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Vagabond Treehouse ~ [Fall 2025: World of Chains #1-3 (Wayward Bard) | The Perfect Run 1-3 (alternating)]
Re:Daily Grind: Oooh, it's by the author of Kitty Cat Kill Sat. I listened to it earlier this year, I liked it. Might give Daily Grind a try soon-ish :)
Timelord Iain wrote: "And back to Heretical Fishing 3: A Cozy Guide to Annoying the Cults, Outsmarting the Fish, and Alienating Oneself...This one contains a nice summary of book 1-2 to refresh you, a..."
Sweet! I'm planning to read book 2 in the next couple months. Good to hear it stays enjoyable :)
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That's why I tried it... and I've come to love it quite a lot... I think I did a re-read already, of the first couple, trying to pay more attention to the random skills that never get used much...
It starts off very Office Space, and slowly morphs into The Matrix, is how I'd describe it (altho the beginning of Matrix 1 basically is Office Space drudgery anyway)... similar feel to 14, too by Peter Clines, where call center IT guy stumbles into multidimensional doors in his apartment building...
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This one contains a nice summary of book..."
I really liked #3 after a short break... lots of satisfying things happen... I was actually a little worried through the middle towards the end that this was the end of the series, since it's resolving alot of the lingering plot points from books 1-2 and the nearby royalty... but the ending happened, and I'm reassured there's plenty more to tell, with Rocky flying high enough into the air to see other continents that could cause problems and (view spoiler)
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Timelord Iain wrote: "Narilka wrote: "Timelord Iain wrote: "And back to Heretical Fishing 3: A Cozy Guide to Annoying the Cults, Outsmarting the Fish, and Alienating Oneself...This one contains a nice..."
EEEeeeeeeee! lol
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Last few days/months, I've managed to catch up on March/April/May, but still have June through today to take care of...
Yup! Gotta make some sort of schedule that will work for you. As someone who has also let that pile up in the past, I either have to work for several days to get it all caught up or don't bother.
If I don't do it, it totally irks me later that I was lazy about updating. XD
I've been bad about reviews this year too. I don't have near your volume and it's still bugging me! I just have no motivation to review. Hopefully the words come eventually.
I found a nice balance by writing notes vs reviews. Sometimes my notes turn into a review and I'll edit it to be more structured. That way I can leave myself notes on the book and be able to get a better idea of how I felt about the story later.
Tossing my hat in the "ugh why'd I get so behind in reviews" ring here, while we're all commiserating... I was doing so well until May...At the very least I need to go in and add read dates & ratings, or my "Goodreads Year in Books" is going to be all inaccurate...
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ALTHO... it wasn't as bad as these days, before they added all the bot protections that hurt people that read as much as we do... not sure how many "normal people" are reading 500+ books a year... got to be a small portion of the userbase... more likely to be people trying to fill in their lifetime of reading from years past, maybe, doing the numbers we do...
It takes me even longer, now that I try to write at least one sentence in every review, instead of just doing star rating, shelves, and reading date... all because Amyiw in another group complained that my books didn't appear in her notification feed / front page feed, if there's no review/words, because of some GR backend changes or something...
Gotta appease my fan ;)
Also, finding ways to read more books each year is a blessing and a curse, because of the upkeep involved in reviewing/tracking/etc...
lol It's the sharing part and wanting to be organized that makes putting the effort to record the books on GR a thing. Otherwise, it would be personal database stuff or book record journals for us. =DA bunch of house organizing and cleaning stuff was delivered today. Spent the whole day cleaning, organizing and etc. There will be more of that for the week.
Phew! My goal is to be done before New Years. I won't even need to do before the new year cleanup cause I'm doing it right now. LOL
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Timelord Iain wrote: "I forgot I supported Will Wight’s kickstarter forever ago, I think… for an anthology of short stories in the Cradle universe… it’s called Threshold and is waiting for me on BookFunnel…"Yusssss! I think it's supposed to go to general release in June or so? I have a note in my tracker for it... but I think your new release tracker is more reliable, @Iain. I downloaded my copies from BookFunnel weeks ago...
