The Sword and Laser checklist.

[Josh]

To tired and hot to sleep tonight I thought it would be fun to make a check list of books on S&L reading list. So I can see what I have read and haven't. Since not all of us have been here the whole time or skip months or (gasp) books. I thought I would share with the community so here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P...

Take it make it your own and have fun.

[Ty]

Cool. My love of checklists thanks your inability to sleep.

[Clyde]

Thanks for compiling the list.
42 of 70 so far for me.

[Robert]

16/70 here (with 4 I want to re-read because it's been a while), I need to start catching up on the picks for this year. Took me three months to finish reading Altered Carbon (even though I enjoyed it).

[Dave]

OK, so not being a Google Docs guy, I did a little copy and paste magic to convert the checklist to Excel (on Dropbox) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6... and Numbers (on Dropbox - zipped) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6...

Have fun!

[Phil]

working on 51st right now

[[deleted user]]

I've only read seven of these. Awesome, I know what my new reading list is. New plan, right after I finish the books i'm currently on.

[Tassie Dave, S&L Historian]

I've finished all 70. That's 1 more than Veronica.

I didn't lem Lem ;-)

[Rod]

I've read 10/70. Thanks Josh for creating such a useful resource!

[Ben]

Wow. I've got 26. Most from before I even knew of S&L.

[Rob, Roberator]

I think I'm at 39/70

[Isaiah]

31/70 for me. Your insomnia is far more productive than mine. Thanks!

[Joanna Chaplin]

I've been deliberately reading the old picks. So I'm 55/70. I've also picked up and lemmed 5.

[Sky]

20/70, having joined when Altered Carbon was the monthly pick. Another 5 are in the top 100 of my to-read list.

[AndrewP]

34 out of 70. Average of my ratings is 3.05, which fits perfectly with how I rate books on Goodreads. There have been some great reads and some real dogs, the average being exactly in the middle.

[Valerie]

I have just finished my list-obsessed need to finish all the S&L books with "The Lies of Locke Lamora." Now I have to get back to finishing all the series that got me started on. I'm gonna need another checklist...

[Molly]

24/70. I've lemmed 6 and never got around to finishing American Gods. I should really pick that one up again...

[Joyce]

I've done 41/72 with 5 lems. There are some on the list that I still want to get to. American Gods and Neuromancer in particular. I was a little late in joining there were probably about 10 books before I joined.

[Chad]

30/70

[Shaina]

37/70, not too bad, I did much better with the books read since I discovered S&L (21/30) than with the older picks.

[Mark]

Hmmm. Only 25/70 for me, split just about evenly before/after discovering the Joy of S&L. I also counted 23 books (print/digital) I own but haven't read yet. Since I still scrounge in used book stores and hangout on the S&L Kindle daily deal thread, my TBR pile is growing exponentially.

[Kelli]

I've read 25/70 as well. I joined Sword and Laser about 1 1/2 years ago. Since then, I've only missed 1 book (not counting the alt picks). My to-read list is about to grow--I'm going to add all the books I've missed.

Thanks for creating the checklist!

[terpkristin]

Is 70 the total without the alt picks?

Because if I'm counting correctly:
I've read 69

Tried and Lem'd 5 (Downbelow Station, The Dirty Streets of Heaven, Tigana, Watership Down, and Dune)

Outright skipped 6 (Empire State, Blindsight, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, The Windup Girl, The Forever War, and Memoirs Found in a Bathtub).

[Phil]

It seems to be 70 when you include the alternate picks, 62 without.

[terpkristin]

Well then I can't count, must have been 59 read, 5 Lem'd, and 6 skipped.

[Joseph]

34 over the years, although almost none as part of the actual monthly picks.

Interesting to see the full list -- I kind of wish I would've been around for Dune and/or The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.

[Joanna Chaplin]

Joseph wrote: "34 over the years, although almost none as part of the actual monthly picks.

Interesting to see the full list -- I kind of wish I would've been around for Dune and/or [book:The Moon ..."

The old wrap-up episodes are still there and available from the wiki.

http://swordandlaser.wikia.com/wiki/B...

Just click on the title. That's what I've been doing after I finish each old pick. It's not the same, but it's still fun.

[Joseph]

Joanna wrote: "The old wrap-up episodes are still there and available from the wiki.

http://swordandlaser.wikia.com/wiki/B...

Just click on the title. That's what I've been doing after I finish each old pick. It's not the same, but it's still fun."

Thanks! Unfortunately my to-be-listened podcast list is almost as bad as my to-be-read book list, but I'll have to add these to the mix ...

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

I've read 43, not all necessarily when S&L did. I lemmed six, but not the Lem. It was a good reminder how far back I have been around! Started with del Franco.

[Ben]

Only 29 for me. I do have unread copies of a lot of others from before I started reading along around Old Man's War and Bridge of Birds though.

[John (john)]

37, 11 of which I think got on my to-read list because of this group. So far!

[Tina]

Thanks for the Numbers version! I've only read 33, but I've lemmed a couple - I'm a slow reader so I'm hoping to come back and finish a couple (that I had to return to the library before I could finish ).