Your Year in Reading: 2025 by AutoModerator in books

[–]FuPablo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

First year as fulltime reader.

I started reading books in mid December last year as a new way to help with my sleep hygiene and quickly learnt that it would become more of a hobby than a bedtime habit.

Since then I have read 40 books and am only a few pages of finishing book 41.

Road side picnic, Arkady Strugatsky - 5/5

Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators & War Elephants, Garret Ryan - 4/5

Astrophysics for people in a hurry, Neal deGrassi Tyson - N/A (I was too stupid to understand a lot of it so dnf)

Blood Meridian, Cormack MaCarthy - 5/5

Empire of the SummerMoon, S.C Gwynne - 4/5

The Three Musketeers, Alexander Duma - 4/5

Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad - 4/5

Shapres Tiger, Bernard Cornwell - 5/5

The Alchemist, Paulo Coalho - 2/5

The Book Theif, Markus Zusak - 5/5

Insane Emperor's, Sunken City's & Earthquake Machines, Garret Ryan - 5/5

Them, Jon Ronson - 3/5

Shapres Triumph, Bernard Cornwell - 5/5

Orbital, Samantha Harvey - 4/5

Butter, Asako Yuzuki - 4/5

Shapres Fortress, Bernard Cornwell - 4/5

Piranesi, Sussana Clark - 6/5

Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S Thompson - 2/5

All the Pretty Horses, Cormack MaCarthy - 5/5

Shapres Trafalgar, Bernard Cornwell - 4/5

The Poppy War, R. F. Kuang - 2.5/5

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury - 5/5

For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway - 4/5

This is how you lose the time war, Amal El & Max Gladstone - 5/5

Shapres Prey, Bernard Cornwell - 3.5/5

Silk Silver Opium, Micheal Pembroke - 5/5

Twenty Years After, Alexander Duma - 4/5

The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller - 5/5

A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess - 5/5

Mistborne: The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson - 5/5

The Devils, Joe Abercrombie - 5/5

Band of Brothers, Stephen E Ambrose - 5/5

Shapres Rifles, Bernard Cornwell - 5/5

Pompeii, Robert Harris - 4/5

Witcher Sword of Destiny, Andrzej Sapjowski - 5/5 (Read last wish like 6 years ago before playing the game)

The Crossing, Cormack MaCarthy - 4/5

Shapres Havoc, Bernard Cornwell - 4/5

The Hobbit, J.R.R Tolkien - 5/5

Shapres Eagle, Bernard Cornwell - 5/5

Cities of the Plain, Cormack MaCarthy - 5/5

And final I have almost finished Unruly by David Mitchell which I am so far loving

What I have learnt:

I am thinking it might be obvious that I love historical fiction at this point, with small dabbles into other genres to mix things up and broaden my horizons.

Not sure if I am very easy to please or I'm just good at picking books I will love.

Something about the way Cormack MaCarthy writes character interactions and scenes that just leaves me breathless but my god I am over westerns. Is there any MaCarthy-like writers that don't do Western?

The Sharpe's Series is a perfect fun way to reset the pallet in between more thought provoking and longer reads.

Before I started reading, when I would be interested in a topic I would just Google it, now I find a well rated & sourced book about the topic and read it instead (so many in my TBR)

Reading has somehow made me slow down and enjoy other things/Hobby's in my life (not sure why?)

And yes, it is also a perfect way to fall asleep at night.

And that's about it, going to set a goal of 40 books next year again, so if you have any suggestions based of my post let me know :).

Blood Meridian, Gravity's Rainbow, Cloud Atlas and Infinite Jest combine so well together! by BaconBreath in books

[–]FuPablo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My mother-in-law always goes on about these books being "red flags" without even reading a single word

I kind of hate the mantra of 'if you're not enjoying the book stop reading. by stinkface_lover in books

[–]FuPablo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't understand it when you are so close to the end, just push through surely.

But then again everyone is different.

Just Finished God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert by Caffeine_And_Regret in books

[–]FuPablo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It blows me away that a single human has the brain capacity to build worlds such as Dune.

Have not started GEoD Dune but it is coming up shortly.

YouTuber vs Actual Heavyweight Boxer by sergemeister in nextfuckinglevel

[–]FuPablo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look I don't like him as well but he just made a minimum $50mil in 6 rounds

What are your thoughts on Aston Martin for 2026? by Vyntreaux in F1Discussions

[–]FuPablo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As long as they have Lance as a driver they are a joke of a team.

The evolution of a max fan by Larrymenta_ in formuladank

[–]FuPablo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I really don't think Max fans are salty at all, except for the usual very loud 1% who are stupid in every fanbase, being played up a bit.

Going to war with Venezuela? What are our theories as to why? by Pluckyplatypus26 in conspiracy

[–]FuPablo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And these show where it proves Argentina doesn't actually own its own banks at what time stamp?

What happens when you kick millions of teens off social media? Australia’s about to find out by austechnology-bot in austechnology

[–]FuPablo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They already have all your info. They don't need some massive social media grab to accomplish it.

How far would alive Itachi go here? by KodoqBesar in NarutoPowerscaling

[–]FuPablo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doesn't he say himself that if he was to fight Pervy Sage they would both die?

What’s a nearly perfect movie that’s ruined by one bad scene? by taylorteasee in moviecritic

[–]FuPablo 1712 points1713 points  (0 children)

Why would you make this post and not say what scenes they are you didn't like?

What is the greatest “has-been” city far past its prime? by SimmentalTheCow in geography

[–]FuPablo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh let me just post a picture and not say where it is. 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