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Chapters that last more than an hour nooooo

Third act, first scene. They kinda hate each other but they can live without each other. I can relate.

BTW Lorca's writing is still on fire.

Second act, second scene.

I love "the mother", "only the honest ones throw themselves into the water but not that one".

Second act, first scene: what I don't have clear is the reason they broke up but now is sealed because he got married and she's marrying.

The verses are really nice to read.

The bride doesn't want to get married and Leonardo still loves her.

I like the use of short answers and I believe this helps to build tension. Things like, "are you happy? - I am". You're answering, yes, but there is some underlying tension there.

Very fun reading so far.

Second act and we are having a wedding but something is off with Leonardo and the woman.

I barely understand rhymes and poems but that one about the horse was beautiful.

First scene and we got hopes for the future, drama from the past and a conflict in the present. Pim pam pum. Lorca was good.

Everything was believable until the 6 years old started to talk like that.

At the end the town disrespected Pedro Paramo where hurt the most: They have parties and fair when Susana San Juan, his loved one, passed away.

And he's going vengeance for that.

I can see how Pedro Paramo is the connection with all that happens in this town.

Also oh my god finally I'm keeping up with Pedro Paramo. I'm following all of this.

"Are you dead?" It's the constant question here.

This is the third time I'm trying this book and even if I didn't remember anything about the story I'm not feeling lost like I felt in the previous reading.

Pedro Paramo is ruthless and this guy has real guts because going through this ghost town is not for easily scared people.

I never thought Annalise was lying to Clara. So Fernanda didn't do it? I guess I'm about to finding it out.

The writing is beautiful, all the parallelism used are kinda pleasant from a reader point of view.

It's nice the Clara pointed out the essay didn't look like one written by a 15 year old girl.

So Annalise snitched on Fernanda and this is causing the whole kidnapping?

Both sides have this parallelism about cannibalizing their mothers. The parts with Clara intern monologuing were good, you can see how mentally ill she is and Fernanda's monologues were funny but I think this is been dragging for a while and I'm getting bored. I think I'm not that interested in the creepy pasta side of the story.

The writing style is kinda beautiful and also funny but only when we are with Fernanda. The obvious reason for this was revenge but so far it hasn't been revealed the girls did something to Miss Clara.

Also Miss Clara hunting rabbits? That's something you wouldn't expect from a literature teacher.

The way she is counting the days, hours and minutes after the event shows how it marked her.

Also the mother was awful.

In some way you could stop here and it would feel like an ending with so much for the future but there were "some" resolutions.

What Gladstone did was the equivalent to shutdown the internet or even worse taking electricity away from humanity. Suddenly the capacity to travel went over the window or the whole economy was dismantled. From a readers perspective she did a good thing but still it's undeniable the chaos and price of the freedom humanity got was so high. I liked Gladstone.

For the first part the shrink was this terrifying creature that will get you and kill or at least do something horrible to you but these last few chapters have been hilarious. The shrink attending to a funeral or just walking around marching.

The AI faked this war so humanity wants to counter attack. Coincidentally AI has a weapon that could kill all humanity and is going to offer it to these idiots that are already panicking.

In some way this book ended up being similar to "Hyperion". The first book had many stories that were told one at the time that transmuting the book one at the time but this one has many frontiers with stuff happening at the same time. We have Gladstone on one side, Dure in the tree world, the pilgrims that stayed in the sands of time, Kassad with the weird lady, the consul on his way to parlay and Servern too.A lot.

We were witnesses of the destruction of a world and it was scary as hell.

The consul couldn't get a break. First he crashed, then he was kidnapped then beaten then another crash and finally when he reached the ship he was given a new mission and asked to leave his friends for the moment. All in order to help a government he particularly hates.

The action in the city was cool though.

Does Severn have narrator super powers? How is he able to se more than Lamia can see?

Also I'm so grateful Lamia pointed out all Ummon was saying was really hard to understand. I was wasn't understanding any of that gibberish.

I don't want to say Dure has it easy because for the past many years he went through hell but he is the only one the shrink has helped.

Lamia's Peter Pan story also follows the thread of hoping to meet with a fantastic being to be granted answers or even a wish if we see it in a childish way.

I thought the main character was going to be Servern but Gladstone has carried a lot of protagonism and the political side of this conflict has been growing in me.

There's a connecting thread here. Everyone wants to meet "god". The core wants to create god, the pilgrims want to meet god so god can perform a miracle for them. And then the replacement issue with the IA finally replacing humanity. So the creature takes the creator's place.

That fight between Kasaan and the secret sniper was good. One of the few occasions where I don't get lost in the action.

It can't be a coincidence Severn is using what he learned in his dreams to talk to people who are coincidentally related to what he learned of dreaming with the pilgrims.

I like the idea that even if he's a copy of the poet John Keats he's not a poet. Because he's John Keat but he hasn't had John Keats's life. Of course I'm not buying the idea Gladstone is interested in him only because she wants to know his point of view in all of this.

In my mind Silenus looks like Danny de Vito.

I thought the Shrike killed that guy buy in some way he spared him from the curse he had. It looks that it didn't even kill him he's in the brinks of death but not yet.