I enjoyed the first book, and also felt that it went down hill after that. I couldn't get through the second one. The story seemed to just lose momentum. Perhaps adequate planning/outlining had not been done (all loose ends everywhere). I still have at least one more of those in my TBR pile, but I don't know that I'll ever manage to read them. Huge disappointment for me as a Pratchett fan.
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You definitely win the oldest book contest!
Thanks!
They clearly did not know what to do with the character at first. With such a young character.
Wesley, any day. He won't eavesdrop on my thoughts, he can help with my homework easily, and he is a genius who invents cool things and sees things in groundbreaking ways that I might learn from.
That is very cool! Do you find them difficult to care for?
On the one hand, watching pieces of History like this can be frustrating on such issues (it is a media History artifact at this point, just as much as a Shakespeare play). On the other hand, I like to think about how much things have changed, even since Next Gen and DS9 aired. It is more common and possible to talk about a lot of social issues now than it was then. FAR fewer young women I know now would put up with the same levels of sexual harassment than older women I know from the Boomer generation saw as a thing they just had to put up with as a fact of life. It is heartening to see the positive changes overall.
Nope. His palm is definitely out. He just doesn't have his thumb extended. Other than the thumb, it's a completely normal Vulcan salute. Perhaps Frakes had a bit of trouble with it early on and just hadn't got his thumb out properly yet?
You know, I really like my Essential Ph-1. It was a lovely little phone. I had the little 360 camera accessory that snapped on magentically and everything. It was so cool! Then, 1.5 seconds, dropped into water from which I grabbed it instantly, and it was done. No warranty coverage for dropping it in water, and zero waterproofing, and toasted phone. So, yes, more of us "use" waterproofing on our phones than you would think. The thing is that it didn't need to be this way. There were waterproof phones back before everything was glued glass slabs all the time. Galaxy S5 Sport as mentioned by @[email protected] above (and other "sport" edition phones). We have a lot of hygrophobic coatings and tech we didn't have in the day of the Galaxy S5 series. We can do better now, if manufacturers are forced to.
Some "Sport" phones had this before everything was glued together, with gaskets and rubber port plugs (because the hygrophobic coatings used in ports now weren't available yet).
The fact that old posts don't go away after defederation makes things more confusing. I've already had the experience of replying to comments where I didn't know the originating server had been defederated from mine. You're just left cluelessly posting into the void, not knowing the other side of the conversation has disappeared. My least favorite thing about Lemmy so far.
The man sure can spin a good yarn. I always think of him like the person you know who is absolute best at telling a tall tale around the camp fire, riveting everyone's attention. Is it technically perfect writing all the time? Nope. Is it trying to be fancy literature? Nope. Is it telling a story that holds onto your attention, leaving you sitting in a car listening to an audiobook for half an hour after you arrive home? Yep! He's a storyteller supreme. Some criticize him for weak endings, but he will sure drag you all the way to that ending.
I enjoy a variety of his writing. Growing up, I only thought of him as a "horror writer", because that's what made it to film. Then I found The Eyes of the Dragon in the library (which is a fantasy novel), and discovered that Mr. King can write more than horror. I truly enjoyed Hearts in Atlantis, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, The Dark Tower, and his "Hard Case Crime" books The Colorado Kid, Joyland, and Later. Joyland really is a great little gem of a book.
Then, his writing drew me into some of his horror works after all. Things like Firestarter (loved), Carrie (didn't love), The Shining (loved), and Salem's Lot (solid and interesting for it's place in vampire fiction). I also enjoyed his more recent book The Institute as well.
I'm not his biggest fan, and I see issues in the details of his writing from time to time (far too many hours spent in Literature classes), but I have tremendous respect for him as a storyteller, and as a writer who can capture the effect of a good storyteller so well so much of the time. To me this overcomes the criticisms some make of his work.