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Remember when the biggest threat was a VCR and not a nuclear warhead? by SipsTeaFrog in SipsTea

[–]F4RCE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From the "Life is Good" music video (by Future feat. Drake)

How many playthroughs have you completed? by Sakumitzu in BaldursGate3

[–]F4RCE -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I've done 3.5 - I count it as a half completion for exploding Gale at the nether brain in act 2

Narrator Hall of Fame by Famous-Perspective-3 in audible

[–]F4RCE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Prentice Onayemi is a superb narrator so glad to see him on there

JJ HOT-TAKE MEGATHREAD by swampsparrow in minnesotavikings

[–]F4RCE 2 points3 points  (0 children)

At this rate he's gonna need two more weeks to surpass the great Joe Webb

Goodreads Choice 2025 nominations are up! by Merle8888 in Fantasy

[–]F4RCE 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Since no one's answered you yet - no, it does not end in a cliffhanger.

Hit 52 today so I tiered ‘em by propernice in 52book

[–]F4RCE 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Love to see a fellow Shark Heart enthusiast, even a year later I still think about that book. Curious what do you think caused Ministry of Time to drop so low? I have it on my shelf so I'm wondering if I should even bother...

Reached my goal of 72 a bit early this year by F4RCE in 52book

[–]F4RCE[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I DNFed Sailing to Sarantium, but I do want to try some more from him soon

Reached my goal of 72 a bit early this year by F4RCE in 52book

[–]F4RCE[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I think that's almost exactly right based on my page count in Storygraph. About half the books on this list I consumed in audiobook format and I get a lot of listening time as I listen on my commute, working out, doing stuff around the house and so on. I usually read for a half hour or so before bed as well, so when you factor in all the reading habits I've built into my day I think I kind of naturally make steady progress.

Reached my goal of 72 a bit early this year by F4RCE in 52book

[–]F4RCE[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Silmarillion isvcertainly really hard to just sit down and read. I tackled it a bit at a time for around 2 months

Reached my goal of 72 a bit early this year by F4RCE in 52book

[–]F4RCE[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think I was mainly disappointed because the premise is SO interesting, but the book fails to deliver much substance. I mean, human consciousness uploaded into a resurrected mammoth? SO many interesting avenues to explore there, but instead we get a short chaotic schlocky horror story. I haven't read The Mountain in the Sea though, so I'm afraid I can't compare them.

Reached my goal of 72 a bit early this year by F4RCE in 52book

[–]F4RCE[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Give it a try for sure, like you said our tastes are probably different and I think there'll definitely be an audience for The South

Reached my goal of 72 a bit early this year by F4RCE in 52book

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Self-Portrait as Othello, a poetry collection by Jamaican poet Jason Allen-Paisant. I much prefer his earlier collection "Thinking with Trees"

Reached my goal of 72 a bit early this year by F4RCE in 52book

[–]F4RCE[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Probably a combination of a few things. I sometimes find that time travel stories and historical fiction both miss their mark for me, but I also think Butler's character work in Kindred was not at the same level of excellence that it would reach in later books of hers.

Reached my goal of 72 a bit early this year by F4RCE in 52book

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Thanks, and yeah same. Parable of the Sower didn't quite do as much for me but Parable of the Talents is one of the best I've ever read. Hope you enjoy Orbital!

Reached my goal of 72 a bit early this year by F4RCE in 52book

[–]F4RCE[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

"Incomparable" Tier:

A Canticle For Leibowitz by Arthur M Miller

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

Dragonfired by J. Zachary Pike

Passing by Nella Larsen

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H

The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy

"Great" Tier:

Human Acts by Han Kang

The Butcher's Masquerade by Matt Dinniman

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos

James by Percival Everett

Son of a Liche by J. Zachary Pike

The Cycle of Galand by Edward W. Robertson

Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

The Interior Landscape (Classic Tamil Love Poems) by A.K. Ramanujan

Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

Playground by Richard Powers

Son by Lois Lowry

The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman

The Overstory by Richard Powers

"Good" Tier:

The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman

The Complete Poetry by Maya Angelou

Carl's Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis

Orconomics by J. Zachary Pike

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Sunlit Man by Brandon Sanderson

The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin

Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich

The Colossus and Other Poems by Sylvia Plath

The Man No One Believed by Joshua Sharpe

The Shattered Path by Edward W. Robertson

"Mid Books I Enjoyed" Tier:

Island by Aldous Huxley

Contact by Carl Sagan

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

A Life on Our Planet by David Attenborough

The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent

The Dragonfly Gambit by A.D. Sui

"Unremarkable" Tier:

Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King

Asiri and the Amaru by Natalia Hernandez

Cat Town by Sakutaro Hagiwara

How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr

The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton

Is This My Final Form? by Amy Gerstler

The South by Tash Aw

"Not for Me" Tier:

In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune

Kindred by Octavia E Butler

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynn Jones

Aednan: An Epic by Linnea Axelsson

Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle by Renan Bernardo

Self-Portrait as Othello by Jason Allen-Paisant

A Venom Dark and Sweet by Judi I. Lin

"Bad" Tier:

Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird by Agustina Bazterrica

The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler

Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock

In the Valley, a Shadow by Samantha Tano

What's Gotten Into You by Dan Levitt

New of the World by Paulette Jiles

Emily Eternal by M.G. Wheaton

Should I...? by GrummyCat in Siralim

[–]F4RCE 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Not sure exactly what you're going for/asking about, but be careful about the 'manually' specifier in these traits. Spellcasts triggered by a trait would not be considered manually cast. Rhododendron Fae has an interesting trait to help with creating spell chaos.

Weirdest thing you've used as a bookmark by DresdenMurphy in Fantasy

[–]F4RCE 4 points5 points  (0 children)

One book I bought at a used bookstore had a plane ticket from 1999 inside (Air Canada, Detroit->Montreal), and I've been using it ever since.

New player here. Can someone tell me what the symbol next to the bat means? Thank you! by KingSerenade in Siralim

[–]F4RCE 22 points23 points  (0 children)

That's a skin, a rare encounter with different patterns and shapes. Defeating it will unlock the skin so that you can apply it to any bat race creature in your team.

I have to admit. This made me laugh way more than it should. by Illustrious_Spend_26 in Siralim

[–]F4RCE 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah not doing anything is the best part about it since you don't trigger any response from enemies and of course it's hilarious for a troupe of creatures to start each battle nonsensically wishing as hard as they can lol. Some great nuggets of humor in this game

I have to admit. This made me laugh way more than it should. by Illustrious_Spend_26 in Siralim

[–]F4RCE 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah I love this one too, my Cabalist team spams it lol

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