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Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1)
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bookshelves: fantasy, library-has, ya-fantasy, cliffhanger-boo-hiss, library-fantasy
Dec 10, 2015
bookshelves: fantasy, library-has, ya-fantasy, cliffhanger-boo-hiss, library-fantasy
In this alternate history type of fantasy, the Library of Alexandria was never destroyed, which ended up affecting the world profoundly. But - surprisingly - not necessarily in ways that are good. The world has developed in a very different direction, scientifically and politically, and the Library keeps a stranglehold over the ownership of books, forbidding private ownership of hard copies on pain of death (ereaders are fine, but the Library monitors the content) and ruthlessly destroying the printing press each time it is invented. It's basically Amazon, in control and run amok.
This is an intriguing and somewhat dark fantasy. Full review to come.
This is an intriguing and somewhat dark fantasy. Full review to come.
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Reading Progress
December 10, 2015
– Shelved
December 10, 2015
– Shelved as:
to-read
December 10, 2015
– Shelved as:
fantasy
December 10, 2015
– Shelved as:
library-has
December 10, 2015
– Shelved as:
ya-fantasy
May 27, 2016
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Started Reading
May 27, 2016
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44.2%
"I didn't care for the start of this, even though it's an exciting chase, and almost put it aside. But now I'm sucked in."
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160
May 27, 2016
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51.66%
"So much going on in this tent. He probably hadn't even understood the half of it, and for the first time since being inducted into the Library's program, he began to realize how much he had to learn about how different the world was from the theory of it."
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187
May 28, 2016
– Shelved as:
cliffhanger-boo-hiss
May 28, 2016
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Finished Reading
July 22, 2019
– Shelved as:
library-fantasy
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May 28, 2016 09:16AM
I loved this one:) Along with it being a great fantasy story I also read it as a condemnation of certain large corporations seeking to monopolize the ebook market through the use of specialized ereaders and proprietary file types.
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I'm hesitant....I got burned with "The invisible Library" so now I'm paranoid about reading something just because it has "library" in the title...
Jamie (ReadsInTrees) wrote: "I'm hesitant....I got burned with "The invisible Library" so now I'm paranoid about reading something just because it has "library" in the title..."I thought this was a good book, but it is definitely YA, and I have to admit I haven't raced off to read the sequel(s). The Invisible Library has been on my TBR list for a while. Some of my GR friends loved it but it's gotten a lot of negative reviews too, so it's not been high on my priority list.
“Amazon run amok” great visual. Starting this book now.
