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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening? November 19 (discuss.online)
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Finished The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King.

It was a nice book. Kind of YA, but fun to read. Pretty much a typical story of good vs bad, where good characters are super good and bad characters are super bad, with very few gray in between. Worth a read if you want a standalone fantasy novel that's quick to read.

Read The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi. My first Scalzi novel and I loved it. A very light and easy to read sci-fi, with Kaiju in them. Going to get other Scalzi novels, may start with Old Man's War.

Finally got my order my Dresden Files comics / graphic novels. So read the first omnibus, which has the original Welcome to the Jungle and graphic adaptation of first two Dresden Files novels, Storm Front and Fool Mon.

Second omnibus has all original graphic novels novels though, but will get to them later.

Just started Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. I have read it before, but it has been quite a while, so re-reading it before starting on the sequel series.

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?

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[–] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I'm on my first read through of the Witcher. I've stalled on the tower of swallows though.

It's almost cyberpunkesque in how much the world hates it's inhabitants. Which was interesting when it followed cyberpunk themes of "forget thriving, the goal is to survive this world".

But, the players are in bigger arenas now, so the world is just a shit place to be. I find myself struggling to care about the politics, or follow who's who. The early books geralt is so apathetic it didn't matter which kingdom or who's the prevailing lord. So I ,like geralt, just didn't care. Now I'm supposed to, good development for geralt. I just don't want to suddenly learn the names of 40 kingdoms, their kings, recent history etc...

The prevailing magic seems to be the vow, you're fucked in a fucked world if you break one. Cool concept, I like it, but it does get watered down because the world wants to grind you down anyway. Breaking a vow is just another excuse for the universe to hurt you. I'll probably push through this and decide if I want to keep going.

[–] dresden@discuss.online 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's an interesting way to look at it.

I don't recall there were too many names you had to remember for the story, but I read Witcher quite a while back, and didn't read all the novels, so could be forgetting it.

I liked Geralt though, and the games, so going to go back to read them all.

[–] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The early books the gang is quite small easy to follow and I enjoyed them enough to continue.

But later the cast balloons quite heavily. I did play the games and thought that would be enough, but I'm god awful names at the best of times. So scene with sorceress #15 and Lord #16 in kingdom #4 is usually me thinking "who's any of that again?"

Partly, it's because I'm reading by audio in situations where I can't easily pause and consider. Partly, because the author just spent 3 books telling me these are Eldrich forces for geralt to avoid as best as possible, so why would I try understand them. Partly, because the stories are less interesting to me now as previously mentioned.

[–] dresden@discuss.online 2 points 2 years ago

Ah okay.

I actually have the same issue with names. I have started Silmarillion multiple times but always get stuck on all the names and who is who. Plan to start it again but make a genealogy chart as I go along to remember all the names.