From the New York Times bestselling author of the Thursday Next series comes a “laugh-out-loud …
A book that thrusts you into a odd world that forces you to pay attention, and I absolutely love it for it.
5 stars
This book took me over two weeks to finish not because it was boring but because it was a challenge to read. Not in the sense that it used complex words but in the fact that I really had to focus on each paragraph because they would just sneak in key world building in a sentence and never mention it again while building upon it later. I absolutely loved how this book used the concept of color in terms of social hierarchy, human desire, societal norms, and pretty much anything else you can think of.
The characters in upon themselves are all pretty enjoyable and unique even if two dimensional at times. The protagonist, Eddie, is pretty well devloped and seems like a real person, as you are not really sure how he is going to side on the conflicts that present itself during the story.
The pacing …
This book took me over two weeks to finish not because it was boring but because it was a challenge to read. Not in the sense that it used complex words but in the fact that I really had to focus on each paragraph because they would just sneak in key world building in a sentence and never mention it again while building upon it later. I absolutely loved how this book used the concept of color in terms of social hierarchy, human desire, societal norms, and pretty much anything else you can think of.
The characters in upon themselves are all pretty enjoyable and unique even if two dimensional at times. The protagonist, Eddie, is pretty well devloped and seems like a real person, as you are not really sure how he is going to side on the conflicts that present itself during the story.
The pacing is pretty good as the whole book takes place over the course of 5 or so days even if it feels like longer. Though the tail end of the book kind of drags on going a little to deep into describing the same setting again. Though that is only a minor annoyance and does not hurt the story overall.
It is hard for me to talk about specifics of anything because this story is best to be experience blind as giving too many key details over the world (outside of the books summary) kind of ruins how things get presented.
Overall I highly recommend it to anyone who like science fiction and stories about interesting societies. Very excited to start the second book that came out last year
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Thursday Next series comes a “laugh-out-loud …
[Started Reading] I have always been fascinated and drawn to different colors. So when I saw this books tagline was: "Welcome to Chromatacia, where the Colortocracy rules society through a social hierarchy based on one’s limited color perception. In this world, you are what you can see." I knew i had to at least give this book a shot since it seems so down my ally.
[Started Reading]
I have always been fascinated and drawn to different colors. So when I saw this books tagline was:
"Welcome to Chromatacia, where the Colortocracy rules society through a social hierarchy based on one’s limited color perception. In this world, you are what you can see."
I knew i had to at least give this book a shot since it seems so down my ally.
A children's novel written in the late 19th century. The story centers around Dorothy, a …
Reads Like A 10 Year Old's D&D Campaign
4 stars
I was a bit hesitant going into this book due to the fact it was first published in 1900. I was unsure if something that is 125 years old and written for children of that time would: 1. Hold my interest 2. Would be able to easily follow the language of the time.
To my surprise it did both in spades. It was quite interesting from the stand point of seeing how much the story has been morphed and changed with different adaptions over the years. With what they have kept true to the source and what they have changed. It is very clear this was written for young children and reads almost as how a young child would tell a story. Such as giving a four characters equal time to speak their mind when it is not needed, always mentioning who sleeps where, along with the fact always …
I was a bit hesitant going into this book due to the fact it was first published in 1900. I was unsure if something that is 125 years old and written for children of that time would:
1. Hold my interest
2. Would be able to easily follow the language of the time.
To my surprise it did both in spades. It was quite interesting from the stand point of seeing how much the story has been morphed and changed with different adaptions over the years. With what they have kept true to the source and what they have changed. It is very clear this was written for young children and reads almost as how a young child would tell a story. Such as giving a four characters equal time to speak their mind when it is not needed, always mentioning who sleeps where, along with the fact always keeping heavy detail as to when and what Dorthy is eating.
If you go into with the mindset of reading a young child's RP adventure you will have a pretty great time. As there is much to take away from this story even if you have consumed some other medium's adaption of the story. I know there is 14 Oz books in the series and I am not sure if I am going to read them all at this point in time, but I am very excited to read the next one to see how it plays out.
The brilliant and chilling first novel Stephen King ever …
You wanna know how I for this scar?
4 stars
Even though this is my first book I have ever read by Mr. King I feel his reputation proceeds him with his troupes because this one had them all.
Kingisms aside I will say over all this story was pretty solid. They trhow a lot of names at yeah but there is really only a few characters that mater with some interesting side characters that show up from time to time.
I will say what kept me going was trying to milk any info I could from the pages to learn what I could about this world. They don't give you a lot but when they do it really makes you that nk and try to puzzle out the current world and how it got to this situation. The story does not give you any full concereat answers so you will have to fill in the gaps your …
Even though this is my first book I have ever read by Mr. King I feel his reputation proceeds him with his troupes because this one had them all.
Kingisms aside I will say over all this story was pretty solid. They trhow a lot of names at yeah but there is really only a few characters that mater with some interesting side characters that show up from time to time.
I will say what kept me going was trying to milk any info I could from the pages to learn what I could about this world. They don't give you a lot but when they do it really makes you that nk and try to puzzle out the current world and how it got to this situation. The story does not give you any full concereat answers so you will have to fill in the gaps your self.
King did a great job at really making you feel the pain the boys went through while on this walk. Part of the reason I went through this book so fast was because I wanted the walk to be over for my self mentally.
The brilliant and chilling first novel Stephen King ever …
[Started Reading] I heard this book is nothing like the movie (which I have not seen as of this post). Though this concept seems interesting yet simple curious so see where it goes
[Started Reading]
I heard this book is nothing like the movie (which I have not seen as of this post). Though this concept seems interesting yet simple curious so see where it goes
“The first year is when some of us lose our lives. The second year …
Okay it is looking like more and more this author is a hack who got lucky with a interesting concept she has sworn to ruin with their nonsense characters and plot
