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"Whenever I heard myself described as an 'information-services worker' or a 'symbolic analyst,' I wanted to reach for a hammer, or a hoe, and with it make something less virtual than a sentence."

"I, uh, I was hoping to take you to dinner first."

The levels of sick and twisted involved here. I nearly fell over in laughter.

Dang it. I cannot believe how easily he can wrench tears from me. I must be getting old.

Throwout to My Cousin Vinny! Warms my lawyer's heart!

NO. FING. WAY.

That might be the saddest thing I have ever read.

Wow. The plot twist happened, and I was like, this is gonna be so good squee...

And then the second plot twist out of the blue. SQUEE!!!

Dinniman really is very, very good.

Oh man oh man oh man oh man

lil' squee!

These books are so good.

I can quit *twitch* whenever *twitch* *twitch* I want, dang it! *twitch shrug twitch twitch*

That's right, Carl. Trust your lawyer.

YES YES YES Dinniman is a genius and quite possibly my new favorite author

It's hard to believe, but Dinniman is amazingly good at shifting on a dime from being drenched in monster entrails to extremely effective pathos.

You will not break me.

About time a lawyer showed up. I was hoping there would be a lawyer as a crawler, but I'll take what I can get.

These books are like crack. Not that I know what crack is like, of course, but I've heard.

"It is not the role of an empress to be liked, provided they are obeyed."
"Maybe you'd feel differently about being liked if you knew how it felt."
-- opened his mouth, as if to disagree, then shut it, as if he realized he couldn't.

As usual, Abercrombie's dialogue is sharp as a knife.

Ok. That was funny.

Well. That was... Lame. No other word.

There are moments when Abercrombie's gift for dialogue are in full display in this book, but I am finding it a slog nevertheless.

"Whenever she went looking for something in her head, she never came out with anything she wanted. Like diving for oysters in a ... midden. Better to let it go."

SQUEE!!!

Yep. I knew it.

He just made me cry. Dang.

?!?!?!?!?!?!????????

I actually got to this point yesterday. I have not been disappointed yet by these books.

"Together, we will burn it all to the ground."

YES YES OH MY HECK YES YES YES!!!!!!

Dinniman *gets it*. These books are sooo good.

It's a bit unrealistic. I mean, who actually uses their scrolls and potions? They should be hoarding everything.

Started this two days ago. It's pretty good, at least so far.

"I hear you're a liar AND a thief."

"And those are just my hobbies."

Finally done with WoT and picking this back up. Remembering why I love Abercrombie. No one talks like this in real life, but who cares?

Why am I crying for *that* guy? He was a knob.

The Mat parts I like, but the rest I just want to be done with.

How long is Perrin going to be fantasying so hard? Ain't nobody ever fantasyed as hard as he is fantasying. It's like fantasy calvinball -- the rules cannot stay the same once. And I hate to say that it kinda ruins the effect. Funny that it was written by Sanderson, the prophet of hard magic systems.