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What book are you reading and what book did you finish before it?
posted 1 year ago by Smith1980 1 year ago by Smith1980 +18 / -0

I like asking this every couple of months. I’m currently reading the first book of the Three Body Problem and the book I finished before it was a book about Angels by Billy Graham that my mother gave me when I was in middle school but finally read recently. Better late than never

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– Filo76 3 points 1 year ago +3 / -0

I remember in 1st grade there was a free book fair and I picked 20,000 leagues under the sea. It was too advanced for me to read but I watched the Disney movie and found it fascinating.

Then I finally picked up a copy last year and starting reading it. Holy cow what a slog. I made it halfway through and haven’t been able to pick it up since Christmas.

It was just pages of lists of scientific names for sea creatures and flora and fauna and a slow process of the plot.

Probably a fascinating book for it’s time but not worth reading today.

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– Adamrises 3 points 1 year ago +3 / -0

Yeah, my memory of it from middle school is "way too many words, painting a picture instead of actually going anywhere."

Its kinda like American Psycho in that way, wherein you keep reading for the handful of paragraphs per chapters that actually involve something happening. But that is deliberate in American Psycho and he expects you to start skipping so he can slip shit under your nose.

Jules Verne just seems like he had a great idea for a novella and then stretched it into a fucking doorstopper.

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