It’s never too late to walk away from things that suck. Crappy relationships, shitty jobs, bad books, you have the power of choice.
I know and I choose to suffer! Why? Because I can!
I’m currently listening through the entire Horus Heresy in order, only skipped Battle for the Abyss after listening through half of it. I’m currently halfway through Deathfire, and I’m VERY close to just skip this one as well. I just can’t stand Nick Kyme’s writing, nor his take on the Salamanders.
Me after watching one piece
This is me and Brandon Sanderson, but the answer is most definately: Yes.
Same for Sanderson. It seems like he tries to subvert expectations at the end of every book 2 but he only ends destroying everything he’s established.
I completely stopped reading his stuff when I found out that he is a Mormon and graduated from BYU.
Me, after watching 8 seasons of some idiotic streaming show.
“I just wanted to know how it ends!”
It never really pays off, just read a summary.
Me with Picard. Stopped watching I think less than halfway through the first season when I realized it was just a 12 hour movie with a terrible plot and everyone being out of character for themselves.
And that’s how I disappointed your mother.
I should’ve stopped watching lost when they showed the monster. That’s the moment I knew something was off. But I didn’t and now I’m disappointed.
This was me and Manifest.
I’m glad I gave up after season 2. I kept waiting for something important to happen, but all I ever got out of it was poorly written family drama.
Was that before or after the whole thing turned into a Bible story?
Oh, I’d have to say before. Now I’m extra glad I quit when I did.
I started to watch the last season. About 15 minutes in I realized I just didn’t give a shit.
I wanted to see exactly how ludicrous it would end up getting.
That’s how I handled most of the New Jedi Order books, the mainline Star Wars Legacy books that take place after that, and also the Dune books by Brian Herbert and KJA. I’ve only properly read up through Dark Journey on Star Wars, and only the first three books of the latter day Dune books.
The Star Wars books at least sound good in outline form. I’m not about to spend any time reading them for real to find out otherwise. The latter day Dune books, OTOH, sound like absolute shite even in the summary.
I read a bunch of the star wars books that came out after disney took over. They were… Not good. Like 4 out of 15 or so were even okay.
Supernaturals
Pornhub channel?
Assuming you mean Supernatural, while I didn’t care a lot for the Leviathan storyline, I’m glad that I made all the way through since it picked up again after except the very last episode which I didn’t care for. Ending on the second to last episode would have been perfect for me.
season 5 was suppose to be the true ending, because of kripke, he gave up after people wanted to continue it. outside of 8, and 11, every other season was pretty bad. also jack was apparently shoe-horned instead of using jessie turner as the anti-christ in the show.
also the downplaying of angels, demons, and pagan gods really irked some people.
…s?
That’s what I started doing. Often shows become so convoluted within a few seasons that I’m not even interested in reading the summary to the end
I mean these are just the prequel. You knew how it ended before you even started.
Me with Death Note
At least it’s short. Would be much worse if you felt this way about One Piece.
Well, the live action one will probably be cancelled before it gets to 8 seasons.
Edit: apropos of nothing just gonna make some dinner now and watch an episode of the Witcher
Yeah, I just hope we get a adaption of the water 7 arc. I also hope they just skip skypea, cause that one of the weakest arcs. If we ever get Marineford, it will probably be a disappointment.
I’ve dislocated my shoulder fourteen times. Somewhere amongst those dislocations, I had a surgery to stop it from happening again. (It didn’t work.) However, the surgeon apparently forgot to write a prescription for the kind of medicine that one would usually have after having a shoulder sliced open. As a result, I didn’t sleep that night and, as a further result, I read the entirety of a Warhammer book.
(I’m not actually sure it shows up in this stack; I think it was a witch hunter series. Most of what I remember is some nemesis severing the tendons required to smile.)
Anyway, I haven’t dislocated my shoulder in a while - whether due to surgery or fortuity I couldn’t say - but the above is all that comes to my mind when I think of Warhammer books. Also, I now have three tiny scars about my shoulder.
That could be a couple different ones.
But, Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn had his ability to show emotion severed during interrogation by an enemy, and due to that person’s ineptitude at torture, he lost the connection for some nerves in his face. I’m reading that series now, having started several books too far into it and finding a ‘you’re the clone of other character from the first few books’ and needing to restart so I could get the full context
I’m sorry for explicitly disregarding your username, but there are multiple books in which Eisenhorn (thank you for reminding me of the name) has his expressions disabled?
I am not far enough to know if it happens an additional time, or if he ever gets them repaired. In the book I read first (supposedly 7th in the series, by mistake) it seemed he could make some expressions but that takes place a while after the first book in the series that I’m wrapping up, where it has just recently taken place.
The first book is called Xenos, at least that’s where I’m reading that covered the paralysis part.
It never gets repaired.
It’s a trilogy of trilogies. Each with a focus one 1 person. Eisenhorn, Ravenor, Bequin.
They are great books in my opinion. I loved them.
I got drunk one night and bought all of them in paperback from Amazon. ALL of them. Think I’ve read 12 or so and the rest are just in a box. Don’t drink and shop folks, I still haven’t even opened any of the omnibuses
Same, but I bought the Culture novels. They were fine, except the ugly parts.
The Culture is fantastic. Except the ugly parts.
