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Is there a book/saga that you finished and cannot forget to the point where it gets harder to read other books? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me, the first time this happened was with The Royal Assassin Saga from Robin Hobb, and then Metro 2033.

This year, it’s The Witcher saga… (I can’t move on) I love all those introspective books with thoughtful heroes trying to make sense of the world they are forced to evolve into.

Do you have any other book like that?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

I had the opposite with The Witcher, I couldn't force myself to continue reading it. Andrej Sepkowsky is so horny, I was trying to read it for the story, but it read like some bad erotica, with the stories not having incredibly original or compelling ideas anyway.

On the other hand, the His Dark Materials trilogy has had a lasting impact on me, very thoughtful and interesting, not to mention entertaining, book.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Same for enders game series, Orson Scott card had a great thing going... But then went whackadoodle

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

The Witcher novels are one of the few epic fantasy franchises I've read and man, I didn't really like them.

Unsurprisingly, I came from the playing the Witcher 3, and I loved the first two books; the collections of short stories. The actual main plot felt that it never knew clearly where it was going, and it often suddenly meandered at times that killed the pacing, and man was it horny.

I don't mind horny either. I really enjoyed reading Murakami's The Wind Up Bird Chronicle, and the authors horniness is prevalent throughout the novel, but it actually works to complement the narrative. Even in the Song of Ice and Fire series where GRRM can get distractedly horny, it doesn't read as off-puttingly as Sapkowski's "edgy horny" style.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah there is a lot of time where it’s soo ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

For real, like some mermaid's green nipples are described in more detail than the protagonist himself 🙄🙄