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vkevlar
06/18/09

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I really, really hated Kushiel's Dart. Like, impossible levels of hatred. It's kind of disturbing to me, seeing as how my wife, and friends, all seem to at least like it.

I'll never read anything by Carey again, and it frustrates me that I don't know why I hated it so much.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
06/18/09

@vkevlar: I don't think it matters why -- her stuff just doesn't click with you, and it's not like you're going to spend years and dollars in therapy just so you'll be able to read a few books.

I like the world-building, but have never cared for the actual books.
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osrek
06/18/09

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Would you recommend to start with the first trilogy or can I just dive into the story?
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Annalee Newitz
06/18/09

@osrek: I would actually recommend starting with the first trilogy, simply because it is so cool. But you definitely don't really need the back story from it in order to enjoy this novel.
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braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
06/18/09

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Well, any book the review of which contains at least three uses of the word "awesome" is probably...pretty awesome.
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Annalee Newitz
06/18/09

@braak: or at least it inspires me to regress into this speech pattern from my youth. You know, when everything was awesome and tubular.
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braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
06/18/09

@Annalee Newitz: AWESOME!!!
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Rasselas
06/18/09

@braak: Don't you ever get the feeling that "awesome" has become more than a bit overused? Whatever happened to words like "superb" and "a rollicking good time" and "better than Cats"?
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braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
06/18/09

@Rasselas: I want "jolly good" to come back into usage.
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Rasselas
06/18/09

@braak: Smashing, old boy.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
06/18/09

@braak: I want "the bee's knees" to become commonplace.
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Rasselas
06/18/09

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Do people in modern fantasy novels ever have predictable, boring sex lives full of petty lies and hurt feelings, like John Updike's suburbanites?
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limber
06/18/09

@Rasselas: That's one of the better parts of scifi/fantasty -- there's too much going on all the time, and people rarely have enough time to focus on the petty lies and hurt feelings. For instance, I am unaware of a fantasy novel where three chapters are devoted to one character resenting another for neglecting to make a big enough deal out of a birthday.

Big lies and betrayals, of course, are a different story entirely.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
06/18/09

@Rasselas: Well, I wish I could say that about the later Wheel of Time books, but that applies more towards descriptions of tea parties and clothes than sex.
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