" When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton. "
The Martian, by Andy Weir
That being said, why are you using camelcase with “re-read”? That’s what the hyphen is for.
Acshually, that’s Pascal case.
Well your comment certainly just sent me on a bit of micro–rabbit’s hole. Haha.
Fun fact: depending on the source, pascal case is either a distinct type of casing from camelcase or is a sub-type of camelcase. :P
Source for the “subtype” scenario: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_case
The more specific terms Pascal case and upper camel case refer to a joined phrase where the first letter of each word is capitalized, including the initial letter of the first word.
The practice has various names, including:
. . .
PascalCase for upper camel case[17][18][19] (after the Pascal programming language)
Source for the “distinct” scenario: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/snake-case-vs-camel-case-vs-pascal-case-vs-kebab-case-whats-the-difference/#camel-case
Pascal case is similar to camel case.
The only difference between the two is …
I didn’t quite get into the martian, but project hail Mary… I’m savoring when I have the time and headspace to read it again.
Is that also by Andy Weir?
Yeah, and before that he wrote “The Egg” and a lot of other short stories.
Check out his other writings if you like seeing how he went from writing a webcomic to full time author
Stephen King’s Dark Tower series is my go-to epic fantasy. I’m about to start a 4th trip to the tower once I’m done with my current listen.
Enders Game by Orson Scott Card, and a select few other books in the series (Speaker for the dead and Enders Shadow most notably) - Card at the top of his game is fantastic, I just wish he didn’t dive completely off the deep end.
Tangentially, Berserk, if you include manga. Hands down my favorite piece of media altogether.
When I re-read Ender’s Game as an adult it felt pretty mary-sueish the second time. I got why I loved it as a kid because the smart socially maladjusted kid (omg he’s just like me) was kicking everyone’s ass and being great at everything. As an adult it seemed a little much. Then again maybe I’m just projecting the hatred I have for my past self onto the book.
I can get that. Its the parts around him being a Mary Sue that work so well. His ultimate draw towards pacifism despite his clear knack for death. I feel like it captures a bullied, maladjusted youth with a clear talent pretty well, all considered.
The Wheel Of Time, by Robert Jordan
The entire series, start to finish, repeatedly. I’ve read it at least a dozen times since the late 90s when I first discovered it. I’d read the entire series over again whenever a new book in the series was released so the first few books I’ve read far more frequently.
Then the TV show came out and now I can’t bring myself to look at it ever again.
Consider the TV show another turning of the Wheel. Nothing in it prevents you from enjoying the Source.
Then the TV show came out and now I can’t bring myself to look at it ever again.
I tell people the TV show is what you’d get if you handed the books to the CW’s teen soap/drama writers. Yes, it’s that bad.
My Darwin, the teeth in that show. All of them have PERFECT Hollywood teeth, shining brightly like magical lanterns.
Yeah, it’s pretty ridiculous. I watch a lot of German and Scandinavian TV because they use actors that look like real people rather than Hollywood Barbie dolls.
Read X times Title
2 Everybody Lies
3 Storyworthy
3 The Design of Everyday Things
3 Think Again
2 Beyond Command and Control
3 Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
2 First Break All the Rules
3 Never Split the Difference
2 Antifragile
2 Fooled by Randomness
2 Skin in the Game
2 Black Swan
2 Talking To Strangers
3 Call Center Management on Fast Forward
4 The Effective Manager
2 Atomic Habits
2 Never Eat Alone
2 An Economist Walks Into a Brothel
2 The Tipping Point
3 Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes
7 Powerful
3 Effective Hiring Manager
7 The Total Money Makeover
2 Dare to Lead
4 Great at Work
7 The 4 Disciplines of Execution
5 Unlearn
2 The Hard Thing About Hard Things
2 The Best Service is No Service
9 The Effective Executive
5 Financial Intelligence
2 Understanding Complexity
2 How to be an Antiracist
2 Deep Work
2 Happier Now
2 The Fearless Organization
3 Algorithms to Live By
3 Four Thousand Weeks, Time Management for Mortals
3 Thinking in Systems
2 Multipliers
2 The Scout Mindset
2 High Conflict
2 The Prince
2 Not Nice
2 The Value of Everything
2 Born a Crime
2 Freakonimics
2 Human Sigma
2 Getting Things Done
3 Rework
2 Linchpin
2 White Fragility
2 Complexity
2 Parenting with Love and Logic
2 The Five Temptations of a CEO
2 21 Laws of Leadership
2 Failing Forward
2 Our Iceberg is Melting
2 TNIV Bible
2 Graveyard Shift and Other Stories
2 The Dictators Handbook
2 The First 90 Days
2 Where the red fern grows.
Well that formatted like shit… But the number before the title is how many times I’ve read it.
Next time use two line breaks after each line and it will work.
Ah, thank you
Fixed!
No worries, it’s quite an odd behaviour. It was the same back on Reddit. No idea if there is a good reason for it or if they copied it to be the same as with Reddit.
I should have remembered that, I’m old lol
I have reread several books but most of them have several years or decades in between.
Especially Terry Pratchetts’ books are better after and worthy of a second read.
there is a lot of books i have read more than once. but one stands out over all others, yet there is no storyline to speak of. The C Programming Language by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie.
Me too. But due to the non linear storyline I typically jump around a lot
Brandon Sanderson’s entire cosmere.
The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man’s Fear
Robin Hobb’s Farseer, Fitz and the Fool, Liveship Trader, and Tawny Man trilogies. All interconnected.
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Dirk Gently
Harry Potter
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson and Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman A fantastic novel on the pointlessness of war, told through the lens of space opera / sci-fi
This will make a fine addition to my (infinite) backlog.
Asimov’s Foundation series (two times polish translation and once original) and The Hitchikerms Guide to Galaxy by Adams Douglas (once in polish, twice original)
It’s even more fun if you read the entire Asimov book catalog that’s set in the same universe as Foundation using the in-universe chronological order… unless you meant that’s what you did. That’s broadly “I, Robot”, the Robots series, the Empire Series, and the Foundation series. I’m sure some people don’t like his later books that tie it all together, but most of them are probably elderly and read the original series before the newer ones were published or something.
I read the original Foundation trilogy, then all the ones in the Robot, Empire and Foundation series in order of publication, followed by the Benford/Bryn/Bear trilogy.
Then I went back and re-read the original Foundation trilogy, and it still stands out as my favorite thing Asimov ever did.
Metro 2033
The Kingkiller Chronicle
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (all five)
I remember the VCR instruction manual.
Otherwise Terry Pratchett’s discworld novels and the Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy (the 3 first ofc).
If you don’t mind, why the “ofc”. Are the others considered bad? I think I enjoyed the most “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, the fourth.
I think all were very good, but I read them so long ago that I have them a bit mixed up.
The 6th I couldn’t finish.
The trilogy is considered a sort of masterpiece. The 4 5 (and his other books) not so much.
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Little Prince, because nothing cuts so quick as real life disguised as a silly bed-time story.
