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Farshad Torkashvand is 59% done with Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy, #2)
A father never knows the pain a woman goes through to give birth, and a woman never knows the pains a man put himself into for the happiness of his wife.
Nov 18, 2025 10:33PM Add a comment
Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy, #2)

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Farshad Torkashvand is 38% done with Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy, #2)
Romance for writers like this becomes an idea of perversion and selfishness.
I remember when I read Anna Karina, there was a character in it, I don't recall his name, in the beginning he asked for the hand of a girl from her parents first, then her. She refused him.
He was broken, but never disrespected her decision, until she found the fouly of what she did.
Nov 18, 2025 12:36AM Add a comment
Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy, #2)

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Farshad Torkashvand is 25% done with Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy
In university, I had economy 1 and 2. Yet my understanding of it was superfluous. In this book, it talks about the logic behind its thesis rather than going deep into the number, and in doing so, it reaches more people.
Oct 13, 2025 06:23PM Add a comment
Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy

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Farshad Torkashvand is 7% done with Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
Fereydun is finished, now I'm translating Manuchehr.
Oct 04, 2025 07:44AM Add a comment
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings

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Farshad Torkashvand is 21% done with The Fury of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #3)
One thing that I hate about John Gwynne writing is the talking during the fight.
Sep 26, 2025 03:58AM Add a comment
The Fury of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #3)

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Farshad Torkashvand is 12% done with Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy
Up to now, I learned a few things, some of the things that I knew, it became clearer.
Sep 25, 2025 05:00AM Add a comment
Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy

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Farshad Torkashvand is 40% done with Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
The main character reminds me of one of the most obnoxious characters I ever read— Erin from Wondering Inn.
Sep 23, 2025 08:30PM Add a comment
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)

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Farshad Torkashvand is 32% done with Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
At this point I'm laughing at the stupidity of this story.
The story is about a Karen who wants to see the manager of dragon for endangering the rider.
Lol
Sep 23, 2025 08:48AM Add a comment
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)

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Farshad Torkashvand is 23% done with Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
The author attempts to evoke sympathy for the Main Character, but it fails spectacularly for me. The reason is that if a way out of a desperate situation is presented and the character chooses not to take it due to stubbornness, that choice invites the problems that follow.
So, no sympathy.
Sep 23, 2025 06:27AM Add a comment
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)

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Farshad Torkashvand is on page 15 of 517 of Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
Divergent+Fifty Shades of Grey+Dragon=Fourth Wing

I am about to DNF this one, if I don't, definitely I won't read the second one.
Sep 23, 2025 02:35AM Add a comment
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)

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Farshad Torkashvand is on page 26 of 886 of Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
Well, I'm reading and translating into English on my subreddit.
I hope that way, this book reaches more people around the world.
Sep 20, 2025 06:44PM Add a comment
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings

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Farshad Torkashvand is on page 123 of 512 of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The book is written beautifully without going on many scientific names.
So far, it didn't tell me anything that I didn't know or thought of, yet it is an amazing lesson for me to tell a history lesson.
Now and then, I write nonfiction articles, yet this voice is more enjoyable than my snarky, and trying to be funny approach.
Sep 18, 2025 04:31AM Add a comment
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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Farshad Torkashvand is 51% done with A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
On this second read, the world that Martin created is full of fools, even the smart ones are fools.
The level for smartness is so low that if anyone shows a trick or out manuever these fools, they call him smart or intelligent. This shows smartness, but it is bare of any intelligence.
For example, Tyron is smart but not intelligent, so goes for Baelish and Catelyn.
Sep 17, 2025 02:14AM Add a comment
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)

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Farshad Torkashvand is 41% done with A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
I thought I could reread the series, but I can't.

