I hope every fruit fly dies permanently
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get a fruit fly net
when the fly is fruity
when the AM is 6
i love this guys yt channel its criminally underrated
it has classics like “deer nightclub” and “i walk to burger king” yet he still has like no recognition
The academic industry of researching fruit fly multicellular genetics would be greatly saddened by such a loss.
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see thomas hunt morgan doesn’t like killing fruit flies. he just likes figuring out what set of gene activations causes them to die immediately.
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college my beloved
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Wheel of Time by Robert Jordon, at least the beginning is good.
Lore by Alexandra Bracken (author of the Darkest Minds. Speaking of which, read Darkest Minds as well).
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. I don’t know about the sequels, though.
Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy, one of my personally classic series ever (even if the worldbuilding isn’t the greatest, the characters and series develop in a really unexpected way).
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo, it definitely has the atmosphere of an upcoming author so there are a few stumbles, but there are multiple different books occurring in the same overarching world which is cool mythos.
Maybe The List by Patricia Forde? 1984’s censorship but in an actually interesting dystopian world, more akin to the Giver than anything else.
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this is an enlightening philosophy on how everybody in Harlan Ellison’s short story I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream is actually very closely resembling the main villain AM, who can only feel suffering.
the morning hours are actually called AM to represent the fact that only suffering occurs during these times
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Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir was a semi-recent acquisition to my catalogue, but it’s more of a nerd test than individually engaging story, so if you don’t care for authors injecting with how much knowledge they have for the entire story, I’d give it a miss.
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whats the most recent book you’ve read
whats the oldest book you can remember reading (and liking)
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The second Dune trilogy. It’s not actually that engaging as a book, strangely enough. I don’t know why.
Probably the Roald Dahl children’s book collection, at around seven or eight. Entertaining without being demeaning. A lot of my early reads focused on fantastical situations, although I was never a major fan of excess pictures.
Harry Potter might have been my original full-length series, at around nine.
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really?
i’ve heard nothing but good things
Ooh i love that book
10/10
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then again, I also fall under the nerds of fol, so my take is biased
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It’s in a strange category where it technically does everything correct (well explained, yet not overloading, fascinating societal structures, and the like). Maybe because it’s a sequel, but it feels as though there’s either intermittent bursts of action, or long exchanges of dialogue to flesh out the world. It might just take time to build attachment to the characters this way, but when a two-scene character attempts an unexplained assassination and then an identical clone is sent in to fill their station (as an example), or somebody who appeared once is revealed as a traitor to another main character who already happens to know, there are just a lot of associations with not a lot of build-up or apparent relevance.
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I loved it too, but others I spoke to hated the constant exposition of scientific principles which I thought were handled well, so it would relate to the reader.
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