Can You Read a Book for Every System You Own in 2024????
21-Feb-22 4:27pm
#1 DarkFact
I can keep a tally of users and total books they've read, just drop in here and say what you read and what you thought about it, should be a fun discussion I think. Oh, and I guess let me know how many systems you own or something. Maybe you'll win a prize! Probably not. Read books because it's the Chad thing to do on a website about trading videogames.
Readers for 2024!
Hobbes21 - 7/4
bill - 10/4
sinnie - 2/?
kommie - 13/?
picklenickel - 23/20
bogo - 6/?
scottt - 1/?
Back4more - 1/2
DarkFact - 1/2
razeak - 1/?
Shane12m - 5/6
Readers for 2023 Final Tallies
Sinnie - 13/7
Bogo - 50/7
DarkFact - 6/2
hobbes21 - 19/4
nonamesleft - 13/?
EB - 4/7
Scott - 2/6
Kommie - 20/5
back4more - 2/2
Alaisiagae - 1/?
bill - 8/?
Readers for 2022 Final Tallies
DarkFact - 3/5
Cevil - 19/10
Kommie - 29ish/1
Miranda - 12/7
Benstylus - 0/?
Alaisiagae - 0/?
Razeak - 4/32
Sinnie - 4/8
bill - 4/7
bogo - 54/7
Hobbes - 14/5
Heavyd814life - 9/5
Roko - 4/9
Scott - 5/5
bumsplikity - 11/25
nonamesleft - 7/?
The_prophecy - 2/2
back4more - 8/2
EB - 14/10
#1 DarkFact
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I can keep a tally of users and total books they've read, just drop in here and say what you read and what you thought about it, should be a fun discussion I think. Oh, and I guess let me know how many systems you own or something. Maybe you'll win a prize! Probably not. Read books because it's the Chad thing to do on a website about trading videogames.
Readers for 2024!
Hobbes21 - 7/4
bill - 10/4
sinnie - 2/?
kommie - 13/?
picklenickel - 23/20
bogo - 6/?
scottt - 1/?
Back4more - 1/2
DarkFact - 1/2
razeak - 1/?
Shane12m - 5/6
Readers for 2023 Final Tallies
Sinnie - 13/7
Bogo - 50/7
DarkFact - 6/2
hobbes21 - 19/4
nonamesleft - 13/?
EB - 4/7
Scott - 2/6
Kommie - 20/5
back4more - 2/2
Alaisiagae - 1/?
bill - 8/?
Readers for 2022 Final Tallies
DarkFact - 3/5
Cevil - 19/10
Kommie - 29ish/1
Miranda - 12/7
Benstylus - 0/?
Alaisiagae - 0/?
Razeak - 4/32
Sinnie - 4/8
bill - 4/7
bogo - 54/7
Hobbes - 14/5
Heavyd814life - 9/5
Roko - 4/9
Scott - 5/5
bumsplikity - 11/25
nonamesleft - 7/?
The_prophecy - 2/2
back4more - 8/2
EB - 14/10
2-Aug-23 6:40pm
#141 Bleed_DukeBlue
Sorry. I could have described that better. No magic. Everything that happens is technically possible. I just meant that the school is like Hogwarts in the sense that it's a secret, exclusive school that only certain people are allowed to know about that is expensive and fancy. Without giving too much away, the book is basically a guide for people who can't attend the school but tells the story of three people who attended as examples of what to do and what not to do. There's a twist ending as well that's logical within the world the book creates but still took me a bit by surprise. I would recommend it if you like dystopian fiction.
nonamesleft wrote:
Bleed_DukeBlue wrote:> There was a library on the ship I was on, so I read Murder Your Employer: The McMasters> Guide to Homicide, which was quite good. (It's like Hogwarts for murder training.)> Here's the super weird part: when I looked up the author to see if he'd written> anything else, I discovered that he wrote one of the worst songs ever: Escape (The> Pina Colada Song). Haven't heard of it. In what way is it like Hogwarts? There's magic?
