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If you're going to write a dystopian novel that is essentially about the commodification of labor and its subsequent devaluation, MAYBE READ YOUR MARX FIRST.

This book is remarkably overwritten. Like, I think her editor started drinking and didn't stop until the manuscript for Four showed up on her desk.

I'm listening to this because I have to. For science. LIBRARY science.

I sincerely hope my suspicions are correct. Side note: IMHO, the casting for Longmire was extremely well done.

"Yea, verily, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will live forever. If I don't, I sure as hell won't become an unattended death in the state of Wyoming with sheep shit all over me."

I'm terrified and everyone is going today probably including me.

Prodigy is trying to Yoko my boy band! Bad Prodigy! No Hulkling for you!

WHY IS MARVEL SO GOOD AT EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW??

Kirby Heyborne, the guy narrating this, is basically performing a one man horror show with only audio. YOU SHOULD ALL BE LISTENING.

I screamed in the car on the way home from the Super Bowl.

Never start a land war in...well, any country that meets Clausewitz's criteria for a successful guerrilla war.

I haven't even finished the first disc, and I'm wondering if I can drive to work with a blanket over my head. It seems specious, even for Alaska.

Okay, I'm not even done with the first disc and I'm already terrified. I wish someone would make this into a movie NOW.

The description of the father lines up EXACTLY with Walter White/Heisenberg, so that's obviously a thing that's happening in my brain now. Like, imagine if Heisenberg decided to pretend having a conscience while his two children were both younger, much younger, and then he turned on them instead of making meth. That's what's happening.

IT'S HERE IT'S HERE IT'S FINALLY HERE!!!

I always enjoy books with protagonists who are not all that likable. I think it's a really fine line for the author to walk, and so far so good.

Poor Mr. Bush. Neither the luck nor the credit.

We have a significant conservative Christian population here, misty Mennonite and Russian Orthodox. I bought a TON of "wholesome" kid lit and now it's time to read some of it. It's awful wholesome.

Can we talk about Park's family? How awesome they are? Not just awesome, but awesomely written. I love his mom. "Nice girls don't dress like boys!" And his dad. "You'd think with a name like Big Red..." They're just...I love them. I want to hug them. And I want to hug Eleanor's mom, too, keeping her kids alive like a secret agent. THIS BOOK.

I cannot read a book set in the Levant without mentally comparing it to Dunnett. It's strange to be inside the protagonist's head this time...

PARK. PARK. MY FEELS.

Oh my effing Lord. Forester died in the middle of the book about TRAFALGAR? Even Sharpe was at fucking TRAFALGAR.

NELSON SPLIT THE FRENCH LINE. HE SAILED INTO A HAIL OF GUNFIRE AND SPLIT THE LINE AND FUCKED THEM UP.

AND HORATIO WASN'T THERE?

This is going to have to be one of those times that head-canon replaces canon for the sake of maintaining one's sanity.

This is really one of the better YA books and the best audio productions out there.

Seriously, this is the best series ever. I do love how gothic Bourne went for this prequels.

Sweet Mary Poppins, it's a black astronomer/astrophysicist heroine being wooed by a man so smitten he's learning mathematics. When is her next book?

This jackass is literally immortal. He must be some kind of Highlander villain, I swear.

Sharpe and his dick are 300% the reason that women absolutely belong in the chain of command.

"I don't know. I took her horse away after we fucked and then she...uh...wandered off towards the enemy. It's fine. It'll be fine."