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The Book of Elsewhere
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Couldn’t do it. DNF 20%
🫡 to anyone who finished this. I hear it gets better but I do not care enough to continue.
This is overwritten and flat. I couldn’t make it far enough to see if it’s actually ‘cerebral’ as some reviewers say, or if it’s more likely just try hard and pretentious.
Reading shouldn’t be an effort in proving how much smarter you are than your reader. It should be an invitation to share an experience and immerse the reader within it. Using odd descriptors, ten dollar words and third person present tense pov makes me think I’m reading a movie script or a story outline. I’m so detached, confused and also bored right now.
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Me getting approved for this ARC is the closest I’ve ever gotten to my teen fantasy of Keanu begging me to marry him.
I will Keanu, I willllll!
(Ok I’ll stop being cringe now)
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Keanu Reeves wrote a sci-fi book? Yes I will be reading this.
🫡 to anyone who finished this. I hear it gets better but I do not care enough to continue.
This is overwritten and flat. I couldn’t make it far enough to see if it’s actually ‘cerebral’ as some reviewers say, or if it’s more likely just try hard and pretentious.
Reading shouldn’t be an effort in proving how much smarter you are than your reader. It should be an invitation to share an experience and immerse the reader within it. Using odd descriptors, ten dollar words and third person present tense pov makes me think I’m reading a movie script or a story outline. I’m so detached, confused and also bored right now.
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Me getting approved for this ARC is the closest I’ve ever gotten to my teen fantasy of Keanu begging me to marry him.
I will Keanu, I willllll!
(Ok I’ll stop being cringe now)
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Keanu Reeves wrote a sci-fi book? Yes I will be reading this.
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Reading Progress
May 3, 2024
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May 3, 2024
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to-read
May 10, 2024
– Shelved as:
to-read
(Other Hardcover Edition)
May 10, 2024
– Shelved
(Other Hardcover Edition)
July 5, 2024
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arc
July 5, 2024
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netgalley
July 5, 2024
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horror-thriller
July 14, 2024
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Started Reading
(Other Hardcover Edition)
July 30, 2024
– Shelved as:
did-not-finish
(Other Hardcover Edition)
July 30, 2024
– Shelved as:
did-not-finish
July 30, 2024
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Finished Reading
(Other Hardcover Edition)
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Yeah, me, too. Thanks for sharing! <3
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When I read it I will be using his bill and Ted voice in my head.
Kristina wrote: "When I read it I will be using his bill and Ted voice in my head."Stop making me like you so much! *lmao*
Leslie wrote: "Kristina wrote: "When I read it I will be using his bill and Ted voice in my head."Stop making me like you so much! *lmao*"
Can’t stop, won’t stop. 🙃
Céloise wrote: "Keanu did another thing? EXCELLENT🤘🤘🤘"Totally! I’m trying to get my husband to accept him as a brother husband. Keanu doesn’t know of my plans yet.
Lilyya wrote: "what in the multiverse is this"Keanu took a red pill, got a co-author and wrote us a book.
It was on NetGalley and comes out in July. I’m sure we’ll be seeing more of it soon.
Kristina wrote: “Totally! I’m trying to get my husband to accept him as a brother husband. Keanu doesn’t know of my plans yet."Keanu would actually make the BEST brother husband 😇
My husband is down with it so long as there’s no ⚔️. 😂
He probably just wants to do karate with him in the garage.
Paula wrote: "Huh. Go figure. I used to have a crush on him when I was a teen but now seeing as he is dating a woman in RL that could be his grandmother, he lost his appeal. 🤣 But on the other hand, maybe he kno..."He’s 59 and his gf is 51, that’s respectable and I like him more for not dating a 20 yr old. He could be a grandfather himself.
You’ll have to start setting another place at the table next to Gordie Howe. 😂
Sarah Mac wrote: "You’ll have to start setting another place at the table next to Gordie Howe. 😂"Gordie’s urn you mean. 😂
Hey, ghosts love to play with silverware & dishes. 👻
That would be a fun haunting.
Nobody would be allowed to sit in Gordie’s chair.
We can never tell my husband this. He would totally build a shrine and I’d have to live with it.
He might even go all-in with some Expos gear to pay double homage.
And Gretzky. He’s not dead tho.
Gretzky would be allowed to use the Gordie chair with its Expos drapery. His aura of awesomeness would protect him.
The Great One vs The Okay One…no contest. 😂
*cues up cheesy Star Trek fight music*
Kristina wrote: "Paula wrote: "Huh. Go figure. I used to have a crush on him when I was a teen but now seeing as he is dating a woman in RL that could be his grandmother, he lost his appeal. 🤣 But on the other hand..."The lady with white hair that the press shows him with is only 51? Huh. I was sure she was way older than him. Okay, now I'm back to crushing on him then. 😁
Just got my copy from Netgalley!!! So excited now
ChellBell wrote: "Just got my copy from Netgalley!!! So excited now"Jealous! It wasn’t available for me.
Oh nevermind it’s on NetGalley twice and one is available to me so I’ve requested it. 🤞🏻
😂 oh lovely. Well that’s good
About my fantasy orrrrrrr?Oh you probably mean the book.
Kristina wrote: "About my fantasy orrrrrrr?Oh you probably mean the book."
about your final assessment. i'm still undecided whether i want to read the book 😊
The ratings are not good for something still in ARC stage but I’m going in lol.
Ugh. Sorry to hear you are not enjoying it.
Third person present tense = instant DNF. I can’t stand that crap.
G_occasionally_reads wrote: "Ugh. Sorry to hear you are not enjoying it."Ya I am definitely not the audience for this. It’s probably for people who like really depressing graphic novels and war time history. It’s like if someone wrote a really depressing version of captain america.
Sarah Mac wrote: "Third person present tense = instant DNF. I can’t stand that crap."Me either, it’s like observational notes or someone narrating a documentary on animal planet
It’s so annoying because Sarah Dunant has written a HF duo about the Borgias, which is a topic I love, but it’s written primarily in third person present & I’m afraid that will ruin it from page 1. 😢 Authors, please…I’m begging you. Stick to classic past tense narration, or even first person present (which I don’t esp like, but can tolerate if the author is skilled). Just stop this third present garbage.
Fr it’s the new edgy way of writing action books. but it ALWAYS seems awkward and wordy unless someone is a master at it. But this book, sentences will keep going to describe stuff that already been described to death. It’s like someone is describing the BRZKR graphic novels this book is based on to someone who can’t see them. Like audio description for the blind. It’s annoying when added to the extremely overly complicated writing style and the odd and pretentious word choices. It feels deliberately done to either impress or alienate so those who hate this shit can be later looked down upon as ‘not getting it’. Anyway. I’m taking a break from it and only reading it to my husband to torture him.
Bummer. I was looking forward to this one. :(
Leslie wrote: "Bummer. I was looking forward to this one. :("Maybe you will have more luck with it than I did.
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I absolutely hate third person present tense. 😬
Megan wrote: "I absolutely hate third person present tense. 😬"Same. It makes me feel like I’m reading closed captioning
