EscapismReader
I read for escapism, no matter the genre. I swing between chaotic and neurotic. I don't know, I'm inconsistent.
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I think this is my least favorite TJR book to date. I thought the characters were very bland, the dialogue was stilted and the pacing was really off throughout. I had to force myself to get through it.
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The hospital actor storyline is so creative. It's the epitome of fake meaninglessness to play-act a hospital patient. The line, "Your brain doesn't know the difference between acting and living," is driving home this lack of genuine meaning in Cyrus's life, even after he's now sober.
Also this gem of a line: "It wasn't fair that just because he was sober, eveyone expected him to exhaustively interrogate his every decision. This job or that job, this life or that."
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Soo I'm starting this over after getting to roughly 50% a few weeks ago and losing my place... The opening line: "Maybe it was that Cyrus had done the right drugs in the wrong order, or the wrong drugs in the right order, but when God finally spoke back to him after 27 years of silence, all Cyrus wanted more than anything else was a do-over."
I think there's a lot of yearning for spirituality in this novel. Cyrus assigns spiritual meaning to things that are probably insignificant, like a lamp flickering. He's presented to us as a pathetic mess and someone looking for a rescuer.
My initial guesses are that the novel is a commentary on the lack of genuine spirituality in modern life or maybe on the loss of meaning in our daily lives and how we assign meaning to false things. Let's see.
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Dramatic battles, tense political intrigue, unique world building...and is that maybe some romance I'm sensing? These books are not Romantasy but focus primarily on the SFF elements. Romance is a subplot and may not appear until later in the series, but when it does, you won't be disappointed.
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An introduction to the Thriller genre, these books are part of the cultural zeitgeist or the 'canon' that many would recognize. Look for more niche titles in later Starter Pack volumes.
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An introduction to the Romance genre, these books are part of the cultural zeitgeist or the 'canon' that many would recognize. Look for more niche titles in later Starter Pack volumes.
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A collection of the pilot books for popular series, for those of us who love to follow a character's journey for as long as an author will let us! Some of the below series have heavily debated starting points and book read orders--in those cases the pilot was selected based on what seems to be the most popular approach.
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