50 Book Challenge 2012 AKA Anna Will Kick Your Arse

[Coito ergo sum]

"The Better Angels of our Nature" wasn't short! It was as long as one of your more argumentative posts!

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight? A "book?"

I call foul.

Can we get a moderator in here to strike the non-bookish books from Lord Huxley's list?

[Clinton Huxley]

"The Better Angels of our Nature" wasn't short! It was as long as one of your more argumentative posts!

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight? A "book?"

I call foul.

Can we get a moderator in here to strike the non-bookish books from Lord Huxley's list?

I think our original rules said anything with more than 50 pages. Nice try, though

[Coito ergo sum]

"The Better Angels of our Nature" wasn't short! It was as long as one of your more argumentative posts!

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight? A "book?"

I call foul.

Can we get a moderator in here to strike the non-bookish books from Lord Huxley's list?

I think our original rules said anything with more than 50 pages. Nice try, though

Page count only?

FFS - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight? There're, like, 50 words per page...

...gotta watch you limeys....always up to shenanigans...(or, is that the Micks...ah, well, you're all the same anyway...)

[Clinton Huxley]

That reminds me of something Douglas Adams said about Americans judging the quality of a book by its length...

[Coito ergo sum]

That reminds me of something Douglas Adams said about Americans judging the quality of a book by its length...

I'm judging the quantity of a book by its length, which seems appropriate.

[leo-rcc]

Do audio books count?

[Coito ergo sum]

No, but if you read the dictionary, then it counts as every book ever written.

[leo-rcc]

Then there is no way I'll reach 50 books this year.

[Clinton Huxley]

audio books count, as do comics.

[Coito ergo sum]

audio books count, as do comics.

I'll make up my 50 books by visiting the "graphic novel" section of Barnes & Noble this afternoon....

[Clinton Huxley]

audio books count, as do comics.

I'll make up my 50 books by visiting the "graphic novel" section of Barnes & Noble this afternoon....

I think that is probably for the best...

[Coito ergo sum]

audio books count, as do comics.

I'll make up my 50 books by visiting the "graphic novel" section of Barnes & Noble this afternoon....

I think that is probably for the best...

Chicken Soup for the Soul
The Adventures of Captain Underpants
Where the Wild Things Are
Horton Hears a Who
2012 Far Side Calendar
2012 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition
Mead 100 sheet note pad (college ruled)

[anna09]

1. The Nasty Bits- Anthony Bourdain
2. The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters- B.R. Myers
3. The Rum Diary- Hunter S. Thompson
4. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human- V.S Ramachandran
5. Down and Out in Paris and London- George Orwell
6. Death from the Skies: The Science Behind the End of the World- Philip Plait
7. The Scarlet Pimpernel- Baroness Orczy
8. Lady Chatterley's Lover- D. H. Lawrence
9. House of Meetings- Martin Amis
10. The Lost Girl- D. H. Lawrence
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
12. Scaramouche- Rafael Sabatini
13. Money- Martin Amis
14. The Good Soldier- Ford Madox Ford
15. The Nick Adams Stories- Ernest Hemingway
16. The Virgin and the Gipsy- D. H. Lawrence
17. Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts About Alternative Medicine- Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
18. Far and Away: A Prize Every Time- Neil Peart
19. In Between the Sheets- Ian McEwan
20. Sleep Thieves- Stanley Coren
21. Free Will- Sam Harris

[anna09]

1. The Nasty Bits- Anthony Bourdain
2. The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters- B.R. Myers
3. The Rum Diary- Hunter S. Thompson
4. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human- V.S Ramachandran
5. Down and Out in Paris and London- George Orwell
6. Death from the Skies: The Science Behind the End of the World- Philip Plait
7. The Scarlet Pimpernel- Baroness Orczy
8. Lady Chatterley's Lover- D. H. Lawrence
9. House of Meetings- Martin Amis
10. The Lost Girl- D. H. Lawrence
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
12. Scaramouche- Rafael Sabatini
13. Money- Martin Amis
14. The Good Soldier- Ford Madox Ford
15. The Nick Adams Stories- Ernest Hemingway
16. The Virgin and the Gipsy- D. H. Lawrence
17. Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts About Alternative Medicine- Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
18. Far and Away: A Prize Every Time- Neil Peart
19. In Between the Sheets- Ian McEwan
20. Sleep Thieves- Stanley Coren
21. Free Will- Sam Harris
22. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking- Susan Cain

[Coito ergo sum]

1. Chessmen of Mars, Burroughs
2. Foundation, Asimov
3. Foundation and Empire, Asimov
4. Second Foundation, Asimov
5. Foundation's Edge, Asimov
6. Foundation and Earth, Asimov
7. Brain Twister, Mark Phillips