Is this a joke? Are you still holding a grudge against Yoko?

Isn't that the show where they covered up a buttocks with blood and gore, because they feared the ratings board would not let that much nudity fly?

My favorite book, mostly because after reading every book in the school library, I lost interest in reading for the most part in my tween years. Then one day I stumbled upon a copy in my brother’s room and inhaled it in one day. Fast forward 40 years and I’m a librarian.

I recommend starting with the 3rd Edition Rulebook and associated codexs, before skipping to the 6th edition codexs and then to the 9th Edition Rulebook and what of the codexs they've released so far because the Necron and Chaos codexs in 9th feature the buildup and fallout of the 13th Black Crusade.

I do not, but your library system may offer a way to do that. At mine we use a system called BiblioCommons where you can track what you’ve read, comment on books, etc.

I barely even remember the rest of the book. But for the most part it seemed like the kind of book where nothing truly bad will happen.

And then there's a scene where one of the characters is tied up and a huge pig described as having tusks like carrots saunters up. It sniffs the tied up character and out of nowhere decides to take a massive bite out of his side and the book takes its sweet time describing how his screaming goes up in pitch until it just turns to gurgling and he dies.

This book just goes Stephen king for two pages and then goes back to 'normal'.

Someone made a study, according to which listening to audio books has almost all of the benefits of reading, but only if you concentrate on it as you would to reading a book - multitasking easily takes your mind partly or totally off it.

It’s a myth that your brain can do 2 complex things at once - it can’t it just dips your concentration in and out of both the tasks. Often if I pull out of a junction I have to rewind my podcasts a bit as I’ve been concentrating on the traffic and not my podcast. You might get on with the medium but only when not distracted by other tasks.

Is there a recommended reading order? I, too, started with Horus Rising after something online told me to, and I feel the same way.

This stuff should be right up my alley, but somehow it just didn't hit.

The codex in the news is nowhere near as culturally significant as the Codex Sinaiticus, but…

A while back, I saw the Codex Sinaiticus at the British Library. It was thrilling to be in the presence of this cultural treasure. As an atheist, I consider it to be like any Bible; a collection of myths, legends, poetry and unreliable history written without any divine inspiration, but it would take a special combination of crassness and ignorance to look on this object and have no thought other than… “fairy tales”.

Idk I’ve been thinking of tracking my reading but I haven’t found an app or method I like. I’d love to be able to maybe write a short review and search up books I’ve read before. Goodreads is not user friendly.

A cautionary tale for anyone using Goodreads. After using Goodreads for over a year I couldn’t log into my account one day. When I reached out to the support team, they told me my account was deleted because of an error on their side and it couldn’t be restored. I lost all my reading history, reviews and wishlist so I was quite sad when this happened :-(

You should watch the TV show !! It's better than the book

Do yourself a favour and buy the Night Lords Omnibus.

Its a skill, like print reading. True. I often go back and reread a paragraph or page in print. Its the same with audio.

I had to train my brain to listen to audiobooks. When I first started, I only listened to books I'd already read or ones I knew the storyline. Eventually, it got to the point where I could listen to new things.

I can't just sit and listen, though. I struggle to focus on a single thing, so I listen in the car or working with my hands.

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Currently watching the Hopkins version I'll probably watch the Cox version tomorrow!

House of Stairs. 5 teen orphans around 16 awake to find themselves in a hostile environment, a building made up of stairs in all directions. They become part of an experiment (unknowingly) in which they are rewarded with food if they do certain tasks and punished if they don’t obey. They are gradually trained to become cruel and duplicitous. The 5 are: a popular, athletic boy; a pretty, shy girl who is a follower; a spoiled narcissistic princess; a juvenile delinquent girl; a boy who has a learning disability. Eventually the delinquent and the one with the learning disability rebel and refuse to engage, preferring to starve themselves. When the other 3 attack them, the experiment is ended. They discover they are being trained to be spies. The hostile environment is to train them to adjust to any situation and disregard human comfort. The training to be cruel is providing them with the right mindset to be spies and assassins. The two who refused are rejected but the rest go on to further training.

I used to try and listen classical music when reading, and it almost felt like I am in heaven. ABSOLUTELY amazing.

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Nope, never. Reading is a solitary part of living to me, but as essential as breathing. Striving to measure it cheapens the experience, in my own, purely personal experience.

I often have to listen to the same part of an audiobook half a dozen times, or more if I'm really stressed. My mind is always racing over something (contributing to insomnia). Sometimes one sentence in a book will trigger a memory and a winding train of thought, and on the next listen, that same sentence will remind me that that's what started my mind wandering in the first place, and so on.

Eventually, I get sucked in and can concentrate for longer periods. Because they force me to listen, I use them for sleeping. Taking my mind away from everything else helps me fall asleep and stay asleep.

I've also found that playing simple games that don't require much thought allows me to concentrate better on the audiobook for some reason. And it tends to be easier in my experience to concentrate on books that are really funny, especially if you're driving.

Edit: tbf my mind also wanders while I'm reading. My eyes will drift across and down the page almost on their own and I will not have read any of it.