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fastfinge

fastfinge@bookwyrm.world

Joined 2 years, 1 month ago

I'm a completely blind reader of LitRPG, progression fantasy, science fiction, fantasy, and some nonfiction. Interact with me @fastfinge@iceshrimp.social as well as here.

Some important warnings:
  1. Some of the content creators I enjoy publish exclusively to Kindle Unlimited or Audible Originals. I choose to support the creators I enjoy, rather than boycott Amazon. If you don't want to see Kindle or Audible Books, you may want to avoid my profile.
  2. I don't agree with the views of some of the authors I read, or support some of the political views contained in the books I consume. I rate books based exclusively on my enjoyment of the story.
  3. Some of the books I read contain adult material, that may include, but is not limited to, sexual activity, violence, harems, reverse harems, FFM, F/M, and F/F. I will do my best to warn about this material using the tools bookwyrm provides, so that those who don't want this content can avoid it.
  4. I believe that audiobooks and ebooks are reading, in every way equal to printed hardcover books. If you do not, your engagement is unwelcome.
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reviewed Snuff by Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett: Snuff (2012)

Review of 'Snuff' on 'Goodreads'

It's another DW book; what more could anyone ask? Not quite as funny as some of the others, but still worth reading if the disc is something you enjoy.

reviewed Encyclopedia Paranoiaca by Henry Beard

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Henry Beard, Christopher Cerf: Encyclopedia Paranoiaca (2012, Simon & Schuster)

"A comprehensive, informative, and utterly debilitating compendium of surprising ways you might die a horrible …

Review of 'Encyclopedia Paranoiaca' on 'Goodreads'

If you read this book as a kind of self parody of our CNN run culture of fear porn, you'll get some enjoyment from it. If you try to take it seriously as an actual information source, forget it. Unfortunately, this book is not nearly as funny as [b:Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead|6697553|Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead|Robert Brockway|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1320454952s/6697553.jpg|6893238]. But it isn't nearly as offensive and childish.

reviewed The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling

J.K. Rowling, Tom Hollander: The Casual Vacancy (AudiobookFormat, Little, Brown and Company, Little, Brown & Company)

When Barry Fairbrother dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is …

Review of 'The Casual Vacancy' on 'Goodreads'

Someone dies. A huge number of characters spend a bunch of time discussing it. By the time anything else happens, nobody cares. The writing is just not good enough to make me feel attached to any of these people.