Don't worry about it, I'm a grown man.

Thanks for those impressions, SleeplessOne! thank you Hiro - have you finished TWW yourself? thoughts? forgot to add: nice to see Donaldson weave some of his career-long themes into the narrative; most noticeably to me being the value of free will . his willingness to challenge himself in regards t...

Thanks for those impressions, SleeplessOne!

Landwaster popped up in another thread to post this audio interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QPyzeE4X5M It's a great interview! Lots of things I hadn't heard before. + Donaldson's imaginary childhood friend! + How Donaldson learned about storytelling. + How Donaldson called himself "D...

wayfriend wrote:A couple of short online reviews popped up today.

https://www.thedigitalfix.com/life/cont ... donaldson/

https://www.geeksofdoom.com/2019/04/03/ ... -donaldson

Thanks!

Thanks for sharing your impressions. I had forgotten that TWW is coming out in April, instead of usual SRD-October...

Just starting Matter by Iain M. Banks.

Any interesting insights? I never managed to like Gormenghast. Anyway, I just read John van de Ruit's Spud , now onto Spud - The Madness Continues . Fun, easy light reading. I need it after the week I've had. --A Quite a lot. It takes in all of Peake's work though, I take my hat off, the author elu...

Just finished The Voice of the Heart, an analysis of Mervyn Peake's works, by G. Peter Winnington.

Just finished rereading Krabat, by Preussler.

Just finished The Evenings by Gerard Reve, now on to Where I'm Reading From, by Tim Parks.

Declare

Tim Powers

Time's Arrow

by

Martin Amis

Three Days to Never

Tim Powers

Short stories by Italo Svevo.

Hiro wrote:The Subtle Knife

Philip Pullman, a reread. This was my favorite of the three HDM, I'm curious how it holds up after many years.

It holds up!

On to The Amber Spyglass...

The Subtle Knife

Philip Pullman, a reread. This was my favorite of the three HDM, I'm curious how it holds up after many years.

👍 will await your final assessment Well. Right. My expectations were not too high, since I'm no fan of SRD's Last Chrons. I sort of enjoyed his last two novellas, and Seventh Decimate seems like a continuation, in a certain way. Bifalt is still a problematic character to me, too stuck in his habits...

Skyweir wrote:I still havent read the 7th Decimate. Got to get on with that

Good Hiro? Im sure it is.

Diverting. I'm not sure if it's very good, yet.

Seventh Decimate, by you-know-who.

Boy, Prince Bifalt sure chews his cheek a lot...