#141 Bleed_DukeBlue
Sorry. I could have described that better. No magic. Everything that happens is technically possible. I just meant that the school is like Hogwarts in the sense that it's a secret, exclusive school that only certain people are allowed to know about that is expensive and fancy. Without giving too much away, the book is basically a guide for people who can't attend the school but tells the story of three people who attended as examples of what to do and what not to do. There's a twist ending as well that's logical within the world the book creates but still took me a bit by surprise. I would recommend it if you like dystopian fiction.
nonamesleft wrote:
Bleed_DukeBlue wrote:> There was a library on the ship I was on, so I read Murder Your Employer: The McMasters> Guide to Homicide, which was quite good. (It's like Hogwarts for murder training.)> Here's the super weird part: when I looked up the author to see if he'd written> anything else, I discovered that he wrote one of the worst songs ever: Escape (The> Pina Colada Song). Haven't heard of it. In what way is it like Hogwarts? There's magic?
2-Aug-23 7:05pm
#142 nonamesleft
Bleed_DukeBlue wrote:
Sorry. I could have described that better. No magic. Everything that happens is technically possible. I just meant that the school is like Hogwarts in the sense that it's a secret, exclusive school that only certain people are allowed to know about that is expensive and fancy. Without giving too much away, the book is basically a guide for people who can't attend the school but tells the story of three people who attended as examples of what to do and what not to do. There's a twist ending as well that's logical within the world the book creates but still took me a bit by surprise. I would recommend it if you like dystopian fiction. nonamesleft wrote:> Bleed_DukeBlue wrote: |>> There was a library on the ship I was on, so I read Murder Your Employer: The> McMasters |>> Guide to Homicide, which was quite good. (It's like Hogwarts for murder training.) |>> Here's the super weird part: when I looked up the author to see if he'd written |>> anything else, I discovered that he wrote one of the worst songs ever: Escape> (The |>> Pina Colada Song). > Haven't heard of it. In what way is it like Hogwarts? There's magic?That sounds like it might be a great read. I think I'll add it to the list.
#142 nonamesleft
Bleed_DukeBlue wrote:
Sorry. I could have described that better. No magic. Everything that happens is technically possible. I just meant that the school is like Hogwarts in the sense that it's a secret, exclusive school that only certain people are allowed to know about that is expensive and fancy. Without giving too much away, the book is basically a guide for people who can't attend the school but tells the story of three people who attended as examples of what to do and what not to do. There's a twist ending as well that's logical within the world the book creates but still took me a bit by surprise. I would recommend it if you like dystopian fiction. nonamesleft wrote:> Bleed_DukeBlue wrote: |>> There was a library on the ship I was on, so I read Murder Your Employer: The> McMasters |>> Guide to Homicide, which was quite good. (It's like Hogwarts for murder training.) |>> Here's the super weird part: when I looked up the author to see if he'd written |>> anything else, I discovered that he wrote one of the worst songs ever: Escape> (The |>> Pina Colada Song). > Haven't heard of it. In what way is it like Hogwarts? There's magic?That sounds like it might be a great read. I think I'll add it to the list.
4-Aug-23 11:34pm
#143 DarkFact
Kommie wrote:
For him it's the difficulty part.
I read six pages and I'm like PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. I WANT TO DO ANYTHING ELSE
It's rare that a book actually hooks me. Last book was Win, this one has a lot of names to remember. It's nauseating trying to keep them separate, plus I know some of the lore and there's Horus and there's Little Horus but are they the same person or two different people, it's hard to say because these are ALL THE OFFSPRING OF THE EMPEROR SO IT'S LIKE... IT GETS CONFUSING. Especially if you're like, 80% present while reading it. I'm fudgeed that if I do decide to continue on with the series, it just fudging goes on forever and ever.
#143 DarkFact
Kommie wrote:
For him it's the difficulty part.
I read six pages and I'm like PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. I WANT TO DO ANYTHING ELSE
It's rare that a book actually hooks me. Last book was Win, this one has a lot of names to remember. It's nauseating trying to keep them separate, plus I know some of the lore and there's Horus and there's Little Horus but are they the same person or two different people, it's hard to say because these are ALL THE OFFSPRING OF THE EMPEROR SO IT'S LIKE... IT GETS CONFUSING. Especially if you're like, 80% present while reading it. I'm fudgeed that if I do decide to continue on with the series, it just fudging goes on forever and ever.
5-Aug-23 11:30am
#144 bogo
Wife and I just finished up the most recent car book. The King's Traitor, by Jeff Wheeler
#144 bogo
Wife and I just finished up the most recent car book. The King's Traitor, by Jeff Wheeler
5-Aug-23 12:27pm
#145 Kommie
So Berserk, read the first 3 deluxe volumes. It's great, but one big complaint. Using rape/sexual assault as character development is quite.. Cringe.
