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cobainwasmurdered said:
2/3rds of the year down now so my total is now at

160 books (198 total last year)
283 page avg (301 avg last year)
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234 books read (longest book: collected edition of "The Inheritance Trilogy" by NK Jemisin 1462 pages
280 page average, 65,555 pages total.
Best Graphic Novel(s): "Something is Killing The Children" by James Tyrion IV
Best non-fiction: "Say Nothing: True History of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland" by Patrick Radden Keefe
Best fiction: "Rhythm of War" by Brandon Sanderson

this was the most pages read since 2018 (68,955 pages and 292 books) and second most pages overall since I started keeping track in 2014.
 
4 months in and I'm at
75 books (234 last year)
335.5 page avg (283 page last year)
Haven't read many graphic novels this year as of yet compared to what I usually do so that's keeping the page number up.
 
cobainwasmurdered said:
4 months in and I'm at
75 books (234 last year)
335.5 page avg (283 page last year)
Haven't read many graphic novels this year as of yet compared to what I usually do so that's keeping the page number up.
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After 8 months
218 books (16 to go, I think I can manage that!)
292 page average (started reading a lot more comics so that is why the average is dipping again)
 
Got a nice haul of Fantasy stuff for Xmas:
The Will of the Many by James Islington
Gods of the Wyrdwood by RJ Barker
Blade of Dream By Daniel Abraham
The Traitor by Anthony Ryan
the Last Mortal Bond by Brian Stavely
The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter
Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft
Blood of Assassins RJ Barker
 
cobainwasmurdered said:
234 books read (longest book: collected edition of "The Inheritance Trilogy" by NK Jemisin 1462 pages
280 page average, 65,555 pages total.
Best Graphic Novel(s): "Something is Killing The Children" by James Tyrion IV
Best non-fiction: "Say Nothing: True History of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland" by Patrick Radden Keefe
Best fiction: "Rhythm of War" by Brandon Sanderson

this was the most pages read since 2018 (68,955 pages and 292 books) and second most pages overall since I started keeping track in 2014.
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311 books read (longest (re-read of "Heir of Novron" by Michael J. Sullivan
282 page average, 87,811 pages total.
Best Graphic Novel(s): Nightwing (ongoing), "Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow" (mini-series)
Best non-fiction: "G-Man J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century" by Beverly Gage
best fiction: "Forge of the High Mage" by Ian C. Esslemont

most books/pages read by far.
 
First reading update of the year,

67 books (last year 337 total)
554 page average (282 page avg last year) haven't been reading many comics this year so far to bring it down.
 
Finished up Stephen King's You Like It Darker. There was 1 story I wasn't that into but I mostly enjoyed all of them with a couple standing out for me. Worth checking out if you're into his writing or enjoy his short story collections.
 
I highly recommend that book to anyone that would like to take a glimpse at what southern West Virginia—an already embattled region of true Appalachia—had to face with big pharma and the opioids crisis. I know multiple people in this book.

Also, the next Governor of West Virginia, Patrick Morrissey, is prominently featured in the book. He is possibly worse than any Governor we have had in my lifetime, and the uninformed/supermajority party line voters have not even elected him yet.
 
@Dandy the author mentions that he wrote a story about a state senate candidate who was a pro wrestler who he exposed for making "lewd comments" on a message board. Do you know anything about this?
 
Yes. It was a local (Charleston, WV area), indy/outlaw mud show type of wrestling fed.

www.wvgazettemail.com

W.Va. Senate campaign turns ugly

CHARLESTON, W.Va. A decade ago, a series of explicit messages were posted under the name of a former professional wrestler who's now running in West Virginia's 8th District Senate race.The
www.wvgazettemail.com www.wvgazettemail.com

You can also Google “joshua martin wv senate” and find multiple articles about other dumb shit for him and his opponent.
 
that whole article is hilarious.

