Serial Killers are not Recoverable

[Sharon]

I didn't do this last year since I joined YLTO so late in the year, but I think I'll set up a post in my reading plans to keep track of this. It looked like fun the way you all were killing those series :)

[Cherie]

Post here when you make a kill or add your list and update it as you go along. It is up to everyone how you want to do it. It is just for fun and a place to post your new kills or even find new things to read. New serial killers are welcome, but no badges or levels or points. We will cheer each other onward and praise your kills. :0)

[Stephanie]

Thanks, Cherie for setting up this thread! I have a ton of series to finish (especially since I started new ones due to the serial killer challenge ;) ).

[Kristie, Moderator]

I updated my original post #39 to list the series that I want to finish and a bunch I'm thinking about beginning. There are so many series starters that it will take me years to finish and I have a bunch more on my TBR that I didn't post. I think I'll wait to see what I think about the series before adding here. I'm sure there will be plenty of changes made to the list as time goes on.

[Jannene]

Sandra wrote: "Loved the skeleton, Jannene!"

Thanks! I liked it because it perpetually changes.

[Lynda]

Oh Yay! So happy this thread is here. Cherie, you do realizing that your enabling an addiction; serial killing is become a compulsion.

I'm posting all the series I didn't finish and/or never got around to starting, as well as all those that somehow showed up in my TBR pile. Also, because who's gong to stop me (muahahahah) I'm adding in all the two-book series that I've been wanting to tackle. I am not however, adding in all the graphic novel series I want to read, because I want to post this message sometime tonight!

I'll post updates as I tackle the series.

Millennium (3/4)
Dune Chronicles (4/8)
Anne of Green Gables (5/9)
Sherlock Holmes (5/9)
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books (1/3)
His Dark Materials (0/5)
Meredith Gentry (5/9)
Willow Tate (1/5)
Daughter of Smoke & Bone (1/3)
Earth's Children (2/6)
Little Women (1/4)
Avalon (1/7)
October Daye (0/14)
The Vampire Chronicles (0/12)
Temeraire (0/9)
The Iron Druid Chronicles (0/8)
Thursday Next (0/8)
Dragonriders of Pern (0/7)
Alex Verus (0/7)
Gentlemen Bastard (0/7)
Night Huntress (0/7)
The Iron Fey (0/6)
Expanse (0/6)
Brainship (0/6)
Chrestomanci (0/6)
Lux (0/5)
Parasol Protectorate (0/5)
Fablehaven (0/5)
Monster Hunter International (0/5)
The Wicked Years (0/4)
Uglies (0/4)
The Robot (0/4)
The Wicked Years (0/4)
The Girl in Between (0/4)
The Inheritance Trilogy (0/3)
Legend (0/3)
Razorland (0/3)
Delirium (0/3)
Matched (0/3)
Foundation (0/3)
Chaos Theory (0/3)
Bel Dame Apocrypha (0/3)
The Warlord Chronicles (0/3)
The Kingkiller Chronicle (0/3)
Gemma Doyle (0/3)
Lumatere Chronicles (0/3)
Sprawl (0/3)
Blue Ant (0/3)
Snow Like Ashes (0/3)
Nexus (0/3)
InterWorld (0/3)
Sorcerer Royal (0/3)
The Checquy Files (0/2)
Annex (0/2)
The Custard Protocol (0/2)
The Invisible Library (0/2)
American Gods (0/2)
Undertow (0/2)
The Divine Cities (0/2)
Commonwealth Saga (0/2)
Rithmatist (0/2)
The Broken Earth (0/2)
Three-Body (0/2)

[Dawn]

Like Jean, I have a list on FictFact that I'm going to use for this and I'll post each series killed as I go.
And like Lynda, I'm going to include all the two books series I want to read as well.
I have also included several series that I am all caught up with but have new books being published this year.
This means I have a list of 53 series I want to complete and I have set myself a goal of finishing 12 of them at minimum.

I have just finished the first one of the year, Warriors of the Storm by Bernard Cornwell. It is the ninth book in his Saxon Tales series set in the 9th & 10th centuries of England.

