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It's gotta be who I think it is, right

HUH.

Is Sanderson taking a swing at his own Granny Weatherwax with December or am I getting ahead of myself

Would love to see this book as a cartoon or a comic.

Unnecessary.

Love me some good weird as hell sci-fi

Oh but this book is mean and every little flash of kindness it shows only makes the next cruelty even sharper

Oh no I think this book rips

Oh no I think Bagger has a heart of gold

And I thought *I* use too many commas.

He's so GOOD

Aaaahhahahahahhahahahaaaaa GOOD TV

Haha, somebody's read Book of the New Sun

1) This is a fantastic line.
2) It feels slightly out of place with the setting, which mars the impact a little.

It's been used a thousand times and it doesn't matter because it ALWAYS rules when the crazy old weirdo turns out to be the biggest badass alive

1) Not every book needs to be adapted into a show or movie
2) If this one is, this sequence could be a really fun montage

Book good so far

Everyone thinks Pratchett is funny and they're right but it gets glossed over that every now and again he spins out a page or two of some exquisite horror writing

GOD this book is so good

This author is allergic to putting any sort of thought into any of the "jokes" he writes. There's a fucking "dingos ate my baby" joke, including going out of the way to announce it's being said in a bad Australian accent.

Did this book have an editor? Who the fuck thought it was a good idea to keep the sentence "her breasts made a slight sloshing sound"? This book wasn't written, it was dictated by a drunk meathead frat boy.

What the fuck is the point of this.

Gleefully stupid, cruel, lazy, 4chan-ass sense of humor.

This book is going to have to start winning me over pretty fucking quickly.

Oh cute one character looks silly so another one made a "special needs" joke, fucking great. Most of these jokes haven't been funny but I had hoped we could just leave it at that instead of crossing over into actively repulsive.

I think I hate this

Important reminder in this chapter that the Union soldiers were, alas, also really fucking racist, but after 90-odd pages of describing the antebellum South as what I will charitably call the most shit-headed and small-minded society imaginable the Yanks still come off as philosopher-kings in comparison

I had completely forgotten, or possibly never even known, just how much of the tension leading up the American Civil War was due to the slave states fearing, not that slavery would be abolished in existing states, but that it wouldn't be allowed in new ones, or that new states would vote on whether they wanted it, or even that the new states wouldn't be pro-slavery ENOUGH. Bonkers shit.

I'm burning out on this book, Ruocchio, you have to show me something original soon or I'm gone