- GenericDude Mon Aug 21 10:56:54 2017 (City of Ashes - Chapter 13: A Host of Rebel Angels)
Y’know, the thing about the demon breaking free of the pentagram could’ve been fixed so easily. Simply establish that there are demons in this setting that need more powerful defenses than just a simple pentagram, make it so that Warlock Boy’s biggest fear is summoning one of said demons without …
- bettjo Thu Aug 17 08:51:30 2017 (City of Bones: Chapter 13 - The Memory of Whiteness)
I just wanted to say I really enjoyed reading this. Kudos!
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- Apep Tue Aug 15 17:00:31 2017 (You Should Read This - A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms)
In part because I’m hoping that’ll bring some attention and more people over to our community. ‘Cause, uh, it’s been pretty slow around here lately. If I do, I’ll absolutely post a link to my sporks of the earlier books here. No point in re-posting those, especially since some of the …
- Juracan Tue Aug 15 16:53:02 2017 (You Should Read This - A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms)
I’ve also been working on my sporking of City of Glass. I just finished chapter 11, and there are only 20 chapters, plus an epilogue. Not counting the excerpts from other novels (which I will not be looking at – you can’t make me) I’m now about half-way through. Also, …
- Robert Hilleary Sun Jul 30 09:29:58 2017 (Hungry Like a Wolf – A Rather Orthodox Study of Metaphor and Simile)
The article reads like an overwrought drunken denunciation of lousy metaphor uttered by the loquacious narcissist character edited out of the unpublished sequel to Catcher in the Rye.
- Juracan Wed Jul 5 10:37:53 2017 (On Making Your Protagonist the Main Character)
@Dragonstorm: Glad I could be helpful! @Anon: I touch on this a bit, but I don’t really consider Watson to be the main character or protagonist in most of the Sherlock Holmes stories. He’s the narrator, but almost always Holmes is the one who leads the plot, whom the story centers around, and …
- Anonymous Wed Jul 5 03:02:57 2017 (On Making Your Protagonist the Main Character)
What if the protagonist is specifically there to observe and play up the ability of the main character? Ala Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes. Holmes is a much more effective main character if we don’t know what he’s thinking.
- Dragonstorm Mon Jul 3 23:05:11 2017 (On Making Your Protagonist the Main Character)
Good points, and it’s making me rethink some of what I’ve been writing recently. I’m glad you posted this!
- Apep Wed Jun 14 10:48:26 2017 (You Should Read This – American Gods)
I haven’t actually watched it. I’ve been meaning to upgrade my Amazon Prime account to let me stream Starz, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet. And I don’t want to use a pirated streaming site or whatever because I do want to support the show, if only to …
- Juracan Tue Jun 13 21:16:34 2017 (You Should Read This – American Gods)
So Apep, question: You mention in part of the recommendation that you brought this up in large part because of the then-upcoming television series on Starz. What are you feelings about the Starz series now that it’s (mostly) out and how does it compare to the original novel?
- Molly Sat May 20 01:23:57 2017 (Lily Sporks Modelland, Part 21 — Wicked Couture, La Camara Brutta, and With Perfect Execution)
As far as I am aware, ‘What the hell you have become’ is not how you use ‘the hell’ (I was under the impression that it had to be a question). It’s almost like Tyra learned how to use the phrase from The Voyage Home.
- Anon Fri May 19 06:15:05 2017 (On Autonomous Characters (Who Like to Talk to You))
This Tim guy seems like a real prick. Every comment of his I see on this site, you’d think he’d just walked in on two hairy mexicans going to town on his wife. Jeez.
- Apep Wed May 10 12:40:44 2017 (You Should Read This – The Thirteenth Child)
There were humans in Australia before it was colonized. If people could survive Australia they surely could survive Columbia. I mean sure, some magical beasties might be a problem, like dragons or sphinxes and what not. But could any be as dangerous as drop bears? Exactly! Oh, ha ha. But in all …
- The Smith of Lie Wed May 10 03:49:16 2017 (You Should Read This – The Thirteenth Child)
And to go a bit Thermian (the aliens from Galaxy Quest), given the general lethality of these creatures, and the trouble folks tend to have defending themselves from them, it’s entirely possible that any ancestors of what would have been the Native Americans got killed and eaten before they could …
- Apep Thu May 4 15:57:13 2017 (You Should Read This – The Thirteenth Child)
I can absolutely see why someone might take issue with the non-existence of Native Americans. And yeah, it would have been cool to see a society that had adapted and developed ways to deal with all the weird creatures living past the Great Barrier. But at the same time, I can …
- Miss_Morgan Thu May 4 11:05:43 2017 (You Should Read This – The Thirteenth Child)
While it’s a good story—well-written, with strong characters and an immersive world—it’s worth noting that Wrede strayed into unfortunate implications territory by choosing to erase Native Americans entirely. The link contains Debbie Reese’s (Nambe Pueblo) perspective on that choice, as well as Wrede’s reasoning for leaving out Native Americans. I …
- Juracan Sat Apr 22 13:05:51 2017 (The Problem of Hermione Granger)
Hang in there, Epke. I’m sure it’ll turn out alright. So there’s probably some truth to what Emma Watson says, but it’s not the whole truth. Maybe, but the way it’s phrased made it sound like the reason Ron was even in the story was because he was some sort of thrill-seeker, …
- Epke Sat Apr 22 06:45:28 2017 (The Problem of Hermione Granger)
Uh…everything ok there, Epke? Yeah :/ You know that feeling when you promise your boss that this project will be done by the end of the day, and then the machine needed to do it just… stops? Anyway, digressions aside. They were decisions built on years of resentment and feeling left out. …
- Juracan Tue Apr 18 20:08:17 2017 (The Problem of Hermione Granger)
As a woman, I identify more readily with an interesting character of either gender than with a role model character of my own gender. Don’t get me wrong, I think positive portrayals of empowered female characters is desperately needed in fiction, because it’s been absent for so long. But I …
