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 non-fiction story of a daring Atlantic sea rescue:


Overboard!: A True Blue-Water Odyssey of Disaster and Survival by Michael J. Tougias
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading a book about the WWII Pacific Theater that was used as the basis for the HBO miniseries "The Pacific"


With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene B. Sledge

#16 in 2022:

I finished the non-fiction story of a daring Atlantic sea rescue:


Overboard!: A True Blue-Water Odyssey of Disaster and Survival by Michael J. Tougias
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading a book about the WWII Pacific Theater that was used as the basis for the HBO miniseries "The Pacific"


With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene B. Sledge

I finished the first Amelia Peabody Victorian-Era Egyptian Archeology mystery:


Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the first Dave Robicheaux novel, starring an alcoholic ex-cop who is obsessed over his dead wife, a character type that I'm not sure has ever been used before...


The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke

#15 in 2022:

I finished the first Amelia Peabody Victorian-Era Egyptian Archeology mystery:


Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the first Dave Robicheaux novel, starring an alcoholic ex-cop who is obsessed over his dead wife, a character type that I'm not sure has ever been used before...


The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke

I finished Dashiell Hammett's final novel:


The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading, for non-Will Smith-related-reasons:


I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

#14 in 2022:

I finished Dashiell Hammett's final novel:


The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading, for non-Will Smith-related-reasons:


I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

I finished Hemingway's first novel and - as usual - my rating is based on personal enjoyment rather than a measure of literary merit:


The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading Dashiell Hammett's final novel, the basis for a popular film series during the Great Depression:


The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett

#13 in 2022 - 25% of goal reached!

I finished Hemingway's first novel and - as usual - my rating is based on personal enjoyment rather than a measure of literary merit:


The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading Dashiell Hammett's final novel, the basis for a popular film series during the Great Depression:


The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett

And I finished the novella that inspired the film Hellraiser


The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor

#12 in 2022:

I finished the novella that inspired the film Hellraiser


The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor

I finished the classic domestic suspense novel


I Married a Dead Man by Cornell Woolrich writing as William Irish
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the first Amelia Peabody mystery


Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters

#11 in 2022:

I finished the classic domestic suspense novel


I Married a Dead Man by Cornell Woolrich writing as William Irish
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the first Amelia Peabody mystery


Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters

Congratulations Carri and Bailey!

Now get to work! (haha just kidding)

I finished the 2nd book in the Lew Archer series, a must read for detective fiction fans:


The Drowning Pool by Ross Macdonald
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the classic roman noir:


I Married a Dead Man by Cornell Woolrich writing as William Irish

#10 in 2022

I finished the 2nd book in the Lew Archer series, a must read for detective fiction fans:


The Drowning Pool by Ross Macdonald
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the classic roman noir:


I Married a Dead Man by Cornell Woolrich writing as William Irish

Hi, I'm not part of the buddy read but I hope you don't mind me saying that I read this book 2-3 years ago and really enjoyed it, mostly due to the colorful characters and the setting of Savannah, GA. I hope you all enjoy the book as well.

I finished


Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

#9 in 2022:

I finished


Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Also, I finished a book I thought was going to be a horror novel only to find out that it was more of a crime novel with mild Southern Gothic elements that seems to have found some influence from Heart of Darkness:


Gone South by Robert R. McCammon
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading a novella that I've had my eye on for a while, one that I'm fairly certain is firmly in the "horror" genre:


The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker

#8 in 2022:

I finished a book I thought was going to be a horror novel only to find out that it was more of a crime novel with mild Southern Gothic elements that seems to have found some influence from Heart of Darkness:


Gone South by Robert R. McCammon
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading a novella that I've had my eye on for a while, one that I'm fairly certain is firmly in the "horror" genre:


The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker