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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nytmare" data-source="post: 8059889" data-attributes="member: 55178">"Finished" the last of the first three Black Company books.  All told it probably took me about six months start to finish.  I blew through the first one in about a week, went maybe five pages into the second book, and then put them down till about 4 weeks ago.  The last 100 pages of the third book were probably the most painful for me, and I found myself trapped in a kind of Zeno's paradox where I'd read half the remaining pages every night.  I finally called it quits with just three pages left, and put it back on the shelf.I started reading them because they had been inspiration for Band of Blades, and that inspiration was the only thing about the books I enjoyed.  Skirting nervously past the weird rape passages, I found it lacking description, depth, character growth, narrative, and suspense.Sort of overlapped with those, I read King's latest collection of short stories "If It Bleeds" without realizing it was a collection till the end of the first story.  I enjoyed all of them, particularly the continuation of the Holly Gibney series.  I think it's funny that the TV Holly Gibney has 100% supplanted the book version in my mind, I'm really looking forward to another season/continuation of that TV show. Next up is McNally's Gamble, a gift I received 20+ years ago and I don't think I ever got around to reading.  The pandemic has me unpacking the last of the boxes from my move almost 4 years ago, and I realized that my "to read" stack takes up a little too much of my library.</blockquote>

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