I just really struggled with the ending of DC......I get the point, I really do, but I just didn't buy that any world would work that way. Even in fantasy land.
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What are you reading in 2023?
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Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
Well, about a third of the way there, I don't remember precisely how the first book ends, so I'll keep an eye on that.
It is interesting comparing to the Wheel of Time directly, Jordan definitely saw and experienced some intense things that gave him a different perspective.
Pedantic
Legend
I really should reread those, I picked them up in middle school and they've completely drained out of my head in the interim decades.
It's possible I'm remembering wrongly....
Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
Yeah, uh, Peter Lorre sound alike is certainly a...choice?
Old Fezziwig
a man builds a city with banks and cathedrals
Well, now I'm interested in the audio book.
Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
It is quite good! Some of the accents are a bit quirky in their choices, but the diction, pace, emotion, etc. are good.
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Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
Just as in interesting comparison: the first part of Dragonbone Chair covers about 18 months...a period of time similar to that from the beginning of Eye of the World to the end of Lord of Chaos. In total, the Wheel of Time covers a 2.5 year period, where Memory, Sorrow & Thorn is about 4 years.
I finished Hot Blooded and am moving on to the next Lisa Jackson novel in my pile, 2005's Final Scream. This one's apparently a standalone - not part of any of her various series - about a woman who survived losing her entire family in a fire 17 years ago and is now looking into the details of their deaths, only to uncover the work of a psychopath who has killed many times before and is willing to do so again to keep her from uncovering some buried truth. The last one of hers was pretty good, so I have fairly high hopes for this one.
Johnathan
Johnathan
Old Fezziwig
a man builds a city with banks and cathedrals
Finished The Book of Lost Tales Vol. 1 on the plane this afternoon. Not sure what there is to say about it. I enjoyed it, and I'm looking forward to reading the next volume later this month.
Afterwards, I started Behind the Curtain by Jonathan Wilson, which is about football in Eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union. It's very good. Wilson is drily funny and captures the romantic side of the former Eastern Bloc countries -- he has a lot of affection for the countries and their people, and it shows. I did misread a reference to Antal Végh as Anton LaVey somehow and was surprised that he had the time and interest to write a full book on Hungarian football (Miert beteg a magyar futball? or Why is Hungarian football sick?). A man of broad interests.
Afterwards, I started Behind the Curtain by Jonathan Wilson, which is about football in Eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union. It's very good. Wilson is drily funny and captures the romantic side of the former Eastern Bloc countries -- he has a lot of affection for the countries and their people, and it shows. I did misread a reference to Antal Végh as Anton LaVey somehow and was surprised that he had the time and interest to write a full book on Hungarian football (Miert beteg a magyar futball? or Why is Hungarian football sick?). A man of broad interests.
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