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<blockquote data-quote="Nytmare" data-source="post: 8059889" data-attributes="member: 55178"><p>"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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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. </p><p></p><p>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.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nytmare, post: 8059889, 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. [/QUOTE]
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