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Neal’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Neal’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Neal Holtschulte
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December 2017
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Crew of Exiles
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| Sure, it's sappy, but it's sincerely sappy. When I was growing up, South Park was telling everyone that aloof cynicism was the only way to be cool. But you know what's actually cool? Having the courage to be sincere about something, and "On Earth" is ...more | |
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| The Trials of Empire brings the trilogy to its epic conclusion in big bold style with a climactic final battle raging across afterlife and mortal plane. Look, I could nit pick, I could damn with faint praise, but by and large, Richard Swan DELIVERS. ...more | |
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| The Tyranny of Faith expands upon the characters, themes, and world building of The Justice of Kings. The author continues to execute a fantasy thriller, this one more political / espionage thriller than crime scene investigation. It's not perfect, b ...more | |
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| The Tyranny of Faith expands upon the characters, themes, and world building of The Justice of Kings. The author continues to execute a fantasy thriller, this one more political / espionage thriller than crime scene investigation. It's not perfect, b ...more | |
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| This book is so not for me. I picked it up because the premise was wild and silly and I thought it might be fun and funny, but my main gripe was that I hated all the characters. Their "sass" came off to me as rude. The romantic interests came off as ...more | |
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| The Justice of Kings is one of the best books I've read in quite a while. It's not necessarily doing anything I haven't seen before, but it's doing it SO WELL. In our increasingly enshittified world, this is a quality piece of work and I am here for ...more | |
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| Travel Light has a wandering whimsical feel that made me think of a mashup of Ursula LeGuin's A Wizard of Earthsea saga crossed with Howl's Moving Castle, and if that sounds just insanely positive to you then then you probably will love Travel Light ...more | |
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"Above all else, be interesting. Beyond that, be clear." This book puts all its eggs in the "be interesting" basket. Time War is a beautiful, indulgent little tart that's perhaps a little too pleased with its own cleverness. If you love lavish prose, ti ...more |
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"Above all else, be interesting. Beyond that, be clear." This book puts all its eggs in the "be interesting" basket. Time War is a beautiful, indulgent little tart that's perhaps a little too pleased with its own cleverness. If you love lavish prose, ti ...more |
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Babel accomplishes the impossible task of telling a fiction story about words and their meaning without engaging in navel gazing ABOUT words. And not just about words, but about racism, colonialism, and communication. This is a big, bold book, full of ...more |
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“I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they're going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kind of plumbing there's going to be. They have the whole thing designed and blueprinted out before they even nail the first board up. The gardeners dig a hole, drop in a seed and water it. They kind of know what seed it is, they know if planted a fantasy seed or mystery seed or whatever. But as the plant comes up and they water it, they don't know how many branches it's going to have, they find out as it grows. And I'm much more a gardener than an architect.”
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“Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.”
― The Thousandfold Thought
― The Thousandfold Thought
“The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?”
― The Darkness That Comes Before
― The Darkness That Comes Before
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