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Finished The Institute (2019) by Stephen King. It's been a few years since I read a King - not because I don't love him, but because it would be the only thing I read otherwise. And does it feel good to be 'home'? Yes, indeed. This novel is back to what King is known for - you've got a former...

Finished Six Wakes. Some nice twists towards the end which made me warm up to it a bit more. Also read The Other Emily (2021) by Dean Koontz. A book I enjoyed more for its quite amazingly crazy plot and twists, than overall execution of. Pacing is weird, with the ending just rushing by in...

Currently reading Six Wakes (2017) by Mur Lafferty. A space opera murder mystery involving six clones crewing a generation ship heading to establish a human colony centuries of travel away from Earth. 24 years or so into the trip, fresh clones awake to find their previous bodies have all been...

Read Autonomous (2018) by Annalee Newitz. Future dystopian Earth where we get to follow a Robin Hood-esque pirate in the business of pirating drugs for the black market, and an android and his partner employed by big pharma on the hunt for her. Quite good. Can robots with human brains fall in...

I finally came around to watching Doctor Sleep (2019), the film adaptation of Stephen Kings The Shining-sequel of the same name. Mike Flanagan here provides a film which I like more than Kubrick's version of The Shining. But just like Kubrick this is wildly unfaithful to the novel. And really...

Own a Korean PRS SE Custom 24. Not really a fan. Very thin rounded neck profile without any shoulder on a wider neck... I much prefer thin necks to be more square with a lot of shoulder like a Jackson/Ibanez neck usually is. Big plus for upper fret access though. Widely lauded as great for the...

Sweet & Lynch - "Miracle", second single off their upcoming album Heart & Sacrifice out May 19th. Feels like there's a lot of Lynch in this track. The guitar is unmistakeably George Lynch. Great riffing and fantastic solo! Sounds like an old Dokken-track more than it's a Michael...

Sweet & Lynch - "Miracle", second single off their upcoming album Heart & Sacrifice out May 19th.

Stryper - "Lost" off their 2018 album God Damn Evil.

I kind of disagree... I love the first album, but the second is getting about the same amount of play. "Promised Land", "Make Your Mark", "Unified" and "Better Man" hold their own against everything on the first album, easily. Judging by the single I'm going to love this as well! Are you a fan...

I've got the (now discontinued) Screamer 50 Combo. Great, great amp. More aimed for the "classic rock" crowd than the usual offering from ENGL. Built like a tank. I think it makes sense to look at ENGL if you want the best (over)built, sturdy, dependable rock machines out there. Never tried the...

Sweet & Lynch - "You'll Never Be Alone" off the upcoming album Heart & Sacrifice out May 19th through Frontiers. Their third album, from about the only supergroup I know to actually put out worthwile records.

Nice setup @Saapanael ! Yes. This is what to do. Especially with older style distortion pedals, and then I'm talking about Boss DS-1, MXR Distortion+, RAT etc. I do this for my setup into a clean amp with the two former pedals. Modern pedals with enough gain in themselves might not like an...

Read Far from the Light of Heaven (2021) by Tade Thompson. Afterword concludes it probably isn't space opera after all. I disagree, but would like to add it's also a 'whodunnit' murder mystery and adventure tale in space, set on an advanced ship heading for a human colony - and features aliens...

Read The Space Between Worlds (2020) by Micaiah Johnson. There are 380 alternate worlds close enough to "Earth 0" to be traveled to, and our main Cara is dead in all but 8 of them. This means she is in high demand as a traverser, since people can only travel to other worlds in which they are...

Read Behind Her Eyes (2017) by Sarah Pinborough. A supernatural thriller - and I stress, supernatural. I watched the series on Netflix first, and while the story is very well translated between the mediums, I thought it worked better visually than it does here. An exposition-twist where a killer...

Just finished Atomic Anna (2022) by Rachel Barenbaum, my sixth book so far this year. An SF-novel focused on time travel and a plot to prevent the Chernobyl disaster. If you've read 11/22/63 by Stephen King I would say this is a great companion piece to it, no doubt inspired by it. Character...

Watched Terrifier 2 (2022) at the pictures. An old-school, gory slasher. There's lots to like with this genre-study of a film, and it was a fun experience. At 2 hours 18 minutes it's a good deal too long, and the final fight goes on a couple times longer than you would reasonably expect, but I...

Tied between Stockholm and Edinburgh.

Watched Ancient Apocalypse (2022) on Netflix. Pseudo-archaelogist/historian (pseudo-everything really) Graham Hancock goes on a rant towards archeologists and historians and how everyone is wrong and that there was an ancient advanced civilisation which died out at the end of the last ice-age...