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Josh is 26% done with Tailored Realities
Listen well, believe it or not. Sanderson is capable of writing a story that doesn't sprawl nine hundred pages
Feb 05, 2026 03:47PM Add a comment
Tailored Realities

Josh
Josh is 85% done with The Book of Lost Hours
A huge huge plot hole which is becoming moisture difficult to ignore as we go along.

Moira keith, taking care of all these other characters. But she could simply just take care of though one character that is causing all of these other problems. Jack.
Feb 02, 2026 10:15AM Add a comment
The Book of Lost Hours

Josh
Josh is 75% done with The Book of Lost Hours
And yeah just got to a sex scene. And oh boy is it unrealistic to the max lol. The man in the scene might as well be a woman.
Feb 01, 2026 02:18PM Add a comment
The Book of Lost Hours

Josh
Josh is 74% done with The Book of Lost Hours
The author has really crafted some very lovely analogies. And I was washing, and there's a certain poetry to how it's all put together. That's really attractive to me.As a reader.

To get, I will say there are marks against this book. And the fact that the characters are i've written extremely unrealistically. To be fair, I think that's fa the state of genre romantasy... and I usually don't read the genre.
Feb 01, 2026 02:07PM Add a comment
The Book of Lost Hours

Josh
Josh is 39% done with The Princess Bride
A bit darker than the movie. Much more background on the characters but otherwise seems very faithful to the adaption.
Jan 28, 2026 03:08PM Add a comment
The Princess Bride

Josh
Josh is 52% done with Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
The original narrator is great. But there's a 2nd narrator that does Lauren's daughter.

And the voice is an over affected 1880s slave voice. Not a person from a future US. It's put of place and more than a little cringey.
Jan 24, 2026 10:38AM Add a comment
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)

Josh
Josh is 30% done with Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
Butler's narrative is slow but for some reason the plot isnt slow.

She lingers in conversations. But maybe the trick is that Butler's knows how to move the plot forward a lot im those plodding conversations. Skillful author.
Jan 23, 2026 10:25AM Add a comment
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)

Josh
Josh is 93% done with Not Quite Dead Yet
There is a laughable amount of red herrings... ugh. Please don't make it a stupid ending twist.
Jan 16, 2026 11:17AM Add a comment
Not Quite Dead Yet

Josh
Josh is 86% done with Not Quite Dead Yet
As mid as I feel about this book. It does have a quality which sucks u into the story.
Jan 15, 2026 03:39PM Add a comment
Not Quite Dead Yet

Josh
Josh is 65% done with Not Quite Dead Yet
There's some real naivete on display here with the characters.

I know so I'm bad is just gonna cut this. You need gravity when they're ready to fiction. But other aspects of it are just idealistic.
Jan 15, 2026 10:26AM Add a comment
Not Quite Dead Yet

Josh
Josh is 50% done with Not Quite Dead Yet
So they have off this evidence on camera and in the pill bottles.And they decide to flush the pill bottles and confront the killer face to face, instead of taking anything to the police, or to the victims... these characters are written so stupidly.
Jan 14, 2026 11:50AM Add a comment
Not Quite Dead Yet

Josh
Josh is 19% done with Not Quite Dead Yet
This narrator is interesting because she has a very prominent rasp. It's prevalent, especially when she carries her voice at all or lowers it at all. I'm surprised that someone with this prominent of a vocal issue is even audiobook narrator.
Jan 12, 2026 09:20AM Add a comment
Not Quite Dead Yet

Josh
Josh is 12% done with Not Quite Dead Yet
Every character is written to be a very annoying person. I don't need a character to be likable in a book.It's just a chore to read all these conversations where everyone is.So fucking annoying
Jan 11, 2026 11:42AM Add a comment
Not Quite Dead Yet

Josh
Josh is 5% done with Not Quite Dead Yet
This book has ADHD.

SO FAR WE'VE HAD ZOMBIES ACCOMPANY PICNIC. SOME FAMILY DRAMA A DEAD PERSON. SOME OTHER SCENES THAT I'VE ALREADY FORGOTTEN ELSEWHERE.
Jan 11, 2026 07:38AM Add a comment
Not Quite Dead Yet

Josh
Josh is 35% done with What We Can Know
I think I'm understanding that this book is
So favorably reviewed by people that are fans of the author.

But this book so far does not deserve all of these great reviews. Not by a long shot.

