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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7122196" data-attributes="member: 20564"><p>Finished The Obelisk Gate, the second book of N.K Jemisin's Broken Earth series. Still very much enjoying it, but I wish there was more movement. The first book was three different stories weaving together as you slowly figured out the connections between them. This is 70% continuation of one of those stories but mired in one place, and 30% another story with the same sense of newness and exploration as any of the stories in the first book. Much happened in that 70%, but it still felt mired compared to the exploration of the setting (or maybe exploration of the implications of the setting, it wasn't a travelogue) that happened in the first book.</p><p></p><p>Started the first books of The Inheritance Trilogy by her. The very distinctive voice she uses to tell the Broken Earth series is not here. It's good and well thought out, I am enjoying it.</p><p></p><p>The Inheritance Trilogy is bound in one book at it would work as a boat anchor. My thoughts towards it is that Robert Jordan had forced the book binding industry to follow Moore's Law. So I have a "book on the go", which is the kindle version of Wearing the Cape by Marion G. Harmon. Funny, for as much as I enjoy superhero RPGs, movies and animation, I'm very rarely a reader of novels. This has been good, a bit of a deconstruction of what it means to be a super. Lots of exposition since the protagonist is a brand new super who is learning about what that means, but it doesn't bog down.</p><p></p><p>Talking about books deconstructing superheroes, if that tingles your senses I need to recommend Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman. It's not a fantastic book in terms of plot - rather uneven and some of the villain self-pity gets to me. But I've reread it many times. The parts about being a super, what it means, why they do things, and the whole culture, is though provoking and excellent. You cheer for the villain as much if not more than for the heroes because you understand and empathize with his motivations. And perhaps under the cowl he's less of a jerk.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue, post: 7122196, member: 20564"] Finished The Obelisk Gate, the second book of N.K Jemisin's Broken Earth series. Still very much enjoying it, but I wish there was more movement. The first book was three different stories weaving together as you slowly figured out the connections between them. This is 70% continuation of one of those stories but mired in one place, and 30% another story with the same sense of newness and exploration as any of the stories in the first book. Much happened in that 70%, but it still felt mired compared to the exploration of the setting (or maybe exploration of the implications of the setting, it wasn't a travelogue) that happened in the first book. Started the first books of The Inheritance Trilogy by her. The very distinctive voice she uses to tell the Broken Earth series is not here. It's good and well thought out, I am enjoying it. The Inheritance Trilogy is bound in one book at it would work as a boat anchor. My thoughts towards it is that Robert Jordan had forced the book binding industry to follow Moore's Law. So I have a "book on the go", which is the kindle version of Wearing the Cape by Marion G. Harmon. Funny, for as much as I enjoy superhero RPGs, movies and animation, I'm very rarely a reader of novels. This has been good, a bit of a deconstruction of what it means to be a super. Lots of exposition since the protagonist is a brand new super who is learning about what that means, but it doesn't bog down. Talking about books deconstructing superheroes, if that tingles your senses I need to recommend Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman. It's not a fantastic book in terms of plot - rather uneven and some of the villain self-pity gets to me. But I've reread it many times. The parts about being a super, what it means, why they do things, and the whole culture, is though provoking and excellent. You cheer for the villain as much if not more than for the heroes because you understand and empathize with his motivations. And perhaps under the cowl he's less of a jerk. [/QUOTE]
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