finally getting around to Castlevania..kind of a good thing since i can watch it ..like all at one shot..so far(S1) Trevor is amazing
I started the first book yesterday, I'm about halfway through now, and I'm really not enjoying it very much. It doesn't help that I typically don't enjoy books in first person, anyway, but it's just such a mishmash of so much things we've already seen elsewhere. Between Harry Potter, The Hunger Games/Battle Royale, Ender's Game, Divergent, or even older stuff like The White Mountains. So far there's been several twists and they were all pretty predictable, or at the very least not very surprising.
It's not awful, but it's just very blah. If it was a meal, it would be buttered noodles. Decent on it's own, but it's been done before. The prose is fine, I guess, although the author using the phrase "if 'a' is 'b', then 'x' is 'y" twice within about three chapters, just filling in different words for the variables. He also fell into the annoying habit of using capitalized in-universe lingo to show off how Cool and Unique his world is. Every person is assigned to a certain caste based on their birth and there is alllll sorts of eugenics going on there (similar to Brave New World, sort of), and every caste is assigned a Color. The Golds are the aristocrats and leaders, Tin serve as police, Obsidian are military, Red are the miners (and so blatantly Irish it's nearly offensive, what with their love of drinkin and dancin and singin, all they want to do is work hard and go home to their families, but they neglected and misled by theEnglishGolds). You also have stuff like the Conquering when the colonies on the Moon rebelled and took control of the solar system. It's just so Old and Tired and I am very much Over It.
There's also a good bit of rape so far in the middle third, so that's fun. I'll probably finish it, but unless it gets drastically better over the last half, I won't bother reading the rest of the trilogy.
Flyers fans.Why do you people continue to read books you arent enjoying?
Why do you people continue to read books you arent enjoying?
FANTASTIC book. One of my favorites as well. Seeing how society kept changing as the main character returned from the war was very interesting. I actually read the sequel recently, but it doesn't quite stack up.I just finished The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. Fantastic book. Easily the best sci-fi I’ve ever read.
@Surrounded By Ahos this dude wrote the book after Vietnam, and it felt like every other page he organically weaves in new words and creates believable new technologies.
I’ve heard most of his other work doesn’t stack up to it. I’d say it’d be hard pressed to. I’m going to have to read a few of his others when I clear my backlog.In this specific case, several reasons.
1) Like I said, the setting was interesting, and I was hoping to get more on it, but unfortunately the last 2/3 of the book is spent in the hungerGames on Mars.
2) It wasn't awful, I just didn't enjoy it. Books I actively hate I drop very quickly.
3) In order to legitimately complain about something, you need to finish it. I wouldn't feel right ranting about a book I had only half read.
FANTASTIC book. One of my favorites as well. Seeing how society kept changing as the main character returned from the war was very interesting. I actually read the sequel recently, but it doesn't quite stack up.
I watched the first episode with my wife and immediately gave up. Someone tell me if I'm missing anything please.Sweet Tooth is terrible
I watched the first episode with my wife and immediately gave up. Someone tell me if I'm missing anything please.
Islington was awesome with his debut trilogy. I was enthralled with all the books.Im on book 2 of The Licanius Trilogy & I am such a fan. I am a Brendan Sanderson fan so to find another high fantasy series (looking at you Malazan Book of the Fallen) that wasn't paint dry was nice.
Highly recommend if you are into high fantasy books.
Tomorrow War is a real expensive B movie.
Tomorrow War is a real expensive B movie.
A Quiet Place Part II, on the other hand, was fantastic.