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4/2/2025 3:01:21 AM
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The last book I read was [i]A Journey to the Center of the Earth[/i], and I was very disappointed. It doesn’t hold up well in multiple areas and a wrote a pretty critical review of it for school.
The last good book I read was [i]Mistborn: The Final Empire[/i]. It’s not a perfect book, but it is very very good. I’ll definitely be finishing the trilogy!
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I enjoyed it, although I did read it a long, long time ago. Some books hold up and others not so much. One book that surprised me was Dracula. It was really good. Couldn't get into Frankenstein at all.
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Sometimes it's difficult to appreciate older literature, in this case something that's over a century and a half old.
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One of my favorite books was published in 1864
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I did say "sometimes." At any rate, it wasn't intended as a comment about you specifically, it was a generalized statement. Speaking personally, I think it has to do with the..............rhythm, I guess?......of the writing and how it seems to vary with more contemporary writing. The language can make a story drag a bit too. Of course, these are only opinions based on my personal experiences though.
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I really like old writing. My complaints were more so about the characters being either uninteresting, completely insane, or logically inconsistent. It was also so wildly imaginative and unscientific that calling it science fiction is straight up wrong.
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I feel like you're overlooking the [b]fiction[/b] aspect of science [b]fiction[/b]. Although some has grounding in reality, there are others that don't strain the boundaries of credulity but outright ignore them.
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[quote]The last book I read was [i]A Journey to the Center of the Earth[/i], and I was very disappointed. It doesn’t hold up well in multiple areas and a write a pretty critical review of it for school.[/quote] Do you mean the one by Jules Verne? Or was it a different one?
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Yes, the one by Jules Verne.
