The Book Lair - all book talk ITT

[castor212]

funny because i actually did a reread yesterday and realize it actually have some shortcomings as well as the exciting parts

may have rated it a wee bit too high

[aldeayeah]

Could you elaborate? I'm not that big on Oathbringer either, but I can't quite put my finger on what bothers me, other than a general sense of dispersion.

[castor212]

the bad parts for me are, if i have to put in words, would be "convenience" by rushing, i guess? things are moving kinda fast, which is ok on its own, but i feel like it wasnt foreshadowed, or not foreshadowed well and properly enough. the one i think is most glaring is when

Spoiler:

evreybody get the dawnchant translation of how humans were the original voidbringers, and then the alliance almost immediately broke down. its a bit out of nowhere. not that its not realistic of a reaction and outcome, but i do feel that it couldve been burned slower and better.

of course, its not the only criminal here. there are stuffs here and there that i felt slightly rushing it anc couldve been more properly foreshadowed. theyre all small things, really, but when added up it made a book that i thought to be "exhilirating" down to "p good".

so those're not really a giant fault, not at all; theyre small, but theyre everywhere

i think another problem is that sanderson crammed a lot of worldbuilding stuffs and materials, so much that it felt more like infodump. things may get foreshadowed in those infodumps, but more often than not its obscured by the overwhelming amount of theinfodump itself that it doesnt feel like proper foreshadowing. But this one is kinda an IMO.

its actualy kinda hard for me to grasp too

[aldeayeah]

I agree although I didn't have a problem with this bit:

Spoiler:

evreybody get the dawnchant translation of how humans were the original voidbringers, and then the alliance almost immediately broke down. its a bit out of nowhere. not that its not realistic of a reaction and outcome, but i do feel that it couldve been burned slower and better.

Spoiler:

It was clearly orchestrated by Mr. T; Kharbranth is a major scholarly power after all.

Also, it was foreshadowed that he was withholding that info until the most devastating moment - both in-book where he and Adrotagia were following closely the progress of the Dawnchant translations, and in the cyphered Diagram epigraph in Words of Radiance.

[castor212]

Yeah, just that i thinknit could be handled better.

Things are really jampacked in this series, most "interludes" kinda got forgotten over time for me lol

[Trubo]

I'm about to just steal the book from my dad to read.

[castor212]

is your dad not done yet or smtg

[Trubo]

Don't think he's even a quarter of the way through it.

[4score7years]

Fuck I have no idea what on Earth to read next.

I’d kind of like something not super serious or depressing, but fuck there sure are a lot of serious and or depressing books on my Plan To Read

[SeiKeo]

The Sacred Book of the Werewolf.

[Optimus]

Thinking in systems: a primer if you want to learn stuff.

[LJ3]

Been meaning to read some of Pelevin’s work

anyone doing any reading that’s related to Black History Month

[4score7years]

The Sacred Book of the Werewolf.

Thinking in systems: a primer if you want to learn stuff.

Those both sound super interesting. Thanks!

[Snow]

Three Men in a Boat

[Dullahan]

not super serious or depressing ehhhh

kolakowski's Main Currents of Marxism

[SpoonyViking]

anyone doing any reading that’s related to Black History Month

It's not really related since we observe it on November, but I have the Epic of Sundiata in my queue.

[castor212]

Finished Last Dragon Standing of the Heartstriker series by Rachel Aaron.
For an ending, it was not as epic as I hoped to be, but it was a neat closure of a happy ending.

Im fond of the series. It wasnt mindblowing or super spectacular, but it gave me a weird sense of comfiness. it just really fits me.
One of the thing I really like, for example, is how neat the magic system was. Quite a balance between soft and hard magic. An it makes sense logically and sometimes physically too.

It is not a A+++ rank series, but one that i can happily recommend to others in search of magic slash modern sort of series.

[LJ3]

I really don’t know what to make of The Vegetarian by Han Kang

like, surface level is about this woman going completely insane but I’m missing the point

what is this book even about

[Sesto]

Read the Prince of Thorns. The protagonist is a total gary stu edgelord, but it wasn't terrible.

[Frostyvale]

Thank god for you Sesto.