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slauderdale
is on page 305 of 464
"This book is so ultimately and charmingly a product of its time." RE: the science of the dinosaurs as well, who by current thinking didn't just All Die Off but in some instances survived to evolve into birds, implying a Choice (in the philosophical terms of Duane's cosmos) paralleling that of the cats, with the Hungry and the Mindful. But I'm still rereading, with vague memories of an intelligent dino coming up.
— Dec 13, 2024 11:16AM
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slauderdale
is on page 383 of 464
It fixes the bits that annoy me as it goes along. But I still find this book to feel very protracted.
— Dec 14, 2024 09:34PM
slauderdale
is on page 383 of 464
A little too long, a little too abstract, a little too much wandering around.
— Dec 13, 2024 10:35PM
slauderdale
is on page 266 of 464
Pavarotti gets eaten by a T-Rex. Pavarotti. Gets. Eaten by a. T-REX. This book is so ultimately and charmingly a product of its time.
— Dec 13, 2024 11:05AM
slauderdale
is on page 168 of 464
Cat culture is interesting but a bit assholish, IMO. There's a constant miasma of feline superiority, even on the part of wizardly protagonist Rhiow, but I have a hard time seeing what's so much better about cats (as written here, obviously.) Feels like, if they were the dominant culture, they'd have it in them to do quite as much damage as human beings to other species and to the world generally.
— Dec 10, 2024 08:22AM
slauderdale
is on page 102 of 464
Sort of a slow beginning, but I think I'm enjoying this more the second time around. "...of course it was always dangerous to felidomorphize."
— Dec 09, 2024 06:57AM
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p. 56 “To her, rats were a symbol of the entropy that wizards spent their lives slowing…” We need to get some rat wizards in here.
— Dec 07, 2024 11:39PM
