Listening to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

I'm curious how much different is for me middle aged versus a teenager.

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Have you read The Expanse? If so, how does Sun Eater compare?

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No, I haven't and it's a huge blindspot for me! For whatever reason, my reading diet definitely tilts towards Fantasy over Sci Fi, and The Expanse is 100% a casualty of that. Something I hope to remedy soon (that and Malazan's Book of the Fallen are mocking me for not having read them).

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People on here love this series and I get a bunch of my Recs from here but I absolutely have not been able to get into this series no matter how hard I try. I have book 3 waiting in the wings but just can't bring myself to bite the bullet and try again. There are so many moving parts I have to do research on the chapters to explain what is going on and how it ties in. Not to mention, every time I get to like a character they get killed off.

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It's definitely a complex, massive series. I had no idea what the hell was going on in book 1, but if you stick it out it all comes together. It's still complex and some books are almost stand-alone novels within the larger arc. I loved it though.

You can dive even further into it than the mainline story because the co-author has his own parallel series in the same overall arc. I read a few of those and they were good but I lost steam on those and never finished them.

1st Quarter Reads:
1) "Shadowland" by Peter Straub (C+)
2)-4) "The Island of Dr Moreau", "The Food of the Gods", and "The First Men in the Moon" by H. G. Wells (B-)
5) "The Magic Circle" by Katherine Neville (B)
6) "The White House Years" by Henry Kissinger (A)
7) "The Ferryman" by Justin Cronin (A-)
8) -9) "Paris" and "Munich" (Shadowseer #2 & #3) by Morgan Rice (B)

2nd Q:
10) The Final Equinox by Andrew Mayne (B)
11) Looking Glass by Andrew Mayne (B)
12) The Long Walk by Stephen King as Richard Bachman (B+)
13) Where the Birds Never Sing: The True Story of the 92nd Signal Battalion and the Liberation of Dacha by Jack Sacco (B-)
14) Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (A-)
15) Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini (B)
16) Sabriel by Garth Nix (B-)
17) The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson (A)
18) Night Chills by Dean Koontz (C)
19) Rome (Shadowseer #4) by Morgan Rice (B)
20) Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (B-)
21) Old Bones (Nora Kelly #1) (B+)
22) Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson (B)

3rd Q:
23) Fool Moon (The Dresden Files #2) by Jim Butcher (B)
24) Athens (Shadowseer #5) by Morgan Rice (B)
25) The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O by Neal Stephenson - Not one of his better ones (B-)
26) Grave Peril (The Dresden Files #3) by Jim Butcher (B)
27) Gothic Wounds by Joe R Lansdale - short stories by my favorite east Texas author (B+)
28) Badlands (Nora Kelly #5) by Douglas Preston - won this in free book contest. Good enough that will look for earlier in series. (B)
29) The Plantagenets by Dan Jones - (NF) Very informative without being boring. (B+)
(30) Summer Knight (The Dresden Files #4) by Jim Butcher (B+)
31) Leaving Berlin by Joseph Kanon (B)
32) The Scientist and the Serial Killer - reviewed earlier (A-)
33) Death Masks (The Dresden Files #5) by Jim Butcher (A-)
34) Angel Killer (Jessica Blackwood #1) by Andrew Mayne (B)
35) The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon #6) by Dan Brown - like rest of series good entertaining story as well new science/history to think about (A-)

Just bought Wind & Truth by Brandon Sanderson so will be in that one for some time.

Just finished Native Tongue by Carl Hiassen and enjoyed it. I have read Stormy Weather, Native Tongue, and Double Whammy so far and would put them in that order.

Taking a break from Hiassen and just started Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and it is a pretty good page turner so far.

The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr. Really solid sequel to The Alienist. I highly recommend.

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The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr. Really solid sequel to The Alienist. I highly recommend.

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Both excellent books

Essential Truths of the Christian Faith, RC Sproul (audiobook)

Believe; Why Everyone Should Be Religious
Ross Douthat

A lot of thought provoking content for 206 pages

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M.C. Swag said:

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BQRyno said:

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Have you read The Expanse? If so, how does Sun Eater compare?

