BTW, today through Sunday you can get the second Scarlet Knight "collection" The Wrath of Isis for only 99 cents! That's 5 huge books for less than a buck. (Seriously they're all over 100,000 words, especially the last one.) The first collection is only $2.99 in case you haven't bought it yet.
In 2013 I read about 250 books. This year I only set my Goodreads reading challenge to only 200 books, which includes graphic novels (or trade paperback volumes of comics), short stories, etc--whatever is listed on Goodreads or that I add to it. I've reached the halfway point so here's what I've read so far:
| Title | Author | My Rating | Date Read |
| Age of Ultron | Brian Michael Bendis | 4 | 1/1/2014 |
| League of Evil (Girl Power #3) | P.T. Dilloway | 5 | 1/2/2014 |
| Cinderella Sims | Lawrence Block | 4 | 1/10/2014 |
| Superman: Earth One | J. Michael Straczynski | 5 | 1/12/2014 |
| X-Men: Age of X | Mike Carey | 4 | 1/15/2014 |
| Player Piano | Kurt Vonnegut | 4 | 1/15/2014 |
| Ultimate Wolverine Vs. Hulk | Damon Lindelof | 4 | 1/16/2014 |
| Siege | Brian Michael Bendis | 4 | 1/17/2014 |
| Fear Itself | Matt Fraction | 4 | 1/17/2014 |
| Stardust | Neil Gaiman | 4 | 1/17/2014 |
| Silverlock | John Myers Myers | 4 | 1/28/2014 |
| Girl Power Stories Volume 1 | P.T. Dilloway | 5 | 1/29/2014 |
| Secret Invasion | Brian Michael Bendis | 3 | 1/31/2014 |
| The Ultimates, Vol. 1: Super-Human | Mark Millar | 3 | 2/1/2014 |
| Girl Power | P.T. Dilloway | 5 | 2/1/2014 |
| Secret War | Brian Michael Bendis | 4 | 2/1/2014 |
| Marvel Universe: The End | Jim Starlin | 4 | 2/2/2014 |
| The Triumph of Evil | Lawrence Block | 2 | 2/7/2014 |
| Tales from the Cobra Wars: A G.I. Joe Anthology | Max Brooks | 3 | 2/7/2014 |
| Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Captain America, Vol. 1 | Joe Simon | 5 | 2/9/2014 |
| How to Archer: The Ultimate Guide to Espionage | Sterling Archer | 4 | 2/10/2014 |
| Such Men Are Dangerous | Lawrence Block | 4 | 2/11/2014 |
| 69 things I do with my Wang: Test to see how dirty your mind is | A. Paz | 5 | 2/12/2014 |
| X-Men: Season One (Marvel Season One) | Dennis Hopeless | 4 | 2/12/2014 |
| Cassafire | Alex J. Cavanaugh | 3 | 2/13/2014 |
| Call Center of Doom (Comedy Sci-fi Short Story) | Nigel G. Mitchell | 5 | 2/14/2014 |
| Punisher: Enter the War Zone | Greg Rucka | 4 | 2/16/2014 |
| Hollywood | Charles Bukowski | 4 | 2/17/2014 |
| The Topless Tulip Caper | Lawrence Block | 5 | 2/19/2014 |
| Chip Harrison Scores Again (The Chip Harrison Mysteries) | Lawrence Block | 4 | 2/21/2014 |
| X-Men: Curse of the Mutants | Victor Gischler | 3 | 2/23/2014 |
| The Lay of the Land: Bascombe Trilogy (3) | Richard Ford | 4 | 2/23/2014 |
| Make Out with Murder | Lawrence Block | 5 | 2/24/2014 |
| No Score | Lawrence Block | 5 | 2/26/2014 |
| Pale Moonlight | Tony Laplume | 5 | 2/27/2014 |
| Sucker's Portfolio | Kurt Vonnegut | 4 | 2/28/2014 |
| Still with Me | Thierry Cohen | 2 | 3/1/2014 |
| JLA, Vol. 3: Rock of Ages | Grant Morrison | 4 | 3/1/2014 |
| Enough of Sorrow | Lawrence Block | 4 | 3/3/2014 |
| The Silence of the Lambs | Thomas Harris | 4 | 3/5/2014 |
| Raising Steam | Terry Pratchett | 4 | 3/7/2014 |
| A Hero's Journey (Tales of the Scarlet Knight, #1) | P.T. Dilloway | 5 | 3/7/2014 |
