Iām not much a reader by the nature, but I always wanted to read Harry Potter English hard copies.
Currently I almost finished the fifth book, and with each next page my impression of Harry being dangerous psychopath on a loose rises higher and higher to a perilous point.
I mean I know that he has a part of Voldemort inside and all this stuff, but still, films and russian translation doesnāt show him this uncontrolled and easilly losing his temper on any occasion.
Knowing things from the very inside was another thing behind desire of reading actual books.
Though I still like the whole story, now this fact casts a little shadow on Harryās general adequacy in my eyes and makes me think whether it worth for his encirclement to consider putting him under some home or St. Mungoās treatment, anger management or something.
Because I guess a person like this could do a bit of harm in some stressful situations by losing his temper and doing some unwishful things.
I doubt Rowling had ever gave some of hers authorās opinion whether Harry became more balanced, controlled and calm after heād been rid of Voldemortās shard of soul.
Hope so
The fifth book is my personal favorite, with the 6th being a close second, enjoy the rest of the series
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read loads of banksā mainstream stuff but never dipped into his culture books before. was always a bit āmehā towards space opera stuff because the politics are a bit grating and the stakes are always insanely grandiose, but there is no such issue here. iām hooked. in stark contrast to dune, this was absolutely riveting. the main character is a bit of bellend, but i was completely invested. moving on to use of weapons next.
I read a bunch of Banks 15-20 years ago, mostly his sci-fi stuff, though I was a bit limited to whatever I could find at the library. Itās been so long I donāt remember much of the specifics, but I found it a lot more engaging than the more mainstream sci-fi I had been reading.
And somewhere in one of those books should be an AI ship named āZero Gravitasā. 
Does anyone know any gritty and in detail detective/mursee investigation type books? Canāt find sny that either go into detail or are dead (no pun intended) boring
I guess you could always try some older noir sort of books, they were usually short enough to not be boring but lurid enough to have sort of detail. Raymond Chandler is always a top choice in that regard, a big believer in keeping the action going no matter what and he wrote a bajillion Philip Marlowe books.
i noticed a couple of gsvās with gravitas in the name and suspected you were a fan. 
chandler is the fucking don. big sleep is a favourite of mine.
city and the city by china mieville is pretty good but it goes far beyond a murder investigation.
Well, I am necromancing this thread rather than creating a new on books.
I got the Children of Time trilogy by Adrian Tchaikovsky from my father for Christmas.
Itās a scifi series set far in the future. Itās kind of hard to talk about the story without spoiling it, but the first novel features two parallel storylines. (even the following will be seen as spoilers by some, so donāt read if youāre worried about spoilers)
One storyline is set on a spaceship with (presumably) the last human beings looking for a planet they can live on, and only waking up from cryosleep to do repairs and whatnot. Chapters therefore are set hundreds of years apart on the ship (between awakenings).
The other storyline follows a species of spiders on an earthlike planet who are experiencing accelerated evolution towards intelligence. So every chapter skips the same amount of time as the spaceship chapters and we get to see this weird civilization grow and change socially and scientifically (and doing so quite differently from how humans have done so)
Of course these stories converge.
Itās really a quite interesting and original scifi story, though I think Adrian Tchaikovskyās writing style is a bit plodding at times.
Currently finishing up on the second book which is quite interesting as well.
I was trying to find some Predator novels to read following my viewing of Badlands, and discovered that the best ones seem to be out of print. So I found that four of them, including Turnabout and South China Sea, were available through the AVP Galaxy forums in pdf form for free.
For those interested.
Are these novelizations of the franchise? Or fan fiction?
I wouldnāt call them fan fiction, because these and the AVP novels became the expanded lore than further informed future film releases. But they are not novelizations of the franchise.
Hello Iām new in this thread and I wanted to ask if anyone here knows a good romance book?
Not really big on romance books, but if you are open to ones that are part romance, part horror, part tragedy, Stephen King has two called Rose Madder and Bag of Bones, respectively.
Violence Speed Momentum by Dr Disrespect.
Heās so in love with himself that his āautobiographyā easily classifies as a fictional romance novel.
Thanks Iāll try that book :3
I donāt know if this helps but there is a series called Night World that I was gifted. Written in the 1990s, I believe it was one of the influences for Twilight because they both contain a secret world of supernatural beings that blend with humanity, and theyāre forbidden from falling in love with humans. Young adults going to high school knowing their families are warlocks and so on.
But inevitably, just as the fantasy genre has The Chosen One whose time comes once in an age, there are soulmates: two people who are fated to be bonded to each other. They canāt avoid it, even if itās forbidden. So it was nice how they treated finding āthe Oneā as a fairytale that people had given up believing in.
The books have a running lore but the stories are mostly separate. I recall the first one being āSecret Vampireā, wherein the protagonist discovered her best friend was her soulmate right as she was diagnosed as terminally ill. But her friend is a vampire, so he offers on convert her to save her, so they can have eternal life together.
Just had a thought: do you think Lovecraftian horror would work in a political/government context? As Lovecraftās work is based on the fear of the unknown, it could have a world leader (or a coalition of the most powerful) investigating a threat that becomes more existential as the pieces goes on. A threat that comes not from the enemy we know, but from the one we canāt even name.
A truth so unthinkable, a reality so inescapable, that it gives even sitting presidents pause.
Oooor would it just be frustrating to never clearly see the threat and have everything explained in the end
Iām on board.