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Dunno what happened with this book record but the title is gone. This comment is just to mark the title: The Mayor of Casterbridge
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I am a very nagging person, most noticeably a fan of terry pratchett. Currently doing some catching-up with Irish literature due to hoizer book club.
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Dunno what happened with this book record but the title is gone. This comment is just to mark the title: The Mayor of Casterbridge
.... that happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.
— Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy
This is literally the last sentence of the whole book, lmao.
真的很意外一个真的非常狗血家庭伦理剧的剧情最后一段搞得十分jvj,但是我感觉尽管Hardy sort of原谅他了可是我没有!也不能说我没有,就是我觉得这个人就是努力地做个好人了,但是实在是很大意,人就是一不留神自私一下就会害死别人。我觉得最后送人小鸟这个做法就非常summarising the person, it's like a good intention but that is so careless and shortsighted....
The Shepherd's Crown is a comic fantasy novel, the last book written by Terry Pratchett before his death in March …
i finished the bbc audiodrama version of it! I like it. probably because i haven't finished the book yet so i like it. but yeah i think i stopped the book where it starts to get graphically violent, and i feel the audio version of it, despite still having that, doesn't feel as much. maybe it's more effective when I have to build the scene from text by imagining it myself.
Themewise, ah it is indeed an American Gods. AG the book has touched on that theme of being a shadow of a man, but I think that theme got amplified in the show, and Anasi boys the audiodrama made it very central, the naming, the finding yourself. Supposedly, the other thing is about the story. I feel the audiodrama made it a bit secondary and I suspect that may be what I'd pick up more from reading the book. …
i finished the bbc audiodrama version of it! I like it. probably because i haven't finished the book yet so i like it. but yeah i think i stopped the book where it starts to get graphically violent, and i feel the audio version of it, despite still having that, doesn't feel as much. maybe it's more effective when I have to build the scene from text by imagining it myself.
Themewise, ah it is indeed an American Gods. AG the book has touched on that theme of being a shadow of a man, but I think that theme got amplified in the show, and Anasi boys the audiodrama made it very central, the naming, the finding yourself. Supposedly, the other thing is about the story. I feel the audiodrama made it a bit secondary and I suspect that may be what I'd pick up more from reading the book. But Pterry has done a LOT on stories, which, well, I will just borrow it to use on your friend.
I can't help comparing it to Thief of Time, because of the twin thing. ToT did touch on the feeling incomplete, but i don't think ToT is a clean split like this. .... actually i don't remember what happened with the other twin of Time's, .... and it actually is not so happy-ending as this audiodrama, this one is... so wholesome? why is gaiman being wholesome? Is this changed by the adapting? probably is, considering what they did to pterry's. ehm.
uh. I think the best thing about it is it brought back more DS9, and the worst of it is ...... the series is set out to kill off the novel-verse? I mean... if you've got that in mind, everything is just sort of... done. It doesn't feel intriguing, and I don't think this is the sort of doomed hero arc I like.
and you know, you always kill someone important then bring them back, that would make killing them less significant an act if you don't really do it well, and well, I think what with ezri and miles is pretty disappointing to me. idk. it's a bit bland. the only unpredictability probably comes with julian, but .... i also don't like what you did with julian, and i realise the why is because you alana-bloomed him, you broke him. and what was so precious about julian is the …
uh. I think the best thing about it is it brought back more DS9, and the worst of it is ...... the series is set out to kill off the novel-verse? I mean... if you've got that in mind, everything is just sort of... done. It doesn't feel intriguing, and I don't think this is the sort of doomed hero arc I like.
and you know, you always kill someone important then bring them back, that would make killing them less significant an act if you don't really do it well, and well, I think what with ezri and miles is pretty disappointing to me. idk. it's a bit bland. the only unpredictability probably comes with julian, but .... i also don't like what you did with julian, and i realise the why is because you alana-bloomed him, you broke him. and what was so precious about julian is the guy is infuriatingly unbreakbale, like, the bad guys relied on him being unbreakable to actually make their evil plan work. that's how unbreakable julian bashir should be, but... i'm now just curious what could possible happen in that section 31 book that broke julian bashir.
one of the stars is for the bickering between julian and quark: quark: i took the liberty of seperating your latinum from your pocket when i transported you, and Julian: this plan doesn't work, i want my money back and one star for quark: they rebuilt DS9, it looks like the original DS9 from outside, but the inside is now all round things. that's federation for you - take away sharp edges, leave you with all the .. round ... things. uh, is bickering only existing between DS9 crew because. i thought i didn't see it as much in TNG because i haven't watched enough TNG, but... now in the books? it's also like DS9 crew bickering a lot more than when we are seeing the TNG crew.
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I suppose this should be categoried as adventure / action, it is far from what I like about DS9. This is pretty much completing tasks - mystery solving - dashing everywhere to complete new levels, not really a genre I like. It's .... underwhelming that the authors wrote it out of the motivation to reconcile the continuity issues brought up by doing new ST series after the 15 years break. Stability of time-space continuum is overrated, stop your 3D-creature-centred point of view! (?
everyone is still adorable. More Dax backstory esp the details of Joran, painful hinting of Julian's unrevealed secret, Worf being worf and Kira being Kira, Trill symbiosis commission being a terrible organisation ( so adorable, Dax gets best versed in creole/cajun food among all earth food because of Sisko! Julian introduced pizza to colleagues! Dax: you don't have a pot of gumbo waiting for me? I feel so unwelcomed.
(I wonder if I start with TNG novels, maybe I can learn to like the people better, then I would be able to watch the series (
my only question is why didn't you be a writer yourself. But maybe because this is fanfic and not original story, it is different when you have to make up an original character with original stories. wow. I went for a closure, Andrew wrote it for his closure, it's perfect for me. Your Cardassian lifestyle is .... familiarly traumatic.
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I think Le Carre's heart was in the right place, he knows annoying people were behaving annoyingly, it's just they are very annoying so it's overall not very enjoyable. It's like I know these people are annoying me from the first look but I had to be there in their meetings, it's like bad workplace.
I very much like the plotline with Mickey. please do more the 'i killed my friend because of my desire of fame/status, I put together my friend's broken body, I drove him to wasteland graveyard in an ambulance under the carnival fireworks, and I put his blown up head beside the window so people gave way to me as they thought I was taking him to hospital, then I walked down the downwards slop during the bombing because I condemned myself'