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2013 Series madness Challenge
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books read that were worth 2 points: 19
books read that were worth 3 points: 13
books read that were worth 4 points: 10
books read that were worth 5 points: 6
books read that were worth 6 points: 3
books read that were worth 7 points: 3
books read that were worth 8 points: 2
books read that were worth 9 points: 3
books read that were worth 10 points: 4
books read that were worth 11 points: 3
books read that were worth 12 points:
books read that were worth 13 points:
books read that were worth 14 points:
books read that were worth 15 points: 1
books read that were worth 16 points: 1
books read that were worth 17 points:
books read that were worth 18 points:
books read that were worth 19 points:
books read that were worth 20 points:
Total: 359
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Mockingjay: 3
Carpe Jugulum: 23
The Truth: 25
The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30): 30
Monstrous Regiment: 31
A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32): 32
The Wind Through the Keyhole: 1
I Shall Wear Midnight 38
The Fall 2
The Night Eternal 3
WWW: Watch 2
WWW: Wonder 3
A Crown of Swords: 7
The Path of Daggers: 8
Winter's Heart: 9
The Black Company 1
Shadows Linger 2
The White Rose 3
Crossroads of Twilight: 10
Knife of Dreams 11
Dark Inside 1
Stealing Light 1
Nova War 2
Empire of Light: 3
A Clash of Kings: 2
A Storm of Swords: 3
A Feast for Crows: 4
The 5th Wave: 1
XO 1 [read out of order]
The Long Earth 1
Zero Point 2
Jupiter War 3
The Shining: 1
Doctor Sleep: 2
Steelheart: 1
Ark: 2
The Long War: 2
Raising Steam: 40
Hilldiggers: 2
Shadow Games 4
Dreams of Steel 5
The Silver Spike 6
Moonrise 1
Moonwar 2
Total: 338
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2 Points
3 Points
4 Points
7 Points
Points: 60
1 point x18 = 181.Dark Star
2.Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists
3.The Darkest Minds
4.Prince of Thorns
5.Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
6.Etiquette & Espionage
7.The Bad Beginning
8.The 5th Wave
9.Postmortem
10.The First Confessor
11.Shades of Grey
12.The Hunger Games
13.The Way of Shadows
14.Ancillary Justice
15.These Broken Stars
16.Fire and Thorns
17.The 100
18.In the After
2 points x17 = 34
1.The Pirates! In an Adventure with Ahab: A novel
2.Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
3.City of Ashes
4.Midsummer Night
5.Shadows
6.Tiger
7.The Eternity Cure
8.Scarlet
9.Game
10.The Reptile Room
11.Body of Evidence
12.Catching Fire
13The Third Kingdom
14.The Outside
15.Changeless
16.The People of Sparks
17.Crown of Embers
3 points x3 = 9
1.The Wide Window
2.Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
3.The Bitter Kingdom
4 points x2 = 8
1.The Zombie Whisperer
2.The Miserable Mill
5 points x1 = 5
1.The Austere Academy
8 points x1 = 8
1.Last Stand of Dead Men
9 points x1 = 9
1.Break No Bones
10 points x2 = 20
1.Crossroads of Twilight
2.Bones to Ashes
11 points x1 = 11
1.Knife of Dreams
12 points x1 = 12
1.The Gathering Storm
13 points x1 = 13
1. Towers of Midnight
14 points x1 = 14
1. A Memory of Light
21 points x1 = 21
1. Dust
Points : 182
1 point 12
2 point 6
3 point 6
4 point 20
5 point 10
6+ points 13
7 
6Total: 67
The Bel Dame Apocrypha by Kameron Hurley-
The Assassin's Curse by Cassandra Rose Clark
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Light by M. John Harrison
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Jade de Jong by Jazzy Mackenzie
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The Culture by Iain M. Banks
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Twin-Bred by Karen A. Wyle
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The Machine Dynasty by Madeline Ashby
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Jack Caffery / The Walking Man by Mo Hayder
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A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
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Canongate Myths
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Gentleman Bastards by Scott Lynch
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A Dirge for Prester John by Catherynne M. Valente
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Samuil Petrovich by Simon Morden
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MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
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- The Year of the Flood (#2) - 2
- MaddAddam (#3) - 3
Some of the Best from Tor.com
- 2011 edition
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- 2013 edition
Fairyland by Catherynne M. Valente
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The Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
