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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? July 15 (discuss.online)
submitted 9 months ago by dresden@discuss.online to c/books@lemmy.world
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Finished Tripwire by Lee Child, third book in the Jack Reacher series.

Ending was expected, but I guess if you have such a long running series, pretty much ending will always be expected. Bad guy meets Reacher, bad guy loses, Reacher wins. Fun to read though, which is the main point. Going to keep reading them.

Don't think it ticked any of the Bingo boxes though.

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

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[โ€“] ZDL@lazysoci.al 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The repetition between chapters happens because the storyteller of a given story doesn't know if you know the origin story or not. (It's like how every damned Superman or Spider-Man or whatever movie always has to show how Superman/Spider-Man came to be.) Within chapters it could be part of an oral recitation thing with the repetitions being vestigial choruses. There is a lot of scholarship around this novel, and I'm not really deeply involved in any of it. I'm a situation- and opportunity-driven dabbler.

[โ€“] TheFerventLion@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the insight!