Quote from: Wilshire on January 22, 2014, 01:51:19 pm

I started re-read #3 of TSA, currently about 1/3 of the way through TDTCB, but after I finish the first book I might segue into something else (maybe this?).

First things first...  TWP.

I'll get to it.

I am considering purchasing the audio books this time around. Cant decide if its worth the money. I'm so very interested in hearing the books, mostly to hear another's pronunciation, as I still fumble around with some words. Its not an issue whilst reading, but when trying to verbally discuss the book its kind of inhibitory.

Isn't there a difference between writing a review and merely rating a book? The star ratings are just a way for people to say whether they liked a book or not, not a rating based on an objective study of the merits of the work in question.

Once I've read about a 3rd into a book and I can't stand it, then it becomes fair game to say that I did not like the book IMO. And that's exactly the equivalent of the one star rating according to Goodreads: 'did not like it'.

Fair enough. I've never been on Goodreads, and there is a bit of a distinction between a review and a rating, though in my mind not a very big one. If you're talking about some kind of multi-paragraph/page in-depth review, compared to a single click 1-star rating, yeah there is a difference. But to me the difference of 1-click and a basic (maybe a sentence or two)  'review' of why you did/didn't like a book are very nearly equivalent.

Less information does not make it less important. When you search for a book to read, I'd imagine you generate some big, maybe genre-wide, list and sort by rating. The ratings you see could be 100 well thought out reviews, or 100 people who never even read the title of the book who click a rating for fun. Is there a difference? Of course there is, but the outcome for the person scrolling through the list is the same.

But thats more my general opinion of online rating systems and not specifically about this situation. I've been whined at for not liking plenty of books/series. Its not like my personal opinions about a book are some kind of objective, be-all-end-all 'this is what the book is' statement.

Give it whatever rating you think it deserves. I'm sure people have given better/worse ratings for fewer reasons (didn't like the cover art, stupid title, didn't read book but don't like author, etc. etc.)

But them breakfast sandwiches is so delicious! (jarring syntax, it pains me not to correct it)

Really though they are good, though I imagine someone else other than yourself would be better suited for that line of work.
Do you feel intellectually alone at work Madness?

A fate worse than death.

"Very beginning" can be ambiguous if you want it to be. Beginning of the Holy Way, beginning of the Skin Eaters, beginning of  his life, beginning of this current expedition, etc.

Hmmm interesting idea. I'm not certain how many scenes Sarl and Kosoter are together/apart, but if they are nearly always together than you could be right. Is there a decent description of the Traveler that can be compared to Sarl?

That quote with Akka is somewhere in the begging/first half of  TJE when he first sees the Skin Eaters right? I don't remember what made him think that. No one really seemed to like Sarl anyway, though I can't remember why.

So given all the I've forgotten or don't know, I'd at least say its possible 

I have never quite gotten into rap/hip hop. I did like Jazzmatazz back in the day:)

... The hell is jazzmatazz? Back in the day indeed.... 

I just have a hard time believing you never saw that, since Whore is used in place Anagke more often then not. I think that name is only mentioned directly in the book a few times, almost always replaced by Fate or Whore (or 'the Whore').

Didn't mean to offend though.