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.
You turned evil a lot faster than I thought you would.
Angel ,'Just Rewards (2)'
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 28079
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Dana - Jul 20, 2021 3:12:24 pm PDT #26820 of 28079
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
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 28079
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 28079
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 28079
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
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 28079
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 28079
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 28079
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 28079
"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 28079
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.