I finished Stoner. A beautiful, heartbreaking novel.
Truly, he is the greatest book cover model since Fabio.
Confession: I've never read any Terry Pratchett. Best books? Best place to start?
Confession: I've never read any Terry Pratchett. Best books? Best place to start?
Start in the beginning, of course. Ignore the critics...publication order!
Listen to this man. Please read the books in the order they were published in. You will miss some wonderful jokes that are references from previous books if you do not. Small things like hearing about the fools college from the perspective of the assassins college can work into a big laugh later on. Also, the progression of the series's most prominent character is not something to miss.
Yeah, I don't understand anyone suggesting a different approach. The novels all build off one another, with constant references to what you've read before. Even if the first two books aren't stellar, they are still the "right" place to begin.
Well I don't want to spend like $300 for all of them, lol.
I'll just read a few of the highest rated ones. Much more budget-friendly, even if I'll miss a couple of references in each book.
Well I don't want to spend like $300 for all of them, lol.
I'll just read a few of the highest rated ones. Much more budget-friendly, even if I'll miss a couple of references in each book.
Or you could just go to the library and get books for free.
Overdrive. They're all free from the library.
I guess I could. I really don't like reading physical books anymore, though, and our library is like a half hour drive, which would just get arduous.
overdrive is a ebook service offered by libraries
So finished Harry Potter, yeah that ending was anti climatic.
Everything up to The Forest Again chapter I was enjoying for the most part but him putting on the that damn ring and walking with his dead family was lol worthy bad, the Dumbledore part after Harry got hit with the Avada Kedavra put it over the top. Voldemort and Harry duel that I was expecting to be epic didn't happen and then a damn time skip chapter which felt 100% unnecessary.
The Cloak of Invisibility being one of the Deathly Hollows was odd to me, the Cloak was suppose to be much greater than other Cloaks but fake Moody was able to see through it a few books ago with the eye.
Disappointing read after the Half-Blood Prince which I thought was great.
I thought it was stated that Harry's wasThe cloak is even funnier since in the first book, it's a known item in the wizardry world and are just hard to find. Nothing legendary about it.
Finished King's 11/22/63. Pretty good. What i found completely unessesarry was (spoiler from the end)
I thought it was stated that Harry's wasthe Cloak, it does not have a time limit like the cloaks with invisibility spells out on, or wear down like cloaks made from some invisible apes.
Overdrive. They're all free from the library.
overdrive is a ebook service offered by libraries
https://www.overdrive.com/
You should be able to check if your library is part of it.
I had no idea this existed and am outright shocked that my library are actually signed up to it, but it turns out that they are (which makes me wonder why they've never mentioned it, anywhere, that I can see). Their selection is rather limited but I'm definitely going to be making use of it now I know it's there, so thank you!Yes spread the Overdrive gospel.
So finished Harry Potter, yeah that ending was anti climatic.
. Voldemort and Harry duel that I was expecting to be epic didn't happen
So finished Harry Potter, yeah that ending was anti climatic.
Everything up to The Forest Again chapter I was enjoying for the most part but him putting on the that damn ring and walking with his dead family was lol worthy bad, the Dumbledore part after Harry got hit with the Avada Kedavra put it over the top. Voldemort and Harry duel that I was expecting to be epic didn't happen and then a damn time skip chapter which felt 100% unnecessary.
The Cloak of Invisibility being one of the Deathly Hollows was odd to me, the Cloak was suppose to be much greater than other Cloaks but fake Moody was able to see through it a few books ago with the eye.
Disappointing read after the Half-Blood Prince which I thought was great.
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God damn what a great book, the wait for Ancillary Mercy is going to be painful. Not sure what I'm going to read next, tossing up between A Visit from the Goon Squad and A Confederacy of Dunces
I'm going to read I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.
I feel like I will never finish Words of Radiance. Three months in and only on page 700. Another almost 400 pages to go.
I'm liking it but I gotta say parts of it feel like they're there for the sole purpose of making the book be 1k+ pages. My job has also gone berserk in the same time period so I have less time to read.What? Most of us read it in a couple of weeks when it released. Are you not liking it?
What? Most of us read it in a couple of weeks when it released. Are you not liking it?
I'm liking it but I gotta say parts of it feel like they're there for the sole purpose of making the book be 1k+ pages. My job has also gone berserk in the same time period so I have less time to read.
In which case I'd be done with it!I hear you there. I'm reading through two books currently, both at a glacial pace.
I loved Words of Radiance, but it could have been an even better 600 page book.
Starts slow but took off insanely fast. After about 100 pages in it became one of those books that you can't put down. The scientific mystery behind the nature of the disease afflicting the trapped marines, as well as the race against time to reach them before the Chinese made it a better than average science x military story.
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God damn what a great book, the wait for Ancillary Mercy is going to be painful. Not sure what I'm going to read next, tossing up between A Visit from the Goon Squad and A Confederacy of Dunces