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 read 24 of them, although there are a few that I might have read when I was younger but I'm not sure about - I didn't count those.

Are The Da Vinci Code and the Harry Potter books really among the top 100 books of all time?

I finished:


Joe by Larry Brown
Rating: 4 stars (but I could be talked into 5)
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen

Woman Reading wrote: "It's nearly Halloween & tis time for things that go bump in the night.
I finished Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House [bookcover:The Haunting of Hill House|8971..."

Great book! I recently watched the original movie adaptation ("The Haunting") but I enjoyed the book much better. I haven't seen the Netflix series yet, but I hear it's not much like the book at all.

My 59th finished book of the year is:


Joe by Larry Brown
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen

I finished:


Books of Blood: Volume One by Clive Barker
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

And I started reading:


Books of Blood, Volume Two by Clive Barker

I finished my 58th book of 2020:


Books of Blood: Volume One by Clive Barker
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

And I started reading:


Books of Blood, Volume Two by Clive Barker

I finished:


A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


The Fall of the House of Usher: and other tales by Edgar Allan Poe

My 57th finished book of the year is:


A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


The Fall of the House of Usher: and other tales by Edgar Allan Poe

I finished:


Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


Hawaiian Nation : Man, Gods, and Nature by Michael Kioni Dudley and Keoni K. Agard

I finished #56 for 2020:


Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


Hawaiian Nation : Man, Gods, and Nature by Michael Kioni Dudley and Keoni K. Agard

I started watching the live action remake of Dumbo with my daughter, and I saw a lot of influences from this book. (If you haven't seen it, it's quite a bit different from the original animated film.)

I finished:


Prizzi's Honor by Richard Condon
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


Joe by Larry Brown

I finished my 55th book of the year:


Prizzi's Honor by Richard Condon
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


Joe by Larry Brown

Blagica wrote: "
Keep being awesome!"

Thanks Blagica, you too.

Lisanne and John, I think I agree with you. I rated it 3 stars also. I enjoyed the first two-thirds much more than I did the final part of the book. The animals and the circus atmosphere and the various happenings were much more interesting than the romance. I also wonder if the term "paranoid schizophrenic" had truly entered the popular lexicon in the early 1930s.

I finished:


Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


Dragonquest by Anne McCaffrey

I finished another one which brings me to 54 for the year:


Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


Dragonquest by Anne McCaffrey

I finished:


'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


Books of Blood: Volume One by Clive Barker

I finished #53 for the year:


'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


Books of Blood: Volume One by Clive Barker

I finished my 52nd book of the year, which completes my 2020 Reading Challenge:


Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the Pulitzer-Prize winner:


The Way West by A.B. Guthrie Jr.