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To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.
I'm reading "Petersburg" as part of our book club, but because it's a one chapter per week basis I started "Brothers Karamazov" this week as I never read it before and I recently got a wonderful edition by Editora 34 (the only Dostoevsky book I had read was C&P).
So far I wonder if terrible fathers are just a recurrent theme on Dostoevsky's works.
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Finally finished Mistborn by Sanderson. Overall I disliked it but I really disliked a lot of its ending. In the final few chapters he fits way to many dumb twists. Scenarios where one character was planning something the whole time that just seemed unrealistic and aligns to well with things that there was know way he could have predicted. And not kidding there are actually 5 separate main character is hopelessly doomed only to be rescued unexpectedly by an ally. Some of them back to back. Its just the same cliche moment happening back to back losing all the little impact it had.
I think I enjoyed the experience as a whole but that might be because I read so infrequently. It is nice how Sanderson seems to put a lot of thought into how magic works in his stories but I just don't agree with his thoughts lol. For example he makes clear that the magic ability can only push and pull but then he seems to break that law with no good explanation.
Also I realized I just don't care about so much of writing. I never want to read what the carpets were like in the Castle or whatever that really doesn't interest me at all.
Now I am going to read The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie which people tell me is better.
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I recently finished a reread actually. I somewhat concur. He had good thoughts about this bleak empire ruled by a god king, a good design of a thieving crew but then he got lost in the sauce.
He clearly wanted the big bad beaten in a single book which is argue actually served him poorly (I've read the series before).
I would've enjoyed a book about them working jobs in the lead up to some heist, all the while being hunted by a single Inquisitor. I think it would've fleshed out the terrifying aspect of them. As it is, the book was alright but the ending is rushed.
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