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What are you listening to 25 - Passing Emergency Love
Astromech replied to Lykos's topic in Entertainment
I listened to the episodes in s1. They were all very entertaining. The host, Tyler Mahan Coe is fantastic. I need to catch up on s2. I've been listening to a ton of Lucero, with some Drive-By Truckers sprinkled in. -
It is really a fascinating period. Which reminds me I'm due for a rewatch of Queen Margot.
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I've been looking for Robert Merle's Fortunes of France, in either the original French or an eventual English translation. Not sure how far along that translation is. Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles are very good, but the reading is very dense with tons of historical references. I would suggest getting the Dorothy Dunnett Companion to assist with all of those references.
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What are you listening to 25 - Passing Emergency Love
Astromech replied to Lykos's topic in Entertainment
Lots and lots of Lucinda Williams, John Prine, Jason Isbell and Tyler Childers -
Linked is a March 5th, 2019 Nobel Foundation press release about changes to the Swedish Academy. This may be old news to you, @Myshkin https://www.nobelprize.org/press/#/publication/5c7e5b45d7332000048d54df/552bd85dccc8e20c00e7f979?&sh=false
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Roger Crowley wrote several very good books on related topics. Very engaging narrative histories. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/133064.Roger_Crowley
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I think Drogon ate Dany.
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I don't get the popularity of this series. I couldn't finish the first book either. A unique mystery series is Ben Winters's The Last Policeman trilogy which are set against the backdrop of an inevitable world-ending asteroid strike. The first book follows the Detective Hank Palace as he investigates a suicide. Mind you, with the end of the world approaching, suicides are prevalent, but this one seems a bit suspicious. And why should Hank care about a suspicious suicide when nobody else does? The world is ending. The pre-apocalyptic setting was what was so interesting about the novel. Society unraveling or barely holding itself together. I've only read the first novel in the series so far, but have been meaning to read last two. No knock on the book, I've been having a a tough time completing any series recently.
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Visually, it was fantastic (I could actually see this battle.) And, of course, Cleganebowll!!!!!!
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[Poll] How would you rate episode 804?
Astromech replied to Ran's topic in E04: The Last of the Starks
I do appreciate how long Sansa was able to keep Jon's secret, though, telling the first person she ran into- 244 replies
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[Poll] How would you rate episode 804?
Astromech replied to Ran's topic in E04: The Last of the Starks
Feels like a return to the real story after that whole white walker digression. A rather boring return to the real story.- 244 replies
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Thanks for the review, Wert. I'm eager to jump back into a GGK novel and this sounds great. Regarding your spoiler: