I read it for the first time last year and don’t have anything to say about it that hasn’t been said before. Great book. Heart breaking. Mind blowing for just how awful the Vietnam war was.

I always try to give a book 50 pages. If you can’t grab me in some way by then, I’m putting it down.

It IS a tricky one I think, because at least from what I’ve seen the fan base has kind of reclaimed the series? Idk I know a lot of non cishet people that grew up loving and still love HP even though they hate Rowling.

That being said I’m not in any way trying to diminish your answer, as Rowling really is a shit head

I read toy cemetery by William w johnstone. That whole book is genuinely the work of a mad man

I’m gonna be honest I don’t get the hype behind the king killer chronicles in general. The name of the wind kept getting less and less interesting as it went on and by the end I was just skimming everything because I didn’t give a shit.

“But his prose is lovely!” Yes, the writing itself is pretty good. The issue is literally everything else comprising the story. Qvoth is a boring character, all his friends are cardboard cutouts, and I’m sorry I get that the whole point is he is dirt poor but the main conflict is trying to just get money and it just got so fucking repetitive.

And to top it all off the book didn’t end so much as it just stopped. The ending was so abrupt and it felt like rothfuss just shrugged and didn’t resolve literally anything.

“But it’s supposed to be part of a trilogy!” Yeah i get that, but it’s not like lotr the two towers ended an hour before the battle of helms deep. It ended when the immediate conflict that tied into the over arching story ended.

I got fifty pages in to wise man’s fear (I had bought it before I read the first book, stupidly) and gave up. I’m shocked so many people have the patience for this series

I gave up on finishing everything a long time ago. It can be hard to break the finishing habit but if you don’t like something just don’t finish it.

It makes me sad but I move on pretty quickly

How do these groups gain literally any power? What a bunch of dweebs

“Liberty for everyone except people who disagree with me, and also we want to ban anything we disagree with”

I tried the first two books and just wound up putting the second down. It felt so dry and uninteresting, but I also wonder if that has to do with the translation

American psycho and I’ll die on that hill

I totally agree I think ELA needs to be way more open ended than it is. But there’s a catch 22 there because I’d imagine it would be very tough for a teacher to keep up with 25 different books their students are resding

In a perfect world there would be a lot of “go to the library, pick out a book that interests you, and tell me about it” assignments. There’s no quicker way to turn someone off a medium than forcing them to read crap they don’t have an interest in. Like yeah some kids will want to dissect Romeo and Juliet but most of them couldn’t care less. It reinforces the idea that reading is boring because they aren’t engaged

Reading is such a massive medium though that there’s truly something for everyone out there