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I only knew a little bit about this book before I started it, only Dorian Grey's ultimate end and the cost of his hedonism and selfishness. I never knew that he was set on that path by one of the truest devil characters I've ever seen. Lord Henry Wotton should be known as a greater monster than it feels like Dorian ever could be.

That Lord Harry thinks Dorian knows about Sibyl's suicide and is relieved to find him chipper and remorseless is the most damning thing about his character so far, and there was plenty of damnable material already

This guy ruuuuules

This dude suuuuuucks

YOOOOOOOO

Yoooooo

One and a quarter books into the series and now is the first mention of priests. I'd rather authors leave religion entirely out of their books if all they're going to do is present a thinly-veiled, poorly-considered half-reconstruction of the Catholic Church so there's an institution that can condemn things.
I'm probably (hopefully) getting ahead of myself.

Yeah this rules

It's unfortunate that Liat is this shallow.

Syrio Forel rules

Martin is so good at so many things but I only ever see people talking about killing characters, being mean, and sex. So much gets overlooked.

I understand why all the characters were aged up for the show and in many cases it would probably be better in the books as well, but Joffrey and Sansa both work so well as children.

I don't think I've ever read a series that managed to give omens the weight that Martin's portents have.

Miller may have gone off the deep end, and maybe was already pretty close to it when he was making this but hot damn, reading this book is like holding a power line. It crackles. It hisses.

God, this book.

"He felt in his heart cruelty and cowardice, rhe things which made him brave and kind." Oh Lancelot

Mike Mignola fucking rules

God, this book is beautiful

Lord, opening this book is like seeing an old friend

This is a fantasy novel dressed up like a literary novel to fool people into thinking they aren't reading a genre book. I wonder if the author knows that or if it fooled him too.

Stephen King wrote himself into his own novels, author as manifestation of cosmic imperative, and it was less grating than this 2 sentence mention of the Great and Tragic Burden of Writerly Fate.
Some of that may have been from how his own characters weren't impressed and clearly thought he was a jagoff.

"You mentioned to me that first evening of our voyage that you thought might have been born to be a writer. What a terrible thing, I think."

Broadly I'm enjoying this book but every now and again I get to a part that's difficult to read, because it's hard to keep the book still while also making sarcastic jerk-off motions.

Shout out to Nezu's unnamed personal driver, guy handles a car like he was supposed to be in Fury Road and wound up on Neo-Tokyo by mistake

Oh, the dream of the bird's shadow is good

Sol's story was always sad, but having a 1 year old kid now makes it cut so much deeper

If you ever, for some reason, wondered what it would be like Joss Whedon had written the Siege of Minas Tirith, I regret to inform you that this book has the answer.

Not even 10% in and we are getting a double dose of Butcher's incredible understanding of gender relations. Yeah, dude, chicks really DO be crazy

God, this book is a mess.