John’s Blog

I read just about anything that Klosterman writes, and while I like his sports & culture writing much better, I also generally enjoy his fiction, too. Liked this one — it’s a novel that explores some about who we are when we’re alone and nobody is watching.

A lot of it felt like a Palahniuk novel to me — the earlier ones, not the more recent crummy ones (like Damned, which I’m about to finish and will write a very short post about.)

Liked it, read it pretty quickly over Thanksgiving weekend. Wasn’t blown away, but good.

I like reading Sanderson’s fantasy/science fiction because he invents worlds with super interesting physics & systems — they’re not really like anything else I’ve ever read, so it’s very entertaining.

This trilogy was just about perfect for reading over a holiday, although a little long, at over 1,800 pages all in.

I skimmed a lot in Book 2, but really enjoyed the first & third books a lot, and the whole series overall.