What a bunch of bullshit. So the plot starts out as plague wipes out humanity and then turns into some mystical bollocks about a show down between good an evil. Perhaps if I wasn’t an atheist I would find it less awful, but as I am an atheist, I found the anti-intellectual, anti-progress, anti-rationalist twaddle … Continue reading
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Book review: Way of Kings
Well. I didn’t hate it has much as Final Empire which was the other book on the list from Brandon Sanderson. But that isn’t saying a whole lot because I REALLY didn’t like that book. OMG. I just found out that the Stormlight Archive, the series that Way of Kings is a part of is … Continue reading
Book review: The Mists of Avalon
I think this was the longest book on the list, almost topping 1,200 pages. And holy shit, it was totally not worth the effort. Not since reading War and Peace have I ever encountered a book so full of absolutely fucking miserable characters. And then the plot just follows along to making everyone even more … Continue reading
Book review: Cryptonomicon
I think the point where I went from being merely frustrated and annoyed at the overly long, pointless and most often trite passages of this book came around page 484. This is because the next 7 or 8 pages are solely about Randy (one of the main characters) eating Cap’n Crunch. At this point, I … Continue reading
Book review: Perdido Street Station
So, after a bit of a break, here we are. Another book, another slightly ranty blog post about said book. Beware: spoilers. I want to say I enjoyed this book as it had some lovely ideas and was all imaginative and shit but on balance, I only liked about 45% of it. Like Neal Stephenson, … Continue reading
Book review: Final Empire
Oh gawd. So remember when I complained about Dragonflight‘s setting being a caricature of medieval times? This was like a caricature of the horrible setting of Dragonflight. Not only is everything fucking awful, it’s been that way for 1000 years, there are ashfalls – like ash falling from the sky ALL THE TIME, their ruler … Continue reading
Book review: Anathem
I do not even know where to begin with this book. Okay, I do. With an editor. Holy shit. Long. So long. So overly and pointlessly long. Okay, maybe not. But LONG. It started slow, first 200 pages or so, with me going: what is the plot. What is going on. I do not understand. … Continue reading
Book review: The Name of the Wind
Or why are fantasy novels so effing long Right this isn’t so much a book review as a book rant. The Name of the Wind follows the story of an ‘arcanist’ in training named Kvothe. He’s the son of a travelling troupe but they get brutally murdered by the Chandrian (Demons? Maybe? Not even sure … Continue reading
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