But also, it makes me curious what the source of the adoration of all these people are. Sorry.I must go find this author's best book and read it instead of this one.
Jan 10, 2026 09:22AM Add a comment
What We Can Know

Josh
Josh is 33% done with What We Can Know
Fucking a barely anything has happened. What in the slow ass pace is going on here?
Jan 10, 2026 09:14AM Add a comment
What We Can Know

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Josh is 17% done with Stranded : A Lost Eden Portal Fiction Adventure (Lost Eden - A Portal Fiction Adventure Book 1)
DNF. The narrator has good characterization and voices.However, it needs mastering by a professional. Because they sound was not equalized, and he would quite often yell into the microphone, which was a painful experience on my earbuds. He was acting on the level of a character in the movie.Apocalypse now.
Also the book contents were pretty juvenile. Of all the things you can write a portal fantasy about.Dinosaurs...
Jan 08, 2026 10:37AM Add a comment
Stranded : A Lost Eden Portal Fiction Adventure (Lost Eden - A Portal Fiction Adventure Book 1)

Josh
Josh is 4% done with The Incandescent
DNF at 4%. This book is very squarely set with a Young Adult tone. And the setup and premise is so painfully predictable that I don't want to spend time on this book.
Jan 08, 2026 10:35AM Add a comment
The Incandescent

Josh
Josh is 15% done with Stranded : A Lost Eden Portal Fiction Adventure (Lost Eden - A Portal Fiction Adventure Book 1)
It seems like it's gonna be okay. I really hope it's not like some kind of dinosaur book that would be super cheesy.

Hang on, I will say this neighborator is pretty difficult to listen to. The volume is not mixed well, so he occasionally lets out an ear shattering yell after being silent for a few paragraphs.
Jan 07, 2026 01:53PM Add a comment
Stranded : A Lost Eden Portal Fiction Adventure (Lost Eden - A Portal Fiction Adventure Book 1)

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Josh is 88% done with There Is No Antimemetics Division
Hey, just looked. And apparently i'm eighty eight percent complete with this audio book
She has, and that makes me sad. Because this is an incredible story. Both in its uniqueness and metho interestingness.
Jan 06, 2026 03:00PM Add a comment
There Is No Antimemetics Division

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Josh is 36% done with Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
I'm DNFing thw book now. Not because I dislike it or any fault of the book. Simply, I read two be entertained and the deeper I get into this book the more depressed I am about the state of things. I'm not entertained.
Jan 01, 2026 09:58AM Add a comment
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

Josh
Josh is 16% done with Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
He certainly writes in a very clear accessible way, even though the information that he's providing can get to several levels of complexity. So I am appreciating how he lays it out for me.A layman.

Although I am looking at the rest of the next seven hours of this audiobook and wondering if I will stay interested in what he's talking about since he hasn't deviated very far from the narrowscope of the subject.
Dec 31, 2025 11:20AM Add a comment
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

Josh
Josh is starting A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
I'm going to reread this. And starting it after reading ten books.Since the last one in this series... the quality of this writing is insane compared to everything else.

It actually makes me somewhat bitter that martin has seemingly abandoned this.Amazing series?That means so much to me and many others
Dec 16, 2025 03:25PM Add a comment
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)

Josh
Josh is 87% done with Alchemy of Secrets
It's entertainment it's really dumb entertainment.
Dec 15, 2025 09:04AM Add a comment
Alchemy of Secrets

Josh
Josh is 10% done with Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)
Dnf because this is not good imo. It sounds like it's written by a "grocery store person." An npc... some one that has no life experience outside of movies and TV shows. It's totally evident in the characterization and how they interact with the universe and the rules of the universe. Lord have mercy.
Dec 13, 2025 05:47PM Add a comment
Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)

Josh
Josh is 17% done with The Doors of Eden
This book is to jumpy. I just want it to stay on topic.

I feel a dnf is imminent.
Dec 12, 2025 07:35PM Add a comment
The Doors of Eden

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Josh is 35% done with Of Monsters and Mainframes
This is a very lighthearted and silly book. It's very well executed, even if the narrator is a little bit ridiculous at times. She really needs to tone it down.Slightly.
Dec 08, 2025 03:13PM Add a comment
Of Monsters and Mainframes

Josh
Josh is 86% done with The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge, #0)
This book is good as always from this officer.But I will say that the second half does incur a lot, because the first half for some reason was a little bit slow and disjointed, it's really good.
Dec 02, 2025 09:47AM Add a comment
The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge, #0)

Josh
Josh is 15% done with The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge, #0)
Good. Standard for this series.

And we are getting a gay mc, cool.
Nov 21, 2025 11:37AM Add a comment
The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge, #0)

Josh
Josh is 82% done with Oona Out of Order
Okay, calm down, kate bush is not that good. And tori amos is leagues better.
Nov 20, 2025 06:02AM Add a comment
Oona Out of Order

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