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Inspector Gesicht posted:Will probably read the second half in future, though word on this forum has been unkind to the Endymion series afterwards. Also Simmons is a shithead and doesn't deserve any support.
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Snuff Melange posted:I just finished Hyperion and it was incredible, super cool and I loved the characters and story a ton by the end.
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Honestly, my experience with these books was that they kept getting stupider as they went on. I put it down about halfway through The Dark Forest and haven't felt the slightest urge to go back to it.
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Dirac Fourier posted:I finished Memories of Ice. I want to check out the Malazan thread, but I'm afraid of spoilers. It's going to take a long time before I can open that thread.
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That's Lovecraft for you. Great monster ideas, horrible (and racist) execution.
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Cythereal posted:The Court of the Air by Stephen Hunt is a weird one. It's a steampunk fantasy world set in an ersatz version of Earth and we-swear-it's-not-Britain, centering on two young orphans on the run from... something, who are special for... some reason. Hunt goes a mile a minute, telling the story like you already know what's going on. By context I was able to figure out what some of the slang and proper nouns meant, but I've rarely met a book so overwhelmingly full of weird poo poo and so uninterested in explaining what anything is or what's going on, to the point that I bluntly stopped caring about the characters because I lost track of what was going on, who had what agendas, and what the stakes were beyond that the protagonists dying was probably bad. I feel like it's what you'd get if Guillermo del Toro sat down to write a book, bearing in mind that the guy's a master of visual storytelling but not so good at dialogue or interested in explaining anything with words.
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Bilirubin posted:Hate to be the one to tell you but that was the high point of the trilogy Also, obligatory "don't support Simmons."
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jesus WEP posted:I just finished Slow Horses by Mick Herron and I liked the story and whatnot, but there was something about the author's style of writing that picked away at my enjoyment. Like he would build suspense in a kinda artificial way by just describing something poorly
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Turbinosamente posted:It could be worse, I could be in here talking up some Holmes fanfic. I don't think I've read a single one of those that was good and most are forgettable, although I don't think I will forget the one that ended with a transforming mech train because that was hilariously stupid even for a steampunked Victorian setting. And yet I am still foolishly drawn to post Doyle Holmes junk like a moth to a flame even though I know it will be garbage.
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escape artist posted:I tried to start it as my first Eco and while I was impressed by the scope of it, I was also not up to the challenge. So it's been sitting on my book shelf next to House of Leaves, another book where I did the same thing. Read a fraction of it and never got the courage to work up to it.
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White Coke posted:What do people think about Island of the Day Before, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Lorna, and Numero Zero? I don't see those come up nearly as much as the other novels. Numero Zero has a really weak plot and while the pseudo-journalistic setting is interesting, it doesn't spend anywhere near as much on it as it could. The whole book feels rushed. The Island of the Day Before is kind of the opposite, it is very long, it really drags especially in the early shipwrecked sections but once it gets going it goes hard, might have my favorite Eco finale but getting there is a journey and a half. Mysterious Flame of Queen Loanna is probably his weirdest book, most of it is a personal retelling of half a century of Italian culture which might tickle your interest a bit but the actual story in there is almost an afterthought. I think it's my least favorite of his novels although probably not the actually worst (fairly sure Numero Zero takes that cake.) anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 13:26 on Mar 7, 2024 |
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PurpleXVI posted:Having just finished Empire of the Ants by Bernard Weber I feel like I'm going to return to never reading any French book more recent than the Count of Monte Cristo. It's meandering, weird, seems to have no point, has nothing approaching a traditional story structure, the ants are written more like real people than the humans are and the author is some sort of hardcore racist who considers understanding foreigners like Tibetans, Hindus or the Japanese to be as complex and impossible as understanding ants.
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Good-Natured Filth posted:The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho: A fable about a boy trying to find his destiny. The author's philosophy and religion were front and center the entire time, and the writing was simplistic. The message of the book is essentially "don't be afraid to reach for your dreams," but also "if you don't do this, you're wasting your life." Additionally, "destinies are for men only." I didn't care for it.
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Carmack is an Ayn Rand fan so I'd argue the psycho assessment is correct at least to an extent.
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