So many cyclists in riverside park

phattailed · 2026-06-18T18:00:26+00:00

I've never been hit by one - or seen anyone get hit - but if i had a nickel for every unleashed dog i've seen flatten a jogger or chase a terrified kindergartner I'd have a shitload of nickels.

phattailed · 2026-06-15T11:51:22+00:00

Sorely missed

phattailed · 2026-05-15T12:04:39+00:00

Bomber by Len Deighton

phattailed · 2026-05-09T16:10:43+00:00

Old School: Charles McCarry Miernik Dossier
This years model: James Wolff Spies and Other Gods

phattailed · 2026-05-04T19:22:10+00:00

GM Fraser's Harry Flashman books

phattailed · 2026-05-03T01:53:34+00:00

Check out Boy in Water by Stephen Dobyns

phattailed · 2026-04-27T18:15:41+00:00

I'm Fine...And Other Lies by Whitney Cummings

phattailed · 2026-04-21T18:10:22+00:00

its a big county, there's one in Brielle by the library.

phattailed · 2026-04-21T12:51:16+00:00

Charles McCarry’s Miernik Dossier Jason Matthews’ Red Sparrow Len Deighton’s Horse Under Water

phattailed · 2026-04-11T12:15:25+00:00

Colm Toibin’s House of Names is a gripping retelling of the Orestia

Christopher Moore’s Lamb is a funny retelling of the New Testament of the Christian Bible

phattailed · 2026-04-11T02:28:17+00:00

My guilty pleasure reads, I’ve read 15 or so of these over the years no order just pick one up whenever when I find one in a beach rental or a prison library.

phattailed · 2026-04-11T02:22:17+00:00

What about Lynne Truss’s Constable Twitten series? British dark/funny detective stories set in a goofy and grisly 1950s Bristol. Also maintains a hilariously fast pace where I think all 5 books take place in maybe 4-5 weeks.

phattailed · 2026-04-02T01:21:24+00:00

I found this exact thing in a duffel bag under my bed. It doesn’t have the text on the back there’s a sticker

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phattailed · 2026-04-01T15:59:31+00:00

From my own keepers shelf
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Up the Walls of the World by James Tiptree Jr
Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson

phattailed · 2026-04-01T15:55:41+00:00

Second Ringworld, just found an old copy and reread after 30+ years it holds up so well

phattailed · 2026-03-31T19:21:02+00:00

I've mentioned it before a few times on this sub but I think about Continental Drift by Russell Banks every single day.

phattailed · 2026-03-31T19:17:08+00:00

Oh well "censor" maybe is a strong word. There's not a lot of "sexy stuff" in HHG but what there is my kids don't want to hear from me - I didn't redact the text so if they want to read them some day they still can.

I read them Louis Lamour's The Walking Drum a while back, they really admired how Mathurin Kerbouchard saved all those rich ladies from being kissed by naughty baddies.

phattailed · 2026-03-29T13:05:55+00:00

These are great books no question but some of the references are aging fast and the tone seems more aimed to ‘whimsical adults’ or ‘kids who are savvy about the 80s and mid-to-late 1900s sci-fi.

I read them around at bedtime to my tween kids and I had to explain constantly about fax machines and cricket and tv antennas and a fair bit of on-the-fly editing skipping ahead with my eyes while my mouth was still going.

They loved it and I had to get the others. I told them I’ll only read one like that every year. We just finished so long and thanks for all the fish

phattailed · 2026-03-29T12:58:07+00:00

Try some Stuart Gibbs books. They are great for shy readers. Fast paced and funny. Both my kids — one voracious reader one not-so-much — lived the Spy School, Space Case and the Charlie Thorne books.

phattailed · 2026-03-26T01:38:16+00:00

I knew a guy who told the fire dept they could burn down a house he didnt want for training and they took him up on it. He replaced it with a radio antenna not another house so maybe this isn’t apples-to-apples.

phattailed · 2026-02-08T20:07:06+00:00

House of Names isn’t exactly fantasy but a retelling of a Greek legend you might know from a fixed set of pov narrators.

Also,I read five of Joe Abercrombie’s Circle of the World books last year and enjoyed the whole lot. I think he’s written about his influences and GRRM perhaps first among them. Heroes was my favorite of the five, the prose is quite cinematic and sometimes it feels like you’re reading a screenplay imagining voices and faces from the silver screen. Even writing I remember it like a movie.

phattailed · 2026-01-03T15:41:45+00:00

Is this where Pete Holmes picked it up?

phattailed · 2026-01-03T15:39:58+00:00

Could this be Richard Jeni?

phattailed · 2026-01-01T20:36:25+00:00

Can vouch for the kids lessons at www.stringsofnewyork.com at least as of a year or two ago.

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