Remember my mom watching the Richard Burton Miniseries. Knew about it for years, never read it.
Picked it up last year in one of those "take a free book" tables. Was enthralled. Watched the miniseries, loved it.
I have made a point the last few years of only buying new books on Kindle or Nook. I have five bookcases between me, the Mrs, and three kids. The kids share one, and my books are vomiting out of 2 1/2 cases. One of the inherent risks of reading books on a tablet is being able to touch words and look then up In a dictionary and online. Clan of the Cave Bear was a great rabbit hole to run down, and learning that many of the medicinal and food plants referenced were new world plants, while the series took place in modern day Ukrane and the cave the Clan lived in was based on an Iraqi archeological site.
Shogun was similar, reading the paperback and googling stuff on my tablet. Like the Golden Hind...and William Adams.
I have all The Wheel of Time books and have read most of them. They were gifts from one of my wife's lifelong friends who has since passed from pancreatic cancer. I can't bring myself to get rid of them, and I can't bring myself to finish them, or reread them, for that matter. The complexity mentioned comes off as schizophrenic to me, where some plot twists you could see coming a mile away, and others had me backtracking saying "huh? When did that happen? Is that what happened?" After like 18 books I just couldn't take it anymore. Shogun also had me bouncing back and forth to check on storylines, An old college habit of to skip over parts when I am tired, and it seems like I am always tired.
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