Summer Reading Competition

[Dr. Bombay]

Huh.  Would you look at this?  It seems there is a novelization:

 

http://www.amazon.com/Cowboys-Aliens-Joan-D-Vinge/dp/0765368269/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372979642&sr=1-1&keywords=cowboys+and+aliens

 

As well as a comic book:

 

http://www.amazon.com/Cowboys-Aliens-Scott-Mitchell-Rosenberg/dp/B006OHW4I4/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372979642&sr=1-2&keywords=cowboys+and+aliens

 

And a Kindle edition that has nothing to do with either of the previous:

 

http://www.amazon.com/Cowboys-Aliens-ebook/dp/B009M9SODK/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372979642&sr=1-4&keywords=cowboys+and+aliens

 

I'm a much better reader than I ever dreamed....

[AnneLine]

pick one.... (1) and you can count it unless byz disagrees.... (of course you can count the one with most pages, I'm just, really....)

 

And amazed at your inventiveness.

 

Amazon truly is a river....

[Dr. Bombay]

Amazon truly is a river....

 

Indeed.  Like the one that flows through Cleveland, it is smelly and polluted and often catches fire and is so far removed from its original purpose that no one can even tell you what it was anymore.

 

I'm good with metaphors too.   Or was that an analogy?  <_<

[AnneLine]

Yus.  :)   You're also phun to have around, much as you may want us to deny it.  :hug:

[Dr. Bombay]

Yus.  :)   You're also phun to have around, much as you may want us to deny it.  :hug:

 

Perhaps.  Although I suspect some of you people would like to strike me in the face with a closed fist, especially if we are discussing Harry Potter.

Speaking of which, I move we exclude the entire Potter series and all its incarnations from this contest.  Unless satanic Illuminati propaganda is appropriate reading for good Catholics?

I think we all know the answer to that one....

[AnneLine]

This I defer to Byz.   I tend to not like to ban books...  just funny that way.....

[Dr. Bombay]

This I defer to Byz.   I tend to not like to ban books...  just funny that way.....

 

Some books should be banned.  And burned.


But I was kidding in this case.  This is a competition for adults so no point in forbidding Harry Potter.  QED

[AnneLine]

:cheers:

[Nihil Obstat]

If a movie has had several remakes over the years, can we count those as multipliers?

[Dr. Bombay]

If a movie has had several remakes over the years, can we count those as multipliers?

 

Always looking for a loophole aren't you? <_<

[Nihil Obstat]

Always looking for a loophole aren't you? <_<

I watched an anime that was adapted from a set of ten novels, and I've watched it 4 times now, so I think we should count that as 40 books read.

[Dr. Bombay]

I watched an anime that was adapted from a set of ten novels, and I've watched it 4 times now, so I think we should count that as 40 books read.

 

I call shenanigans.

[Nihil Obstat]

Well actually, I suppose I have not watched it four times this summer. Just once.

At the same time, I have watched several other shows adapted from novels in the same manner.

[Dr. Bombay]

Well actually, I suppose I have not watched it four times this summer. Just once.

At the same time, I have watched several other shows adapted from novels in the same manner.

 

I suspect you of making a mockery of this competition.  This is simply beyond the pale, sir.

 

Try reading a book.  Just one.  I'd suggest Green Eggs and Ham for starters.  Colorful pictures and small words. 

[Nihil Obstat]

I never read books with a picture to word ratio lower than 10:1.

[AnneLine]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAxARJyaTEA[/media]

 

Now, wouldn't you like to pick up a book and enjoy it?

[Spem in alium]

Jane Eyre...for the third or fourth time! :)
 

[AnneLine]

Hi, Spem,

 

Glad to see you back.  Are you finished with it, or in process of reading it?  If you've finished, do you want to give us a page count?  (You can look it up on Amazon if you want.... page counts are listed there!  If you can't find your exact edition, find one that is similar.... :)

 

I'll probably update again in the evening of Saturday or on Sunday, so time to post any further progress on your reading!

[ardillacid]

I finished Game of Thrones (807) and As a Man Thinketh (78)

 

Moving on to Clash of Kings and Devil in the White City

[ardillacid]

Well!  

 

Ardil ….. 5

 

Outliers (was an audiobook, I don't have a pagecount)

A Wanted Man (585)

Children of Dune (408)

Joyland (283)

Bag of Bones (732)

 

Working on:

 

As A Man Thinketh

Game of Thrones