Sam's Scary Stack of Sizeable Stories 2014

[Sam]

Milestone 1 - Slick's Slugs:

1a. Panicology 284 pages links to another non-fiction
1b. How to Dunk a Doughnut: The Science of Everyday Life 241 pages links to another non-fiction
Total pages = 525 pages

2a. Down Among The Dead Men: A Year In The Life Of A Mortuary Technician 262 pages links by coroner/mortuary
2b. Bare Bones 306 pages links by death
Total pages = 568

3. The Death Relic 502 pages links by American author

4. The Broken Window 512 pages links by American author

5a. The Gift 340 pages links by series
5b. The Fire 336 pages links by fantasy genre
Total pages = 676 pages

6. The Coming of the King 607 pages

Completed

[Sam]

Milestone 2 - Mickey Mouse's Marchers:

1. The Sibyl Reborn 650 pages links by genre (fantasy)

2. The Redemption of Althalus 913 pages links by genre (fantasy)

3a. Transfiguration 320 pages links by evolution of humanity
3b. Grandfather's Tale: The Story of Human Evolution and Dispersal 440 pages links by genre (non-fiction/popular science)
Total pages = 760 pages

4a. Wicked Plants: The A-Z of Plants That Kill, Maim, Intoxicate and Otherwise Offend 236 pages links by genre (non-fiction)
4b. 303 Squadron: The Legendary Battle of Britain Fighter Squadron 368 pages links by World War II
Total pages = 604 pages

5a. Five Chimneys: A Woman's True Story of Auschwitz 221 pages links by genre (non-fiction)
5b. How to Be a Woman 312 pages links by genre (non-fiction)
Total pages = 533 pages

6a. A Brief History of Time: From Big Bang to Black Holes 241 pages links by genre (non-fiction)
6b. What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?: How Money Really Does Grow on Trees 324 pages
Total pages = 565 pages

Completed

[Sam]

Milestone 3 - Roadrunner's Racers:

1a. The Naughty Girls Book Club 464 pages links by genre
1b. Doll Bones 256 pages links by genre
Total pages = 720 pages

2a. Buried Angels 400 pages links by genre
2b. Shortcomings 144 pages links by genre
Total pages = 544 pages

3a. The Zombie Combat Manual: A Guide to Fighting the Living Dead 320 pages links by genre (fiction)
3b. You Only Live Twice 184 pages links by genre (fiction)
Total pages = 504 pages

4a. The Bees: A Novel 304 pages links by fiction (genre)
4b. Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter 376 pages links by strong/independent women
Total pages = 680 pages

5a. The Penguin Book of Erotic Stories by Women. 400 pages links by strong/independent women
5b. Steampunk: Fantasy Art, Fashion, Fiction & The Movies 128 pages links by steampunk fiction
Total pages = 528 pages

6. Perdido Street Station 867 pages

Completed

[Sam]

Milestone 4 - Tasmanian Devil's Trouncers:

1a. Tales from the Dead of Night: Thirteen Classic Ghost Stories 288 pages links by horror
1b. The Poisoning Angel 237 pages links by horror
Total pages = 525

2a. The Great God Pan 193 pages links by horror
2b. Dracula's Guest: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories 480 pages links by horror
Total pages = 673

3. 11/22/63 849 pages links by horror

4a. How to Make a Zombie: The Real Life (and Death) Science of Reanimation and Mind Control 256 pages links by horror
4b. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 352 pages links by horror
Total pages = 608

5a. Infected Connection 332 pages links by horror
5b. Connected Infection 292 pages links by horror
Total pages = 624

6a. Domain 381 pages links by horror
6b. The Killer Inside Me 220 pages
Total pages = 601

Completed

[Sam]

Milestone 5 - Buzz Lightyear's Bombers:

1. Bleak House 1,017 pages (links by classics)

2. Don Quixote 785 pages (links by classics)

3. Of Human Bondage 684 pages (links by classics)

4. Gormenghast 511 pages (links by classics)

5a.Titus Alone 362 pages (links by classics)
5b. Lucinda 288 pages (links by classics)

6. The Pickwick Papers 784 pages

[Marnie]

Congratulations on finishing your Slick books. Have fun marching with Mickey :)

[Sam]

Thanks Marnie!! Managed to start a long one without even realising it so added that to Mickey's list :-)

[Sam]

Milestone 2 down!!! :-)

[Sam]

Bombers are planned and they're going to be epic! :-)

[Sam]

Finally completed my bombers...damn that Don was hard work!

[Janice, Moderator]

Awesome job, Sam!

[Cherie]

Sam wrote: "Finally completed my bombers...damn that Don was hard work!"

I admire you for that! It scares me every time I pick it up at the book store. I cannot bring myself to buy it. Travis listend to it on audio and said it was good, but it is soooo many hours. It must have taken a year to do the narration. I cannot imagine it.☺

[Cherie]

Oh - yes, and congratulations for finishing THE WHOLE THING!

[Sandra, Moderator]

Congrats!

[Sam]

Thanks both!

I really struggled with some parts of Don Cherie, glad I did it though :-)