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A FELLOW GENTLEMAN AND SCHOLAR

 

Just saw your previous post. Can we be best friends? haha. This is my favorite non-SFF novel

 

That book literally changed my life the first time I read it. So we can absolutely be best friends. I’m
impatiently waiting for the English translation of book four to come out in January.

 

i had the same reaction to it. I read it my last semester of undergrad. I've since gotten the audiobook and listen to it every couple years. The narrator is incredible and its a fun new way to experience it. You should check it out

 

I’ve got the audio; should give it a listen.

 

Finished The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay this morning. Really enjoyed it. Now I'll be starting to reread the Harry Potter books for podcasting purposes. I'm sure I'll read other books while I do that since it might end up being more of a skim for HP.

 

Link up the HP pod when it's released

 

Will do! The plan is to do one per book, so I'll post them here as I get them up. Won't all be in a row but maybe one a month going forward. Not sure on the scheduling just yet.

 

just finished Dostoyevsky’s Brothers K

absolute fucking masterpiece

so pissed he never got to write the follow up

it is self contained and a wonder but it also sets the stage for so much awesomeness we will never read

a true fucking master

 

Recent books I have read and recommend:

Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50 by Agnès Poirier

Young China: How the Restless Generation Will Change Their Country and the World by Zak Dychtwald

Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine by Joe Hagan

Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime by Dan Hancox

Torn (The Unraveled Kingdom #1) by Rowenna Miller (Fiction - Fantasy)

The Disappearance of Winter's Daughter by Michael J. Sullivan (Fiction - Fantasy)

Not so recent books I have recently read and recommend:

Legions of Boom: Filipino American Mobile DJ Crews in the San Francisco Bay Area by Oliver Wang

The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain from Vienna 1900 to the Present by Eric R. Kandel

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

All of these are on Audible, except for Legions of Boom.

 

Would anyone be interested in doing a Wheel of Time book club? I’ve been dragging my feet in book two for a while for no reason and would love a group of people reading along with me. Obviously we’d start with Eye of the World still.

 

Me, in th the middle of a different fantasy book club: I probably don’t have the time.

Also Me, lifelong WoT junkie: LETS GO

 

Yeah something like that, you don’t even need to read along if you don’t want to. Will just be nice to have more people in the discussion.

 

We have a WoT thread that’s decently active too

 

sigh

I MIGHT be willing to give WoT another try

 

Yeah there's always people in the WoT thread

 

I’m about halfway done with the series for the first time. I wouldn’t go back and reread the earlier books but I’d hop in on the discussion

 

Yeah I’m mostly worried about spoilers if I go in there, is all.

 

I don’t remember that being a problem, it’s regularly frequented by people getting into the series for the first time

 

I plan on doing a complete reread of Wheel of Time after I finish Oathbringer .

 

same, but thats going to mean finishing oathbringer which is taking me forever

 

Yeah I don't expect to be finished any time shortly. Absolute beast of a book!

 

currently in the middle of book 4 of WoT and fucking hate it. I think its one of those things that if its one of your first epic fantasies than its great. but if you are pretty seasoned, then the limitations are impossible to ignore

 

I read A LOT of fantasy and I disagree, although I'd say book four is not nearly far enough to have real thoughts on the series anyway. If anything, that's the problem WoT has, haha.

 

I've finished 8 books now and have had some real ups and downs. There's been some books I've loved, while books 7 and 8 have been a slog to get through (which I've heard this section I'm reading now is generally seen as the slowest/worst books of the series). I hope I find the ending of the series more enjoyable cause right now the thought of still having 6 more books to read is pretty daunting.