I'm..honestly kind of glad I read this. Considering all the praise the series gets, I thought it was just me who read the first book and was like "eh no more of that plz"Just finished Autority by Jeff VanderMeer:
Simply one of the worst book I've ever read. The first one (Annihilation) was passable enough that I somewhat had an interest to check out the second in the trilogy, big mistake. The writing style is simply unbearable, once I figured that the second half of every sentence was totally unnecessary and was only added for padding, I flew by every page to get this shit done as fast as possible. This is a story that needed about 50 pages and ended up being 200 to satisfy some publisher somewhere.
Amazing quote from the book:
"The ziggurats of illogic erected by your average domestic terrorist as he or she bought the fertilizer or made a detonator took on their own teetering momentum and power."
What the fuck. I wish I took notes of some other amazing sentences because it's filled with shit like this.
Same thing for both: I liked the first halves of those books more than the second halves. First half of The North Water felt way more tense, intriguing, and compelling, while the second half and end was kind of anticlimactic IMO
It's Gaiman re-writing Norse myths in his style? Might have to check it out, I was obsessed with Greek mythology as a kid but never dove into Norse as deeplyJust finished
Really, really enjoyed this. Gaiman's writing really helped me become interested in the many stories that he presented. I wasn't sure if I would like it since I haven't ever been super invested in Norse Mythology, always enjoyed Greek more. I took a chance on it due to Gaiman being masterclass. I really would recommend this, even if you were on the fence. The stories are short and quick enough but they are almost all worth reading through. Good stuff!
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I thought Annihilation was pretty cool but not great. I expected the sequels to improve upon that, but I don't think they really did.
Just finished this:
And now reading this:
I'm really liking the standalone books. The Northmen are the best part of Abercrombie's world, so I really like some of the character and story elements that have been happening.
Also the standalone books have less comma splicing than the trilogy...a small pet peeve of mine, haha.
Those two books came up while I researching current cosmic horror/Lovecraftian novels.Bird Box I finished last week - this is one that I think is more fun to think about than it was to read. The author did a great job of setting up a premise that's pretty ridiculous, but I wasn't exactly on the edge of my seat worrying about whether or not the characters survived or not. But plot-wise - and the logistics of dealing with the book's main threat - is one of those great exercises in "what would I do in a situation like that" - basically like keeping a running "Zombie Survival Guide" running in the back of your mind the whole time.("gazing at some unknown entity basically makes you go bath-salts face-eating mad")
After reading The Fisherman by John Langan, I think I was a little spoiled and may have been too hard on the above two
Thata a great woodworking reference book. You a woodworker like myself? I have been looking for woodworkers on GAF.
