Oooh I’ll have to check that out. I really liked White Noise when I watched it back in the day.

The movie painted Forrest as basically infallible. Any mistake he made was solely because of his condition. In the book, he was a much more flawed character. His relationship with Jenny was basically a complete flip and I really don’t like the direction the movie took after reading the book.

The audio was told in a very old man from Alabama tone. I honestly don’t know if I could have read the full book because of the writing style

Hollywood Accounting is such bullshit.

Did you read the second one? I saw it was rated much lower so hadn’t planned on checking it out.

I think that’s kind of what I enjoyed about it. The movie was ridiculous as well, just more grounded. I kind of liked how insane it got toward the end.

Maybe I liked the book more because I didn’t like the movie as much as others. I thought the book was hilarious

I stand corrected! I thought it was just a short article and didn’t realize they paywalled me at the end.

Bummer!

I guess I’m pretty lucky because my kid is super into reading. We will even read books together so we can talk about them.

Currently reading Out of the Dust with her and I’m surprised at how well she has handled some of the darker themes.

If you have an iPhone, click the Aa (reader mode) at the top of safari. That will give you the article in full on most sites. Not all, but it works for The Atlantic.

I usually click reader mode in general because it’s cleaner

5 stars - An all time favorite

4 stars - A book I thoroughly enjoyed, may read again, and will likely share.

3 stars - I read it, I thought it was ok.

2 stars - It just didn’t work for me.

1 stars - I probably stopped reading at some point because I disliked it so much.

I tend to be more apt to rate something I like than something I don’t like though.

I like the larger ones.

The Descent made me uncomfortable as fuck.

They no longer allow out of state cards for the Brooklyn library anymore, sadly.

Clark County Ohio will let you have access to theirs for $30 a year. They have about 200k books and the Hoopla collection is great for audiobooks

Since you mentioned Pratchett. I’ve always been intrigued by Discworld, but I find long series’ to be so daunting, I usually never start them at all.

I’ve heard Discworld isn’t quite as linear though? I’m particularly interested in Night Watch, since I’m a time travel nerd.

I thought Football Team was such an awesome name. I was legit bummed when they didn’t keep it.

Tepper coming for that number one spot!