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The book has spent more time avoiding talking about anything but when and what and where to eat, which is a strange way to build a psycho drama if you ask me.

I was worried that this would be culturally and historically dense, but Nearman is doing a fantastic job to tying all the various and potentially difficult parts together for easy consumption and smooth understanding.

So far it's super sleazy and narrated from a position of chauvinist entitlement...

Very repetitious so far at least in terms of tone. Some excellent information and presented in a fun way. But I'm a bit cautious that the author isn't trusting her readership enough. The oversimplification and metaphorical style of writing make me think she's targeting adolescents.

hmmm, it's kind of strange. This entire 2nd part of the Valley of Fear seems to be the set up behind the murder in part 1. It's not bad, but it's basically a frontier/western story with zero Holmes or even detective elements. I hope ACD doesn't take too long in bringing together all the threads, as things stand the later half is in danger of drowning the first.

Slowish, but if you're a WoD fan, this is pure, uncut, vampire nerd cocaine!

how chilling these absurd accounts of trench warfare are, only to learn that Saki was killed in action in 1916.

I'm pretty surprised by how coded with the homo-erotic and or fear of male intimacy this book is. The layers are at once amusing and interesting.

It's such a bizarre concept, but somehow it's working for me at the moment.

It's picked up quite a bit, but I'm still a bit bent out of shape that this is basically a detective novel with a veneer of hardcore SF.

hmmmm. I've come to different conclusions regarding mental torture, let's see how it plays out.