The Eaters.
I’ve given up on Consider Phelbeas after the starving cannibals bit, which was completely unnecessary and gross as hell.
Yeah, that part is exceptionally nasty and serves very little point in the story.
That part is an oft recommended chapter to skip, just go forward a dozen or so pages until the protagonist murders a drop ship AI that was happy to help him.
I tried to read one and couldn’t get past the first chapter. It’s just cliche macho mania page after page. Grim dark Jim grits his teeth and struggles valiantly against the bad guys. Then grits his teeth and says a prayer for his dead friends. Then grits his teeth and goes to fight bad guys. Then grits his teeth. It was just awful writing.
I think that idea was why I avoided warhammer writing. One meme about the fart ladder and I realized it wasn’t worth the paper it was written on.
Dentist: “so have you noticed any teeth gritting lately?”
Almost 600 episodes into One Piece so far. Already worth it.
So when did it start getting good?
Honestly if you don’t like the first few episodes you’re just not going to like it. The plot and character development are decent but the tone right of the bat carries through the whole manga/anime.
For me it was pretty good within the first episodes, but I got most hooked somewhere around 50 episodes in. I think it is a little slow to start, until their crew starts to get a decent amount of members.
Some are pretty good.
Some are pretty not.
They didn’t expect the success of the first few that made the times best seller list, thats like massively more than they expected to sell, so they increased the planned number and the quality dropped massively as they expanded to the authors to suit.
If you read just the best books you’d still get the same favour but cut it to about 20 books or so, including the best ones in the Siege of Terra that are the actual ending.
I started but quit because there’s too much. Do you know where I can find a condensed list? I can handle 10-20 books, I can’t handle 60
Try this one for the best books, you won’t have all the plot lines but the main plot was decided decades before the series even started
Any suggestions to the better ones? I’ve been wanting to branch out into the books.
I think this list is pretty close to the best books, you can jump off with series based on your favourite characters like Garro if they click for you: https://booksreadlisten.com/best-horus-heresy-books/
Couple those with the Siege of Terra but skip may be the first wall (as I detest Thorpes writing) and Mortis as its a bit boring.
People might say that way spoilers lye, however the ending was main lore even before the series started.
Neat, thank you
Read Einsenhorn. Not a part of Horus Heresy, but it’s WH40K and it’s awesome.
Thanks!
I’ve read only first 14 books and the first one - “Horus Rising” is the best. “The First Heretic” is also pretty good, it’s doing a great job explaining Lorgar’s motivation.
Cool. Thank you!
I got suckered in because the first book was by Dan Abnett, and I ran out of both Eisenhorn and Gaunt’s Ghosts, so Horus Heresy sounded like a good idea. I read about a dozen of them before I realised the poor quality of most of them outweights by investment in the story and gave up.
Yeah… Dan Abnett is the pretty much the only writer keeping the black library from being a huge pile of trash.
The writer for ciaphas cain too!
This sums up all of Warhammer in 3 comments.
I read all of the Left behind books … Am I Christian? No. Are the books really well written? Also, no. Why did I read them? I guess for the lols
I read them all back in high school when I was a good, Christian boy. Loved 'em. Read them again within the last couple of years. Even with the faith aspect removed, they’re a fun enough read. Doesn’t take much brain power to get through them
I read all of them in second grade and was obsessed/traumatized. Now as an adult I’ve realized they’re airplane fiction - mindlessly easy to read, not well written. It’s funny when you realize Buck and Rayford are author self inserts.
I like to pick them up from thrift stores now and mutilate them for art projects.
I 100% Dragon’s Dogma 2 despite hating every minute of it because I got it on PS5 and couldn’t refund it anyway. I had to milk my money back out of it somehow.
I wasted money on this, but to make up for it, I also wasted my time
You can [blank] for free if you value your time as worthless
That’s how i decide if im taking something to the mechanic or not. Gotta remove the exhaust headers just to reach the starter, then figure out how to physically remove it and put the new one in vs $350 and probably be ready by end of day. $2k for a new clutch or 16 hrs cursing, busting knuckles because you got almost a meter of extensions to reach the top 3 bolts. About 6 hrs were spent just laying on the floor crying, contemplating insurance fraud, murder of the engineer who designed it, or cursing my lot in life.
This is why I didn’t assemble my current pc myself, and somehow no one gets it. Yes person in my circle of acquaintances that I told about the PC i got, I know it’s not hard to do, I’ve done it a few times. But I’m hella incompetent at small fiddly shit so screwing in the mainboard and placing the cpu cooler takes me half an hour each, cable management makes me want to die, and don’t even MENTION the I/O panel.
Or i can pay like 80€ to have it built and support a local business while I’m at it.
Most of the time you’re just paying someone to deal with all the little bullshit problems you encounter along the way.
The Stars program was still going at the time, so I got enough points to get a $10 gift card from the achievements. 🤷♂️
This is me with MMOs. “surely, after I buy this expansion, it’s going to be fun”. No idea why I fell for it several times.
I only see like 45 books here. Isn’t he missing half of them?
I read pretty much all of the novels of Robert Rankin a couple of years ago. I kinda broke my brain a bit and it took me a good year before I could bring myself to read novels again. I think small doses is a better way to read his stuff.