[Deborah]

OK, I have killed my first series for 2016 - Colleen McCullough Masters of Rome

[Jannene]

Deborah wrote: "OK, I have killed my first series for 2016 - Colleen McCullough Masters of Rome"

Congratulations!

[Janice, Moderator]

Awesome, Deborah!

[Sandra, Moderator]

Way to go, Deborah! You can't stop killing now!

[Lynda]

Way to go Deborah!

[Dominique]

Almeta wrote: "






Perpetual Serial Killer Challenge !



Michael J. Sullivan The Riyria Revelations
Wintertide (The Riyria Revelations, #5)
[book:Percepl..."

When you want to start the Harry Hole, give me a shout!

[Cherie]

Dawn and Deborah - our first serial killers of 2016!

[Cherie]

I have already started a new series. I was looking for an audio book and the only one available was Crocodile on the Sandbank. Now, I need to update my list in my first post.

[Lori Z]

Cherie wrote: "I have already started a new series. I was looking for an audio book and the only one available was Crocodile on the Sandbank. Now, I need to update my list in my first post."

I started a new one too. Private. My justification for this is other books in this series take place in other countries that I might need for world travels this year.

[Almeta]

Dominique (Dom) wrote: ".....When you want to start the Harry Hole, give me a shout! !.."

Yep, It's time!!☺

Have you read any of them Dom? Do I have to catch up to you?

I'd like to start The Bat in February.

[Dominique]

Almeta wrote: "Dominique (Dom) wrote: ".....When you want to start the Harry Hole, give me a shout! !.."

Yep, It's time!!☺

Have you read any of them Dom? Do I have to catch up to you?

I'd like to start [book:..."

I haven't started yet. Feb is good for me!

[Dawn]

Cherie wrote: "I have already started a new series. I was looking for an audio book and the only one available was Crocodile on the Sandbank. Now, I need to update my list in my first post."

Good choice, that's one of the series I have in progress. They are great audiobooks!

[Dawn]

I finished a second series yesterday, World of Trouble by Ben H. Winters.

It's a trilogy about three different mysteries set when the world is about to end.
I liked the first one the best but the whole series is quite good.

[Deborah]

Thank you all! I have no intention of stopping and am working, as we speak, on the next one.... :)

[Cherie]

Dawn wrote: "Cherie wrote: "I have already started a new series. I was looking for an audio book and the only one available was Crocodile on the Sandbank. Now, I need to update my list in my first..."

I am not so sure I would enjoy it so much except for the audio. The lady reading is great for the character. Susan O'Malley, is her name, I think. Is that who you listened to?

Congratulations on your 2nd kill!!!!

[Dawn]

I listened to her for the first 6, after that I have been listening to Barbara Rosenblat, who is also good.

And Thanks! :)

[Susan]

Read Son of No One and finished off Dark Hunters by Sherrilyn Kenyon which was left over from the 2015 challenge.

One series killed off in 2016!

[Sandra, Moderator]

Great, Susan!

[Cherie]

Dawn wrote: "I listened to her for the first 6, after that I have been listening to Barbara Rosenblat, who is also good.

And Thanks! :)"

Amelia slowly grew on me. I will be listening to more of her.

I think I finally have all of my series updated in FictFact now. Whew, that is a job. I found a few books that were not listed there as series and a series that I started is missing. It doesn't bother me much - I may never get to them. The Star Trek book lists are different too. Some of the book numbers for Nero Wolfe are different than the numbers here in GR but I finally found all of the titles that I have read so far. The FictFact browser kept timing out. Have you had any issues with that? I guess they want money to support them. Do you pay? - just curious.

[Dawn]

I have never had FictFact time out and as far as I know it's a by donation website, I've never paid anything.

I do find that the way they split up series and number them can be quite different but I got them to add all the series I wanted so my lists are very accurate. I get them to add books to existing series quite often actually.

[Cherie]

Dawn wrote: "I have never had FictFact time out and as far as I know it's a by donation website, I've never paid anything.

I do find that the way they split up series and number them can be quite different bu..."

I haven't paid anything, nor figured out how to add books, but I am sure I will get to it at some point. I think it is the firewall at work that is causing the issues, but not sure. Thanks.

