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[lawnchair]

I'm not reading anything right now, but I managed to finish 5 books so far this summer. I've never been a big reader, but recently I exploded with enthusiasm towards reading. Here's everything I read

American Psycho
33 1/3: Koji Kondo's SMB Soundtrack
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
Influential Game Designers: Shigeru Miyamoto
Seconds

In short, here's how I feel about em. American Psycho was... a bit heavy, especially for a first read. It literally was the first book I bought with my own money and read from beginning to end simply for pleasure. I enjoyed it, but like I said, it was heavy. Very fucked up book. I found that Koji Kondo book in Barnes and Nobles and decided to give it a go, and I very much enjoyed it! I learned a thing or two about music on the NES that I didn't know before, and gained some perspective about game music in general. I picked up Curious Incident on a whim because it interested me; a mystery novel from the perspective of a boy with autism. This was my favorite of the bunch, easily. The book about Miyamoto was cool, but nothing special, unfortunately. I learned some things here and there, but for the most part it was filled with information I already knew. Finally, I read Seconds, the graphic novel by Brian Lee O'Malley. I really enjoyed it from beginning to end; very cool art and I loved the energy of it. I felt like it ended a bit... fairy tale, but it was good and I don't regret the read. I finished it in two sittings, actually.

I love reading and am so happy that I recently discovered the joy of it

this is good to hear. world needs more reading people.

 

[Alucard]

I started reading this book because I have been trying to re-learn Chinese (I took it in college and lived in China for about 2 years), but after college and I returned to the states...well...

After reading Make it Stick, I wanted a book that would use the ideas of that book and translate it into an specific guide in learning languages, and this book seems to do that.

So yea, recently I have started getting back into it. Instead of learning how I previously did and was previously taught, which was brute force memorization, I mostly focused on reading actual texts and listening to dialogue. Which, it turns out, was a good idea since recall-testing is how you learn, and reading and listening is a constant test of recall. I just recently started using ANKI, an SRS system, (actually before Make it Stick), and I like it so far. One problem with reading and listening is that is not a very efficient system at learning vocabulary and doesn't fix vocab with images or personal experiences, so they don't stay 'stuck' as well as they could.

Enter this book, so far, it has three rules for language learning:

1. Learn pronunciation
2. don't translate
3. use spaced repetition systems

I pretty much already have the pronunciation down (though I am sure I have an accent and doubt it is perfect). I have been translating and was not using images and personal experiences before, so this is something that I need to change.

If I have that, why read the rest of the book? Well, I am not exactly sure how he makes things like grammatical structures and certain abstract concepts 'stick'. I mean, unlike nouns, that would be pretty difficult to find an image and relate some sort of experience to. I also want to see how he structures his flashcards. Does the image go first or the foreign word? Switch it up?

But yea, I would definitely recommend this book if anyone wants to or is trying to learn a language and wants to learn what are the best ways to learn any language. So yea, it isnt a scam!

Nice. As a language teacher and learner, this and Make it Stick both really interest me.

 

[Alucard]

I'm not reading anything right now, but I managed to finish 5 books so far this summer. I've never been a big reader, but recently I exploded with enthusiasm towards reading. Here's everything I read

American Psycho
33 1/3: Koji Kondo's SMB Soundtrack
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
Influential Game Designers: Shigeru Miyamoto
Seconds

In short, here's how I feel about em. American Psycho was... a bit heavy, especially for a first read. It literally was the first book I bought with my own money and read from beginning to end simply for pleasure. I enjoyed it, but like I said, it was heavy. Very fucked up book. I found that Koji Kondo book in Barnes and Nobles and decided to give it a go, and I very much enjoyed it! I learned a thing or two about music on the NES that I didn't know before, and gained some perspective about game music in general. I picked up Curious Incident on a whim because it interested me; a mystery novel from the perspective of a boy with autism. This was my favorite of the bunch, easily. The book about Miyamoto was cool, but nothing special, unfortunately. I learned some things here and there, but for the most part it was filled with information I already knew. Finally, I read Seconds, the graphic novel by Brian Lee O'Malley. I really enjoyed it from beginning to end; very cool art and I loved the energy of it. I felt like it ended a bit... fairy tale, but it was good and I don't regret the read. I finished it in two sittings, actually.

