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Weekly "what are you reading" Thread #73 :marseyreading:

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To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.

@nuclearshill is busy (more like bussy) so I'm running this for a month

!bookworms

The foid is making me read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People :marseyrope:

@Mummyvann :marseypin2: pls

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I've been reading the Warlord Trilogy, a grounded(ish) take on Arthurian legend with a focus on the ethnic and religious conflicts of ancient Britain that tend to get smoothed out of modern retellings. The first book sticks close to historical fiction, while the second (so far) appears to brush closer to fantasy/mystical elements.

At first I was kind of annoyed by the amount of gratuitous r*pe, murder, pedophilia, etc, but I think that by the end it helped serve the purpose of shocking the reader out of their modern perspective, while replacing it with a richly drawn setting that's more than just the edgelord elements. There are characters here who are concerned with justice, but their worldviews still feel convincingly foreign to us.

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Arthurian legend with a focus on the ethnic and religious conflicts of ancient Britain that tend to get smoothed out of modern retellings.

If you want something similar, try The Buried Giant

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