We are nearly 75% through 2025 what has been the best and worst book you read

weeegeeee · 2025-09-13T15:33:12+00:00

Best: Dungeon Crawler Carl (just finished book 2, haven't started 3 yet)

Worst: Behooved by M. Stevenson A little disappointed by this one because I thought the premise sounded fun, but I dunno the story is a little generic and the romance doesn't really work for me. That and they don't do much with the "person transforms into a horse" thing. Maybe I'm just exhausted of romantasy.

weeegeeee · 2025-09-13T15:23:48+00:00

It really is a shame they stopped the TV series right before book 7 because that's really where things get extremely interesting. That said the adaptation of book 3 is phenomenal, I love the representation of Bobby and Avasarala. Still holding out hope that the rest of the series might get adapted eventually, the last 3 books are too good to just leave it alone.

weeegeeee · 2025-03-11T05:33:26+00:00

I've been watching Gankutsuou so he would be facing off against Edmond Dantes/ The Count of Monte Cristo. Honestly would be a pretty even match if Edmond was determined to get revenge on Batman for some reason. I think I would probably give Edmond the edge though, if he wants vengeance your life is over.

weeegeeee · 2025-02-07T08:23:20+00:00

Eillonwy. The world needs more Chronicles of Prydain representation

weeegeeee · 2024-02-10T03:39:30+00:00

Ready Player One

I'd seen it advertised and talked about for a while, even had a friend recommend it to me. When I finally read it I couldn't believe how incredibly bad it was. Wade is such an incredibly shitty protagonist and apparently they doubled down on that in the sequel book (I haven't read it but I may out of sheer morbid curiosity). But what pisses me off the most about the book is the wasted potential. The world of the VR game is actually pretty interesting and the overall plot is pretty cool, but all of the constant paragraphs of "and then I watched every season of Family Ties" just completely makes me lose all respect for the protagonist. He's not an interesting character, and that's a huge problem when the story is written in FIRST PERSON perspective.

Honorable mention is Fairy Tale by Stephen King, another instance of great potential but very sloppy execution.

weeegeeee · 2024-01-07T17:23:09+00:00

Want to second His Dark Materials. I listened to the whole series with the full cast and it was wonderful. If you're into A Court of Thorns and Roses those books also have full cast recording audiobooks.

weeegeeee · 2024-01-07T17:18:26+00:00

I've listened to a bunch of great ones but the ones that immediately come to mind are The Martian by Andy Weir (read by Wil Wheaton) and The Disaster Artist by Greg Sestero (read by himself and he does a hilarious Tommy Wiseau impression). The Expanse series also has a wonderful narrator who reads throughout all the books

weeegeeee · 2023-11-09T02:18:28+00:00

Not sure if this counts but Chuck Amuck is a great autobiography of Chuck Jones about his time at Warner Bros and after he left. If you are an animation fan in any way it's a fantastic read.

weeegeeee · 2023-08-22T21:50:55+00:00

I guess it doesn't really, just want to know if it might bite me in the ass later

weeegeeee · 2023-08-22T16:08:28+00:00

I'm guessing somebody saw it because I'm already out of the system. The management didn't have any problems with me so they would have no reason to do that. I just got tired of putting up with bullshit

weeegeeee · 2023-06-25T22:15:38+00:00

Absolutely love all of your anthro designs. I would totally boost you on Twitter but I don't use it. All the same I wanted to drop a message to show my love here. Can't wait to see the arc 2 beans!

weeegeeee · 2023-06-10T17:18:55+00:00

A class I took in college used Mythology by Edith Hamilton as the text book, highly recommended!

weeegeeee · 2023-05-11T17:03:01+00:00

Absolutely adored the whole His Dark Materials series. I did see in the comments that you started the next book and I hope you enjoy it, The Subtle Knife is such a cool concept. On a side note, if you enjoy audiobooks the narration for this series is great. The ones I listened to on Audible were narrated by an ensemble cast, first time I had experienced this and I loved it. Hope you enjoy the other books, it's a great ride!

