LOVE her! Only wish I’d discovered her as a teenager - I know her books would have had a large impact on me. The Earthsea Quartet is great - personally I enjoyed each of the 4 stories.
LOVE her! Only wish I’d discovered her as a teenager - I know her books would have had a large impact on me. The Earthsea Quartet is great - personally I enjoyed each of the 4 stories.
@Trinu 3.0 get ha stan card laminated sis
Ursula is probably the closest thing we ever got to god walking this earth.
Whenever I remember Earthsea, I just
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The Earthsea saga is a gift that keeps giving. I recently got the full illustrated collection.
Just started Nine Perfect Strangers. Not seen the series yet, just trailers and clips, so I am going into this unspoiled. Other than picturing the characters as the actors.
Just started Nine Perfect Strangers. Not seen the series yet, just trailers and clips, so I am going into this unspoiled. Other than picturing the characters as the actors.
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Save yourself the torture, don't watch the series!
Speaking of which (hope it's OK to put in here) has anyone watched the new HBO series of Station Eleven? I believe its coming to StarzPlay which is part of Amazon Prime at the end of the month (in the UK).
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Okay but Luke Evans related torture is a kink of mine.
Not to mention the filming of this gave the world an abundance of him in a speedo on Insta so I feel obligated.
Yep, Starzplay from this Sunday. I'm watching loads of other stuff just now but might need to prioritise this because I loved the book. Also read The Glass Hotel, the author's most recent novel, last year which was excellent.
I don't say this lightly... but the show might be even better than the book.
Station Eleven is a really, really average book.
I've finally read my first Murakami novel, South of the Border West of the Sun and I loved it. Perfect amount of melancholia.
I tried some of his short stories first - the ones who inspired the movies Burning and Drive My Car and a couple others - and they didn't do anything for me. But then again I'm not biggest fan of short stories but there are exceptions! I also tried Norwegian Wood last year but that was a bit too boring for me so I quit about 30% in.
I'm thinking about going with "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki..." or perhaps "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running" next before jumping into his most bonkers stuff.
I tried some of his short stories first - the ones who inspired the movies Burning and Drive My Car and a couple others - and they didn't do anything for me. But then again I'm not biggest fan of short stories but there are exceptions! I also tried Norwegian Wood last year but that was a bit too boring for me so I quit about 30% in.
I'm thinking about going with "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki..." or perhaps "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running" next before jumping into his most bonkers stuff.
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It's not realistic. (Sorry, totally missed the thread!)
The Glass Hotel is great, I agree! Her next novel 'Sea of Tranquility' is out in April, I believe.
I'm reading her right now! Some of her earliest sci-fi works, Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile and City of Illusions, which are all set in the Hainish Cycle (just as The Disposessed and The Left Hand of Darkness are). They are leaner and don't offer the overarching, advanced critiques of socioeconomics and gender that those two do, but are very pleasing and often poignant in terms of character work. In that sense, they're quite similar to her fantasy books, too.
She is one of those rare writers with not just an overwhelming imagination but the precise skill to explore that imagination in ways that make you rethink our own world. A legend an icon never bettered
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Just finished Nine Perfect Strangers and I think I liked it? It was a bit of a whiplash moment when you go through 2 thirds of it being a nice but kind of bland series of chapters of people at a health resort slowly changing to….that.
And then the last little section goes back to normal and sails through so much in a relatively short amount of pages, it was a rush.
but as things went on I did feel like I got to know the characters and rooting for them. I especially liked Frances and Lars.
All in all it wasn’t what I expected and I liked that. Curious about the TV adaption now though.
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The drug laced smoothies, the saga of the yoga studio, Masha going bananas. The “fire”. There was a real sense of fear as that section went on and k was gripped. M
but as things went on I did feel like I got to know the characters and rooting for them. I especially liked Frances and Lars.
Why did Masha end up “winning” and being so successful after everything though? I guess maybe a commentary on how people will fall for anything etc. but it annoyed me. I know she went to jail but still.
Was the toddler at Frances and Tony’s wedding the child of Zoe and Bens? I feel like there were hints of them ending up together at the end? Maybe I am overreacting and it was a coincidence that he was called zach.
Was the toddler at Frances and Tony’s wedding the child of Zoe and Bens? I feel like there were hints of them ending up together at the end? Maybe I am overreacting and it was a coincidence that he was called zach.
All in all it wasn’t what I expected and I liked that. Curious about the TV adaption now though.
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I loved it—probably my fave read last year.
I loved it. I actually miss being in Piranesi’s little world a lot, treacherous as it may be.