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Hm nossy Send a noteboard - 15/12/2010 03:15:50 PM
The Not-So-Dirty Half Dozen Challenge.

The Rules:

Every two months you must complete a task. You'll have all of those two months to complete each task. (Thus Task One is for January and February, Task Two is for March and April, etc.) We reserve the right to change one of the tasks when we make the first post on 1 January 2011, but we promise it won't be the first task.

So.

The Tasks:

1. Read a work of Classic literature - one you've never read before.

2. Read a book by an author from a country you've not read a book from before.

3. Read one Scifi, one Fantasy and one Spec Fic book (i.e. three separate books, and they can be books you've read before, if you like).

4. Read a graphic novel, a play or a collection of poetry you've not read before.

5. Read a book and then watch a film of that book (again, you can have read the book before).

6. Read a non-fiction book you've not read before.


I will have access to a ton of new books, so I'm fairly sure I can commit to this challenge.
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2011: a year of RAFO challenges. - 13/12/2010 10:45:30 PM 2440 Views
What do we win? *NM* - 13/12/2010 10:59:45 PM 823 Views
Pride? A feeling of accomplishment? - 13/12/2010 11:01:55 PM 1232 Views
Seems worth it. - 16/12/2010 09:51:48 PM 1275 Views
I demand pie! - 22/12/2010 08:16:19 PM 1204 Views
That looks like fun - 14/12/2010 12:50:54 AM 1243 Views
I like. - 14/12/2010 01:08:36 AM 1297 Views
I think it says "challenge" - 15/12/2010 02:04:34 AM 1289 Views
Competition with yourself, then. - 15/12/2010 03:52:13 AM 1325 Views
I refuse to watch film versions of books if I can help it - 14/12/2010 01:20:21 AM 1272 Views
I generally agree, but sometimes the movies are better than the books. *NM* - 14/12/2010 01:27:44 AM 735 Views
Most of my favorite books are unfilmable. *NM* - 14/12/2010 01:40:04 AM 716 Views
Just like Watchmen! *NM* - 14/12/2010 02:46:14 AM 707 Views
Yup. - 14/12/2010 04:06:14 AM 1298 Views
I never watched that. - 19/12/2010 01:12:19 AM 1377 Views
You are a lucky lady. - 19/12/2010 03:53:30 AM 1433 Views
Name one. *NM* - 14/12/2010 05:07:36 AM 699 Views
Mansfield Park. - 14/12/2010 08:36:23 AM 1398 Views
I'll name a dozen. - 14/12/2010 10:32:04 AM 1339 Views
Not all of those are valid choices. - 14/12/2010 03:32:55 PM 1365 Views
Also Big Fish. - 14/12/2010 08:02:07 PM 1443 Views
I prefer the book version of that, by the way - 14/12/2010 10:45:54 PM 1349 Views
Weird. *NM* - 15/12/2010 05:47:21 AM 716 Views
Lots of poor movies there - 14/12/2010 10:48:59 PM 1290 Views
Yeah, I don't know how any movie could be as bad as that book. *NM* - 15/12/2010 08:06:20 AM 865 Views
Wonderboys *NM* - 14/12/2010 04:49:47 PM 736 Views
I'm in. *NM* - 14/12/2010 10:43:14 AM 814 Views
Seems nice, I will try to do the half-dozen challange *NM* - 14/12/2010 07:32:20 PM 832 Views
Question: Can books count for multiple challenges? *NM* - 14/12/2010 09:34:28 PM 802 Views
Preferably not. But we can be tolerant if you're running out of time. - 14/12/2010 09:49:26 PM 1249 Views
So... - 15/12/2010 04:13:27 PM 1529 Views
A single book can count for many things... - 15/12/2010 04:17:59 PM 1401 Views
Oooh. This sounds great, count me in! - 15/12/2010 12:38:39 AM 1571 Views
A challenge I'm toying with for 2011: - 15/12/2010 04:00:36 AM 1380 Views
I'm in. *NM* - 15/12/2010 05:20:04 AM 723 Views
Hmm, exciting - 15/12/2010 08:10:50 AM 1604 Views
A condition and an observation - 15/12/2010 11:27:29 AM 1336 Views
Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian? - 15/12/2010 01:08:04 PM 1460 Views
I liked The Road and No Country For Old Men as well. - 22/12/2010 06:23:23 PM 1334 Views
Is The Road really a western, though? *NM* - 22/12/2010 10:30:44 PM 767 Views
Karl May? - 15/12/2010 07:27:03 PM 1409 Views
I'm sorry, but I keep reading "Karl Marx?" *NM* - 18/12/2010 04:51:40 AM 619 Views
Yeah, they're rather different. *NM* - 18/12/2010 01:33:23 PM 698 Views
Hm - 15/12/2010 03:15:50 PM 1400 Views
I've read a western. I'm counting that! - 30/12/2010 10:50:46 PM 1485 Views
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You'd think two things here that aren't true - 30/12/2010 11:56:22 PM 1352 Views
Re: <will watch interestedly as you play> - 16/12/2010 12:22:54 PM 1298 Views
I think you should try to do one challenge now issued by myself - 16/12/2010 01:07:18 PM 1317 Views
Re: If I can afford it, then of course I'll read it. - 17/12/2010 12:35:02 PM 1343 Views
I am so doing this! - 16/12/2010 09:55:19 PM 1258 Views
Question: - 17/12/2010 01:56:50 AM 1423 Views
I think we can accept that. - 17/12/2010 09:05:55 PM 1506 Views
Ok cool. Thanks *NM* - 17/12/2010 09:34:30 PM 685 Views
Dirty half dozen and genre challenges for me - 17/12/2010 12:14:00 PM 1310 Views
I think that would definitely qualify. - 17/12/2010 09:07:28 PM 1363 Views
Re: I think that would definitely qualify. - 20/12/2010 12:45:42 AM 1348 Views
As always, I won't succeed at the 50 book challenge, but the others... - 20/12/2010 07:05:30 AM 1257 Views
I'm going for the 120 book challenge. - 22/12/2010 06:18:25 PM 1338 Views
I think you missed a trick here. - 30/12/2010 09:19:20 AM 1404 Views
I think that one is always understood. *NM* - 30/12/2010 09:36:38 AM 808 Views
I don't think it is. - 30/12/2010 04:20:41 PM 1239 Views
Well. - 30/12/2010 04:55:00 PM 1342 Views
More questions - 16/01/2011 08:39:01 PM 1251 Views
Re: More questions - 16/01/2011 08:48:09 PM 1285 Views
Re: More questions - 16/01/2011 08:51:37 PM 1351 Views
Faulkner? - 16/01/2011 08:58:12 PM 1359 Views
Hmmm. Maybe. *NM* - 16/01/2011 09:11:25 PM 1447 Views
Re: More questions - 16/01/2011 08:57:51 PM 1301 Views
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Hm. - 16/01/2011 09:11:29 PM 1407 Views
Re: Hm. - 16/01/2011 09:13:50 PM 1260 Views
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Re: More questions - 16/01/2011 10:35:07 PM 1446 Views
I have read a Family Chronicle - 18/01/2011 03:03:48 AM 1499 Views
Nice try. *NM* - 18/01/2011 06:19:48 PM 634 Views
You disagree? - 19/01/2011 01:30:45 AM 1324 Views

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