#145 Kommie
So Berserk, read the first 3 deluxe volumes. It's great, but one big complaint. Using rape/sexual assault as character development is quite.. Cringe.
7-Aug-23 4:48pm
#147 Kommie
DNF - Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
so the premise of this book is silly, but the actual book is just awful.
Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has already delivered six.
When Katrina Nguyen, a young transgender runaway, catches Shizuka's ear with her wild talent, Shizuka can almost feel the curse lifting. She's found her final candidate.
But in a donut shop off a bustling highway in the San Gabriel Valley, Shizuka meets Lan Tran, retired starship captain, interstellar refugee, and mother of four. Shizuka doesn't have time for crushes or coffee dates, what with her very soul on the line, but Lan's kind smile and eyes like stars might just redefine a soul's worth. And maybe something as small as a warm donut is powerful enough to break a curse as vast as the California coastline.
As the lives of these three women become entangled by chance and fate, a story of magic, identity, curses, and hope begins, and a family worth crossing the universe for is found.
I thought it would be a silly and cool premise kinda like The Library at Mount Char but no. The blurb is more interesting than the content.
The main character, Katrina is trans. M - F. Identifies as female. Okay, fine. Parents hate her for being trans, beat, her etc. Wears makeup to cover the beatings. One of the other characters, Satomi sees her as a girl. Every time Satomi refers to Katrina as being a she, Katrina's only response is "BUT I'M TRANS" as if this lone statement is a personality trait. Satomi is recognizing you as a girl, yet "BUT I'M TRANS" seems to be the only thing Katrina can ever say if anyone calls her a girl. I'd like to find out how many times this phrase is used, but I don't want to bother finding an ebook and searching. I really hope all trans people aren't this annoying and think being trans alone is a personality trait.
But I guess the worst part of the book is the paragraph breaks. There could be two sentences with one character, then a clear break and it goes to another. The longest, if that writing prompt of one POV is maybe 2 pages. It's awful. I have no idea how this has such high ratings, I was gonna power-hate my way through it but at page 208 I had to stop. It's awful. There's this other weird alien storyline going on as well that's really fudging dumb.
#147 Kommie
DNF - Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
so the premise of this book is silly, but the actual book is just awful.
Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has already delivered six.
When Katrina Nguyen, a young transgender runaway, catches Shizuka's ear with her wild talent, Shizuka can almost feel the curse lifting. She's found her final candidate.
But in a donut shop off a bustling highway in the San Gabriel Valley, Shizuka meets Lan Tran, retired starship captain, interstellar refugee, and mother of four. Shizuka doesn't have time for crushes or coffee dates, what with her very soul on the line, but Lan's kind smile and eyes like stars might just redefine a soul's worth. And maybe something as small as a warm donut is powerful enough to break a curse as vast as the California coastline.
As the lives of these three women become entangled by chance and fate, a story of magic, identity, curses, and hope begins, and a family worth crossing the universe for is found.
I thought it would be a silly and cool premise kinda like The Library at Mount Char but no. The blurb is more interesting than the content.
The main character, Katrina is trans. M - F. Identifies as female. Okay, fine. Parents hate her for being trans, beat, her etc. Wears makeup to cover the beatings. One of the other characters, Satomi sees her as a girl. Every time Satomi refers to Katrina as being a she, Katrina's only response is "BUT I'M TRANS" as if this lone statement is a personality trait. Satomi is recognizing you as a girl, yet "BUT I'M TRANS" seems to be the only thing Katrina can ever say if anyone calls her a girl. I'd like to find out how many times this phrase is used, but I don't want to bother finding an ebook and searching. I really hope all trans people aren't this annoying and think being trans alone is a personality trait.
But I guess the worst part of the book is the paragraph breaks. There could be two sentences with one character, then a clear break and it goes to another. The longest, if that writing prompt of one POV is maybe 2 pages. It's awful. I have no idea how this has such high ratings, I was gonna power-hate my way through it but at page 208 I had to stop. It's awful. There's this other weird alien storyline going on as well that's really fudging dumb.
