Reading Wednesday

[frandroid]

Currently Reading:
This is How You Lose the Time War

Just pasting my comment from a previous post:

That book is all about flexing writing muscles...

"look at this intricate future" *flex*
"look at the poesy of this mongol horde" *flex*
"look at my insane message delivery mechanism" *flex*
"look at my delicate use of obscure vocabulary" *flex*
"look the multicoloured shimmer coming off this techno-*topia" *flex*

My eyes just keep popping out of their sockets. Damn, you guys can write.

"Adventure works in any strand——it calls to those who care more for living than for their lives."

Comments

[altamira16]

I felt that there was a lot of this to the point where I didn't quite get what was going on. I started to read it again, and it started to make more sense, but there are other books in this world.

[frandroid]

Yeah it had a fair bit of "story babble", where the prose was there for its own sake rather than driving the story per se. Almost like poetry in prose.