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EyeKanFly
Head Bear Master/Galactic Emperor
Age: 33
Location: Gotham
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- Posted: 09/01/2021 19:09
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| Antonio-Pedro wrote: | | It just gets better, the second book is the best IMO and it sort of portrays an interesting character development for Feyre, the first three books are worth it, the other ones are good but pick up only if you're interested in the story |
Cool! I'll have to check out the rest of the series. Some family members recommended it to me but I wasn't totally sold on the first one, it's some cool world-building though so it didn't take much to convince me to keep going haha
| rockbluesfolkjaz wrote: | | I read between 25 and 35 novels a year. I'm now in a classic stage. I finished East of Eden a couple of weeks ago. I'm now midway through To Kill A Mocking Bird. |
Man I wish I still did this. A few years ago I had an hour-long train commute (each way) and was flying through almost a book per week. I think I read ~50 books a year in 2015 (most novels, but some nonfiction, a couple short story collections, etc.). Now though pre-pandemic, I would mostly walk or have a much shorter metro commute, and now since I don't commute at all, I barely read. A big part was that even on the shorter metro commute, I would at least get through 3-6 pages, and that would keep me engaged enough that I'd want to continue reading in the evenings, but now there's very little to keep me engaged.
I do spend a ton of time listening to music though, so it's a double-edged sword I guess. If I start reading more, I might need to cut down on my listening time.
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an-outlaw
Location: Highcoombe
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- #12
- Posted: 09/01/2021 20:21
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I have been reading a book called 'You Are Not So Smart' by David McRaney. It is quite amazing how almost every chapter he some how exposes me for something or another by showing how the brain works. Really fascinating.
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EyeKanFly
Head Bear Master/Galactic Emperor
Age: 33
Location: Gotham
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- Posted: 09/20/2021 13:54
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Just picked up Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
I have a pretty big backlog of books but I finished There, There on a flight and needed something for the flight home, so picked up this one at the airport bookshop. It's incredible so far. I think Glaude set out to write a biography of Baldwin but instead continues Baldwin's legacy on exposing the lies we (Americans in particular) tell ourselves about race. It's part biography of Baldwin, part Gaude's personal memoir, and part essay on race in America. It was published in 2020 and is very currently culturally and politically relevant.
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Mercury
Turn your back on the pay-you-back last call
Gender: Male
Location: St. Louis
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- Posted: 09/24/2021 15:52
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Wheel of Time. First time "read" (the audiobooks on audible). Generally I like them. A lot. I love epic fantasy and I have major respect for Jordan in creating such a massive, intangled and rich world. But... I am halfway through, maybe 1/3rd through, Book 9 - Winter's Heart - and it is a slog. I have been hearing for years and years that the series has a major lull in plot development from books 8 to 10. I somehow knew about this from the internet since I was a lad of 12. Well, finally, 20 years later and at long last, I am experiencing it for myself. I hear that books 11, 12, 13 and 14 are stellar and a great way to end this epic. So, I will push on. I am gleaning some pleasure from it.
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theblueboy
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- Posted: 09/25/2021 11:14
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Finished up the His Dark Materials trilogy. What was all that crap about Dust?
JK. It was excellent stuff. Really imaginative, engrossing and heartfelt. That said, I found bits of it kind of preachy ( religion = bad; academia = good in Pullman’s universes, which I found a bit irritating). But that was a relatively small bugbear with this classic trilogy.
Got some audiobooks lined up next. Some more sci fi/ fantasy. It will either be Klara and the Sun by Kasuo Ishaguru or The Sandman by Neil Gaimen. I can’t decide which yet.
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theblueboy
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- Posted: 10/12/2021 11:02
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Finished the Sandman audiobook (Act 1, which covers the first 20 issues of the original comic book series). It was so very DARK and DISTURBING  A bit much for me, and I found the comic book storytelling hit and miss. Some great moments though and it is an incredibly inventive take on the super hero genre. The full cast production was also very strong. Now Im in two minds about whether to continue with this into the second part (which has recently landed on Audible).
I certainly need something a bit more wholesome to try next 
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rockbluesfolkjaz
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Location: Boston, MA.
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- Posted: 10/12/2021 23:09
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"The Grapes of Wrath"
A different world in a different time. Kind of makes one realize how well-off and lucky most of us are. And educated.
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BozoTyrannus
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Age: 31
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- Posted: 10/27/2021 01:23
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Pax Romana by Adrian Goldsworthy. I've always enjoyed history nonfiction, but for some reason I've had little interest in the Roman Empire. This book, however, is making it very interesting to me.
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rockbluesfolkjaz
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Location: Boston, MA.
