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They are. I read the first one just as text, and it didn't really hook me as much as other people, but before I started the second, I decided to give the audiobook a listen and significantly increased my personal enjoyment. Jeff Hayes has such a great knack for character voices that sometime I forgot that it was just him doing them all.
That sounds like fun. I recently read "Slasher Summer" and it had a similar idea of playing with horror movie tropes with a group of horror movie buffs, though it is more grounded in reality. I will go ahead and put it on the list; thanks!
No worries, take your time. I was just poking fun.
From what I have been able to gather since reading it is that Wendig basically just took the idea of the staircase in the woods from the creepypasta as an attention grabber for a psychological haunted house book. It has practically nothing to do with the SAR stories aside from the staircase itself.
I really have to get around to the third book. I have the audiobook, but my stubbornness in not listening to fiction without the text as well has kept me pushing it further and further down the queue.
My sister has been bugging me to get to Scarlet as well since it is her favorite. I really want to get to it (and the rest of the series), but I still have like 4 loans I need to get through this week that I may have to wait months to get again.
And don't think I've forgotten, you teased me with two unreliable narrator recommendations a couple of weeks ago that you have yet to deliver. Was that comment unreliable narration on your part?! XD
Exactly. The one on the right is the kind of sign that is supposed to catch your eye as you walk by to make you want to go in.
Yeah, it is a bit dense at the beginning since it just starts throwing out terminology, but once things get rolling, they really get rolling.
I have heard that Revenge of the Sith is a particularly good novelization. I'll go ahead and add those two to the list. Thanks!
I really enjoyed Night House, and I did like his style, but like I mentioned, I am not really a hard/realistic crime thriller person. I'm still going to give them a chance, though!
I will definitely be getting to it, but only after "...Black Box of Doom." I don't want to overload myself with loans at the moment, so once I clear off most of my current ones, I'm going to delve into the books I own but haven't gotten to.
Novelizations always are hit or miss.
Yeah, I saw that. I think I may try out his Blood on the Snow series first since it is only two books to see how I feel about his normal style since "The Night House" seems to be an outlier.
Thanks, though they aren't necessarily recommendations, just my personal impressions, and I know that my personal taste and tolerance for certain styles is a bit all over the place. I am happy, though, to be able to share my thoughts; it has weirdly made me want to read more.
I am always looking for shorter reads to intersperse between the longer books, so I'll go ahead and check that one out since I did enjoy Hammer on Bones. Thanks!
Yeah, that was pretty much my plan, so thanks for confirming that would be the best course. I bought "...Black Box of Doom" when it was on sale for like a buck, but it has been sitting in my library until I got the chance to read JDATE. I probably won't get to it this month, though.
Thanks for the heads up with that. Though, when it comes to fiction, I only listen to the audiobook as a read-along with the text.
The difference in genre does seem interesting, and I will probably pick up the first one before I get to the second JDATE book, but now that I have my first taste of Pargin, I am going to read "...Black Box of Doom" beforehand since I bought it a while ago on sale.
Yeah, I noticed that too once I was able to browse after getting home. Really odd.
I was, too. I'm waiting on the follow up book from my library at the moment.
It was a really good read, which I think was helped by the world not being based on the standard medieval Europe fantasy setting.
Oops, typo; should be "John." But yeah, considering the character, it is basically like someone saying their name is "Hugh Mann."
Yeah, it does look like it. Well, for now I'm going to separate the Books into it's own post. If the automod is just as "enthusiastic" next week, I may just do separate "THT ..." "... & Books" posts going forward.
#12 From Lindy West's cultural critique "The Witches are Coming."
#7 Only one of those is from the first season, the rest are from the Sun & Moon series (as you can see by the different art style). I know I made a comment about this last time I saw it, but it looks like the post was deleted, but to put it short, in the early seasons they hardly ever posed themselves directly into an R shape. /a/all-team-rocket-motto-poses-season-1-C8XBq
I've been re-listening to/ finally finishing Cary Elwes' memoir about the making of the film, and the love that everyone has in their voice when recollecting Andre is beautiful. He seemed to be a really, genuinely great person.
The audiobook is abridged, but the text itself isn't. I do wonder if that is the reason they haven't released it outside the UK; maybe there are plans for an unabridged version of the audiobook.
It really is a nice digest of various important moments and concepts in science.
Yeah. I couldn't read it more than 30 minutes at a time at some points. Of the three though, it was my second favorite behind The Fifth Season.
I enjoyed the Broken Earth series, conceptually, but I really felt at times it dragged, particularly with Essun's parts.
I have not, but I will go ahead and get those on the list (I swear I am going to have it fully updated soon!).