It's almost more a stream of pop-culture references, punctuated like sentences. I still enjoyed it a lot, but I'm very curious how it reads to anyone who didn't grow up in the exact same era as the author. It had nostalgia and recognition on its side for me, and even so, I thought it was self-indulgent. So what's the…
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It's hard to keep "the political stuff" out of a review when talking about a book containing this much political rhetoric and satire.
@avclub-1982161d0fe636d1caabd47a2ac23e12:disqus No, I have no involvement in AVC planning at this point. I have been told that the book AVQA is coming back soon, though.
Nope, I'm still doing book reviews and occasional miscellany for the AVC. I did get the book months ago, but I re-read it and wrote this a week ago.
Lonely Island just posted a new one, which might finally get "You Only Live Once" out of my head.
Kindly allow me to recommend the hell out of Helene Wecker's The Golem And The Jinni, which is the best book I've read this year, and which I read too late to review anywhere. Here's my mini-review on Goodreads where I tried to sum up why I loved it:
I came back to write it, Cookie. Conceived of it when reading the EW interview Sunday night, wrote it Sunday night and Monday night. I suspect I wouldn't have written it, or seen any need for it, if GRRM hadn't specifically said he isn't sure why it's such a memorable, gut-punch scene. Which really surprises me,…
I have seen the YouTube comments on the wall.
No lie, they had a big barbecue to welcome us into the fold. We're stuffed, thanks.
Aw, thanks. It's good to be back.
Not gone, just one website over to your left. It's the Internet, we're all adjacent, right?
Excellently put. I was trying to get at something similar with the point about how Robb and Catelyn here are the last bastion of adults, but I think you stated it better.
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Reading Martin's Hedge Knight novellas, also known as the Dunk And Egg stories, offers a pretty clear idea of what Martin considers bittersweet, and how he handles sacrifices and justice. The first one particularly stands out for me as encapsulating his worldview: Heroes die needlessly and the protagonist risks…
Oh no. That's going to be in my head for the rest of the day.
You know, as much as I love some of the Bombshell songs, these days I feel like I've seen the whole show, and I'd rather see Hit List and find out what it's actually about.
That piece about getting his passport stolen is in the book, and I thought it was the most compelling piece in there, because it's actually about a problem, and it has an arc. So many of the rest of them are things like "Aren't French dentists kind of odd?" or vignettes written from the POV of a racist or sexist or…
I think Wizard And Glass is easily the best Dark Tower book, but there's so much disagreement on that front. A lot of people hate it and think it slows down the narrative; I think it's the most poignant and deeply felt book of the whole run.
Scott Lynch wasn't me… probably Jason Heller, who's been salivating for the next book in that series for years now, and putting them on our "most anticipated entertainment" list. But I'm very glad you're enjoying Wool, and I hope NOS4A2 lives up to my hype for you.