# The 50 Book Challenge - The Challengers List **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 5, 2003, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-50-book-challenge-the-challengers-list/146779 "2003-01-05T15:49:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-50-book-challenge-the-challengers-list/146779/41 "2003-01-14T14:09:58Z")
I’ll join, it sounds like fun. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-50-book-challenge-the-challengers-list/146779/42 "2003-01-14T14:16:40Z")
Actually, I’ve already read _Catcher in the Rye_ and _The Dark Half_ this year. ---
**Author:** ![furthur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@furthur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furthur)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-50-book-challenge-the-challengers-list/146779/43 "2003-01-16T01:55:11Z")
Hey, y’all. I could use a live journal code as well if anyone has one to spare. E-mail [furthur@dpc.net](mailto:furthur@dpc.net). Thanks! Mrs. Furthur ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-50-book-challenge-the-challengers-list/146779/44 "2003-01-19T05:35:28Z")
I joined the LJ community for this today. First post going in now. For those who don’t go to LJ, here’s my list so far: **Wild Card (I and II)** by George R. R. Martin: A collaborative novel. The earth was infected by a ‘wild-card’ virus in 1946. The virus causes comic-book mutations in those it infects, some leading to super powers. It isn’t nearly as silly as it sounds. Good fun! **All Judgment Fled** by James White: First contact with an alien craft orbiting beyond Mars. How do you talk to aliens when you can’t tell which are sentients, pets, or vermin? And then there are psychological problems, and hysteria at home. (Reread) **Black Lotus** by Laura Joh Rowland. A detective working for the Shogun of Japan in the 17th century. Good historical atmosphere, good characters, and a good mystery. **P is for Peril** by Sue Grafton: Yet another in her series about a hard-boiled female private eye. So that makes five. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-50-book-challenge-the-challengers-list/146779/45 "2003-01-19T06:53:48Z")
I don’t think I’ll worry about LJ, but I will set fifty books for the year as my goal, since I’m pretty sure that I read at least that many last year. Sor far this year, I’ve finished _Assassin’s Apprentice_ and _Royal Assassin_, both by Robin Hobb, and I’m almost done with _The Warrior’s Tale_, by Allan Cole and Chris Bunch. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-50-book-challenge-the-challengers-list/146779/46 "2003-01-19T07:18:16Z")
Can I join in the fun? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-50-book-challenge-the-challengers-list/146779/47 "2003-01-19T07:30:16Z")
Me to. Since I’ve already got (love the proper English!) 5 books read this month, I’m kind of ahead of the game. ---
**Author:** ![Edwardina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Edwardina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edwardina)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-50-book-challenge-the-challengers-list/146779/48 "2003-01-19T08:34:11Z")
This year I’ve read **Q is for Quarry** by Sue Grafton, and two by Terry Pratchett: **Hogfather** and **The Times**. It will be cool to keep track of how many and what I read in a year . . . I’ve tried doing it in my journal, but have never been very successful. I’m looking forward to this! ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-50-book-challenge-the-challengers-list/146779/49 "2003-01-19T08:53:19Z")
Well, I’d join, but for me, the challenge would be holding myself down to 50. Let’s see…last week I read three books, and this week I’m on my second (I read less on the weeks I’m working). I’ll take you all on! Mwahaha! ---
**Author:** ![Teebone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Teebone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teebone)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-50-book-challenge-the-challengers-list/146779/50 "2003-01-19T12:45:25Z")
I want to join also! Please send me a livejournal code if anyone can. I finished one book, Ham on Rye by Bukowski and reading right now Crossroad of Twillight by Robert Jordan and Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. Teebone ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-50-book-challenge-the-challengers-list/146779/51 "2003-01-20T03:34:54Z")
If one of y’all have a LJ code, please email to [JohnT15@bellsouth.net](mailto:JohnT15@bellsouth.net) Danke. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-50-book-challenge-the-challengers-list/146779/52 "2003-01-20T03:47:31Z")
I’ll join, but I’m behind the 8 ball already because my first book was “The Crimson Petal and the White” which pretty much sucked up all of January. ---
**Author:** ![Politzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Politzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Politzania)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-50-book-challenge-the-challengers-list/146779/53 "2003-01-21T19:22:35Z")
but right now I’m bogged down in \* Girls lean back everywhere : the law of obscenity and the assault on genius \* by Edward De Grazia. It is a quite detailed account of selected books/other literary works that have been involved in obscenity trials in the US and/or England. Dreiser, Lawrence and Joyce (among others) are represented by extensive quotes from not only from their works , but often their own words. It’s 814 pages and I’m about 1/3 through… does that count 🙂 I will try to stubborn it out - but the book’s due back at the Library next Monday. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-50-book-challenge-the-challengers-list/146779/54 "2003-01-21T19:56:28Z")
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