Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I've been doing this since 2015, and though I'm not going to read a hundred books a year, I plan on doing this for the foreseeable future. I also maintain the Cannonball Read database, and make infrequent updates on our reading habits. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: ingres77's Quick Questions interview.)

ingres77's Reviews:

I made it through Jordan – Brandon Sanderson is next: The Wheel of Time review (Part VII)

Crossroads of Twilight by Robert Jordan

Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan

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So, I’ve been reading through the Wheel of Time, for those who haven’t been reading these reviews. I started the series in the late ’90s, and kept up with them through the publication of Crossroads of Twilight. When Crossroads came out in 2003, I was in college and had all but stopped reading for pleasure. It wasn’t until about 2009-10 that I started again. By that point, Robert Jordan had died and Brandon Sanderson had taken over the series. It had been almost a decade […]

I’m approaching the end: The Wheel of Time, Book 9 (review part VI)

Winter's Heart by Robert Jordan

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When I first read these books, I think I made it through Crossroads of Twilight (the next book in the series). I bought Knife of Dreams (the last book written by Robert Jordan before his death) and The Gathering Storm (when Brandon Sanderson took over the series), but I never read them. This book came out just before I went off to college, and right around the time I stopped reading for pleasure. I don’t remember the next book at all. So, I’m about to […]

You need me on that wall…

Call to Arms by Joshua Dalzelle

Counterstrike by Joshua Dalzelle

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I’ve tried reading romance a couple times, and was pleasantly surprised by the ones I’ve actually tried. But I avoided them for years because they all seemed to follow the same basic plot, with assembly line characters and common tropes throughout. Well, I can’t use those things as excuses any longer. This book – and, indeed, just about every military sci-fi series I’ve read – has assembly line characters, common tropes, and very similar, predictable plots. Despite all of that, I generally enjoyed this book. […]

I feel better.

Warship by Joshua Dalzelle

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It’s the 25th century, and humanity has reached the stars (and colonized them). They haven’t found aliens, however, and they also haven’t fought a war in over two hundred years. Everyone is simply too spread out, and the resources are far too plentiful. So the military has become complacent, and their ships are outdated. Even the old ships were built a hundred and fifty years after they were necessary. The technology used to build them is tightly controlled by a corporation, and the military isn’t […]

I’ve made a bad decision, but I’m too stubborn to change my mind: The Wheel of Time (Part V)

The Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan

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I hated this book. There was nothing in here that was offensive, like using rape as comic relief in A Crown of Swords. But the key plot points in here could’ve easily been interwoven into the last book. In fact, doing so (and trimming quite a bit of the fat) would’ve improved the story considerably. A great deal of this book does absolutely nothing to develop the characters or move the plot forward in any way. If anything, there is a needless addition of numerous […]

Trigger warning for rape: The Wheel of Time (Part IV)

A Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan

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I’ve written 8,600 words in reviewing the first six books in this series. And they can basically be boiled down to, “the gender dynamics here suck, the characterization is pretty awful at times, and the world building is incredibly and gratuitously detailed, but this series serves as a vital bridge between the endless Tolkien rehashing and the maturation of the fantasy genre that followed in its wake. There are many things here to admire – but I kind of hate these books. Anyway, here’s the […]



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