Kent’s Comments (group member since Nov 15, 2012)

Kent’s comments from the Challenge: 50 Books group.

Purity -- might as well get it out of the way.

I actually hit my goal today which was 50,000 pages, not 50 books. It took 200 books to hit that total. So four times completed on the 50 book challenge as of today.

So I was reading on The Millions and came across an article suggesting we read less this year. I disagreed in my own ranting Blog Post. You can never read too much, can you?

Fun to start over on the 50 book challenge -- I met it 4 times last year.

This year I've got Infinite Jest, 1Q84 and The Brothers Karamazov on my to read list, so those three should count as 15 books or so -- maybe I need to have a 50,000 page challenge instead?

So there you go -- 50,000 pages. Any takers?

49. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

50. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis

Ok, I did it -- 50 books four times (200 for the year) Dancing, gloating and mainly making an ass of myself, but hey, I read 200 books this year.

48. The Red Notebook: True Stories by Paul Auster

Two more down, only three to go for 200 for the year.

46. Lydia Davis's Almost No Memory

47. Infinite Possibility: Creating Customer Value on the Digital Frontier by B. Joseph Pine

45. Self Publishing Attack! The 5 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws for Creating Steady Income Publishing Your Own Books by James Scott Bell

44. Damned by Chuck Palahniuk

42. Fugue State by Brian Evenson

43. Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings by Mark Twain

41. The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

39. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

40. The Way the World Works by Nicholson Baker

Only 10 to go . . .

37. A War of Gifts by Orson Scott Card

38. Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

37. Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

38. by Orson Scott Card

36. Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott

35. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

33. Bi Lives: Bisexual Women Tell Their Stories by Kata Orndorff

34. Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor

31. The Professor of Desire by Philip Roth

32. Dogfight: The 2012 Presidential Campaign in Verse by Calvin Trillin

30. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

28. Angels by Denis Johnson

29. The Visible Man by Chuck Klosterman