Last Book You Finished?

The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
9/10

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Apparently I'm some sort of sadist or something. I recently (after the 3rd try in 20-some years) finished the Wheel of Time series (it helps when you realize that book 6 & 7, then again book 8 & 9, are essentially two halves of a single book happening simultaneously on opposite sides of the "known world", which explains why nobody discusses the end of book 6 during book 7), then I started on the Dune series. ALL of it (short stories in anthology books included). In chronological order. I just finished the "second" book, The Machine Crusade by Brian Herbert & Kevin J Anderson. I like both of those writers, but holy crap what the heck did I just read? It doesn't really feel like Dune. It feels like a fanfiction that's set before Dune during the Butlerian Jihad. Don't get me wrong, it's interesting to see the beginnings of the Tlielaxu, the Ixians, the Fremen, the Bene Gesserit, the Guild, etc... even if none of them are currently using those names (although they did mention the planet of Ix and the "Tlielaxians" have made an appearance with organ replacements that are actually harvested from humans just trying to mind their own business away from the war)... in fact, at this point the Guild doesn't actually exist as such, and using Melange to travel instantaneously is just now being thought about. And don't even get me started on the "Buddhislamists" ... because Buddhism and Islam really have the same ideals and deities, right?

Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson, only cause I got the boardgame and wanted to know the lore lols:)

The Truth by Terry Pratchett
8.5/10

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El ser y la nada
From Jean-Paul Sartre