| Black Widow: The Name of the Rose | Marjorie M. Liu | 4 | 3/8/2014 |
| JLA, Vol. 6: World War III | Grant Morrison | 5 | 3/8/2014 |
| Operation: Masquerade | Nigel G. Mitchell | 5 | 3/9/2014 |
| Justice League Dark, Vol. 1: In the Dark | Peter Milligan | 3 | 3/13/2014 |
| The Natural | Bernard Malamud | 4 | 3/13/2014 |
| Shazam!, Vol. 1 | Geoff Johns | 4 | 3/16/2014 |
| Patrick: Patron Saint of Ireland | Tomie dePaola | 5 | 3/17/2014 |
| The Burglar on the Prowl | Lawrence Block | 4 | 3/18/2014 |
| Burglars Can't Be Choosers (Rhodenbarr, #1) | Lawrence Block | 4 | 3/20/2014 |
| Green Arrow, Vol. 1: The Midas Touch | Dan Jurgens | 4 | 3/29/2014 |
| The Flash, Vol. 1: Move Forward | Francis Manapul | 3 | 3/29/2014 |
| Sydney's Spaceship | Jo Banks | 5 | 3/29/2014 |
| Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas | John Scalzi | 4 | 4/3/2014 |
| Dragonfly Warrior | Jay Noel | 5 | 4/10/2014 |
| Man Overboard And Other Short Stories | Nigel G. Mitchell | 5 | 4/14/2014 |
| Photobomb and Other Stories | Tiny Johnson | 5 | 4/16/2014 |
| The Burglar in the Closet (Rhodenbarr, #2) | Lawrence Block | 4 | 4/16/2014 |
| Race Against Time | Tiny Johnson | 5 | 4/18/2014 |
| Carnage | Zeb Wells | 4 | 4/19/2014 |
| Carnage, U.S.A. | Zeb Wells | 4 | 4/19/2014 |
| Captain America: Reborn | Ed Brubaker | 4 | 4/19/2014 |
| The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling (Rhodenbarr, #3) | Lawrence Block | 4 | 4/19/2014 |
| The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza (Rhodenbarr, #4) | Lawrence Block | 4 | 4/21/2014 |
| Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 1 | Stan Lee | 4 | 4/22/2014 |
| House of M: Spider-Man | Mark Waid | 4 | 4/23/2014 |
| Green Arrow: Year One | Andy Diggle | 5 | 4/25/2014 |
| The Accounting | William Lashner | 4 | 4/26/2014 |
| Ultimate Spider-Man, Vol. 1: Power and Responsibility | Brian Michael Bendis | 4 | 4/29/2014 |
| Spider-Man: Big Time | Dan Slott | 5 | 4/29/2014 |
| Spider-Man: Dying Wish | Dan Slott | 5 | 4/30/2014 |
| Buddy Holly Is Alive & Well.. | Bradley Denton | 4 | 4/30/2014 |
| Spider-Man: Ends of the Earth | Dan Slott | 5 | 5/2/2014 |
| The Universe Versus Alex Woods | Gavin Extence | 2 | 5/3/2014 |
| The Wowzer | Frank Wheeler Jr. | 5 | 5/8/2014 |
| Deadly Honeymoon | Lawrence Block | 3 | 5/9/2014 |
| Spider-Man: Spider-Island | Dan Slott | 5 | 5/9/2014 |
| Green Lantern, Vol. 1: Sinestro | Geoff Johns | 4 | 5/10/2014 |
| Aquaman, Vol. 1: The Trench | Geoff Johns | 5 | 5/10/2014 |
| The Time Machine | H.G. Wells | 4 | 5/10/2014 |
| Dark Origins (Tales of the Scarlet Knight #0) | P.T. Dilloway | 5 | 5/10/2014 |
| The Superior Spider-Man, Vol. 2: A Troubled Mind | Dan Slott | 5 | 5/11/2014 |
| The Superior Spider-Man, Vol. 3: No Escape | Dan Slott | 4 | 5/11/2014 |
| Ultimate Galactus, Vol. 3: Extinction | Warren Ellis | 3 | 5/12/2014 |
| The Superior Spider-Man, Vol. 4: Necessary Evil | Dan Slott | 3 | 5/12/2014 |
| Moving Day: A Thriller | Jonathan Stone | 3 | 5/14/2014 |
| Changed into a Little Girl | Mindi Flyth | 3 | 5/15/2014 |
| Thunderstruck & Other Stories | Elizabeth McCracken | 4 | 5/17/2014 |
| Green Arrow, Vol. 4: The Kill Machine | Jeff Lemire | 3 | 5/18/2014 |
