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Wanderers by Chuck Wendig, because I wanted a big sci fi thing for a beach read. People are losing all sense of themselves and walking in a steadily growing pack. They don’t respond to stimuli and they can’t be stopped. There’s loved ones shepherding them to stop them being attacked, and doctors trying to figure out wtf. Stuff to do with public opinion and politics. Gets going well and introduces the various main characters at the kind of rate where you get to know one properly before it throws more at you. Overall I loved it for the first... third I guess. And it tailed off from there. Pacing felt off in the second half after being excellent. The plot’s twists and turns started to feel heavier or more contrived or whatever. Next (re-)read is gonna be Rebecca because it’s one of my all-time favourites and I only ever read it once
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TommyGun85 posted:I hope you are being sarcastic...
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there’s no way it’s not an affectation lmao
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i was expected to wear a tie to work as late as 2016
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I read my first Famous Five novel (they go on a picnic) and it was the most boring thing I've ever endured. I'm glad my older siblings warned me not to read them when I was a kid. Took me a week to finish because I kept getting so bored I couldn't take it in one sitting.
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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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Magic Hate Ball posted:Dune by Frank Herbert was a way breezier read than I was expecting, though that might just be because the only memory I have of reading it in middle school was struggling really hard to wrap my head around the prose. For the most part, it's just good old fashioned medieval mythmaking with a bunch of sci-fi bells and whistles, but you can tell how much work Herbert put into those bells and whistles to create a vividly realized world with a lot of depth behind all the casual tossed-off references. I do think the first half of the book is far better than the second half, if just because the intrigue there is more...intriguing, and Herbert has a tough time shaping Paul's arc in the final third into a manageable dramatic shape. He also has a habit of using thudding internal monologues to communicate things that either have already been told to us, or could have been worked more organically into the text, but it's also fun seeing the ways that people work at cross-purposes, even if it doesn't always feel organic. I was also surprised by how nondescript it is, but maybe that's down to expectations set by the wild visuals of Lynch's film, and the grand scale of Villeneuve's.
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my experience of it was “what if resident evil 4 made even less sense” e: i did kinda like it once i accepted it was less gothic fiction and more b-movieish pulp
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