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Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1)
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bookshelves: favorites, influential, writ-snakes-in-ovid, currently-reading, writ-mars-the-founder, writ-anonverse
Oct 08, 2020
bookshelves: favorites, influential, writ-snakes-in-ovid, currently-reading, writ-mars-the-founder, writ-anonverse
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so. this might be one of the best books i've ever read. i have so much i could say about it, but i genuinely don't know if i could... express it coherently. for now: wow.
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Reading Progress
November 19, 2019
– Shelved
November 19, 2019
– Shelved as:
to-read
September, 2020
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Started Reading
September 9, 2020
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0.19%
"i now have 5 books on my currently-reading tag but IN MY DEFENCE this is a bookclub read"
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September 15, 2020
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10.32%
"oh... this book so beautiful: the writing, the world building, the characterisations... thank you @ god and my bookclub for delivering it unto me"
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55
September 29, 2020
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48.59%
"i'm loving this so much i really do feel kind of giddy with it"
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259
October, 2020
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Finished Reading
October 3, 2020
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57.6%
"'i took a deep breath. "death was judged too swift and light a punishment. i owe more."
carlyle sobbed, that's what i think the motion was, one quick, hiccuping twitch as the too-much of it overwhelmed his body.
i left him there, reader, hot with his just hate. but i cannot leave you. you can leave me, if you wish, you who have followed me this far, but see now why you should hate me.'
this book....................."
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carlyle sobbed, that's what i think the motion was, one quick, hiccuping twitch as the too-much of it overwhelmed his body.
i left him there, reader, hot with his just hate. but i cannot leave you. you can leave me, if you wish, you who have followed me this far, but see now why you should hate me.'
this book....................."
October 6, 2020
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69.61%
"not to sound like a broken record, but: GOD this book is good. so, so, so so so so good."
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371
October 8, 2020
– Shelved as:
influential
October 8, 2020
– Shelved as:
favorites
September 2, 2023
– Shelved as:
writ-snakes-in-ovid
September 9, 2024
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Started Reading
September 9, 2024
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Started Reading
Finished Reading
September 13, 2024
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6.19%
"'i rose and bobbed an awkward half-bow to martin, reaching by instinct to remove my hat, though it was already on the ledge beside me. ockham caught the gesture, and his face relaxed into the first expression that morning which one could call a smile. "have we both been feeding the same stray?"'
these freeeeeeaaaaaaaks"
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33
these freeeeeeaaaaaaaks"
September 13, 2024
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7.32%
"'now, though, the command he gave made two vaguenesses congeal into one threat, distant, amorphous, but unmistakeable, as when, against a background of city dawn and back alley chatter, one click and one clack come together into the telltale click-clack of a ready gun, and echo won't tell you whether the enemy's perch is left, or right, or high, or low, only that it is near.'
the way mycroft narrates is soooo good"
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39
the way mycroft narrates is soooo good"
September 14, 2024
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17.07%
"‘imagine…: you are the tutor who has sensed something strange about this youth caligula; you are the native who sees a second set of white sails on the horizon following the first; you are the hound who feels the tremors of the tsunami about to crash on crete and erase the minoan people, but you know no one will heed you, even if you bark.’"
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91
September 15, 2024
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27.2%
"‘the blue of his eyes is beyond sky blue, beyond sea blue, beyond amethyst, a ferocious blue like the blue of diamonds and star sapphires, the hope diamond, the star of asia, gems who leave behind a history of murder.’"
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145
September 15, 2024
– Shelved as:
writ-mars-the-founder
September 15, 2024
– Shelved as:
writ-anonverse
September 16, 2024
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31.71%
"i hate that mean old men in suits have such a power over me. however…"
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169
September 16, 2024
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33.02%
"‘mason took his time considering, three breaths, four, each making the slightly metallic iron gray of his imperial suit shift in the light, as mountains change their shadows with the crawling of the day.’"
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176
September 16, 2024
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33.58%
"COMPLACENT READER, WE NO LONGER AIM FOR EARTH NOR ATOM, BUT…
PERHAPS THE STARS
this transition is still soooooo so good"
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179
PERHAPS THE STARS
this transition is still soooooo so good"
September 17, 2024
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44.47%
"‘“my dominic may be here,” j.e.d.d. mason warned. “have you seen him? he is perhaps your height, vicious, in dark costume, with a blacklaw hiveless sash. i seek him. he was last seen here, but has gone stray.”’
dominic on the loose 😭"
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237
dominic on the loose 😭"
September 17, 2024
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47.65%
"‘i am the window through which you watch the coming storm. he is the lightning.’
ada palmer, the writer that you are……."
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254
ada palmer, the writer that you are……."
September 19, 2024
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54.03%
"“… [the idea is] if you killed a utopian, you destroyed their world, their nowhere, their ideas, their fiction, since they all invent stuff even if they don’t all publish. you destroyed a potential other world, so you get banished to this one and don’t get to go to any other worlds anymore.’"
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288
September 22, 2024
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67.73%
"‘humans have decorated things ever since cave dwellers first learned to weave, or to fire clay to hardness, gracing a pitcher with figures, a shawl with stripes. i think an ancient craftsman considered each creation a capsule of his immortality: so long as future ages see this work and speak its maker’s name, i am eternal.’"
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Sep 09, 2024 10:02AM
The whole series is seriously so good!
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@henk it is! honestly might be my favourite book series. this is the start of my reread -- finally going to finish it! have been putting it off since the last book was published because i don't know what i'm going to do when it's over.
