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  • JakoJakoJako13@piefed.socialtoBooks@lemmy.world•What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? July 15English
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    15 days ago

    Demon In White by Christopher Ruocchio. Not even 100 pages into it so I’m not gonna give an opinion yet. But what I’m finding really annoying in this book and the last one is the obvious missing content that’s referenced over and over again from novellas he wrote in-between the main books. That’s something I really dislike in general and it comes up so much. Like if whatever happened between books was so important that you reference it over and over again for context, why not just include it to begin with? That being said I’ve really enjoyed what I’ve read so far and Howling Dark is one of my favorite reads of the year so far. Everybody says Demon In White it the best book in the series. Can’t wait to finish it.

    Code by Charles Petzold. I’m about halfway through it. It’s a good book that provides some context on how and why computers and code work the way they do. It’s helped connect some bridges that just tutorials and practice coding didn’t quite build. I’m not even in school for this shit. I’m just doing it as a side hobby. Still helps though.

    Before these two I demolished The Three Body Problem in like a month. The first book is the fastest I’ve ever read a single novel. Took me about 3 days. I’m a slow reader, so that was lightning fast for me. Then I completed LotR for the first time completely. I started those books almost 20 years ago but never finished a single one for some reason. I still have my original movie copy of Two Towers with the Magic card I used as a bookmark in it. I bought the trilogy box set and just went for it. I cried multiple times throughout the read, then bawled like a baby at the end of Return of the King. I really felt that 20 year gap in my life come to a close. It was pure catharsis for me.

    I think once I’m done with Sun Eater, I’m either gonna go Malazan or Elric. I’ll probably sprinkle some Neuromancer in there for something different. See how that trilogy is before Hollywood fucks up another adaption. If anybody has any opinions on Malazan vs Elric I’ll hear you out.

  • JakoJakoJako13@piefed.socialtomemes@lemmy.world•Important question English
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    26 days ago

    1. Tater tot: A good tater tot is like butter. Pure salt and crunch then melt in your mouth deliciousness.

    2. Onion Rings: Good onion rings is technically better than tater tots, but the spectrum of bad to good onion rings is very wide.

    3. Curly Fries: Curly Fries are hard to fuck up. I don’t even think I’ve had a variation of curly fries. They’re all the same to me, but they’re so good.

    4. Wedges: Wedges have a smaller spectrum than onion rings, but the ceiling is lower and they’re hard to rank better than the ones ahead of them.

    5. Shoestring: McDonalds

    6. ZigZag: These can range from heavenly to straight fucking trash. Unfortunately they’re too easy to turn into straight fucking trash. By that I mean you have to put more work into them to make them good as opposed to just salt and oven/fried. Might as well just try to fry some snow at that point.

    7. Sweet Potato: I’ve had good sweet potato fries but I rarely get good sweet potato fries.

    8. Waffle: I don’t get these. They’re ass. The only place that makes them kinda tolerable is Chik-Fila, but even then they’re still ass to me. Can’t even make them good at home without drowning them in salt and ketchup. I can slice up a potato and chuck them in the oven and get better results most of the time.

    Edit for formatting. Apparently piefed, doesn’t honor your numbering and turns it into 1, 2, 3, etc even if you go 8, 12, 3.