He writes some pretty good mysteries, sure, but the man is the Ernest Hemingway of Westerns.
Sep 14th, 2009
He writes some pretty good mysteries, sure, but the man is the Ernest Hemingway of Westerns.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Jan 17th, 2009
If you missed the reading by John Scalzi and Mary Robinette Kowal at Borderlands Books last night, well, I hope you were off saving the world or at an all-star orgy or something equally top drawer, because otherwise your evening, by comparison, was as lame as lame can be.
John Scalzi is even funnier in person, [...]