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The letter in the beginning is really funny and interesting but apart from that... These do really work better on audio for me.

I wanted to get out of my comfort zone reading this, but I just dislike how this is written. It doesnt feel natural, info dumps, makes the protagonist seem weird and hard for me to like or care about and it also doesnt feel like it's written by such an experienced author. Maybe it's just supposed to be the main character's voice, but I already really don't want to continue.

My interest is piqued, but this book doesnt takes its time to really establish anything. Everything is either rushed, told instead of shown or just underdeveloped so far.

I ship Allan Armadale with Allan Armadale, and yes, these are two different people. If I said everyone in this book is called Allan Armadale, that would only be slighty exaggerated.

Eigentlich lese ich Der graue Regenmantel vom selben Autoren, aber den gibt's hier auf goodreads nicht und das Selbsteinfügen von Büchern wurde einem ja irgendwann mal schwergemacht.

Book 1 was not what I expected. In the best way. Incredibly funny but still impactful.

This book has me discovering a new pet peeve on every page, that´s the extend to which this doesn´t work for me. Probably gonna DNF, but it´s such an easy read.

I feel the need to comment again, since there are moments when I absolutely adore and value this book, but in others it gets a bit too sentimental, trivial and - at one point - religious for my taste. Still a very special reading experience.

An update since I'll probably need some time for this book: I love how real and complex the characters are. I can't read a ton of this book at a time because of it's slice-of-life nature and because the protagonist has some depressive phases which I love the portrayal of but are hard to read. Potential 5 star candidate, though.

So far, this one is especially funny.

Blackwater meets Brideshead Revisited

Not interested in 2 out of 3 POV-characters and the one I like doesnt make up for them so far. Considered continiung for the dog, but I'm too annoyed.

So far it´s Blaze meets 11/22/63 and a 5 star story for me, but I know there´s going to be a turn really soon...

Not nearly as good as first law but still absolutely fun.

Der zweite Roman hat mir nicht ganz so gut gefallen. Der Schreibstil hatte Witz und war auch sonst gut zu lesen, inhaltlich nam es mich aber einfach nicht komplett mit.

Der erste Roman gefällt mir schon sehr gut. Es geht um Entfremdung und Unsicherheiten.

Why wasn't this book rediscovered when Blake Crouch was blowing up? Haven't read one of his books but this one seems to be that kind of mindfuck book and it's good.

None of my goodreads friends seem to like this book that much but so far it might become one of my favorites by King.

Some really good lines and ideas, but after reading The Company and part of this, I don't think I like the conflicts K J Parker writes.

I love the beginning. Will this be the first LeGuin book that actually works for me?

Ich bin jetzt schon begeistert <3

Compelling beginning, I already like the characters. Let's see where this goes...

The writing advise part for me is more like a "ah, that's why I like his books so much".