I was today years old when I found out the Debian Release names were Toy Story characters. Thanks. 😁

I've devoured all of Blake Crouch's sci-fi books and enjoyed them all thoroughly. I have had his Pines trilogy in my To Read list for too long though.

After not enjoying DCC book 1 very much, I finally got bullied into carrying on and am half way through book 2 and enjoying it a lot more.

I do find that at times it seems like someone has tried to write a story in the margins of a TTRPG players handbook, but I guess that's the appeal in a way.

Currently reading Children of Strife by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Book 4 in the series. Really good, but jumps around a lot. Certainly not one to read an hour a night. Really needed longer sessions to keep all the characters in my head 😁

Just about to finish Red Dwarf : Titan. The new prequel book co-written by the late Rob Grant. It pulls a lot from the lore of the Red Dwarf universe, but in a good way. It certainly "feels" like Red Dwarf, which is good in my mind.

Just finished "Just over the Horizon". The first of three short story collections by Greg Bear. Really enjoyed them, especially the unmade episode of the outer limits that he pitched.

Have picked The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub next, as King has been promoting a 3rd book he wrote in the series after Peter's passing and it peaked my interest.

King is my comfort author. I find him so easy to read, so interested to see how this collaboration works.

Just started the first book of Greg Bear's short stories. Have loved Greg's books since I read Eon as a teenager.

Humble Bundle currently have a stack of Greg's books on sale

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/greg-bear-birthday-bundle-open-road-media-books

Bone by Jeff Smith. Perfection.

Switched the laptop to Linux Mint about 6 months ago. After a month of no problems with that, bit the bullet and installed it on my main Gaming PC. I don't play anything that needs anti cheat and everything else has worked fine. Got VR streaming wireless to the Meta Quest 3 working and Sunshine/Moonlight setup to the Steam Deck for couch gaming.

I am a nerd though and have been using Linux from a server perspective for years. I still don't know if it's ready to suggest it to someone that is less technical, but it's certainly getting there.

Just finished reading The Many by Sylvain Neuvel (Wrote Sleeping Giants series). It's going to get compared to Pluribus, but I found it different enough to enjoy. Interesting premise.

Now starting There are Rivers in the Sky, after a 5 star review from a friend. Completely out of my wheelhouse, it being neither Sci-fi or Horror, but I'm enjoying it so far and will see how it goes.

Enjoy. I've recently finished the 4th one in the series and enjoyed them all

Mallrats. The extended cut is just awful and Kevin Smith agrees.

I'd say yes. It focuses on a new, uplifted animal from the same world as the spiders and fleshes out the aftermath of the original earth conflict.

If the memoir is Future Boy, then it is very good. Crazy what that kid managed to do in that year of filming

No, must have missed that one. That's what I like about his writing style. The end of every chapter makes you want to read the next

I've read all the Red Rising books and it is by and far one of my favourite series. Darrow is an amazing character and although it's epic sci-fi I didn't find myself losing track of all the characters. I think I've read them twice and listened to the audiobooks.

I didn't go much on book one of DCC, but I have been bullied into book two by too many people, so I will see how I get on.

About half way through Willie, Willie, Harry, Stee

Enjoying the humour in learning that all of England's Kings and Queens were a bit of a bunch of arses.

They should give this book to English school kids. They might actually enjoy their History lessens then.

I fell asleep after lap 5. Says it all really

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