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I love the Garrett PI series pretty much 100%. I think it holds up wonderfully, and I also think there's a whole layer that's there for people who have read Nero Wolfe, Sam Spade, Mike Hammer, and other classic detective novels. This series is inverted urban fantasy, it's the noir detective in a fantasy setting, and it works! It's also one of the most re-readable series I've read. I can grab random books and read them no problem. The women are archetypes that you see in classic noir, but that template gets less as the characters grow.

Ehhh. Guess I'll go back to waiting for WoW.

Amos Wins haha. That was my first reaction. I think I re-read the epilogue 30 times.

Finally got around to the 6th Eric Carter Novel by Stephen Blackmoore. Other than his reference to Portland, Washington, it's been a good addition to the series. Some excellent character development and some interesting things from the first couple books coming home to roost.

Thanks, I'll check it out.

Best season in 10 years? Hahahahahahaha. Wow. I can't believe there are people who are defending this season. It is a blueprint to how to destroy a character piece by piece. I've long been thankful that the Cartmel Masterplan never was fully realised, it was at best silly fanwank, but Chibnall took that idea and made it much much worse. The whole concept of the Timeless Child is indefensible. It makes zero sense. The sheer amount of hand-waving about things that have been a part of the show for 50 years is mind boggling. There's a reason the viewing figures are cratering.

My only conclusion is that Chibnall didn't really want the job and so he's systematically destroyed the show out of spite.

I loved this series, and Elliot James seems to have evaporated. Social Media accounts have no updates. Website has no updates. I think there's more story there to be told.

Couldn't find an unlocked thread. Delete this if it's wrong. While I kill the time between the last Alex Verus and the next Harry Dresden, someone suggested I read the Craig Schaefer-verse books. (Luckily he has a handy dandy reading order on his website). Starting with the first few Daniel Faust books, then over to Harmony Black, then back and forth a bit until we get to the spinoff of the spinoff...anyway... Has anyone else read these? It's sort of the Marvel Cinematic Universe version of world building, and it works...mostly, but it really seems a bit overly planned out and inorganically written. It's possible this is another series that's not served by binge-reading (inconsistencies are more noticeable, writer-tics more obvious...etc), but so far nothing has caused me to *stop* reading them. Okay but not great? So far I've read about two-thirds of what is available.

I participated in the Collaborative Writing Challenge's Steampunk project The Army of Brass. (I think I was told that I was responsible for 20% of the final project, but that is just a guestimate). The book is available for pre-order. Worth every penny of that .99 price! (Or free if you have Kindle Unlimited) Army of Brass on Amazon

He jettisoned the treatments they provided him and 95% of their plot threads from the rest of the canon.

Force Awakens e-book dropped the same day as the movie premiere. Physical book was a few months later. There was a lot more new-canon synergy with the Force Awakens, but there was relatively very little for TLJ. Frankly I'm surprised the Star Wars story team went along with Rian Johnson since he jettisoned so many plot threads from the entire rest of the new canon, but maybe Kathleen Kennedy was the one who decided to roll the dice.

Not hate at all...just indifference mostly. The movie left me cold, the book left me colder. There's now a guiding intelligence in the Star Wars universe called "The Cosmic Force" Rey got Jedi Training from mind-melding Kylo Ren. These things are befuddling mostly.

I finished it. They pretty much picked all of the subjects that the critics hit on during the first week or two of the movie and made sure they had explanations for them. Some of them are very convoluted. That pretty much solidifies in my mind that the delay in publishing was due to them trying to respond to the criticisms of the film. Early in the book, for example, they explain repeatedly that the bombers are carrying "magnetic bombs" and in case you've forgotten, when you get to the bombing run, they still remind you that these are *magnetic bombs* that fly towards their targets...magnetically.

Started reading the TLJ novelization. I'm reading an e-book so I'm screen-capping pages/sections where convoluted explanations of movie plot holes occur. I am currently up to 5 as of Poe's Mutiny.