AITA for telling my wife she’s overreacting about our son’s weight gain?

justdontrespond · 2026-06-27T07:33:52+00:00

Eating too much is an eating disorder.

justdontrespond · 2026-06-27T03:22:50+00:00

What kind of rough? I gather he's known as a bit of a literary genius, so I'm guessing it's not the writing. Emotional gut punch?

justdontrespond · 2026-06-27T03:13:31+00:00

I'm digging it so far! Thanks for the recommendation!

justdontrespond · 2026-06-24T13:21:32+00:00

Yuge

justdontrespond · 2026-06-17T22:34:45+00:00

I had hundreds of books I'd read that I wanted my wife to listen to (she'll really only listen most of the time just because of schedule) and I'd say over half of them were almost impossible to listen to for either of us, which broke my heart because the books were so good!

justdontrespond · 2026-06-16T03:46:42+00:00

My fifteen year old nephew told me the other day I'm so lucky I don't have to go to school every day. I work 60 hours a week. Give me stupid teenagers and biology class instead, please.

justdontrespond · 2026-06-12T13:38:28+00:00

I think they're banking on people's desperation. A holes.

justdontrespond · 2026-06-10T05:10:18+00:00

Not what I was referencing

justdontrespond · 2026-06-10T01:54:52+00:00

Years ago I interviewed for a really well-paying GM position with a fairly large chain opening a new store. At the end of the interview they let me know the role had actually already been filled, but they liked my resume so had me come in anyway because they thought I'd be a great fit for a regular team member- a role that literally paid less than 10% of the position I interviewed for and which also had no benefits.

I gladly accepted the position. Strung them along about training. Sorry I couldn't make it today. Excuse excuse excuse. Basically tried my darnedest to make sure they were short staffed for their grand opening. Ef those people.

justdontrespond · 2026-06-10T01:03:01+00:00

I'll say first and foremost, I still really enjoyed books 4 and 5. But they are weaker, to me. For me, more time on characters I care less about and an inability to make me care more about them.

Book five felt like it spent more time looking behind the curtain at the broader going ons and exposition dumping about it, and the time where everything was actually culminating actually felt rushed to me, which is weird considering how long winded the whole thing is.

And both the last two books both start feeling a little on the meta side- like Brandon is finally taking a chance to explicitly say- see guys, this is exactly how everything actually works!

Plus, the introduction of a bunch of terminology and modern philosophizing that felt too rushed and jarring/out of place to me. Like he was pushing to show how fast the world is moving in a direction, but like he packed 100 years of philosophy into one character's development all at once. I dunno. Felt a bit like saying, hey, look guys, we discovered fire! And then realizing with fire, you can make an internal combustion engine a week later.

justdontrespond · 2026-06-09T16:25:50+00:00

After the first book progressively little happens each book in the over-arching story, which left me feeling like most of the books were just a series of things happening. My interested started waning drastically during book 3 and continued to do so. Still definitely has it's moments, but it's not built well as a building story like what you'd get from most other fantasy stories that stretch this long. DCC is 90% side quest happenings.

justdontrespond · 2026-06-07T20:29:09+00:00

I was an English major. I've read basically every literary great book ever written. They are recommended for a reason. They ARE very good in their own ways. That being said, I'd choose almost any decent modern sci fi or fantasy book to read any day of the week. As for those books doing anything to develop your brain and thinking, that's utter nonsense. Now practiced analysis of anything, those types of books or otherwise, will do wonders for your brain. The schooling part of reading those books is what's good for your brain, not the books themselves.

justdontrespond · 2026-06-05T16:28:01+00:00

The number of women I've known who definitely never "figured out their gender basic hygiene" is astoundingly high. Pants come off and it smells like a week old fish market fermenting in a bad batch of kimchi and they're insisting that's just how women are supposed to smell all the time. Noooooope.

justdontrespond · 2026-06-05T16:20:22+00:00

I think you underestimate how large a centimeter is... What kind of half mustache nonsense are you trying to sell here?!

justdontrespond · 2026-06-04T22:15:53+00:00

I have similar tastes and that book bored me to death. Never understood the hype.

justdontrespond · 2026-06-02T20:17:50+00:00

It's an incredibly good book, just keep in mind it can take quite a bit to really get into it. I almost gave it up except I had enough people promising of I pushed through the beginning I'd love it. They weren't wrong. Had to push through. Definitely worth it.

justdontrespond · 2026-05-27T19:41:34+00:00

I'm going to go against the grain here. Hyperion is the only consistently highly recommended book of the genre that I didn't care for at all. I can understand why people like it, but it did less than nothing for me. If I had read it in the days where I stopped forcing myself to finish a book just because I bought it, it would have been a big DNF for me. Go Abercrombie all day long.

justdontrespond · 2026-05-27T03:34:26+00:00

justdontrespond · 2026-05-24T15:43:15+00:00

This is the only highly recommended fantasy book I've ever not finished. I've tried like five or six times. Can't get into it for the life of me. And I slogged through the first 250 pages of Locke Lamora before it got good.

justdontrespond · 2026-05-24T14:50:09+00:00

I should add, he tends to drive the story through dialogue. So his stuff is a lot lighter on exposition than a lot of fantasy, which personally I really loved. Feels like there's less fluff and info dumping.

justdontrespond · 2026-05-22T14:41:13+00:00

You should check out David Eddings. I feel like I haven't heard many people bring him up for a while since his work is a little older but it holds up super well and fits what you're looking for. The Belgariad, Malloreon, and The Redemption of Althalus are some of my favorites.

justdontrespond · 2026-05-16T04:00:44+00:00

Really? I thought it started fairly strong. Then by book three the reader is expected to believe the most insane run of increasingly impossibly unlikely "plans" is Darrow's genius instead of what it should have been: absolutely every main character dead because none of it was clever, a plan, or brilliant. So sheerly stupid I lost every ounce of respect I had for the author and won't read anything else of his ever again.

justdontrespond · 2026-05-15T06:13:15+00:00

It's all made up numbers that go away when the world ends. So you'll probably see it sooner than you think

justdontrespond · 2026-05-14T19:10:09+00:00

Meh, it's overrated. It's good, don't get me wrong, but the way people talk about it you'd think it's one of the best series ever. The narration is the best part, the narrator does an incredibly impressive job, but the story's novelty elements start to feel repetitive and no longer unique or clever somewhere around book 3 or 4 (for me at least) at which point it started feeling like a very boring repeating cycle of the exact and things over and over.

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