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Timelord Iain wrote: "Virginie wrote: "Re:Daily Grind: Oooh, it's by the author of Kitty Cat Kill Sat. I listened to it earlier this year, I liked it. Might give Daily Grind a try soon-ish :)"That's w..."
Sounds fun! Although as an IT person.... I would be so pissed if I ended up dungeon crawling instead of getting trolled by my google search results telling me that yes, I've already googled 27 times that damn function and yes, the last time was yesterday and yes, I STILL can't remember the order of the arguments and my stupid IDE isn't helping 😡
Soo wrote: "I found a nice balance by writing notes vs reviews. Sometimes my notes turn into a review and I'll edit it to be more structured. That way I can leave myself notes on the book and be able to get ..."
Oh, that's a good idea. I almost never write reviews (even short ones) 'cause I don't want to inflict my jumbled thoughts and bad writing skills on people haha.
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Well... the dungeons only accessible at 2:45am on Tuesdays to start... and time is dilated inside... so the rest of the week you can do IT still... he does for book 1-2...
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🤣🤣🤣 Just let it slip by huh? Is it super smutty?!?!?
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Dungeon Delving, but the MC spends 90% of time locked at home dealing with dungeons and his new roommate who quickly becomes girlfriend and early in book 2 after meeting his parents, fiancee...
I'm not 100% sure what the female MC is supposed to be... lizardkin basically, it seems... mostly human/female, with some scaly patches on body and a tail & horns full of erogenous zones, from the book cover and descriptions...
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https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5...
Either they're rating books differently than I do, or maybe they shouldn't be reading books if they barely enjoy them... hard to say since he's written 0 reviews in 8 years...
Stumbled onto them from a LitRPG with only 4 ratings (newish release and Audible Only, Penicillium)...
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My average is 4.03...
I don't think I really know anyone that reads seriously and averages less than 3.0, even among my friends I know that rate low frequently / with relish...
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Dang, lower than 2 star average? Well... to be fair most LitRPG books are junk. If they're only reading within the small genre, easy to have a low average.
Personally, if I had a long streak of crappy stories, I hop to another interest to shake off the negative vibes. I dislike letting anything I do for fun become work with a heap of rage inducing aggravation.
😆 Pew Pew that nonsense!
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They also speed read or something, given the crazy big numbers from the past 2 years... but they also seem to DNF alot which might explain it (4705 DNF'd books)...
Looking at their ratings again by genre (they only have 24 five stars total), it seems like most of their actually highly rated books are from before they started using Goodreads, and they just plugged them in when they signed up in April 2016... wonder if it's just rose-tinted glasses, and nothing would have been highly rated if read after they started using the site... or if the rose-tinted glasses is making them rate everything else worse in comparison...
I definitely agree about finding something better to spend time on, if nothing is making me happy about reading anymore... and if I was reading more than a few 1-2 star reads a month/year I'd quickly slump... I mostly only rate books that low if they actively annoy me and/or lead me to pausing alot to cool off on the grumbling...
A 3k+ reader with 2*- rating is pretty wild... what kind of books were those 24 5 stars? Anything we've read that they rated? I wonder if they maybe treat book rating the same way most folks do shopping rating... you only go on and post something if there's a problem...
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Still under 2 stars? Damn, I really want to
I went to take a look, this guy has more DNF books than read ones. Not that I think there's anything wrong with abandoning books you're not enjoying, but it looks like he's not even enjoying the books he does finish.Is hate-reading a thing? :o
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It breaks my brain, honestly... he has yearly shelves, and has tried 1500-2000 books each of the past 2 years... has to be mostly DNFs...
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Message Title: Do you like reading?
Just genuinely curious, and I explained how I found him & what baffled me... didn't even use ellipses for professionalism :D
We'll see if he responds...