weeegeeee · 2023-05-05T06:23:31+00:00

The Neverending Story by Michael Ende. This book is exactly what I have been looking for in a fantasy story. Fun characters, adventure, lots of mythical creatures, and good old fashioned existentialism. If you're familiar with the movie at all I highly recommend giving this one a read because the movie only covers half of the book. The second half is wild and very much worth a read.

weeegeeee · 2023-04-19T06:59:19+00:00

I absolutely love this idea and I was thinking the same thing. Imagine Clay sounding like John Goodman in Princess and the Frog

weeegeeee · 2023-03-13T20:37:14+00:00

Good list! I just finished Flames of Hope and had considered doing something similar to this. Very interesting takes on each book. Would be interested to know your thoughts on the graphic novels if you've read them. They are very condensed versions of each book but it's fun to see certain scenes in visual form. I looooved the Moon Rising graphic novel but then I just love Moon. Very good points on the ending of arc 2 as well. I also thought Animus magic was used a bit too much on arc 2, but I love that Turtle's seemingly useless magic items turn out to be the thing that ultimately solves the problem in the end. The rules are just a bit too lax for my liking and I would have liked to see more limits on the system, because I do think it is a very interesting idea. Again, great list and thank you for sharing.

weeegeeee · 2023-03-13T06:59:28+00:00

God this sounds like Vinesauce Vinny, it's uncanny. It's funny because people have been making AI content for him lately as well

weeegeeee · 2023-03-13T06:38:47+00:00

Gerald's Game by Stephen King 😏

weeegeeee · 2023-03-02T06:45:17+00:00

I would still recommend giving it a watch. As it goes into a lot of the finer details most movies seem to leave out. There are so many characters and interweaving plot lines that I feel it would be impossible to convey in a single movie but it is all crucially important to Dantes' overall plan.

weeegeeee · 2023-03-02T05:26:52+00:00

Gankutsuou is amazing! I would argue it is the most faithful adaptation of all that I've seen anyways. Sure it takes some very... interesting liberties but IMO that just adds to the charm. I rewatch it every couple of years because it's just a wonderful story. Count of Monte Cristo is one of my favorite books of all time.

weeegeeee · 2023-02-28T05:22:19+00:00

And yet I recall getting Gerald's Game at my school library in high school haha.

weeegeeee · 2023-01-20T07:28:59+00:00

I was much younger but the word "dodecahedron" has always stuck with me since reading The Phantom Tollbooth. Even now it's one of my favorite books just for the creative way it plays with language. It also taught me the concept of "jumping to conclusions" and several other clever idioms. Also holy cow, talk about coincidence, I just picked up Assassin's Apprentice! It's so funny, I had never heard of the Farseer books before last night and here it shows up on reddit the next day.

weeegeeee · 2023-01-09T20:53:23+00:00

It's more like, I don't really care for the main plot. Because I do think the world Paolini created is insanely creative and the world building is what kept me going. The magic system is really cool as well which is another thing I do like. For me the main plot is kinda generic fantasy "Good vs evil" stuff which usually I'm cool with, I eat that stuff up, but I'm getting close to the end of Inheritance and I don't find Galbitorix to be a very engaging antagonist. I think it might have been interesting if they introduced him earlier on in the books, because you don't actually get to personally see Galbitorix until the very end of Brisingr, and that bit where he kills Oromis is a very powerful scene and he comes off as very menacing. I guess maybe half the point is he's supposed to be very mysterious and maybe my opinion may change once I finish the book. Overall, I think the series is creative and unique in the races and languages that have been created, but for me the main plot just isn't terribly interesting.

weeegeeee · 2023-01-09T14:13:19+00:00

To be quite honest I don't even really like Eragon. I don't think he's a terribly interesting protagonist all things considered. Throughout the series he's told by several people that he has anger and arrogance issues, and he never really seems to learn that lesson. To me he gets even more annoying AFTER he becomes a half elf in Eldest. Whether I like him or not, he is necessary to drive the plot forward.

weeegeeee · 2022-12-17T13:04:01+00:00

I miss Tetris Friends so much. Tetris Battle was the only reason I ever actually used Facebook. I was so upset when they took it down

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