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⌈ Secret Post #2434 ⌋

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[A7X]

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[Stargate Atlantis]

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[Merlin]

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[Audrey Cooper, Twin Peaks]

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[Fire Emblem: Awakening]

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[Avril Lavigne, Tank Girl]

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[Meet the Robinsons]

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[Blood+]

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[Monty Python's Flying Circus]

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[Valentine Morgenstern, The Mortal Instruments]

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I got about a hundred pages into Spiritwalk by Charles de Lint before abandoning it after the fourth wallbang. First, there was a weirdly racist monster description (this is actually worth fishing in my goodwill pile to dig up: 'Thick dirty-white hair like a Rastaman's dread-locks hung to their broad shoulders'), then there was this tangent where he reassured the readers that even though two of the female characters had what I'd describe as a romantic friendship, they weren't lesbians (way to make me lose interest, dude)...I can't remember the third. I don't know what it says about me that the fourth one, the one that made me actually give the fuck up, was when I realised he had no idea how computers work.

Well, in his defense on the fourth one, I think the book was published in the early 90s, and that was a little more common then.

for the rest of it, I haven't read that book in a while so I can't and wouldn't defend it. But I generally like Charles De Lint's writing, and there was a time when I loved it passionately (I should probably reread some of those books, actually, it's been a while). So I guess I just wanted to say that I'm sorry it didn't work for you.

Yeah, 1992, and sillier techfail shows up every week (did you see Pacific Rim?) It was still somehow the dealbreaker. Idk, just made me give up hope of ever attaining suspension of disbelief.

I picked it up because a while ago, someone gave me Someplace To Be Flying and I enjoyed it. So I understand your general affection!

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