EPTWhat Are You Reading 2018 - Page 13
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Silvanel
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Flicky
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goody153
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![[image loading]](https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1507307833l/34002132.jpg) Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson ( 3rd book of the Stormlight Archives series ) I'm starting to believe that Sanderson isn't actually writing a fantasy series but a theraphy book disguised as a fantasy book to lure readers. I don't know how he consistently manages to make every book of this series even better than the previous one, the scale/scope of it increasingly getting bigger. I think he keeps this up it's gonna easily end up there along with the likes of Malazan as one of the best epic fantasy series ever. Also the amount of easter eggs is insane on this one (the pre-chapter texts letters from really important figures from other series of his making and other characters from other series casually bleeding into the series if you can figure them out from the way the character acts/talks/descriptions) ![[image loading]](https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1386924412l/48484.jpg) Blindsight by Peter Watts This one just wow. I have read nothing like this before The premise is quite simple it's a scifi novel about first contact it's presentation of the fermi-paradox in a very bleak way. The themes/ideas it explores is great and it deals with futility. Fair warning though it's a great read bu it's the opposite type of book to one who inspires positivity so make sure you are in the mood to read something depressing and bleak also take some happy pills. Also yes the book fulfills the title's sense. ![[image loading]](https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1377787655l/15730101.jpg) The Call of Cthulhu by HP LoveCraft ` Read one these (heard HP Lovecraft since forever but never actually read one. ) and i finally know why he is different. All i can say about this one is that Cthulhu is Lord and no discussions I currently have alot of books in my plate and hopefully the streak continues of me reading all the stuff i like. | ||
ZerOCoolSC2
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Read Player One. Not bad so far. I've heard both good and bad about it. Haven't seen the movie yet, so I wanna read this and then go in knowing, like Harry Potter, it won't be as good but decent enough. Need to find and finish reading The Gospel of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie. I'm not a fan of industrialists, but he's earned my respect and admiration through the few chapters I have managed to read. | ||
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Silvanel
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Zergneedsfood
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xDaunt
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On April 20 2018 01:21 goody153 wrote: Just Finished: ![[image loading]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51NQZ9pkDiL._SY346_.jpg) This one is actually really good. I'll be honest i thought from the book cover text it would be a letdown and overhyped. Turns out the book cover text barely did the book any justice on how complex, detailed and good it is. If this is the first book of the series i think it might possibly be the best "first book" of a series i've ever read or maybe read. It is indeed self-contained as everybody said also one of the parts + Show Spoiler [almost made me cry] + The scholars story of why he was one of the chosen pilgrim about her daughter who is aging backwards. However i will not look for the sequels i thought the ending + Show Spoiler [Hyperion Conclusion] + Of the 7 pilgrims eventually meeting the shrike as it ties all their hopes, dreams, purpose, journey and doom together I picked up Hyperion after reading this post and then blasted through the remaining 3 books of the Hyperion Cantos. Hyperion is an exceptional novel. The Fall of Hyperion is also excellent, and I think that it is worthwhile to read after reading Hyperion just because it provides a satisfying conclusion to Hyperion's rather abrupt ending. What's important to note is that Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion are self-contained. The next two books, Endymion and Rise of Endymion, relate to the first two books, but present a whole new story, that, in some ways, changes what you think you read in Hyperion. The explanation for why this happens is good enough, but I'm not sure how necessary it really was. Regardless, the two Endymion books are also good (I prefer the Hyperion books), but they are also absolutely heartbreaking, in large part because you can see what's coming from very early on. And the inevitably only becomes worse once you figure out what the final scene is going to be. I'm kinda on the fence as to whether this is bad writing as a consequence of the author not trusting the audience enough on these points to make the foreshadowing more subtle or if he's being deliberately "obtuse" to ratchet up the emotions. | ||
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Silvanel
Poland4736 Posts
That the church fails in the end | ||
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xDaunt
United States17988 Posts
On May 26 2018 16:05 Silvanel wrote: Yes it is truly heartbreaking + Show Spoiler + That the church fails in the end Not exactly what I was getting at ;p | ||
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Nyxisto
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But overall there is just so much original stuff in the books. The study with the weird cyborg / hybrid of Lloyd Wright at Fallingwater, the aging back in time, the army of crucified and resurrected Catholics etc.., theirs really imaginative stuff in the books. | ||
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Flicky
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Silvanel
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On May 27 2018 08:17 Nyxisto wrote: The first one is definitely one of my favourite books. The second one is really great too. I enjoyed 3&4 but they were really different from the first two, I liked the non-linear narrative of the first one much more. But overall there is just so much original stuff in the books. The study with the weird cyborg / hybrid of Lloyd Wright at Fallingwater, the aging back in time, the army of crucified and resurrected Catholics etc.., theirs really imaginative stuff in the books. Illium/Olympos are very similiar in that regard. Did You read it? | ||
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IgnE
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IgnE
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On June 01 2018 05:27 Flicky wrote: The Waves by Virginia Woolf. I enjoyed To The Lighthouse more and was struck more by it, but I really love how Woolf wrote. There's something so tragically beautiful about just about everything here. I thought that I really loved Virginia Woolf, too, but near the back of my mind there was a nagging sense that maybe her writing was a little too betrayed by a womanly Stockholm Syndrome. Then I read this piece by Nell Zink, where she says: For example, just last week I was reading bits of a latish Virginia Woolf essay to an intellectual friend, and we were both like “WTF is she 17?!” It was just plain dumb. The Prime Directive (never say anything negative about a living writer) permits me to say nothing negative about living writers, but the long-dead Woolf focused on the wrong things and loved tradition blindly. It wasn’t her fault; it was the male abusers and enablers who ran her world. But as Lessing puts it, “What’s terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate.” Having a list of favorite writers that’s very short and almost exclusively male doesn’t make me a sexist. It’s our sexist world that limits women’s experiences, turning even a privileged and urbane Londoner like Woolf into a chronicler of party preparations and boat rides. (I’d give you better examples, but recall the Prime Directive.) And I think there is something right about this, despite her writing's genteel beauty. | ||
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Zergneedsfood
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xDaunt
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On June 01 2018 11:15 IgnE wrote: Does it have anything to do with Keats? Yeah, a lot, actually. | ||
Carnivorous Sheep
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nell zink sounds retarded | ||
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IgnE
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Carnivorous Sheep
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Flicky
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On June 01 2018 11:22 IgnE wrote: I thought that I really loved Virginia Woolf, too, but near the back of my mind there was a nagging sense that maybe her writing was a little too betrayed by a womanly Stockholm Syndrome. Then I read this piece by Nell Zink, where she says: And I think there is something right about this, despite her writing's genteel beauty. I think to even imply that Woolf wasn't 100% aware of the society she lived in and how it affected her is somewhat foolish. Obviously to react to a snippet of this small passage is hard, especially as it doesn't (won't?) even cite a single example to prove their point. Woolf wrote about life as she saw it, fully aware of the restrained world that women lived through and she had broken mostly out of as it was when she was alive. On top of that, her prose is up there with the greatest authors in my (admittedly limited) opinion. Do you find authors ripping on Gogol because he talked a lot about buying and selling serfs in Dead Souls? We don't do that anymore! What a privileged idiot! =/ | ||
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