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Delia Martin by Jaime Lee Moyer
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Total: 32
1 POINT x11 = 11The Wishing Spell The Land of Stories #1
Murder at the Vicarage Miss Marple #1
Beautiful Creatures Caster Chronicles #1
The Reluctant Assassin Warp #1
House of Secrets House of Secrets #1
The Colossus Rises Seven Wonders #1
The Cuckoo's Calling Cormoran Strike #1
The Color of Magic Discworld #1
Reviver: A Novel Reviver #1
City of Bones Mortal Instruments #1
Raven's Gate Power of Five #1
2 POINTS x4 = 8
Vortex Tempest #2
The Light Fantastic Discworld #2
Evil Star Power of Five #2
City of Ashes Mortal Instruments #2
3 POINTS x3 = 9
Best Kept Secret Clifton Chronicles #3
The Empty Chair Lincoln Rhyme #3
Nightrise Power of FIve #3
4 POINTS x 5 = 20
Inferno Robert Langdon #4
Tick Tock Michael Bennett #4
Cruel and Unusual Kay Scarpetta #4
The Stone Monkey Lincoln Rhyme #4
Necropolis Power of Five #4
5 POINTS x4 =20
Mortal Coil Skulduggery Pleasant #5
I, Michael Bennett Michael Bennett #5
The Body Farm Kay Scarpetta #5
Oblivion The Power of Five #5
6 POINTS x3 = 18
Death Bringer Skulduggery Pleasant #6
The Twelfth Card Lincoln Rhyme #6
Gone Michael Bennett #6
7 POINTS x3 = 21
Kingdom of the Wicked Skulduggery Pleasant #7
The Third Wheel Diary of a Wimpy Kid #7
The Cold Moon Lincoln Rhyme #7
8 POINTS x2 = 16
The Broken Window Lincoln Rhyme #8
Hard Luck Diary of a Wimpy Kid #8
12 POINTS x1 = 12
12th of Never Women's Murder Club #12
18 POINTS x1 = 18
Never Go Back Jack Reacher #18
Total: 153 points
Count me in!Fifty Shades Freed - 3 Points
Prince of Thorns - 1 point
Warm Bodies - 1 point
Chocolat - 1 point
Just One Day - 1 point
Dark Lover - 1 point
Cinder - 1 point
Quarantine: The Loners - 1 point
Shiver - 1 point
Total Points: 11
Books worth 1 point: 30Michelle Hodkin: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Kendare Blake: Anna Dressed in Blood
Shannon Stacey: Exclusively Yours
Zoraida Córdova: The Vicious Deep
Bethany Griffin: Masque of the Red Death
Kresley Cole: Poison Princess
Scott Tracey: Witch Eyes ♣ Moonset
Miranda Kenneally: Catching Jordan
Jeff Somers: Trickster
Brent Hartinger: Geography Club
Monica Murphy: One Week Girlfriend
Rhiannon Paille: Surrender
Imran Siddiq: Disconnect
Brigid Kemmerer: Storm ♣ Breathless
Michele Vail: Undeadly
Diana Rowland: My Life as a White Trash Zombie
Victoria Scott: The Collector
Cynthia Hand: Unearthly
Selina Fenech: Memory's Wake
Rita Webb: Playing Hooky
Kim Harrison: Dead Witch Walking
Katie McGarry: Pushing the Limits
Jennifer Rush: Altered
Kellie Sheridan: Mortality
Amanda Sun: Ink
Angie Fox: The Accidental Demon Slayer
Heidi Acosta: Barbie Girl
A.G. Howard: Splintered
Books worth 2 points: 16
Michelle Hodkin: The Evolution of Mara Dyer
Jim Butcher: Academ's Fury
Brent Hartinger: The Order of the Poison Oak
Brigid Kemmerer: Spark
Marissa Meyer: Scarlet
Diana Rowland: Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues
Kim Harrison: The Good, the Bad, and the Undead
Heidi Acosta: Barbie World
Books worth 3 points: 12
Jim Butcher: Cursor's Fury
Brent Hartinger: Double Feature: Attack of the Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies/Bride of the Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies
Brigid Kemmerer: Spirit
Sergei Lukyanenko: Twilight Watch
Books worth 4 points: 8
Jim Butcher: Captain's Fury
Brent Hartinger: The Elephant of Surprise
Books worth 5 points: 10
Jim Butcher: Princeps' Fury
Kevin Hearne: Trapped
Books worth 6 points: 6
Jim Butcher: First Lord's Fury
Books worth 7 points: 7
Patricia Briggs: Frost Burned
Books worth 8 points: 8
Rob Thurman: Slashback
TOTAL: 97
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1 point x 30=30
1) Phoenix Rising
2) Agatha H and the Airship City
3) The Werewolf of Fever Swamp
4) The Darkest Minds
5) Prince of Thorns
6) Cinder
7) The Rook
8) Along Came a Spider
9) Etiquette & Espionage
10) My Haunted House
11) God Save the Queen
12) The Emerald Atlas
13) The Way of Shadows
14) Epic
15) The Kill Artist
16) Cut & Run
17) The Alexander Cipher
18) A Wrinkle in Time
19) The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
20) The 5th Wave
21) Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos
22) Touch of Frost
23) Odd Thomas
24) Darkly Dreaming Dexter
25) Shades of Grey
26) Blood Faerie
27) Assassins Apprentice
28) The Holders
29) Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
30) The Ghost and Mrs. McClure
2 points x 14=28
1) The Fourth Bear
2) Speaker for the Dead
3) Scarlet
4) UnWholly
5) The Janus Affair
6) The Sword in the Grotto
7) The Tomb of Hercules
8) Map of Bones: A Sigma Force Novel
9) The Queen Is Dead
10) Vanish
11) Lost in a Good Book
12) Kiss of Frost
13) Azuri Fae
14) Dearly Devoted Dexter
3 points x 10=30