[Dawn]

You can get a new author with series added, you can get a series added to an existing author or you can get books added to an existing series.
All have different ways to do it but I do know how, if you ever want to know. Or I can put in the requests myself if you want to tell me the books, I like adding to their database.
It's not user maintained like GRs but they do it if you put in a request.

[Lori Z]

When I come across conflicting information between goodreads and fictfact I usually go to fantastic fiction. I found them to be pretty reliable.

[Dawn]

Fantastic Fiction is a great resource. I use it as well.

[Dawn]

I finished my third series this year with Woken Furies by Richard K. Morgan.

It's a great cyberpunk trilogy with some very interesting technology and religions. It's very violent with a lot of male fantasy sex but it's still very good.

[Sarah]

So much for killing. I've just started a new series. Whoops.

[Dawn]

Is that the Expanse series?? If so, it's totally worth it!

[Sarah]

Dawn wrote: "Is that the Expanse series?? If so, it's totally worth it!"

Yes it is. I'm totally sucked in already. I am loving it.

[Dawn]

I'm reading the second one right now and it's also very good.

[Travis]

The series just gets better in my opinion. Although there is one recurring problem in every book that I wish they would move away from and find a new issue to deal with. Maybe next time

[Travis]

And some expanse trivia both the ship name Dulcinea and at least one other thing is named from Don Quixote characters. Of course Dulcinea being the item of love for Don Q. Drat I cant think of the other. Although was the Caterbury named after the Canterbury tales maybe. I think once you kbow you start to pick up on a lot of names and stuff taken from old litersture. Its a fun game to try and spot them. But i know the is one more don q reference darn my memory

[Sarah]

I will keep a look out.

[Dawn]

I don't know enough about either to pick them out unfortunately.

[Travis]

Ah I know the ship Rocinante is the name of Don Quixotes horse

[Janice, Moderator]

Dawn wrote: "I finished my third series this year with Woken Furies by Richard K. Morgan.

It's a great cyberpunk trilogy with some very interesting technology and religions. It's v..."

You've finished 3 series already, and we're only a week into the year! Good job. :)

[Dawn]

They were all the ones I was trying to finish for the Challenge, if I could have had another week I could have got 3 more levels I think. :)

[Roz]

I had some orphan books (published after I had finished all the books in a series). Today I finished Tricky Twenty-Two so I've completed the Stephanie Plum Series as of today. Now I'm reading Devoted in Death but there are 2 more in the series to be published this year.

[Deborah]

#2 killed off :) Just a wee trilogy - Lords of the Two Lands by Pauline Gedge

[Janice, Moderator]

Roz wrote: "I had some orphan books (published after I had finished all the books in a series). Today I finished Tricky Twenty-Two so I've completed the Stephanie Plum Series as of today. Now I..."

There's a few of those orphan books coming up for me. Series that I had completed have new books being published in 2016. It's never ending!

[Cherie]

I just finished my second Amelia Peabody, The Curse of the Pharaohs. I liked the 2nd better than the first book.

[Janice, Moderator]

So what to do with these orphan books? I finished the Charley Davidson series during the Serial Killer Challenge last year. Now, I've read the latest release, The Dirt on Ninth Grave, and killed it again until June when the 10th book comes out. There's another slated for 2017. These series are like vampires - immortal and almost impossible to kill.

[Cherie]

I agree, Janice, they have a life of their own, unless the author is dead - and even then, more books seem to get generated by others. I guess you keep reading them, or let them pile up, in which case you get behind again - like we were with many of the series we re-discovered in your challenge. At least we have a better chance of keeping up, now that we have discovered FictFact and have a place to keep track of series.

I was not planning on re-entering series to my kill list that I did away with last year, but I did list the orphan book titles that I want to read.

[Janice, Moderator]

Cherie wrote: "I agree, Janice, they have a life of their own, unless the author is dead - and even then, more books seem to get generated by others. I guess you keep reading them, or let them pile up, in which c..."

Boy, isn't that the truth?

I'll have to decide how I want to handle these orphan series. Maybe I'll just track them through FictFact and only comment on them here.