So I just finished Volume 50, which featured the end of Thriller Bark and the beginning of Sabaody and I have to say, Thriller Bark was freaking hilarious. Whether it was Luffy's first question to Brook, Brook's obsession with panties, to Franky building a bridge in like 2 seconds, and Usopp scaring the crap out of Perona, I could not stop laughing. Gekko Moriah was a pretty cool villain too and I liked how the entire arc felt like a homage to The Island of Dr Moreau. I think Alabasta is still my favorite arc in the series thus far (and Crocodile is still my favorite villain), but it was also nice to read a short story arc compared to the lengths of the last three arcs (Alabastra, Skypiea, and Water Seven). On the other hand, I really do like Water Seven since it really had a heavy focus on Robin and introduced Franky (both are my favorite characters), but the arc felt a little too long at times.
Anyway, I really need to slow down as I just ordered Volumes 55-58 off Amazon and I seem to be plowing through 1-2 volumes a day lately. I'll have to get 59-65 in like two weeks if I keep this speed going and then I'll be completely screwed since I'll be caught up on the series with 6 month waits in between volumes.
EDIT: Thought I would just post some updates.
First off, I finally finished rewatching the first three seasons of the anime Funimation released and watched the first set to Season Four. My god, the Foxy arc in anime form is even worse than I was expecting. It wasn't bad enough dragging the arc out, but they added 3 more freaking events to it and they were booooooooooooring. Not to mention they changed nearly all of the funny scenes from the manga. So far, the highlight was getting to hear Usopp and Luffy sound like they were out of a boxing movie when they were coming out for the Combat round. I cannot wait to be done with this freaking crap. I know they have to do filler, but why are they not doing more filler episodes on the stuff taking from the title page to each manga volume? They have yet to do Django's Dance Off, Eneru's arrival on the moon, Wapol getting a new empire, Hachi teaming up with Camy, and the freeing of the Baroque Works members from prison? Three of those are pretty important to the later arcs of the story, so why do they continue to just do filler arc that screws around with the main characters?
Secondly, as for the manga, I am now at the point where Luffy is fighting the Gorgon Sisters and my god, it has just been hysterical. The whole family jewels stuff is so funny. Sabaody was pretty good and very informative about Gol D. Roger and his crew and I cannot wait to learn more about Bartholomew.