Who Wants A Library Full Of Books He's Already Read?

[tfbretz]

Lately, I've accumulated a big pile (virtual and real) of books in various stages of "read." So, of course, the next book I've finished this year did nothing to reduce its size

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[drelmo]

I started it. It had pedestrian writing with an ineffective first-person voice and an utterly idea-less classical-four-elements motif for his magic, but nothing too bad to make me stop reading. Then I flipped through the glossary, and I saw an entry that indicated that in this timeline (which appears to be not further along than near-future), Europe had become a caliphate.

I put the book down and walked away.

I do not acknowledge any possibility that a caliphate could rise to replace the European Union in the remainder of my lifetime, even given a disaster, if that disaster preserved any continuity of civilization.

[tfbretz]

I honestly didn't notice the caliphate thing. Europe doesn't figure in the story at all. It is troubling.

I don't know what you read that was first person. The book is third person throughout with a single POV character. But different strokes and all that.

[drelmo]

Whoops, sorry, I confused 3rd POV with 1st; it was the POV that was not effective.

[tfbretz]

Ah.

(Also, FWIW, there are more schools of magic. It's a fairly major plot point, as a matter of fact.)