Timewaster's Guide Archive

I started up on Infoquake (David Edelman), but skipped out for a bit to read The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray (Chris Wooding).  Both are pretty good so far.  Wooding seems to be jumping POV's a bit, and that's bothersome, but it's only infrequently so I'm able to push through it.  Definitely wondering where this one is going.  Pretty excited to get back to Infoquake too.  Interesting stuff.

So I finished Memories of Ice, and I want to try and compile my thoughts about the Malazan books so far.  On the whole, I really enjoyed the third book.  Now, finally, after reading the first three , I think I have a better grasp on Erikson and why I didn't care for the series all that much before now.  I'll probably put my thoughts into the Malazan discussion in a few days though.  Let it simmer.

In the meantime, I picked up Servant of a Dark God by John Brown.  I'm about 20 pages in, and so far I'm mostly just frustrated with his prose.  (Starting 30% of his sentences with a conjunction, laying out a characters options in detail in the midst of a chase scene, explanations of history/worldbuilding DURING a scene so that I can understand the scene).  I can see the possibility of lots of cool ideas and interesting play in the book, but I don't know if I'm going to be able to get through something that is this difficult for me to read.  Hopefully things get better, and not worse.  I remember EBR's review on it and because of that I WANT to get through it.  We'll see though.

Well, I'm guessing that this is within their rights to do, because the police didn't end up escorting them away from the property etc.

Still, there's thing thing called common decency that most people who do these kinds of things are lacking of in the extreme.  It's sad really, that there are people that have become such extremists that they are willing to do something so utterly disrespectful to the families and people that knew the deceased.

Shame on them.

I've never actually kept track.  I just read.  Got through Storm of Swords in a week of being sick though.  Pretty much all I did.  Guess that gives some indication of how fast/slow I read.

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Holy freaking cool, Batman!  So, I logged into Shelfari tonight and on my account's homepage it says:  "You’ve read 8 books this year. Last year you read 30 books, so you’re ahead of your pace."  Who knew?  Guess that's my pace.  I usually read largerish books, so this doesn't really surprise me, but I really had no clue about my pace until tonight. 
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Super-ditto-double-time

Curt needs to die.

Oh what a twisted web Wells weaves...

<<<evil laughter>>>

I bailed on the first one after about 200 pages.  There are like 14 different POV characters and there wasn't a whole lot for me to distinguish between them all.  The story is a lot of "telling", as in explanation as to what is going on and what is happening and why it's important instead of description that lets you get absorbed in the story.  It just wasn't for me.  KJA definitely does better than his counterpart, Brian Herbert, though.  I'd suggest never picking up a book written solely by Mr. Herbert (son of the amazing Frank.  Definitely read Frank's stuff--he's the dad).    For people that like that kind of storytelling, it's apparently pretty good dice.  So, go with your tastes, I'd say.