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So much dialogue

Was Scalzi always this dialogue-heavy or am I just now noticing it?

I sure hope the info-dumps let up soon

There’s a lot of good material here, but last a point I have to put it down. Ew ew ew

Interesting reading, though I suspect I’m a slacker by the standards of the author. Some interesting tidbits so far:
1. Worse menopausal symptoms correlate somewhat to body weight and obesity
2. Running is the endurance sport with the greatest likelihood of injury
3. Plyometrics is a high-reward training tool with a very high risk of injury. As I leaned the hard way early this year

“ …from this study, we may draw the conclusion, that both training volume and intensity are important to the maintenance of fitness as we age, but intensity is more important.”

A little light reading… this is probably not. But the prose of the Preface was straightforward and modern enough in style.

It’s from 1972, and yet feels like an allegory for the Chernobyl disaster and its aftermath.

The author’s hate for Alan Deaton is hilarious

On page 168, someone finally asked a good question

It’s like Scalzi read Seveneves and thought, but what if it was absurdist and *funny*?

Oh, what fun! It’s a Wodehouse pastiche!

This guy … ruthlessly berates subordinates for any show of initiative, then berates them for not showing initiative. Please get some better counseling and drugs, Nicky.

Deeply creepy already

Ooooh … that just got even darker

A book about a musical about a play about a journalist breaking a story. Delicious! And the pastiche numbers are hilarious if you like that sort of thing (which I do)

Vlad, it doesn’t matter if you’re hidden from sorcery when you are an Easterner with 2 distinctive, flying, Jhereg familiars; word will get around

I’m usually all about plot, so I’m always surprising myself with my love for T-NC’s prose. And fittingly, the first segment of his new book is all about the power of words and narratives.

Brust tends to include a repeating element in each of his stories. In this one, it appears to be young Vlad learning new vocabulary.

Hmmm I should have read the blurb more carefully. I thought it would be space opera with a side of romance. But it is decidedly more erotic than that, haha oh well.

This is some upsetting stuff, not sure how much longer I want to stick with it.

Don’t do it, Aelis!

The technobabble is off the scale lol