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Message: [QUOTE="ATenderLad, post: 21101, member: 3864"] Sounds good to me friend, it was hard for me to tell that intent from the review was all. I agree! Tripe is tripe, Sturgeon's Law and all that. In my commitment to being a trashy philistine, I have a document for the movies I've read, and I log what comics I'm reading, but I've been lax on recording my book reading this year. At most I've discussed it with friends and family. (My memory is getting concerning the last few years, I've been trying to write more to make up for it.) My roommate grabs me a few random books from the library every time she goes, the last few have been unmemorable: [ATTACH type="full" alt="1735074572517.png"]6291[/ATTACH] [U]Interstellar MegaChef[/U] by Lavanya Lakshminarayan - In a far future of colonized planets hosting popular cooking shows, our protagonist is looking to win the biggest game in town and prove her culinary mastery, but is side-tracked (and maybe falling for) a programmer with big plans for a food sensory immersive sim. I wish it was better, but the pacing is awful. More than halfway through the book, I was still waiting for the real plot to kick in, and felt short-changed by the time it arrived. It's an interesting look at a far future, but it never crossed over to feeling like a "real" place to me, something I could close my eyes and imagine living in. [ATTACH type="full" alt="1735074547839.png"]6290[/ATTACH] [U]The Prophecy Con[/U] (Rogues of the Republic #2) by Patrick Weekes (the lead writer of Dragon Age, which I haven't played, didn't know who he was till after I read the book) - This one starts off fun, with an action movie/video game plot structure for the first half of the book. Explosive introduction, some placesetting with the characters to tell us about the setting and premise, a dramatic escape to a distant city where they pull a museum heist, followed by a train robbery! I love train robberies, I really do. The pace shifts dramatically at that point though, not just slowing down but bringing in lore from the previous book that I wasn't familiar with, and generally gumming up the works to setup the next book in the series. Basically, it goes from being a very character-centric adventure to this larger existential threat, in a way that felt more than a little forced. I will give it points for a third act elven techno-magic recreation of the climactic riverboat poker tournament from the movie Maverick though, even if it's my nostalgia for the film talking. I really should remember more books I read this year, but I've been so focused on getting back into comics, and my all-consuming movie viewing doesn't help. [/QUOTE]

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