having looked at other books by Nick Podehl, I started listening to Free the Darkness, King’s Dark Tidings book 1.
Fantastic story, and I’m only on Chapter 4 so far.
Finished Book 2 of King’s Dark Tidings. Still amazing.
Then got through another section (Book 9 so far) of War and Peace. War and Peace so far is… an interesting listen, but would likely be quite a boring read. For one thing, characters sometimes speak untranslated French. For another, it seems more like a journal of events rather than a tale, since there isn’t a clear plotline. The story is basically of the lives of certain Russian aristocrats during the time of Russia’s war against Napoleon.
[JEDIT:] I read a review, prior to starting War and Peace, that the epilogues(!) are super long and more an analysis or commentary on the human condition or whatever it was. It was advised to just skip them and stop reading when I reach the end of the main body of the text, which will cut down on the length of the book considerably. …So I deleted the epilogue sections from my audiobook entirely when I was chapterizing it. [/JEDIT]
Now, on a whim, I’ve started a different book. Dune.
