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What are you reading these days?
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction or poetry, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit.
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction or poetry, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit.
Going through Altered Carbon and its sequels after finishing Dungeon Crawler Carl 8
Carbon and half way through book 2 broken angels:
Book is better than the strangely inconsistent show. Book 2 is eh from a couple of angles. Main issue is that while not frequent there are some seriously overwritten sex scenes. I won’t go into my full rant and confusion here but Jesus I get it he fucks.
DCC8:
Think 7 and 8 are my favorites so far. Impressed with how effortlessly the author makes tying out plot points look
Fellowship of the Ring. I've never read LotR and I'm trying to fix that..again. I've tried to read these books dozens of times going back to the 00s when the movies came out.
But anyway, I'm enjoying it a lot. Them Hobbit boy just left the Old Forest outside Buckland and I really like how long its taken to get to this point. Both in terms of the time passage between events and the scale of how long it takes to get from point A to B. Not at all a knock against the films, but Bilbo's party, Gandalf's departure, return, Frodo' departure, and Frodo's arrival in Bree all seems to happen over the course of a few weeks at most. Whereas in the books Galdalf was off doing whatever he does for 17 YEARS! And just the halfway point to Bree has taken a couple of days with exciting adventure happening the entire way.
Again, not a knock on the films. There's no way that pacing would work in a movie (maybe not even a show), but it's welcomed in a book :)