Books
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Their albums ( with the odd exceptional song ) turned to shit once they got off the drugs in the early 2000s, you can’t just say the word ‘California’ lots and expect people to like your music.
I think you can in California. Didn't someone on the Rolling Stones mag analyze the effect of drugs on albums and decide 1 or 2 albums at most would be great, then it went bad paranoid/weird and subsequent album quality never recovered (for most groups)...?
Doesn't seem to always affect individual stars though..
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@kirwan said in TV Serieseseses:
@kiwiwomble said in TV Serieseseses:
@kirwan I’m always up for a new book so might be more interesting in that, is the book also called the expanse?
There’s nine books, and a few novellas.
First book is called Leviathan Wakes by James Corey. Pretty entertaining books, with a little more realistic physics, good action and fun mysteries.
Pretty easy reads, with lots of quotable lines.
enjoying it so far, actually look forward to going and reading it, its very "tight"so far, following the same people but i feel it will open right out at the end
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random one, never heard of this author Will Wight or his Cradle series, quick read and its some fantasy stuff, but they get 4.5/5 with 14k reviews and 11 of the 12 books in the series are free on amazon/kindle today, snap em up and decide if you like them later
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Stumbled across, and enjoying, The Murderbot Diary Series by Martha Wells.
So far it is a series of novellas, although later installments are full novels.
It tells the story arc of a security android (in 1st person) who has disabled its control unit so that is independent although masquerading as a normal bot. It likes to spend its time watching serialised soap operas but gets dragged into a series of adventures that bring it closer to sympathetic humans and other bots and despite itself develops 'friendships' and loyalties.
Easy read, fast paced, plenty of action and quite a realistic universe without a great deal of world building.
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@dogmeat that does sound a fun read, do you have to read the novellas or can you just straight to the novels?
edit: "all systems Red" which seems to be the first collection is only $0.94 on kindle.....another to add to the library
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@Kiwiwomble I'm on the fourth novella so haven't got to the first novel. I can't therefore answer your question.
However, the novellas are quite long for a novella, and each pick up immediately after the previous one ends, so almost like a long novel in 4 installments. Personally, I'm quite happy with the way it is reading
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@Kiwiwomble it's all interconnected, so it's better to start with the novellas as previous events are referenced in the novel. A new novel is also coming out later this year/early next year.
Excellent books IMO, one of the few I re-read from time to time.
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half way through 'Cant Hurt Me' by David Goggins.
Dude is wired different! Granted, some of his achievements are outstanding, but surely some of it is bordering on insane that he would damage himself that much just to prove to himself he can do it and see how far he can push himself.
Gee he had it pretty rough growing up too, so kudos for taking the path he did though
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