I love reading and am so happy that I recently discovered the joy of it

This was nice to read. Hope you'll keep sharing your reading experiences here.

 

[TTG]

Just spent the better part of a day pruning and organizing the Vocabulary folder on my Kindle. It's not searchable, terrible at recognizing repeating words(for example add a ly to something and it's unknown and added all over again to the pool) and generally full of irrelevant stuff because highlighting any one single word automatically adds it to the list. Plus I've never bothered to label words as "mastered" to separate them to another pile. My ass is kicked, anyone else run into this particular Kindle experience? God, The Infinite Jest segment, I thought it would never end.

 

[Piecake]

Just spent the better part of a day pruning and organizing the Vocabulary folder on my Kindle. It's not searchable, terrible at recognizing repeating words(for example add a ly to something and it's unknown and added all over again to the pool) and generally full of irrelevant stuff because highlighting any one single word automatically adds it to the list. Plus I've never bothered to label words as "mastered" to separate them to another pile. My ass is kicked, anyone else run into this particular Kindle experience? God, The Infinite Jest segment, I thought it would never end.

Yea, it really is terrible. If you want to learn new vocab I think your best bet would be to just write it down and then use a system like Anki

 

[kinoki]

I went to second hand bookstore. I'm not usually a fan of second hand stuff but I managed to find a great deal of books, that while second hand hadn't even been opened once, so I scored a whole lot of good future reading:

• Boyhood, by J.M. Coetzee
• The Double, by Dostojevskij (a really great leather bound book)
• Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
• The Trial, by Kafka
• Girl with the Dragon Tattoo-series, by Stieg Larsson (I can't get over how silly that titles are in English)
• Skärkarlsliv and I havsbandet, by August Stringberg
• Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, by Mario Vargas Llosa
• Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys

 

[Switch Back 9]

I'm only about 15% into it so far, but this book is not grabbing me at all.

I'm going to stick with it because everybody and their dog seems to be reading it/the sequel, but normally I can pick up and engage with a fantasy book right away; not so far with this.

 

[Cade]

Finished The Shining. Very good. Moving on to Oryx and Crake. I don't know what to make of it yet.

 

[obin_gam]

Started Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson this week.

Was not what I was expecting - for some reason I thought it would be more technical than social, but I don't know why I thought that considering Red Mars is basically a socio-geographic migration study.

It's still very very good though

It takes place in the 26th Century and we follow the lives on an "arc-ship" on a centuries long travel to the Tau Ceti system to colonize a planet (Tau Ceti E, also in this book known as "Aurora") there. The ship is made up of a spine with two rings circling around it, and the rings are made up of several O'Neill Cylinders, each biome built with a different eco-system, so we for example have a tundra-cylinder, taiga-cylinder, desert-cylinder etc. etc.

We follow a daughter of one of the most prominent scientists on board as she grows up on the ship, and - in pure Robinson anthropological fashion - starts traveling the different biomes and experiences the cultures that has developed on the ship.

Thus far it is super fascinating and I must recommend every fan of hard-science fiction to read this as soon as possible. I would also recommend this to anyone even remotely interested in any kind of social studies.

 

[TTG]

Yea, it really is terrible. If you want to learn new vocab I think your best bet would be to just write it down and then use a system like Anki

I may have to look that up. It took some fiddling, but I got the list of words off my Kindle, so if there is a good service out there, I would rather go with that. This is a real outlier for Amazon, the usual range for Kindle features is somewhere between incidental but interesting to indispensable once you've tried it. How do you not include sorting and search functions? It renders the whole thing useless once you accumulate more than like 20 words.

 

[ngower]

I rented the ebook version of All The Light We Cannot See a few weeks back, but never could find time to read much of it. Still, I managed ~50 pages and was just floored by the writing—hooked from the start. So, I went out and bought it and god damn this thing is wonderfully written.

 

[Got the Shakes]

I just finished reading Pay Any Price by James Risen. It's a look at the hidden financial costs and loss in liberties that have stemmed from the United State's war on terror. I found it equal parts eye-opening and frightening.

 

[Razorback]

Started Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson this week.

Was not what I was expecting - for some reason I thought it would be more technical than social, but I don't know why I thought that considering Red Mars is basically a socio-geographic migration study.