I finished the book. really good read. Not a lot of surprises about either the industry or how WV responded to it, but the personal touches were very good. I'd recommend it to others.
 
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Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sti…

The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting o…
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@tekcop
"In 2018, a powerful app for secure communications called Anom took root among organized criminals. They believed Anom allowed them to conduct business in the shadows. Except for one thing: it was secretly run by the FBI."

This made me think of your app and what I was joking about the other night lol.


Second reading update of the year!:
113 books (last year 337 total)
309.5 page average (282 page avg last year)

Much slower pace this year but I was way up last year than usual. I also usually do a big catchup on comics near the end of the year.
 
Got all of these for Xmas and two more on preorder!

Brandon Sanderson: Wind and Truth
RJ Barker: War Lords of WyrdWood
Anthony Ryan: Tide of Black Steel
John Gwynne: The Fury of The Gods
Greg Keyes: The Wind That Sweeps The Stars
Miles Cameron: Storming Heaven
Django Wexler: How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying
Ed McDonald: Traitor of Redwinter
Sebastian de Castell: Play of Shadows
R S Ford: Engines of Chaos
Larry Correia: Destroyer of Worlds
 
I'm sensing a (title) theme... CWM is Voldemort!

John Gwynne: The Fury of The Gods
Miles Cameron: Storming Heaven
Django Wexler: How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying
Ed McDonald: Traitor of Redwinter
Sebastian de Castell: Play of Shadows
Larry Correia: Destroyer of Worlds
 
Final 2024 Totals
238 Books
Avg page length of 260 pages
Longest was "The Last Mortal Bond" by Brian Staveley at 847 pages.
Best Fiction: "The Tainted Cup" by Robert Jackson Bennett
Best Non-Fiction: "Alexander at the End of the World" by Rachel Kousser
Best Comic Series: Something is Killing the Children or Vengeance of the Moon Knight
 
I was hoping to grab a bunch of books at the bookstore but I was only able to find two. Felt like half the fantasy section has been taken over by Romance-Fantasy at this point. I'm happy to see anyone reading or books getting sold but good lord most of that stuff is utter shit. Most of it looks like the stuff Dama shits out.
 
My favorite book I have read this year is: “The Master and Margarita” by Bulgakov. It’s not for everybody (my mom ended up really hating it) - but it’s one of the more unique books I have ever read - and funny. Of course he funniest Russian book I have read is “The Twelve Chairs” by Ilf and Petrov. That book is like if Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld were around in the early Soviet Union and decided to write a book (really funny).
 
KennortonJr said:
My favorite book I have read this year is: “The Master and Margarita” by Bulgakov. It’s not for everybody (my mom ended up really hating it) - but it’s one of the more unique books I have ever read - and funny. Of course he funniest Russian book I have read is “The Twelve Chairs” by Ilf and Petrov. That book is like if Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld were around in the early Soviet Union and decided to write a book (really funny).
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The Master and Margarita has been on my shelf/to-read list for years. Maybe this post will be the push I need to pick it up.
 
tekcop said:
The Master and Margarita has been on my shelf/to-read list for years. Maybe this post will be the push I need to pick it up.
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I believe a (well-reviewed) film adaptation should be releasing in North America sometime soon as well. Although you’ll find it’s almost like a Stephen King book where it’s like, “how can they make a movie out of this?” The book is silly and absurd and you can see where later writers like Vladimir Sorokin got some of their inspiration to go “off the rails.” It’s funny, I had read Bulgakov’s “The White Guard” a few months earlier and it’s hard to believe it’s the same author (the former title being incredibly serious and straightforward).
 
Picked up a few art books coming Thursday/Friday: Full Metal Alchemist, Goosebumps, and Hiroyuki Imaishi released around 2020 (Gainax then Studio Trigger) and working through a new Edgar Allan Poe biography and Music History w/Queer Landscape.
 
If it's anything like the last few years of AVGN or Monster Madness, we're going to find out in a few years that it was entirely ghost written.
 
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