Reflections on Sun Eater || Shadows Upon Time

I think Atlas Shrug is a shitty book shittily written with shitty ideas.

One of the go-to examples I've pointed out recently is The Doll Makers, where there were a lot of positives that book, but it just completely broke my immersion in it that there's like one traumatic event and this one character kind of just completely changes. That's not human to me.

I feel far more mixed for Shadows Upon Time than I have for previous Sunnyer books without being overall negative. I'm actually kind of at the extremes for like different aspects of this book in terms of loving some things and being extremely annoyed by others.

For those of you who don't know, yeah, Starship Troopers was a satire. the movie, the book was far more earnest and I still engage with that book and I think it's a very safe way.

I think Stranger in a Strange Land is a good book with shitty ideas.

And then there is this pacing issue where even at the end like it kind of falls into I actually like the ending of Return of the King, but that ending where it's just whoa. Okay, we're going we're still going.