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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.
I finished Upward, Inward, Outward: Love God, Love Yourself, Love Others a few weeks back. It was worth a read because it had a few really good parts that I appreciated, but I didn't care for the book as a whole. The author is way too "look how much of a bro I am". I don't know if that makes sense, but I don't know how else to describe it.
I picked up and I finished Bad Golf My Way by Leslie Nielsen this week. Co-authored by Henry Beard from National Lampoon. Completely in line with that type of silly and light humor. The various pictures of Leslie Nielsen and his wacky golf antics are the highlight.
Rex is also seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bristling with heavy calibre weaponry and his voice resonates with subsonics especially designed to instil fear. With Dragon, Honey and Bees, he's part of a Multiform Assault Pack operating in the lawless anarchy of Campeche, south-eastern Mexico.
Rex is a genetically engineered Bioform, a deadly weapon in a dirty war. He has the intelligence to carry out his orders and feedback implants to reward him when he does. All he wants to be is a Good Dog. And to do that he must do exactly what Master says and Master says he's got to kill a lot of enemies.
But who, exactly, are the enemies? What happens when Master is tried as a war criminal? What rights does the Geneva Convention grant weapons? Do Rex and his fellow Bioforms even have a right to exist? And what happens when Rex slips his leash?
I finished up Joe Vs. ELAN School. A friend of mine ran into this randomly and got hooked. I checked it out and decided to read the whole thing as well. What a crazy story that had real-world impacts as a result. The whole thing is told as an illustrated web-comic/graphic novel that unfolded many years after the author’s experience at ELAN School. The opening half of it is gut wrenching. While the project has diminishing returns in the later chapters the final stretch and conclusions is fascinating. Such and interesting project. I commend the author for his dedication throughout the story. The whole project can be found at the below link.
Once you get a few chapters in to the story it is easy to go down a long rabbit hole related to ELAN. So many things sound so far-fetched so it is easy to cast doubt and write this off as fictionalized/embellished early on. By the time you get through it you can’t believe how something like this existed. The wikipedia related to the school is just the tip of the iceberg.
Gone Girl - Good stuff, but Gillian Flynn wrote the screen play for the movie and there wasnt much difference. Still a good book if its been a while since you watched the movie.
I just finished up A Damn Near Perfect Game by Joe Kelly (MLB pitcher). An old coworker of mine apparently was his college roommate so it seemed worth reading before baseball season. Nothing special really. Most interesting part was that he shared the official MLB letter and umpire report with a little personal background from his suspension after his "incident" against the Astros. Nothing really groundbreaking though. I'm a little bummed he basically let's Rob Manfred off the hook after having a couple conversations with him saying basically "he's actually a really cool guy who is a good listener". So many people I know hate Rob Manfred's stance and what he has accomplished as commissioner outside of the pitch clock essentially.
I guess I'm prepared for baseball season with a month of spring training left still?
17. Livability: Stories (Jon Raymond) - Read through this one based on Bill's comments - really enjoyed it. Some well-told, beautiful, and sometimes heartbreaking, tales of human experience.
18. If We're Being Honest (Cat Shook) - Couple times throughout the year, I'll take out a book from my library via Libby that I know absolutely nothing about. Just totally blind, check out the book, and go. Sometimes it works out really well and I find a new author I love. Not so much the case this time.
The narrative concerns the Williams family and opens with the loss of the father/grandfather Gerry. The family's heartbreak is then turned to confusion and anger after Gerry's best friend Fred drunkenly reveals in his eulogy that he and Gerry had been living a lie and had been lovers throughout their entire friendship.
It wasn't a "bad" book. There were just a million familial characters introduced throughout the book and the whole thing just felt... shallow. It read more like the author was using a fictional setting to deconstruct their own experiences of growing up, which is fine, but this one just wasn't my cuppa.
I really slowed down this month. It's Baldur's Gate 3. Finally picked it up and started playing and it's just really got its teeth sunk into me right now.
