Challenge: 50 Books discussion

I have been diagnosed as Bi-Polar and suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Dissorder (PTSD) Everything I do comes and goes as it pleases so I may not finish this challenge or I may surpass it, your guess is as good as mine. The best I can do is to set a goal and to try.

1 :The Girl Who Played with Fire The Millennium trilogy book 2, I am not counting The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo because I finished it on January first. If you haven't read this trillogy, you should consider giving it a try.

2: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's NestThe Millennium trilogy book 3. this trillogy will stay in my top 50 favorite books for a very long time.

3: Semper Mars Book 1 of the Heritage trilogy. Slightly dated but enjoyable all the same.

4: Luna MarineBook 2 of the Heritage trilogy.

5: Europa StrikeBook 3 of the Heritage trilogy.

6: Red Mars Book 1 of the Martian trillogy. Being a highly scientific look at colonizing mars, Red Mars read more like an instruction manuel. I loved the characters but just as you got to know them the point of view switched to someone else. The second person might not think much of the first and that made it an odd reading experiance. There is only so much you can say about a desert landscape made of red dirt and rocks and there are a lot of landscape discriptions in Red Mars. Even though this was a tedious book to read, I did enjoy most of it and wll read the rest of the trilogy.

7: Blade Runner Blade Runner is my all time favorite movie and has been for many years so I couldn't bring myself to read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by Phillup K Dick because I thought it would be like a rerun or rereading something I've already read. I could not have been more wrong, any fan of the movie will find that this book has little to do with it but it is well worth reading.

8: Odd Thomas Book 1 or the Odd Thomas series. I have to admit it, even though I was 48 years old at the time that I read it, I loved the Harry Potter series. I have been searching for another series that I could enjoy every since. I really liked this book and have ordered the next two books in the series, I hope this is the series I have been looking for.

9: Submarine U93 I enjoy books and movies about submarines, I don't know why. Das Boot and The Hunt for Red October are great movies and the books are on my TBR list.

10:People of the Dark This really shouldn't even count as a book since it is only 40 pages long and I got it for free on my Kindle but I will leave it for now.

11: A World Is Born Another short book added juat as a break for the longer books

12: Green MarsBook 2 of the Martian trilogy. This is one of those longer books I have mentioned. Learning more about the first 100 (the first to colonize Mars) and getting to know them better is a lot of fun but the book did get longwinded at times. Some events that took place in Red Mars are expanded on and the terraforming of Mars into an Earth like planet continues.

13: Frankenstein: Return From the Wasteland Another short tale read on my Kindle.

14: Conan: The Definitive Collection What could I possibly say that has not already been said about Robert E. Howard's Conan?

15: The Black Book of Cyrenaica 160 page novella that was a good reads givaway. An enjoyable short horror about a djinn.

As far as I can tell, I have read 7,641 pages so far this year. I have never counted pages before and this number surprised me.

16:Blue Mars This should have been book 15, I can't believe that I forgot to add it here.

17:The Howling II Much better than the first Howling.

18:Forever Odd I don't know why but I seem to forget to add books to this count, even those I enjoy as much as the Odd Thomas books.
300 pages (already added to the page count)
7,861 total

19:The Strain DelToro has brought the horror back to the tales of vampires.
401 pages
8262 total

20: The Fall A fun and scary read. No one will ever say these vampires are sexy.
308 pages
8570 total

21:The Night Eternal This trilogy took a nose dive half way through the second book. The final volume was,,,,,
My advice is if you are considering reading this trilogy, stop after the first book and read no further.
371 pages
8941 total

22:The Tombs Of Kobol These are great books and a fantastic ride down memory lane. I have been a BSG fan since the very first episode back in the late 70's. I love these stories.
215 pages
9156 total

23: The Winds of Folly I am really having trouble keeping up with this list. I read this about a month ago

24: Brother OddWow! I didn't think this series could get any better, boy was I wrong. I am loving the Odd Thomas series and am looking forward to the next volume.
364 pages
9520 total

