I thought the title said she had 38 kids in 20 years.

I don’t hate that he ended up on Erid. I absolutely hate that apparently the Eridians took him in and then made zero plans to visit or even contact Earth. Such an intelligent, curious species who had the ability through astrophage to travel to entirely different solar systems and interact with other species, to share information and learn things that each cannot learn on their own due to biological limitations. They even have an ambassador to serve as a link between Eridians and humans! And they just…don’t. I don’t get it.

It's obviously a pretty juicy setting for conflict - lots of angry males cooped up together, lots of grudges, alliances, schemes and potential for violence. Basically like boarding school, only with better food!

I said “only have a sliver of the,” not “only have a small portion of the shelves be dedicated to the”

I love audiobooks. Other people I know hate them for the same reasons as you. I have the same issue as you when the audiobook isn't interesting. I would suggest trying a couple more audiobooks or listening to a book you've enjoyed reading before, to properly compare the two mediums and decide if audiobooks are for you or not.

“Murakami’s style always lulls me to sleep even if the content is off-putting sometimes, I’ll read a chapter before bed” - Me, about to approach that chapter in the Wind-Up Bird Chronice after having finished and enjoyed 1Q84

Gosh, same. This was an effective ad!

They're so great. Really add to life. I love it that someone reads to me while I do stuff.

Haunter of the Dark is my all time favorite Lovecraft story.

I grew up on one hill overlooking a valley and spent countless nights watching car lights and house lights on the other hill across the valley wondering what they were and where they were going.

Reading Haunter in the Dark made my hair stand up on end almost the whole way through. Turned fond childhood memories into nightmares (not really, but kind of).

It's fantastically well written and down right creepy.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouAllMeetInACell

This. I'd put the first chapter of Xenos, by Dan Abnett up as one of the best first chapters I've ever read.

What plot holes? Or do you just mean unrealistic sequences?

King books tend to be a slow burn, great first half, and mediocre finish/latter half. Fairy tale fits his standard mold for me.

That works for me too.

Have you ever read a book and thought "this was written to be made into a tv show?"

That's how I feel about this book. I loved reading it, blew through it in like three days. But the way it was written... it felt like a book was not the intended medium.

But maybe I'm reading too much into it. If you're looking for an easy, enjoyable beach read then I give it an A+.

And you're right, I think I would've liked to see a little more of Harry's side.

Thomas Harris put out four amazing books and probably should have then retired.

I don't know what it was called or if this book was even real, but I read it when i was 8-9 years old and I'm assuming I just got it randomly from the kid's section, someone probably put it there by mistake. I remember an edgy looking female goth with white-out eyes on the cover, half her face was a skeleton. The book was just a bunch of short stories, but they were disturbing as hell. TW cause it's probably not a children's book and I probably shouldn't have read this as a child.

>!Graphic depictions of someone disemboweling themselves and playing with their guts as they die, a girl who was too caught up in trying to look pretty that she cut her own lips off, one story where someone attempted to suffocate themselves by peeing into a toilet bowl full of bleach--I'm pretty sure I learned that peeing in bleach releases a toxic gas in this book--and one story about a glowing cat and fireflies.!<

This book literally haunts me lmao. I want to find it again just to prove to myself that I didn't hallucinate it. If anyone knows the book, I would very much like to know. It's probably this book's fault I like horror now as an adult.

Another one was Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix. There were laws against having more than two child per family and this family hid an extra kid under their house. Read the first book in middle school and couldn't stop reading the rest.

I have the Audible app which allows me to take short notes when I stop. Helps me to pick up the thread next time I read.

Well-written series usually pay attention to drop clues about previous events in the first chapters, no kludgy "previously on" needed.

That's so great!

And this is one of the rare cases where a TV show is better than the book, while the book itself is so good

I like this idea of this book featured in a limited series, say 8 episodes. It’s gotten enough attention, you never know what Netflix might pull together.

I was in the same boat as you. ASOIAF, Kingkiller, and the Gentleman Bastards (also a little Wheel of Time) for me caused me to set the following rules for myself on deciding what Fantasy to read:

-Only start series that are completed. -Only start series that are five books or less.

There were a couple exceptions for particular authors that I liked, but that's it.

Lately, I feel like I'm just depriving myself of reading good books, so I'm currently reading The Blacktongue Thief which is rhe only book for that out right now.

Harry was the only character in this book who I actually liked, and was a large part overall of what I liked about the story.

I love them too. I listen every day.

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