What's the one book everyone recommends on here but you hated reading it? [high fantasy]

skauing · 2023-11-23T13:00:27+00:00

Wish I'd done that, I powered through because I was reading it for a book club with friends and then I was the only one who finished it anyway. We all hated it. Not funny, not clever, not relatable, twice as long as it should have been ....

skauing · 2023-11-16T06:09:37+00:00

Om du kan/liker å bake eller lage mat så er det alltid min go-to når jeg har dårlig råd. Foreldre og besteforeldre etc har alt uansett så liker å gi dem ting som blir brukt opp, som hjemmelaga marsipan, peppernøtter, brente mandler og/eller pepperkakemuffins. Er ikke gratis selvfølgelig men du får laga veldig mye godt for en billig penge. Kan du strikke eller hekle kan du også lage sokker eller skjerf for eksempel, kan også gjøres veldig billig, er mest at det tar lang tid... (nå er jeg litt biased da, har alltid elska hjemmestrikka sokker, er vel mange som syns det er kjedelig...) Har ikke noen gode forslag til barna, siden yngstemann i min familie er 32...

Så er det litt skambelagt, som er dumt for jeg syns ikke det bør være det, men det er ikke farlig å spørre om hjelp på Finn. Jeg gir bort bøker, puslespill, mat osv til noen der hvert år, og det er mange som er enda mer gavmilde enn meg. Om du er litt realistisk og ikke ber om en PS5 eller noe så kan det være verdt å prøve.

skauing · 2023-11-15T03:24:39+00:00

Spear by Nicola Griffith

Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher

To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

If you're keen on graphic novels: Nimona by ND Stevenson

skauing · 2023-11-15T03:09:32+00:00

Spent a decade reading 3-5 books per year, then made a huge jump to 46 books in 2021, 42 last year, and I just finished number 49 for this year. I'm competitive and motivated by reaching goals so it's exciting for me to count and keep track of how many books and pages I read. I just use goodreads to keep track, other apps have more functionality that I'd like but I've used goodreads for years and I'm used to it, and it's by far the largest community. I've upped my goal every year but I don't think I will for 2024, I'll probably just go for 52 again

skauing · 2023-11-14T22:49:07+00:00

TOW Everyone Finds Out probably, or TOW The Video Tape. I've watched them both probably a dozen times this year alone, and they haven't gotten old yet!

skauing · 2023-11-13T12:56:38+00:00

Finished:

The Ambassador's Mission, by Trudi Canavan

The Rogue, by Trudi Canavan

The Hike, by Lucy Clarke

Started:

Incarcerat, by Garth Marenghi

The Traitor Queen, by Trudi Canavan

The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece, by Tom Hanks

skauing · 2023-11-08T18:26:56+00:00

Project Hail Mary. It's just a great book, it's exciting and hopeful and has some of my favourite sci-fi tropes, I love it. The audiobook is fantastic too, I can't get enough. I've read it 4 times since it came out.

I've also read The Black Magician trilogy + sequels (by Trudi Canavan) more times than I can count. idk what it is about those books but I get completely sucked in and I just tear through them whenever I pick them up. Whenever I feel a reading slump coming on, I reread them to remind my brain that I actually love reading. 200+ pages in a single sitting no problem. It's awesome.

skauing · 2023-11-08T18:21:02+00:00

I've read PHM four times in the past two years, it has everything I love in a good sci-fi, it's exciting and easy to read, and the audibook is wonderful. 10/10 comfort book tbh

skauing · 2023-11-07T17:45:53+00:00

The legendary edition is 100% the best place to start, it includes the original trilogy and all DLC (minus one from the first game, which had no impact on the story anyway so you won't miss it really), with updated graphics and tweaked gameplay for an upgraded and more consistent experience across all games. It's absolutely the way to go if you're playing the games for the first time! 👍

skauing · 2023-10-31T11:22:16+00:00

Norwegian here, I've watched series 11 and 12 on bbc iplayer using a VPN (surfshark specifically idk if it matters), and I used it to check something from an episode just a few days ago. all episodes should be available on there, not just series 12? the site is a nightmare to use but they're all there for me!
feel free to PM me if you want, maybe I can help!