25: The House of Thunder I decided to try reading something by this author other than the Odd Thomas series. This was not as good but still an interesting book well worth reading. Part thriller, part horror and part espionage with lots of twists.
360 pages
9880 total

Half way through my 50 books, I hope I make it this year. only 10k pages to go ? o.O

26: Howling III The best of the trilogy and again, nothing like those terrible movies.
256 pages
10136 total

27: The Hunt for Red October One of my favorite movies and I wanted to read this for a long time. This is a fantastic book for people who love subs like I do.
387 pages
10523 total

28: Dead Zero This was my first backseat book of 2016. It was too good to give up on but not interesting enough to push me to finish it. Putting it in the backseat of my car made sure I would have something to read on those times when I am sitting somewhere waiting like at a doctors office.
401 pages
10924 total

29: Among Wolves A little predictable but an overall fantastic apocalyptic novel with a feel good attitude throughout. I will be looking for more from this author.
291 pages
11215

30:Hamlet Another re-read of my favorite tragedy.

“Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Hours
130 pages
11345 total

31: Odd Hours Counting the three part online story, Odd Interlude, (now in print) I have read 4 of the 8 Odd Thomas books. I am half way through the series and I could easily read the remaining volumes but I don't want this series to end. I have been reading books between volumes just to stretch out the Odd Thomas series. I absolutely love the Odd Thomas series and can never say enough about it.
283 pages
11628 total
How very odd that I chose to read and quote Shakespeare prior to reading this entry into the OT series.

32: From the Corner of His Eye From the corner of his eye is the best Dean Koontz novel I have read so far and it just might be the best novel I have ever read.
729 pages
12357 total

33: DuneIf not for the six day headache that prevented me from reading as much as I would like to have, I would have read this much faster. Dune is a classic that deserves it's status and a must read not only for sci-fi or space opera fans but for anyone who enjoys a beautifully written novel.

34: Odd Apocalypse
I have been reading other books between volumes of Odd Thomas because I want this series to last longer. This was the darkest of the series so far and had some triggers for my PTSD but I managed to work around them and enjoy this story. I prefer the lighter feeling of the previous volumes though.

35: Macbeth
This was my first time reading Macbeth and I am sure a better understanding will come with multiple readings but as usual, I loved reading this play.

36: Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure
Written as a three part online e-book Odd Interlude was a small disappointment. Worth reading but without the feeling of being part of the series.

37: Moby-Dick
My second reading of this classic. If you are considering reading this, go watch the movie starring Gregory Peck, it's a much better story than this book.
543 boring, long drawn out, overly detailed pages.

38: Deeply Odd
This series has become a disappointment with the past two entries, I still hope for a better ending but do not expect it.
335 Pages

39: Saint Odd The seventh (eighth if you count Odd Interlude) and final chapter in the Odd Thomas Saga. It was a pleasure to read this series. This final volume was better than previous additions and somewhat made up for them.
338 pages

40: Mage Maze DemonI enjoyed this and it reminded me of a lot of the writers I enjoyed as a teen. My only complaint is that this was too short but my challenge added it so I am posting it here

41: The Mathews Men: Seven Brothers and the War Against Hitler's U-boats
Wow! A fascinating look into the history of Mathews County Virginia, the men who sailed in the Merchant Marines during WWII, the determined and proud women they left behind and a gentlemanly face of the U-Boat commanders that I did not expect to find.
369 pages

42: Swords of Talera: Book One of the Talera Cycle If you are a fan of Edgar Rice Burroughs I recomend you give this a read.
180 pages

43: Relic I need to create a new catagory called The reason I read, just for a handful of books, books like Relic.
473 pages

44: Women Trouble Pure trash that I regret paying $.99 for

45: Dune Messiah I am surprised at how good this series really is.

46: The Call of the Wild You can never go wrong with Jack London.

47: The Eyes of Heisenberg 158 pages and I almost abandoned it on page 152, actually I had a hard time not giving up on it after chapter one.