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Post by Shallan on Apr 10, 2023 17:51:58 GMT -5
also funnily enough despite saying in this thread that I haven’t read a book series since high school I am reading the second book in a two-book series right now it’s by Garth Greenwell, and the first book is a novel named What Belongs to You, which is about an American man living in Bulgaria and follows his relationship with a man he meets there, and the second is called Cleanness and is a collection of short stories about the same character, detailing other aspects of his life in Bulgaria outside of that one relationship, and Mitko (my phone wanted to correct that to Mitski) the other central character of the novel has not appeared in the short stories so far I really enjoyed What Belongs to You (I read the whole thing in a single day, though it was under 200 pages so that wasn’t too difficult) and I’m about halfway into Cleanness and liking it a lot so far also it’s funny bc I picked up both books from the library bc I’d heard good things about Greenwell and since both of the books were there and fairly short I decided I might as well get both of them, and I didn’t realise until I’d already issued them that they were about the same narrator however they don’t necessarily have to be read in order, if I’d picked up Cleanness first and not also gotten What Belongs to You I think it would have made perfect sense anyway yeah this does not sound like your typical series but i like the idea of the two books, with the same characters but just different stories
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Post by Patrick Bateman on Apr 10, 2023 18:12:38 GMT -5
i've talked so much about that article LMAO it is so weird!!!! like i do NOT understand why the author was so mean about it like sorry he's a successful fantasy writer who has a lot of fans??? like the part where Brandon was showing off his home theater and he played the greatest showman and the author was like "i hate the greatest showman and i hate hugh jackman so much that this made me cry, unlike anything brandon Sanderson has written" yeah the greatest showman part was weird as hell like clearly the article writer has some issues and was somehow at breaking point bc seeing a movie you don’t like should not make you cry if you’re a normal person
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Post by Patrick Bateman on Apr 10, 2023 18:14:32 GMT -5
and yes I finished Cleanness and enjoyed it a lot, though I would say What Belongs to You is the better book of the two and the one I would more highly recommend, I really liked how the middle section of the book went into the narrator’s childhood and family background growing up in Kentucky and I thought that was probably the most interesting part of the two books
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Post by Shallan on Apr 13, 2023 16:30:56 GMT -5
ooh maybe i will have to pick it up
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Post by Patrick Bateman on Apr 13, 2023 19:00:22 GMT -5
yes if you ever saw it somewhere I’d definitely recommend it
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Post by Shallan on Apr 22, 2023 10:39:19 GMT -5
I’m reading Tress of the Emerald Sea now, which is the first of Brandon’s four secret projects It’s v good I am enjoying it even if it came to me four months late also i have finished this and it was very good and enjoyable fun little fairy tale romp with talking mouse and surprise dragon now i just have to wait for the second secret project which should have been delivered this month but is also delayed
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Post by Patrick Bateman on Apr 22, 2023 18:34:26 GMT -5
oh no when you’re writing approximately a zillion books it makes sense that one or two would get delayed
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Post by Shallan on Apr 22, 2023 19:05:59 GMT -5
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Post by Patrick Bateman on Apr 22, 2023 19:16:20 GMT -5
oh wow I for sure thought it would be the writing took too long bc he set such ambitious goals of how much he was going to write
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Post by Shallan on Apr 23, 2023 11:13:33 GMT -5
yeah no all four are written and i think fully edited at this time? the fourth one was still in editing last year but i think it's all set to go now
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Post by Patrick Bateman on Apr 23, 2023 16:14:02 GMT -5
damn that’s a lot
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Post by Shallan on Apr 24, 2023 17:05:34 GMT -5
it's impressive
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