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No, I haven't and it's a huge blindspot for me! For whatever reason, my reading diet definitely tilts towards Fantasy over Sci Fi, and The Expanse is 100% a casualty of that. Something I hope to remedy soon (that and Malazan's Book of the Fallen are mocking me for not having read them).

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People on here love this series and I get a bunch of my Recs from here but I absolutely have not been able to get into this series no matter how hard I try. I have book 3 waiting in the wings but just can't bring myself to bite the bullet and try again. There are so many moving parts I have to do research on the chapters to explain what is going on and how it ties in. Not to mention, every time I get to like a character they get killed off.

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If you didn't like Deadhouse Gates you probably shouldn't continue. It was one of the best in the series. If you keep powering through you'll get to Midnight Tides and be real ticked because it basically has no ties to what happened earlier in the series.

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BQRyno said:

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Have you read The Expanse? If so, how does Sun Eater compare?

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No, I haven't and it's a huge blindspot for me! For whatever reason, my reading diet definitely tilts towards Fantasy over Sci Fi, and The Expanse is 100% a casualty of that. Something I hope to remedy soon (that and Malazan's Book of the Fallen are mocking me for not having read them).

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People on here love this series and I get a bunch of my Recs from here but I absolutely have not been able to get into this series no matter how hard I try. I have book 3 waiting in the wings but just can't bring myself to bite the bullet and try again. There are so many moving parts I have to do research on the chapters to explain what is going on and how it ties in. Not to mention, every time I get to like a character they get killed off.

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If you didn't like Deadhouse Gates you probably shouldn't continue. It was one of the best in the series. If you keep powering through you'll get to Midnight Tides and be real ticked because it basically has no ties to what happened earlier in the series.

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Yeah, Deadhouse Gates ticked me off. I won't spoil it for others but it seems to be the favorite of most that like the series and all it did was tick me off.

reading this. so far so good. I had forgot that Ike had never been in combat in his career or even led troops in combat before getting appointed as the Supreme Allied Commander for the European Theatre.

Has anybody ever read "A NIght In The Lonesome October" by Roger Zelazny?

Its some type of cult classic book that you're supposed to read one chapter per day during October. I found this description: "Under cover of the murky London gloom, a knife-wielding gentleman named Jack prowls the midnight streets with his faithful watchdog Snuffgathering together the grisly ingredients they will need for an upcoming ancient and unearthly rite. For soon, after the death of the moon, black magic will summon the Elder Gods back into the world."

Looks like a good seasonal read. Unless somebody tells me differently, I'm probably in for this.

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reading this. so far so good. I had forgot that Ike had never been in combat in his career or even led troops in combat before getting appointed as the Supreme Allied Commander for the European Theatre.

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Funny reading this one now.

Just finished the audio book for Casino Royale. I really enjoyed it, it's a short easy listen. I'm a huge James Bond fan, so it was really fun to experience the book version of the stories that I've watched so many times over the years. I'm now starting Stephen Kings It as my Halloween season horror book.

Also finished The Shining last week, which was a great read.

And I picked up the audio books for the Sun Eater series, really excited to give those a listen!

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M.C. Swag said:

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BQRyno said:

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Have you read The Expanse? If so, how does Sun Eater compare?

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No, I haven't and it's a huge blindspot for me! For whatever reason, my reading diet definitely tilts towards Fantasy over Sci Fi, and The Expanse is 100% a casualty of that. Something I hope to remedy soon (that and Malazan's Book of the Fallen are mocking me for not having read them).

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People on here love this series and I get a bunch of my Recs from here but I absolutely have not been able to get into this series no matter how hard I try. I have book 3 waiting in the wings but just can't bring myself to bite the bullet and try again. There are so many moving parts I have to do research on the chapters to explain what is going on and how it ties in. Not to mention, every time I get to like a character they get killed off.