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- Posted: 10/29/2021 22:42
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The books I've read over the past few years. I'll have to add a few though, as the latest few aren't listed here. The stars following each are my own personal rating, 5 being very good:
1.11/22/63 - Stephen King *****
2.14 - Peter Clines *** [Jun 2015]
3.A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole **** [Mar 2019]
4.A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles *** [May 2017]
5.A Head Full of Ghosts - Paul Tremblay **** [Sep 2015]
6.A Prayer For Owen Meany - John Irving **** [Nov 2018]
7.Afraid - Jack Kilborn *** [Sep 2016]
8.Afterlife - Marcus Sakey *** [Aug. 2017]
9.All Souls: A Family Story From Southie - Michael Patrick MacDonald **** [Apr 2019]
10.All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr ***** [Jan 2015]
11.An Exorcist Tells His Story - Fr. Gabriele Amorth ** [Nov 2017]
12.Anon - Peter Giglio *** [July 2015]
13.Ashley Bell - Dean Koontz *** [Mar 2018]
14.Auschwitz - A Doctor's Eyewitness Accnts. - Miklos Nyiszli ***** [Nov 2017]
15.Back Roads - Tawni O’Dell - *** [June 2018]
16.Beartown - Fredrik Backman **** [Sep 2017]
17.Beneath A Scarlet Sky - Mark Sullivan ***** [July 2017] ¶
18.Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS - Joby Warrick **** [Feb 2017]
19.Burn Boston Burn: "The Largest Arson Case in the History of the Country" - Wayne Miller ** [Jan 2020]
20.Burnt Offerings - Robert Marasco *** [Mar 2019]
21.Childhood’s End - Arthur C. Clarke ****
22.Citizen Somerville - Bobby Martini ** [Apr 2019]
23.City Infernal - Edward Lee **
24.City Of Masks - Daniel Hecht *** [Jan 2017]
25.Dark Places - Gillian Flynn **** [Apr. 2015]
26.Defending Jacob - William Landay **** [Apr. 2015] ¥
27.Dimiter - William Peter Blatty **
28.Divergent - Veronica Roth ***
29.Doctor Sleep - Stephen King ***
30.Duma Key - Stephen King *** [July 2015]
31.Dweller - Jeff Strand [Aug 2016] **
32.Every Dead Thing - John Connolly ***
33.Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer *
34.Flesh - Richard Laymon *** [Feb. 2016]
35.Floating Staircase - Ronald Malfi ***
36.Follow You Home - Mark Edwards ***** [Sep 2015]
37.Forever Odd - Dean Koontz **** [Apr 2017]
38.Fire and Fury - Inside the Trump White House - Michael Wolff *** [Jan 2018]
39.Funland - Richard Laymon ***** [Mar 2016]
40.Gerald's Game - Stephen King *** [Oct 2017]
41.Gilded Needles - Michael McDowell ***** [Dec 2015]
42.God's Lions - The Secret Chapel - John Lyman *** [May 2014]
43.Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn ***
44.Gone South - Robert R. McCammon ***
45.Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence - Michael Marshall Smith ** [Mar 2019]
46.Heaven and Hell - Don Felder ****
47.Hell House - Richard Matheson *** [Aug. 2014]
48.Heresy - S.J. Parris ***** [May 2014]
49.Hillbilly Elegy - J.D. Vance *** [Jun 2017]
50.Hitman - The Untold Story of John Martorano - Howie Carr ** [April 2014]
51.House of Windows - John Langan *** [Apr 2018]
52.Innocence - Dean Koontz [read in Punta Cana - Mar - Apr 2014] ****
53.Into the Free - Julie Cantrell **** [July 2014]
54.Joyride - Jack Ketchum *** [May 2018]
55.Library of the Dead - Glenn Cooper *** [Dec. 2015]
56.Life - Keith Richards ****
57.Lineage - Joe Hart ***
58.Live Girls - Ray Garton ***
59.Long Time Coming - Edie Claire **
60.Maybe You Should Talk To Someone - Lori Gottlieb
61.Miles to Go - Richard Paul Evans ***
62.Mr. Mercedes - Stephen King *** [July 2014]
63.My Cross To Bear - Gregg Allman *** [Oct 2015]
64.My Father's Mask - Joe Hill **
65.Neverland - Douglas Clegg **** [Dec. 2014]
66.No Return: The Gerry Irwin Story - David Booher * [Nov 2017]
67.NOS4A2 - Joe Hill ***
68.Odd Thomas - Dean Koontz **** [Mar 2017]
69.Off Season - Jack Ketchum ****
70.Ordinary Grace - William Kent Krueger **** [April 2017]
71.Origin - [Aug 2016] **** J.A. Konrath
72.Orphan Train - Christina Baker Cline *** [Mar. 2015]
73.Paper Towns - John Green *** [Mar. 2015]
74.Penpal - Dathan Auerbach *
75.Phantoms - Dean Koontz *** [Sept 2014]
76.Pig Island - Mo Hayder ****
77.Pines [Wayward Pines Series - Book 1] - Blake Crouch ****
78.Porn - Matt Shaw - ** [Aug. 2015]
79.Reality Unveiled - Ziad Masri ** [Oct 2018]
80.Ring of Stone - Hugh McCracken *
81.Sign of the Cross - Chris Kuzneski ***
82.Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ****
83.Solom: The Scarecrow - Scott Nicholson ** [Feb. 2015]
84.South of Bixby Bridge - Ryan Winfield ***
