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Pete’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Pete’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Pete Draper’s Followers (2)
Pete Draper
Goodreads Author
Born
in Sheffield, The United Kingdom
Website
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Influences
Joe Abercrombie, Scott Lynch
Member Since
April 2020
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"Meiville has managed to create a fascinating city (I can't say world since anything outside is only vaguely referenced). His language may seem pretentious to some but I think I have to disagree. I get the impression that he is trying to continue the "
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"I get it! You're inventive, creative and have developed amazingly odd worlds - but could we get on with the story!
I felt like there were so many times when China Mieville's descriptions (though wonderfully descriptive) did nothing for the story. I a" Read more of this review » |
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Pete Draper
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Igor Ljubuncic's review
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Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1):
"This was a short, unpleasant experience.
40 pages in, I'm giving up. It's not the plot. It's not the characters. It's not the world. It's the writing style. Normally, I don't hate books. Some can be bad, really bad, but there's no deep emotion there. Thi" Read more of this review » |
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"I threw this book out my 4th story window at page 300. Oh calm down, I checked first to make sure there were no pedestrians. What an overstuffed pretentious closet full of crap! The author kept introducing new, wonderous, fanciful, detailed (oh LORD "
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Pete Draper
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Overrated. DNF So it's frustrating to not finish a book when I was 3/4 of the way through it, but with 200 pages left, I just don't have the motivation to finish it after ploughing through the last 400 pages and hoping it'll get better. The creativity ...more |
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Overrated. DNF So it's frustrating to not finish a book when I was 3/4 of the way through it, but with 200 pages left, I just don't have the motivation to finish it after ploughing through the last 400 pages and hoping it'll get better. The creativity ...more |
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Pete Draper
rated a book it was ok
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Worst book in the series so far. I got through the first four in less than a year, this took over 18 months, I had to keep putting it down and coming back to it. Such a tough read. It took some time to realise what was missing, or why it didn't give t ...more |
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Summed up perfectly, took me 18 months to slog through this and I couldn't figure out why
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Worst book in the series so far. I got through the first four in less than a year, this took over 18 months, I had to keep putting it down and coming back to it. Such a tough read. It took some time to realise what was missing, or why it didn't give t ...more |
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Pete Draper
rated a book really liked it
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This is a legitimate book review Exchange group. Readers post their books which are inn need of reviews, each in its own topic, and other authors post ...more
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/r/Fantasy Discussion Group
— 6557 members
— last activity Nov 02, 2025 07:58PM
A place for readers/contributors of Reddit's /r/Fantasy subreddit to discuss books from the genre and see others' book lists and recommendations. ...more
