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James’s 2025 Year in Books
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James Vella-Bardon
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St Julians, Malta
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August 2010
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Yes in parts this book really worked, in others wholly fell flat
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"Some decent ideas but overall a story marred a general lack of urgency and weird authorial choices. Review to follow. "
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"why have a book that’s basically 500 pages if the character aren’t going to be interesting!"
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Like Mary I don’t think I’ll continue, it became too hard to care towards the end
A lot of ‘almost but not quite’ with this book, which ultimately did ...more " |
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[3.5/5 stars] I knew nothing about this book before diving in, save that it had an unconventional narrative. And really, that’s all I needed to know. I generally love it when authors get creat" Read more of this review » |
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agree - it was weird, I kept hoping for it to success but it just got slower and slower
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"I went into this book expecting to like it, but I was somewhat ambivalent at the end.
I liked the overall setup and themes - this fantastical Empire and its common law, the philosophy of innocence and guilt among the conquered, how a small rock can ha" Read more of this review » |
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Yes I flicked through the last chapters yesterday
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Did not finish. Tossed it aside after pg. 166 (the book’s circa 563 pages long). I’m sure many readers will love this story which has already acquired heaps of favourable reviews. It just wasn’t for me. Abercrombie first ‘burst onto the scene’ with ‘The ...more |
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DNF Stopped reading at page 206, after finishing chapter 11. The novel is 731 pages long. I’m always excited to read thrillers written by poets, since they promise both great prose and pace ie not a dry airport read that’s solely driven by plot. A coupl ...more |
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“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
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“I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded man.' This isn’t just an epigram—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.”
― The Great Gatsby
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Mar 13, 2018 11:17PM
Glad we're friends Erin and will look forward to your updates!
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Thanks Argona, I'm looking out for your reviews!
Thanks for the friend request and message, James :)
Hello James, thank you so much for your lovely message and the friend request. I look forward to discovering new books with you.^^
Im very pleased to add you to my friends group, James :)
