The Sword and Laser discussion

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.

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

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

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).

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!

working on 51st right now

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.

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

I didn't lem Lem ;-)

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

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

I think I'm at 39/70

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

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.

30/70

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.

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.

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!

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).

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

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

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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

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 ).