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Vagabond Treehouse (2023) [Beware of Chicken 3 - December 4th]
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Neuvel book is on Hoopla TBR for me… missed BR last year, I think…
Soo wrote: "A History of What Comes Next #1 - Started this & I'm already engaged & amused. XD"Oh yeah that one's good! I need to continue the series. But I might reread the first one. Maybe when the third comes out in April.
A History of What Comes Next - We should plan to read the trilogy when #3 comes out in April. The humor was only in the beginning of the story. XD
The rest of the story was a mish-mash of history & stuff happening. A bit wobbly in showing the story, but it was interesting. I don't think the answers to the questions I have are going to be answered though, and that's kinda sad.
*fingers crossed* I've seen so many variations & fan-stuff made out of the Legend of the Condor Heroes. Hope this translation is good! A Hero Born
I've been wanting to read some Sylvain Neuvel... totally down for the trilogy read....Also been seeing A Hero Born around on lists... looking forward to your thoughts, Soo. I always feel guilty reading things in translation though... I feel like I should pick it up more books in Chinese but my Chinese is so rusty it'd be so much work... and I'm lazy...
Definitely down for the trilogy read :D
Soo wrote: "*fingers crossed* I've seen so many variations & fan-stuff made out of the Legend of the Condor Heroes. Hope this translation is good! A Hero Born"
I gave that one 3 stars. It was entertaining but might have been better for me in print. I hope you enjoy it.
I put the release date for Take Them to the Stars #3 on my calendar. The books aren't that long. When do you wanna read the trilogy? If you wanna take time, maybe a week per book? A Hero Born #1 - I'm about 1/3 to half done.
Thoughts:
1) It's one of those stories written in a simple manner, but that's deceptive because you would think it'd be easy to follow. Due to the style/translation, you have to pay attention to what's said because the small descriptions have to be held fast in your head & connected to the rest that follows. Lots of moving characters & plot loaded scenes.
For example, in any of the epic series we love to read, each book is long enough to have drawn out thoughts, actions, etc. In A Hero Born, there are only a few drawn out sentences & a series of staccato descriptions & actions. I actually have to pay attention to the story more in audio format or I find it easy to lose track of who is doing what.
A nice example of writing a rich story with less words.
2) There's a bunch left unsaid/not translated. Like I didn't know months had gone by between one event & the next until much later.
I think the story would be hard to follow & get the "why" a lot of stuff happens due to lack of context for some people. If you don't know anything about Wuxia, Xianxia, martial arts, Tao, etc, there's a certain lack of depth to the story. It makes what happens seem shallow & not as meaningful or connected.
Like how people could go from offering a drink, making a threat, fighting with killing intent and then become best buds within minutes. XD
JAM PACKED! XD
It was easier to have events in context in Musashi than in A Hero Born. Sort of.
3) The active scenes are a clear portrayal of what's going on, but so much happens in sequence that I end up pausing the story or rewinding cause I let my brain think about it longer than the moment is given in narration. XD
I've grown up watching movies/series about the stories spun from this series. It's fun to match up previous experiences with what I'm reading.
@Burner. Finished last night. Overall a decent read but def not my favorite Gray Man novel. Sounds like the the scenes are set for the follow up though with Court in the CIA's sights again so should be fun going forward if they continue.
Brian wrote: "@Burner. Finished last night. Overall a decent read but def not my favorite Gray Man novel. Sounds like the the scenes are set for the follow up though with Court in the CIA's sights again so shoul..."Yah, it was a wonky transition piece. Do you want Zoya to stay alive or keel over? I'd be cool with her dying to save GM. XD
Yeah I think if she died it would help add some layers to Court getting vengeance.
It is nice that Court isn't running around entirely solo, but I feel like Zoya is more of a hazard that's going to explode erratically than a useful element.
A Hero Born #1 - There are 2 narrators for the story. I liked the main narrator that told the story, Daniel York Loh. He had a nice way of saying the names & stuff that didn't sound like eschewed American/English accents. XDI liked it! I think the translator did not write the story to be read by English readers and that's where some of the hiccups for the story come across. It may make it seem uneven, jumpy, etc.
Not sure if it's in the original, but the story was told in a block format: intro of characters/setting, maybe setting, some dialogue, action. Similar to how you'd experience a story in TV shows.
A lot happened within a few hundred pages & I can see how that could be a turn off for some people. There was a lot of context that was missing from the story. I say a lot cause the differences between Mongolian cultures, the Jin/Yin and Song/etc were distinct. So a little note isn't enough to show how different that could be. Though, I did like how there were phrases like how Jing ordered simple meats + bread & rolled them together to eat.
I liked the intro notes & end notes. I learned today that kung fu means to do something over & over.
I do think I knew that the Legend of the Condor Heroes title translation was made more for the English fans than anything else. Title should be more like: The Legend of the Birds of Prey Heroes
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The poetic stance names may sound like blah blah blah to other people, but I really liked it. It's easy to imagine most of them from the phrase.
Soo wrote: "I put the release date for Take Them to the Stars #3 on my calendar. The books aren't that long. When do you wanna read the trilogy? If you wanna take time, maybe a week per book? [book:A Hero Bo..."
A week per book sounds good! Maybe starting with the second week of April? The beginning of the month is absolutely packed for me xD
Tonari no Emily wrote: "Soo wrote: "I put the release date for Take Them to the Stars #3 on my calendar. The books aren't that long. When do you wanna read the trilogy? If you wanna take time, maybe a week per book? [bo..."
