aspiringcowboy
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heist literature
fiction involving robberies. please leave recs!
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Coulrophobia
Here's where the scary clowns live. Let's hope they don't get out.
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heist literature
fiction involving robberies. please leave recs!
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heist literature
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aspiringcowboy commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I was wandering, what was the highest number of books you read in a year? And why? In which year did u hit that amazing number?
I read so many books this year, the last years it was so dry, no reading or like up to mabe 4 books because of my studies at university. But during my school time - high school or Gymnasium in germany- I read so many books. I read during classes when the teacher sucked or I allready knew the stuff we had to study and so I read up to 80 books a year because I read so much during class.
I think the most books in a year where around 85 books, I never hit that number again the years after. I mean I set goals but in the end I am just happy if i managed to read anything.
So just wandering, what was your highest number and, was it a good or a bad reading year?
92aspiringcowboy commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Some of my favorite books to read are ones in which characters have to overcome/survive some crazy situation or setting. Think like Project Hail Mary, where the characters had to use their brains and creativity to get out of some tricky situations. Or even something completely different like Lord of the Flies or the show Yellowjackets, where the characters get stranded somewhere and have to survive against the setting and/or other characters. Does anyone have any books that fit this? Fantasy, horror, sci-fi, non-fiction, etc—any genre is cool!
edit: I made a list of some of the survival books I’ve read and some that were suggested if anyone’s interested in finding some more books like this too!
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Xi/Xir pronouns
I thought I had a misprint copy 🤣 That’s so interesting! This is my first time coming across a book that uses them. Are they common or are they just the pronouns for nonbinary characters for this book?
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The Spider Heist (Spider Heist, #1)
Jason Kasper
0aspiringcowboy commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
How do you decide which book gets replaced? Or does your My Taste depend on your mood? I'm looking at mine right now and I don't think I could remove a book if I eventually love another book so dearly. It's going to be hard to decide which book goes!
37aspiringcowboy commented on untrustworthy's review of I Am Legend
Who is the monster and who is the man?
I think it was well written but I don’t know that I would recommend something like this. It was a great twist on Dracula but I think the racism and sexism were just too much for me.
Any enjoyment I got was from the end 💀
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underappreciated king
lesser-known and underappreciated stephen king books, according to me
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poorly written on a technical level but also just a bizarre way to approach this story. choosing to "center the cops" and actively disregarding any criticism - especially of how they frequently botched the investigation - is just deeply unserious. highlighting that the cops were looking into a drug connection for the otero killings solely because of their ethnicity and then not following that up with scathing criticism about the clear racism is baffling. the victims should be front and center in a book like this but they're just glossed over so briefly in favor of some random story about a cop who didn't really do much. this feels more like a loose history of the police department and media at the time of BTK's reign than an actual look into the hunt for BTK. the writers also editorialize way too much and spend too much time 'guessing' on the inner narratives of BTK especially to the point that it's exhausting. also not a fan of how much this book focuses on rader's crossdressing as some sort of 'indicator' of his evilness, rather than, you know, the Killing People. not a fan of how they don't bother to question the ethics of obtaining medical records and information about rader's daughter in order to catch him. and i certainly don't like this book ending with a homophobic joke from the guy they're trying to build up as some larger-than-life superdetective.
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Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives
Adam Cesare
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might bump this down to 4 or even 3.5 at some point but i had so much fun with this and found the characters received a surprising amount of depth and development that i'm just tossing out a 5 for now. really fun, really good, maybe one of the best YA horrors i've ever read
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0aspiringcowboy commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
there have been a few books in my small yet mighty journey of reading where i felt it in my soul that i could've DNF-ed, but i am somehow too stubborn to let a book go unfinished and just suffer from beginning to end💀 i think for me it's simply to say that i finished the darn thing and know how it ended.
anyone else?
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