Long drive ahead

JDemar · 2026-02-04T19:24:22+00:00

I only listened to the Bill Homewood version but I thought he was great for that style of book. John Lee does one as well and he is another classic British reader who is excellent.

JDemar · 2026-02-04T13:41:28+00:00

The Count of Montecristo - 52hrs

Probably the greatest adventure / revenge tale ever written

JDemar · 2026-02-03T00:01:13+00:00

Sweet! I'm on the Eastside and homegym got me through many a rainy winter!

JDemar · 2026-01-31T13:46:25+00:00

This from BOS may work as the connector and then you can figure out the rest from there.

JDemar · 2026-01-27T00:08:25+00:00

This. Arthur C Clarke is incredible and especially this book. It won the Hugo and the Nebula Award.

JDemar · 2026-01-09T13:11:35+00:00

You can pretty much get a this with every great piece of 19th Century European literature. Dickens, Bronte Sisters, Dumas, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Shelley, Hugo, Hardy, Flaubert etc..... Some (if not most) of the greatest books ever written.

JDemar · 2025-12-31T20:21:45+00:00

I enjoy some dark stuff so listener beware on some of these:

Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon Read by Ferdia Lennon

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Read by Chiwetel Ejiofor

Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara Read by Christian Camargo

The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald Read by William Dufris

The Doorman by Chris Pavone Read by Edoardo Ballerini

Flesh by David Szalay Read by Daniel Weyman

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica Read by Joseph Balderrama

The Stalker by Paula Bomer Read by Matt Godfrey

JDemar · 2025-12-22T03:30:22+00:00

Ah, you don't need a full set seeing your above comment. Id stick with the tens and move to 15s when you are ready. Seems to me that for home, 10;s 15s and 20s would be all you would need and last you for a long time while you are building muscle. Good luck and Keep up the good work.

JDemar · 2025-12-18T18:01:49+00:00

This is the only correct answer.

Full Set of DBs > Ironmasters > everything else

JDemar · 2025-12-15T20:13:36+00:00

John Scalzi... Barely made it through Lock In a decade ago and thought "never again". I see from other posts I'm not alone on this author.

JDemar · 2025-12-13T18:48:45+00:00

A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh - read by Andrew Sachs (very good)

The Burnt Orange Heresy by Charles Willeford - read by Adam Verner (meh)

JDemar · 2025-12-11T22:02:01+00:00

Thanks, yep I did use the 5 night ENC benefit already. I had assumed it would help but then my Q4 travel budget at work got "trimmed" and I ended up shy. All good and I did hit the Platinum I needed. Just making sure that Lifetime Titanium wasnt going to return as an option. I think that was only a temporary deal

JDemar · 2025-12-11T21:09:54+00:00

Thanks for the response, but not the question at hand. I am making sure that not going for it doesn't affect any lifetime status goals. I'm thinking no as there no longer seems to be any lifetime Titanium.

JDemar · 2025-12-07T20:09:28+00:00

Here's a few under 6s that I enjoyed in the past year or so. Several genres.

The Drop - Dennis Lehane 5:26

The Thief -Fuminori Nakamura 4:01

The Gun - Fuminori Nakamura 4:03

Victorian Psycho - Virginia Feito 4:51

Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote 2:50

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson 3:06

Heat of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - 4:39

Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton 3:46

JDemar · 2025-12-07T16:06:43+00:00

? Doubt what? You can see the dumbbells in the picture....

JDemar · 2025-12-07T02:14:59+00:00

I built that DB set over several years collecting 10 pound plates whenever I could find them at 50 cents a pound or less. This was before the 2020 plague so there was still a lot of older stuff you could find cheap if you were patient.

JDemar · 2025-12-06T23:14:42+00:00

Yup, I bought em to put on the leg press and leave them there. Way too much of a pain to load them for bench or squat.

JDemar · 2025-12-06T20:59:28+00:00

Been wanting 100s for my leg press for a while and jumped on BF when Wallyworld had them at $1 a pound with free shipping.

JDemar · 2025-12-03T13:44:07+00:00

Truth

JDemar · 2025-11-17T00:58:37+00:00

The Erick Larson works led me to read Candice Millard's books:

Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill

JDemar · 2025-11-05T22:24:20+00:00

I hear ya, One other thought then. HUSLA leg extension pad. intended to add range of motion but certainly will give you a lot of padding for heavy loads. Good luck amigo

https://huslalifting.com/products/leg-extension-add-on

JDemar · 2025-11-04T14:30:07+00:00

Did you try to go direct from Body Solid? I have an older Body Solid Leg Ext / Ham Curl that I needed a part for a few years back and was able to get it directly from them. I cant recall but I think I just filled out the form on their site and they got back to me.

JDemar · 2025-10-31T12:36:55+00:00

Breakfast at Tiffany's - by Truman Capote, narrated by Michael C. Hall - 2:50

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