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Dallen is 50% done with The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)
Author has started using lots profanity and lewdness. Any amount of incest is gross. If it becomes more than these hints and winks I will not be able to keep reading.
Dec 23, 2025 05:46AM Add a comment
The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)

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Dallen is 15% done with Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Innocent threats, aggressors, shields of threats. Good stuff.
Dec 09, 2025 04:40PM Add a comment
Anarchy, State, and Utopia

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Dallen is 74% done with Mickey7 (Mickey7 #1)
🤢 not graphic but… what the heck… Have to stop reading for a little while.
Oct 15, 2025 11:05AM Add a comment
Mickey7 (Mickey7 #1)

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Dallen is 71% done with Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
Yeesh. This book is going to be quoted in congressional hearings.
Oct 02, 2025 05:11PM Add a comment
Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company

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Dallen is 3% done with Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
TALK ABOUT A HOOK

Holy smokes

I am excited for this book
Sep 23, 2025 11:03PM Add a comment
Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company

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Dallen is 36% done with House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company
Narrator can sound robotic at times. Interesting to learn about the company that was in the news
Sep 01, 2025 07:15PM Add a comment
House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company

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Dallen is 41% done with Weidenfeld Nicolson Number Go Up Inside Cryptos Wild Rise and Staggering Fall.
This is pleasantly entertaining. The author includes a lot of random details that helps to portray the people and their quirkiness.
Aug 23, 2025 09:46PM Add a comment
Weidenfeld Nicolson Number Go Up Inside Cryptos Wild Rise and Staggering Fall.

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Dallen is 97% done with The Hunger of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #2)
Horrible. Terrible. No one is DYING. Plot armor is too thick.
Aug 21, 2025 09:27PM Add a comment
The Hunger of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #2)

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Dallen is 33% done with The Hunger of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #2)
The author has not made any main characters that I would miss if they died. They are very one dimensional. An angry woman wanting to prove herself. A vengeful woman searching for her son. A clueless man searching for answers.

More interested at this point to see what the bad guys can do.

Also can he stop describing Spurt every time the dumb centipede thing eats some porridge?
Aug 15, 2025 05:59PM Add a comment
The Hunger of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #2)

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Dallen is 27% done with The Hunger of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #2)
Had to take a break from the gulag. Don’t like the narrator of this book.

How big is Orca??? Seems like she has been described as taller and broader than every man and woman in this book.
Aug 14, 2025 08:00PM Add a comment
The Hunger of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #2)

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Dallen is 25% done with The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
These interrogators had so much power in society.
Aug 11, 2025 05:01PM Add a comment
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

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Dallen is 21% done with The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
Getting worse. This is about torture.
Aug 08, 2025 06:55PM Add a comment
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

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Dallen is 95% done with The Fountainhead
This is going to end badly
Jul 27, 2025 06:58PM Add a comment
The Fountainhead

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Dallen is 87% done with The Fountainhead
Pretty persuasive argument in favor of selfishness.
Jul 26, 2025 08:00PM Add a comment
The Fountainhead

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Dallen is 49% done with The Fountainhead
This Ellsworth character is the worst. Rand does a good job of having her characters embody ideals.
Jul 22, 2025 11:19PM Add a comment
The Fountainhead

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Dallen is 39% done with The Fountainhead
Weird as h*ck
Jul 21, 2025 08:48PM Add a comment
The Fountainhead

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Dallen is 13% done with Any Sign of Life
MAJOR plot hole and I know this is fiction but this departure from reality is CRAZY.

As a RAV4 owner, I know that it would not SPUTTER and struggle to start after “it hasn’t been started in days”. It also wouldn’t “roar to life”.

Ignorant author… should have done more research…
Jun 30, 2025 10:37PM Add a comment
Any Sign of Life

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Dallen is 10% done with Any Sign of Life
Should have known this was going to be a solo character book based on the title. If there’s a little human interaction as Wakers… may have to come back to this book later.
Jun 30, 2025 09:15PM Add a comment
Any Sign of Life

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Dallen is 15% done with Anarchy, State, and Utopia
I have to listen to this with my eyes closed to comprehend the points he is making. This might be a book I have to listen to at 1x speed to make sure I understand it.
Jun 23, 2025 08:58PM Add a comment
Anarchy, State, and Utopia

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Dallen is 31% done with Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China
Massive yawn 🥱 so far. Thought it was going to be more about Chinese government stuff.
Jun 23, 2025 08:52PM Add a comment
Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China

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Dallen is 51% done with Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1)
Didn’t realize this was a 10 book series, but I think it’s too late to stop…
Jun 13, 2025 09:55PM Add a comment
Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1)

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Dallen is 4% done with Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Wow. A preface gave meaningful context.
May 24, 2025 02:02PM Add a comment
Anarchy, State, and Utopia

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Dallen is 27% done with Recursion
So this is like that one Ryan Reynolds movie.
May 21, 2025 09:15PM 1 comment
Recursion

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Dallen is 66% done with Atlas Shrugged
So I don’t really care about the storyline. The characters aren’t great. They are written more as a way to advance debates of how Rand thinks markets work. It’s like blah blah blah then some really good dialog about economics and incentives then back to blah blah blah. More people should read this book though. Lots of populists these days…
May 05, 2025 05:38PM 1 comment
Atlas Shrugged

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Dallen is 72% done with Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
He should fire his editor. There are some nuggets of wisdom, but a lot of it is just ramblings.
Apr 16, 2025 09:02PM Add a comment
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

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Dallen is 60% done with Among Serpents (Above the Black, #2)
It’s an interesting story but the writing is not good and the dialog is bad. And the narrator… soooo moldramatic.
Feb 23, 2025 01:28AM Add a comment
Among Serpents (Above the Black, #2)

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