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[shadowkat]

I keep nickle and diming myself to death buying kindle daily deals on Amazon. The latest?

1. Achilles: a Novel by Melinda Miller for $1.99
2. Collasping Empire by John Scalzi for $2.99
3. Digging in by (I forget) for $1.99
4. The Curious Dog at Night Time for $2.99

Seriously. I bought less books before Amazon.

I have over 600 books on my Kindle. I'll never read them all. But at least they aren't taking up space in my apartment. There's that.

Comments

[mefisto]

There definitely was a deus ex machina at the end, but I don't think I needed a whole book to get it. It was easy to get, though not really explained much, and I just went with it. That's what I mostly do with light novels.

Your comment sounds like it was meant for George Martin. :)

[shadowkat]

I wouldn't recommend you read Iron & Magic, I don't think it works. The writers are bending over backwards to turn poor Hugh into a woobie hero...or wounded hero. Which I adore. But...I don't think it works. Also the humor is NOT there.
They just don't have the same dry witty banter that Kate Daniels has -- in any of their books. I'm beginning to think it's just Kate's voice that possesses it.

Your comment sounds like it was meant for George Martin. :)

Unfortunately he's not alone. It also is directed to folks like Joss Whedon, Ilona Andrews, Jim Butcher, JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, and others.

And our stupid and incessantly greedy entertainment industry -- that is run by evil marketing people.