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Chris’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Chris’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Chris Aylott’s Followers (9)
Chris Aylott
Goodreads Author
Member Since
June 2009
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Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game
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2003
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Blue Rose Companion
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2005
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Dynasties & Demagogues
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2003
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The Last Dance (Penumbra/D20)
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2001
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Crouching Wizard, Smashing Hammer
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2001
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Last Hero in Scandinavia (Coriolis Rune/D20)
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2003
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Chris’s Recent Updates
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| A thoughtful mix of memoir and history. Moffat covers the facts of the last 75 years, but it's his personal experiences that evoke the feelings of the different eras. ...more | |
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| The plot is twisty and the characters are engaging, but the melodrama gets to be a bit much at times. | |
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Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II
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| Aikman does a superb job capturing the feats and personalities of the 25 American women who -- all top aviatrixes of their era -- who went to England in 1942 and took on the dangerous job of ferrying planes between factories and airbases as Britain t ...more | |
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| Affable, charming, probably intentionally echoing his subject's writing style, Brandreth focuses mostly on the early life of A.A. Milne and the choices that led him to becoming a popular playwright and -- with the publication of When We Were Very You ...more | |
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| Excellent photos and I learned some interesting things about Agatha Christie along the way. But the text rambles, and Suchet introduces us to a lot of people without giving us any real sense of who they are and how he interacted with them. I learned ...more | |
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| Really enjoyed the writing, the art, and the essential elements of Wonder Woman's character (she tries so hard to get the bad guys to stand down, even though they almost never do). But if I'm honest, I kind of miss the island paradise and the sisterh ...more | |
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There is useful information to be found in this book, but not enough wisdom -- ancient or otherwise -- to justify the page count. Van de Laar makes it clear that a lot of the existing advice on better sleep comes from oversimplified interpretations o ...more |
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This probably needed to be two books. Most of the book is devoted to the first twenty years of RPGs, and is understandably focused on Dungeons and Dragons. (Other systems get fairly detailed shout-outs, and there's a nice chapter on forerunners like ...more |
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| Doran's art is lovely, but it's hard to imagine what someone new to Good Omens would make of the story. This is more of a treat for long-time fans than an on-ramp for enjoying the story in a new way. ...more | |
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| Not as much fun as the first book, partially because Rex is no longer the protagonist and because the antagonist is a sociopathic parasite closely modeled on Donald Trump. In fact, Tchaikovsky has a theory as to why Trump is the way he is, which is w ...more | |
“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
“You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.”
― Red Rising
― Red Rising
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