I found no reason to do so. On top of that, the story is on my nerve.
Sep 16, 2025 05:10AM Add a comment
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)

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Farshad Torkashvand is 35% done with A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
Wow, Katelyn for sure made Cersi to run for being a villain.
They both think they are the smartest people in the room, yet both of them brought ruins and caused the death of their children.
Sep 16, 2025 03:06AM Add a comment
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)

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Farshad Torkashvand is 58% done with The Hunger of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #2)
I cannot understand the tropes of these new generation writers.

They make women and men, all alike.
I guess they try to be feminist, yet, out of ignorance, they forget that in the past, old women were revered and respected like a warrior. They were bestowed the title of elder.
They were the Machiavellians of that era, deciding who became chief or not, and making peace, and all men and women listened to them.
Aug 29, 2025 09:49PM Add a comment
The Hunger of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #2)

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Farshad Torkashvand is 67% done with Foundation (Foundation, #1)
Not. A. Single. Fight. Scene. Yet this trumps what Brandon Sanderson shoved down into our throat.
I wish more scientists were interested to tell story.
Unfortunately, I know three, Carl Sagan, Andy Weir, and Issac Asimov.
Aug 25, 2025 05:05PM Add a comment
Foundation (Foundation, #1)

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Farshad Torkashvand is on page 1023 of 1344 of Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)
I put off reading this book for months, but I recently decided to give it another chance after calming down a bit from my disappointment with this book of the series. I had high hopes for this writer, whose work I respected, but I found this book to be a complete disaster.
Aug 23, 2025 01:16AM Add a comment
Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)

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Farshad Torkashvand is on page 836 of 1344 of Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)
As I read on, I get more appreciation for that massive work of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.
One is filled with wisdom and thought-provoking dialogue, and another one, albeit that has many fight scenes in it, is boring as reading appliance brochures.
Aug 21, 2025 10:49PM Add a comment
Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)

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Farshad Torkashvand is on page 734 of 1344 of Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)
This isn't art. This isn't literacy. It is just noises in the form of words on the page.
I have seen Webnovels written more passionately than this.
Aug 21, 2025 06:36AM Add a comment
Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)

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Farshad Torkashvand is on page 623 of 1344 of Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)
Let me put it this way, the war is getting so rediculus that on one side you have a God thrives with emotion and can predict any outcome, also commanding his army.
On the other hand, they have vague and ambiguous guidance from Gods, mentally unstable people, the most powerful Spen becomes a roadblock, and people having enough time to be romantic and being distracted with it.
Why is Brando writing like an amateur?
Aug 21, 2025 12:39AM Add a comment
Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)

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Farshad Torkashvand is on page 198 of 378 of Bloodline (Cradle, #9)
I'm so close to DNF this one.

I hate, loathe, and am disgusted by raising moral philosophy and showing it to the kind of people that won't understand it.
And it's supposed to happen within a few days.
Unfortunately, I see it everywhere, and it seems to me I can't escape it.
Any enlightenment is arduous and a long journey that a person should put on themselves, not by any outsider. That would be pretentious.
Aug 15, 2025 05:04PM Add a comment
Bloodline (Cradle, #9)

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Farshad Torkashvand is on page 67 of 336 of Uncrowned (Cradle, #7)
What I don't understand is why most of the writers don't do any research about the body and mind when they are writing about it?
Aug 12, 2025 08:48PM Add a comment
Uncrowned (Cradle, #7)

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Farshad Torkashvand is on page 63 of 460 of Prelude to Foundation
Isaac knew wisdom. Isaac like Carl Sagan used story to tell about possibilities and philosophy.
I'm just sad that I couldn't do the same.
Jul 14, 2025 04:13PM Add a comment
Prelude to Foundation

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Farshad Torkashvand is on page 123 of 256 of Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)
Let me parrot the style of Asimov:
I seek not the feeble battle style. The tale of gore on axe or sword, but to think and wonder at the ingenuity of humans.
This weary heart of mine seeks intellectual, not the tale of the battle between two chipmunks.
Jul 06, 2025 12:27AM Add a comment
Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)

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