RJ - Slayer of Trolls’s Comments

RJ - Slayer of Trolls’s comments from the 2025 Reading Challenge group.

Note: RJ - Slayer of Trolls is not currently a member of this group.

Mo wrote: "I finished The Light Pirate so I'm finallllly going to finish World Without End!"

I really liked World Without End, and I think I liked the next one in the series even more. Hope you enjoy it too!

I finished the sixth (publication order) book in the Discworld series


Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the final installment in the Books of Babel series


The Fall of Babel by Josiah Bancroft

#56 in 2023:

I finished the sixth (publication order) book in the Discworld series


Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the final installment in the Books of Babel series


The Fall of Babel by Josiah Bancroft

I finished the third book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy"


Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading a classic Science-Fiction space opera


Triplanetary by E.E. "Doc" Smith

#55 in 2023:

I finished the third book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy"


Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading a classic Science-Fiction space opera


Triplanetary by E.E. "Doc" Smith

I finished the first Travis McGee novel


The Deep Blue Good-By by John D. MacDonald
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


Triple by Ken Follett

#54 in 2023:

I finished the first Travis McGee novel


The Deep Blue Good-By by John D. MacDonald
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


Triple by Ken Follett

I finished the memoir


H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and after a quick break to read the short story

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

I will be reading the short story collection


Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr.

#53 in 2023:

I finished the memoir


H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and after a quick break to read the short story

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

I will be reading the short story collection


Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr.

I finished the first book in the Border Trilogy


All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started a book by a Goodreads author friend


In the Shadow of Time by Kevin Ansbro

GOAL MET!

#52 in 2023:

I finished the first book in the Border Trilogy


All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started a book by a Goodreads author friend


In the Shadow of Time by Kevin Ansbro

I finished an anthology containing 26 of the most notable Science-Fiction short stories from the time period 1929-1964


The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929-1964 edited by Robert Silverberg
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started on the first half of the second volume of the anthology which contains the 23 most notable classic Science-Fiction novellas from roughly the same time period (with one notable exception - The Time Machine by H.G. Wells from 1895)


The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A: The Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of All Time Chosen by the Members of The Science Fiction Writers of America edited by Ben Bova

#51 in 2023:

I finished an anthology containing 26 of the most notable Science-Fiction short stories from the time period 1929-1964


The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929-1964 edited by Robert Silverberg
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started on the first half of the second volume of the anthology which contains the 23 most notable classic Science-Fiction novellas from roughly the same time period (with one notable exception - The Time Machine by H.G. Wells from 1895) - this volume, Part II-A, contains 12 novellas


The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A: The Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of All Time Chosen by the Members of The Science Fiction Writers of America edited by Ben Bova

I finished the somewhat-autobiographical classic


Martin Eden by Jack London
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I will take a quick break to read the short story

Andrea by John O'Hara

then I will be moving on to this collection of short stories based on the author's time served in a Siberian gulag


Kolyma Stories by Varlam Shalamov

#50 in 2023:

I finished the somewhat-autobiographical classic


Martin Eden by Jack London
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I will take a quick break to read the short story

Andrea by John O'Hara

then I will be moving on to this collection of short stories based on the author's time served in a Siberian gulag


Kolyma Stories by Varlam Shalamov

Also, I finished the sequel to The Thirty-Nine Steps


Greenmantle by John Buchan
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the first in the Travis McGee series


The Deep Blue Good-By by John D. MacDonald

#49 in 2023:

Also, I finished the sequel to The Thirty-Nine Steps


Greenmantle by John Buchan
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the first in the Travis McGee series


The Deep Blue Good-By by John D. MacDonald

I finished the non-fiction travel account of Graham Greene's 1938 trip to Mexico which inspired him to write The Power and the Glory


The Lawless Roads by Graham Greene
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading another book written about events on the opposite side of the globe just two years prior...


The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown

#48 in 2023:

I finished the non-fiction travel account of Graham Greene's 1938 trip to Mexico which inspired him to write The Power and the Glory


The Lawless Roads by Graham Greene
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading another book written about events on the opposite side of the globe just two years prior...


The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown

SarahKat wrote: "...I agree with Elisa that Buttercup's characterization is completely minimal...."

I noticed this too. Even for the time it was written, all he talks about is her beauty and her loyalty.

SarahKat wrote: "...but I will say that the way Goldman writes about his son and ex-wife makes me a tad uncomfortable. It comes off sort of humorous? But like, only if the kid and wife are in on the joke. Especially being so snarky about his kid's weight."

In real life Goldman actually had no sons, and he had two daughters. The weight part comes back into play later in the book.