This is gonna sound dumb, but it was too much war for me. I imagine the battle after battle after battle + blur of faceless soldiers was the point, but I needed either a more interesting plot or more character work for it to hold my attention. I haven't read any other Scalzi, but I liked the narrative voice well enough in Old Man's War to be down to try something else by him at some point.
Currently finishing up Old Man's War by John Scalzi. It's well-written, but not really my cup of tea.
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Finished:
The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
An ex-soldier gets a job as a tutor/secretary for a member of the ruling family, helping her navigate court life, enemy schemes, and the titular family curse.
As I said previously, this was too slow for my taste, but I liked the characters and the plot. I did spend a lot of the book hoping the 35yo MC would get introduced to a potential love interest that wasn't 19, though. (Thankfully, not much time is spent on their crushing.)
Bingo squares: x of y, steppin' up (HM), political (HM)
You might have a look at Darebee workouts/programs. Can search by 'upper', 'abs', etc to cut out a lot of stuff your foot might have trouble with.
And then Loki got preggers, and gave birth to Sleipnir, an 8-legged horse that Odin rides around.
Hint
Take a closer look at the arm rest of the bench.
I would add The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993) to your Funny and Spooky list. I'll also second the The Fog (1981) suggestion.
I wanted to see this thing in motion, so I tried to search up the youtube video, but no dice. Every article on it is just copy-pasted from the original on the Express site, and I can't get the embedded video attached to it to work. I did find an article on NIWA's site about a species of sea pig, which looks similar.
100% agree; I was so bummed Riddick was just inferior Pitch Black. The animated one, Dark Fury, was fun, though, iirc.
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I have the sound of this stuck in my head now, thanks.
Did a quick search, looks like ExeKiller, which isn't out yet. Hope you find something good to play in the meantime!
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Let me know how you end up liking it!