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Love is pain, 'highness.

The absence of love is pain. When it is there, in whatever form that may be, it is beautiful

Wait the pain is always beautiful? Dunno about that.

Anyway I was just quoting Princess Bride. Not sure why but the bits of the posts I read reminded me of that movie.

Love is pain, 'highness.

I read the first book and stopped. Is it supposed to be scifi-y? Because I kept waiting for it but was dissapointed when nothing really came through. There were hints, but not any answers, and the second book seemed to start off terribly similar, so I stopped pretty quickly. Can't decide if it was entertaining enough to go back to or not.

I liked the characters well enough, and I feel like this was a big set-up novel, but for me there just wasn't a ton of 'wow' moments. I read it very quickly and ended up feeling more confused than anything else, so that could have something to do with it.

I started out really wanting to like this book, and ended up slightly disappointed.

I'd be interested in hearing more of your thoughts as to why I'm wrong . For whatever reason I want to like it, but I feel like I'd need to read another book or two in order to find out if its worth it or not. You could say I'm very much still on the fence about this.

Lol have you ever listened to Lewis C.K.? He's a comedian, and he has a skit about the merrits of slavery. Boils down to "every great achievement in human history was accomplished with slaves". Gave me a laugh, you should look it up.

I've never heard that. Could have been something Nau/Seswatha said, though I would think that was more like "wow there's a bunch of it buried, this place is so much bigger on the inside" kind of thing.

Yeah pretty much, but hey you never know. Perhaps I'll stop into a more seedy looking one then? The World would certainly need to do some conspiring though. If its summer I'll wear my t-shirt so you can recognize me as well... lol.

I don't know if Jitters is supposed to be real place or not, perhaps it is a famous coffee chain? I was out in Amish country for a job and I went to a place called Jitters several times. It was a tiny coffee shop (they had good lunch for pretty cheap). Hilariously, I just went to their website:

http://jitterscoffeehouse.org/about-jitters/

Though I didn't get that feeling much when I was there, I laughed when I thought about Bakker, or Disciple, sitting in that place.
(not nearly as good as Tim Hortons).