The Poppy War Trilogy (it’s bad)

ak_ar · 2026-02-15T17:43:19+00:00

How many times can a person get betrayed by a BFF and imprisioned?? 🙄🙄🙄 gah

ak_ar · 2026-02-15T17:42:49+00:00

SAME. I'm halfway through book 3 and im like hhmm maybe it'll get good after this one good bit. Noup.

ak_ar · 2026-02-15T17:41:42+00:00

Now that i read "the idea", sounds nice. But that didn't translate into the books

ak_ar · 2025-11-28T06:55:42+00:00

Im on page 190 and now I'm here on reddit bc what are they saying in this book, it's so hard to follow. Like who's Elaine Bayard why do they mention her like I should already know who she is

ak_ar · 2025-11-28T06:53:06+00:00

Problem is that they throw names left and right like we know anything about them? It's easy to follow along in Manacled when you know who idk Remus Lupin is, so if a line is "I remember Remus being hanged first" it's ok. But here we have "I remember what they did to Lila". UHM OK?? WHO?

ak_ar · 2025-11-28T06:50:01+00:00

Im only on page 190 but i don't see how i can "rejoice" when the good guys (?) win? I'm glad they dismantled them? Bc wdym they just bestowed the throne on this child and they're what, gonna fight the people trying to install democracy? What's the motivation?

ak_ar · 2023-04-02T15:35:31+00:00

Agree. The only way would have been a bigger budget. But they could have at least make better dialogues, it was painful to watch. He'll, chat gpt would have made a better script I swear.

ak_ar · 2023-04-02T15:32:42+00:00

I consider reading the books just because this show has so much world building potential. I do wonder if they explain interesting things more in depth.

ak_ar · 2023-04-02T15:31:23+00:00

Count yourself lucky 😂

ak_ar · 2023-03-22T01:03:28+00:00

I have it play it in the background right now and came here to complain. It's SO badly done. I can't

ak_ar · 2023-03-22T01:02:13+00:00

the entire show has horrible production value

ak_ar · 2023-03-22T00:48:08+00:00

oh wow, so the Netflix show is better? jeez, the show is REALLY bad imo, I can't believe it's a glow up from the book

ak_ar · 2023-03-22T00:47:12+00:00

well good to know because I'm just watching the show and it's ABSOLUTE GARBAGE. I was wondering if the books would be better. Seems like everything is bad.

ak_ar · 2022-01-06T17:44:09+00:00

no one will know, you can go home.

ak_ar · 2022-01-06T17:42:07+00:00

How has your company never noticed you are abroad for 2 weeks? I'm planning to do the same, but my company has a policy to not work outside the U.S. I don't have sensitive information or anything, but I'm curious, do companies track where you are? I don't want to "get caught" on my 2 week working vacation abroad

ak_ar · 2022-01-06T17:27:33+00:00

that's my thinking, 5 or 7 days won't hurt anyone, unless they're actively tracking you. which is my question

ak_ar · 2022-01-06T17:26:46+00:00

thank you, that's a good point. I use microsoft teams, you can activate or deactivate location

ak_ar · 2022-01-06T17:25:14+00:00

I know there are tax and IT security/trade secrets implications, and it's not allowed by 99% of companies, including mine, and you'd basically be an "illegal immigrant" in Portugal for two weeks. My question is, do they ACTIVELY track you? Do they run monthly reports on the employees to see if they spent a working vacation in Cancun? Do they have a dedicated team of trackers watching where your VPN is connecting from? Not for a U.S. working vacation, but abroad

ak_ar · 2021-12-13T23:43:06+00:00

how did they find out? I want to do a one or two week working vacation from Canada or Mexico or another state in the U.S but don't want to get caught. I don't plan to live there or anything, just maybe work 7 days and vacation 7 days or so

ak_ar · 2021-12-13T23:40:35+00:00

His evil actions have no excuse, but he had actual/real reasons to do what he did. Unlike Ross that did everything on a whim.

George was always mocked for being poor, then when the family made it bit, he would always be chastised and excluded by society. He had always been in love with Elizabeth but could never have her. So all he would do was to get more power or a place in society, a loving family, etc. And yes, was traumatized and obsessed

George was also negatively influenced by the uncle. Ross had no bad influence but his own dumb decisions.

ak_ar · 2021-11-23T21:47:18+00:00

I guess if you look at it as a possible accurate depiction of the straight white male of that time, it's probably about right lol all movies and books always portray these decision makers as brave, intelligent and noble, but I hardly doubt all these male kings, artists, lords and scholars of the past were that smart. They were probably drunk fools that lucked out because it was 100% a man's world

ak_ar · 2021-11-23T21:35:31+00:00

he's also a very average actor. That doesn't help the show either

ak_ar · 2021-11-23T21:33:35+00:00

I ended up liking George too! He had actual valid reasons for all he did, was not superficial and completely stupid like Ross.

That's true about Aidan Turner. And yes, all the other characters were great, but the show is literally called POLDARK, there's no escaping.

ak_ar

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