Carolin’s Comments (group member since Jan 02, 2014)

Carolin’s comments from the Spells, Space & Screams: Collections & Anthologies in Fantasy, Science Fiction, & Horror group.

Sounds like a dothraki wedding, lol!

Hasan that sounds dangerous, lol! But fun!

I absolutely LOVED Keeping It Close. I usually doesn't love the shorts, I Always want more than I get when it comes to them, but this I really loved.

I should have been able to figure it out since I know about what age she is, just hadn't thought about it earlier.

I have no idea about where it takes place though, I go with your guess!

I just realized the series is taking part in the 2020s!

In Keeping it Close it says "Not the best houseguest, even if millions of them hadn’t risen from the grave and slaughtered most of the world’s population twenty-three years—almost twenty-four, now—before.", and since the Hunted Week happened in 1997, it must be 2021 when Keeping it Close take place? Was this already obvisous to everyone else?

But sometimes you just HAVE to have more of a world building, if the world is too complex to understand otherwise. It's is a tough thing, to write it just the right way so it gets informative and not take focus from the story at hand.

Lindsey, yes I agree. Especially when all the info tend to get dumped on your head in the beginning of the book, you don't get a chance to get into the book when it is like that. I've had a couple of books I didn't finished because they bored me in the beginning due to excessive world buildning.

Oh Carolin, thanks for posting a topic about JUST what I sat here thinking about this lonely saturday night! ;)

As long as it is deliberate and well done I don't care that much on how it is done. I've read works by Lilith Saintcrow and they were awesome, and in one novella there was no world building at all, but she made that work because it didn't disturb the story but was just another mystery and something more for me to ponder, just like where the story was heading.

But in general I prefer a little minimalist approach, at least much better than the "forget about the story and write a fact book about the world"-approach. But over all the important thing is that it is well done and doesn't take focus from the story.

How important is it to you?

And what method of the worldbuilding do you prefer? The method with snippets here and there, where someone explains it to someone else (usually the MC), where you get to find it out by yourself along the road, or just when it is filled in when the author deems it necessary?

Have you any example of extreme cases of world building to share?

Nick wrote: "I read the first "Skulduggery Pleasant" book last week. I enjoyed it, but thought it was a little too fast-paced - I'd have liked the author to spend a little more time on the world-building. "

I just listened to it, and to be honest I only listened for short periods every night when I had to do some stretching, so I filed any confusion in the World-building to me not paying attention.

I guess I just have to read it and see if I agree with you.

Kim, oooh, it's so soon? Yey!

Hasan, I haven't thought about how the POV changes if it's better as audio or not, but you're probably right. I just feel that a good narrator can make the most of it, much is in the voice.

Kim, it's pretty amazing you can manage audiobooks during your migraine attacks! :)

Kim, I understand. I haven't read the excerpts, I'll might should wait until the book release...

I've listened to Skulduggery Pleasant on audiobook via Youtube, the narrator was awesome. Not enough to keep me listening, but I have contemplated to read the book, lol. Audiobooks aren't for me I guess. I donät know what to do with my hands, and myself.

Have you tried another book by the same narrator Hasan? :)

I just started in on Home, felt I needed some really good after that last fiasco of a book. Soo then it's perfect to red those Novellas from downside I'd not gotten around to read yet, right?

What have you've been up to today? :)

I have to take a break in a series after like three books, otherwise I lose interest in it halfway through book four. It doesn't mean I dislike it, just can't stand it. It's like when you've eaten a dish every day for a month or gotten to drunk on a liquor, you lose the taste for it for a while. The Hollows and to some degree the Otherworld series are the only exception for me.

Depends on the type of book of course though. Like GOT I had to take some more breaks in, but they are thick and very detailed, if they are more chic-lit-y I probably can take like four or five books in a row. Probably depends on how much of me I invest in it. GOT I thought about several times a day when I read it. Rylee Adamson is completely different. I can put the book down in the middle of an exciting scene and forget aout it until I pick the book up again.

I'm reading Shannon Mayer's books about Rylee Adamson... And while the books as such not are that bad they are full of slutshamiong, and I get angry every time I read it, and then topped sith really stupid things done over and over I can't really relax and just enjoy, but feel as if I have to have some kind of guard up. But well, bought like Three books more (because they were on sale), so I Think I have to keep on reading. And if I overlook the slutshaming and idiot things they do it is rather good.

What about you Hasan?

Nick wrote: "Kim the Strange wrote: "Kim the silent killer..."

...of Apple fanboys."

Not ok to write it out like that! The cops will be all over her when the Apple fanboy mysticaly "disapears" now...

Kim the Strange wrote: "Hahaha that it does...

I like yours Carolin!!!"

Thanks! I start to get used to be called Katla, everyone in the derby team use it. Before that it was only my sister, lol.

Are there any good fighting this weekend?

I'd be Katla Bruise Maker! What about the rest of you?