It's still very very good though

It takes place in the 26th Century and we follow the lives on an "arc-ship" on a centuries long travel to the Tau Ceti system to colonize a planet (Tau Ceti E, also in this book known as "Aurora") there. The ship is made up of a spine with two rings circling around it, and the rings are made up of several O'Neill Cylinders, each biome built with a different eco-system, so we for example have a tundra-cylinder, taiga-cylinder, desert-cylinder etc. etc.

We follow a daughter of one of the most prominent scientists on board as she grows up on the ship, and - in pure Robinson anthropological fashion - starts traveling the different biomes and experiences the cultures that has developed on the ship.

Thus far it is super fascinating and I must recommend every fan of hard-science fiction to read this as soon as possible. I would also recommend this to anyone even remotely interested in any kind of social studies.

Yeah Aurora was very good. I thought it was interesting that the story is mostly narrated by the ship A.I. and it shows how hard it can be for such a logical intelligence to try and write a narrative the same way a human would, using literary devices like metaphors. So the writing starts off kind of clunky but gets better as the book goes along.

I read that about 2 months ago. Then I read Brave New World.

I didn't really like it all that much. 1984 is one of my favorites and people always seem to bring up Brave New World when 1984 is mentioned. I was expecting great things. It felt like an amalgamation of conservatives' worst fears. Was the book saying we need the bad to give value to the good? I don't buy that.

Now I'm reading Consider Phlebas.

Everyone raves about the culture novels so I've finally decided to plunge into it. I started with the first book from the Culture universe and it is widely considered to be the worst.
I'm almost done with it and It's been alright so far. Not too painful. Not sure what I was expecting. It feels like an R rated Guardians of the Galaxy but without the humor.
My next one will be Player of Games, also a culture novel. I hope it's better than Consider Phlebas.

 

[Lucifelle]

Took a break from "House of Leaves" to read "Me Before You".

Really great book and it doesn't seem to have much recognition so I'd recommend people read it.

 

[AngmarsKing701]

I'm only about 15% into it so far, but this book is not grabbing me at all.

I'm going to stick with it because everybody and their dog seems to be reading it/the sequel, but normally I can pick up and engage with a fantasy book right away; not so far with this.

Put me in the camp of "these are too long." It honestly feels to me as though Sanderson decided he was going to write 10 books of 1000+ pages apiece, regardless of whether he could scope the world-building and story to 600 pages. I read through WoK pretty quick when it came out, but it took me a very long time to drag myself through WoR.

And frankly, if you're not getting into it, don't do just because the majority of GAF likes that. The flip side of that is maybe get to 25% and see how you feel. If you consider this whole epic is going to be 10,000 pages and you're only at page 150, you're not as far into it as you think you are.

 

[lawnchair]

are there any good sci-fi/horror themed books out there? is that a thing in books?

 

[AngmarsKing701]

are there any good sci-fi/horror themed books out there? is that a thing in books?

I did a Google search and found this Reddit link with a few suggestions. Of those mentioned, I've only read The Terror and wouldn't necessarily consider it "Alien" like.

 

[Maklershed]

are there any good sci-fi/horror themed books out there? is that a thing in books?

Yes indeed. Ship of Fools is great. Hull Zero Three, Blindsight and Dead Space Martyr are pretty good as well.

 

[ryseing]

Seveneves. It's something alright. I've gotten to the point where I'm skipping pages of unnecessary prose. Damn shame because the core concept is good but there needed to be an editor.

I'm starting my sci-fi lit class this week which I'm really excited about. Reading list looks manageable- ton of short stories plus Man in the High Castle which I adore. Should be fun to geek out three hours a week.

 

[lawnchair]

I did a Google search and found this Reddit link with a few suggestions. Of those mentioned, I've only read The Terror and wouldn't necessarily consider it "Alien" like.

Yes indeed. Ship of Fools is great. Hull Zero Three, Blindsight and Dead Space Martyr are pretty good as well.

thanks fellaz.

 

[Hanzou]

I'm only about 15% into it so far, but this book is not grabbing me at all.

I'm going to stick with it because everybody and their dog seems to be reading it/the sequel, but normally I can pick up and engage with a fantasy book right away; not so far with this.

I don't love the series as much as a lot of people here but I did really like way of kings. I will say though that it took my a while until I was really enjoying it. I can't remember exactly when but it was probably close to half way through until I was hooked.

 

[Nymerio]

thanks fellaz.

