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Just finished Crime and Punishment ^^ I thought it was great

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Hum, let's see, I have been reading mostly the same stuff as before but now I have finished some of it ):

Berserk - 24 volumes (4,800 pages)

Monster - 5 volumes, 450 pages each

Mahoromatic - 8 chapters (200 pages)

Cardcaptor Sakura - 12 volumes (2,400 pages)

Accounting for reading:

51,170 pages in 31-7-2015

+4,800 pages (55,970)
+ 1,750 pages (57,720)
+ 2,400 pages (60,120)
+ 200 pages (60,320)
+ 600 pages (60,920)
+ 300 pages (61,220)
+ 60 pages (61,280)
+ 200 pages (61,480)

Ok, about 61,480 pages of fiction read so far. Goal of 70,000 pages by end of the year looks feasible but not so easy now that I am working a lot.

Nice. I don't have a page goal but so far I'm at about 15,000 pp. of literature (nonfiction + fiction) and another 6-7,000 of comics. Not including articles.

Comics is like 5 times faster to read than literature.

Yup, that's why I gave separate page counts

The Martian




Wow, what a great read. My favourite this year. Look forward to what Scott can do with the adaptation.



Mr. Mercedes




One of King's newest efforts. A detective crime story, so it's a different style than King is use to, yet still compelling enough to read. A fun ride.

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latest reading

Shark by Will Self
Inter Ice Age 4 by Kobo Abe
Kitaro by Shigeru Mizuki
Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Vol. 2: Bona Fide Balderdash by Walt Kelly
The Formalism of Military History by Catherine Gallagher (in Representations, Vol. 104, No. 1 (Fall 2008)
Who Touched Base in My Thought Shower?: A Treasury of Unbearable Office Jargon by Steven Poole
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

I am reaching close to 70,000 pages now.

Let's see:
50 chapters of Monster (1,250 pages)
9 volumes of Freezing (1,800 pages)
13 volumes of Berserk (2,600 pages)
11 volumes of Vagabond (2,200 pages)
Total: 7,850 pages

Plus 61,480 pages totals 69,330 pages read in 2015. Given the margin of error of my page count I can guess I already reached my goal of 70,000 pages. Now I don't need to count anymore!

I almost finished The Alchimist by Paulo Coelho, I was curious and I find it to be ok nothing more nothing less. I'd be curious to hear Guap's opinion on this book since I think Coelho is brazilian.

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Around the World In Eighty Days by Jules Verne
The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow - suffered from a cliched ending though.

comics:
Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War by Ari Kelman and Jonathan Fetter-Vorm
What a Wonderful World!, vol.1 by Inio Asano

and I'm currently in the middle of The Guermantes Way (Proust) and Capital in the 21st Century (Piketty).

Rise and Fall of Classical Greece

Got bored of manga. So now I am into ancient history.

Well I happen to have read the book. Coelho is widely regarded as garbage among well read Brazilians (such as a friend I had in college) but I think that book is ok. Though I don't remember much about it since I read it over 10 years ago.

Brazilian authors who are respected include Machado de Assis (basically the Shakespeare of Brazil) and Carlos Drummond de Andrade. However, I am not a specialist in Brazilian literature since I usually don't care about conventional books though.

Southern Horrors and Other Writings by Ida B. Wells

It is frequently claimed that lynchings occur only in sparsely settled districts, and, in fact, it is a favorite plea of governors and reverend apologists to couple two arrant falsehoods, stating that lynchings occur only because of assaults upon white women, and that these assaults occur and the lynchings follow in thinly inhabited districts where the power of the law is entirely inadequate to meet the emergency.

[...]

Of the 1,115 Negro men, women and children hanged, shot and roasted alive from January 1, 1882, to January 1, 1894, inclusive, only 348 of that number were charged with rape. Nearly 700 of these persons were lynched for any other reason which could be manufactured by a mob wishing to indulge in a lynching bee.

[Emphasis mine: "charged" means accused, not convicted or even necessarily tried.]

And some articles I read in the last couple weeks:

Report: Israel's atomic agency backs Iran nuclear deal (USA Today, 10/22/15)
Why China Is the World’s Best Consumption Story by Andy Rothman (Barrons, 10/21/15)
China Steel Head Says Demand Slumping at Unprecedented Speed (Bloomberg, 10/27/15)
Iran's War on Drugs Shows How It Would 'Help' in Syria by Eli Lake (Bloomberg, 10/29/15)
I Was Wrong, and So Are You by Daniel Klein (Atlantic, 12/2011)
How Woodrow Wilson Stoked the First Urban Race Riot by Tom Lewis (Politico, 11/2/15)
How Democrats Suppress The Vote by Eitan Hersh (fivethirtyeight, 11/3/15)
Ex-Israeli Security Chief Diskin: 'All the Conditions Are There for an Explosion' (Der Spiegel, 7/24/14)
Misfire: 5 Wars America Should Never Have Fought by Robert Farley (National Interest, 11/8/15)
The U.N. Caused Haiti's Cholera Epidemic. Now the Obama Administration Is Fighting the Victims. by Jonathan M. Katz (New Republic, 10/24/14)
Who Is the Man Behind Ben Carson’s Foreign Policy? by James Bamford (Foreign Policy, 11/8/15)
Ignoring the Suffering of Yemen by Tony Magliano
Washington in the world (review of Restraint by Barry Posen) by Chase Madar (TLS, 11/4/15)
ISIL and the Taliban by Jamie Doran (Al Jazeera, 11/1/15)

While I uusally dont care for Asano's stuff this one was great.

And then. I have a guilty confession. I do have to admit that in the last year, I've taken to reading some graphic novels. They are not all created equal, and I dont like most - just a few whose stories caught me.

So I literally bought and consumed this entire series:



And now, Im a Rucka fan - at least for this series, though I hate waiting, so I skip months to read it all together. Im not sure I understand the "why" for graphic novels - if a story is good, and this one is - why not just write a novel? He clearly has novels out there....

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Enjoyed all of these.

Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces by Radley Balko
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
Bête by Adam Roberts

Very distinct mangas. One is literary the other is entertainment for he masses.