Tak! quoted The Works of Vermin
The hours crawl by, but at a startlingly fast crawl.
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Tak! quoted The Works of Vermin
Same choice we all have, my dear. Same as every creature. Domestication, or extermination.
Tak! quoted The Works of Vermin
Kid’s just at that stage. They go to sleep tame, wake up feral.
the struggle is real
Tak! quoted The Works of Vermin
There’s only one good man and he’s my dog.
Tak! quoted The Works of Vermin
His eyes are dusty gold, like a beam of light in a grain silo. Aster has never seen a grain silo, but this does not deter her imagination.
Tak! reviewed Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld.
Grad …
4 stars
Katabasis was a fun ride - "what if Virgil were a Cambridge magic scholar"
It's mostly a story about the characters' abusive relationships with their advisor and with life in general. I thought it fell apart a little in the middle where it turned out that the characters had done meticulous, exhaustive research up to a point, and then were like "meh, it'll work out somehow" after that. The ending felt very hollywood, but that's maybe forgivable for a "to hell and back" story 🤷
Katabasis was a fun ride - "what if Virgil were a Cambridge magic scholar"
It's mostly a story about the characters' abusive relationships with their advisor and with life in general. I thought it fell apart a little in the middle where it turned out that the characters had done meticulous, exhaustive research up to a point, and then were like "meh, it'll work out somehow" after that. The ending felt very hollywood, but that's maybe forgivable for a "to hell and back" story 🤷
Tak! quoted Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld.
Grad …
He found himself looking up the cost of return fare. Then he thought more carefully of Lubbock, of stained floors and empty bottles. He remained.
— Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
former Lubbock resident, can confirm
Tak! quoted Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld.
Grad …
“Don’t quote Nietzsche on my boat,” said Elspeth.
— Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
don't make me tap the sign
don't make me tap the sign
Tak! commented on Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld.
Grad …
Content warning katabasis chapter 17
the whole "sex with trains" section is very fediverse-coded
Tak! quoted Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld.
Grad …
She looked like she’d dressed for a rock concert wearing only found items from the sewer.
— Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
goals
Tak! quoted Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld.
Grad …
She was so tired of the contents of her mind.
— Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
Tak! quoted Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld.
Grad …
Meteorologically, Hell didn’t seem much worse than an English spring.
— Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
Tak! quoted Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld.
Grad …
Alice rolled her eyes. “Please don’t insinuate I’m not clever enough to go to Hell.”
— Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
Tak! quoted Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld.
Grad …
The wind bit, the sun hid, and on the first day of class, when she ought to have been lecturing undergraduates about the dangers of using the Cartesian severance spell to revise without pee breaks, Alice Law set out to rescue her advisor’s soul from the Eight Courts of Hell.
— Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
Tak! reviewed Library of Broken Worlds
The Library of Broken Worlds was overall very dense and abstract for my taste. It reminds me a little of The West Passage in that respect, although it has a more serious and scifiy bent.
I feel like it picked up significantly around the halfway point, when the events in the flashbacks became more plot-oriented and the connections between the flashbacks and the god started to be revealed.
Overall, I enjoyed the out-thereness of the setting, but the book was not for me.