Horror Aficionados discussion

Fellow HA member Marie suggested this challenge, the idea for which she got from another group. Here's how it works:

As each of you finishes a book, you come here and add the page count to our running total. For instance, if the total pages read are at 100, and you just read a book that was 100 pages you would post the name of the book you just finished, along with the page count, (100 in our example), and then you would ADD your page count to the count in the post before yours, (200 total in our example.) Easy Peasy!

For audiobooks, look up the page count for the paper book and post that.

This challenge applies to ALL books, not just the horror genre!

DNF books do NOT count towards this challenge. Only books that have been completed will apply.

This is a new challenge for us, so I've randomly set the goal at 1,500,000 pages. There are over 12,000 members here, so I think that's attainable. If we attain our goal too early, we'll up it and see just how many pages our Aficionados read during the year. (In my opinion, WE ROCK and I think we'll make over 2 million.)

This challenge starts on January 1st and will run to December 31st at midnight! Rock on Aficionados and show us what you've got!

Excellent idea!

Lena wrote: "Excellent idea!"

I thought so too-I think it's going to be fun. :)

Good times indeed.
I already try to beat my "pages read" total each year and now I can contribute them to the group goal. If we don't hit at least 1.5 million it won't be for lack of trying. C'mon, HA! I know you can do it!!

I did this in another group; it is fun:-).

It looks awesome, Char! I do believe that we at HA could easily make it past the 1.5 million mark! We have way more members than the other group and I do think we shall surpass that mark! Rock on, HA! I will be ready! :)

Tunnel vision --464 pages

John wrote: "I guess that with kindle books we use the advertised page numbers? How about audio books? Same thing?"

Yes, any format, John. Regular books, kindle books, and audio books. :)

Sonya wrote: "Tunnel vision --464 pages"

It starts in January, Sonya. I see you are as eager as I am :)

Marie wrote: "It looks awesome, Char! I do believe that we at HA could easily make it past the 1.5 million mark! We have way more members than the other group and I do think we shall surpass that mark! Rock on, ..."

Thank you and thanks, once again, for the suggestion!

John wrote: "I guess that with kindle books we use the advertised page numbers? How about audio books? Same thing?"

I suggest looking up the audios as regular books on Amazon and using that total.

Sonya wrote: "Tunnel vision --464 pages"

I like your enthusiasm, Sonya! It doesn't start until January 1st and it's supposed to be pages READ in 2017. So after you read your first book of 2017, please come and post. :)

Ok

I'm totally in to this challenge. I read over 31,000 pages so far this year. I find it a better measure of reading then book count. I've read several of the tor.com shorts this year and it scewed my book count. I also read several 500+ page books. This is my kind of challenge.

Are we only counting horror books or any/all books?

Myst wrote: "Are we only counting horror books or any/all books?"

I would suggest that we only use horror books, considering the genre of this group! I'm in! I can't wait to see what kind of totals we get!

All books apply!

Indeed, we are a horror group, but there are crossovers with thrillers and mysteries and we'd rather not get bogged down with all that.

I expected that answer, but thought it should be clarified.

A different group who does this sort of thing is a general book type group where anything goes. They have 8600 members and (so far) in 2016 have 1,134,293 pages recorded. (Obviously not every member contributes, and some only sporadically update. I haven't updated the last 10 books I read yet...oops!)

Myst wrote: "I expected that answer, but thought it should be clarified.

A different group who does this sort of thing is a general book type group where anything goes. They have 8600 members and (so far) in 2..."

I suspect that we will easily beat this goal, but I had to start somewhere.We can always up it if we need to. Not all of our members will participate and many have busy lives. It's hard to guess!

I've never done a page tally before--this could be interesting!!! :D

For the TBR challenge, I am assuming THAT is for horror only?

Love that idea, as it would help to calculate my average page count per title/year - I have the suspicion that my total number of books read per year only works with an average of novella length titles ;) I really miss an automatism in the general GR challenge doing that calculation for me...

If the page count challenge is open to all books and not just horror genre books I will join this challenge. My contribution will be 90% greater if I can count all the books I read!

We are counting ALL books, NOT just horror.
I'm going to edit the opening post to say that.

Jennifer Lynn wrote: "For the TBR challenge, I am assuming THAT is for horror only?"

The TBR challenge can be for any books you like. That's the beauty of it, you can choose whichever books you want.

