Reviews and Comments

I am reading this only because the ending was spoiled for me and the ending sounds amazing. Let's see if I make it there because we're already deep into the protagonist's folksy backstory starting with the toy soldiers he got as a kid and this is one of the things that turns me off about King.

This is probably gonna be trash but I listened to a review of it by the only critic I like and trust and they gave it high praise... so here we go!

The first three novels are very good as straight up literary fantasy and read well without trying to mine them for deeper meaning. The fourth one reveals a lot of things but I lost a lot of steam reading it and didn't feel the desire to try to piece it all together.

There's a lot of people who apparently just keep reading these books over and over again and try cross-referencing them against other works and looking up the etymology of the obscure words to try to solve the mystery. But honestly, that feels like a project of diminishing returns. I have one or two short things written by Gene Wolfe scholars that I might read if I really feel like it later but I am done with him for now.

This book has been really good for me. Picking up a random poem and reading it aloud with your voice is a good thing to do and I will continue this practice after I finish the book.

Right now it is a little slow going because I have reached the elegies and they both bum me out and also make me feel like a voyeur. There are a few good ones though, particularly "R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida" by Emily Bronte.