I might be the only person who doesn’t like this series. I don’t think I am going to continue on with it, but this one was pretty definitely meh for me. Here’s my issues: The art was fine, but unimpressive. Ok, not a huge deal but fine. Zero stakes. Zero stakes. I said it. It’s like Pacific Rim. If the premise is so strangely different from real world possibilities and then there’s nothing super close to human interaction and understanding, then I am going to […]
This is a lot of novels
Variations on a theme. I listened to this audiobook during a day of chores, including walking the dog, and with a lot of novels that are listed for the Booker Prize longlist, I was left wondering what they were going for in suggesting this one. Last year I read the Edward St Aubyn send up of the prize, and the identity politics and vision for the prize spoof is funny to me thinking about this one. It’s not a terrible novel and the writing is […]
Maybe one day
Maybe it’s simply that this was read by the author or maybe its because I am at that age where I think a lot of my life and future life, but I did like this one a lot, maybe more than the sum of the book really allows for. Most of the essays of this collection or topics of essays ultimately lead to small revelations. In fact, there’s not a significant essay in this collection, but it hit home in a lot of ways. The […]
Gets me thinking
This graphic novel does a good job of dealing with a fundamental question I always have in nearly every fantasy novel, movie, cartoon, video game, or anything else. It deals with it, but doesn’t fix it, but still it’s something. It’s a common issue with the genre for me and something I am not sure I will ever figure out so long as I persist in reading (etc) fantasy. That fundamental issue is: how does the world function? What I often understand about fantasy worlds […]
Two Yellow Books
Snark Whatever. Apparently a lot of people really hate this book. I came across a lot of criticism of it, but very little of it actually dealt with the book itself instead of their perceptions of the book. I learned of this book, though I don’t recall this now, from reader the famous Gawker essay “On Smarm” by Tom Scocca that was making the rounds about 4 years ago. I am convinced from rereading big sections of it, especially the David Denby parts, that the […]
Well I guess I read the Reckoners series
So this has almost all the marks of a Brandon Sanderson series. The action is very well-written, the characters are overly goofy, the dialogue is overly goofy, but he doesn’t use the word “maladroitly” so who knows, maybe it was ghostwritten. I enjoyed it over all. Don’t my ribbings of Sanderson to heart. I like his books, but they’re so silly in their own ways. Steelheart The premise of the series is that a cataclysmic event happened on Earth about a decade or so from […]
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