2025 stacked. 52 finished. Not pictured: book 3 of the poppy war trilogy since i donated my paperbacks in anticipation of the 3rd book’s deluxe edition.
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2025 stacked. 52 finished. Not pictured: book 3 of the poppy war trilogy since i donated my paperbacks in anticipation of the 3rd book’s deluxe edition.
it reads like a 1980s heel wrestling promo. read it again, but in macho man randy savage's voice. oooh yeeeeah.
someday, @anyaustin.bsky.social will get around to kingdom come deliverance and we’ll finally get the economic analyses of fictional medieval bohemia that the game deserves.
had to look up how jury fits in, and sure enough:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_Pr...
i'm sorry but a 2000 mustang GT is not a "historical car". i am not OK with this.
the driver of that vehicle deserves a swirlie.
this video is like an alternate universe dankpods/garbage time where instead of "oi m8 what if we shoved vegemite in tony's gas tank?!", they actually, you know... fixed a car.
i don't know much about much, but i do know that if genndy tartakovsky says "hey i wanna make an animated film about", you stop him right there, and say "yes, how much do you need."
next up, the once and future king by t.h. white. i grabbed this while reading @levgrossman.com ‘s “the bright sword” earlier this year (which was amazing) and i’m in the mood to dive back into the arthurian thing so here we go. idk if i’ll read it in one shot or break it up into its component novels
i pushed through because it was so short even though i was never really compelled to go read what happens next, but i bet if I had this book in high school, it probably would have become a defining part of my personality.
probably better off that didn't happen.
just straight pratchett style footnotes the whole way through.
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.¹
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1. Oh boy here we go ok so back in the day...
seriously, every matrix movie, cyberpunk 2077, all of it, should have to start with a title card that just says "yeah so we aped our WHOLE shit from william gibson, so go read those books if this is your jam." but they probably need to put out a gen-z edition with footnotes.
i finished gibson's 'neuromancer'. probably the book i enjoyed the least this year, but that was mostly because it was so hard to remember every time a cyberpunk trope happened, that this was where that was all invented. basically the holy scripture of cyberpunk.
Had a 3+ hour flight today and time alone at a hotel, so...
I finished Katabasis by RF Kuang (only had like 15 pages to go) and I also had plenty of time to read all of Starter Villain by @scalzi.com (who has quickly become one of my favorite authors). Both were different kinds of fantastic.
halfway through the year, not bad so far. 33 down, 1 DNF. 14313 pages, 80/day on average.
with this game you can teach them about counting to 64, too! (although probably not in that version.)
next up on the reading list: the ministry of time by kaliane bradley. science fiction time travel story with an interesting premise of government employees tasked with guiding people brought from the past through acclimating to modern society, shenanigans ensue.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
it was a nice sword.
terry pratchett had this habit of writing a series of words so ridiculous that, before being written, had no business being placed in that particular order, but he did it anyway, to great success.
due to some preorder shenanigans, i have an additional download code for mario kart world. happy to part with it for the $50 extra that the mario kart bundle cost me.
wave your hands from side to side and say
you like birds? have some birds.
oh and if you haven’t already go read the dungeon crawler carl series by matt dinniman. just finished book 5, book 6 hardcover arrives in 10 days, book 7 hardcover out in september, and he’s started on book 8. these are spectacular. funny but dark and getting darker.
1/3 of the way through 2025, 19 books completed, 1 book abandoned. 8611 pages read so far. the backlog grows, i keep finding stuff i wanna read.
ok going to bed now.
there is an ashley madison joke in here somewhere but i can't put my finger on it.
