the Rose rather than FP. *NM*
- 05/01/2010 11:13:07 AM
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I finished with 90 books.
- 09/01/2010 09:45:29 PM
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