I could do a book/week if it was in late May-early August, but I don't think I could do it before that....
@Soo--loved the review of A Hero Born!
I'm okay with waiting till May, is that okay with you, Soo?
Take Them to the Stars: Yah, May is fine. I'm in no rush. I have lots of books in the TBR. XD
Yah, same xD
Oh sweet, thanks folks. Would it be ok to start late May and work the rest of the way through June?
Should be fine? They're not long books.
Works for me :)
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Blood of Liscor's only ebook edition, from Amazon, is listed at 1684 pages... pretty nice for a 43hr audiobook...
Iain, let me know when you see another Kindle Unlimited sale/discount offer. Usually one around Prime Sale deal. I haven't been paying attention to it the last 2 years. Want to extend my KU with a sale.
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You just gotta do a google search... tech bargains always seems to have a new link when I search: https://www.techbargains.com/deals/am...
$144 for 24 months = $6/mo like usual...
I'm gonna wait a bit to re-up... my sub ends in September... but Audible is about to renew, and I've been spending money left and right, lately, as I dealt with my apartment situation... I'm about sorted... replaced some stuff, got tons of plastic storage containers, basically improved my setup in alot of ways... just need to get an air purifier and a few more odds & ends... and that TV stand...
For now, I'm just using 2 stacked heavy duty 40 gallon storage containers as my TV stand... works pretty well... except when I need stuff out of the containers...
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Just pay for Netflix. The rest you can find reasonable res to stream for free online. Tried the Tech link & it was a bust. I think that one is new subscribers.
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https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/ku/...
We were just talking about wasting time on apps... I literally watched 8 hrs of TikTok shorts today, most of them somewhat connected to the new Miley Cyrus song "Flowers"... That thing is addictive as hell! I am happy to see her doing so much better though...
Oh nooo Choko! My husband and I will cut each other off if we notice the mindless scrolling xD
I was bewitched!!! Once I decided to go to bed I thought, let me check something, and I didn't get to sleep until 5am! I really need to never get into those shorts ever again! But it is so hard! They are only 30sec. to a minute long! How can hours be passing you by?!?!
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Whatever the settings are that put a time limit on apps/etc :D
Thank you! I will look for it...
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I think they're called Parental Controls
Delete the App!!!! Lol. It’s so freeing feeling
Timelord Iain wrote: "This link?... seems like it's working for me: I have the 3 price options, and you gift it to your own email address and redeem it... can take up to 24hrs to receive the email... https://www.amazo..."
Woah, I totally didn't get that link. I was just sent to Amazon Kindle page.
Iain my link hero!
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I just tried it after you had issues... I knew, from the first time I opened the page that it looked like previous versions we used, so didn't doublecheck the links...
Delete TikTok - Worst time waster for our "short attention span" generations. XDKindle Offer Link
I hope no one else tried it. I tried it. Thought I got the deal. Then had my account locked. Called Amazon Customer Service & the dude could only tell me that a SPECIALIST will email me.
Maybe within 24hrs/etc
Account is locked until they unlock it. Maybe in 24 hrs
(barfs)
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I trimmed the URL to remove the gibberish tracking IDs from the initial link from Tech Bargains... I wonder if that caused the issue?...
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Got Amazon squared away. Updated a bunch of stuff.Trimming down the link isn't going to make it get flagged as hack/etc. Not sure what happened exactly. Unless they are cracking down on people buying the sale for their existing account. I doubt it's that though. Amazon want's to make money. The discount doesn't really save us that much.
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Internet says they flag suspicious spending (probably to avoid refund requests when banks report fraud)...
I did some googling earlier... found a woman in Norway that was locked because a replacement kindle could only be provided for free if sent to the original country of purchase (UK), when it bricked...
Customer Service was no help. I was like, I paid for something I had purchased before. Why is the account flagged?The follow up email to change password & all is suspicious too. Like it tells you to re-enter credit card info, etc.
I'm like, hmm, if I want more personal info, that's exactly what I would tell them to do. XD
Sounds very sketch lol
It was annoying. I made them transfer me to a manger. But it wasn't a manager. It was a "team leader". LOL who also could not answer my questions. I've done lots of troubleshooting & customer service chats. I dumbed it down. Explained clearly & those guys were so stuck on the "what I'm suppose to say" list, they didn't listen. Very annoying.
No option but to talk to them about account access stuff now. No more Amazon Live Chat for those kind of issues.
Yikes.... very sus...
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3 reviews and you have to do the "I'm not a robot" checkbox... 20 or so, and you have to start doing the picture puzzles... 30-60, and you have to start doing 2-3 puzzles for each review... feels better to just do in small doses...
I just did January 10th to 31st...
I got the "not a robot" on my last review when I went to edit it shortly after originally posting it when I noticed a typo I wanted to fix. So annoying.
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Because my Audible membership renews in March, I've been going nuts looking for audiobooks to use up my credits. I pretty much threw away 3 creds on the Destiny serial. It was easy to listen to while I did other stuff. I avoided looking at my downloaded/not started audiobooks.
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I was running out of space on the tablet. I knew it was from the audiobooks. Had to remove a few books/tomes/series. I have a ton of audiobooks to listen to because I stopped last year.
Still need to spend the rest of my creds before membership renewal, but I'm gonna work on reading stuff I have & getting next of series books. Not as many "new" & unknown.
Many goodies in the Audiobook TBR stack. Gotta cut that down to a smaller mound. XD heheheheh