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Thanks I think it's the original but it seems I can't read it as it seems to be limited, and it says that borrowing is for some reason unavailable.

I use Luna - it's a very basic app for tracking but I like basic. Goodreads, Storygraph has too many options for me personally.

I've been reading 40k since the first Horus Heresy novels dropped. Absolutely love all the Siege of Terra and Heresy novels, few fillers but I've really enjoyed them.

Got a lot of the other books as well. Ravenor, Eisenhorn, Bequin, Cain, Inquisition War, Space Marines battles and they're all easy to read with different levels of quality.

Lately, said quality has been a bit... Lax? There's some in game lore that has made me want to stop collecting them due to Deux Ex level nonsense around the Gods of Chaos and it just bored the snot out of me reading it.

Give the ones named above a read. Be wary at just how much lore there really is mind!

I own an older copy without this anecdote I purchased from Thriftbooks, maybe give it a look!

I'm more of a Warhammer Fantasy guy. The Gotrek and Felix novels are favorites of mine.

Will that baby read books? Will that baby read David Mitchell? Will that baby read all of David Mitchell? Will that baby be healthy or interested enough to read in 2114?

Exceptions can exist. And your exception is certainly possible, sure. Is it probable? Not enough to be of any significance to the conversation.

You're fine - audiobooks are still likely something you'll enjoy.

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I find that when I drive, I'm more likely to let my mind wander - usually because I see a visual cue that reminds me of something else I need to do, etc and my brain goes down that path. That's fine if that happens, I just back up to the last point that I remember. Same thing happens usually when I'm doing something that requires a little more concentration/brain power. I always listen to audiobooks when I'm doing my barn chores at night but sometimes wrangling the right alpacas into the correct barn stalls causes me to lose focus in the story. Again, easy fix, just back up a little and I'm good.

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I agree with many others that speeding up the narration helps me a lot as well. I listen to most things on 2.5X, but sometimes jump as high as 3X depending on the narrator. My library has some "Playaway" audiobooks available (basically it's a little MP3 player with the book loaded into it) that I don't like because the fastest speed available is too slow for me.

I tried listening to this one as well and found the readers voice would make me drift away from listening, i think it depends highly on the reader

To be fair.

And again taking it into consideration that this series is pulp and fun.

Some of those books feel like I'm getting bullied.

This doesn't really help someone who's only interested in the novels. My recommendation would be to jump on some YouTube channels that give introductory and background info on the setting.

I think many people forget (or never knew) that a lot of what we consider "classics" was pulp or serials at the time. Not saying that warhammer novels are the futures classics (who knows though) but yeah, nothing wrong with pulp and good old entertainment.

My brain actually does this with written books. I can barely retain anything. As long as the audiobook has a good narrator voice I can listen all day. I listen while I'm working (uber eats & door dash). A bad voice can kill an audiobook.

I don't know if this one you can check out from the Internet Archive Library is the original, but it doesn't have any copyright date other than 1936 in it. It's certainly at least old.

Now I have an anecdote, the only person I've ever seen reading that book in real life was the absolute worst roommate I ever had. Here's a free tip - you don't win friends and influence people by accusing them of deliberately making you miss class.

Might be a factoid, but I guess the show is worth it for Mads Mikkelsen alone, if one of my stupid streaming services ever offers it.

I am a big fan of the movies with Hopkins and tried to read the novel "Hannibal" but that did nothing for me. Would you say red dragon and silence are still worth trying?

I even saw a post in here (not sure if it was this group) that sometimes when you get older, books are more better than when you read it now. Probably because of how much we change and experience the world.

I just can’t, I don’t finish it. Because I rather read to enjoy, not to be a chore.

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You'll need to check the listings individually, but looks like there are a few for sale on places like Abebooks. You can filter by publication date to exclude most of the newer editions.

I listen to audiobooks often. I would never consider listening to them while driving. Driving is an activity that requires more attention, not less. Weeding and housework are just fine. As for the Stephen Hawking book, I also tried listening to it. I had to stop because some subjects are so deep that they require contemplation.

I don't know about that specific example but the show certainly is gorey leaving little to the imagination, the make up work is fantastic.

Well, I live in Hyderabad and my dad's family is also from around here. I can speak/read/write Farsi because my maternal grandfather was actually from Iran, from a place called Mazandaran he then came to India during the independence and married and settled here later onwards. My mother ended up adopting Farsi as her first language/mother tongue and hence I know Farsi fluently because of it.

Apart from my mother and her siblings, I've literally never seen anyone who knows Farsi, here in Hyderabad even though in Pre-independence era Farsi was the lingua franca in the Nizam ruled Hyderabad state. Farsi literature is the toughest one to crack, especially the classics. One cannot even comprehend the difficulty of the original works of Rumi and Saadi Shirazi in Farsi. Most of the translated works of Rumi just takes away the soul of that work.

Holy shit, he was the only other teenager who ever understood me.

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