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If you didn't like Deadhouse Gates you probably shouldn't continue. It was one of the best in the series. If you keep powering through you'll get to Midnight Tides and be real ticked because it basically has no ties to what happened earlier in the series.

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I LOVED Chain of Dogs. Wait, is that the Deadhouse Gates book? If so, that was definitely my favorite.

Malazan is a series I have a love hate relationship with. A lot of the books were amazing and others were an absolute sludge to get through. Glad i read the series but not one I would go back to over and over.

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KALALL said:

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13B said:

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M.C. Swag said:

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BQRyno said:

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Have you read The Expanse? If so, how does Sun Eater compare?

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No, I haven't and it's a huge blindspot for me! For whatever reason, my reading diet definitely tilts towards Fantasy over Sci Fi, and The Expanse is 100% a casualty of that. Something I hope to remedy soon (that and Malazan's Book of the Fallen are mocking me for not having read them).

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People on here love this series and I get a bunch of my Recs from here but I absolutely have not been able to get into this series no matter how hard I try. I have book 3 waiting in the wings but just can't bring myself to bite the bullet and try again. There are so many moving parts I have to do research on the chapters to explain what is going on and how it ties in. Not to mention, every time I get to like a character they get killed off.

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If you didn't like Deadhouse Gates you probably shouldn't continue. It was one of the best in the series. If you keep powering through you'll get to Midnight Tides and be real ticked because it basically has no ties to what happened earlier in the series.

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I LOVED Chain of Dogs. Wait, is that the Deadhouse Gates book? If so, that was definitely my favorite.

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Yes, I think so.

Started The Count of Monte Cristo yesterday. I love the movies(both 2002 and 2024) but have never read the book. Excited to rectify that oversight.

Good choice. I read it earlier this year for the first time and really enjoyed it. Don't expect to finish it very soon, though.

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Started The Count of Monte Cristo yesterday. I love the movies(both 2002 and 2024) but have never read the book. Excited to rectify that oversight.

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The book is superior to both movies, and I've seen both and would actually rate the 2002 movie in my top 20 all time. Love the book.

I gave in on Mississippi Blue 42.

About a fictional SEC team in 2012.

I just found myself just not caring.

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I gave in on Mississippi Blue 42.

About a fictional SEC team in 2012.

I just found myself just not caring.

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This book idea interests me, but it sounds like something that might have been self-published. Those are hit and miss, with a LOT of misses.

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I gave in on Mississippi Blue 42.

About a fictional SEC team in 2012.

I just found myself just not caring.

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This book idea interests me, but it sounds like something that might have been self-published. Those are hit and miss, with a LOT of misses.

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I saw it in a bookstore and was available via Libby. I think it's a major release.

It just didn't interest me even though I'm a college football fan.

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I miss reading

Maybe one day this baby will sleep and I can get back to it.

In the meantime, I'm enjoying living vicariously through you guys. See you on the other side.

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Hmmm. Not sure why a baby stops you from reading but to each their own.

I tried reading The Humanity Archive by Jermaine Fowler, but only made it 8 pages before I had to bail. Just way too much whining for me.

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Wolfpac 08 said:

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I miss reading

Maybe one day this baby will sleep and I can get back to it.

In the meantime, I'm enjoying living vicariously through you guys. See you on the other side.

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Hmmm. Not sure why a baby stops you from reading but to each their own.

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Work all day
3 week old + 3 year old
"Sleeping" in a few 1-2 hour spurts throughout the night

Not much mental capacity left in the few free minutes I may or may not get throughout a given day

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Rudyjax said:

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Wolfpac 08 said:

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I miss reading

Maybe one day this baby will sleep and I can get back to it.

In the meantime, I'm enjoying living vicariously through you guys. See you on the other side.

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Hmmm. Not sure why a baby stops you from reading but to each their own.

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Work all day
3 week old + 3 year old
"Sleeping" in a few 1-2 hour spurts throughout the night

Not much mental capacity left in the few free minutes I may or may not get throughout a given day

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I would read my books aloud to my infants.