Always thought the story was a work of satire directed towards the monarchy and the attitudes of people in the Victorian age.

I thoroughly enjoyed the Outlander series. Davina Porter is an amazing narrator and really makes each of the characters feel individual

Watch the 3 lotr movies and/or read the lotr books first. Silmarillion is much more into the world/universe building. It helps to have some very developed characters, even a thousand years later, as a grounding to the family trees and new characters of Silmarillion.

Sometimes I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Was this book really good? Really?

I feel like the book is a quarter of Jan Valjean's story, a quarter of completely semirelated historical descriptions of whatever, a quarter of drawn out monologues which mostly seem to be prose for prose's sake, and a quarter of historical namedropping.

I don't think describing battles or sewer systems are positive additions to the book. Curious, sure, but why on earth are they there?

100% this. If you don't want to buy a book ask your local library to order it in.

Don't pirate

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Thank you for this! I didn't know it existed. Now it's bookmarked.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and a man wanted a smoke.

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May 2023 finally be the year I read War and Peace. Been starting and stopping since 2016 lol

The original novel that put colonized individuals at the centre of a story with a political programme was Bernardin de St-Pierre's Paul et Virginie - one of the most translated books ever, though it was never all that popular in the Anglosphere. It probably influenced your book, directly or not.

I managed to read 212 books this year, and as fun as that was, I think I'd prefer to dial that back in 2023. Especially since I really fell off in the previous months and could feel the reading burnout happen. Perhaps just a desire to further expand the genres I'm interested in will be the primary goal here.

Oh, I love this book, but I've only read it in an English translation. I need to get my hands on a French copy, but that might take a while...

I like just about anything read by Stephen Fry or Wil Wheaton

But my top books are

Project Hail Mary

The Martian

Hitchhikers guid to the galaxy

And Dune but I would like to say with dune it kinda sucks because they don’t read the other books with the same narrators but dune was great

You’re not dumb at all. You enjoyed the book the way YOU wanted to enjoy it. Books can be interpreted so many ways to different people. Some like to just enjoy the story on a surface level, and that’s totally valid!

I’m aiming to read 50 books! Lofty goal, but I’m in a reading frenzy atm after not being in the mood to read for years. I’m finishing books left and right the past month!

Fiction books never have a deeper meaning, IMHO.

First time I read it, I cried freely at the end.

No I'm actually I think you're being downvoted because this is a post about your favorite chapters of the book, and you decided to comment on how much you hate it. It's just you're harshing the vibe of what we're all talking about here.

"Hey this is my favorite thing!"

" I hate your favorite thing."

So in terms of definitionally the purpose of downvoting, your comment does not contribute meaningfully to the conversation. I'm sorry you're upset though

I'm sticking with a solid 52 book resolution given that it is my last year of graduate school and I don't want to overwhelm myself too much. The emphasis will be on reading books I have already purchased, however. I've made myself a little TBR jar with the titles on wax-sealed papers to make it more fun to choose. (I will probably still buy more books).

Hi there! This sub is for discussion around published literature and industry news. Your post would be more suitable to an r/writing related community which are dedicated to these sorts of topics. Thank you!

Honestly? Paying for a popular YouTuber to review it is probably the best bang for your buck these days. But also book signing tours do still help. And conventions. And giving it away absolutely will work, particularly to people who work at book stores or libraries, basically anyone who is highly likely to have opportunities to recommend books. Giving it away at conventions is also helpful. Getting recommendations from popular authors is also huge. And of course, nothing compares to the sales you get from a TV or movie adaptation. LOL

Lovely book, one of the best. Read it again fairly recently after many years, and it still resonates, more bittersweet.

Fantasy books where each country/kingdom/faction has unique magic? Hello I look for books where the magic is different in each region/kingdom/faction/country, whit a conflict between the different forces of the world, similar to nations from The Last Airbender. A book more of action than romance. (I prefer LGBT romance) Thank you very much for any suggestion. I apologize if there is any mistake, English is not my original language.

Happy New Year!!

How have I not heard of this before? I'm usually using thriftbooks.com or the used section of Amazon.