RJ - Slayer of Trolls’s Comments

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

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#42 in 2023:

I finished the novel that started the Star Wars "Extended Universe" (known as "Star Wars Legends" in the post-Disney-acquisition era) which shares a title, and probably a lot more, with the upcoming Star Wars movie directed by Dave Filoni


Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the fourth volume in the six-volume Old Man's War series


Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi

Coincidentally, I read this one earlier this year. I won't re-read it but will be happy to join in the discussion.

I'm guessing that most people have already seen the film. The book is very similar to the movie - in fact, author Goldman wrote the screenplay based on his book. Goldman worked in films for many years. His most famous screenplay was for a little-known film called Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with Robert Redford and Paul Newman. Goldman's earlier novel Marathon Man was also made into a film, starring Dustin Hoffman.

See you all in the discussion!

I finished this story collection which includes the very first Swords & Sorcery story ever written


Kull: Exile of Atlantis by Robert E. Howard
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the next installment in my Publication-Order reading of the Discworld books


Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett

#41 in 2023:

I finished this story collection which includes the very first Swords & Sorcery story ever written


Kull: Exile of Atlantis by Robert E. Howard
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the next installment in my Publication-Order reading of the Discworld books


Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett

I finished the classic suspense thriller


Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes

#40 in 2023:

I finished the classic suspense thriller


Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes

I finished the historical account of the greatest racehorse of all time


Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the non-fiction account of Graham Greene's travels in rural Mexico in the 1930s (that prompted him to write The Power and the Glory)


The Lawless Roads by Graham Greene

#39 in 2023:

I finished the historical account of the greatest racehorse of all time


Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the non-fiction account of Graham Greene's travels in rural Mexico in the 1930s (that prompted him to write The Power and the Glory)


The Lawless Roads by Graham Greene

I finished


The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the Pulitzer-Prize winner


The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War by Michael Shaara

#38 in 2023:

I finished


The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the Pulitzer-Prize winner


The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War by Michael Shaara

I finished Edith Wharton's beloved short novel


Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I also finished the second book in the City Blues Quartet


Dead Man's Blues by Ray Celestin
Rating: 2 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading (but I've never seen the film)


Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith

#36 and #37 in 2023:

I finished Edith Wharton's beloved short novel


Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I also finished the second book in the City Blues Quartet


Dead Man's Blues by Ray Celestin
Rating: 2 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading (but I've never seen the film)


Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith

I finished "that book by Nabokov"


Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

#35 in 2023:

I finished "that book by Nabokov"


Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

Sad news: Cormac McCarthy passed away earlier this week. I consider him one of my favorite authors even though I have read only three of his books. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West and The Road are two of my all-time favorites.

I finished Clive Barker's first novel, the Faustian homage


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

and I started reading


The Wolf's Hour by Robert R. McCammon

#34 in 2023:

I finished Clive Barker's first novel, the Faustian homage


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

and I started reading


The Wolf's Hour by Robert R. McCammon

I started reading the novella


Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

I started reading the novella


Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

I also finished


Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...