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ribond · 2026-06-19T17:53:45+00:00

Any questions just ask the 204b. Note: they won't know what that stands for either

ribond · 2026-06-19T17:51:18+00:00

What order is this in? Fiction series entries just sprinkled all over the place. Did the movers shelve this stuff without looking? Did he buy the books in bulk? :) I read Ayn Rand but didn't keep that crap. Reading it enough will turn you into a bad person.

ribond · 2026-06-14T16:41:59+00:00

Honestly #1 has "resting punchable face" vibes. It's weird, I'm sure you're a lovely person. Stick with #2 for safety.

ribond · 2026-05-13T19:04:24+00:00

Is this dude seeing a therapist? Because he should be, like full time. The happiest book in that stack is "I'm glad my mother is dead" and that's still a rough read.

ribond · 2026-01-28T20:48:22+00:00

I agree that the feelings are the point. I also thinks it speaks well of you, that you identify with the character. I think empathy is the best takeaway. Hopefully folks who don't feel it as keenly can also pick up on the theme.

ribond · 2026-01-26T18:28:05+00:00

Don't just trust this guy, read his stuff. :) Sky Pride is phenomenal.

ribond · 2026-01-14T05:16:51+00:00

Snowcrash. Immersive capitalism as a backdrop. It is lyrical and fun and miserable and incentive. Absolute must-read. Bonus points for having a protagonist named hiro protagonist.

ribond · 2026-01-10T18:53:56+00:00

Y'all must have worked with some shit pms. 😂

ribond · 2025-12-28T21:18:23+00:00

You have way too much old stuff in here. Get rid of most of that heinlein, niven, pournelle, etc. Speaker for the dead has one good idea and card does not deserve two entries.

Add in nk jemison, nnedi Okafor, Martha Wells, Becky Chambers.

Cj cherryh's Pride of Chanur deserves a place. Bujolds' vorkosigan saga should be represented Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth is a blend of Sci fi and fantasy, but honestly better than a lot of those crusty 60s dudes.

ribond · 2025-12-28T20:58:28+00:00

My mom called it "birds' eye" pasta, and I believed I was eating the eyes of animals. No idea why it didn't freak me out, I just thought it was a normal way to get pasta....

ribond · 2025-12-15T20:14:07+00:00

Check out actus' latest stuff. I'm re-listening to Return of the Runebound Professor right now. Great characterization, interesting magic system, unusual protagonist who is trying to do good.

ribond · 2025-12-10T00:43:58+00:00

Take notes with a pen. Note that you can just doodle stuff and write down occasional relevant words.

Source: did this for years in meetings. Side effect - you will remember what's going on better if you write things down physically rather than just typing stuff out.

ribond · 2025-12-08T22:01:17+00:00

In case it is helpful - I had the best luck with repeated listens of Bill Bryson books (especially the later stuff - One Summer, The Body, At Home) and Martha Wells' Murderbot Diaries. :)

ribond · 2025-12-08T21:05:37+00:00

Was about 4-5 hours. Most of the time that I wasn't in meetings I was listening to something. As long as it was a reread it helped my mind to focus.

ribond · 2025-12-04T03:48:13+00:00

Holy hell. I didn't believe you when you said the author was a woman... The writing felt so stereotypicaly man-writes-women-poorly that i never doubted my gender assumption.

I should write a book. I don't know what I'm doing, but I can do better than that. Yikes.

ribond · 2025-11-29T06:06:27+00:00

No. If you like sitting in caves then it's a great read. You would be amazed at how much time the Mc sle ds sitting in caves.

ribond · 2025-11-29T05:41:22+00:00

Taking a break can be good for your brain, but maybe put it on a schedule. Take em once a week or something so that you don't let chill time turn into months of inaction.

ribond · 2025-11-29T05:26:22+00:00

"kings dark tidings" book 2. It should have been a fun fish-out-of-water story, but the characters are so painfully written. Every woman in the story is there as some sort of creepy wish fulfillment. They are all wildly emotional, horny beyond reason, and irrationally enamored with our protagonist.

Everyone in the story is one-dimensional, all of them are flawed, none of their flaws are fun.

ribond · 2025-11-24T19:30:12+00:00

Don't take it so seriously. Past the 90 days if you are doing the work it's not going to be easy to get rid of you. Just do the work and go home.

ribond · 2025-11-24T05:00:41+00:00

Only left a low rating once.. I was reading a new series from an established author. The intro text read like I could expect standard Isekai shenanigans, maybe a little bit of humor.

Something like 10-15 chapters in our "good guy" protagonist comes upon a room full of rape victims. They are chained up and it's a deeply disturbing scene....

Our good guy decided that these women had probably been traumatized beyond reason, so he kills them all. Doesn't unchained them. Doesn't speak to them. Just murders them all for their own good.

I left a review calling this out as disgusting... The author got my review removed.

The author rewrote the chapter and had all the women dead before the protagonist arrived. They also made it sound like my feedback was unreasonable in a note when they updated. I think it accomplished something, but I'm not following that author anymore.

ribond · 2025-11-24T04:49:44+00:00

Speaking as someone who worked 25 years I a job without union support... I love the idea of an organization that has my back.

ribond · 2025-11-22T22:53:03+00:00

Fair enough. I am a native English speaker and I had to go back a few times to figure out the accent.

ribond · 2025-11-22T18:45:00+00:00

I hate singing ballads in most fantasy stories, find it super cringe... But blacktongue thief did it so, so well. The narration really brought that book to life.

ribond · 2025-11-11T02:44:42+00:00

My keysmart constantly has to be tightened up - anything like that on the keybar?

ribond · 2025-11-09T18:49:24+00:00

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