19. Dracula (Bram Stoker) - Another classic that I'd never picked up and read through. Dracula is so well-known within culture that I just never bothered with the source material and I really think I did myself a disservice there, as I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Doctor Van Helsing is such an incredible character. And Seward's description of him in: "He is a seemingly arbitrary man, this is because he knows what he is talking about better than anyone else." That's solid, and still, Van Helsing comes across to me as humble and he's bloody stalwart to the hilt.
A classic, for sure. Now I emphatically know why and an easy suggestion to anyone like me that previously never bothered.
I love the situational tension that is created in the gaps. I generally like when a story lets me pal along in the narrative and leaves space for me to knit together subtext threads.
Starship Troopers by Robert A Heinlein - This was honestly incredibly boring. I know it's basically nothing like the movie but I'm gonna try to watch it at some point.
I've read Heinlein's Moon is a Harsh Mistress which wasn't bad, lots of libertarian ideas he makes a case for. Also, Stranger in a Strange Land, but I honestly don't remember it that well, but I think I liked it.
The Starship Troopers movie was campy fun, mostly a military story with alien bugs to fight, low-brow but enjoyable.
Very good. Very short! It's nice to have something you can pick up and finish quickly and still get a good time out of. Now for Horus Heresy 2 Appreciate the recommendation
Weird book, I've liked everything I've read by Murakami. This wasn't as strong as Wind Up Bird but still really enjoyable. He has a way of articulating the angst and unknowns of coming of age without overdoing it. Something about the way he writes makes me think of this as a literary form of a Studio Ghibli film for a little older audience. Grounded in reality with a bunch of whimsical concepts woven in. This book is full of symbolism and references, plenty of which I'm sure I didn't pick up on but still quite enjoyed.
> I listened to the audiobook of that, didn't really like it
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To me this sounds like something better handled by an internal dialogue, especially if you can empathize with hating everyone you know except for that one chick who gets you
I recently put "Wind Up Bird" on my list of books to buy at some point... it's cool to see someone here say it's good too.
I just finished re-reading 5 graphic novels by Adrian Tomine. 5) Killing and Dying, 6) Shortcomings, 7) Sleepwalk: and Other Stories, 8) Summer Blonde, and 9) Scrapbook: Uncollected Work. They are all collections of short stories. The writing is high-quality and the art is mostly clean and appealing (he does New Yorker covers too). I was really into him like 10 years ago. So, I'd saved these. Now, we're clearing out our bookcase and I'm giving them a final read before I give them away. I recently noticed that Shortcomings is a Netflix movie, so I'm planning to watch that too.
re: Murderbot - I listened to all of the books(novellas) so far. Most are quite short (except for one, I think). I liked them, though I wouldn't say they are great. I think the sci-fi world-building stuff is well done and I found them funny. So, that's a nice combination. There's a lot of detailed description of tactical combat that's done well, but I got a little tired of it too.
20. A Gentleman in Moscow (Amor Towles) - This one was a gift from my mom for Christmas, as it's her favorite book. (Which I believe largely is influenced by Casablanca being referenced at some length between two characters, then returned to again in the closing - Casablanca is mom's favorite movie too.)
Wouldn't be a book that I would have picked up intuitively had I not asked for everyone's favorites, but it wound up being a really delightful read. I took my time with it and chewed away slowly. It opens with the titular gentleman being sentenced to house arrest at his beloved Moscow hotel and a wonderful yarn unfolds from that point onward. While a work of fiction, loads of Russia history unfolds throughout the narrative, so I would regularly have to take breaks and go read about Russian history, because honestly, I was just passingly familiar and woefully ignorant.
There's some touching moments in here and it might just be because I'm a relatively young dad (our eldest is three and the youngest will be two come May), but there were some moments where I was getting unexpectedly choked up while I was reading.
>> I finished Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
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> Have you read Norwegian Wood or Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki?
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Not yet. I added a couple more Murakami books to my to-read list. I have a handful of other books I want to get to before I go back to Murakami but suspect I'll read 3-4 more of his through various recommendations.
Okay now that I’m back into reading I figured I’d check this thread out.
I have 6 systems (ps5,switch,steam deck, pc, Xbox, and quest 3)
Audible and Kindle app have been a real game changer for me. I can listen to and from work and then easily pick up where I left off on my iPad or phone.
