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The more things change, the more they stay the same...

At last, a book that agrees with me on the equations it contains.

At last, a book that agrees with me on the equations it contains.

I can very much see why this gets linked on Things I Won’t Work With so much.

These names are nothing alike. No wonder protag needs divine inspiration to catch on to that.

HOLY PERIOD RACISM BATMAN

That is not quite how cyanide works, and I'm kinda doubtful it wouldn't leave any signs.

By now I'll be surprised if any of these books don't involve anybody who's thunderously terrible at coming up with a non-obvious fake name.

Not sure if I just picked two of Fletcher's books with the same theme in a row or this is shaping up to be a formula.

Really could've gone without the bit on autism in the mercury section. Either that, or less "many people believe" false equivalence and more solid science. It'd also help if the grammar in the last sentence was less wobbly, and if he were a bit stronger on the whole "autism isn't worse than DYING" thing. (Also, how old is this? Autism is way less of an OOOO MYSTERY these days.)

Really could've gone without the bit on autism in the mercury section. Either that, or less "many people believe" false equivalence and more solid science. It'd also help if the grammar in the last sentence was less wobbly, and if he were a bit stronger on the whole "autism isn't worse than DYING" thing. (Also, how old is this? Autism is way less of an OOOO MYSTERY these days.)

"Then a thing happened." Yeah, they tend to do that.

"The boy stood very straight and white." One could snark now.

Aaand it's showing its age.

And now narrator sounds like she misses slavery. I'm still gonna finish this because I'm bad at letting books lie, but *why do you have to be like that, book*

So much for hoping this might only have the minimum amount of awful.

...oh goddammit, that Funetik Aksent is not promising.

Third book in a row featuring random dead dogs. Sleep deprivation makes that get to me, seems like.

Invisibility is not necromancy, Narkom, unless that belt was made out of people like the necropants.

IT WAS THE ACE ATTORNEY THING

If the answer to this turns out to be the same as in that Ace Attorney case...

Was this before or after Diane Duane's books? The Romulans here are called Rihannsu, which I think first came up in hers, but one of them is named Lucius which... doesn't really match the naming pattern.

I'm sorry, but that Jean/Kang thing reads as SHEER UNMITIGATED NOPE to me.

THE POWER OF TEA

THE POWER OF TEA

I have the sudden wish to see how Twilight would go with Agnes Nitt as the protagonist. I assume the answer is "badly, if you're a vampire".

I love Mightily Oats's notes on vampires for the dorkiest goddamn reason.

Brrrr, these vampires.

VAMPIRE WATERMELONS
VAMPIRE TOOLS

I keep worrying this will mess with my own writing style, but I keep reading anyway.