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I'll give you another nudge. I really enjoyed the book.
Janice wrote: "I'll give you another nudge. I really enjoyed the book."That settles it!�
jaxnsmom wrote: Great going Lori! And about the two abandoned ones - now they're off your tbr instead of hanging around, and you didn't waste time making yourself finishing them. Thanks, jaxnsmom! That's exactly how I looked at it too. I really was excited to knock 4 off the tbr pile and since I add to that pile every day, I'm glad for challenges like this.
Finished my book at the last minute, Middlemarch by George EliotGenre: Romance +2
Author: Born in Nov. +5
Surname begins with E + 4
Cover: Flower +4
794 pages +6
Total: 21 points
E :) wrote: "Finished my book at the last minute, Middlemarch by George Eliot."That's cutting it pretty close, but you made it! And look at your points - really well done.
thanks jaxnsmom!! I really loved Middlemarch -- it's now one of my all-time favs! I had this on my TBR for such a long time. I'm so glad that this challenge prompted me to give it a go :)
Well, I read four books from my top ten this month all of which were relatively poor in the scoring. Here is the least pathetic...Monster Hunter International
Genre: 0
Author: 1pt, male
title: 0
Cover: 0
Pages: 4pts, 457 pages
Bonus: 0
Total: 5pts
I read Grave Dance. Was fun but I believe very low scoring.Genre: 0
Author: 0 as I cannot find any info on when she was born. What use are you interwebz?!?
Title: 0
Cover: 0
Pages: 3 pts - 300 - 399 pages
Bonus Points: 0
TOTAL: 3pts
woot
Alexandra wrote: "1st book: Out of Africa.Genre:
Autobiography - 5 points
Non-fiction - 3 points
Pages:
399 - 3 points (she could not have written one more lousy page now, could she?)
No meteor s..."
you've ripped yourself off 3 points for Infidel. Check out Thing Two's post. But guessing you both scored the version you read with the pages?
Marcus wrote: "Here is the least pathetic..."Lol
Rusalka wrote: "Alexandra wrote: "1st book: Out of Africa.Genre:
Autobiography - 5 points
Non-fiction - 3 points
Pages:
399 - 3 points (she could not have written one more lousy page now, could ..."
Yeah, the longest version in English listed is in under 400 pages. I did the audio version.
No worries Thing Two. Sorry she didn't write one more page.Guessing Alexandra read it in another language then. These clever multilingual people get more options!
Rusalka wrote: "Alexandra wrote: "1st book: Out of Africa.Genre:
Autobiography - 5 points
Non-fiction - 3 points
Pages:
399 - 3 points (she could not have written one more lousy page now, could ..."
Thanks, Rusalka. I missed the bonus points (for the main character being a writer) but somehow the version I read (in German) had more pages, just checked again to be sure.
I don´t think it has anything to do with clever multilingual people but rather with the problem that the Germans take longer to get to the point :-)
Checked it again, I think they counted the acknowledgements etc. also as pages so I´ll just use the same scoring as Thing Two.
Haha I won't say that at work tomorrow. There are some really long words in German though. It's all very logical, but I can see how you would have more pages in a translation.Lexx's favourite German word is "schutzengrabenvernichtungsautomobile". For us non-German speakers, it's the original word for a tank. Kind proves both of our points heh.
Rusalka wrote: "Haha I won't say that at work tomorrow. There are some really long words in German though. It's all very logical, but I can see how you would have more pages in a translation.Lexx's favourite Ger..."
Oh dear, that is funny. I´ve never heard that before, though. We also call them "Panzer". Put that just proves the point, we will always find a more complicated word :-).
This reminds me of that youtube-clip in which German words are compared to words for the same thing in several other languages. So funny!But I do like that Germans often seem to have one word for something that we need to describe in more words :)
Thing Two wrote: "Rusalka wrote: "Alexandra wrote: "1st book: Out of Africa.Genre:
Autobiography - 5 points
Non-fiction - 3 points
Pages:
399 - 3 points (she could not have written one more lousy ..."
Oh, who did the narration? I love the stories. It might be fun to hear them read.
Cherie wrote: "Thing Two wrote: "Rusalka wrote: "Alexandra wrote: "1st book: Out of Africa.Genre:
Autobiography - 5 points
Non-fiction - 3 points
Pages:
399 - 3 points (she could not have writt..."
Which one do you mean, Cherie?
Alexandra,I think I was trying to ask about the audio version for Out of Africa from message 62 above.
Thing Two,
Did you listen to this in audio? If yes, I was wondering who did the narration. If you meant that you used the page numbers from the audio version - never mind and sorry for getting the thread off track.
Oh, I think this was some kind of misunderstanding. I did not listen to the audio version but read the book. Though I think it is a great story to listen to. Did you listen to the audio book?
No I read it too. I would listen to it though, if it were well done. I love the movie! Wouldn't it be wonderful if Meryl Streep narrated it?
Cherie wrote: "No I read it too. I would listen to it though, if it were well done. I love the movie! Wouldn't it be wonderful if Meryl Streep narrated it?"I´m sure it would! I actually haven´t seen the movie yet but I can imagine how perfectly well Meryl Streep fits into this role...
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I'm moving it up the list. All i needed was little nudge. Thanks.