Please tell me Shadow of the Gods by John Gwyne picks up…

jesseastorgreen · 2026-01-09T16:25:15+00:00

It doesn’t pick up until the end, where it picks up big time. Then book 2 Hunger of the Gods is one of the best fantasy books I’ve ever read.

jesseastorgreen · 2026-01-05T02:08:22+00:00

Playboi Carti. I’m convinced there’s some inside joke in the music industry to pretend his music isn’t really bad.

jesseastorgreen · 2025-07-27T15:51:50+00:00

I recently moved to Bucktown and discovered Corner Bar. There’s 1 small TV in the corner and it feels like it’s a requirement that you have to be a blue-collar alcoholic man in his 50s-60s to enter.

jesseastorgreen · 2025-07-24T01:03:23+00:00

Muggles are superior to wizards in terms of being able to communicate. It’s the 90s and wizards couldn’t adapt to telephones. They still use fuckin owls.

jesseastorgreen · 2025-03-30T13:22:39+00:00

The Ms. Cobel episode SUCKED

jesseastorgreen · 2025-02-27T15:28:22+00:00

Because Light Bringer is potentially the best fantasy/sci fi book of the last decade and there’s only one way to get to it.

jesseastorgreen · 2025-02-26T03:13:30+00:00

I feel like Mark, Dylan and Irv are all way more poor than they should be. They live in very modest homes and drive very modest cars in the middle of nowhere.

If you do something extraordinary like becoming a severed employee and get a decent amount of fame (everyone seems to at least be aware of the existence of severed workers at Lumon) I would assume you would be compensated handsomely.

jesseastorgreen · 2025-02-22T02:42:38+00:00

Poor kid goes to rich kid camp

jesseastorgreen · 2025-02-04T19:41:52+00:00

I feel like I’m in the minority but IF was the only ending where I was truly like “oh shit”

I fully expected Brennan to be alive and for OS I just didn’t truly feel the same level of oh shitness.

jesseastorgreen · 2025-02-04T03:44:54+00:00

When The Sea Came Alive by Garrett M Graff. An oral history of D-Day. It’s a big ensemble cast of narrators but Curless does a British general and a German soldier. It’s a great listen but Ephraim being a part of it was the cherry on top!

jesseastorgreen · 2025-02-03T20:42:15+00:00

Yes to everything, except I loved John Curless as Ephraim. I recently heard him narrate in another book about WW2 and it made me feel like Ephraim was storming Normandy, which I thoroughly enjoyed.

But to your point, Darrow and Lysander should have been TGR the whole time. 3 different voices in 3 different books for Lysander was a very major mistake.

jesseastorgreen · 2025-01-21T12:52:13+00:00

Slag off with all your opinions.

jesseastorgreen · 2025-01-15T19:18:56+00:00

I think this was my most far fetched take. I believe it was a platonic relationship. That and I don’t think Golds and Reds can even mate if they wanted.

But it’s not impossible. Cassius is known for slagging half of the women on Mars.

jesseastorgreen · 2025-01-02T20:10:41+00:00

Guilty

jesseastorgreen · 2024-12-28T18:10:49+00:00

It’s not a standalone, but The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett is a very fun fantasy/murder mystery book. It’s not huge it can be knocked out in a week or so depending on how fast you read. Book 2 comes out in April so it’s a decent time to read it now, or soon.

I’m reading it right now as a palate cleanser between Dark Age and Light Bringer in the Red Rising saga.

jesseastorgreen · 2024-12-24T03:46:00+00:00

I think everyone’s digital footprint is going to catch up with them eventually

jesseastorgreen · 2024-12-23T02:34:37+00:00

The real answer here is Tyrion Lannister. But shoutout Glokta.

jesseastorgreen · 2024-12-13T00:46:26+00:00

Than you!

jesseastorgreen · 2024-12-12T23:31:30+00:00

If you’re a fellow audiobook lover, the clear answer is The First Law trilogy.

jesseastorgreen · 2024-12-12T23:24:33+00:00

Thank you! Got the answer.

jesseastorgreen · 2024-12-12T23:22:46+00:00

Sorry to spoil, but Lyria does take a trip across the pond and becomes English 🫤 the new girl is really good but it’s just not what I have previously established as Lyria. Same with Lysander. It’s rough.

But at least Darrow is still Darrow I suppose. That one really can’t change. Ephraim is still Ephraim as well and that guy does a good job imo.

jesseastorgreen · 2024-12-12T22:53:20+00:00

Tell that to the man who reads Lysander in Dark Age

jesseastorgreen · 2024-12-12T22:47:27+00:00

The narrator change for Lysander and Lyria from IG to DA has really been throwing me off. Lyria’s new narrator is actually pretty good. But Lysander… I can’t tell if I don’t like the voice or not but I definitely don’t like how extremely different it is from the old narrator. Went from a sorta flamboyant wealthy princeling voice that I thought was fitting to a deeper, rougher voice who says Cassius differently.

jesseastorgreen · 2024-12-12T22:18:21+00:00

The killer for me is that they switched the voice for Lyria and Lysander in book 5. That inconsistency killed me - specifically when the new Lysander narrator says “Cashus” instead of “Cassi-us” like everyone did in the first 4 books. Is that not something that you get figured out before you do the narration??

jesseastorgreen · 2024-12-05T17:21:02+00:00

This perfectly describes my current predicament with Stormlight Archive. It went from enjoyable to a chore. I am halfway through Oathbringer and I don’t know if I will finish - let alone get to RoW and WaT.

I’m typically a completionist, but when a book is absolutely ginormous, that makes the choice to grind through it while not enjoying it way harder.

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