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so, how you liking Pandora's Star? imlad Send a noteboard - 01/01/2010 07:25:24 PM
I hope you are enjoying it as much as I did. I still think it is a better series than the "Night's Dawn" series, but both are still pretty cool.

The majority of the books are Sci-Fi and Fantasy:

1. Joan Harris: Five Quarters of the Orange
2. Barbara Hambly: The Ladies of Mandrigyn
3. Scott Lynch: Red Seas under Red Skies
4. Anne Bishop: The Shadow Queen
5. Anne Bishop: Tangled Webs
6. Cherryh C.J: Downbelow Station
7. Catherine Asaro: The Ruby Dice
8. Sarah Monette: Corambis
9. Arkadij & Boris Strugatskij: I Vålnadernas tid (Gadkij lebedi, The Ugly Swans)
10. Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
11. Maria V Snyder: Poison Study
12. Stephenie Meyer: Twilight
13. Stephenie Myer: New Moon
14. Stephenie Meyer: Eclipse
15. Maria V. Snyder: Magic Study
16. Stephenie Meyer: Breaking Dawn
17. Maria V Snyder: Fire Study
18. Brian W. Aldiss: Poor Little Warrior! (short story)
19. Brian W. Aldiss: Randy’s Syndrome (short story)
20. Brian W. Aldiss: How An Inner Door Opened to My Heart (short story)
21. Brian W. Aldiss: Heresies of the Huge God (short story)
22. Brian W. Aldiss: Creatures of the Apogee (short story)
23. Brian W. Aldiss: Another Little Boy (short story)
24. Brian W. Aldiss: You Never Asked My Name (short story)
25. Brian W. Aldiss: The New Father Christmas (short story)
26. Pamela Sargent: The Shore of Women
27. Philip K Dick: The Man in the high Castle
28. Jacqueline Lichtenberg: House of Zeor
29. Jacqueline Lichtenberg: Ambrov Keon
30. Jacqueline Lichtenberg: Zelerod’s Doom
31. Ann Aguirre: Grimspace
32. Michelle Sagara: Cast in Shadow
33. S. L. Viehl: Beyond Varallan
34. Birgitta Trotzig: De Utsatta (Swedish author)
35. C.S. Friedman: This Alien Shore
36. S. L. Viehl: Endurance
37. S. L. Viehl: Shockball
38. Vera Nazarian: Dreams of the Compass Rose
39. Carlos Ruiz Zafón: The Shadow of the Wind
40. Carol Berg: Flesh and Spirit
41. Lois McMaster Bujold: The Sharing Knife: Beguilement
42. Ann Aguirre: Wanderlust
43. Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
44. Tanith Lee: The Silver Metal Lover
45. Sharon Shinn: Archangel
46. Arthur Conan Doyle: The Poison Belt
47. Salman Rushdie: Haroun and the Sea of Stories
48. Linnea Sinclair: Gabriel’s Ghost
49. Moira J. Moore: Resenting the Hero
50. Moira J. Moore: The Hero Strikes Back
51. Linnea Sinclair: Shades of Dark
52. Linnea Sinclair: An Accidental Goddess
53. Moira J. Moore: Heroes Adrift
54. Moira J. Moore: Heroes at Risk
55. Mary Doria Russell: The Sparrow
56. Justina Robson: Selling out
57. Thomas More: Utopia

And I'm currently halfway through Peter Hamilton's Pandora's Star. So, 50 1/2 books = 57 1/2 stories (Aldiss' short stories were collected in one book). I'm still surprised that I read as many young adult books as I did in the beginning of the year (Meyer and Snyder). I usually don't read any at all.
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50-book challenge complete! Tim - 31/12/2009 10:02:42 PM 1963 Views
What did you think of Three Men on a Boat? One of the more underrated comedies out there, IMO. *NM* RandAllThor - 01/01/2010 12:02:36 AM 467 Views
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That is a great dedication. *NM* Jacob - 05/01/2010 06:12:34 PM 293 Views
Good job, Tim! rebelaessedai - 01/01/2010 01:09:20 AM 743 Views
Not only that: my current read is Matter, the last Culture novel. Tim - 01/01/2010 11:16:34 AM 799 Views
Nice. rebelaessedai - 01/01/2010 11:45:27 PM 757 Views
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I should correct myself... Tim - 02/01/2010 08:49:21 PM 761 Views
I also completed the 50 Book Challenge, in a nick of time. Spriteling - 01/01/2010 11:07:42 AM 785 Views
another nice list imlad - 01/01/2010 07:19:46 PM 756 Views
Me too. Camilla - 01/01/2010 11:53:57 AM 866 Views
did you read "Gone-Away World" twice?? imlad - 01/01/2010 07:23:16 PM 764 Views
Yes. It is that good. Camilla - 01/01/2010 10:18:34 PM 659 Views
My 50 and a half books Linda - 01/01/2010 01:00:17 PM 882 Views
so, how you liking Pandora's Star? imlad - 01/01/2010 07:25:24 PM 696 Views
You counted a book about contract law??? Tom - 01/01/2010 04:16:53 PM 761 Views
fnords!!!!! imlad - 01/01/2010 07:29:09 PM 689 Views
by the way imlad - 01/01/2010 07:30:04 PM 689 Views
Three. If they were originally published separately, the fact that someone collected them into... Tim - 01/01/2010 11:55:22 PM 823 Views
thats what I was doing too imlad - 02/01/2010 07:13:47 PM 809 Views
The Night Watch series just got progressively worse. I liked all of them, though. *NM* Ghavrel - 01/01/2010 10:18:15 PM 336 Views
Ha! When you first said "mastering"- rebelaessedai - 01/01/2010 11:51:16 PM 653 Views
Of course. It's the 50-book challenge, not the 50-SciFi-or-Fantasy-book challenge. Tim - 02/01/2010 12:14:59 AM 784 Views
I would never have considered case books "books" for purposes of the 50-book challenge. Tom - 02/01/2010 05:41:02 PM 854 Views
It's a textbook, not a case book. Tim - 02/01/2010 08:43:42 PM 996 Views
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There's always Amharic, I suppose Larry - 05/01/2010 07:32:50 AM 888 Views
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Since 50 and a half seems to be quite a popular number this year, here are mine. wahooka - 01/01/2010 04:38:09 PM 894 Views
I think I managed, too. However, after that, my reading just... ceased. jh - 01/01/2010 06:02:16 PM 782 Views
There's a lot of those I have not heard of. rebelaessedai - 01/01/2010 11:57:04 PM 794 Views
Oh. jh - 02/01/2010 11:19:25 AM 775 Views
Re: 50-book challenge complete! imlad - 01/01/2010 07:11:32 PM 725 Views
I failed my challenge. Rebekah - 01/01/2010 11:13:59 PM 785 Views
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Because I'm not American. Tim - 03/01/2010 05:50:36 AM 656 Views
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Is the subjunctive any more alive in America than in Britain? Tim - 03/01/2010 06:23:09 AM 704 Views
It is where I live Larry - 03/01/2010 07:46:15 AM 821 Views
Not in any meaningful sense. I suppose there are some irregularities which could be subjunctive... Ghavrel - 03/01/2010 09:54:46 AM 742 Views
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I think he is Larry - 03/01/2010 11:43:24 PM 795 Views
The example I used was AAVE, yes. Ghavrel - 04/01/2010 02:10:23 AM 762 Views
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Possibly. It'd probably be worth checking what he meant. *NM* Tim - 05/01/2010 10:59:32 AM 297 Views
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