I used to read so much more than I do now, but with my job* and various other adult things I don't have as much time for it. I'm also just a slow reader. I get about a page a minute, but I know lots of folks can easily read 100 pages an hour or more.
*Perhaps ironically, I am a librarian!

I got a PDF of the photographs! I also somehow missed the Miss Peregrine hype so hopefully my expectations are set appropriately medium.

I kept expecting that — like he would subvert the premise, and the hunt was designed to teach the gunters that they should have been obsessing on fixing the real world. Or, the hunt was actually a ruse IOI invented to take over GSS and Halliday wasn't really dead. Or, hell, Halliday hated the 80s and wanted to make…

Man, I wish I could have shopped wherever you were shopping. I remember SNES games being $60 at the low end, and as high as $79.99 at Sears. I also think you're underestimating the effect of inflation. $60 in 1996 is $89.76 today (from BLS' CPI calculator) — a 50% increase. I agree with your other points about the…

Simmons' The Terror? That's one of the few books I have given up halfway through. The glacial pacing just killed it for me. It's like he aimed for creeping dread but with too much creeping, too little dread.

Go for it! One of the most memorable books I've read in the past decade or so.

I wouldn't have hated it so much if my hopes weren't so high to begin with. I really enjoyed the real-world world-building as well — the stacks, the bicycle-powered laptop, the descriptions of all the crazy haptic gear… I guess it was extra frustrating because I kept seeing glimmers of the good book it could've been.

I don't begrudge anyone their choice of book, but re-reading the entire Harry Potter series annually? How does that even work? At the rate I read (about an hour a day) that would take me at least half the year, i.e., half of all my reading time for the rest of my life.

Just finished Ready Player One yesterday. I'm not saying it is the worst book ever written, just the worst I've ever actually read. I really gave it to 'im with my blistering two-star Goodreads review!

I just finished Night Film. Not to spoil anything, but I kept waiting for it to really pick up and it never did. I read a review that called it a trail of breadcrumbs that just leads to a pile of breadcrumbs, which pretty much summed it up for me.

You and me both. I cannot fathom how so many of my intelligent, well-read, otherwise discerning friends love this book. The only benefit of reading this book is the adrenaline rush that accompanies all this hatred and bitterness.

Am I late to this party? What a disappointment! I am really surprised that all my friends seem to love this book.

What the hell did I do… raped them all, of course! …And the burping!

I can't either — I think it's because I didn't have enough friends to try it during my formative years, and now everyone I know who plays D&D has been doing it for decades.

Same here, but it's because games always seem to make the rewards for good behavior better than the ones for bad behavior. Playing good always seems like the default. Although it could also be because I'm Chaotic Good in real life.

My Dark Souls NG+ run continues… I have 3 of the 4 lord souls, but I'm having a lot of trouble getting through New Londo this time. On my first playthrough I missed some areas (Oolacile, Ash Lake) because I didn't realize it immediately went to NG+ after beating Gwyn. This time I'm trying to explore everywhere. I may…

It's definitely telling. I don't think Fox News is really a news channel so much as a lifestyle channel. When you watch Fox News you're tapping into this weird fantasy where you, a member of a privileged majority, get to role-play that you're actually the persecuted minority. They constantly manufacture outrage to…

Wait, Brown-Haired Guy Who Isn't Steve Doocy actually has a name??

Not all conservatives are rich white money-grubbers. Some of them are poor white people who rich white money-grubbers have bamboozled into voting against their own best interest.

Can you imagine how hard it would be to clean that table? It'd be impossible to get food out of the little grooves. And it's white!