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clarence
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The Storm Lord, by Tanith Lee. She's my favorite author, but this one is a snooze. It's a typical '70s fantasy, all made-up names and words, and portents and birthrights and purple prose. And don't get best automatic pet feeder on how she treats female characters. This wasn't her first novel, so maybe the sophomore slump concept is true. |
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Vita Nostra by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko. I give up. I'm never going to be able to write something like this. I didn't know I wanted to. Maybe I don't, but just... dang.
And yet. It's the first book of a trilogy. Seriously, why can't there just be books? Why does everything have to be a series? I know, marketing, but yeesh, I hate series.
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LadyInque
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I'm reading Madame Bovary for a book club, and it is so boring I don't know if I will finish it. All these names, places, for something that seems to be a rather small story. It reminds me of Anna Karenina, and I didn't finish that despite two tries.
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Tue Feb 26, 2019 1:16 pm Post subject: |
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And yet. It's the first book of a trilogy. Seriously, why can't there just be books? Why does everything have to be a series? I know, marketing, but yeesh, I hate series. |
Amen!
I find quite often I pick up a book that looks interesting, it says it is 2 of 3 (or 6 or 7) and I'll immediately put it back. If available I may pick up the book that is 1 of 3, but often it isn't there & I'll walk away & forget all about it, so they lose any sale at all.
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Last book I have read is 1984, it force you to think about your life, also I read it in my property in Berlin here when all week there was raining, it was very atmospheric.
*Edit: commercial realty link removed. (-MJ)
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LadyInque
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I forgot this thread existed. Thanks for the reminder and welcome to the forums, kerry2!
I am reading War & Peace, because everyone was doing it back in March when quarantines started and I am stubborn about things that are popular. I began in May and am, according to my Kindle, 84% through it. I'm in one of the war sections now, and it is an awful slog.
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 Bryophyte
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Lady Inque, I read War and Peace this year for my New Year's resolution, and it was indeed a painful slog at times haha. I also feel he did not stick the landing.
Very happy to be reading Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie novels. I had forgotten what a good writer she is.
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| Last book I have read is 1984, it force you to think about your life, also I read it in my property in Berlin here when all week there was raining, it was very atmospheric. |
That's interesting, I also read Ninety Eighty-Four during the beginning of the crisis.  I have since also read The Rosie Effect (I'd read The Rosie Project before), I would recommend the series even to people not interested in autism, it is quite well written and all characters are realistic and not 1-dimensional. And A Christmas Carol, which I wasn't impressed much with. It is good, but it is so well known that I had expected it to be some of Dicken's best work, but I enjoyed it least of all Dickens that I've read so far (the others being Oliver Twist, Great Expectations and David Copperfield).
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LadyInque
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| I also feel he did not stick the landing. |
I finished this morning, and "did not stick the landing" is right on the button. Why did he end with philosophy, instead of with the real money, his characters? And why did the characters' stories just kinda drift to a close, rather than… I dunno. I finished, and now I feel like I'm in some sort of club. I also got a bunch of ARCs from my publisher, and two of them are novellas, so that will be a nice change of pace. |
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I've been reading Alleen op de wereld, known in English as Nobody's Boy and originally released in French as Sans Famille. It is great!! I'd read part of an English translation as an iBook years ago, but I didn't know how much. Turns out it was only a bit of it, it's actually a very long story.  It's exciting, though, and it keeps surprising. There were some things I did not like so much, but overall it's really good. The translation I'm reading (by August Willemsen) is also very good. |
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LadyInque
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I'm in a Gothic Romance mood, having just finished du Maurier's Rebecca and Silva Moreno-Garcia's Mexican Gothic. Next I think I will read Seton's Dragonwyck.
In non-Gothic news, I'm also reading The Brothers Cabal, which is maybe a little too clever for its own good.
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Hello, how are you all around here? Well, currently with this covid I have been reading for a long time and I have finished several topics, very good for now I am reading Elizabeth Kostov's historian which I found quite interesting if you have a good free time I recommend it worth reading |
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Recently started reading Star Trek novels (thanks Albi!) and I'm now reading Star Trek : Destiny , a 800+ page omnibus, that explores the origin of the Borg and the Federation's response to a full scale Borg invasion. Very nice so far, but only 250 pages into it yet...
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LadyInque
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| Hello, how are you all around here? Well, currently with this covid I have been reading for a long time and I have finished several topics, very good for now I am reading Elizabeth Kostov's historian which I found quite interesting if you have a good free time I recommend it worth reading |
Welcome to the boards! Sorry to hear you're sick!
I read The Historian a long time ago. I don't remember it very well, except that it was huge.
Finished Dragonwyck, BTW. Generally unpleasant. Don't recommend. |
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| jesusm wrote: |
| Hello, how are you all around here? Well, currently with this covid I have been reading for a long time and I have finished several topics, very good for now I am reading Elizabeth Kostov's historian which I found quite interesting if you have a good free time I recommend it worth reading |
Welcome to the boards! Sorry to hear you're sick!
I read The Historian a long time ago. I don't remember it very well, except that it was huge. |
I feel like that member is a bot, considering no requests and only one post on the forum. I'm not sure why a bot would want to draw attention to one specific author, though. Sorry if you aren't a bot, jesusm.  |
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