Yeah, I'm taking a break from the series after I finish this book.
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What are you reading? (January 2014)
- Thread starter Maklershed
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Yeah, I'm taking a break from the series after I finish this book.
Go read The Story of the Stone instead.
CharminUltra
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I just started reading Fahrenheit 451. Im about five or six pages in, but since I just finished reading Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut I am not too keen on Bradburys prose. It feels like going from driving on a paved street to a rocky side road. Im sure Ill get used to it eventually.
*Not a knock against Ray Bradbury. Its just that the styles are so different it feels jarring. Im sure F451 is a fine book.
*Not a knock against Ray Bradbury. Its just that the styles are so different it feels jarring. Im sure F451 is a fine book.
I just started this a few days ago. Which translation are you reading?
Pevear and Volokhonsky, if he did his research!
That's reassuring; it's the one I bought.
Life after Life wasn't doing anything for me, so started this on a whim. Can't remember who recommended it, but it's gud. Up there with First Law and Black Company etc.
Blood Song by Anthony Ryan
The next one is coming out in a few months! Super excited
AngmarsKing701
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Well... Men did nearly destroy the world and ended the highly advanced civilization that existed in the past. At least that's what I kept muttering to myself through the worst of it. *Pulls Braid*
Anyway I'm about to start reading The Lies of Locke Lamora since I keep seeing it mentioned in threads like this. Pleasantly enough my local library seems to have the whole trilogy instead of their habit of having only odd or only even numbered books from a series. Though the first one was in the Mystery/Detective section, the second was in general fiction, and the thirds in SiFi/Fantasy.
AngmarsKing701
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Haven't read Lynch yet but I think there are only three books available of a longer series. Saw your comment about a trilogy and just wanted to let you know that those three books do not complete the series.
Just looked it up, only the first three are out. It's a trilogy to me until I can hold book 4 in my hands. Heh
82 volumes!?
AngmarsKing701
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#exaggeration
I think it's 7 or 8. I read the first 6 or so. It's good but I read them back to back and just got worn out.
Do you mean the Barry Hughart novel? I've already read all the Master Li books, but I wish I could read them again for the first time.
*Sniff*
I think the best way to think about this, or at least I think the intention of Jordan with the whole skewed power of the sexes, was to flip the roles that happened during the actual past. If you flip women with men there, society wasn't that far away from expecting women to be helpless to walk more than three steps with out a man. I agree that Jordan takes it far and exaggerates to an extreme, but it is an interesting approach at least in my mind. I think he definitely had a point in that the reactions of most people who read the series are so strong towards women, but a lot of people just don't think twice about how women were treated as completely dependent in the past.
Now, as the men clearly show themselves to be competent, fantastically so for many (Lan, Rand (sometimes), Matt, etc) it becomes more absurd for the women to always act as if they know best and try to tell men what to do, but again I think that was part and parcel of Jordan's attempt to flip traditional gender roles.
Maklershed
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