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Title: Empire of Silence
Series: Sun Eater #1
Author: Christopher Ruocchio
Rating: 1 of 5 Stars
Genre: SF
Pages: 624/DNF@2%
Format: Digital Edition
| My Thoughts: |
I’m pretty sure I got this through a recommendation through Larry Correia’s website and one of his Book Bomb promotional posts.
However, at 2% (personally, I prefer skim milk myself), the main character starts talking about how his mother preferred other women instead of conjugal visits with his father. So I was done.
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Hmm, I have this one in my library since quite some time. I’ll probably still give it a go at some time though hoping he doesn’t go too far with the sexuality crap.
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My guess is there isn’t anything more than that reference but at over 600 pages I’m not willing to go on. I have my lines of things I won’t read and this crossed it, just wicked early.
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“However, at 2% (personally, I prefer skim milk myself), the main character starts talking about how his mother preferred other women instead of conjugal visits with his father. ”
I’m still laughing two hours later…Priceless!
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It helped that I was eating a bowl of graham crackers and milk for dinner the night I wrote this. And I had just gone grocery shopping, so milk and numbers were fresh in my mind 🙂
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ROTFL!
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I enjoyed this one, but it was very “typical” SFF fare, drawing from Dune, Name of the Wind, etc. So in that sense, maybe you’re not missing much. Didn’t know Correia also enjoyed this one, he has pretty good recommendations for the most part.
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Derivative, eh? Well, I feel better now. Thanks 🙂
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That skim milk comment was priceless lol. Oh well, on to the next one….
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That is one good thing about bad books. There are always more good books to follow…
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You’re not having much luck with a lot of your reading at the moment. That’s why DNF is always your friend!
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Yeah, the end of this month is ending on a very downward trajectory. Thankfully, life is busy enough at the moment that it has put all my reading into perspective 🙂
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Hahahahahahaah how do you even think about those jokes!
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My brain is weird. You guys all get the good stuff. What you don’t see is all the bad stuff that would make you wonder if it was actually safe to be around me. Or safe for your pet 😀
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