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Novels:
1. Xenocide - Orson Scott Card (currently reading)
2. Pines - Blake Crouch
3. Flow My Tears, The Police Man Said - Philip K. Dick
4. Hyperion - Dan Simmons (currently reading)
Graphic Novels:
1. East of West Vol. 2 - Jonathan Hickman
2. East of West Vol. 3 - Jonathan Hickman
3. Planetary - Warren Ellis
4. Batman Vol 4. Zero City - Scott Snyder
5. Prophet Vol. 1
6. Prophet Vol. 2
7. Prophet Vol. 3
8. East of West Vol. 4
Yeah, it's a great feeling. Hopefully, I'll be on plenty of lists....just hopefully not any 'worst of' lists lol
I read the review and it was great. Hoping it entices some doubters to give the book a shot. For me as the author, the review was just sentences after that first sentence, "This book really got to me" = Mission Accomplished. I liked how you mentioned how the book is about more than the horror and violence, but it's about the broken people inside of all that horror and violence, and all of the horror and violence inside of them, so Mission Accomplished x 2 I'm hoping book number two gets to you too, though it may get to you in the 'lying awake in the dark unable to fall asleep because of the nightmares' kind of way--it's really creepy
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Matt, offer a print version, por favor!
A NEW GAME BEGINS
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I copied the Amazon link and forwarded to a bunch of my Kindle wielding friends. I gave you a hearty recommendation, of course. Hope they buy it!
Matt is your new book going to include some of your real life paranormal encounters?
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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Excellent! Maybe you should think about a third book that is a true haunting story based on your experiences
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
1. The Stone Monkey/Jeffery Deaver (started sometime 2014)
2. The Wolf's Hour/Robert R. McCammon
3. The Rising/Brian Keene
4. Angels Flight/Michael Connelly
5. The Wishsong of Shannara/Terry Brooks
6. The Exorcist 3: Legion/William Peter Blatty
7. A Feast For Crows/George R.R. Martin
8. Void Moon/Michael Connelly
9. Lightning/Dean Koontz
10. Cemetery Dance/Preston & Child
11. Dark Hollow/John Connolly
12. Four Blind Mice/James Patterson
In Digitized Remorse
2012 List
2013 List
2014 List
2015
1. Falls the Shadow - Stefanie Gaither
2. Immortal - JR Ward
3. The Slow Regard of Silent Things - Patrick Rothfuss
4. Revival - Stephen King
5. The Supernatural Enhancements - Edgar Cantero
6. Burned - Karen Marie Moning
7. Golden Son - Pierce Brown
8. Doomed - Chuch Palahniuk
9. The Warded Man - Peter V. Brett
10. The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
11. The Shadows - JR Ward
12. Mort(e) - Robert Repino
13. Throne of Glass - Sarah J. Mass
14. The Kiss of Deception - Mary E. Pearson
15. Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
16. Eighth Grave After Dark - Darynda Jones
17. Finders Keepers - Stephen King
18. Drums of Autumn - Diana Gabaldon (reread)
19. Red Queen - Victoria Aveyard
20. The Boy with the Porcelain Blade - Den Patrick
21. The Bourbon Kings - JR Ward
Wanted: Human skin edition of The Book of the Dead. Will accept PC copy.
