Tassie Dave’s Comments (group member since Mar 27, 2011)

Tassie Dave’s comments from the The Sword and Laser group.

As long as I get to drive. 😎

I'm expecting the old jokes to ramp up once I hit my big milestone in about 10 weeks 😲

I call shenanigans. That's not a Trike. It's got 4 wheels.


😉

Me and Trike tied for 9th.

I just couldn't shake the old fella off 😉

I use emojis all the time here.

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Mark wrote: "Since it would be a Sword pick, how do we convince Veronica to pick Rivers of London?."

She is a fan of The Dresden Files. It is like a British Dresden Files.

There is a dog (Toby) that can smell magic. Pictured in your post with the scary, but loveably enigmatic Molly.

There's talking Foxes (in the series)

Magical River Goddesses (and Gods)

Each book in the series is a self contained story. (Though you do need to read them in order.)

They did it with "The Martian Chronicles". It lost in 5 polls (including 1 March Madness) before Tom picked it.

Jenny (Reading Envy) wrote: "China Mieville (can that be right? not on the list on the wiki)"

He's a name that has come up often in polls and discussions for potential reads, but never gets picked.

Always the bridesmaid, never the bride.

I'm the same I've read everything available in the ROL series and am still waiting for more.

I want a standalone Molly origins book (or novella or Graphic novel)

If anyone liked the Dresden Files books, they will love Rivers of London.

Adam wrote: "From the Wiki (I assumed none of these were official Alt Picks: If they were I'll edit them out)"

As the person who made the Book list on the Wiki and edits it each time a new book is picked, every Alt pick on that list was made an Alt pick by Veronica and/or Tom. So they are all "Official" Alt picks.

The list does not include Rogue reads or non-host sanctioned Alt reads.

There is no reason we can't read another book by those authors, we have read multiple authors more than once.

I have been enjoying the Apple TV+ show Severance. It is a sci-Fi thriller with lots of mystery.

It's about a guy who agrees to have his brain split in 2 (the severance the title refers too) so that he can work in a top secret underground base.

His outside brain (his "Outie") has no idea what his work brain does or experiences and vice versa. They switch on the elevator ride down to the underground base and nothing from either life can be bought in or out.

The work brain is constantly at work and has no say in whether they work or not. They leave work going up the elevator and, for them, they are instantly on the elevator going back down to work. They can't quit the job unless their "outie" agrees to it. They also have no idea what they are working on. They are sorting numbers on a computer screen, based on emotions and have no idea what the numbers relate to. Only that there is some real world application. They have to comply or they are treated to psychological manipulation until they do comply.

For the work brain it is some sort of Kafka-esque living hell of constantly working in a bureaucratic hell where the bosses can psychologically torture you. There are a few employees that either enjoy the experience or have been there long enough to have been ground down into thinking they enjoy it.

Of course there is a mystery involving both halves of our protagonist's life. Neither side aware of the other's involvement and various conspiracies.

There are 4 episodes so far and it will be interesting to see where they take this.

Oh BTW it has Christopher Walken in it as some minor department employee. He looks after "Optics & Design". He arranges the decor and paintings on the wall (Which I don't believe for a second) I expect to find out he is somewhere close to the top of the corporate tree and is running the show.

Phillip wrote: "I demand The First Law series by Joe Abercrombie get an HBO show. It has everything I like and little what I hate."

Until the screen writers are finished with it. 😉

It sounds like a lot of people want the Reader's Digest Condensed Book version of Pandora's Star 😉

Which is fine, but for me, Pandora's Star is about the journey, not the destination 😎

It all comes together.

It only feels disconnected at the start, until the seemingly unconnected threads starting weaving together into one story.

Dara wrote: "Ian (RebelGeek) wrote: "A wild Dara appears!"

I'm like a ninja!"

Not if we see you 😉

Veronica: "Didn't we have M.R.Carey on the podcast once? I feel like we did"

If only there was a place to find that out 😏

https://swordandlaser.fandom.com/wiki...

Yes, he was on Episode #291

http://swordandlaser.com/home/2017/5/...

I assume that's a typo and you mean The Icewind Dale Trilogy

Great stories, great characters and, arguably, the best audio narrator (Kobna Holdbrook-Smith)

Why wouldn't you want to read it? 😎

and Everyone should experience the enigmatic delight that is Molly.

Go Rivers 😎

The person who made the tournament on Challonge (Tom) gets to decide when the prediction phase ends.

He may keep it open until just before Round 1 voting ends.

Misti wrote: "Same! It was on my "want to read" list, though. I think it may have made the March Madness list before."

We have 3 books that have been in previous March Madness and all have made it to a Semi-Final

Rivers of London: 2018 (Out in Rnd 1), 2020 (Semi) & 2021 (Semi)
Children of Time: 2020 (Semi)
Library at Mount Char: 2017 (Semi)

Also 3 authors that we have read before: Naomi Novak, Becky Chambers & Andy Weir

hard to get