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Not as bingeable of a read as I anticipated because it randomly gets really dense...but it's good!

Alright lads this book may not be as good as I anticipated. It's certainly GOOD, but then it goes on tangents that are not nearly as charming and derail my interest. The neurotic first chapter was a banger but then it tries to tell a story which starts to lose its luster just a tiny bit

Starts off really strong with such overly convoluted sentences that somehow are still clear. Very tongue in cheek and chaotic. I like it a lot

Finished with Part One (intend to finish after I return from my vacation): so far, mildly impressed and nearing disappointment. Characters and world building are just not there for me - very archetypal, and the lack of good prose doesn't elevate it. The magic system is very overexplained. It's certainly not bad, but I have read better.

Alright lads the novelty of these sentences jumping forward and back in time is wearing off. The pacing is so breakneck that it doesn't let itself breathe in any of these moments. I like it still, but I have a foreboding feeling that this isn't going to be an all time favorite

This has now become my everything book (i.e. the one I read when I get bored and don't want to doomscroll). Not a perfect book but damn I respect it

Every sentence is so dense with story that you really have to slow down to parse what is going on - but it is so brilliant in how it plays with past, present, and future within the same sentence. Actually awesome

Every scene with Cleopatra is awesome. But the overall plot (halfway through) is just sort of there...not that interesting.

Actually really interesting. The entire prologue detailing the circumstances that lead to the protagonist's birth was really well written, and now the days of his youth have a surprising amount of humanity. Actually impressive how this is all done so seamlessly

Listening on audiobook so let's hope it sticks, but I was so tuned in from the first sentence that I figured to at least try to listen to the whole thing. Anyways, it's a lot of Roman history but actually kinda interesting

Listened to all of this while shoveling snow - this play still bangs and then the ending really propels it into

I am reminded of one particular sequence in Marty Supreme. Reading this book knowing NOTHING (not even having read the blurb on the back) aside from the reputation. Also could have finished The Exorcist but I am dragging my feet bc I just hate the pacing in that book enough that I am starting something else

Fun talking trash about a book and then in the final act of the book it exponentially improves in quality enough that you are reading 100 pages without even realizing because you are so invested. IF only the book were to cut the ambiguity - this would have been so much better.

Actually effective horror, I just sorely wish that an editor really cut down on the explanations because I already know that it's all pointless since she is possessed. The entire world knows it and it just feels like padding. But when it gets spooky it gets spooky.

I swear I like reading books even though there's a movie adaptation of the story! It's just damn does the movie actually clear it, so much explaining things while the movie simplifies it and goes for the "less is more" approach building mystery. This book REALLY wants to build the plausible science behind it and it's kind of boring.

Starting to try to read as many books that I bought on a whim; so far this book is really slow, which I get because the film at least was like that - but damn...didn't expect the entire first chapter to be about an actress just BSing around.

Reading a scene a day before work (so I don't doomscroll). Always thought this was the greatest play of all time despite everyone telling me, but never read it. So far so good, but I had a much stronger reaction to Romeo and Juliet...don't ask why

Book 2-3: Actually surprised at how little Odysseus is here and building his legacy instead with Telemachus at the helm. In media res I will always love you as a storytelling device

Book One and reading it out loud (to improve my comprehension). Good stuff.

To everyone who said that this is the worst book in the series, you are all wrong this is a banger so far. This is basically male coded Buffy the Vampire Slayer and I am all for it

I can tell that this book is interesting, but it is written so dryly that I am not really getting the emotional impact like I'd want to.

Starts off even stronger than the first (so far it is a LARGE step up and I really enjoyed the first one as pulpy fun, this elevates it). Though this book does retread a very familiar plot beat that I am worried is going to be too similar to the first...

Will never forget how I hated Duterte and tried to defend Trump in my "MAGA is unfairly slandered" phase...anyways this happening around 2016 just makes me believe that horrifying populism really took over the world all at once.

Yes I am making everything I read about how much I hate Trump like a stereotypical liberal and no I will not apologize.

Gotta check the source that this book somehow claims that Hoover lost his reelection due to the fact he championed Prohibition instead of you know...doing NOTHING during the Great Depression