My biggest question / veer, is if maybe he has a rating system I don't understand...
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Presumably they still penalize people doing crazy amounts of ratings/reviews/actions in a single day/hour, but I think the reset timer has been shrunk so people can come back the next day or 2 after hitting the CAPTCHA threshold and not being penalized again almost immediately...
I've gotten away with doing 30-50 reviews in a day, and then doing it again 48hrs later, with very few CAPTCHA requests... usually just for the last 10-20 books, and half the time it's just the "are you a robot" checkbox, or if it makes me do images, it ramps back down to checkbox or a single image for a few books...
In years past, it ramped up hard, and took like a week to calm down and let me continue doing reviews... and I'm probably not the only one to complain to Support about it... since it penalizes anyone that reads alot and fast... or that just joined and wants to input all the books they read earlier in life...
Super curious to hear if he responds...Also really good news about the CAPTCHA threshold... I wonder if a lot of folk try to pile on the reviews before the new year?
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Like, if you make an account and just start spamming ratings with no reviews or boilerplate reviews, that's suspicious...
If you frequently do crazy amounts of backdated reviews in a single day, but also are on the site daily commenting in groups/discussions, less suspicious, just bad at timely reviewing...
Not to mention--actually writing reviews? That's not very bot-like. Bots tend to just make lots of accounts and inflate ratings, right?
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They either just add ratings, or they write those 2 sentence reviews where the first sentence is in bold, that you see alot on low popularity books.
I tend to write one to two sentences that say a bit about the plot or what I liked these days, as I mentioned last week...
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That's good news! I disliked getting the human check every few reviews. Also yay for getting your reviews updated!
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Yah! Ya can do it!I started watching Black Doves on Netflix. So far it's good! Happy to have a good thriller to watch. Feels like not enough good action/thrillers are made now.
Soo wrote: "Yah! Ya can do it!I started watching Black Doves on Netflix. So far it's good! Happy to have a good thriller to watch. Feels like not enough good action/thrillers are made now."
oooooh! I'm starting it tonight
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I did June reviews 2 days ago (46 books, some CAPTCHAs)...
Did 17 July reviews yesterday (17 books, no CAPTCHAs)...
Today, I finished July reviews (22 books) and all of August reviews (40 books)... I didn't get any CAPTCHAs until my 50th review, and it skipped the early easy checkboxes and jumped right to image clicking...
Feels like the lowered the punishment for reasonable people doing large semi-regular updates, but doesn't slow the CAPTCHAs, so much as jump from 0 to full throttle beyond a certain point...
Kinda prefer that... if I hated CAPTCHAs enough, I could have just stopped 12 August reviews sooner, but wanted to finish the month...
362/365 on my 2024 reading challenge... 160 reviews left to go through today...
Brian wrote: "Soo wrote: "Yah! Ya can do it!I started watching Black Doves on Netflix. So far it's good! Happy to have a good thriller to watch. Feels like not enough good action/thrillers are made now."
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Let me know what ya think! I liked it.
It was like mixing Orphan X and Reacher. It was a nice blend of what the heck is going on, backstories, what's normal for hitman/spy moments and thriller style offbeat humor. Great actors all around.
Some of the books on the Big Books of 2025 list seem cool.
Timelord Iain wrote: "Hopefully be caught up by Christmas…"Woohoo, you can do it, I believe in you!
(also, I'll be able to stalk your profile and add even more stuff to my TBR)
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This one contains a nice summary of book 1-2 to refresh you, and then picks up where it left off...
And I'm laughing right out the gate... I forget who this cultivator is in Corporal Claws cart/wagon, but it's someone the MC wanted treated well and brought home... so Claws puts a bow on his head to present nicely, even if they have to keep knocking the cultivator out with electricity because he's afraid of Spirit Beasts :D
Then Cinnamon Bunny taught Corporal Claws how to do evil booming maniacal laughing from the diaphragm...