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Literary Masterpieces
I would like to talk about the best books I’ve read.
The Best in Each Characteristic
- best storytelling: all of 金庸
- best character building: Liveship Traders - Robin Hobb
- most unique space novel: Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
- smartest narration: The Fifth Season - N. K. Jemisin
- the most cinematic novel: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
- hardest science fiction: Diaspora
The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun 1) Review
Author: Gene Wolfe
The first book of The Book of the New Sun, the series hailed by countless people as the greatest science fiction of all time. A few years ago when I first saw it mentioned by some Redditors, I was immediately intrigued by it because of its badass name. However, it has no Chinese translation, so I just left it on my maybe-one-day list until I picked up reading in English again a few months ago.
Continue ...Broken Earth Trilogy Review
Overall a really disappointing and immensely overrated trilogy. The series started well with one of the most special novels I’ve ever written, The Fifth Season, but the latter two books, The Obelisk Gate and The Stone Sky, were very underwhelming and lacking in creativity. Really underserving of all the rewards they got.
Continue ...The Stone Sky (Broken Earth 3) Review
Author: N. K. Jemisin
The final book of the Broken Earth trilogy, ridiculously winning the treble: Hugo Award, Nebula Award and Locus Award. Each of the books in the trilogy has won a Hugo. Amazing achievement. Coming from such massive anticipation, however, I can only be immensely disappointed in this book.
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