John Lloyd1
Rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty
Someday I should give wot a go.
What are you reading in 2025?
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Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
The ending is extraordinarily satisfying.
Thomas Shey
Legend
Uncut. Though honestly, it read more like "expanded".
I read Thomas Ligotti and Eugene Thacker and history. I do grimdark. But I do appreciate advance comments like that, because sometimes I need something else at a particular moment.
@Parmandur I’ll be interested in your reaction. Katabasis is here in my queue too.
trappedslider
Legend
So the uncut included stuff that got left on the cutting room floor one of the biggest examples i can think off of the top of my head is Trashcan man's trip across America to Vegas.
Thomas Shey
Legend
Honestly, most of the last quarter of the book could have gone and not harmed the story at all.
I mean, I'd been reading King since Carrie, and the difference in "I need space to develop characters to set up the story properly like I did in Salem's Lot" and "I just will go into a lot of side issues that either don't set up anything, or go into detail at a point where its no longer serving the story". And it tells a lot that the cut down version seemed to harm, well, nothing.
Kaodi
Legend
I never actually finished Wheel of Time. I think I own and have read every one that Jordan finished himself, but none of the Sanderson ones.
An an aside, I wonder whether the Wheel of Time is one book series where you can reasonably still say, "No spoilers, please," . Even though it ended over ten years ago reading it is such a big commitment that, like, why would you tell someone in the middle how it ends?
An an aside, I wonder whether the Wheel of Time is one book series where you can reasonably still say, "No spoilers, please," . Even though it ended over ten years ago reading it is such a big commitment that, like, why would you tell someone in the middle how it ends?
Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
It is extremely hard to casually spoil the Wheel of Time, due to the sheer complexity of what happens. A lot of stories can be spoiled off-hand, but it would require a massive careful essay to effectively spoil Memory of Light.
The ending is very solid, worth checking out.
Finished IT, a very bittersweet ending to a story that could be argued is about the power of friendship. Very good book though, and I like the way it interweaves the two different timelines with the idea that they are slowly recalling the original events. Pennywise a very spooky / dark villain, and some slight open ness to the ending - i usually like that openness to allow possibilities for villains to return, but Pennywise is such a nasty villain it leaves me in two minds around whether id want any possibility for him to return.
I did skim quickly over a certain part of the book, where I can sort of understand perhaps what King was going for, but still dont feel it was needed.
Now working out what I want to read of King next, of the ones I recall of being his more well-known known works, though on a basis of the list being formed early 2000s, I havent read Pet Semetary or Salems Lot, any recommendations on which of those two to pick up next?
I did skim quickly over a certain part of the book, where I can sort of understand perhaps what King was going for, but still dont feel it was needed.
Now working out what I want to read of King next, of the ones I recall of being his more well-known known works, though on a basis of the list being formed early 2000s, I havent read Pet Semetary or Salems Lot, any recommendations on which of those two to pick up next?
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