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'"After a hunt," she told me, amusement glimmering in eyes the color of cornflowers, "I am accustomed to swim." She paused and looked me up and down. "You could do with a bath as well...." [sic] In truth, the prospect of bathing with this beautiful young woman sent a ripple of pleasure through my loins.' I love high fantasy but nerds writing romance is the most awkward shit ever.
— Aug 12, 2026 05:43PM
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I don't have the headspace for this nonsense right now.
— Sep 12, 2026 07:24PM
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Dear me, there's a fair bit of god-bothering in this. I hope it doesn't go on...
— Aug 21, 2026 05:58AM
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Aug 12, 2026 06:49PM
And yet you continue reading? :)
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Oh, it's been good up to now! I felt quite downcast when I got to the romance part because I've enjoyed it up to this point. Hopefully this will pass and we can get back to the adventure. To my tastes, romance is boring even when it's well written, which is extremely rare. I feel if romance isn't a strong point for an author, they should imply the relationship and then fade to black at the kiss because anything else is forced and cringe. And, as you know, I'm one of those tedious people who has to finish a book even if it's awful. And then I go about making my friends' lives miserable moaning about how the books I read are shit. I've only not finished 5 in my entire life. I'm surprised you haven't read this series! It's alright so far. But I just finished "Spock: Messiah!" so anything is an improvement...
"Spock:Messiah"? Fascinating, to coin a phrase.Speaking of messiah's, I have been re-watching the entire 3 seasons of the 1972-1974 TV series, KUNG FU with David Carradine, where a half-Chinese Shaolin mink teachers trigger happy western cowboys to stop being so violent and ponder the essence of life. I highly recommend it, although sometimes it gets so sappy (pretty white blue eyed prairie women are always falling in love with what they can't have), it is almost camp.
Ha! Marc nostalgia-watched Kung Fu some years ago and I kind of got into it a little, I ought to give it another go. Have you finished it? Does it hold up? Still waiting for a Star Trek novel I like, sigh...
Actually, yes, it does hold up. In Season 2 I can see him have more confidence and somewhat less meekness. (Although there is the occasional clueless white blue-eyed woman...) In Season 3 there are more plots set as flashbacks in China (very good) including a 2-parter Carradine directed featuring Barbara Hershey as an aspiring female Shaolin-- a great improvement over previous women in this series.) Also, she was Carradine's real life partner-- weird but good.So yes, I recommend it.