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Currently reading Dog of War by Tchaikovsky. Starting off really well, Rex is such a Good Boy.

for me it depends on the book/series if i go with printed or the ebook version

I’m sure folks once said the same thing about printed books. eReaders have saved me a fortune, a ton of space, dramatically lowered my...

For me it was Misery. For some reason I can handle supernatural horror far easier than grounded, mundane horror. Carrie and Firestarter...

I'll second @Autumnal for Pet Semetary. King really has a tight grip on what he's working with there. It was a lightning bolt to me...

I’d lean toward Pet Semetary as the more developed work, but Salem’s Lot is overall very good and turns out to feed into later streams...

Finished IT, a very bittersweet ending to a story that could be argued is about the power of friendship. Very good book though, and I...

Honestly, most of the last quarter of the book could have gone and not harmed the story at all. I mean, I'd been reading King since...

I read Thomas Ligotti and Eugene Thacker and history. I do grimdark. But I do appreciate advance comments like that, because sometimes I...

Just started Katabasis by R. F. Kuang...already in the first few pages, this may be the smartest book I've read since Jonathan Strang &...

I agree so much. Various regulars here have favorite authors whose works do nothing for me. So I don’t comment on them. Who needs it...

Doesn't change the fact the larger version of that book was at leasta third longer than it should have been, and that was turning into a...

That's my goal nearly all the time. I want exploration and discovery, with a healthy dollop of diplomacy and politics, and the...

I am not so much interested in the combat as war aspect. I am more interested in making the threat of disease or starvation actually...

Lots of old timers have experience with this, or something close to this, with older editions of D&D. Wildly unbalanced combat, combat...