1) Three to Get Deadly
2) Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods
3) Blameless
4) Xenocide
5) The Secret Of Excalibur
6) Frognapped
7) Code
8) The Scottish Prisoner
9) James Potter and the Vault of Destinies
10)George and the Big Bang
4 points x 8=72
1) Heartless
2) Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors
3) Vampire Brat
4) The Kiss
5) Peter and the Sword of Mercy
6) Children of the Mind
7) Spud: Exit, Pursued by a Bear
8) Inferno
5 points x 4=20
1) Timeless
2) Charlie Bone and the Hidden King
3) Ghostsitters
4) Ender's Shadow
6 points x 2=12
1) The Enchantress
2) Charlie Bone and the Beast
Other =21
1) Taggerung - 14 points
2) Fyre - 7 points
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2 Points
3 Points
4 Points
5 Points
6 Points
7 Points
8 Points
9 Points
13 Points
14 Points
22 Points
28 Points
29 Points
30 Points
Total: 420
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If a book is part of a sub-series do you count the series number or the sub series number?
e.g Trudi Canavan has 6 novels in the Kyralia series, however this is made up of two trilogies.
Or Jacqueline Carey - 9 books - 3 trilogies?
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I am not familiar about the Kyralia series. If you're planning on reading them I will do some research.
If the trilogies are not a continuous story but just set in the same universe than they are counted as 1-3.
A subserie is a subserie and begins counting at 1.
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In this case the second Trilogy picks up 20 years after the end of the first - keeping most of the original characters - only older.
Though, I have the last 3 books of Raymond E. Feist's The Riftwar Cycle to read. Its part of a continuous story, and though I guess you could read them without having read the prior novels, you'd lose quite a bit, as the series follows a set of characters from the first book all the way through.
Riftwar Cycle
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A Crown Imperilled
Magician's End
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Mockingjay: 3
Carpe Jugulum: 23
Carpe Jugulum: 25
The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30): 30
Monstrous Regiment: 31
A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32): 32
Total: 146"
I know you want to beat me this year but reading the same book twice and then using two different amounts of points is going a bit far. :P
I think you made a mistake with Carpe Jugulum.
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Mockingjay: 3
Carpe Jugulum: 23
Carpe Jugulum: 25
The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30): 30
Monstrous Regiment: 31
A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32): 32
Total: 146"
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I'll check that. I think I just messed up a title. *Goes hunting for spreadsheet*
Fixed it. It should be THE TRUTH by Pratchett for 25 points.
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We must read in order, but can we skip books as we go? The example that made me think of this is Crusader's Discworld reads. He read 23, then 25, then 30. I thought you had to read 24 after 23 in order to get the points for 25. Obviously if you read 24 after 25 it doesn't count, but I am confused about the skipping numbers aspect.
Can someone clarify this for me? Thanks!
(Crusader, I am not trying to attack you. I just got confused about how the challenge works when I saw your post and want to clarify for my future reads!!)
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I think this jumping only makes sense in the Discworld novels since in a normal series you will definitely want to read them in order.
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Don't worry about asking questions like these, Varla Fiona. I also feel bad if I see someone doing something and I am not sure if that is ok because I too don't want to attack someone. But if a challenge or rules of a challenge are unclear then just ask. Like in this case Crusader wasn't even sure if what he was doing was allowed so it might clear up something for other people too.
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I thought it was the way previous challenges like this were run (skipping those you have already read and having the rest count), but this bit threw me:
The catch is that you have to read the books in order. If you first read book 3 and then book 6 and then book 1 you will not get full points. For every book read out of order you will get one point.
That can easily be understood to mean that you HAVE to read everything in order for them to count. But obviously on second reading you spot that those make no mention of having read books 2,4 & 5 which then causes them all to count only 1 point.
