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  1. Yeah, I find it frustrating to wait now (spoiled) but at the same time, when I do binge, either because they release a season all at once or I just wait to watch it, I miss the banter with friends the following week (and online) about the latest episode like I used to have with Lost, Battlestar Galactica, etc.
  2. I'm curious about that as well. I can listen to an audiobook while I'm doing something else, like driving or folding laundry, and I feel like I retain it pretty well, but if I try to just sit down and listen to one, my mind will wander and I'll barely pay attention, much less retain anything. For non-fiction books, if it's something I have a really strong interest in, I can listen and retain. Like for instance, I listed to a book about Narcissim while going through a divorce. That held my attention really well as it got me thinking about a lot of things. However, I've tried some self-help or professinal development books, and I just can't pay attention or retain it. I will say on the fiction, if it's a really complex book with a ton of characters (and those characters disappear for large portions at a time), I sometimes have difficulty. I just finished the Stormlight series and in the later books I was constantly confusing which character was which.
  3. Hell yeah! Can't wait to watch it!
  4. I'm on episode 5. I'm enjoying it, but I get what some of you said about not caring about any of the characters. It's basically just easy entertainment while I'm on the exercise bike.
  5. My brother suggested DCC to me a while back and I added it to my audiobook queue. Just finished it last week. Absolutely brilliant! The voice actin on the audiobook really takes it to the next level. Need to get the next book.
  6. Lol, my brain is so mush I totally forgot about that thread!
  7. I'm about 99% on audibooks, especially due to my weekly commute to Dallas from Austin. I have trouble focusing when it's non-fiction, though occassionaly one has kept my attention. I've posted most of what I've listened to in the Scifi/Fantasy thread, but I'll post some of them here later.
  8. I'm still going to see it because I'm easily entertained, but I found this hilarious (especially since I watched the Matrix trilogy with my daughter over the weekend)
  9. Haven't seen that one, I'll check it out!
  10. It also restarted the whole Zombie genre. There hadn't been anything, at least mainstream, since the 70's. I didn't see it when it came out, only watched it a few weeks ago. Agree the lo-fi was a bit tough, but still enjoyed it. I neither love nor hate 28 years later. I was ok with the heavy human drama aspect, but the more out there stuff the director did (which I know is his style) and the tone shift at the end, didn't sit well with me.
  11. I think pretty much anything by Adrian Tchaikovsky falls into that category. I know specifically that the Children of Time series was considered Hard Sci-Fi.
  12. Just finished book 1 of Dungeon Crawler Carl. Absolutely hilarious. As usual, I'm listening to it rather than reading, and the narrator is just top notch. Really makes it even funnier.
  13. Yeah, I struggled with it too. WAY too much setup for me. I enjoyed Books 2 and 3 a lot. I think I actually may have skipped booked 4. I have it on Audible, and it says finished, but I think I might have accidentally marked it finsihed. There was a lot going on in Book 5 that I didn't remember. I read the Game of Thrones books largely that way. I ended up getting Calibre and stripping the DRM from the checked out books so I could finish them.
  14. Looks like a good old style action movie. IN
  15. Pumped for this. I am curious to see how they handle Ryland's resistance to the mission. It seems from the preview it will be different than the book, but maybe I'm not remembering it well.
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