What are you reading?

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Brick
Date: March 26, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/what-are-you-reading.13301/

Nastycrow said:
If you like Scalzi's books you have to read the The Collapsing Empire trilogy... It's awesome.
Also Starter Villain... It's hilarious...
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Starter Villain has been on my library wait list for a while...apparently it's pretty popular.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: bconcrete
Date: March 26, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/what-are-you-reading.13301/

osubuckeye4 said:
I haven't go to the point where I'll walk out of a theater
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I walked out of the first movie in the newest Star Wars trilogy because it was so godawful. That's the only one.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: ---ABB---
Date: March 26, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/what-are-you-reading.13301/

LoneCowboy said:
if the book is part of a series and I've liked the series so far (i.e it's not book #1) I'll try and power thru it. But if ti's a standalone, I"ll work at it for a while but there comes a point usually where I think "why am I doing this?"
Rare but it happens.
some books are so bad (mostly fiction) that you only finish to keep finding mistakes/nonsense/mary sues/etc so you can write a wrathful review.
TV shows/movies have a 20 minute limit. If i'm still bored after 20 minutes and not sucked in I'm moving on to something else.
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so reading something you don't like is worth it if there's an ability to trash them online?

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: ---ABB---
Date: March 26, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/what-are-you-reading.13301/

bconcrete said:
I walked out of the first movie in the newest Star Wars trilogy because it was so godawful. That's the only one.
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decades ago there used to be a thing where if you left the theater within 15 min of the start of the movie they would refund you. Does that still apply?

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Nubbynubb76
Date: March 26, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/what-are-you-reading.13301/

---ABB--- said:
decades ago there used to be a thing where if you left the theater within 15 min of the start of the movie they would refund you. Does that still apply?
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Never heard of that. Here you would get one of two responses depending on who you have to ask for your money back: "Bub it's not our fault you didn't like the movie" "Shiiit you better take yo muthafucken azz back up in dere because you not getten this money back"

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: LoneCowboy
Date: March 26, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/what-are-you-reading.13301/

---ABB--- said:
so reading something you don't like is worth it if there's an ability to trash them online?
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sunk cost fallacy
like it's so bad you just have to finish to see how badly ti's going to end
I never said I was all that bright. Stubborn yes, bright......meh

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Nubbynubb76
Date: March 26, 2026 at 01:00 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/what-are-you-reading.13301/

---ABB--- said:
so reading something you don't like is worth it if there's an ability to trash them online?
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Yes

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Nastycrow
Date: March 26, 2026 at 01:09 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/what-are-you-reading.13301/

I stop reading books all the time... Sometimes after only a few pages or after a 100 pages or more. Same with movies and series.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: osubuckeye4
Date: March 26, 2026 at 01:14 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/what-are-you-reading.13301/

LoneCowboy said:
sunk cost fallacy
like it's so bad you just have to finish to see how badly ti's going to end
I never said I was all that bright. Stubborn yes, bright......meh
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There are definitely tiers of bad.
Some bad stuff is so bad that it becomes unintentionally funny... like
The Room
or
Showgirls
. I have no problems sticking around for unintentionally funny stuff, or stuff that is so unaware of how over the top it is that it becomes captivating... only because I want to see how deep down the rabbit hole we're going to go.
Also, sometimes it turns out that the creator is in on the joke and flips the script in the 2nd half and the project actually ends up being good... even if it doesn't though, it can be wildly entertaining.
The stuff I'll walk away from these days is the mailed in, completely bland stuff. If we're 30+ minutes in and it's followed the same trope with generic writing that every movie in the genre follows and none of the cast is likeable, I'm out.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Nubbynubb76
Date: March 26, 2026 at 01:17 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/what-are-you-reading.13301/

Nastycrow said:
I stop reading books all the time... Sometimes after only a few pages or after a 100 pages or more. Same with movies and TFF
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[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Ulf Murphy
Date: March 26, 2026 at 02:51 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/what-are-you-reading.13301/

Nastycrow said:
I stop reading books all the time... Sometimes after only a few pages or after a 100 pages or more. Same with movies and series.
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My wife and MIL give me recommendations all the time that are terrible, but all the critics and the ladies in their book clubs love. I read about 50 pages of most and put them down. Then avoid any conversation about them ever again.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: mrducks
Date: March 27, 2026 at 09:08 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/what-are-you-reading.13301/

It's been about 5 years since I've read
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
.
Along with
Atlas Shrugged
and Orwell's
1984
, Robert Pirsig's book is one that will make me think about how life works.
The other source of information on how life works can be seen
here
for a small, one time fee.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: ---ABB---
Date: March 27, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/what-are-you-reading.13301/

LoneCowboy said:
sunk cost fallacy
like it's so bad you just have to finish to see how badly ti's going to end
I never said I was all that bright. Stubborn yes, bright......meh
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LC I wasn't trying to say you were not bright just retarded. there's a difference.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: ---ABB---
Date: March 27, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/what-are-you-reading.13301/

Nastycrow said:
I stop reading books all the time... Sometimes after only a few pages or after a 100 pages or more. Same with movies and series.
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YA and you stopped doing interactive spreadsheets too!

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Nastycrow
Date: March 28, 2026 at 06:54 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/what-are-you-reading.13301/

---ABB--- said:
YA and you stopped doing interactive spreadsheets too!
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I'm still working on it azzhole... Goddammit.... LEAVE ME ALONE!

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: LoneCowboy
Date: March 28, 2026 at 08:52 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/what-are-you-reading.13301/

---ABB--- said:
LC I wasn't trying to say you were not bright just retarded. there's a difference.
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oh
ok then

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Riz Farmer
Date: March 28, 2026 at 09:11 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/what-are-you-reading.13301/

mrducks said:
It's been about 5 years since I've read
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
.
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I borrowed that off a friend and of course I left it on a train half way through.
Was great up to that point. As advertised. I’m good with not finishing books though. I like leaving the possibilities open.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Nastycrow
Date: March 28, 2026 at 01:44 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/what-are-you-reading.13301/

Nastycrow said:
I'm still working on it azzhole... Goddammit.... LEAVE ME ALONE!
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Almost there actually. But I'm limited by Claude timewise. I can't work on it until 5pm.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: a-mart
Date: March 28, 2026 at 02:25 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/what-are-you-reading.13301/

Nastycrow said:
Almost there actually. But I'm limited by Claude timewise. I can't work on it until 5pm.
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Use Sonnet model not Opus, it ends your tokens for very small added quality

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Nastycrow
Date: March 28, 2026 at 03:23 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/what-are-you-reading.13301/

a-mart said:
Use Sonnet model not Opus, it ends your tokens for very small added quality
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I don't know what are either of these 2 things.