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Lost a bet

Revisado: 11-15-20

Sanderson is unarguably one of the great fantasy writers to hold a pen, so I can only assume he lost a terrible bet. The payment must have been that he was required to write a 20+ hour book based on a mad lib containing
“Biochroma, hair, awakening, and mercenary”.

If so it’s an impressive feat but as a book not ideal. It’s kind of like volunteering to watch an entire season of Michael Jordan game film...from when he was in kindergarten. You know he will become great but this is not a good indication of where he’ll end up.

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High School Philosophy Teacher

Revisado: 09-21-20

This feels less like a novel and more like a story told by a high school philosophy teacher trying to keep an unruly class interested in the subject. The characters are vehicles to deliver fairly mundane parables on existentialism. It's not unpleasant, just simple and disconnected.

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A Great Story Making a Terrible Book

Revisado: 02-27-20

“Must you always stretch before battle” Galinor asks.

This entire book is stretching. It may be full of battles but as far as the plot goes it is a long slogging build up to almost nothing. It’s a plot sledgehammer, inelegant, unsatisfying and brutal.

The idea of the story is, sadly, brilliant. The problem is the book stomps all over it.

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A Parable on Choices

Revisado: 12-27-19

Memoirs are built on honesty and humanity. Honesty in the facts in part but honesty in the feeling and intention certainly. That honesty must travel on a human voice. And yet it would be foolish to expect either in a CIA memoir.

As a result this memoir doesn't really feel like one. It is more a parable. A review of some important lessons learned and a sketchy outline of the machinery behind the scenes. It is still fairly interesting, you just can't expect to make any connection to the truth or the author.

The narration is strong given it's in the authors own voice. It does come with a heavy note of self congratulations. A justification for a difficult eight years and the sacrifices that had to be made. There is also a quiet note of revisionism to create some distance with the unsavory aspects and trade offs that come with good intentions.

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Sixteen Hour Training Montage

Revisado: 09-20-19

Do you like training montages? When watching the Rocky films, do you wish Rocky just punched frozen meat, trudged through snow, and ran the Philly steps for sixteen hours? You are in luck! This is the book for you.

Other than being an interminable description of training, the book also has the advantage of one dimensional characters that never quite break through. Generally, the begining of an epic gives you a ray of hope or a satisfying kernel to latch on to and cary you on to the next book. This book does not have that. It has a truly impressive quantity of disappointment and sadness.

The writing itself is not as bad as the plot might have you believe and the performance by Prentice is terrific. It would be unfair to say it is a bad book. It's not bad. It just doesn't feel worth the time and emotional investment.

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Super genius steps on rake

Revisado: 08-11-19

This is a preposterous book on every level. The plot is shot through with more holes than the protagonist. But there is enough fast paced action and satisfying character narration to plaster over some of the egregious issues. It’s ultimately an alright read.

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The first and hopefully only bad Longmire

Revisado: 07-27-19

Have been through the 14 previous Longmires I marvel at the quality at the series as a whole.

This book is an aberration that mortgages the beautify of it’s younger siblings. If you have read the previous books you can picture what happens and can move on safely. Best to skip this all together and keep Walt and Co untarnished.

I probably don’t need to mention that Guidall is still incredible. He is the undisputed master.

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What you would want out of a modern western

Revisado: 05-20-19

It's not a fast or complicated book. Just great character development and quality writing narrated by the best in the business.

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An intro not a book

Revisado: 05-20-19

This is not a book. It's a VERY long prelude to something. It's impressive that in 12 hours the characters and plot could develop so little. There are a couple dozen hours left in this series but it's hard to see there being enough momentum to carry through them.

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Waiting Room for Book Three

Revisado: 03-19-19

This is not really a book. It’s well narrated waiting before starting the next book. I think the third book may actually be better by skipping this one. It’s certainly not bad. It’s writing is on par with the rest of the series. There just isn’t much point to it in the grand scheme.

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