Rob’s Comments (group member since Jul 06, 2012)

Rob’s comments from the The Sword and Laser group.

Welcome Aaron and Dana

What's on your reading agenda this month?

Adrian wrote: "Rob wrote: "This is timely, next month's pick (which starts tomorrow) The Calculating Stars is on sale on audible "

I was wondering if y'all had anything to do with today's Audible..."

Well I certainly didn't. But maybe T&V got more pull than I realized!

This is timely, next month's pick (which starts tomorrow) The Calculating Stars is on sale on audible today: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Calcul...

When I did this book I did the audio and it was fantastic. Normally I'm not a huge fan of authors reading their own books, and this is one of those exceptions.

Of course MRK does narration for other people's books as well so that may be part of the reason why.

This is timely, next month's pick (which starts tomorrow) The Calculating Stars is on sale on audible today: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Calcul...

When I did this book I did the audio and it was fantastic. Normally I'm not a huge fan of authors reading their own books, and this is one of those exceptions.

Of course MRK does narration for other people's books as well so that may be part of the reason why.

David wrote: "Christos, just looked at your sl-comic-challenge shelf. For books to count towards challenges, they *have* to have a Read date (none of the ones you added to that shelf have Read dates). Same with ..."

Ah, yeah. That was going to be my next suggestion.

I assume you double checked the shelves? My graphic novel challenge seems fine.

Cool. I'll add all that to the FAQ next time I update it. Thanks!

I liked the books. A lot of people struggle with the first one. I agree with Stephen that the books get better as they go on.

Quentin is a lot more tolerable on the show than the TV. I believe that's often the largest issue people have with the first book, but I don't know since I liked all three.

They also made other changes like moving Julia's story up from book 1 into season 2 that I think make a lot of sense.

Plus as Stephen said the show is well beyond the books at this point.

Do you guys have a regular meeting day/time/place? Like for instance our group typically meets at 12pm on the last Saturday of the month at the same place.

I ask because I was looking at the FAQ and I noticed I called out the other regular meetups there (https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...) and I'd like to add yours. I can include the link to your facebook group too.

Thanks.

Do you guys have a regular meeting day/time/place? Like for instance our group typically meets at 12pm on the last Saturday of the month at the same place.

I ask because I was looking at the FAQ and I noticed I called out the other regular meetups there (https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...) and I'd like to add yours. I can include the link to your facebook group too.

Thanks.

Yeah, Ruth explained it very well.

For additional questions about the monthly pick, you can see the FAQ thread here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

And for general posting rules, you can see the FAQ here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Elizabeth wrote: "Rob wrote: "You should have just stayed up reading instead. :-P"
I tried, Rob. I really did my best, and was full of regrets and coffee at work the next morning."

haha..

Here's the latest books I've finished. One with my eyeballs and one in audio.

The Fall of Io - Another good entry in this world, although I still enjoyed the original Tao trilogy better. It started a bit slow, but then it got really good and finished strong. - ★★★★☆ - (My Review)

Bloody Rose - I ended up not liking this as much as I expected. Many people seemed to enjoy this more than the first book, but for me it was the opposite. I found it a bit slow at times, but overall still enjoyable. - ★★★☆☆ - (My Review)

You should have just stayed up reading instead. :-P

Interesting. I've never heard of that.

Right now, I'm meetinged out after PAX South last weekend and our MD/DC/VA meetup today. Have fun!

February 23rd Meetup: https://www.goodreads.com/event/show/...

Welcome Pat and Ashraf

Stephen wrote: "Or Dave, Andrew, Trish and myself can, when Winds of Winter is finally released, put on the Audible version and drive all the way to DC."

Haha. The only reason I've been to the SF one is my sister lives there and the last time I visited, I made it a point to go when they'd be meeting.


Anyways, I've derailed this thread long enough. So, back to your regularly scheduled programming: Tacoma meetups!

Sounds good. Thanks!