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Your point that King needs to hear "no" from his editor/s more often isn't even close to wrong, but it's not because Tabby is editing him. She's long been the first person to read his novels, but A) that's a different thing and B) she pulled Carrie out of the trash can.

I find places with physical books easier and more aesthetically pleasing to browse, and I find the experience of reading a physical book to be more engaging. Those are my preferences and needn't be relevant to anyone else, and shouldn't be taken as slagging on e-books and e-readers. I'm also a...

In my case it usually involves reading the player-side notes to refresh my memory of the situation the PCs are in, and/or the direction they're moving. There's usually some working out what sort/s of opposition they could run into, and some picking from my physical maps (I don't run on a VTT...

Another side-effect of doing that gig for like fifteen years is that I mostly can't listen to people talk as a pleasure thing, whether that's audiobooks or podcasts or whatever, unless there's something to watch alongside (and watching the people talk isn't adequate). This--along with my bad...

I don't wildly disagree, but my first exposure to Stephenson was when I was recording audiobooks. He is not a novelist whose writing is shown in its best light in that setting, at least from the button-pusher's perspective. The narrators and the QA folks got to read/hear whole books, we...

And Anathem is a big book, to be dense. Just saying.

They have it, I might swing by and grab it. Thanks.

I generally spend like fifteen minutes per session, prepping for D&D 5e/ToV sessions that average about three and a half hours. Sometimes I need to prep a bolus of stuff, such as at the start of a campaign or if the PCs move to an area of my homebrew setting I haven't written up; that can take a...

I didn't realize there was a third. I liked the first two quite a lot--and they seemed like standalones that shared a setting, not a series--so I'll have to see if my local library of choice has (or gets) it in.

I haven't read Don Quixote for reasons, but I will point out that it's really early in the development of the Western novel, and kinda foundational--which will have little-to-nothing to do with whether a given present-day reader will enjoy it (a persistent problem with old novels, really).

Yeah, I'm asking what's in your last paragraph. I'll let my wife know about the sequel, but I probably won't bother, yet, myself. Thanks.

My wife really enjoyed The Tainted Cup, I'll have to let her know the sequel is out--and that it sounds as though she will enjoy it. Just to gauge things for my own interest: Is this like an ongoing--maybe indefinite--series, or does it seem to have an intended, hopefully brief run of books...

I've noticed that books more than a few years old can be very hard to track down if you want a physical copy. Do you think that's at least part of what's going on with Gannon (who seems to be currently active, so it might apply).

If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.

Seems to me the problem is more the people who can't imagine leaving the Hut, than the people who actually prefer it.

I can find you the ruling if you want/need. My wife works for MD's courts as the Assistant Reporter of Opinions, and putting such things online is part of her job. (That's how I heard about it, she told me.) They ended up with a whole section of the decision about that, before they got to the...

The state of Maryland just had a ruling come out today on this. If the AI gets it wrong and the attorney doesn't catch it, the attorney gets to face disciplinary proceedings. At least, that's what it looks like to me--but it's the way I think it should work, so I have a bias here.

I'm in my mid-50s now, and I first read it somewhere between late high school and dropping out of college after two + years. So, it had been something like thirty years for me. Obviously being that much older made Charles' acceptance of his age hit in ways it wouldn't have when I first read it.

Fortunately it's possible to read at least a lot of Howard via the Gutenberg Project, so no one benefits, monetarily. The comparison to Lovecraft is apt, though the Spook of Providence has his charms--mostly an ability to change his authorial pitch, and some occasionally vivid imagery; to...

Yes about his attitudes, no about his prose. The story I read kinda gallumphed unsubtly along on the prose level, and on the story level, and was soaked in bigotry. I can't say I'm interested in reading more.