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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? August 05 (discuss.online)
submitted 9 months ago by dresden@discuss.online to c/books@lemmy.world
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Had a pretty busy work week, hardly got time to read anything. So still on The Sunlit Man by Brandon Sanderson.

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

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[–] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I can't read Card's stuff anymore. The 3rd and 4th Game books got real weird, and I only finished them because I didn't have much else to read. The first Shadow book about Bean was pretty decent, but it was mostly a retelling of Game from another perspective instead of a new story.

[–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The Shadow series covers what happens on Earth after the events at battle school as all kinds of conflict breaks out globally, but it mostly centers on Bean , Petra, and Achilles, along with Peter Wiggin taking on a leadership role.

But a lot of it is just weird, and much like how the later Ender books go batshit, the later Shadow books involve Bean’s gigantism and sending his descendants into space.