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confident this has been designed in a lab to irritate me in particular. as a whole it's fine -- the action sequences are good, and i like the characters. but as someone who is both pedantic and familiar enough with the source material to have a good sense for when things are off i think i'm like. the worst kind of reader for this book lol. also we just hit the start of the real plot like. 30 pages ago. good grief

very nitpicky complaint here but why, in a book of norse-allegory, are we italicizing the non-english old norse/icelandic words. i hate when we do that in general bc it's so othering but like. the people whose POVs we are reading know what a knarr is. they know what hird means. esp when other words like berserk (WHICH IS NORSE) and weregild are not, this feels so jarring & just keeps taking me out of the story.

not 100% sold on this yet but i'm willing to forgive quite a bit for a fun romp through a norse-inspired fantasy so we shall see how this goes

need something short & quick to tide me over between finishing my book yesterday & rose bringing my next one home from the library & OMQ has yet to disappoint lol so

our handling of the vastness of space in our intergalactic travel and communication is SO FUN. god i love cherryh so much

started this at work today & i am annotating as i go so we are reading slower than usual but i am having a GREAT time. picked this up bc i was excited for the way cherryh plays with alien gender & already it is so fun; the different cultures she invents for her works are always so, so interesting, and this is certainly no exception. the kif names are so fun to say-- ikkkukkt. hinukku. akukkakk. i love it

two scifi novels back to back, who am i

"LUCIFER HAS FALLEN" and we are talking about nuclear bombs. sick as fuck. also the IMMACULATE CONCEPTION???

book ii finished-- i loved this so much. such an interesting juxtaposition of church vs science and how our personal prejudices bend both to suit our agendas. love too that so far each book has ended with the buzzards eating the remains of one of the characters we met in that book. cathartes aura regnan!!! the world was created especially for buzzards

updating once again bc i have finished book i. rly enjoying this, excited to see where book ii takes us

i swear i am actually reading this!!! sick brain made reading over the weekend tricky tho lmao. anyway i just learned about the original process for making blueprints by reading this, which is always fun. also ever entertaining to see the way authors deliberately warp knowledge of our current/recent eras to account for how understanding of that knowledge might change over centuries w less technology. having fun!

i really have no idea what to expect going into this one but i'm excited

i am having such great fun

LOVING this so far. god i miss this style of fantasy so much

extremely excited for this one fellas

"its eyes were the size of very large eyes" got me last time & it CERTAINLY got me this time lmao

i always forget these books have no chapters lol so i just have to pick a random scene break to pause. anyway discworld is so fun

ngl i pulled this up here & was SHOCKED to see it marked read with a fully typed up review lmao, idr reading this one at all! altho i do remember most of what i mentioned in my review, i just thought it was all book 2. but it's been so long since i've read a discworld book & i couldn't decide what to read next, so. here we are

yes

we have just described the servants of the moon spider as being capable of traveling "behind space" so needless to say i am already having a great time

i genuinely don't think he intends these books to be as funny as they are but how else am i to respond to such pieces of dialogue as these? "'well,' [the king said], 'we must prepare to die.' the three fell silent." and "again [the lord of law] smiled. 'existence is paradox. everything that is good is also evil. you know that, i am sure.' 'aye, [said jhary], 'that is what makes me so insouciant.'" like hello???

been forever since i've read moorcock!

doing some delightfully crazy things with this

DUDE.

okay. yeah lol. this one has grabbed me. just finished part I & it's about time for bed so i will be calling it here for the night. some wild shit happening so far; i'm having a great time

okay my brain is already latching onto this more readily. thank god

okay so my brain just will not focus on this rn lmao so i'm going to call this for now & come back to it later. absolutely & genuinely "it's not you it's me"

i swear i'm actually reading this, i've just been doing it in brief intervals on my 15 minute break at work lmfao. anyway i can't quite tell if this just isn't clicking for me or if my brain just isn't cooperating. i think it's mostly the latter: there's some really cool & weird worldbuilding here that i am thoroughly enjoying, but my brain is also rly struggling. prbly i am just very tired