Robinson L maintains a livejournal account under the handle Arkan2, where he reviews and/or rants about books, movies, tv shows, his college, and politics. Reportedly crashed into an asteroid in late 2004 and died a fiery death. He got better. He aspires to be (in no particular order) a successful author, an activist, and a parent.
- 2016-08-15 18:02 - The Narration of Shannara - link Oh, and I'm still curious: is Sword a Terabrooks in audiobook as opposed to hardcopy format?
- 2016-08-15 18:00 - Mr Bubbles' Nostalgia Trip - link I've only skimmed the article, and not made any kind of study of Objectivism, but there seems to be another contradiction in the author's argument. He invokes the maxim “power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely,” which I tend to agree...
- 2016-08-10 18:00 - The Narration of Shannara - link Interesting. I guess I have an easier time following audiobooks than you do, Arthur, and keeping track of what's going on. I sometimes find myself in the position of putting down a book (audio or otherwise) for weeks, even months at a time, but I can usual...
- 2016-05-24 15:00 - Educating Vitae - link I checked this one and its sequels out, along with Fallen and The Morganville Vampires after the TeXt Factor Halloween special. I read the final book, book 6, a year or two ago, and I recently started listening to the spin-off Bloodlines</...
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2016-05-21 06:30 - Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows: Afterword -
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Ashimbabar: Sounds way better to me…
Can't say I concur, on the face of it. I mean, it sounds like it could be better, if it were handled with sensitivity and subtlety. It also sounds like it could as easily be a... - 2016-04-30 03:02 - Going Bullshit - link Oops, I forgot to mention that though I found Kafka on the Shore satisfactorily comprehensible, and I'm glad I read it, a section later in the book comes with a trigger warning for sexual assault. Granted, it's in a dream sequence and is doubtless p...
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2016-04-26 20:00 - The Fionavar Travesty -
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Nick Cave is all the citation I need.
Two can play that game. All playfulness aside, you make a fair point. But isn't it also a trope going at least as far back... - 2016-04-25 15:30 - The Fionavar Travesty - link I've heard about Kay in the past, but never gotten around to reading him. I may or may not try out some of his other stuff in future, but probably not this trilogy. Not much to comment on the review itself—it's quite good and entertaining...
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2016-04-25 15:00 - The Grey Mane of not at all boring -
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Or should we just call it "parallel world fiction"? Then, since there is no primary world – parallel to what? Though the Davlenei are basically unicorns The Grey Mane of Morning is harder to classify than one would think.
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2016-03-31 20:15 - From the Banquet's First Course to the Last Days -
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(I was cheered but not entirely unsurprised to see The Pursuit of the Millennium prominently mentioned on Nevill's reading list.)
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2016-03-31 15:30 - Beasts in Crinoline -
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Shim: From my vague memories, Dracula's corruption mostly manifested in making Lucy unconventional and horny?
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2016-03-31 15:15 - Going Bullshit -
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Ronan: An author who (sometimes) does this well is Haruki Murakami. A *lot* of weird things tend to happen in his stranger books, but he generally keeps the reader confident that the plot is actually going somewhere. The exception is Kafka on T...
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2016-03-21 18:30 - Gradual Evolution, Not Rapid Mutation -
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Wait a sec, since when has the “Mass Effect 3 Ending” had its own theme handle?
Arthur: In the end I did decide that synths are people, on the basis that some of them want to rebel and be free; being able to come up ...
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2016-03-21 18:00 - Of Its Parts -
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(Sorry, not sure how to credit you):
This bothered me a lot because, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure it's *exactly the opposite* of what Dawkins and his atheist kindred actually believe. Dawkins and many other scientists usuall...
- 2016-02-19 22:30 - The Reading Canary: Chaos Sucking - link Okay, good point about the difference between killing off an established, long-running character to motivate another character as opposed to killing off a walk-on. (I may be misremembering here, but I thought I heard somewhere that the original Woman in a ...
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2016-02-11 22:15 - A Sword That Could Do With Sharpening -
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Hi there,
I can see why a lot of authors stick of medieval England :)
Perhaps so, but I'm really glad to see authors venturing out of the same old tired territory. With so much history and so many fascinating societies...
