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Btw, I saw an encounter with this author on r/fantasy. He really hates Bakker and TSA lol.Did (s)he say why?
Also, jealous of that..Well congrats!Rejoice is on my shortlist. Hoping for it to be one of my last books this year.Its the first signed book I haveJealous. I purchased one signed from Goldsboro - not the same as getting it signed though. Will probably sell it later.A new Steven Erikson novel is out in hardcover. "Rejoice, A Knife In The Heart", a first-contact story. Looks interesting.I went to a signing here London, UK when it came out a few weeks back.
Then quickly read it. I liked it a lot. It's not Malazan, it's not willfull child, but its own thing.
It's sci-fi set in today's world, not decades down the line, and that made me care more, I think.
The contemporary criticism is not subtle, but that doesn't make it less relevant.
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One guy brought a whole duffel bag of all his Malazan books hah
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The first time I saw Bakker, I brought TJE and WLW. The last time I brought like 2 copies of every TSA book. An uncorrected proof and a 1st/1st. You gotta take advantage of these things.
Yes, and now I know, I only brought Crippled God this time.Well congrats!Rejoice is on my shortlist. Hoping for it to be one of my last books this year.Its the first signed book I haveJealous. I purchased one signed from Goldsboro - not the same as getting it signed though. Will probably sell it later.A new Steven Erikson novel is out in hardcover. "Rejoice, A Knife In The Heart", a first-contact story. Looks interesting.I went to a signing here London, UK when it came out a few weeks back.
Then quickly read it. I liked it a lot. It's not Malazan, it's not willfull child, but its own thing.
It's sci-fi set in today's world, not decades down the line, and that made me care more, I think.
The contemporary criticism is not subtle, but that doesn't make it less relevant.
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One guy brought a whole duffel bag of all his Malazan books hah
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The first time I saw Bakker, I brought TJE and WLW. The last time I brought like 2 copies of every TSA book. An uncorrected proof and a 1st/1st. You gotta take advantage of these things
these are the only two authors I'd go to these things for (since Banks is dead anyway..)Rejoice is on my shortlist. Hoping for it to be one of my last books this year.Its the first signed book I haveJealous. I purchased one signed from Goldsboro - not the same as getting it signed though. Will probably sell it later.A new Steven Erikson novel is out in hardcover. "Rejoice, A Knife In The Heart", a first-contact story. Looks interesting.I went to a signing here London, UK when it came out a few weeks back.
Then quickly read it. I liked it a lot. It's not Malazan, it's not willfull child, but its own thing.
It's sci-fi set in today's world, not decades down the line, and that made me care more, I think.
The contemporary criticism is not subtle, but that doesn't make it less relevant.
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A new Steven Erikson novel is out in hardcover. "Rejoice, A Knife In The Heart", a first-contact story. Looks interesting.I went to a signing here London, UK when it came out a few weeks back.
I glanced through the article.Thanks for sharing Wilshire.
I think I tried something like this when I was younger, actually to help me with taking college entrance exams. The method I used suggested that you place a dot at the start of a line and a dot at the end, and basically scan your eyes from dot to dot. Once you get the feel for it, you can obviously go without the visual reference, and just scan from first word to last word. Same idea as the article, just a slightly different technique. Have not heard of or tried the peripheral vision thing.
It is extremely effective. I saw a dramatic increase in speed without much loss of comprehension, to the point where my score incrseased like 8 points - which, on a test that scores from 0 - 40ish, a jump form 25 to 32 is pretty exceptional.
To practice I sped read my favorite book at the time.
I'll say that the risk is going to fast and missing stuff. I don't do it because, as madness mentioned, I enjoy the process of reading. I imagine I read far slower than the average reader, but this doesn't really bother me much.
I'm also out of practice now so I'd have to practice a bit before I did it, but it does work.
I've never really messed around with learning to speed read, I enjoy being engrossed over being technical but...Has anyone here experience with this? It just seems so fantastical. I have a hard time imaging it. Maybe I should just try it..
Link.
Interesting..Insofar as he confirms anything, yes. I'd say its at least as authoritative as the What Has Come Before sections in the books themselves.That's amazing, again, Wert.Interesting you say that Madness, there seem to be some points of contention settled in this summary.
I have quibbles but this time around they aren't worth interrogating because I am very much among the minority regarding interpretations of TUC's end.
Thanks for your work.
Is this confirmed as accurate by the man himself?!
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That's amazing, again, Wert.Interesting you say that Madness, there seem to be some points of contention settled in this summary.
I have quibbles but this time around they aren't worth interrogating because I am very much among the minority regarding interpretations of TUC's end.
Thanks for your work.
