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I am barely through the introduction and this person just tried to tell me statistics is too advanced for juries, barristers, and judges to understand in a trial. No wonder the majority of reviews are about how far up this author is up their own ass

Not a dnf, but shelving until I reread book 1 because I'm lost af

Awww yisss Andy Serkis reading me the history of middle earth courtesy of like 10 appendices

Bold move to make every character unlikable

I get that they just moved to the country from the big city, but how tf do you not know the difference between hearing a cicada and a cricket??

Goddamn is this narrator a square

Oh my god shut the fuck up about Harry Potter

Ugh, the Commonwealth is the most thinly veiled cold war anti-communist propaganda I've seen in a long time

Spoiler maybe



Space fungus!

This is a whole lot of political slog, but at least Gretch is here upsetting everyone by being a silly beast

Dumb that 6 is a prequel to 5 and 7 immediately follows 5

For a book on opening your mind to seeing the mundane differently, the author certainly chimes in judgementally often enough during these walks

It took until the third book, but I'm happy Steris is finally getting fleshed out properly

I'm sold, call me a Pathian

The initial rambling and debate the narrator had with himself was enjoyable introspection; this second half is apparently just the narrator striving to shove his foot as far into his mouth as possible in every possible social setting.

For those curious, they say the phrase "Wizard's First Rule" the first time 560 pages in

What the fuck have I agreed to listen to

Every page of this book is just "Mercenaries are necessary because they're better trained than some hypothetical farmer and they don't even commit atrocities that often because it would affect their profits. Also they make it easier for governments to wage unpopular wars since they don't have the same oversight" and on none of the pages are reasons why anyone would want this (unless you're the one being paid I guess)

Ch 80, Chekov claps while wiping a single tear from his eye

Oh theres an actual god killing gun hung up on the wall, Chekov would be so proud