I’ve read 3 books so far just this month and I’m halfway through the 4th book of a series called Cradle. Genuinely hooked
21. Out of the Silent Planet (C.S. Lewis) - First time I'd picked up any of Lewis' sci-fi and I enjoyed my time with it. It's pretty short and as I understand, the second in the trilogy is about the same, but the third is longer than the first two clapped together. I like sci-fi that jumps into waxing and waning philosophy about humanity's role in the universe (like the latter books in the Ender's series) and Lewis gets into that a bit here. It was engaging enough that I'll likely finish the trilogy throughout the year at some point.
22. Shuna's Journey (Hayao Miyazaki) - I loved this, but I love Miyazaki in general. (Who doesn't?) Plenty to love here if you're familiar with Miyazaki's catalogue and it was really engrossing to see some of the influence that this story had his film work that followed the original Japanese printing of this story. And the art. Goodness gracious. I'll regularly flip through this one just to appreciate it visually.
23. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Satoshi Yagisawa) - This is one of those "cozy" books that I've seen people talk about here and there online, and hot dog, this one just hit me at the right time this week. It's a tender little slice-of-life. It's one of those books that hits you with book suggestions passively within the narrative itself, so I've got some more Japanese translations to track down. Got teary-eyed towards the end due to personal life experience connections, but I'd recommend this one. Goes down quick, goes down smooth.
> 23 books so far this year?! Damn that’s impressive
To be fair, I typically read a lot of shorter stories and collections, so I chomp through 'em fairly quickly. I made the mistake of starting three or four heftier books all at once towards the beginning of March that I need to get back to and finish out.
24. The Empress of Salt and Fortune (Nghi Vo) - Incredibly quick read. Partially because it's just 120 pages, but also because it was really engrossing. Follows a cleric chronicler listening to and recording the stories of a recently deceased empress. The writing is vivid and the mystery unfolds so beautifully. Will absolutely track down the remaining books in this series.
Started Wind Up Bird, haven't read this since Modern Japanese Lit in college. It's bringing back some memories and some details. But still feels like a fresh read.
Binged Three Body Problem S1 this weekend on Netflix, started the first book on audiobook.
Huh. Apparently someone already recommended this and it was cheap enough to put in the pile of shame. Guess I'll give it a go, I've got everything but book 12
I've got piles of books to read, re-read, and probably already read but don't remember so need to re-read them again. I also have a current pile of books I've read/finished up this year.
Currently reading - "How to Disappear" by Frank M. Ahearn w/ Eileen C. Horan
Books I've read so far in chronological order this year:
"The Sexual Life of Catherine M." by Catherine Millet "Pathfinder Tales: Reaper's Eye" by Richard A. Knaak "The Spook's Apprentice" by Joseph Delaney (book 1) "Pathfinder Tales: Bloodbound" by F. Wesley Schneider "The Spook's Curse" by Joseph Delaney (book 2) "Ghosts of Punktown" by Jeffrey Thomas
25. American Gods (Neil Gaiman) - This is a re-read for me. (I think it's the fourth or fifth time I've read it, actually.) But! This time, I listened to the audiobook version while working on renovating the living room and making some new fixtures/furniture pieces during the evening. Neil Gaiman is one of my all-time favorite authors and I love American Gods. There's some scenes in here I could leave out and am not crazy about, but I do think it serves the narrative without feeling superfluous. The overall writing and storytelling here is fantastic.
The last time I read American Gods was back in 2020 after my wife and I had closed on our house - which just so happens to sit at the foot of the the very real mountain where this fictional narrative hits its climax. That was kind of a surreal and wonderful experience too. A storm was starting to roll in just as I closed the book.
This won't be the last time I read American Gods. I'll probably read it again in another three of four years.
Sega Genesis Xbox One S Playstation 4 Gamecube Nintendo Switch (if we're considering that a system) and while technically I haven't played with it in a long time, I do have Xbox 360 as well...
I read some of this years ago, but when I searched a couple years ago I saw they were reprinting it in Deluxe hardcovers. Super violent, bloody with great artwork. Fudge Shira. That guy sucks.
