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Messages - Peter Ahlstrom

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Recommend a book
« on: August 09, 2011, 05:21:16 PM »
I listened to the first Song of Albion book in audio (got it from the library), and man, the characters were really annoying people. At the end I was only very mildly curious about what happened next, so I read the Wikipedia summaries and decided I wasn't missing anything.

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Movies and TV / Re: What was that Anime!!!?
« on: August 08, 2011, 05:01:14 PM »
I have no idea.

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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: August 05, 2011, 09:29:06 PM »
If Larry wants anyone different to do illustrations, Ben (Inkthinker) loved Hard Magic but was bemoaning the illustrations to me on the phone.

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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: August 04, 2011, 10:19:07 PM »
Does Spellbound have illustrations, and are they better resolution than the ones in Hard Magic?

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Howard Tayler / Re: Using a robot to watch Para?
« on: August 01, 2011, 10:21:14 PM »
Like like like.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Mistborn the RPG at Gen-Con!
« on: August 01, 2011, 10:19:35 PM »
The Mistborn minis sold out and won't be coming back.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Mistborn the RPG at Gen-Con!
« on: July 31, 2011, 08:48:20 PM »
A) yes.

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Howard Tayler / Re: Using a robot to watch Para?
« on: July 31, 2011, 01:02:57 AM »
I burst out laughing. Look at her eyes!

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Dan Wells / Re: OMG!!! just finished I dont want to kill you
« on: July 27, 2011, 07:25:29 PM »
They cured one in House, when it was a symptom of a different underlying condition.

I thought the implication in Dan's book was that John's sociopathic tendencies were a result of trauma from his father abandoning him, rather than an incurable genetic condition.

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Dan Wells / Re: OMG!!! just finished I dont want to kill you
« on: July 26, 2011, 04:54:50 PM »
I assumed it meant he was cured for good.

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Books / Re: The Complete Borders Implosion
« on: July 21, 2011, 10:28:40 PM »
Something else Joshua Bilmes mentioned in his blog a few months ago is reorder time. B&N reorders and restocks books very quickly. Borders didn't, by corporate policy.

However, there are some authors who had plenty of success at Borders but B&N wouldn't carry their books at all. That's what happens when you have a national buyer for a chain--if he doesn't think your book will sell because that's what his personal tastes say, he won't order it even if it's selling fine at other stores.

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Books / Re: The Complete Borders Implosion
« on: July 21, 2011, 10:00:57 PM »
There are smaller chains such as Books-A-Million that have stronger presence in some regions. But B&N is the last big chain.

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Writing Group / Re: "He better" vs "He had better", drives me nuts, which is correct?
« on: July 15, 2011, 09:57:31 PM »
I'm not sure where that construction would appear in prose, unless it's in narration closely connected to a character's thoughts, which is pretty much the same thing as dialogue.

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Movies and TV / Re: What are you watching?
« on: July 13, 2011, 07:16:39 PM »
We finally finished watching Stargate Universe. Sigh. There were some really interesting ideas in the last half of the second season, but there was a lot of wasted potential. Plus too many unlikeable characters. And reading Joseph Mallozzi's blog, he basically admits they were just making things up as they went along and really didn't know where the show was headed. It really showed.

I loved the time travel thing though, how alternate versions of themselves went back in time 2000 years and founded a civilization. Fantastic idea.

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Books / Re: ARC The Alloy of Law
« on: July 13, 2011, 05:53:59 PM »
A number of booksellers are getting copies. They should probably ask Tor. We have some copies ourselves but haven't decided yet what to do with them (besides taking some to local booksellers in Utah).

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