Another recommendation for Ship of Fools. That book is amazing. Loved it.

 

[Hanzou]

Yeah Aurora was very good. I thought it was interesting that the story is mostly narrated by the ship A.I. and it shows how hard it can be for such a logical intelligence to try and write a narrative the same way a human would, using literary devices like metaphors. So the writing starts off kind of clunky but gets better as the book goes along.

I read that about 2 months ago. Then I read Brave New World.

I didn't really like it all that much. 1984 is one of my favorites and people always seem to bring up Brave New World when 1984 is mentioned. I was expecting great things. It felt like an amalgamation of conservatives' worst fears. Was the book saying we need the bad to give value to the good? I don't buy that.

Now I'm reading Consider Phlebas.

Everyone raves about the culture novels so I've finally decided to plunge into it. I started with the first book from the Culture universe and it is widely considered to be the worst.
I'm almost done with it and It's been alright so far. Not too painful. Not sure what I was expecting. It feels like an R rated Guardians of the Galaxy but without the humor.
My next one will be Player of Games, also a culture novel. I hope it's better than Consider Phlebas.

Consider phlebas is often considered the worst? That's good. I also have hear good things about the series and also started off with this one as it is the first in the series. I felt the same way as you thinking it was fine. I have been wanting to go back to the series since I hear so much about it. I am glad I have lots to look forward to.

 

[Deleted member 125677]

Finished the first reading of everything sans the poem itself of Pale Fire. I don't want to write too much about it yet, it is a rather complex read, and I don't know how far my co-reader mu cephei has gotten yet. I've gotten this idée fixe about waiting a while and try to start a fresh reading of just the poem. It just occurred to me that this could be a way to maximize the obvious tension that exists between the poem and its commentator in the novel

Probably yet another of my dumb ideas, but in the meantime I'm re-reading Lolita so it's all good

I also wonder if I should read the People in the Trees or A Little Life first. I guess it doesn't much matter, though I have a hang up about reading authors chronologically as long as there aren't very good reasons for not doing so

 

[Taruranto]

Finished Hearts in Atlantis. What a weird book, I can see why people felt only the first story was "worth" reading, nevertheless I kinda enjoyed most of them, expect for "Blind Willie". Problably wouldn't recommend it, though.


Started Asimov "The Currents of Space" now.

 

[Alucard]

Finished Hearts in Atlantis. What a weird book, I can see why people felt only the first story was "worth" reading, nevertheless I kinda enjoyed most of them, expect for "Blind Willie". Problably wouldn't recommend it, though.


Started Asimov "The Currents of Space" now.

Let me know how you like The Currents of Space. Currently reading book 3 of the Foundation series. Never read Currents.

 

[Taruranto]

The Foundation is really good until you get to the last 2 books, then ugh...

Did you read the Robot series, out of curiosity?

 

[Mumei]

Finished the first reading of everything sans the poem itself of Pale Fire. I don't want to write too much about it yet, it is a rather complex read, and I don't know how far my co-reader mu cephei has gotten yet. I've gotten this idée fixe about waiting a while and try to start a fresh reading of just the poem. It just occurred to me that this could be a way to maximize the obvious tension that exists between the poem and its commentator in the novel

Probably yet another of my dumb ideas, but in the meantime I'm re-reading Lolita so it's all good

Check this out.

I also wonder if I should read the People in the Trees or A Little Life first. I guess it doesn't much matter, though I have a hang up about reading authors chronologically as long as there aren't very good reasons for not doing so

I recommend reading The People in the Trees first.

 

[RoninChaos]

Neuromancer. Not sure why I never read it before. It's interesting.

 

[Alucard]

The Foundation is really good until you get to the last 2 books, then ugh...

Did you read the Robot series, out of curiosity?

Loved almost the entire robot series. It was largely responsible for getting me into science fiction in a serious way. Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun in particular really appealed to me. The robot sex stuff in Robots of dawn felt weird to me when I read it years ago, but it might be different now. I also remember really liking Robots and Empire.

Here are my thoughts on Foundation so far...

Foundation - 4 stars. Great idea. Some memorable characters; namely, Hari Seldon and Hober Mallow.

Foundation and Empire - 3 stars. What happened here? No characters to really take hold of or care about.