26. Bushido: The Soul of Japan (Inazō Nitobe) - Found out that there's a huge list of audiobooks via Amazon Classics that are included in a Prime subscription, so I took advantage of that to read (listen) to this lil book while working around the house over the last couple evenings. There's some interesting historical information herein, but I wouldn't call this electric by any means. There is a bit where it discusses how Japan's external cultural influences have never really been a result of subjugation, but rather a humility inherent in their existing culture that's open to learn and continually grow.
27. To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf) - This one. Where to start? Finally getting around to this after a good friend recommended it a couple years back. I just finished it a couple minutes ago by our little fire pit and with a nice scotch. (Appropriate, as the book centers around the Isle of Skye in Scotland.) This is my first Woolf book. I'm not overly familiar with her writing, just passingly familiar with some of her personal tragedy and history. To the Lighthouse is written in a stream-of-consciousness style where the reader is constantly jumping one ship directly onto another character's ship that's sailing in the opposite direction. A mashup of prose and poetry. There's a whole section comparing Mr. Ramsey's intellectual achievements by comparing the totality of human thought to the predictability and order of the English alphabet. And the sucker, well-accomplished and bright, is "stuck on Q" and we read his own struggles against the thought that he might never move beyond it. I'm going to have to come back to this one again in the future and re-read it. It meanders and wanders along. While I thoroughly enjoyed it, it's so here-and-there that it feels a bit like whiplash. (In a good way.)
re:Woolf - I'm ashamed to admit that I've done very poorly with my attempts to read some of the great author's stream of consciousness masterpieces. I just can't follow what they're writing to be honest.
James Joyce is another big one that I just can't even. Faulkner too. I did read every word of Orlando by Virginia Woolf. I was hoping it would somehow come together for me if I kept reading, but it never did. Ah well. Now, I just mostly avoid such things. Maybe if I took a course about a book like that I could get enough insight to understand them.
Some random comment I read on Amazon was talking about how some (most?) people read purely for entertainment. While others might also pursue writing that challenges them or enlightens them, broadens their mind. I do this, but I have my limits as well.
> re:Woolf - I'm ashamed to admit that I've done very poorly with my attempts to read
> some of the great author's stream of consciousness masterpieces. I just can't follow
> what they're writing to be honest.
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> James Joyce is another big one that I just can't even. Faulkner too. I did read
> every word of Orlando by Virginia Woolf. I was hoping it would somehow come together
> for me if I kept reading, but it never did. Ah well. Now, I just mostly avoid such
> things. Maybe if I took a course about a book like that I could get enough insight
> to understand them.
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> Some random comment I read on Amazon was talking about how some (most?) people read
> purely for entertainment. While others might also pursue writing that challenges
> them or enlightens them, broadens their mind. I do this, but I have my limits as
> well.
Yeah my brother reads like that a lot, to broaden the mind or for enlightenment haha, but then again he was a philosophy major. I’m def in it for pure entertainment, nothing more, nothing less :)
Just finished book 8 of Cradle. The longest book of the series (500 something pages compared to 300) With book 7 not ending how I wanted initially, it really payed off
I'm somewhere in that middle gray too. I've bounced off of Joyce's Dubliner's twice and this was my second stab at reading through To the Lighthouse. I think maybe it's all about timing for me. The first time I tried, we had just had our first kiddo, bought our first house, and were in general trying to adjust to a new life. I wasn't in the appropriate headspace to stumble through heady writing.
Woolf must have just been a wildly empathetic person to write from so many unique perspectives simultaneously. To the Lighthouse ends with almost a fizzle. When I initially finished it, it felt like "huh. not bad. interesting." but the more I think on it, the more I enjoy it.
This is a cool thread. I have had class so much less time to read anything on the side. That said, this is what I have read in 2024 so far and actually finished:
1. Rise of Endymion - sci-fi novel - fourth and final installment of the Hyperion Cantos. I thought it was the weakest of the four novels, but it tied up loose ends and was still overall a good read (too many potential spoilers to dive into any plot) 2. Goosebumps: The Haunted Mask - I wanted to return to my childhood. It was a fun popcorn read, but the plot about a girl plotting revenge and getting stuck in a living mask was surprisingly well written for a kid's horror book. 3. Judgement at Tokyo - non-fiction account of Tokyo Trials after WWII - This an absolutely fantastic read that not only covers the trials but also goes into the American occupation, the American perception of Japan at the time, and the lasting impacts/ethical conundrums of the trials.
