Grand unified books thread

[jimmy olsen]

One objection, though.

If Wizards make "technology" malfunction by their very presence, how is it that he can drive around in a car with no mention of it ever going haywire?

Is it an older car? Before, say 1995 there weren't electronics in cars.

[Razgovory]

One objection, though.

If Wizards make "technology" malfunction by their very presence, how is it that he can drive around in a car with no mention of it ever going haywire?

Is it an older car? Before, say 1995 there weren't electronics in cars.

Really?  I've driven cars older then that.  They had electric ignitions, power steering, and radio.  Headlights even! I think I might classify an internal combustion engine as a form of technology.

[Slargos]

One objection, though.

If Wizards make "technology" malfunction by their very presence, how is it that he can drive around in a car with no mention of it ever going haywire?

Is it an older car? Before, say 1995 there weren't electronics in cars.

I understand what you're saying, even if Raz's objection holds true in that there's plenty of electronics in a car from 1920 as well. However, the author does note that even simple tech like a revolver is prone to fouling up even if not as regularly. He doesn't ever mention the car going haywire, however, and Dresden doesn't shy away from taking a Taxi and I doubt he can find many 1950s Taxis still running.

The series reads like it's written for uncritical teenagers sometimes.

But minor quibbles aside, it looks like it's got some promise.

[The Brain]

One objection, though.

If Wizards make "technology" malfunction by their very presence, how is it that he can drive around in a car with no mention of it ever going haywire?

Is it an older car? Before, say 1995 there weren't electronics in cars.

I understand what you're saying, even if Raz's objection holds true in that there's plenty of electronics in a car from 1920 as well. However, the author does note that even simple tech like a revolver is prone to fouling up even if not as regularly. He doesn't ever mention the car going haywire, however, and Dresden doesn't shy away from taking a Taxi and I doubt he can find many 1950s Taxis still running.

The series reads like it's written for uncritical teenagers sometimes.

But minor quibbles aside, it looks like it's got some promise.

Inconsistencies like that are the author's way to tell you that it's all just a dream.

[garbon]

Inconsistencies like that are the author's way to tell you that it's all just a dream.

You're a dream to me.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Started Eric Idle's novel "Road To Mars". which is the "Borscht Belt" of 25th century stand up Comedy. Witty stuff that reads very Python. Very. I could easily see the troupe in their heyday making a funny SF Python movie. There isn't anyone of of that calibre in modern comedy that could do this kind of thing justice.

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[CountDeMoney]

Taking a slight respite from my recently bout of chronic Rushdie-worship, I quickly devoured The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano.  A lovely little novel, very touching and the author, a mathematician with a PhD in particle physics, writes like one: elegantly sparse, base, allowing you to see the complexity in its own simple intimacy.

Unfortunately, it also strikes me as the kind of novel that could launch a loosely-based independent film that would destroy its center.

Now, it's off to Titus Andronicus and the 2011 Pushcart Prize anthology.

[Gups]

CdM,

Have you read any of Rushie's latest and if so has he returned to form? Used to be my favourite modern writer but I kind of gave up after Ground Beneath Her Feet and Shalamar the Clown

[CountDeMoney]

He's taken a change in tack with works like Haroun and Luka as fairy tales for adults, and while there's a noticable drop in the expository, I think it lends to a more focused, tighter style.  It fits him, despite its lack of sprawl.  He still does his wonders with the English language, though.

You didn't like Shalimar? I thought it was wonderful.

[Octavian]

Currently reading a book about the history of the sword and the first volume of Masters of the Sea series which takes place during the first Punic war on a trireme. I thus continue my Roman themed historical novels reading habit after the completion of the Emperor series books.

All of the above are read on my Kindle.

[Syt]

I've started reading Stephen King's Dark Tower series. More than halfway through book 1. Good stuff so far.

[The Brain]

Finished Platoon Leader: A Memoir Of Command In Combat by McDonough. Very nice little book.

[Admiral Yi]

Finished Platoon Leader: A Memoir Of Command In Combat by McDonough. Very nice little book.

Which war?

[The Brain]

Finished Platoon Leader: A Memoir Of Command In Combat by McDonough. Very nice little book.

Which war?

Vietnam, 1970. A platoon protecting a strategic hamlet.