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 a book about a virus that is WAY scarier than COVID


Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come by Richard Preston
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading perhaps the ultimate history book


Asimov's Chronology of the World by Isaac Asimov

#66 in 2021:

I finished a book about a virus that is WAY scarier than COVID


Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come by Richard Preston
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading perhaps the ultimate history book


Asimov's Chronology of the World by Isaac Asimov

I finished the "other" book by Michael Ende


Momo by Michael Ende
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the third (out of four) installment in the Books of Babel series


The Hod King by Josiah Bancroft

also, I DNF-ed the awful


The Wrecking Crew by Donald Hamilton

and I started reading the first book in the Lincoln Rhyme series


The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver

I finished the "other" book by Michael Ende


Momo by Michael Ende
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the third (out of four) installment in the Books of Babel series


The Hod King by Josiah Bancroft

also, I DNF-ed the awful


The Wrecking Crew by Donald Hamilton

and I started reading the first book in the Lincoln Rhyme series


The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver

Christine wrote: "IT’S NATIONAL CUPCAKE DAY!"

A day we can ALL get behind. :D

I finished the charming


The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the second Matt Helm book


The Wrecking Crew by Donald Hamilton

#64 in 2021:

I finished the charming


The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the second Matt Helm book


The Wrecking Crew by Donald Hamilton

Sahiary wrote: "I got "The Champion" (basic) and "The investigator" (advanced)..."

Exactly what I got.

I finished the 2020 edition of the long-running annual anthology series


The Best American Mystery Stories 2020 edited by C.J. Box and Otto Penzler
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

#63 in 2021:

I finished the 2020 edition of the long-running annual anthology series


The Best American Mystery Stories 2020 edited by C.J. Box and Otto Penzler
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I finished the third book in the Kingsbridge series:


A Column of Fire by Ken Follett
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and the second book in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books series (the prequel to The Shadow of the Wind):


The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the historical novel:


This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson

and the noir classic:


Laura by Vera Caspary

#61 and #62 in 2021:

I finished the third book in the Kingsbridge series:


A Column of Fire by Ken Follett
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and the second book in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books series (the prequel to The Shadow of the Wind):


The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the historical novel:


This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson

and the noir classic:


Laura by Vera Caspary

I finished the award-winning Aussie crime thriller


The Broken Shore by Peter Temple
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

#60 in 2021:

I finished the award-winning Aussie crime thriller


The Broken Shore by Peter Temple
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

I finished the book that inspired one of my all-time favorite films:


The Shining by Stephen King
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


Gone South by Robert R. McCammon

#59 in 2021:

I finished the book that inspired one of my all-time favorite films:


The Shining by Stephen King
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


Gone South by Robert R. McCammon

I finished the interesting-yet-dull "authorized" sequel to Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain:


The Andromeda Evolution by Daniel H. Wilson
Rating: 2 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the third book in the Old Man's War series by the Master of Snark:


The Last Colony by John Scalzi

Dorothy wrote: "Just finished "The Broken Shore" by Peter Temple. Another good Aussie writer to enjoy."

I'll be finishing that in the next few days. I really like it so far, about 2/3 the way through. It has gotten better as it goes along.

#58 in 2021:

I finished the interesting-yet-dull "authorized" sequel to Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain:


The Andromeda Evolution by Daniel H. Wilson
Rating: 2 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the third book in the Old Man's War series by the Master of Snark:


The Last Colony by John Scalzi

I gave up on the histrionic Russian fantasy


The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden
Rating: 1 star (did not finish)
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Not sorry.

and I started reading the "other book" by that Neverending Story guy


Momo by Michael Ende