So its decided now? I remember a mod or someone saying page read challenge is any genre, tbr challenge horror only. Now both challenges are any genre? Are we going to be doing some kind of Horror only challenge?

I saw no mod say anything was horror only.

You can decide yourself if you want your TBR challenge to be only horror.
The pages read challenge is all books.

Albert wrote: "So its decided now? I remember a mod or someone saying page read challenge is any genre, tbr challenge horror only. Now both challenges are any genre? Are we going to be doing some kind of Horror o..."

I personally made my TBR challenge horror because I have such a backlog of those books. But please choose ANY books you've had on your own TBR list for a long time and want to read. That is the idea of this challenge.

WendyB wrote: "Albert wrote: "So its decided now? I remember a mod or someone saying page read challenge is any genre, tbr challenge horror only. Now both challenges are any genre? Are we going to be doing some k..."

This is a going to be a lot of fun!

Char wrote: "WendyB wrote: "Albert wrote: "So its decided now? I remember a mod or someone saying page read challenge is any genre, tbr challenge horror only. Now both challenges are any genre? Are we going to ..."

I hope so. :)
Seems to be a bit of confusion about the challenge.

It's clear to me now. Just thought one of the challenges was horror only, looking back someone made this suggestion for the TBR challenge, but I understand that it's a personal preference on what a person reads.
Either way should be a rewarding year concerning challenges.

WendyB wrote: "Char wrote: "WendyB wrote: "Albert wrote: "So its decided now? I remember a mod or someone saying page read challenge is any genre, tbr challenge horror only. Now both challenges are any genre? Are..."

I added a statement to the opening post on both challenges, so it should be clearer now. No worries. :)

Dominic wrote: "I'm planning on 75 books for the TBR challenge. I have a few books backed up so this is a good opportunity."

You guys are making me feel like a slacker at only 40.

Ohh such a good idea! Like that we are counting pages!!!

Char wrote: "Dominic wrote: "I'm planning on 75 books for the TBR challenge. I have a few books backed up so this is a good opportunity."

You guys are making me feel like a slacker at only 40."

I put 20! Now I'm going to have to change that--besides, ten are Valancourt releases, so those are guaranteed reads. ;)

I didn't see anyone say anything about only horror books; I took the challenge to mean ANY books on your TBR pile, and any books would apply to the pages read challenge.

I'm excited for these!!!

I am happy that the confusion has been cleared up. lol

Wow, I got on here to HA and saw there was lots of posts to this thread and thought cool, HA members are wanting to join the page challenge, then saw where the mods had to explain everything.

I want to commend All the Mods for their patience and understanding on helping to clarify everything. All of you are great!

Thanks a lot, Marie! We're working hard to make HA the best horror group, not only on Goodreads, but on the web itself. :)

It helps to have great members like yourself who take the time to make helpful suggestions.

Char wrote: "Thanks a lot, Marie! We're working hard to make HA the best horror group, not only on Goodreads, but on the web itself. :)

It helps to have great members like yourself who take the time to make he..."

You are welcome, Char! I have never felt more at home than I do right here in HA! :)

Char wrote: "Fellow HA member Marie suggested this challenge, the idea for which she got from another group. Here's how it works:

As each of you finishes a book, you come here and add the page count to our run..."

THIS IS WONDERFUL!! I'm super excited. :)

Kelly wrote: "Char wrote: "Fellow HA member Marie suggested this challenge, the idea for which she got from another group. Here's how it works:

As each of you finishes a book, you come here and add the page cou..."

I am too. I think it's pretty cool. :)

Sounds good to me, I'll be sure to join in on both challenges! Thanks for putting this together!

This seems fun (like a lot of other stuff in this group)! I've bookmarked this page and I'll probably update later in 2017 rather than posting regularly throughout the year, if that's okay.

Sounds like fun. I'm in.

Excellent! We're happy to have you.

Page count tracking is a great way to gauge how much reading I'm doing even better than a book count and it's been dropping so I'm in! It's funny I was thinking of looking it up when I saw this post.

Kasia wrote: "Page count tracking is a great way to gauge how much reading I'm doing even better than a book count and it's been dropping so I'm in! It's funny I was thinking of looking it up when I saw this post."

Perfect!

Fun! :) I'm in!

My first book of the year (audiobook) :)

Psycho 208 pages

My first book of the year (paperback):

Hammer Wives 152 pages

208 + 152 = 360

(AWESOME START!!)