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Hellraiser97

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  1. Yes it was but she deserved it.
  2. I'll go the other direction, audiobooks where the narrator makes it worse. 1) Jefferson Mays on the Expanse and Capitve's War. Some may like it, but the way he draws out certain words, the whole cadence, drives me nuts. I largely still listened to the expanse but I nearly turned off The Mercy of Gods. I'll be reading the next one. 2) Dick Hill - the Acacia trilogy. I read somewhere one some list that this was a really great series, so I decided to give it a try. I don't know where Hill is actually from, but he reads it in what seems like an over exaggerated attempt at a middle ages English accent. It killed me. Maybe I'll read the remaining two books, but I barely mnmade it through the first one. 3) Scott Brick - The Shannara Chronicles - dude just gets WAY too excited and over emphasizes things. I enjoyed the first book, bit desipe having bought a couple of them, I haven't been able to listen to anymore.
  3. That's a good take Rimbo. I just binged it this past week. Agree with most of what's been written about Syril. Really a great character and added a lot of depth to the show IMO. The first three episodes were killing me, even if I got the point of what was going on. While I really did enjoy the show, a few other notes/questions: 1) I don't get the scene with Perrin at the end - After her speech, Mon Mothma is a fugitive, public enemy #1. Yet a year later, Perrin is just partying around Corusant at the end, banging the crime dude's wife? They would have locked him up 5 seconds after that speech and probably exectured him shortly thereafter. Am I missing something? A shot of him in a jail cell makes more sense. 2) Dedra - It's so incredibly important that the Rebels have no information about the Death Star that in Rouge One they send out Vader to recover them from the Rebel command ship and as a last ditch effort they vaporize the Sacriff base and thousands of otherwise just normal Imperial personel, while Dedra's incompetance is what leaks the Death Star existance in the first place and all she gets is prison? Given Krenik's propensity to pretty much kill anyone and everyone that doesn't perform adequately, and Tarkin's too, that seems highly unlikely. Her before a firing squad at the end would have been more accurate. 3) Bix is a selfish cunt. Assuming of course that baby is Cassian's, which it seems is implied, after going on several times about making choices and even scolding Cassian for not making his own choices, she denies him the right to make a choice about whether he wants to help raise his kid or keep fighting? All because some Force healer thinks he has a destiny. Screw her. That was for Cassian to decide, not her. And why go back to Mina-Rau? She's illegal, no visa there, and while it HAD been 8 years since the Imperials came around to do an inventory when things went to shit, there's no guarantee they will wait another 8 years. Seems she should have gone elsewhere. But again, she's a selfish cunt so screw her.
  4. The Expeditionary Force books would not be near as funny without the way the guy does the voice of Skippy. Going back to the original post, I listened to the first Thrawn book (I think it was the first one) and the way the guy kept doing "Double Vision" made me nearly turn off the damn thing. Not sure what was worse, the author writing that or the guy performing it.
  5. Finally finished book 5 of the Stormlight Chronicles. I like Sanderson, but I really feel this whole series was way too wordy. He does an amazing job of world building but damn, this last book was a beatdown at times. Onto Gateway, Book 18 of Expeditionary Force, then I'm trying something new. My brother recommeded Dungeon Crawler Carl.
  6. On reddit, a couple users were going back and forth about how they should spoof what Disney did with CGI Tarking and Leia. Basically make it really bad CGI and splice in lines from the original for him that sounds off, then have some scene where they say "That's not barf! That's just a crappy CGI emulation of him!"
  7. Fuck ET3 if true. I'm OUT!
  8. This show is a guilty pleasure. I loved the books, and fully expected major changes. I did not expect a lot of what's been discussed in this thread. That said, looking forward to binging the first three episodes.
  9. I listened to the Silo series last year. I really liked it. Have you listed to his Sand series? I just finished the second book and enjoyed it. 3 Body Problem is on my list as well, but I've read that the translation isn't great. Not sure how much that will bother me. I too only made it halfway through Red Mars. Fantastic detail but just got BORING.
