• God@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    i’ve never started on iliad and i don’t really want to lol, i feel like with bad xianxias i’ve already filled my fill of barely readable translations for this half of my life. the Circle novel is in that “shared universe” but it feels closer to a kdrama than to whatever iliad is. is iliad a greek xianxia?

    the murderbot diaries series (all systems red) is very readable, light and ez, at least for me.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah my brain is not wired for poetry and those books are long af. I’ll get into it eventually. I’ll probably read the second foundation series since apple is going to ruin the second book with another mediocre show so I might as well just read it. Iliad is just an epic.

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        I wanna reread foundation again. That shit was dope. I never finished the one that comes after the empire. The last one? Where there’s these dudes who were left on Foundation and they’re the start of the new cycle. I left it after some dude on some farm planet had done something and I can’t remember more than some interplanetary trading ship or something.

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          Hard to tell where you were do you remember the mule or the second foundation? Though trading/merchants was a heavy part of the second book.