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And rest assured if you were counting points for books that you shouldn't, I would have told you by now. :)
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I'm acutely aware of that fact!
This challenge looks like so much fun!Do any books we have read from 1 Jan 2013 count, or only those read once we officially join the challenge?
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Do any books we have read from 1 Jan 2013 count, or only those read once we officially join the challenge?"
Any books read since the start of the challenge (1 Jan 2013) count, so you can go ahead and throw your list together.
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Do any books we have read from 1 Jan 2013 count, or only those read once we officially join the challenge?"
Please join, the more the merrier.
Total Points: 25Books worth 1 point:
(Read out of order, only 1 point)
Books worth 2 points
Books worth 5 points
Books worth 6 points
Books worth 10 points
I have a question about the points. I have read Wolves of the Calla now which is 5 points (as i read the whole series so far) but now I want to read Wind through the keyhole, which is book 4.5 (stephen king) but the 8th one that was published.
and I will then read Nr 6 after 4.5.
Now I would like to know how the points will work for that. In any case I get 5 points for Wolves, but how will points then work for Wind, and then Song of Susannah (Nr 6)
My understanding is:
Wolves: 5 Points
Wind (Nr4.5) 1 point as its out of order
Song (Nr6): 6 POints as i read all the previous books then.
Could someone verify for me?
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Since you are saying you get 5 points for Wolves of the Calla I conclude that you want your points based on the publication date. And then what you are saying is indeed how many points you get.
Barbara, I have read books one to 4 prior to the challenge.
Then I read book 5 as start to this challenge,
(Book 4.5 was published during the time I was reading 5, but I want to read 4.5 now before reading 6)
The question is basically:
1) How many points do I then get for reading 4.5, after having read 5.
2) Do I then still get 6 point for reading book 6 (after I mixed it up by reading 4.5 out of order?)
If I understand your last sentence correctly, lets say I am reading on pub date, which changes NR4.5 to NR 8, my points will work as follow:
Wolves, NR 5 : 5 points (Read 1-5 in order, 5 for this challenge)
Wind, NR 8 : 1 point, since its out of order
Song, NR 6 : 6 points since I have already read books 1-5?
Im just a bit confused, and under normal circumstances I would read in publication order, but in this case, the happenings in Wind, which is book 8, happens between books 4 & 5.
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Thanks Barbara. That's how I thought it should be, and am happy with that. I will use it as such then, whenever I get to them again... got so much reading to catch up on.
Finished with Hidden bringing my points to 24...
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Total Books = 73
1 point (read out of sequence): 1x2=2
1 point: 1x23=23
2 points: 2x22=44
3 points: 3x13=39
4 points: 4x7=28
6 points: 6x1=6
7 points: 7x2=14
9 points: 9x1=9
10 points: 10x1=10
40 points: 40x1=40
This is such a fun idea! And it gives me incentive to finish all the series I start... or carry on with them at least.
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If a book is part of a sub-series do you count the series number or the sub series number?..."
Msg 17" Crusader wrote: "Unless it's one continuous story like Wheel of Time, Discworld etc. I'd say books marketed as separate trilogies would need to count as 1 - 3 points."
With regards to this question and Raymond E Feist.
We didn't really resolve it before.
What if a series is marketed as both? depending on the country of publication?
From HarperVoyager UK:
"But now we really have something huge to celebrate when Ray visits the UK this month. For MAGICIAN’S END – the 30th book in the Riftwar Cycle – marks the epic conclusion to this phenomenal series. And a truly worthy final volume it is, too."
Here's the link to the full article.
End of an Era
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I have! Raymond E Feist is actually the Author that got me interested in the Fantasy Genre and I've been reading this series for over 10 years now. And the first book - "Magician" is still one of my favorites!!
Barbara, would you consider this part of a series: Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2012 Edition? There is a 2011 and 2013 edition as well.
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We are reading from 1 january 2013 until 31 december 2013.
There are no tasks to complete but points to be gathered. You gather points by reading books that are a part of a series. For every book that is first in a series you will get one point, for every book that is second you will get two points etc. If a series like Discworld has 40 books you can get 40 points for the last book in the series.
The catch is that you have to read the books in order. If you first read book 3 and then book 6 and then book 1 you will not get full points. For every book read out of order you will get one point.
You don't have to read all the books during the challenge. So if you have already read books 1-5 in a series last year or before and read book 6 in 2013 you will get 6 points as long as you have read them.
Participants:
Crusader - 264
Barbara - 277
Jax - 225
Varla Fiona - 213
Janice - 127
Claudia - 107
Lindie - 97
Robert - 94
Lu - 46
Liezel - 46
Henri - 25
Lauren S - 16
Riana - 11
Elmarie
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