Started and dropped a few others, but will catch up on reading more after May :)
Holy crap, I beat the challenge without resorting to reading 2K manga pages
Mr. Mercedes (Stephen King) - Very good book. Weird perspective, I don't read much Third Person Present Tense (Black House shifted to that after The Talisman, and I fudging hated it). Also didn't know they made this into a miniseries, might have to check it out, but that'll wait until after I decide if I'm going to get into Holly, in case it skips around or spoils it. Speaking of spoiling, towards the start of the book (this isn't a spoiler so much as it turns out) there was a discussion going on that made me for some reason think the full name they were referencing was a pop culture person I wasn't aware of (didn't click that it was the full name of one of the current subjects), so I highlighted it to Google it and before I could, the Kindle app helpfully informed me that this was in fact the antagonist of the book, so I made sure to give some feedback on how helpful that was. On the next page they spelled it out and obviously in context I was already getting an inkling that the perspective shift was now dealing with the titular character, but I was still pretty pissed in the moment.
Stephen King's a sick fudge. I've got about a 50/50 love hate relationship with his work, but this one had a good hook and about as solid of an ending as you could get, and I'm interested to see where it goes from here.
Edit: Oh wait. looks like Holly may be skipping ahead a bit, may have to release that hold. Why the fudge did they put a sneak peek for a spinoff at the end of the first one, butt-holes
The Gate of the Feral God's - Dungeon Crawler Carl #4 by Matt Dinniman - Audiobook. These are the best audiobooks I've listened to. It's one guy who does all the voices. Even the female voices are great, most audiobooks I listen to, men suck at female voices and vice versa.
Taking a break from Sarah Maas and got the new graphic novel version of 1984. It's just a 3.5hr listen and I'm enjoying it. So far great performances! Should have it finished by next week or less (only listen to it during commute.)
Yes, I didn't know graphic audio books were a thing until recently. Basically full on cast, sound effects, etc. It shortens the book because instead of reading how things sound, you hear them while the characters are talking. So it's a nice change of pace.
I believe they used to call these "audio dramas" but I can see how kids would relate to "audio graphic novel" a bit better :p
Listening to Finders Keepers now, took like four hours until they reintroduced the main protagonist of the series, that was interesting. The pregame was actually very good storytelling of course
28. Witch Hat Atelier (vol. 1-5) - Read the first five volumes of Witch Hat Atelier this week, which is a moderate change of pace. I've not read much manga, but I have read loads of Western comics over the years. Got a Kodansha collection in a humblebundle a while back. (Vol 1-11 of Witch Hat, plus several more series.) Went into this totally blind and then immediately ran into a tale revolving a magic system that was particularly exciting to me. Lovable characters, a bit Ghibli-esque, and the art is so. stinkin. good. I'm really enjoying these.
Finished listening to Finders Keepers, a book that barely features the protagonist of the trilogy and instead mostly shifts between the perspectives of a young kid who gets in trouble supporting his family, a life-served convicted man out of prison and their shared experience with the works of a deceased literary powerhouse that draws them violently together. I’m not smart enough to pick up everything that was being laid down, but there was a clear duality being played out between them; the old man who drew parallels to one of the author’s best known work’s protagonist with himself, angry that the author turned the hero into a normie, who puts the work on a pedestal above and beyond the flesh and blood in his life, and the kid equally enamored with the work but short of treating fiction more friendly than reality. The old man who blames all his problems on external elements and the young kid who understands the trouble he’s brought upon himself, both of them angry and trying to save what they find important.
There’s a loose tie in to the first book but only as a framing for the kid’s upbringing; honestly it’s so barely related to the first that I wouldn’t be shocked if this was reworked to be Book 2 from something else, but even with that possibility I’d say it’s still better than the first book. I liked it a lot, crap don’t mean crap. Will Patton did a fudging excellent job reading it. No failure to communicate here.