| The Crack in Space | Philip K. Dick | 3 | 5/19/2014 |
| Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1) | Jim Butcher | 5 | 5/22/2014 |
| A Strange Kind of Love | Lawrence Block | 4 | 5/23/2014 |
| Marvel 1602 | Neil Gaiman | 4 | 5/25/2014 |
| Fray: Future Slayer | Joss Whedon | 4 | 5/25/2014 |
| Spider-Man: Reign | Kaare Andrews | 3 | 5/26/2014 |
| 2010: Odyssey Two (Space Odyssey, #2) | Arthur C. Clarke | 3 | 5/28/2014 |
| 2061: Odyssey Three (Space Odyssey, #3) | Arthur C. Clarke | 2 | 5/29/2014 | |
| 3001: Final Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #4) | Arthur C. Clarke | 3 | 5/31/2014 | |
| Breaking News | Nigel G. Mitchell | 5 | 5/30/2014 |
A lot of comics, Lawrence Block books, and my own books in there. Well I read most of Vonnegut's and Ian Fleming's books last year so I guess someone else had to take over.
Most Unexpectedly Good Book (by someone I don't know):
The Wowzer by Frank Wheeler
I'd be lying if I said I didn't buy this because the title made me think of Inspector Gadget cartoons. Of course it has nothing to do with that. It's actually about a corrupt deputy sheriff in a little Arkansas town. If you like shows like Justified, True Detective, Dexter, The Shield, or Breaking Bad then you'd probably like that book because it's in that same anti-hero vein.
Most Unexpectedly Bad Book (by someone I don't know):
Still With Me by Thierry Cohen
This is one of those where I don't know when I bought it or why. I just saw it in the To Read folder on my Kindle and since it was fairly short I put it on while on a trip up north. It's something about a guy tries to commit suicide and then he keeps waking up years into the future to find out he's been living all that time and fucking up his life...and I don't know what the hell was going on. The moral is don't try to commit suicide--unless you're sure you're going to be successful. Because otherwise you might still live but a demon will take over your life--or something like that. Probably didn't help this was written by a French person; as if I don't have enough reasons to hate them already!
5 comments:
Woof! That's incredible. At least I've read a couple of titles on that list. :)
Wow.
I was trying to think how many books I've read/listened to this year. Not nearly as many as you.
Those Burglar books leaped out at me from the list; I may check them out. I wishlisted that Scalzi book after either you or Andrew mentioned something about it? I think?
Right now I'm reading Nigel's "Operation:Masquerade." He's good. I've got your Scarlet Knight books in the queue, too, but I jump around a lot. I get more audiobooks in nowadays, driving to and from places and taking Mr F for rides.
I don't know how you fit it all in.
Oh, also I'll 'fess up: I totally went and checked out the "69 things I do with my wang." That book ought to be up for title of the year.
You are my inspiration. My own endeavors, like reading "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" by Thomas Piketty, pale in importance to the educational value of the X-Men.
Dude, I'm going with the flow and I'm also going to give your own books a 5 out of 5. Hell, make that 6 out of 5. Fuck, you read a lot of books.
Gary
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