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Only Robert Jordan could make the first 30% or first 200 pages feel like nothings happened lol

“Time itself is a thing, so it seems to me, that stands solidly like a fence of iron palings with its endless row of years; and we flow past like Gyoll, on our way to a sea from which we shall return only as rain.”

The alzabo is the stuff of nightmares

I’m not entirely sure why, I’m not sure what Dinny Man put into this book, but this is DCC at its best. The actual floor has been sort of whatever but we’ve spent more time dealing with implications of the games, god worshiping and “the bigger picture” than with the actual floor but I’m 100% fine with that. Everything’s really coming together and I’m all for it

The green man, the scene with the Claw and the man apes, the subsequent battle with agia and her boys and the subsequent capture and escape after that has this book being one of my favorites so far. So much nuance with every sentence and so rich in its world building

I love these books: “And it came to me that these trees had been hardly smaller when I was yet unborn, and had stood as they stood now when I was a child playing among the cypresses and peaceful tombs of our necropolis, and that they would stand yet, drinking in the last light of the dying sun, even as now, when I had been dead as long as those who rested there”

This is just dollar store version of parable of the sower

“By slow degrees, however, a feeling of disquiet seized me. I was miserable before I knew I was no longer happy, and bowed with responsibility when I did not yet fully understand I held it”

Okay I like it so far, it’s very easy to follow along and I’m excited to read what’s next, but so far this book is the equivalent of one of those trite valedictorian high school speeches lol

This should just be called “bad jokes about sex in space: the book”

When Charlie first understands the subcontext of the situation (his mom not wanting him to pick up his baby sister)👀

This book fucks. That scene with blanke vs the terror fucks hard

The whole concept of the Seanchan and Domani still makes me sick

“A moment is the most you could expect from perfection”

Boy goes out, boy sets trap, wolf fucks with trap, boy discovers trap, repeat

Dajer may be one of my favorite..villains..? What is he? Idk but he’s pretty interesting for what seemed to be a simple commander of a group of soldiers. He’s a man of sheer will and determination, u can see that while dusk doesn’t like him, he respects him in a way. You never feel like you have an upper hand with him and it’s intimidating but also is written so as to not just feel overpowered like Superman

Dusk’s two birds already have more personality than Red and Blue from This is how you lose the time war

Jack may come off as a decent person and even tell himself that he’s a good person, but you can tell there’s obviously something sinister deep down, that his justifications for his actions completely negate what we read before we get the full picture, that although this isn’t first person, we can’t trust what we’re reading

Yeah pretty different path than LOTR, the divide between Rand and his bros felt a bit forced but I can tell mat wants his boy back. So they’re in an alternative universe? Hmmm interesting, I bet Selene knows Rand from another time/place, “you’re always…”

Ought, to naught. If we don’t stick our necks out for our own, they got us

Loving this so far. Sort of a classic dystopian future where you can compete in “games” for money. Our protagonist is a misogynistic asshole but loves his daughter and will give his life for money to take care of him but definitely need to remember that he’s an asshole; but I guess a product of his environment. Loved the way the YMCA building was described: “a skeleton of a murdered idea”

Patrick and his brother…man

What a clusterfuck of unlikeable characters😂 how you gonna refuse to do a food ration in an emergency 😂

“ And he felt suddenly that It was the seventh, that It and time were somehow interchangeable, that It wore all their faces, as well as the thousand others with which It had terrified and killed, and the idea that It might be them was somehow the most threatening idea of all.”

“But who knows how long grief may last? Isn’t it possible that, even after thirty or forty years after death, one may half-waken, thinking of that person with that same lost emptiness, that feeling of places which may never be filled”

Reading that part about what Dorsey Macklin said to his dad was tougher than reading about the killer fucking clown

“We do it” - okay these kids are adorable lol

“See you soon Bill. In my closet. Maybe tonight” - okay this is creepy

“They’ll kill the good ones first and when all the good men are dead they’ll come for men like you, who are almost sound but not quite, the bowls that leaked. And when you’re gone, the worst of men will find themselves in the teeth of their masters because those that fell have no love for man. And they’ll take good and bad alike to hell because there won’t be any place but hell anymore,Not without love”

The battle between the Angel and two demons was *chefs kids*”. So much to appreciate: river eel demon, dream castle with jousting, angel fight, statue fight, Paris burning, this priests’ dream, the statues all yelling at the trio, the penitents,