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I’ve been posting thoughts on the wheel of time as I go through my first read of the series. I had made a post before, but I’ll see about posting my current thoughts here.
I just finished The Great Hunt! Spoilers following
Great Hunt Spoilers
Wow, what a fantastic listen. Enjoyed it much much more than eye of the world. I didn’t dislike the first book at all, but found it hard to really get into the world. This book has solved all that for me. I understand a little more about the different lands, the different factions.
The end of this book was super exciting in a way I didn’t really feel in the first one. Matt blowing the horn, Rand fighting the dark one. The picture of Rand finally accepting his place among the legion of shienarans. Listening to it all got me giddy.
I was, at first, apprehensive about the idea of parallel worlds. But I think so far it has been handled well. The other worlds, at least so far, don’t seem to be playing a huge part on the main world. I loved the whole sequence of all them living through a ton of their alternate lives.
Overall I must say I am much more excited about continuing than I was at the end of the first book. I’m super eager to keep listening!
Recently finished Hyperion, by Dan Simmons.
I really liked the premise of each character telling their own story. It was a lot of variety and very interesting ideas were explored in different ways in each of them.
I just finished up Empire of Gold by S.A. Chakraborty. It’s the last in her Daevabad Trilogy, an immensely entertaining work drawing from legends and myths from the Middle East. It’s filled with political intrigue, memorable characters with well developed internality, and detailed world building.
It’s good stuff! I had a lot of fun reading it, it’s a little different than typical fare with the Middle Eastern background, and Chakraborty has an eye for plotting and characters that kept me going through a lengthy tale. I’m looking forward to reading her collection of short stories in the universe, River of Silver, and the Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, a novel set a thousand years before this trilogy.
Just finished Ada, or Ardor.
If you want something with brilliant prose, multilingual puns on every page, occasional invasions of other styles, a distorted but familiar world, obsession-driven narrative balancing between passion and transcendence, it might be something for you - unless, like Martin Amis, you find it hysterical and yourself unable to ignore the dark reality of several characters, narrator included, having too much resources to care about morals or most laws.
picked up yellowface by rf kuang and finished it the same day. recommended it to my partner, who also devoured it in three days.
highly recommend if you’re looking for an easy, juicy (in the way of reality tv, so a little anxiety inducing also) read that’s about ego, publishing, the literary establishment’s treatment of minority authors, the actual mechanisms of being cancelled, and the perils of being Extremely On Twitter. a very fun summer read.
