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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7396486" data-attributes="member: 20564"><p>So I think I've watched as much TV in these past 3 months as I've watched in the past three years combined. That's still not a lot of TV, but it's been taking a chunk out of my reading time.</p><p></p><p>Picked up on recommendation Sarah J. Maas' The Throne of Glass. I think it's technically YA fantasy, but it was well done. She's got a good use of words, and crafts believable relationships. The main character is a Mary Sue, though starts as a broken Mary Sue and is taken orthogonal to her core competencies a good deal. </p><p></p><p>As an asside, I discovered something about myself. I've written before I have a fondness for well written tactical space battles. I've reread the whole Honor Harrington series more than once, and while she;s queen of the Mary Sues, I find that since she's actually something like 60 years old just in the body of a 20 year old due to their life-extension treatments, it's believable in-world. Someone is going to be at the far end of the bell curve. But in this book the character was a Mary Sue already in backstory, with multiple years of being exceedingly infamous when she was 17. And while it has the appropriate background nods to intensive training with "the best" of various disciplines starting when she was eight, it still rubs me the wrong way that she was better than anyone else regardless of experience by the time she was in the 14-17 range.</p><p></p><p>All of that said, I enjoyed it. (Actually, I'm not quite at the end. I'm in the denouement after the climax, or at least I assume, but it had a good number of pages to go and it was late.) Just ordered books 2-4 (of 4) off Amazon, they are fairly cheap so I don't expect they are big sellers.</p><p></p><p>I've got my normal To Read pile that I haven't made much progress on recently, plus I picked up Quillifer by Walter Jon Williams used. I don't know anything about the book (besides it says "Book One"), but WJW has plenty of cred with me. His earliest works like Voice of the Whirlwind were good, but I'd really loved books he's written since he hit his stride. Both his serious fiction and his farcical Maijstral books.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue, post: 7396486, member: 20564"] So I think I've watched as much TV in these past 3 months as I've watched in the past three years combined. That's still not a lot of TV, but it's been taking a chunk out of my reading time. Picked up on recommendation Sarah J. Maas' The Throne of Glass. I think it's technically YA fantasy, but it was well done. She's got a good use of words, and crafts believable relationships. The main character is a Mary Sue, though starts as a broken Mary Sue and is taken orthogonal to her core competencies a good deal. As an asside, I discovered something about myself. I've written before I have a fondness for well written tactical space battles. I've reread the whole Honor Harrington series more than once, and while she;s queen of the Mary Sues, I find that since she's actually something like 60 years old just in the body of a 20 year old due to their life-extension treatments, it's believable in-world. Someone is going to be at the far end of the bell curve. But in this book the character was a Mary Sue already in backstory, with multiple years of being exceedingly infamous when she was 17. And while it has the appropriate background nods to intensive training with "the best" of various disciplines starting when she was eight, it still rubs me the wrong way that she was better than anyone else regardless of experience by the time she was in the 14-17 range. All of that said, I enjoyed it. (Actually, I'm not quite at the end. I'm in the denouement after the climax, or at least I assume, but it had a good number of pages to go and it was late.) Just ordered books 2-4 (of 4) off Amazon, they are fairly cheap so I don't expect they are big sellers. I've got my normal To Read pile that I haven't made much progress on recently, plus I picked up Quillifer by Walter Jon Williams used. I don't know anything about the book (besides it says "Book One"), but WJW has plenty of cred with me. His earliest works like Voice of the Whirlwind were good, but I'd really loved books he's written since he hit his stride. Both his serious fiction and his farcical Maijstral books. [/QUOTE]
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