  10. RIP Buddy. Glad you got so much time with him. I've been there and it hurts as much as losing any other family member.
  11. I've considered that. I think I only got through the first 2 or 3 books when I read them 10 or 15 years ago. How far do the original books go?
  12. I was there with Aus-97horn. We had a blast. Didn't really have any bad run ins with OSU fans, actually had a number of good ones. That said, FUCK THE BUCKEYES
  13. Except that we beat Michigan
  14. They spend a lot of time in Silo 18 once Juliette makes it there. It's a large part of the second half of the book. Even as someone that has read all the books, I've found this season a bit of a letdown. Disjointed. Sticking with it though. It was renewed for 2 more seasons and that's supposed to run through the end of the books, so hopefully it will pick up some steam in Season 3. She drives me up a wall. She needs a lot less screentime
  15. About halfway through the next installment of the Bobiverse, Not Till We Are Lost. Enjoying it. In some respects, it's more of the same, but he's able to make the scenarios they face fairly unique and interesting. One thing that I kind of find annoying, but also undertand, is that they've dropped the time stamps at the beginning of chapters. Not sure if they did this in the 3rd and 4th books, but I noticed it while listening today as he's exploring what a couple of the Bobs have been doing that otherwise had not been heard from. Edit: Either he skipped the date stamps for a while or they just weren't registering with me as each chapter I listened to last night had them.
  16. If half the ND team is puking or shitting themselves, Pedo State is going to crush them.
  17. ThuJone should offer that with direct shipping to aggy households. So many friends I could send that to!
  18. Finished Service Model week before last. It was good. Enjoyed it more than Cage of Souls for sure. That said, I'm not reading another one of his books for a while. Didn't realize I'd missed an Expeditionary Force novel last year, Aftermath, so fire that up and finished it yesterday. Lots of good laughs but overall the story was meh. Really I'm surprised they continued the series. It was pretty wrapped up I felt at the book before that. Not sure what I'm going to listen to next. Don't want to just plow through the next Expeditionary Force novel. Agreed. Finale was very satisfying and the epilogue was fantastic.
  19. Criminally stupid cirlce jerk is the perfect description of A&M
  20. So finished Cage of Souls and yeah, it was something. Again, excellent writing and world building, but a bit depressing. Not sure why I'm doing this to myself (probably because I had it in my Audible accout) but I'm reading another one of his books, Service Model. It's interesting for sure. Like Cage of Souls, not sure exactly where he's going with it and I'm 2/3 through. Next up, I'm hitting the latest Expeditionary Force book. I also got this recommendation from Audible - Ilium by Dan Simmons. It's about the Trojan War more or less it seems. Any of you recommend it? I liked the Hyperion series as I said above.
  21. I'm a little pissed at aggy. Several of my friends that went there have already simply resigned themselves to the fact that we're going to win and that their school will always be second tier. They're non-stop lamenting the blown opportunity of the past 11 years. How the fuck am I supposed to enjoy taunting them with an attitude like that?!?
  22. The two series I've read of Tchaikovsky's are Shards of Earth which I really liked and it's not sad/depressing and Children of Time which some may not find sad/depressing, but it's certainly not upbeat either. Both are high quality writing for sure. I read that about a decade ago when I went on a spree reading classic Sci-Fi. Could be really interesting as a movie for sure. I never read the sequels, but I heard they were not that great.
  23. I finished the latest Undying Mercenaries book, Throne World. It was nothing original and seemed kind of short compared to the others, but still a fun read. I also finished Books 3 & 4 of the Bobiverse series. REally enjoyed those and where he's going with the series. Looks like there's a Book 5 that just came out. Right now, I'm listening to Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky, I'm on chapter 9 and so far, I'm not sold on it. The writing is excellent, but outside of it taking place in the distant future, doesn't really feel like Sci-Fi so far.
  24. Yeah, there are plenty of other reasons we're a bunch of idiots!
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