The Southern Reach series by Jeff Vandermeer (Annihilation, etc.):
Terroir: 37 times
Banal: 20 times
Mote (as in dust mote): 11 times
Somewhat rarely used words that I would have overlooked a couple instances of, but just so heavily used in these books that it was laughable.
Even my most disliked books provoked thoughts and feelings when I read them. I still think about them from time to time which means they stirred something even if I didn’t enjoy the read.
Something I tell myself occasionally is that every book I read can’t be 5 stars, and if it were that would be quite boring. Variety is the spice of life. I very rarely DNF, and I never regret having read a book.
This was the one that came to mind for me too. One of the best written books I’ve read in a long time. I randomly think of parts of it frequently. Incredible.
To add to this, thrift books has an eBay store where the shipping is free. I think on their website there is a minimum order to get free shipping. Book price is the same on eBay as the website, but free shipping even on a single book.
This is an absurd question, and I’m assuming a troll post. Regardless, I ask a counter question to get at the heart of the matter:
Who are you saying that you’ve read a book to, and why would they care? I can’t imagine why it would matter to somebody else whether or not you have read a book, let alone how much of it.
Listen, if you didn’t visually see words printed in a Real Paper Book, you didn’t even experience the story. E-readers, tablets, computers, phones, digital audiobooks, books on tape, books on CD, your mom reading a book to you out loud, hell even braille, are all subpar means through which you might not even be able to realize there was a story happening.
Only light reflected off of literal ink perceived by your eyes while holding a stack of bound paper can be called Reading. Otherwise it’s just sparkling literacy.
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Superb book, and the sequels are pretty good too. Something I doubt is said very often but, I think the 4th book in the series was the strongest, at least of the sequels. Some very important themes; he is a great author.