Feb 13th, 2010
I admit I was interested in picking up Ōoku: The Inner Chambers for less-than-literary reasons, given the cover copy and the “Mature” rating, but then there was the whole nomination for the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize thing which suggested hey, this probably wasn’t just well-written porn. In fact it’s not porn, and it did (quite [...]
Jul 31st, 2009
Scalzi’s thread about what you need to give up to write (spoiler: screwing around watching TV and stuff all the time) got invaded by someone who is either a total emokid or a troll indistinguishable from one, blathering about how one must Suffer in order to create Art.
Naturally we all made like he was a [...]
Jul 19th, 2009
I would have read it eventually since it’s by China Miéville, but since Bryan recommended it I moved it up the stack – even though I was a little concerned it would be even more baroque than The Iron Council.
Miéville, darn him and his talent, has written a police procedural, set in a city that [...]
Mar 10th, 2009
Penny Arcade today pretty much sums up my opinion of the Amazon Kindle.
Jan 23rd, 2009
I have an aversion to books that are part of a trilogy or other mult-ology. I’m better with series books, like the Discworld novels or the Old Man’s War novels, where each book is complete by itself, and reading the previous books is helpful but not strictly necessary.
But when I’m deciding to invest time reading [...]