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The Thousand Names Anyone read it

#1 User is offline   Cause 

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Posted 25 November 2015 - 08:50 AM

The Thousand Names

Anyone read it? I had a copy and decided to give it a go. Maybe I was in a bit of a bad mood but I am ten percent in and already thinking of dropping the book. I normally stick out most books but this one is really bugging me. Seems so cliche. The female soldier who is pretending to be a man. The noble officers are all incompetent etc. Anyone have any advice?
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Posted 25 November 2015 - 09:05 AM

wrong forum :(


Stick with it, I'd say, it pulls away from the cliches a bit, (and embraces some further) but the writings pretty solid and the story did suck me in once it got going.
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Posted 25 November 2015 - 09:08 AM

Yeah sorry I just realized that when I could not find it in the other literature section.

Cool Ill give it some more time
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Posted 25 November 2015 - 09:33 AM

Read all the books in the series, really love them. They improve as they go along.
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Posted 25 November 2015 - 10:37 AM

I read it and finished it but wasn't that impressed. I found the Marcus sections, in particular, so bland and boring that they became a real trial of patience for me. I didn't find the battle scenes particularly well-handled, either - I felt they lacked tension and peril. I haven't bothered reading the other books.
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Posted 25 November 2015 - 05:57 PM

Love it. Second and third books are much better than the first, and I liked the first.
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Posted 25 November 2015 - 09:40 PM

I'm gonna have to read the second and third if they're as much as an improvement as y'all are saying- because the first was quite well written, but lacking something in the tension department. Not bad, but unremarkable.
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Posted 25 November 2015 - 10:16 PM

Well, the first book is just Napoleon in Egypt with a little magic thrown in.

New characters and certainly more tension in the next two.
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Posted 25 November 2015 - 10:51 PM

Only got through about 60-70 names and quit. Stullard Quintles? WTH kind of name is that?
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Posted 26 November 2015 - 01:49 AM

View Postpolishgenius, on 25 November 2015 - 09:40 PM, said:

I'm gonna have to read the second and third if they're as much as an improvement as y'all are saying- because the first was quite well written, but lacking something in the tension department. Not bad, but unremarkable.


Seconding this. I listened to the first one and didn't feel the need to continue. I may, though, if they do get better.
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Posted 27 November 2015 - 01:27 AM

It was a little hard getting into but I really enjoyed book 1. So much so that I bought the hardbound edition of book 1 and preordered book 2. After reading book 2, I have decided to not buy hard copies of the series, and regretted spending the money on book 2. The main character (the female soldier masquerading as a man) is pretty interesting but the emphasis on the sexual orientation was off putting. I hate it when authors overdo something just to go off the beaten path. The other main character who is mostly described from afar (like Rake in MBOTF) is interesting, and books 2 and 3 have other newer characters that make up for the shit show that the main character's story line becomes.
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Posted 27 November 2015 - 02:41 PM

The end was pretty good, will probably have to buy the next one to see what happens
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