Big Red Bird With Fuzzy Pink Feet
BigRedBirdWithFuzzyPinkFeet@ramblingreaders.org
Joined 1 year, 7 months ago
An afficionado of Terry Pratchett, sci-fi and history books.
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@bremner@book.dansmonorage.blue To me, some of Discworld books are much more... I don't know, meditative? Or perhaps the word is philosophical. Of course, each of the books has a clearly felt idea or philosophy underneath the story, but in some of the books, like Reaper Man, the story is sort of happening in the background, and the thoughts - either narrators or some characters' - take center stage.
And that's fine. :)
"Author of the phenomenal national best seller, Born to Run, Christopher McDougall now travels to …
I don't know, I expected a bit more. There were some interesting Crete-specific factoids from WW2 and some awesome war stories (mostly involved endurance running, obviously), but the book is written in a rather meandering, disjointed way, and I found myself getting bored and having to power through some chapters.
Not bad, but nothing special.