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 Hugo Award-winning first installment in the Riverworld series


To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading another Science Fiction classic


Immortality, Inc. by Robert Sheckley

#12 in 2024:

I finished the Hugo Award-winning first installment in the Riverworld series


To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading another Science Fiction classic


Immortality, Inc. by Robert Sheckley

Dorothy wrote: "I could not cope with it either!"

Good to know I'm not the only one, Dorothy.

I also finished and failed to appreciate the finer points of


Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Rating: 2 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

so go ahead and call me a Philistine, I deserve it

#11 in 2024:

I also finished and failed to appreciate the finer points of


Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Rating: 2 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

so go ahead and call me a Philistine, I deserve it

I finished the third book in the James Bond series (my favorite so far)


Moonraker by Ian Fleming
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the second book in the Kensie and Gennaro series


Darkness, Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane

#10 in 2024:

I finished the third book in the James Bond series (my favorite so far)


Moonraker by Ian Fleming
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the second book in the Kensie and Gennaro series


Darkness, Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane

I'll actually start reading this one later this month and won't finish until March, so I'll peek in from time to time. I'm excited because this is one of the only Gaiman novels I haven't read (the other is The Graveyard Book) and I've heard such good things about it.

I'm not officially part of the buddy read so I hope you don't mind me dropping in and posting.

I finished the 1960s phenomenon


Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer

#9 in 2024:

I finished the 1960s phenomenon


Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer

I finished the doorstop


The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor

much of which I have already read in the collections A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories and Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

#8 in 2024:

I finished the doorstop


The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor

much of which I have already read in the collections A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories and Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

I finished an almost 6 month trek through the mammoth-sized


The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

#7 in 2024:

I finished an almost 6 month trek through the mammoth-sized


The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

I finished the second installment in the Virgil Tibbs series


The Cool Cottontail by John Dudley Ball
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the third James Bond book


Moonraker by Ian Fleming

#6 in 2024:

I finished the second installment in the Virgil Tibbs series


The Cool Cottontail by John Dudley Ball
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the third James Bond book


Moonraker by Ian Fleming

I also finished this volume of classic Science Fiction novellas - the first of two parts


The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A edited by Ben Bova
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started the second part


The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II B edited by Ben Bova

#5 in 2024:

I also finished this volume of classic Science Fiction novellas - the first of two parts


The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A edited by Ben Bova
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started the second part


The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II B edited by Ben Bova

I finished my first 5-star read of the year, Steinbeck's classic short novel


Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

#4 in 2024:

I finished my first 5-star read of the year, Steinbeck's classic short novel


Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...