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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > TBB Annual Reading Challenge 2017 - Book Lives Matter
 
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Strong Mouse
Jun 11, 2012

You disrespect us. You drag corpses around. You steal, and you hurt feelings!

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Prepare to die!
I'll do this! Maybe I'll actually hit my goal this year instead of only getting 11

Name: Strong Mouse
Number: 50
Booklord: Let's do this


I should get 7 fairly easily as I am reading the Harry Potter books for the 20th anniversery, though I'm not going to count them for any of the challenges except 1-3.

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Strong Mouse
Jun 11, 2012

You disrespect us. You drag corpses around. You steal, and you hurt feelings!

RRRRRRRAAAAARGH!

Prepare to die!

bowmore posted:

Read my first book, The Magicians by Lev Grossman.

The first half of the book is like if Brett Easton Ellis wrote Harry Potter in the mid 2000's

The second half kind of felt like Dresden Files if Harry Dresden was a grumpy piece of poo poo stuck in the fairy realms

It was trying to do a lot of things and say some other things while meandering all over the place, despite this, I enjoyed it and the gradual discovery of The Magicians world.

That is one of the 2 books that I have rated as 1 star on GR. One of the reasons is probably because I had just read a book that is probably on of my all time favorites now, and the Magicians just ended up hitting all of my pet peeve buttons through the book. I think not-Narnia was actually really cool, I just wish that the characters had a little bit more personality than :emo:.


I have since started the second, and I already think it is better, though it's been put in my procrastinate pile, so I have no idea when I'll actually get around to finishing it.

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