Tim's tourettes
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Been reading him for approx 20 years. Love them all even if they are the literary equivalent of going for a McDonalds! Cheap and easy
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The GOT Book Club
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Tim's tourettes
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Always read crime and horror but a mate has just lent me a Neil Gaimen graphic novel, The Sandman. Thought I'd start 2025 with something totally different!
gonetomorrow
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True. Actually, I'm starting to suspect AI may be in use in the formula now!
Black Belt Jones
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Would you recommend Dungeon crawler Carl?So I set myself a target of reading 20 books this year in an effort to get myself off the phone doom-scrolling on my work breaks.
I ended up reading 52…
Here’s the full list:
Laurus, Eugene Vodolazkin (Audiobook)
Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco
Piranesi, Susanna Clarke
The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins-Gillman
Cockroaches, Scholastique Mukasonga
Maxwell’s Demon, Steven Hall
Between Two Fires, Christopher Buehlman
Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton (Audiobook)
The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
The Hellbound Heart, Clive Barker
Sphere, Michael Crichton (Audiobook)
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Congo, Michael Crichton (Audiobook)
Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, Stuart Turton
Negative Space, B.R. Yeager
No Country For Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
The Haar, David Sodergren
Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Audiobook)
Rotten Tommy, David Sodergren
White Nights, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Running Man, Richard Bachman/Stephen King
Children of Ruin, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Audiobook)
Into The Wild, Jon Krakauer
Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer
Cabal, Clive Barker
Roadside Picnic, Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
Mysterious Skin, Scott Heim
Children of Memory, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Audiobook)
Metro 2033, Dmitry Glukhovsky
Circe, Madeline Miller
Stoner, John Williams
Carrie, Stephen King
All the Fiends of Hell, Adam L.G. Nevill
The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman, Bruce Robinson
Starter Villain, John Scalzi (Audiobook)
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
A Short Stay in Hell, Steven L Peck
1984, George Orwell
Children of Chaos, Greg F. Gifune (Audiobook)
Our Share of Night, Mariana Enriquez
Last House on Needless Street, Catriona Ward
Maggie’s Grave, David Sodergren
Coup de Grace, Sofia Ajram
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones (Audiobook)
11.22.63, Stephen King
Dungeon Crawler Carl, Matt Dinniman (Audiobook)
All The Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell
Carl’s Doomsday Scenario, Matt Dinniman (Audiobook)
Summer of the Monsters, David Sodergren
Interesting premise - litRPG. Would like to read one, but put off by The Wandering Inn that seems to be popular - looks like it was written by chatgpt on a bad day.
we have book worms
The Road is one of my yearly reads and I still blub at the end everytime.
I just wish the film had faithfully followed the book.
i’d get lost and bored
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just about read
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after a sentence
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I’m near the end of the 3rd book and I’ve really enjoyed them all so far and they keep getting better.
I will say they are a very niche genre. If you are in anyway into video games, specifically RPG’s or even tabletop RPG’s you’ll likely really enjoy them. If not, some of the humour may go over your head.
I’ve been listening to the Audiobook versions which are excellently narrated by Jeff Hays.
I’ve really enjoyed the story so far, the author likes playing the long game with a lot of the story arcs, with some of them, so far, taking multiple books to pay off.
It’s not going to win any awards for the prose or anything, but it’s perfectly fine for what it is. The humour is pretty good as well, definitely a few laugh out loud moments for me.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Rereading Lord of the Rings again ; haven't read it since the films came out, loving the small details you forget, like Tom Bombadil and the evil Willow Tree. They've just reached the Prancing Pony Inn and it has only taken 150 pages. 
First read of 2025.
Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafron.
It’s set in Barcelona during the 40’s & 50’s and follows a young boy named Daniel, whose father takes him to a mysterious library and tells him to pick any book he wants.
Daniel picks a book called Shadow of the Wind by Julian Carax.
Daniel becomes obsessed with the book and sets out to find more by the author only to find that he has one of the last remaining copies of Carax’s work, as a mysterious figure, named after a character from one of Carax’s novels has been systematically tracking down and burning all of his books.
As he gets older, Daniel decides to solve the mystery of what really happened to the elusive Julian Carax and gets drawn into a sprawling mystery and starts to notice that his own life is beginning to strangely echo both that of Carax and the characters in the story of Shadow of the Wind.
This was an alright read to start the year. The opening act of the story promised a lot in terms of the grand mystery of Julian Carax, but it never quite got there for me. While it was an intriguing story and I really liked some of the characters (the eccentric Fermin de Torres and the sinister Fumero were highlights) but the story overall got a little too sentimental for me in parts.
Still an enjoyable read, if a bit on the long side.
It's a bit of a holiday read, not bad tbh. Stephen King claiming it's "a world class whodunnit" is a bit wide of the mark however !
Pretty sure he just gets paid to give them a quote for the cover.View attachment 289568
It's a bit of a holiday read, not bad tbh. Stephen King claiming it's "a world class whodunnit" is a bit wide of the mark however !
No way he reads all the books his name ends up endorsing on the cover, it’s like every other thriller or horror novel at this point
Whoever recommended this, thanks very much.
Got it for Christmas and just finished it - couldn’t put it down.
The last act of the book, where they’re on the surface was just nerve jangling.
I know it’s been turned into a computer game, but if ever s book deserved to be made into a film, this is it.
I could easily envisage a subterranean Mad Max / Aliens hybrid.
Great isn’t it?
I loved how fleshed out the world and all the different factions are.
There’s another 2 of them (2034 & 2035) which I’ve not read yet.