Genndy's 101 books challenge in 2016

[Genndy]

101/101 - The Road to the Dark Tower: Exploring Stephen King's Magnum Opus by Bev Vincent (2 stars)

Short description: As a huge fan of Dark Tower, I was dissapointed with this "analysis" of the series. Even worse, I felt tricked. This book absolutely has no reason for existence for 3/4 of it is just a summary of plots from all Dark Tower books, just a brief retelling of this gigantic series. There is no analysis (and everyone who read the series knows how much space there would be there for building various theories), there is just listing of observations, like: "number 19 appears on the this and that pages". Seems the author didn't have balls to build his own theories and explanation for various crucial plot spots. So, why would anyone read this brief re-telling of Dark Tower books instead of just reading the original thing? Fans wouldn't benefit from it, just like the people who didn't read the series. So for who is this actually written?

[Genndy]

---------------------D O N E ! --------------------------
Total books read: 101 ( 3 less than in 2015, and 2 less than in 2014.)
Total books of prose read: 82
Total books of poetry read: 19
Pages read in total: 19.634 (for comparison: 2015. - 21.562 pages, 2014. - 22.530 pages.
Pages of prose in total: 16.477
Pages of poetry in total: 3157
Averagely read 54 pages per day.
Average number of pages per book 194 (averagely 201 pages per book of prose, and 166 pages per book of poetry)

Best books this year:
1. The Dark Tower 7: The Dark Tower - Stephen King
2. Zelena milja - Stephen king
3. O geniju: eseji - Schopenhauer, Arthur
4. Grozničavi san - Martin, George R.R.
5. Mogućnost otoka - Houellebecq, Michel
6. Izgubljena - Pavlak, Vedrana
7. Kalendar Maja - Zoran Ferić
8. Dada: Art and Anti-Art - Richter, Hans
9. Izabrani epigrami - Krklec, Gustav
10. Thinner - Stephen King (aka Richard Bachman)
11. Cvjetovi zla - Charles Baudelaire
12. Replay - Grimwood, Ken
13. Vedri dani - Bánk, Zsuzsa
14. Smeh u tami - Vladimir Nabokov
15. Dark Tower 4.5: The Wind Through the Keyhole - Stephen King
16. Titanic: između povijesti i mitologije - Novković, Slobodan
17. Zen in the Art of Writing - Ray Bradbury
18. Gilgameš - Anonymous
19. Titanic: Hrvati u katastrofi stoljeća - Novković, Slobodan
20. Bijeg - Milutin Cihlar Nehajev

