Violentvixen
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Nice! I actually didn't realize there was a sequel, I found it interesting enough that I'd read that for sure.So, this was really great. Will definitely check out the sequel some time next year.
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Nice! I actually didn't realize there was a sequel, I found it interesting enough that I'd read that for sure.So, this was really great. Will definitely check out the sequel some time next year.
Really enjoyed this one, probably not a surprising opinion. Going to try to read Red Country before the year is up. Have no interest in The Heroes though. Currently reading "What Do You Mean, Murder?" Clue and the Making of a Cult Classic by John Hatch. For my monthly reread, it's The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice, and much like I gave myself a project in November with that Madonna bio, December I'm reading A Suitable Boy by Vikram SethFinally started on Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie. My tentative plan is to binge the Age of Madness trilogy next month
The Heroes is my favorite one. If you're into the rest of Abercrombie's stuff what is it about The Heroes that disinterests you?Really enjoyed this one, probably not a surprising opinion. Going to try to read Red Country before the year is up. Have no interest in The Heroes though. Currently reading "What Do You Mean, Murder?" Clue and the Making of a Cult Classic by John Hatch. For my monthly reread, it's The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice, and much like I gave myself a project in November with that Madonna bio, December I'm reading A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Yep. One of my favorites that I read this year.Finished Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez yesterday. This was a really interesting one. The book is many things: horror story, family story, even a bit of post-dictatorship Argentina story. One of the things I liked about it was how quickly it can shift in tone, turning from scenes of domestic life to magic and violence on a dime. It's a bit of a slow burn, but I think it's worth it.
didn't care too much for the charactersThe Heroes is my favorite one. If you're into the rest of Abercrombie's stuff what is it about The Heroes that disinterests you?
Oh nice! It was my first Hemingway too, seven or eight years back. Perhaps embarrassingly, I picked it up immediately after watching Midnight In Paris which does quite well at evoking some nostalgia for that time and place, even though I didn't really know much about it beforehand.Reading A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway for my Classics Book Club
I just got that from the library! Probably not starting it until the weekend but excited.Finished the book on Clue, and for my new nonfiction, I'm reading Patrick Stewart's Making It So
Finished the book on Clue, and for my new nonfiction, I'm reading Patrick Stewart's Making It So
Would love to hear how you both find it!I just got that from the library! Probably not starting it until the weekend but excited.
Of a book you haven't read?didn't care too much for the characters
don't they feature characters from the first trilogy?Of a book you haven't read?
I'm about a third of the way through and loving it so far.Would love to hear how you both find it!
Yaaaaaaay another Adrian Tchaikovsky fan! Children of Ruin is my favorite book of his that I've read so far, but I also highly recommend the Final Architecture series if you'd like something in more of a space-opera vein. As author's go, he is ridiculously prolific, but I've never read anything he wrote that wasn't at least okay.Finished Children of Time and loved it. Would happily root for uplift spiders again any day. The people-part was good too but a little more frustrating at times. Anyway, I proceeded immediately to pick up the sequels and have started Children of Ruin, which has already proven interesting again in just the first section. This Tchaikovsky guy might be on to something!
I think I'm landing around here somewhere. Ruin hasn't quite grabbed me the same way Time did, so far, I think because the octopuses (and the alien habitat) are less relatable than the spiders' developing civilization. Though this might also be my headspace at the moment (which is also not great).It might have just been my headspace at the time (which wasn't great), but I found the octopus sections of Children of Ruin borderline incomprehensible, in a way that I didn't with the spider sections of Children of Time. I just had a really tough time understanding what was going on. I'm glad to hear there's a lot more Adrian Tchaikovsky where that came from, though.
Finished it, just in time to squeak in under the wire for 2023. I did come around more on Children of Ruin by the end and overall I really liked it, though the Octopuses never did get as relatable or fun as the spiders did. I like CoTime better, but I'd still recommend Ruin to anyone wondering whether to follow up on Time.I think I'm landing around here somewhere. Ruin hasn't quite grabbed me the same way Time did, so far, I think because the octopuses (and the alien habitat) are less relatable than the spiders' developing civilization. Though this might also be my headspace at the moment (which is also not great).