Second Foundation - 20 pages left. So far, it might be my favourite of the three. Loved the beginning, as they maybe salvaged some of book 2 with the completion of the Mule story, and I like Arcadia. We'll see how it ends.

I've also read I, Robot, The Gods Themselves (incredible) and Robot Visions. I own Robot Dreams and will go through it eventually as well.

 

[Stumpokapow]

Hi. Minor procedural thing: I moved the past 10 years worth of "What are you reading?" threads into Off-Topic Community. This will not impact anything on an ongoing basis, this is a move being made for archiving and stats purposes behind the scenes, nothing to do with ongoing stuff. It also will not impact search (actually, it'll probably help, because if you're looking for a post someone made, now you can just search Off-Topic Community, which is less likely to have any false positive results!). And all the links in the OP will still work. Please continue replying to this thread and make future threads in Off-Topic, not Off-Topic Community. You are not being moved. Thanks.

 

[Haly]

We're DOOMED.

 

[Mumei]

I find it amusing that Stumples felt it prudent to come back four minutes later to bold that bit.

 

[Haly]

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED

 

[Mumei]

So when should I start preparing for the funeral?

I don't know. I feel confused and uncertain about what's going to happen next. Maybe we should panic...

 

[Mackenzie 92]

Enjoying this


Heroes and Villains: Inside the Minds of the Greatest Warriors in History by Frank McLynn

 

[Grenouille]

Has anyone in here read the original brothers Grimm's fairy tales?
I'm not sure if I'm going to read all of them. So far I like the ones with fairies and kings and dislike the ones with animals as protagonists.

 

[Necrovex]

So when should I start preparing for the funeral?

We can't take this lying down. Prepare for the revolution! Time for y'all to pick up those books; the time has arrived for some literary smack down on Gaf!

Also for the person asking about which Yangahara book to read first, People in the Trees.

 

[Atraveller]

I don't love the series as much as a lot of people here but I did really like way of kings. I will say though that it took my a while until I was really enjoying it. I can't remember exactly when but it was probably close to half way through until I was hooked.

Book has like three separate prologues, so very weird. I started getting hooked when Shallan

Spoiler

was trying to become Jasnah's ward

, but that's still pretty early in the book.

 

[Cade]

First they move your archives, then they move you. As a lapsed ComicsGAFfer, I know how these things go. It's the beginning of the end, folks.


Oryx and Crake is really bleak. Too much weird and depressing/bleak shit and I'm not even sure I'm into the stuff around it. I might move on to Needful Things..

 

[Deleted member 125677]

Well, reading had a good run

 

[TTG]

Now that the endtimes are clearly upon this politically correct nightmare of a community I will finally make my revelation: I am a high ranking member of the sad, rabid puppy movement! Yes. On this day, the 20th anniversary of Chrono Trigger, I have infiltrated and then subverted the Neogaf and now you will reap puppy wrath. "Oh, but that's impossible, you guys totally wiffed on that Hugo deal." SILENCE! It was all part of of a meticulous plan you can not hope to fathom and now, with the help of a suborned moderator, behold The Prestige. Oh I admit, it was fun toying with your puny minds, but it is up to you to decide whether to go with dignity or in disgrace.

 

[BlueDogAnchorite]

Next book I am going to start on:

 

[Cade]

Oh. I didn't realize that A) Needful Things was nearly 1000 pages and B) spoils some other King books set in the same town. I might put this on hold til later.

 

[GasProblem]

Ive been reading Half a King by Joe Abercrombie. Really enjoying it. I like all the characters, it's really fastpaced and has a nice early plot twist. Setting of the Shattered Sea is nice, kind of standard, has a Northern Europe feel, a bit like north Westeros. And even though it's YA, doesn't feel like it, theres still children getting their throats slit and skulls being split in half while the mouth keeps talking. Definifely going to read the wholr trilogy.

 

[AngmarsKing701]

Ive been reading Half a King by Joe Abercrombie. Really enjoying it. I like all the characters, it's really fastpaced and has a nice early plot twist. Setting of the Shattered Sea is nice, kind of standard, has a Northern Europe feel, a bit like north Westeros. And even though it's YA, doesn't feel like it, theres still children getting their throats slit and skulls being split in half while the mouth keeps talking. Definifely going to read the wholr trilogy.

