What are you reading in 2023?

[Zaukrie]

Does reading every essay on Skill Challenges from Dungeon count? I just did that......

 

[Alzrius]

I think that Calye Shovan ("Chainmail Bikini Girl") did more than a little to popularize it, in geek culture.

I'm going to have to disagree with you there. From what I can tell (after quite a bit of Googling), her sole credit in the role you named is from The Gamers: Dorkness Rising (2008), and I'm having some serious trouble figuring out where "Chainmail Bikini Girl" appears in that film. So far my best guess is that she's the person pictured on the cover of the fake Lost Worlds book that's shown to Joanna around twelve minutes into the movie, titled "Woman with Broadsword," but if that's correct it's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance, which is hardly the sort of thing that popularized the trope (which was already so well-known as to be passé as of 2008).

 

[Ryujin]

I'm going to have to disagree with you there. From what I can tell (after quite a bit of Googling), her sole credit in the role you named is from The Gamers: Dorkness Rising (2008), and I'm having some serious trouble figuring out where "Chainmail Bikini Girl" appears in that film. So far my best guess is that she's the person pictured on the cover of the fake Lost Worlds book that's shown to Joanna around twelve minutes into the movie, titled "Woman with Broadsword," but if that's correct it's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance, which is hardly the sort of thing that popularized the trope (which was already so well-known as to be passé as of 2008).

Yes, that is her one credit. She was, however, a regular at many, many cons for years. That's how she ended up in "Dorkness Rising." It's almost like she's been scrubbed from the internet because maybe 5-10 years ago, there would be hundreds of hits on a search.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I dove in This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. It's not my typical reading, but I'm enjoying it and it's pretty short.

I'd love to hear a review when you're done.

 

[Nellisir]

I'm reading Apocalypse Cow right now and, um...it's a little more...um....

It's kinda gross. And...y'know, I think I just ran into something I can't/won't put into words. I'm not sure that it's bad, but there are some very...unsavory elements.

This is not the light-hearted zombie cow apocalypse the back cover led me to expect.

 

[the Jester]

I started Catch 22 about a week ago, and oh my God is it hilarious. I can totally see the influence on Douglas Adams.

 

[trappedslider]

Taking a break from

IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation

and reading A brief history of living forever

 

[Old Fezziwig]

Started The God is Not Willing after wrapping up the Ed James. I'm about 25% in now, and it's exactly what I would expect from Erikson. That's not a bad thing. The changes in the setting are interesting, and it's nice to see things we've seen before in different ways. (The encounter between Rant and the Black Jheck was great, and Stillwater's excursion into the barrow was also a lot of fun.)

 

[Zaukrie]

Just finished book two in the inheritance trilogy. Y'all were right, these books are even better than the fifth season books. I think. Great writer for sure.

 

[Nellisir]

Just finished book two in the inheritance trilogy. Y'all were right, these books are even better than the fifth season books. I think. Great writer for sure.

Heck yeah