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31% complete! James has read 5 of 16 books.
This is Bean's installment of Orson Scott Card's Ender's saga. It is a great character …
I've read Ender's Game and always considered reading more of the saga. My mother gave me this, and I'm very intrigued by the idea of seeing the events of Ender's Game from another perspective and written by a more developed author in a different time period.
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange …
A fine book that got more compelling as it went on. Its full of nice complex ideas that don't seem to get explored.
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …
I knw about Monkey only from the TV show, that I only ever caught glimpses of. I picked up this book as I thought it woudl give an interesting insight into a story that I expected to be ancient and difficult to read as a modern reader. I found this translation to be surprisingly fun and easy to read. The characters are enjoyable and the world feel expansive, but also restricted. The introduction that explains it as partially a satire on Chinese bureaucracy helps you spot and enjoy the humour. After feeling like I was pushing myself through the last few books I read this was a breath of fresh air.
The adventures of four amiable animals, Rat, Toad, Mole and Badger, along a river in …
Another in the line of reading all the classic childrens books
Have tried to start reading this before but lost interest. Time to give it another go.
Content warning General description of characters, no plot points
Not a bad book, but pretty drawn out, kind of wish it was a shorter novel. I'm not sure if the invention of a county that has every cliché about Australia is intentionally bad, or if it's a lack of real understanding. The way Rincewind treats the 'female impersonators' is nice, but the language used by the author seems to but him more on the side of the rest of the characters, who see them as other and poor imitations.
The last in the set od Discworld book i bought at the start if the year. I can't say they've impressed me.
Interesting Times is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the seventeenth book in …
Content warning Small plot point mention
A Discworld book that is filled with outdated prejudices and assumptions about asian cultures. The over arching plot is a development of all the previous Rincewind books. The most interesting element to me was the rebel group that is actually a tool of one part of the establishment to bring down another part of the establishment.
Interesting Times is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the seventeenth book in the Discworld series, set in …
When last seen, the singularly inept wizard Rincewind had fallen off the edge of the …
Certainly the best Discworld book Ive read so far. The heavy handed theme of not needing to be who ypu are 'supposed' to be seems to elevate the book beyond 'funny magic happens in a funny world'.
When last seen, the singularly inept wizard Rincewind had fallen off the edge of the world. Now magically, he's turned …
The Light Fantastic is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the second of the …
As a person who doesn't read fantasy novels I feel I'm missing out of some of the parody and irony. The book is at the awkward age where the portrayal of women is slightly better and misogyny is acknowlwdged as bad, but there is still some unacceptable things.
The Light Fantastic is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the second of the Discworld series. It was published …