I liked the first one but didn't love it. Felt like Abercrombie at half speed (pardon the pun). I'd be interested in what you think about the others in the series. I'm actually more excited about him wrapping this up and getting back to pure adult grimdark.

 

[DistortionOfReality]

Just got back off holiday and blasted through a few books - Elantris, Warbreaker and Consider Phlebas.

Elantris and Warbreaker I have nothing to comment on really, I love Brandon Sanderson's style so those were always going to be home runs for me. Warbreaker was actually a really nice surprise as the magic system was really unique after I got into it. Really dug them both and looking forward to the release of the Emperor's Soul to get a bit more info on the world Elantris is set in, and the wholes runes/geography thing the Elantris magic system has going on.

Consider Phlebas.... everyone raves about the Culture novels, and I know this is meant to be the worst of the lot, but man it was a real slog to read until about the last 1/3rd (with the exception of the

Spoiler

cannibal island on the vavatch orbital

. Really liked the imagery and weirdness of that). It just felt like the whole thing was dragging to be honest, it was slow, and it felt to me like the characters just fell flat. I realise everyone likes to blast authors who use exposition and grand, sweeping plotlines, but I honestly think I would much prefer that to this unimportant adventure. It just felt like very little was at stake. I will give The Player of Games a go at some point but am in no rush at the moment.

I am now reading Gardens of the Moon (first book in the Malazan Book of the Fallen) by Steven Erikson, about halfway through. It's.... eh. It's ok but I'm not really into it as much as I could be yet. Things picked up a lot when the story moved to Darujhistan but it's not as gripping and epic as the author seems to think just yet. I have the first two books so I'm hoping it'll click by then, if not I may just drop it.
A real off-putting moment for me was actually reading the foreword by the author. It really felt like he was talking down to the reader 'If you don't like my style in the first 300 pages you may as well not bother' and 'I'm not a fan of exposition or pandering to the reader so get used to it' paraphrasing of course but it just came across very holier-than-thou. I'm not a fan of those things either but you need an excellent story to tell and a good writing style if you want to pull it off.
But anyway, I'll stick with it for now and see where I end up.

 

[Jag]

I liked the first one but didn't love it. Felt like Abercrombie at half speed (pardon the pun). I'd be interested in what you think about the others in the series. I'm actually more excited about him wrapping this up and getting back to pure adult grimdark.

I agree. Considering how much I enjoyed the Third Law series, he really didn't hit the mark with Half a King.

 

[sparky2112]

A real off-putting moment for me was actually reading the foreword by the author. It really felt like he was talking down to the reader 'If you don't like my style in the first 300 pages you may as well not bother' and 'I'm not a fan of exposition or pandering to the reader so get used to it' paraphrasing of course but it just came across very holier-than-thou. I'm not a fan of those things either but you need an excellent story to tell and a good writing style if you want to pull it off.
But anyway, I'll stick with it for now and see where I end up.

The first book, as many people would agree, is not representative of the series, so the forward is the equivalent of Erikson shooting himself in the foot. He has a healthy ego, and I'm sure he's been asked repeatedly why he doesn't rewrite it - it's THAT off from the volumes that follow...

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

Finished Between the World and Me and it was eye-opening. The best way to put it is that it's a book written by an Angry Black Man who is writing for his son and doesn't filter his language like he would if he were writing for a wider audience. You end up reading some truths that you would have to infer otherwise and it's pretty powerful stuff.

Our teachers urged us toward the example of freedom marchers, Freedom Riders, and Freedom Summers, and it seemed that the month could not pass without a series of films didicated to the glories of being beaten on camera. The black people in these films seemed to love the worst things in life - love the dogs that rent their children apart, the tear gas that clawed at their lungs, the firehoses that tore off their clothes and tuimbled them into the streets. They seemed to love the men who raped them, the women who cursed them, love the children who spat on them, the terrorists that bombed them. Why are they showing this to us? Why were only our heroes nonviolent?

Reading this now in-between listening to The Golem and the Djinni. There are some production errors in the book but nothing to make me throw the book down in disgust. Maybe getting used to the errors in ebooks prepared me for this. :lol

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED

I'm gunna sing The Doom Song now!
Doom doom doom doom doom,
doom doom do DOOM,
DOOOM doom do-doom,
DOOM do-doom doom doooom,
doom doom dooom, do-do-DOOOM!