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
right. player of games.
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.