Alhaitham

I enjoy a good book. Send me recommendations and questions in the Carrd. || Currently reading: The Way of Kings, by Brandon Sanderson

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Hello, and welcome to Alhaitham Reads! I started this on a whim last month seeing people joke about Haitham writing book reviews, and as someone who wanted to read more anyway, I decided why not?

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Oh, I also finished The Way of Kings. I don't remember if I mentioned that.

Phenomenal book. All the buildup led to an incredible climax and finale, and I'm currently working on the sequel, Words of Radiance. Work and some other hobbies of mine have been keeping me occupied.

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Especially at the end.

That said, it's not for everyone. There's no plot beyond the journey south, the road, and the people on it. I would consider it more of a character study than something you would put in your grade-school plot charts.

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The book on its own is probably boring to most who decide to pick it up. It's page after page of a very direct play by play of a man and his son in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. What interest I gleaned from it, however, came from how the writing style meshed with the characters.

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That's what makes the perspective we're from so interesting. How much of the novel is factual? How much is a thought bleeding out of our unreliable narrator's head? Is everyone really so dangerous, or is his son more rational than he is at this point?

Lots to think about.

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It's challenging to put my experience going through it into words, given that I had to take it in doses. There's only so much misery I like to incorporate into my day to day, and The Road continuously hit every box.

That said, it was alright. 3/5, if I had to rate it.

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I read through all of The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

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I'm getting tired of walking to Lambad's for something carbonated, so I want to figure out how to make those types of beverages from home.

It's more challenging than I'd expected, given the technology I have access to.

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I should go ask Kaveh, too.

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I've always found the mind's ability to drift back to subjects you enjoy interesting. I was wondering whether or not having battle scars makes you more threatening than not having them, and in the blink of an eye, I was thinking about The Way of Kings again.

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Though, back to my original thought, what's scarier? A clearly battle-hardened warrior (the scarred), or an opponent that's so deadly, they have no tells of the battles they've been in (the non-scarred)?

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Heh.

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Happy pride month. I've been thinking about paradoxes this morning.

What would happen if Pinocchio said 'my nose grows now'? If you take a ship apart and replace it over time, is it the same ship?

The paradox of the court has been in my head, too.

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@scribesbathtwl For all of our sakes, I'm going to forget the towel comment. Congrats on your degree. What's it in?

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An author that can put you effortlessly into the shoes of the character on the page is an author that should be studied and praised. I've been liking The Way of Kings; my entire lunch break was spent living through Kaladin's struggle as a bridgeman in the Shattered Plains.

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@scribesbathtwl Thanks. Life has been busy, but the occasional post doesn't take very long. Though, more than anything, I'm surprised you stuck around.

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There's how I'm doing. The Akademiya has had some internal unrest, so I've been unfortunately occupied. My escape being a bad book didn't make it much better.

Hope things are going well otherwise.

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+ applauded, but will jump out of her seat to ask questions at the same conference. She hates guns, police, and the military, but she accepts an offer clearly *from* the military to explore this Antarctic empire.

I'm baffled.

It's not good.

I'll be finding something better.

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A reminder that you don't need to read an entire book to give it an "adequate review." I slogged through fifty pages of a novel and had to put it down because I couldn't stand it, and I think that's enough for me to be able to talk about it.

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+ befriended the Australian man she, for some reason, dislikes. She hasn't been given the reasons to dislike him I have, yet hates him all the same. The book is full of odd characterization like this.

Ashley doesn't like being in the spotlight, shrinking down when she's +