2015
1. NOS4A2 -Joe Hill
2. Eerie - Blake Crouch
3. Doctor Sleep - Stephen King
4. Revival - Stephen King
5. A Most Haunted House - G.L. Davies
6. Abandon - Blake Crouch
7. Misery - Stephen King
8. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier (audio)
9. Run - Blake Crouch
10. The Birds - Daphne du Maurier
11. Miramont's Ghost - Elizabeth Hall
12. The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson (audio)
13. The Langoliers - Stephen King
14. The Winter People - Jennifer McMahon (audio)
15. The Island - Elin Hilderbrand (audio)
16. And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie (audio)
17. Desert Places - Blake Crouch
18. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (audio)
19. Fully Loaded: The Complete and Collected Stories of Blake Crouch
20. Draculas - Blake Crouch, Jack Kilborn, Jeff Strand, and F. Paul Wilson
21. Wayward Pines: Genesis Collection - Steven Konkoly
22. Beautiful Day - Elin Hilderbrand (audio)
23. The Matchmaker - Elin Hilderbrand (audio)
24. The Man on the Bench - Robert Swartwood
25. Famous - Blake Crouch
26. Summer Rental - Mary Kay Andrews (audio)
27. Before I Go To Sleep - S.J. Watson
28. The Bookseller - Cynthia Swanson (audio)
29. Annihilation - Jeff Vandermeer
30. Bradbury Thirteen - Ray Bradbury (audio)
31. If I Stay - Gayle Forman (audio)
32. Authority - Jeff Vandermeer
33. Where She Went - Gayle Forman (audio)
34. Acceptance - Jeff Vandermeer
35. The Martian - Andy Weir
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
2015
Notes From Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky (RR) *****
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski ****
Animal Farm (RR) *****
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2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
1. The Golden City - John Twelve Hawks - (3)
2. The Queen of the Damned - Anne Rice (4)
3. Game of Thrones -George R. R. Martin (5)
4. A Clash of Kings - GRRM (5)
5. The Assignation - EAP-short story (4)
6. Metzengerstein -EAP-short story (4)
7. The Langoliers - SK - reread (5)
8. Storm of Swords -GRRM (5)
9. The Martian - Andy Weir (5)
10. A Feast for Crows - GRRM (4)
Sloth Love Chunk
1. BUTCHER'S MOON- Richard Stark
2. FOUNDATION- Isaac Asimov
3. FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE- Isaac Asimov
4. UNLIMITED POWER- Anthony Robbins
5. SECOND FOUNDATION- Isaac Asimov
6. HOW TO WIN AT THE SPORT OF BUSINESS- Mark Cuban
7. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE- J. D. Salinger
8. THE LITTLE RED BOOK OF SALES- Jeffery Gitomer
9. THE ALADDIN FACTOR- Jack Canfield
10. THE ART OF LEARNING- Josh Waitzkin
11. 4-HOUR WORKWEEK- Tim Ferriss
12. 4-HOUR BODY- Tim Ferriss
13. THE QUICK AND EASY WAY TO EFFECTIVE SPEAKING- Dale Carnegie
14. EATS, SHOOTS & LEAVES- Lynne Truss
15. ONE SECOND AFTER- William R. Forstchen
16. GETTING PAST NO- William Ury
17. THE 22 IMMUTABLE LAWS OF MARKETING- Al Ries and Jack Trout
18. GROWTH HACKER MARKETING- Ryan Holiday
19. THE GETAWAY CAR- Donald Westlake
20. LETTERS FROM A STOIC- Seneca
21. A RAGE IN HARLEM- Chester Himes
22. PICK-UP- Charles Willeford
23. TRUST ME, I'M LYING- Ryan Holiday
24. THE REAL COOL KILLERS- Chester Himes
25. EINSTEIN- Walter Isaacson
26. THE KILLER INSIDE ME- Jim Thompson
27. THE DARK TOWER- Stephen King (re-read)
28. BREAKOUT- Richard Stark (re-read)
29. GETTING OFF- Lawrence Block
30. THE ESSENTIAL MARCUS AURELIUS- Marcus Aurelius
31. COMEBACK- Richard Stark (re-read)
32. AGE OF PROPAGANDA- Anthony Pratkanis & Elliot Aronson
33. MR. MERCEDES- Stephen King
34. THE GOLDEN SAYINGS OF EPICTETUS- Epictetus
35. FRAGMENTS OF EPICTETUS- Epictetus
36. GREEN SHADOWS, WHITE WHALE- Ray Bradbury
37. CAT'S CRADLE- Kurt Vonnegut
38. HOW NOT TO BE WRONG- Jordan Ellenberg
39. THE MAGIC OF THINKING BIG- David Schwartz
40. THE MONK AND THE RIDDLE- Randy Komisar
41. RUM PUNCH- Elmore Leonard
42. REASONS TO KILL- Richard Rubenstein
43. MINDSET- Carol Dweck
44. GET REAL- Donald Westlake
45. OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA- Micheal Pollan
46. THE FOUNTAINHEAD- Ayn Rand
I usually dont like to post my whole list over and over again, preferring to just edit the first post I made in the thread, but with completing my latest read I am up to 25!
This equals the number of books I read total in 2013 and 2014 COMBINED! And I have 3 and a half months to go! HUZZAH! Feels great to be reading (and listening) a lot more this year.