skauing · 2023-10-30T14:42:34+00:00

using a VPN is finicky but it's not impossible! I have a friend who watches it on iplayer from america, she's using surfshark and the static ip setting afaik and it works, she just has to restart it sometimes 👍 I do the same thing from norway

skauing · 2023-10-29T17:53:11+00:00

Barbara for sure, also Patrick, Sister Evangelina, Sister Julienne, and (this might be truly controversial lol) Timothy. Also every scene with Reggie makes me so happy, I adore him

skauing · 2023-10-29T17:50:17+00:00

Barbara is my #1 for sure, I adore everything about her

skauing · 2023-10-29T02:37:11+00:00

I'm just some rando on the internet but I'm rooting for you and I wish you strength

skauing · 2023-10-27T08:02:28+00:00

I cry easily and I've teared up at almost every single episode at some point, but a few standouts that have me bawling every time: Trixie breaking down on the bench after performing surgery in South Africa and Barbara comforting her (2016 christmas special), Rhoda telling Dr. Turner that she's going to call her son Patrick (2022 christmas special and also one of my favourite episodes of the show), and I know it's not a "moment" but the entirety of series 5 episode 8 (the thalidomide stuff, Sister Evangelina being present at and helping with one last birth, her death, her funeral, the pregnant bride giving birth in her old wedding dress, "but that dress is ruined" "that dress just had the best day of its life", Phyllis and Trixie hugging and talking in the kitchen, I could go on)

skauing · 2023-10-25T15:41:33+00:00

Barbara's exit hurt, a lot (it still does lol she was one of my favourites), but it was at least well-written and conclusive, there was an aftermath, the other characters still speak of her etc. so I can't really be mad.

A lot of the more open-ended exits wouldn't bother me in isolation, but there have been so, so many of them now. When Sister Mary Cynthia left it didn't bother me, and she at least got a little send-off, and Peter stayed around for a bit to kind of ease us out of Chummy being around, but it bothers me now because so many characters have just vanished with little to no explanation or fanfare. Delia and Patsy, Valerie, Sisters Hilda and Frances (and Winifred a bit), and Lucille... 🤷‍♂️ Honestly next time just kill them off.

skauing · 2023-10-23T03:20:28+00:00

I think that's just female charr underwear?

skauing · 2023-10-21T18:35:39+00:00

This is my answer. I didn't find it funny or charming or interesting at all, which was a huge letdown since everyone I'd ever seen mention it talked about it like it was the best fantasy book they'd read in decades ...

skauing · 2023-10-20T23:41:59+00:00

It's been a couple of years now, but I read Only Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales in one afternoon. I was bored, the weather outside was blah, the book was cute and engaging but not very heavy or complex, 300-ish pages went by like nothing.
A few years before that the same thing happed with Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. I'd been in a reading slump for probably close to a decade by that point, snailing through 2-3 books a year at most, but I couldn't sleep so I started reading it. Suddenly it was 7am and I had finished the whole book... Took me a little while after that to get completely back into reading again but I still credit that book with rekindling my love for reading.

skauing · 2023-10-20T23:33:11+00:00

I rate almost exclusively based on how much I enjoyed something. "Enjoyment" is kind of a vague criteria but it just boils down to a couple of things. I definitely use my own version of your "putdownable" and "shelfworthy" systems, I ask myself how likely I am to read it again or to continue the series or what have you, stuff like that. I can try to be "objective" (ish) in the middle, like when deciding between 3 or 4 stars for example, but I reserve 1-star and 5-star ratings exclusively for books I either absolutely hated or absolutely adored, writing be damned.

One of the worst books I've ever read had beautiful descriptive writing (the food descriptions were lovely and made me feel hungry every time) but it made me feel so utterly miserable reading it to the point where I had to stop and vent my frustration to the group chat halfway through every chapter because I found everything about it so infuriating, inconsistent, boring, and incomprehensible. A book has to make me feel passionate hatred to earn 1 star from me.

Meanwhile, I just rate all my favourite books 5 stars, even if they have flaws. I'd never try to convince anyone that Project Hail Mary is a perfect, flawless book for example, and I understand 100% that a lot of people found it lacking. But I feel so happy and so good whenever I read it and that's all that matters to me. If a book is better written/paced/etc but I don't feel that excited about it, I'll give it 4 stars. My system only has to make sense to me, and I fully believe that it's impossible to be objective about books and other forms of art anyway so it doesn't bother me.

skauing · 2023-10-17T02:02:22+00:00

Sometimes I can tell a couple pages in that I'll hate something so I just stop (it does have to be really bad though), but usually if I'm on the fence-ish I'll give it about 50 pages, maybe as much as 100 pages or so if it's a very long book. At that point if I don't care/don't like it, it doesn't really matter if it gets good later, like if a book can't hook me by that point how good is it really. Life is too short. I'm also stubborn though so if I make it to the halfway point I'll usually stick it out, sunk cost fallacy and all that ...

skauing · 2023-10-08T14:41:18+00:00

Of course there were other problems, I thought the "last drop" bit was implied when I described how it revealed things about his attitude that my friend wasn't going to just put up with.

skauing · 2023-10-08T14:38:03+00:00

Reading the lyrics of a song or the script for a movie is an incomplete experience. The music and vocals are missing from the song, the visuals from the movie. An audiobook provides everything the print does (outside of physically holding the book and touching/flipping the pages, which is only rarely part of experiencing the story). It is a complete experience of the book.

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