pickI love the progression of the characters from book one till now!
Having been able to read them rather one after the other definitely helps to see the progression as I appreciate that Stroud doesn't talk about the past books too much as some others, but more as a quick note and in the form of a memory or a past conversation that is coming back to the current story.
#fromthetbr #readin2023
pickI love Wagner's epic operas from the Ring of the Nibelungs cicle, but I never got to read the original saga. And here is the new prose retelling. The story is less focused on fantasy and adventures, but more on vengeance and machinations. Same old virtues, vices and misunderstandings plus a bit of medieval everyday life in its festive garments. A compelling read despite all those centuries between us and them #readin2023
so-soFast read with interesting plot twists. I wasn't too impressed with setting and sci-fi ideas, aliens weren't alien at all, featuring human ambitions. Characters are well-written, but bounded by prejudices expected rather from sci-fi of the golden age than from 27th century by a modern author in 2013. Can't get rid of the feeling that I expected something stranger and more brain-breaking from SF about aliens, religion and mushrooms #readin2023
Starting 2023 with Thomas Pynchon 📕
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