85.Stardust - Neil Gaiman *** [Oct. 2014]
86.Steady Rollin' - Bob Margolin ***
87.Stranglehold - Jack Ketchum *** [Sept 2015]
88.Sycamore Row - John Grisham ***
89.The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho ***
90.The Bizarre of Bad Dreams - Stephen King *** [Dec 2017]
91.The Book Thief - Markus Zusak *****
92.The Bride Collector - Todd Dekker [June 2014] ***
93.The Buried Book - D.M. Pulley [Apr 2019] ***
94.The Cellar - Richard Laymon **** [Jan. 2016]
95.The Children's Hour - Douglas Clegg **** [Dec 2016]
96.The City - Dean Koontz [Aug. 2014]
97.The Complete Edgar Allan Poe
98.The Cove - Ron Rash ***
99.The Dark Sacrament - David Kiely * [June 2014]
100.The Dark Tower - Book 1 - The Gunslinger - Stephen King **** [Mar 2016]
101.The Dark Tower - Book 2 - The Drawing of the Three - Stephen King [May 2016] ****
102.The Dark Tower - Book 3 - The Waste Lands - Stephen King [July 2016] ****
103.The Demonologist - Andrew Pyper *****
104.The Devil's Work - Mark Edwards **** [Oct 2016 - Rental]
105.The Devil Will Come - Glenn Cooper **** [Aug. 2015]
106.The Diabolist [Dominic Grey Series] Layton Green *****
107.The Dirty Parts of the Bible - Sam Torode **
108.The Egyptian - Layton Green *** [Aug. 2014]
109.The Elementals - Michael McDowell *** [Dec 2015]
110.The Fisherman - John Langan **** [Feb 2018]
111.The Gentling Box - Lisa Manetti ***
112.The Ghosts of Belfast - Stuart Neville ****
113.The Ghosts of Varner Creek - Michael L. Weems ***
114.The Girl Next Door - Jack Ketchum ***
115.The Girl On The Train - Paula Hawkins ** [May 2015] ¥
116.The Girl Who Lived - Christopher Greyson **** [Nov 2017] ¶
117.The Giver - Lois Lowry - *** [Apr 2015]
118.The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt **** [Oct 2019]
119.The Guardians - Andrew Pyper ****
120.The Harbinger - Jonathan Cahn **
121.The Hiding Place - Corrie Ten Boom *****
122.The House of Velvet and Glass - Katherine Howe * [Sep 2015]
123.The Hunger Games Series - Suzanne Collins ****
124.The Husband's Secret - Liane Moriarty **
125.The Impaler - Gregory Funaro ***
126.The Innocent - David Baldacci ***
127.The Irish King of Winter Hill - The Story of James J “Buddy” McLean - Michael McLean *** [May 2019]
128.The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara **** [Sep 2017]
129.The Last Town [Wayward Pines Trilogy - Book 3] - Blake Crouch **** [Nov. 2014] ¶
130.The Life We Bury - Allen Eskens **** [Apr. 2017]
131.The Light Between Oceans - M.L. Stedman ****
132.The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters *** [Oct 2018]
133.The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman **** [Aug. 2018]
134.The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway **** [Aug. 2015]
135.The Magpies - Mark Edwards *** [Oct 2015] ¶
136.The Man of Legends - Kenneth Johnson **** [Sep 2019]¶
137.The Martian - Andy Weir **** [Jan 2015]
138.The Mill River Recluse - Darcie Chan ***
139.The Millennium Series - Stieg Larsson ****
140.The Misremembered Man - Christina McKenna***
141.The Ninth Configuration - William Peter Blatty **** [June 2014]
142.The Only Child - Andrew Pyper *** [Jan 2018]
143.The Plot Against America - Philip Roth **** [July 2019]
144.The Racketeer - John Grisham ***
145.The Red Church - Scott Nicholson **
146.The Summoner - Layton Green ****
147.The Takeover - Jack Drew ***
148.The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien **** [Mar. 2015 in Punta Cana]
149.The Time Keeper - Mitch Albom *
150.This Present Darkness - Frank Peretti ***
151.This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald ** [Aug. 2015]
152.Transformation: Book II of the Communion Series - Whitley Strieber * [Nov 2017]
153.Unbroken - A WWII Story - Laura Hillebrand *****
154.Under the Dome - Stephen King ***
155.Under the Skin - Michel Faber *** [Jan. 2016]
156.Wayward [Wayward Pines - Book 2] - Blake Crouch *** [Oct. 2014] ¶
157.We Were Liars - E. Lockhart ** [Apr. 2015]
158.White Rose, Black Forest - Eoin Dempsey ****[Aug. 2018]
159.Wired - Douglas E. Richards **
160.Wool - Hugh Howey **
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BozoTyrannus
Gender: Male
Age: 31
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- Posted: 11/06/2021 02:45
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Now on 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric Cline.
On a major kick of ancient history nonfiction. I'm always open to recs if anyone has.
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