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.

I finished the country-noir


The Death of Sweet Mister by Daniel Woodrell
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started what already promises to be an all-time fave


Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

#61 in 2022:

I finished the country-noir


The Death of Sweet Mister by Daniel Woodrell
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started what already promises to be an all-time fave


Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

I finished the first "Bachman" book


Rage by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman
Rating: 3 stars (more like 3.5)
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


Intensity by Dean Koontz

#60 in 2022

I finished the first "Bachman" book


Rage by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman
Rating: 3 stars (more like 3.5)
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


Intensity by Dean Koontz

I finished the children's classic (which I rescued from my daughter's give-away box after she cleaned out her room to go to college)


Matilda by Roald Dahl
Rating: 3 stars (add 1-2 stars if you're under the age of 13)
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started another children's classic (the other book I rescued)


The Worst Class Trip Ever by Dave Barry

#59 in 2022:

I finished the children's classic (which I rescued from my daughter's give-away box after she cleaned out her room to go to college)


Matilda by Roald Dahl
Rating: 3 stars (add 1-2 stars if you're under the age of 13)
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started another children's classic (the other book I rescued)


The Worst Class Trip Ever by Dave Barry

Also, I finished the third book (and best so far) in the LAPD Det. Harry Bosch series


The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading this collection of two stories that inspired the classic films


The Third Man / The Fallen Idol by Graham Greene

#58 in 2022:

I finished the third book (and best so far) in the LAPD Det. Harry Bosch series


The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading this collection of two stories that inspired the classic films


The Third Man / The Fallen Idol by Graham Greene

I finished the greatest war novel ever


All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


The Death of Sweet Mister by Daniel Woodrell

#57 in 2022:

I finished the greatest war novel ever


All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


The Death of Sweet Mister by Daniel Woodrell

I finished the short gothic suspense novel


The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash

#56 in 2022:

I finished the short gothic suspense novel


The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash

I finished the first book in the urban fantasy Rivers of London series


Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading something creepy for October


The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

#55 in 2022:

I finished the first book in the urban fantasy Rivers of London series


Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading something creepy for October


The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

I finished the Australian classic


Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading perhaps the most revered war novel ever


All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

#54 in 2022:

I finished the Australian classic


Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading perhaps the most revered war novel ever


All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

I finished the third book in the Chronicles of Narnia series


The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started the third book in the Dragonriders of Pern series (first in the Harper Hall trilogy)


Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey

#53 in 2022:

I finished the third book in the Chronicles of Narnia series


The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started the third book in the Dragonriders of Pern series (first in the Harper Hall trilogy)


Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey

#52 in 2022: (GOAL MET!)

I finished reading the latest by the author of World War Z


Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


Rage by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman

which has fallen out of print at King's request because it deals with the subject of school shootings

I finished reading the latest by the author of World War Z


Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


Rage by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman

which has fallen out of print at King's request because it deals with the subject of school shootings