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October 24, 2008
Love & Hate 24/10/08
Things that Big Dumb Object has loved and hated this week:
Loved
- Local Beef.
- The Sarah Connor Chronicles starting on Virgin 1.
- Sylar EXPLODING!
- Only being half way through Anathem.
Hated
- The need for Trilogies. Please just do one, and make it good.
- Heroes Unmasked. If you think Heroes is bad, watch this, they talk complete and utter bollocks.
Is it just me, or is Anathem hard work? Not that I am not enjoying it... but the thing as a whole is hard to wrap your head around and I'm struggling to make it a page turner. I'm only about 50 pages in and I started on Monday night!
That said.. the hardest thing about it is trying to hold the thing up in bed when I'm trying to read! Give it 5 minutes and my wrist is aching!
You do need two hands!
It's the sort of book you have to relax into, not one you rush through. you have to forget how long it's taking you. This was the same for The Gone-Away World when I read it earlier this year, and I guess the same as Quicksilver.
I'm now 400 odd pages in and there are plenty of chunks I want to read more than once, but in general I don't read massive amounts in one go. I like it.