Several were bedside/while-brushing-teeth books that I'd had on the go for quite a while and suddenly finished them. And several are skinny or slight- Superior Saturday took less than an hour, so did America (which proves it's a good abridgement, I suppose!) But yes, fast readers R me.
Eee - you loved Stranger to Command too! I was craving people to rave about it with after finishing and nobody was available!
How's the Nix series going? I wasn't very taken with the first one (partly, I think, I got annoyed at some carelessness over the protag's having asthma, which seemed unrealistic, but I remember it very fuzzily), and didn't bother keeping up, but you obviously like it enough to make it to Saturday.
Must keep an eye out for the Complete History of America - saw RSC twice live doing Shakespeare and bought the DVD. Brilliant.
It was brilliant- I've had to go back through the Inda series and read all the bits set in Marloven Hess :) Poor lad.
I like the setting- I think Nix does terrific worldbuilding- and I like a lot of the minor characters, and I want to know how it turns out. I'm borrowing them from the library and not buying them, though.
I think the Bible Abridged [1] is my favourite of the shows after the Shakespeare one, but America's jolly good too, though the version on DVD is the one that runs in the US so there are inevitably local/topical refs that make it a bit more opaque to me than the one that ran in the West End. Have you seen Adam Long and two others of the UK RSC doing Star Wars Shortened?
D'oh- meant to say- the Compleat Works Shakespeare script has tons of footnotes and is hilarious in itself (the later ones are pretty much just scripts.)
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Several were bedside/while-brushing-teeth books that I'd had on the go for quite a while and suddenly finished them. And several are skinny or slight- Superior Saturday took less than an hour, so did America (which proves it's a good abridgement, I suppose!)
But yes, fast readers R me.
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How's the Nix series going? I wasn't very taken with the first one (partly, I think, I got annoyed at some carelessness over the protag's having asthma, which seemed unrealistic, but I remember it very fuzzily), and didn't bother keeping up, but you obviously like it enough to make it to Saturday.
Must keep an eye out for the Complete History of America - saw RSC twice live doing Shakespeare and bought the DVD. Brilliant.
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I like the setting- I think Nix does terrific worldbuilding- and I like a lot of the minor characters, and I want to know how it turns out. I'm borrowing them from the library and not buying them, though.
I think the Bible Abridged [1] is my favourite of the shows after the Shakespeare one, but America's jolly good too, though the version on DVD is the one that runs in the US so there are inevitably local/topical refs that make it a bit more opaque to me than the one that ran in the West End. Have you seen Adam Long and two others of the UK RSC doing Star Wars Shortened?
[1]Available on CD...
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