Past years Links
2013
2014
2015 Book List
1. Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition - Daniel Okrent (started 10/10/14, finished 1/16/15)
2. Annihilation - Jeff Vandermeer (read on 1/20/15)
3. The Black Echo - Michael Connelly (started 3/13/25, finished 3/20/15)
4. The Lincoln Lawyer - Michael Connelly (Started 3/23/15, finished 3/25/15)
5. Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche - Haruki Murakami
(Started 3/11/15, finished 4/14/15)
6. The Three-Body Problem - Liu Cixin (started 3/21/15, finished 4/14/15)
7. The Strange Library - Haruki Murakami (read on 4/15/15)
8. So You've Been Publicly Shamed - Jon Ronson (started 5/13/15, finished 5/18/15)
9. The Elephant Vanishes - Haruki Murakami (finished 5/21/15)
10. Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie (started 5/21/15, finished 5/25/15)
11. Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power - Rachel Maddow (re-started 5/25/15, finished 5/31/15)
12. After the Quake - Haruki Murakami (Started 5/27/15, finished 5/31/15)
13. The Brass Verdict (audiobook) - Michael Connelly (started 6/7/15, finished 6/9/15)
14. The Black Ice - Michael Connelly (started 6/6/15,finished 6/21/15)
15. The Concrete Blonde - Michael Connelly (finished 6/29/15)
16. Pines - Blake Crouch (started 7/2/15, finished 7/6/15)
17. Ancillary Sword - Ann Leckie (started 6/29/15, finished 7/15/15)
18. The Reversal (audiobook) - Michael Connelly (started 7/7/15,finished 7/23/15)
19. The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara (started 8/11/15, finished 8/14/15
20. The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the Global Economic Order - Paul Vigna and Michael J Casey (started 7/15/15, finished 8/22/15)
21. Wayward - Blake Crouch (started 8/23/15, finished 8/31/15)
22. The Last Coyote - Michael Connelly (started 8/31/15, finished 9/10/15)
23. Trunk Music - Michael Connelly (started 9/10/15, finished 9/16/15)
24. Blind willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami (started 5/31/15, finished 9/18/15)
25. The Fifth Witness (audiobook) - Michael Connelly (started 9/1/15, finished 9/18/15)
The Gods of Guilt (audiobook) - Michael Connelly (started 9/19/15,)
So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead - David Browne (started 9/18/15,)
The Marauders - Tom Cooper (started 9/18/15)
Trigger Warnings - Neil Gaiman (started 2/17/15,)
Authority - Jeff Vandermeer (started 2/2/15,)
Grimscribe - Thomas Ligotti (ebook) (started 10/28/14)
The Wastelands - Stephen King (started 8/2/14
The King in Yellow - Robert W Chambers e-book (started 3/29/14
Hemingway: A Life without Consequences - James R Mellow (started 10/27/13)
A Game of Thrones - George RR Martin (re-reading)
Wanted
CD Carrie Portfolio 719
Dark Tower S/N LE's 171 or 203
ANY Stephen King S/N LE #171 or 719
A Storm of Swords #218 or 346
Ancillary Justice #455
American Gods (+ SC Reader copy) #624
Michael Whelan original art
DT VII: Michael Whelan Remarque
1. BUTCHER'S MOON- Richard Stark
2. FOUNDATION- Isaac Asimov
3. FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE- Isaac Asimov
4. UNLIMITED POWER- Anthony Robbins
5. SECOND FOUNDATION- Isaac Asimov
6. HOW TO WIN AT THE SPORT OF BUSINESS- Mark Cuban
7. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE- J. D. Salinger
8. THE LITTLE RED BOOK OF SALES- Jeffery Gitomer
9. THE ALADDIN FACTOR- Jack Canfield
10. THE ART OF LEARNING- Josh Waitzkin
11. 4-HOUR WORKWEEK- Tim Ferriss
12. 4-HOUR BODY- Tim Ferriss
13. THE QUICK AND EASY WAY TO EFFECTIVE SPEAKING- Dale Carnegie
14. EATS, SHOOTS & LEAVES- Lynne Truss
15. ONE SECOND AFTER- William R. Forstchen
