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Everyone should read this book. While it speaks to a very particular interrogation of class, it transcends the quotidian by ruthlessly dissecting every interaction on a psycho-analytic but quasi moral level. Naoise Dolan‘s prose is also without a doubt the cleanest I‘ve read in any author under forty. The elegance of the prose is not dissimilar to mid century modern design; purposeful clean lines that lift the mundane into the extraordinary.

"Stolen name, stolen sky. Stolen children, stolen years. What had the Mesarthim been, Lazlo thought, but thieves on an epic scale."

Lets just say i am team Laini Taylor till i die.

I am very vulnerable to outrageous ideas even when they fail. This book doesnt always work.its a very very weird book. But the parts that do, really fucking do. I will be reading whatever Hawkins writes next. I dont know what it says about me that i was rooting for carolyn. May God forgive me, but please keep bringing on the weirdness.
Any good book must entertain, and this one does.
I want to study the catalogue of the futures that never were

Sally rooney is an excellent writer. Her greatest strength is her emotive prowess. She might be a top ten writer on the topic of the discursive practices of emotivity. However, this book is a weaker enunciation of the subject she began in conversations with friends; why are contextual identities so fraught?
I will read anything Rooney writes, but this is not her best work. 'Normal people' knows what it wants, but not how to fully express it.

The best debut i have read since blood song, and the name of the wind. Sweet baby Jesus! This is epic high fantasy at its glorious best. I dont know who alec hutson is , but damn the brother can write. Did you love the wheel of time? Then pick up this book.

Theodor Adorno in a rather terrible exposition on jazz once accidentally described the state of speculative fiction. "Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different and integrates into the omnipotent realm of the profane". Has anyone said anything better about spec Fiction? Speculative fiction typically requires that you trade off depth for marketability. However, Anders is a fucking genius. This book has soul. DAMN!

Bergman does a very good point of illustrating -perharps unintentionally- that history doesnt repeat itself, but it rhymes. When a nation grows up believing (this is key) that they are at the eternal threat of genocide, then everything is justified and nothing is immoral.

"It is very hard to predict how history will proceed after someone is shot in the head"

I was a girl, once. A foolish girl who did one foolish thing. But that led to another foolish thing. Foolish became disastrous,disastrous became murderous, and murderous became damned.

Pick pick pick!!!
Sanderson is simply the ronaldo of epic fantasy. This series will replace the malazan book of the fallen as the gold standard of epic fantasy.

Nothing exceptional here, but what Hair tries to do, he does well. Amazing world ; if a bit similar to ours culturally.
If you're looking for something truly exceptional to read; nothing here to see. If you just wanna be entertained with fantasy, you have picked up a good book.

Great premise. Wonderful attempt at execution. Mr price's characters are a little flat, especially the women. However it was a truly exhilarating read. Looking forward to the conclusion of the series.

Damn!! Damn!! Damn!
Did i say Damn? I'm gonna ignore the details of the book and just talk about the incredible awesomeness of Toni Morrison; part time writer, and full time Goddess. I crossed the thousand book mark 6 months ago, and i decided to re read all of her works. She is magic, her prose is sublime, her characterisation of the afro experience; second to none. I strongly suspect that she is the best american writer ever bar none.

Damn!

Africanism is the vehicle by which the American self knows itself as not enslaved, but free; not

repulsive, but desirable; not helpless, but licensed and powerful, not history-less, but

historical; not damned, but innocent; not a blind accident of evolution, but a progressive

fulfillment of destiny‘‘

Too often grimdark serves as a literary aesthethic that makes a book a "tough" read, or "intensely" written. R.F kuang takes that notion and says "fuck that shit". There is horror in history; real actual horror. By basing her book on the niajing massacre;An event that western history barely annotates, Kuang has pushed the boundaries of speculative fiction. Kuang is not a fantasy princess. She's on the path to Godhood. Witness the birth of a star.