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FOLLOWING HER SERIES, HUGO, NEBULA, AND WORLD FANTASY-NOMINATED DEBUT SERIES, N. K. JEMISIN RETURNS WITH A CAPTIVATING NEW TALE.
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"Seriously. another book that tells you how to live a good life? Don't we have enough of those? You'd think …
Existential Psychotherapy is a book about existential psychotherapy by the American psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom, in which the author, addressing …
It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, …
Have you ever felt like a hamster on a wheel, furiously churning your way through life but somehow going nowhere? …
The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's …
Nope. I can't. If you love the word "smile" you're in for a treat, because this author uses it at least once a paragraph. And I can't stand it enough to finish. The ideas and characters aren't worth the anguish of stabbing myself in the eyes with rusty nails just to continue reading "smile, smiling, smiled, smiles" SHUT UP. Get a thesaurus for God's sake, and a better editor.
The Fellowship of the Ring is the first of three volumes of the epic novel …
Let's be real, I'm never finishing this series and I just need to accept that. I love the lore and the world. I love the stories. But I HATE the prose. I'll stick to the extended versions of the films, thank you.
Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History …
Had to DNF this. It's not that the material is bad or not interesting. I think maybe the writing is just too....disengaging for me, and the subject matter is a little too broad. Not a bad book. Just not for me.
A true tragedy. Don't expect a happy ending because you won't get one. I keep thinking about how this book is about the stupidity of men. Because if Ed had any emotional intelligence, any sense of intelligence, he could have used his words, made plans and actually had a future with him and Alex together. But his stupidity costed lives.
DNF
It's really weird how the balance of starting us in the middle of the action vs the slow buildup in an origin story is SO delicate. You get one element wrong and the whole thing just feels off. If you do a slow buildup then it can take too long to get going. But if you throw us right into the action you can easily gloss over details that the reader really should have been there for.
Will's story is the perfect example of this. It wouldn't have been boring to give us bits of his life on the run with his mother, what happened when she died, the servants who were confidants. But they don't give us this information until right in the middle of things and having characters try to "explain" the story to people who were there when it happened?
So the story simultaneously is trying …
DNF
It's really weird how the balance of starting us in the middle of the action vs the slow buildup in an origin story is SO delicate. You get one element wrong and the whole thing just feels off. If you do a slow buildup then it can take too long to get going. But if you throw us right into the action you can easily gloss over details that the reader really should have been there for.
Will's story is the perfect example of this. It wouldn't have been boring to give us bits of his life on the run with his mother, what happened when she died, the servants who were confidants. But they don't give us this information until right in the middle of things and having characters try to "explain" the story to people who were there when it happened?
So the story simultaneously is trying to tell you two different things with a weird narrative voice.
One is like: So this boy is working on the docks, he's poor, and he finds this mirror and sees this chick and now people are chasing him. Oh, and he wasn't always poor. And so they're chasing him through the str- oh, and also he had a mother, street and he's bobbing and weavin- oh, and that mother? She's dead now. So anyway.
The other is like: Two characters are meeting up after a traumatic event. A death or something.
Guy number one says "Hi, Keith, my best friend since we were kids who I was really close to before the death of my sister he caused by drunk driving. How are you?"
Keith says "Yes, Brad. I was there, and driving drunk, and I killed your sister Bethany, who is your sister."
It's a mess.
So yeah, it's a no for me.
