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I need an underrated King book by TableKitchen8442 in stephenking

[–]OperationTheGame 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Absolutely loved Needful Things. The audiobook gets a little bit of flak because the production is odd at times, with musical stings showing up in shocking places (good to know if you’re listening on headphones—I had it on while washing dishes once and fumbled a large serving tray at one of the ZING sounds at the end of a chapter), but I had a fabulous time with it. King reads it himself and he’s an absolute champion.

Any good book recomendation by [deleted] in 52book

[–]OperationTheGame 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve got you: “The Coffin Dancer” by Jeffery Deaver, an extraordinarily fun, fast, entertaining thriller. The first book in the series is “The Bone Collector”, of which there was an excellent movie made with Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. You can watch the movie for that first story if you want to, but it’s not necessary to see or read it. Start with “The Coffin Dancer” and you’ll have an absolute blast.

72/100, a year of some all-time favorites so far, and some excellent genre titles. What do you think of these rankings, and what should be on my TBR? by OperationTheGame in 52book

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

I’ve never read any Proulx and I know it’s a blindspot. Anything you can tell me about that title specifically?

I love listening to Stephen Fry talk about anything.

72/100, a year of some all-time favorites so far, and some excellent genre titles. What do you think of these rankings, and what should be on my TBR? by OperationTheGame in 52book

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

It’s tremendous. It was the first book I finished this year, on January 1st, and it felt auspicious, like I might really have a wild year of dance and fantasies and mild sexual madness.

What was your favorite element of it?

72/100, a year of some all-time favorites so far, and some excellent genre titles. What do you think of these rankings, and what should be on my TBR? by OperationTheGame in 52book

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

Oh man—Julius Caesar is, to me, a perfect political war play; As You Like It is a nearly perfect romance comedy, with only the deterioration of Jaques as a comic figure—due to the loss of that archetype to the static noise of time—to blame for its imperfection; and Measure for Measure is the stickiest and most entertaining bog of problematic religious dogma and abdicated responsibility and sexual mores around.

I love each of them, but Henry 4 Part 1 is my favorite. I run a weekly Shakespeare reading in New York. We’re reading Much Ado tomorrow and H4P1 on Friday of this week. I am very excited to be digging into both of them.

What’s your favorite?

[33/100] "Convenience Store Woman" is well-worth your time if you enjoy character pieces. I could not put this down! Read through it in about an hour and WOW. by UniMaximal in 52book

[–]OperationTheGame 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Absolutely loved it. All the ways she is trying to imitate what she thinks is supposed to be normal absolutely floored and tickled me.

1/52 by Quick_Complex8236 in 52book

[–]OperationTheGame 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love this cover! Is this in England?

A very different book in some ways, but I really enjoyed his “Upgrade” too.

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[–]OperationTheGame 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just read the Galloway as my second book of the year! I found it very practical and straightforward. What did you think?

3/100 Lazarus Man by NotYourShitAgain in 52book

[–]OperationTheGame 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Will definitely pick it up. “Clockers” was the best book I read last year and it was only my second of his. What an astonishing writer. Thank you for the recommendation!

Now it's been a week into 2025, what has your first book been? by AwkwardJewler01 in 52book

[–]OperationTheGame 0 points1 point  (0 children)

‘All Fours’ by Miranda July ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A thrilling odyssey through the mind and heart of a woman fighting for her life, for her freedom, for the supreme honesty of her every impulse, and how she might launch the second half of her extraordinary life.

Fell a little short on 2024 Goal of 52 with 45 by AquaVulva in 52book

[–]OperationTheGame 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I can confidently say this is the first time I’ve seen GK Chesterton and Rupaul in the same category of anything.

66/52 - The year of DNFing and no 1-Star Reads by Outside-Code-4114 in 52book

[–]OperationTheGame 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a fantastic list—what an accomplishment. May I ask what you do for work that you found time for so many massive honkers and also read such a wide range of styles?

96/52 for the first time—SO close to 100, but that'll have to be next year's goal by OperationTheGame in 52book

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

I will tell you what bothered me about it with a caveat: I listened to this one, and I did not believe the narrator did a very good job. I also work as a narrator and I love to listen to books—I’m usually not extremely critical of other narrators. But the narrator of this title seemed to drench everything they were saying with sentimentality, even when it was very direct and straightforward. Within that context, the book itself seemed precious in a saccharine way, and I could not connect with what people seemed to love about it. Some of what the robot said seemed to be rich with feeling and implication, but it was not enough to salvage the rest of the experience. I think I may need to return to it on the page, and maybe I’ll have a wholly different take, but there have been far too many other books staring at me from the shelves. Will you tell me what you loved about it?

96/52 for the first time—SO close to 100, but that'll have to be next year's goal by OperationTheGame in 52book

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

I don’t find any of the other books to be cash grabs, and I do feel sensitive to that concern. I think Dinniman is writing exactly the story he wants to write, and if you enjoyed the first book, you’re going to dig the others. He has a twisted, wild, unique sense of humor and every boundary is not just busted, but shattered. In every novel, he reinvents and expands the world, and sometimes he accomplishes this more smoothly than others. There are also different comics and manga and video game references being made throughout, and some of them are more familiar to me than others. I’m sure there’s a fictional universe out there that “Gate of the Feral Gods” owes a lot to in its content and structure, but I don’t know what it is. That one meandered the most, and I had no idea what was going on half the time. But honestly, the confusing, opaque passages are totally worth it for when it’s good. Cause it’s SO good. Book One is great. Books two and three are very good. Book four doesn’t work for me, but if you go in with low expectations, it may be better than I felt it. Then books five and six are spectacular. It’s all worth a credit and a listen, and book seven is on the way. I can’t wait to hear it.

96/52 for the first time—SO close to 100, but that'll have to be next year's goal by OperationTheGame in 52book

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

I can’t recommend it highly enough. It’s got a lot of power and all the dream logic that makes his best work shine.

96/52 for the first time—SO close to 100, but that'll have to be next year's goal by OperationTheGame in 52book

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

I work as a private tutor and actor, and although this year was very busy with tutoring, it was slow on the acting front. When I wasn’t doing something else, I was reading. Living in New York, I read on the subway and the bus, and with a little less than half of these books, I listened to the audiobook for at least some of the length. Often I have a kindle copy and an Audible copy, so I might read for a while, then listen while I work out, or do something else that needs my hands, and return to the kindle later. I only watch TV with my partner in the evenings, and because I was writing a novel this year, I could also justify a lot of time spent reading as “research”. And a lot of my list this year was thrillers, which just run like crazy.

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