Recent content by Nellisir

The tavern scene was what really grabbed my interest, because suddenly Here There Be Consequences. It raised the stakes in a way I'm not certain I'd encountered before (I'm pretty sure I read it at 12 years old. Possibly 11). I read The Sleeping Dragon right around the time I borrowed the...

So say we all. :)

The first 4 novellas are linked and form a single story arc. Then chronologically, Fugitive Telemetry is next, then Network Effect, which IS a novel, then System Collapse. I understand it's a little dismaying to be buying novellas, but I thought it was worth it. I think there are some editions...

Shades of Grey is different from the Thursday Next series - it feels very similar at least initially, but I vaguely remember how it ends and there's an absolutely bonkers amount of world-building that must have been going on behind the scenes to get from A to B. I honestly don't think I could do...

Just read Once-Was-Willem, by M R Carey (Mike Carey). It's...odd. Surprisingly light for a book that includes a visit to Hell and hanging out in a divine skull. I like Carey's work a lot, but this is a weaker one. 3/5 Have begun to reread Shades of Grey, by Jasper Fforde, in anticipation of...

I'd strongly recommend The Broken Sword. I prefer it to Three Hearts and Three Lions, and I suspect in many ways it had an equal or stronger influence on D&D (...gnomes...).

I haven't heard it with ducks!

So, I asked my gf about this. She quit teaching in February 2020 because the students and parents in her new school were absolutely awful, and the administration had no support. Before that, she taught English for about 20 years at the 8th-grade level. So she's not totally current, but not a lot...

I'm going to talk to my GF about teaching, since until recently she was an 8th-grade English teacher - presumably one of the primary drivers behind the push to turn boys away from reading and intellectual pursuits. Anecdotally I can tell you that my daughter, who has grown up surrounded by...

I've read it and have zero recollection of it. Skimming back through it is one my list because people keep mentioning it.

That may be, but it's useful for discovering authors and areas you might be interested in. You need to diversify your book discovery methods. YES, which is why it's a BAD way of finding new authors and books. Bookstores want to SELL books. In an ideal world sort of way they'd love to "grow the...

I think it's pretty clear that the problem is 1/3rd of the books are Tchaikovsky, and that genre is just kinda meh for me. (I'm not sure why his characters almost all leave me cold, but they do. The spider was cool though.) ;)

I waited a long time to read Gideon the Ninth, and then was so furious at the ending I literally refused to read Harrow the Ninth for a few more years - guaranteeing I'd mostly forgotten the details of Gideon. Then I waited a few more to read Nona the Ninth, and f me now I have to wait for...

Kinda seems like you're arguing that if men buy fewer books, the publishing industry should keep publishing the same quantities for them, but at a loss. Anyway, They still publish books I enjoy, and I'm a man, so I assume that means they still publish books men enjoy. Sometimes I have to dig a...

"Rom-fantasy" has definitely had an upswing, and frankly I'm not that upset by it. Bookstores don't stock as much as they used to, and it IS harder to find something in a particular niche, but I regularly find really good books. Men don't read as much as they used to, and they don't read as much...