I'm pretty sure I read most of that series (if it's the one I'm thinking of ... possibly another by the same author). Offhand, I'd say avoid it.
Oh, God. Oh, God. My hair. My hair! The government gave me bad hair!
Cordelia ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Toddson - Jul 20, 2021 2:21:21 pm PDT #26819 of 28388
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Dana - Jul 20, 2021 3:12:24 pm PDT #26820 of 28388
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I feel like Jessica might have opinions about it? Or has read it more recently than I? I just remember that the dude starts with leprosy and gets more depressed from there.
Cashmere - Jul 20, 2021 5:06:39 pm PDT #26821 of 28388
Now tagless for your comfort.
Spoiler Alert was a treat, and it's getting a sequel later this year!
YAY! I loved it. I need to go pre-order the sequel. It definitely hit me in a fandom way, sort of like William Gibson's Pattern Recognition did.
I just discovered THIS and can't wait to order the audiobook. YUMMY!
I just finished the audio for Winter's Orbit and am totally in love. I read the book but picked up the audio when I found out that the narrator worked on Alexis Hall's For Real and his voice is like buuuuuuuuutttter.
Calli - Jul 21, 2021 12:26:22 pm PDT #26822 of 28388
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Lord Foul's Bane
Oh, yeah, that guy. I picked it up back when I was reluctant to not finish a book. I did not finish it. Picture Heinlein if he wrote in fantasy instead of SF and made whining his narrative mode of choice.
Jessica - Jul 21, 2021 12:33:44 pm PDT #26823 of 28388
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I feel like Jessica might have opinions about it? Or has read it more recently than I?
It doesn't sound familiar but I think I may have tried to read another Donaldson series and bailed on it? (Or maybe it was this one and I bailed so hard I forgot it existed?)
-t - Jul 21, 2021 1:40:58 pm PDT #26824 of 28388
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, huh, the book I vaguely remember reading that I know I disliked but can't remember the title or the author but sort of think might have been Donaldson was handed to me by a big Heinlein fan. So that tracks.
This is the problem with just poking around and saying to myself "I know that name, maybe I should read this one" because sometimes I know the name because I definitely do not want to read their stuff but that part of gets lost in my terrible-to-nonexistent mental filing system
Toddson - Jul 21, 2021 2:48:47 pm PDT #26825 of 28388
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I find that if I go on Amazon, look up the book and check the sample I can usually figure out if I've read it.
-t - Jul 21, 2021 2:59:58 pm PDT #26826 of 28388
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Sometimes I can read the whole book again and only when I get to the actual end be sure that, yes, I had read that before. It's pretty embarrassing.
ETA I think I bought 3 copies of All Tomorrow's Parties like that.
DavidS - Jul 21, 2021 3:19:53 pm PDT #26827 of 28388
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
ETA I think I bought 3 copies of All Tomorrow's Parties like that.
Ha! You can always keep a little book journal. I know several people who have a journal they've kept since youth where they simply note all the books they've read in a year.
-t - Jul 21, 2021 3:31:48 pm PDT #26828 of 28388
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That sounds like something I would enjoy and yet in actual practice seems to be something I would never come close to doing. Just think how many different ways I could lose the journal! Assuming I remembered to make the notes, which is a big assumption. No, no, I will embrace my fuzzy reading history with all its gaps and elisions. Remembering that "oh, yes, I *did* read that AND I have opinions!" can be pretty fun, too, when it happens.