That said, I spent 13 hours listening to it, not reading it. So it doesn’t count. Boo hoo. Buuuuut, look what popped up as a Lucky Read, no wait required soon as I turned in Finders Keepers?
i don't remember who else read it, but I just finished Zeus is Dead by Michael Munz. I think it was pretty entertaining and definitely in the comedy style of Douglas Adams. I can see how it would be a bit of a weird read, but listening to the audiobook helped with the pacing a lot
I finished The Surf Guru by Doug Dorst. It's a collection of short stories. A couple were pretty decent, a couple were very skippable. Nothing special really but knocked another book off my list. I had this shelved shelf for years after reading S by Doug Dorst and JJ Abrams with a buddy many years ago.
For a while I was fascinated by ergodic literature / meta-fiction after reading House of Leaves. S. was a really interesting project. Loved the book-within-a-book aspect of it and it was fun to pass it back and forth with a friend over a year or so. Not the best novel, but a fun read that stood out for its creativity. Worth looking into for anyone who has familiarity with House of Leaves and has a similar itch.
I read House of Leaves years ago too. It was decent, though over-hyped by friends of mine, so it seemed overrated to me. Some of it seemed gimmicky too (the nutty text formatting).
Finished up The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi. Pretty cool historical fantasy set following an un-retired female psudo-pirate with a lot of supernatural elements
Almost done with the last book of the cradle series (12) and sad that it’s almost over. Gonna miss these characters 12 books in 3 months is insane for me but again, audible plus kindle is a game changer
Just finished book 12. Such an amazing series. I’m sad that it’s over.
For those that have read it
The twist at the end of book 10 was so well done that even when I had a thought of it being a possibility leading up to it, it still caught me off guard. So amazing
I recently found out that the Eragon series, a 4 book series that I enjoyed, had a 5th book released last November, about 12 years after the 4th book. (Interestingly enough, the 4th book was released on November 8th, and the 5th book was released on November 7th)
I had enjoyed the series. Maybe I'll read this 5th book. It's been awhile since I've been able to really get into a book.
29. The Madness of Being (Ron D'Alena) - Collection of short stories, all loosely tied to the same region, as various locations pop up within different stories that starts weaving together a longer community than each short story presents in isolation. I really enjoyed this collection and it came out of nowhere for me. Can't even recall how I heard about it, but I'd recommend. Intimate stories from everyday life.
30. The Island of Doctor Moreau (H.G. Wells) - Classic catch up. I'd heard about the general narrative and have come across enough references in other media that I knew what I was getting into here - just figured I should actually sit down and read it. I was quite meh about it, right up until the end - I think it ends well and Wells pulled it back around differently than I had expected.
31. Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton) - This 'un caught me off guard. Heartbreaking, caught me with a twist heading into the final stretch. Another from playing catch up on classics I've never bothered with - I'd say it's worth your time. Quick read too.
32. People From My Neighborhood (Hiromi Kawakami) - Been trying to post less frequently so as to not clog the feed/update too much and be annoying, but I've gotta mention this one right away. This has been my favorite book this year thus far. A collection of short stories that introduces various characters living within a singular neighborhood. It's weird, sincere, Ghibli-esque, even tender at times. It was just translated into English from Japanese in 2021, I think, and I'm going to have to track down all other translations of Kawakami's writing. It's a bit ridiculous, but I think she's on a fast track now to becoming one of my favorites. Highly recommended.
>> |>> Almost done with the last book of the cradle series (12) and sad that it’s
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>> |>> over. Gonna miss these characters 12 books in 3 months is insane for me but
> again,
>> |>> audible plus kindle is a game changer
> |>> You finished a 12 book series?! Wow. That's impressive!
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>> Audible definitely helps :)
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> Listen to Dungeon Crawler Carl next. It's amazing. One guy does all the voices and
> all are unique.
After you gave that recommendation not super long ago, I went and found some videos of him doing the actual recordings. You get to see him at the microphone doing all the voices, making modifications to his voice as he records. If he's not happy with something in the way he voiced a character, he goes back. Keeps on making tweaks with his voice. It's really interesting. Cool stuff.
Appreciate the recommendation
Well, I loved the first 2 books (~25 years ago?), not even sure if I read the last 2.