9-Aug-23 8:58am
#148 bogo
just finished up The Secrets of Master Brewers by Jeff Alworth and Stan Hieronymus. always fun to read more about how different bears are made around the world. just needed a bit of a palate cleanser before i jumped into the next huge series.
going to be another 16 book series like I did last year where each book will take an average of like 3.5 hours. its actually a continuation/offshoot of that series following a couple of the characters that broke off from the main group at the very end. it was a fun world with a weird relationship between magic and technology, and it'll be fun to read more into it
#148 bogo
just finished up The Secrets of Master Brewers by Jeff Alworth and Stan Hieronymus. always fun to read more about how different bears are made around the world. just needed a bit of a palate cleanser before i jumped into the next huge series.
going to be another 16 book series like I did last year where each book will take an average of like 3.5 hours. its actually a continuation/offshoot of that series following a couple of the characters that broke off from the main group at the very end. it was a fun world with a weird relationship between magic and technology, and it'll be fun to read more into it
15-Aug-23 8:38am
#150 bogo
forgot to mention it yesterday but i killed two books over the weekend while doing a ton of yard work. and i'll probably finish another by tomorrow
-Wayward Saint - Black Ocean: Mercy For Hire, Mission 1 by J.S. Morin
-Behind Blue Skies - Black Ocean: Mercy For Hire, Mission 2 by J.S. Morin
#150 bogo
forgot to mention it yesterday but i killed two books over the weekend while doing a ton of yard work. and i'll probably finish another by tomorrow
-Wayward Saint - Black Ocean: Mercy For Hire, Mission 1 by J.S. Morin
-Behind Blue Skies - Black Ocean: Mercy For Hire, Mission 2 by J.S. Morin
16-Aug-23 7:38am
#151 DarkFact
If you guys were in school a bully would have knocked all these books out of your hands by now
#151 DarkFact
If you guys were in school a bully would have knocked all these books out of your hands by now
18-Aug-23 9:06am
#153 bogo
forgot to mention the latest one: House of Orion Sun - Black Ocean: Mercy For Hire, Mission 3 by J.S. Morin
and then i'll be doing some more work around the house this weekend, so I'll likely have at least 2 done by Monday :)
#153 bogo
forgot to mention the latest one: House of Orion Sun - Black Ocean: Mercy For Hire, Mission 3 by J.S. Morin
and then i'll be doing some more work around the house this weekend, so I'll likely have at least 2 done by Monday :)
22-Aug-23 9:36am
#154 bogo
ya'll need to read more. i forgot to post yesterday because this forum didn't have any updates!
finished Break the Chain: Black Ocean: Mercy For Hire, Mission 4 by J.S. Morin
#154 bogo
ya'll need to read more. i forgot to post yesterday because this forum didn't have any updates!
finished Break the Chain: Black Ocean: Mercy For Hire, Mission 4 by J.S. Morin
24-Aug-23 9:11am
#156 bogo
Finished up Sunshine of my Cult: Black Ocean: Mercy For Hire, Mission 5 by J.S. Morin
love the bookmark btw
#156 bogo
Finished up Sunshine of my Cult: Black Ocean: Mercy For Hire, Mission 5 by J.S. Morin
love the bookmark btw
27-Aug-23 9:17am
#157 DarkFact
I feel very proud reading one book this year. Think I'm tied for last year and there's so much year left!
#157 DarkFact
I feel very proud reading one book this year. Think I'm tied for last year and there's so much year left!
28-Aug-23 9:47am
#158 bogo
Finished up Walk Like a Magician: Black Ocean: Mercy For Hire, Mission 6 by J.S. Morin
#158 bogo
Finished up Walk Like a Magician: Black Ocean: Mercy For Hire, Mission 6 by J.S. Morin
29-Aug-23 11:21pm
#159 nonamesleft
Finished 3 Legend of Zelda manga recently:
Link to the Past
Phantom Hourglass
Majora's Mask
#159 nonamesleft
Finished 3 Legend of Zelda manga recently:
Link to the Past
Phantom Hourglass
Majora's Mask
30-Aug-23 11:11am
#160 bogo
Finished up Hotel Caledonia: Black Ocean: Mercy For Hire, Mission 7 by J.S. Morin
#160 bogo
Finished up Hotel Caledonia: Black Ocean: Mercy For Hire, Mission 7 by J.S. Morin
30-Aug-23 3:34pm
#161 nonamesleft
bogo wrote:
Finished up Hotel Caledonia: Black Ocean: Mercy For Hire, Mission 7 by J.S. MorinCool how your finishes are going in order of mission 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.
#161 nonamesleft
bogo wrote:
Finished up Hotel Caledonia: Black Ocean: Mercy For Hire, Mission 7 by J.S. MorinCool how your finishes are going in order of mission 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.
Can You Read a Book for Every System You Own in 2024????