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Anon reads Don Quixote (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 14 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Tbh I don't remember more than 2 character names per story. If a chapter contains more than two actors then I am totally confused who those persons were and their relationships and such...

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    This is why I greatly appreciated how in This Is How You Lose the Time War, there are only two characters that matter and their names are Red and Blue

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    I read that book. I don't remember a single thing about it.

    I still recommend it, albeit begrudgingly, to people who might like it. I think it was better than I received it. Maybe I shouldn't have just listened to the audiobook, but rather, read it at my own pace and re-read certain paragraphs, rather than having them read to me one after the other. Because there was something more in that text. Some books are better in audio, and some are better in text. I can't imagine an audiobook exists of House of Leaves, but it wouldn't surprise me. So, maybe one day I'll go back and actually read This is How You Lose the Time War, because it probably deserved more attention paid to it, and it probably deserves a second look.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    Have fun with "War and Peace". Sooo many characters and everyone is some kind of Count or Lord with partly similar family names. Many of them also have a Russian and a French name and switch between them depending on context. I listened to the whole thing as audiobook and it basically took me the whole first book (of 4) to get a vague understanding of the characters. Listening helped a little bit because the reader had a slightly different intonation depending on which character was speaking.

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