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In the course of a 100 page soft recap, Hodgell is passing off what I'm 99% sure are new characters and events as if they were there all along. I'm not sure if this is insane or genius. Sure Hodgell, Corvine was definitely a character that existed before and I just don't "remember" whatever minor scene she was in. Sure.

Bass Pro Pyramid mentioned in the first 10 pages

You know a book is gonna be fire when the main character nuts in his pants after handing his aunt a love poem within the first 30 pages

At the end of October 2025, Nanotyrannus skeptics experienced a devastating and unrecoverable defeat. In Robert Bakker's honour, I will immediately begin reading his dinosaurian xenofiction.

Was not expecting Lovecraft to start waxing lyrical about Wuthering Heights

First novel-length flashback I've ever read

Made the herculean effort of finishing the Sophy section, which actually managed to pick a bit with the encounter with her father at the end, but good god that was a slog.

Crawling through the Sophy section

That's not a Virgin those wood burners are worshipping - at least not the Virgin the abbé thinks - it's a xoanon.