16. GETTING PAST NO- William Ury
17. THE 22 IMMUTABLE LAWS OF MARKETING- Al Ries and Jack Trout
18. GROWTH HACKER MARKETING- Ryan Holiday
19. THE GETAWAY CAR- Donald Westlake
20. LETTERS FROM A STOIC- Seneca
21. A RAGE IN HARLEM- Chester Himes
22. PICK-UP- Charles Willeford
23. TRUST ME, I'M LYING- Ryan Holiday
24. THE REAL COOL KILLERS- Chester Himes
25. EINSTEIN- Walter Isaacson
26. THE KILLER INSIDE ME- Jim Thompson
27. THE DARK TOWER- Stephen King (re-read)
28. BREAKOUT- Richard Stark (re-read)
29. GETTING OFF- Lawrence Block
30. THE ESSENTIAL MARCUS AURELIUS- Marcus Aurelius
31. COMEBACK- Richard Stark (re-read)
32. AGE OF PROPAGANDA- Anthony Pratkanis & Elliot Aronson
33. MR. MERCEDES- Stephen King
34. THE GOLDEN SAYINGS OF EPICTETUS- Epictetus
35. FRAGMENTS OF EPICTETUS- Epictetus
36. GREEN SHADOWS, WHITE WHALE- Ray Bradbury
37. CAT'S CRADLE- Kurt Vonnegut
38. HOW NOT TO BE WRONG- Jordan Ellenberg
39. THE MAGIC OF THINKING BIG- David Schwartz
40. THE MONK AND THE RIDDLE- Randy Komisar
41. RUM PUNCH- Elmore Leonard
42. REASONS TO KILL- Richard Rubenstein
43. MINDSET- Carol Dweck
44. GET REAL- Donald Westlake
45. OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA- Micheal Pollan
46. THE FOUNTAINHEAD- Ayn Rand
47. WHAT DO YOU CARE WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK? -Richard Feynman
48. THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY- Douglas Adams
2012 List
2013 List
2014 List
2015
1. Falls the Shadow - Stefanie Gaither
2. Immortal - JR Ward
3. The Slow Regard of Silent Things - Patrick Rothfuss
4. Revival - Stephen King
5. The Supernatural Enhancements - Edgar Cantero
6. Burned - Karen Marie Moning
7. Golden Son - Pierce Brown
8. Doomed - Chuch Palahniuk
9. The Warded Man - Peter V. Brett
10. The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
11. The Shadows - JR Ward
12. Mort(e) - Robert Repino
13. Throne of Glass - Sarah J. Mass
14. The Kiss of Deception - Mary E. Pearson
15. Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
16. Eighth Grave After Dark - Darynda Jones
17. Finders Keepers - Stephen King
18. Drums of Autumn - Diana Gabaldon (reread)
19. Red Queen - Victoria Aveyard
20. The Boy with the Porcelain Blade - Den Patrick
21. The Bourbon Kings - JR Ward
22. Secondhand Souls - Christopher Moore
Wanted: Human skin edition of The Book of the Dead. Will accept PC copy.
1. Game of Thrones - GRRM
2. Storm of Swords - GRRM
3. Gunslinger - Stephen King
4. N0S4A2 - Joe Hill
5. Drawing of the Three - Stephen King
6. Little Sisters of Eluria - Stephen King
7. Wastelands - Stephen King
8. The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
9. Wizard and Glass - Stephen King
Started:
Wind through the Keyhole - Stephen King
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
2015
1. Revival - Stephen King
2. Replay - Ken Grimwood
3. Ack Ack Macaque - Gareth Powell
4. Storm Front - Jim Butcher
5. The Secret of Spring - Piers Anthony
6. All's Fair In Love & Seduction - Beverley Kendall (don't judge me!)
7. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
8. The Recollection - Gareth Powell
9. Misery - Stephen King
10. Roadwork - Richard Bachman/Stephen King (whatever)
11. Pines - Blake Crouch
12. Wayward - Blake Crouch
13. The Last Town - Blake Crouch
14. Hive Monkey - Gareth Powell
15. Finders Keepers - Stephen King
16. A Spell for Chameleon - Piers Anthony
17. The Need - Matt B. Livingstone
18. Summer of Night - Dan Simmons
19. Before Ever After - Samantha Sotto
20. Sweet Tooth: Out of the Deep Woods - Jeff Lemire
Wow, you've really gone hard in the paint with your reading this year, haven't you?