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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? January 06 (discuss.online)
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Welcome to year's first weekly thread! How are you all doing? And what are you book / reading related resolutions for this year?

I started Ultra-processed Food by Chris van Tulleken

Just started it, but looks like an interesting read. It's about the ultra-processed food we eat these days.

Also skimming through Ryder Caroll's The Bullet Journal Method. Read this last year (or was that year before that?) and wanted to check something but decided to skim through most of it.

Still reading The Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson, 3rd book in the 2nd era of Mistborn. It was going great but didn't get to read much last week or so, should be getting back to it now.

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?

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[–] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I’m on the tail end of Lord of Chaos (Wheel of Time 6).

10 8 more chapters to go. It feels like a lot has happened, but also not a lot has happened at all in the grand scheme of things.

I am quite enjoying Jordan’s phrases of smoothing skirts, tugging braids, scrubbing hair, and knuckling foreheads/mustaches still.

I’ve been alternating between audiobooks and my e-reader, and my only complaint is that I cannot figure out how to pronounce Aes Sedai and Aiel names relative to howKramer and Reading do. I’m always off.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Jordan slows the pace of the plot down considerably at around Lord of Chaos, perhaps earlier. It can get pretty frustrating when the books are so dense, yet it feels like nothing actually ever happens. Jordan just keeps pulling more named characters in to the mix. I personally do like the series, but I have serious gripes with how Jordan chose to write some of the books.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Yeah. I have heard that from this point on the series slows considerably until Sanderson picks it up, but he still writes it as if Jordan was the author.

    I don’t think WoT is conducive to Brando Sando’s signature Sanderlanche — actually, maybe it does, because I definitely felt like a there has been a point in each book where I can’t put it down until I finish it. Usually that’s the last 4-5 chapters. Or there is a fakeout climax and then the real climax happens like in

    Tap for spoilerFires of Heaven

    Edit: No idea what happened in the second paragraph, but I went back and reformatted it. I must have been distracted while typing it it.

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