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Jayson
is 40% done
Notes:
(1) Butler: "Sunglasses? At night?"
- Somebody's a Corey Hart fan.
(2) "For reasons that he couldn’t quite fathom, [Artemis] didn’t mind terribly when Juliet called him by the pet name his mother had for him."
- I do love the trope of super-smart people being oblivious to their own feelings of attraction.
(3) "It was obviously pointless playing mind games with this human."
- I do enjoy a good dumb-blonde joke.
— Dec 20, 2023 03:20PM
(1) Butler: "Sunglasses? At night?"
- Somebody's a Corey Hart fan.
(2) "For reasons that he couldn’t quite fathom, [Artemis] didn’t mind terribly when Juliet called him by the pet name his mother had for him."
- I do love the trope of super-smart people being oblivious to their own feelings of attraction.
(3) "It was obviously pointless playing mind games with this human."
- I do enjoy a good dumb-blonde joke.
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Jayson
is finished
Notes:
(1) A lot of gross-out humor, especially near the end. All sorts of unpleasant wetness: drool being the least disgusting.
- Certainly elements aimed at the youngest novel-readers, but the story itself is clever enough that readers with more refined sensibilities will put up with it.
(2) Ultimately, this is a standard comic book crossover plot.
- Initial battle, leading to mutual respect, leading to teaming up.
— Dec 27, 2023 09:40PM
(1) A lot of gross-out humor, especially near the end. All sorts of unpleasant wetness: drool being the least disgusting.
- Certainly elements aimed at the youngest novel-readers, but the story itself is clever enough that readers with more refined sensibilities will put up with it.
(2) Ultimately, this is a standard comic book crossover plot.
- Initial battle, leading to mutual respect, leading to teaming up.
Jayson
is 85% done
Notes:
(1) In Chapter 7 we get introduced to Mulch Diggums, who, notwithstanding his unique role in the narrative, was I'm sure designed to appeal to this book's youngest readers.
- In short, he's a dwarf tunneller that moves through earth by instantaneous material displacement.
- That's a euphemistic way of saying he eats dirt and immediately poops it out.
- The propulsion of said poop upon exit rockets him forward.
— Dec 26, 2023 02:55AM
(1) In Chapter 7 we get introduced to Mulch Diggums, who, notwithstanding his unique role in the narrative, was I'm sure designed to appeal to this book's youngest readers.
- In short, he's a dwarf tunneller that moves through earth by instantaneous material displacement.
- That's a euphemistic way of saying he eats dirt and immediately poops it out.
- The propulsion of said poop upon exit rockets him forward.
Jayson
is 56% done
Notes:
(1) I appreciate when narrators take a leap of faith and try foreign accents. Though, when I first read this series the accents in my head were all Irish/British, given the author, characters and setting.
- But I suppose since fairy characters don't speak human languages, accents can be whatever.
- Root having a heavy New York accent bothers me. Pronouncing "certainly" as soitenly sounds awfully Three Stooges.
— Dec 23, 2023 03:25PM
(1) I appreciate when narrators take a leap of faith and try foreign accents. Though, when I first read this series the accents in my head were all Irish/British, given the author, characters and setting.
- But I suppose since fairy characters don't speak human languages, accents can be whatever.
- Root having a heavy New York accent bothers me. Pronouncing "certainly" as soitenly sounds awfully Three Stooges.
Jayson
is 11% done
Notes:
(1) I always appreciate when audiobooks incorporate music. Here it starts off with a sort of theme tune. Though, why is it new jack swing? What is this? 1989?
- Not exactly my pick to be the soundtrack for an adolescent Irish millennial.
(2) Though I've read the series before, it's only just occurred to me that the name "Fowl" may be a homonym for the word "foul."
- The Fowls being a family of super criminals.
— Dec 18, 2023 05:00PM
(1) I always appreciate when audiobooks incorporate music. Here it starts off with a sort of theme tune. Though, why is it new jack swing? What is this? 1989?
- Not exactly my pick to be the soundtrack for an adolescent Irish millennial.
(2) Though I've read the series before, it's only just occurred to me that the name "Fowl" may be a homonym for the word "foul."
- The Fowls being a family of super criminals.
Jayson
is starting
Notes:
(1) I have two reasons for wanting to read this book right now.
- First of all, I own all three of "The Fowl Twins" books in hardcover (and for a while now) but I've yet to read them. So, binging this series is meant to refresh my memory in preparation to the start the spin-offs.
- Secondly, whenever I read books concurrently, I like to them to be entirely different genres so I don't inadvertently mix them up.
— Dec 18, 2023 02:00PM
(1) I have two reasons for wanting to read this book right now.
- First of all, I own all three of "The Fowl Twins" books in hardcover (and for a while now) but I've yet to read them. So, binging this series is meant to refresh my memory in preparation to the start the spin-offs.
- Secondly, whenever I read books concurrently, I like to them to be entirely different genres so I don't inadvertently mix them up.
