The Skull Throne
Book Notes Written with a loving hand by kitt some time around 22:14 on 10 February 2017
Why is this book called The Skull Throne? This isn't the Skull Throne, this book is the second half of The Daylight War, and okay, yes, this is the book of war. So many f'ing deaths. So much stupid male ego.
I suspect that Brett has been taking lessons from George R. R. Martin, including the detail of death on a commode.
This is the first book full of non-stop action. In Brett's style, we have backstories, multiple ones, filled in, but the bulk of the plot was in the "current" time frame.
Arlen and Jardir are pretty much non-existent in the story after a few philosophical conversations early in the book, pretty much discussing the merits of democracy (yay, Arlen) and authoritarianism (boo, Jardir, but we pretty much already hated him), so the next book should be interesting as we catch that plot in the current timeframe.
Yay for the introduction of the new characters, if only they were actually interesting.
Boo for the loss of the main characters we all cared about.
I mean COME ON.
Have a Book List
Blog Instead of being asleep at 12:45 on 10 February 2017, kitt created this:Okay, here's a list of 10 under-the-radar YA SF books.
And, here's a list of list of 100 must-read modern classics.
And here's a list of noes I have with respect to these lists:
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Not because I don't want to read them, not because I don't have this strong urge to complete a list, both urges are strong.
Because I don't have infinite time, and other books are more important to me to read.
Choices, Imma making them.
Campus
Daily Photo Instead of being asleep at 08:00 on 10 February 2017, kitt created this:
Clouds over the campus.
Nice place to visit, unsure I'd want to live here.
Update your income - It's fast!
Blog Yeah, kitt finished writing this at 14:22 on 8 February 2017I received this in an email today:
Update your income.
Update now. It's fast!
Why do we need your income?
Adding your income to your account profile will assist us to regularly assess your eligibility for a credit line increase.
It's one easy way we can work together to meet your financial needs.
The cynic in me thinks, no, you aren't asking for my income in order to give me a credit line increase in the future, you're asking for my income so that you can better target ads and products to me.
And these are things I am tired of receiving.
I'm not interested in more credit. I'm not interested in going further into debt. I'm interested in reducing my consumption, saving money, and being able to walk away from all of this. Why the f--- would I help you take me further into debt?
It's like Twitter saying, oh, the t.co links are just so that we can protect our users by blocking bad urls. No, they aren't. You can block bad URLs by not allowing them to be linkable. The t.co links are all about tracking and advertising.
Call a spade a spade (or, hell, call a fig a fig and a trough a trough), but stop with the doublespeak.