A list of all books read this year:
1/101 - Olga Maruševski and Sonja Jurković - Maksimir (4 stars)
2/101 - The Satyricon by Petronius Arbiter (4 stars)
3/101 - The Dark Tower by Stephen King (5 stars)
4/101 - Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue by Marquis de Sade - (3 stars)
5/101 - Ayurveda: Vedska medicina I. dio by Stjepan Žagar (2 stars)
6/101 - The Green Mile by Stephen King (5 stars)
7/101 - Food for the Spirit: Vegetarianism and the World Religions by Steven Rosen (3 staras)
8/101 - Adrijanina nit by Milana Vuković Runjić (3 stars)
9/101 - Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2 stars)
10/101 - A Book Of Silence by Sara Maitland (3 stars)
11/101 - Tiffany protiv Vilinske kraljice [original title: The Wee Free Men] by Terry Pratchett (4 stars)
12/101 - Na vodi i druge novele [a collection of short stories] by Guy de Maupassant (4 stars)
13/101 - O geniju: eseji by Arthur Schopenhauer (5 stars)
14/101 - The Zoroastrian Tradition: An Introduction to the Ancient Wisdom of Zarathushtra by Farhang Mehr (4 stars)
15/101 - Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami (3 stars)
16/101 - Zločini iz Ljubavi [a selection from the originally larger book Les Crimes de l'amour] by Marquis de Sade (3 stars)
17/101 - On Being and Essence by Thomas Aquinas (2 stars)
18/101 - Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin (5 stars)
19/101 - Animal Liberation by Peter Singer (4 stars)
20/101 - Zakoni; Epinomis [english title: Laws; Epinomis] by Plato (2 stars)
21/101 - Blaze by Stephen King aka Richard Bachman (5 stars)
22/101 - Proza II. by Vjekoslav Majer (5 stars)
23/101 - Hrvatska mlada lirika 2 by Various Authors (3 stars)
24/101 - Podsused: vjerski život i tradicija, kulturno-povijesna, umjetnička i prirodna baština by Various Authors (4 stars)
25/101 - Neke stvari i ostalo [a selection of poems] by Jacques Prévert (4 stars)
26/101 - Preko granica: Pripovijetke o ljubavi, ludosti i ratu [Manto's short stories collection] by Saadat Hasan Manto (4 stars)
27/101 - The Possibility of an Island [original title: La possibilite d'une ile] by Michel Houellebecq (5 stars)
28/101 Izgubljena by Vedrana Pavlak (5 stars)
29/101 - Paganizam u teoriji i praksi (knjiga prva) - Doktrina paganizma by Iolar (4 stars)
30/101 - Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect with Others by Marco Iacoboni (2 stars)
31/101 - The Little Prince [original title: Le petite prince] by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (4 stars)
32/101 - Kalendar Maja by Zoran Ferić (5 stars)
33/101 - Dada: Art and Anti-Art by Hans Richter (5 stars)
34/101 - Družba Pere Kvržice by Mato Lovrak (4 stars)
35/101 - Izabrani epigrami by Gustav Krklec (5 stars)
36/101 - Mexico City Blues by Jack Kerouac (1 star)
37/101 - Libra Libera #17 by Katarina Peović Vuković (editor) (5 stars)
38/101 - Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker (2 stars)
39/101 - Thinner by Stephen King aka Richard Bachman (5 stars)
40/101 - Izgubljen u vremenu [original title: Twice Upon A Time] by Charles L. Fontenay (4 stars)
41/101 - Mediji i kultura: ideologija medija nakon decentralizacije by Katarina Peović Vuković (2 stars)
42/101 - Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire (5 stars)
43/101 - Izbor pjesama [original title: Oeuvres poetiques d'Apollinaire] [a collection of works] by Guillaume Apollinaire (3 stars)
44/101 - The Greatness Guide: Powerful Secrets for Getting to World Class by Robin S. Sharma (5 stars)
45/101 - Replay by Ken Grimwood (5 stars)
46/101 - Stihovi: izabrane pjesme by Arsen Dedić (4 stars)
47/101 - Pohvala ludosti [original title: Sultitiae laus] by Desiderius Erasmus (3 stars)
48/101 - Vedri dani [original title: Die hellen Tage] by Zsuzsa Bánk (5 stars)
49/101 - Rgvedski himni: Izvori indijske kulture i indoeuropsko nasljeđe by Mislav Ježić (3 stars)
50/101 - Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov (5a stars)
51/101 - The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King (5 stars)
52/101 - Destroy All Cars by Blake Nelson (4 stars)
53/101 - Open Secrets by Alice Munro (3 stars)
54/101 - Titanic: izmedu povijesti i mitologije by Slobodan Novković (5 stars)
55/101 - Vetar sa Fudžijame by Matsuo Bashō (4 stars)
56/101 - Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury (5 stars)
57/101 - Zatočenici pernatog otoka by Gabro Vidović (5 stars)
58/101 - Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality by Sigmund Freud (3 stars)
59/101 - Gilgameš: Sumersko-babilonski ep by Anonymous (5 stars)
60/101 - Izabrani politički spisi by Eugen Kvaternik (2 stars)
61/101 - Blaise Cendrars: Poezija, život i djelo by Blaise Cendrars (3 stars)
62/101 - Zario ruku u srce by Tomislav Marijan Bilosnić (4 stars)
63/101 - Titanic: Hrvati u katastrofi stoljeća by Slobodan Novković (5 stars)
64/101 - Personality by Rabindranath Tagore ( 4 stars)
65/101 - Pjesnikovi krajolici (mojih prvih tisuću godina) by Živko Prodanović
66/101 - On Certainty [original title: Über Gewißheit] by Ludwig Wittgenstein (5 stars)
67/101 - A Night to Remember by Walter Lord (4 stars)
68/101 - Spleen Pariza : male pjesme u prozi [original title: "Spleen de Paris"] by Charles Baudelaire (5 stars)
69/101 - Licem u lice by Petar Šegedin (4 stars)
70/101 - A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (5 stars)
71/101 - Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (5 stars)
72/101 - The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin (5 stars)
73/101 - The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin (4 stars)
74/101 - Sto dana Azije by Juraj Bubalo (2 stars)
75/101 - Život u kući slijepih by Milan Fošner (1 star)
76/101 - Big Sur by Jack Kerouac (4 stars)
77/101 - Dimenzije by Željko Grabarević (4 stars)
78/101 - U Velebitu by Edo Popović ( 3 stars)
79/101 - Golmanu, lovcu i šumaru by Tvrtko Vuković (4 stars)
80/101 - The Psychological Attitude of Early Buddhist Philosophy: And Its Systematic Representation According to Abhidhamma Tradition by Anagarika Govinda (2 stars)
81/101 - The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (5 stars)
82/101 - Petrinjske staze: Prva zbirka pjesama by Various (4 stars)
83/101 - Ludwigs Zimmer by Alois Hotschnig (3 stars)
84/101 - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (4 stars)
85/101 - Trump 101: The Way to Success by Donald J. Trump (4 stars)
86/101 - Ekstravagantna tijela: Zločin i kazna by Various (3 stars)
87/101 - Pjesme, viđenja, proročanstva by William Blake ( 3 stars)
88/101 - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami ( 4 stars)
89/101 - Tko je u razredu ugasio svjetlo? by Tvrtko Vuković (4 stars)
90/101 - Plinska laterna na Griču by Vjekoslav Majer ( 5 stars)
91/101 - The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom by David Kupelian (1 star)
92/101 - Synchronicity: The Bridge Between Matter and Mind by F. David Peat ( 4 stars)
93/101 - Umetnost i društveni život [original title: "Iskusstvo i obshchestvennaya zhizn"] by Georgi Plekhanov (2 stars)
94/101 - Bijeg: Povijest jednog našeg čovjeka by Milutin Cihlar Nehajev (5 stars)
95/101 - Djetinjstvo u Agramu. Davni dani by Miroslav Krleža by (3 stars)
96/101 - Zbornik IV. gornjogradskog književnog festivala by Various (3 stars)
97/101 - Tibetanske legende by Mladen Udiljak (editor) - (4 stars)
98/101 - Die Theorie des Romans. Ein Geschichtsphilosophischer Versuch über die Form der großen Epik by György Lukács (1 star)
99/101 - Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche (3 stars)
100/101 - L'empire des signes by Roland Barthes (4 stars)
101/101 - The Road to the Dark Tower: Exploring Stephen King's Magnum Opus by Bev Vincent (2 stars)