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Author of The Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne and other novels. Father, trail runner, late-night cereal eater. Good at cooking risotto, bad at keeping the house clean.
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My 10” battery Stihl is just outstanding for trail work. Have a much larger gas Stihl for firewood. Great combo.
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Outstanding quote.
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I tried the first couple episodes of Foundation and found it utterly baffling! Glad it’s hitting the spot for other folks!
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So glad you’re enjoying it!
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The standard fantasy language problem. Presumably none of these characters are speaking English. The whole script is translated for whatever they speak. How do you translate idiom. Etc.
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Oh that’s a lovely poem. Thanks for reminding me of it—hadn’t read it in quite a few years!
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Which poem?
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Right there with you!
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Savage and absolutely accurate
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It’s a long way until Sunday!
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I’ll check that. Thanks!
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They’re wonderful little creatures.
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Cruised right by the profile. Thanks for nudging me back for a listen! In a vein that’s both different and similar: Recomposed by Max Richter is an interesting take on the Four Seasons that I keep going back to…
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The good news is that his teacher, who is great, has definitely filed this away as something to suggest to future students…
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My 12 year old just spent a month learning a piano piece from Hollow Knight. His piano teacher was surprised that games have such great musical scores.
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Thanks so much, Hawkeye!
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I would like to sit in on this conversation.
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Word
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Excellent thread!
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And that’s leaving aside aspirations for actual improvement, like learning to properly jump on a mountain bike, or make good tele turns, or any of the other shit I thought I’d have figured out by now. At this rate I’m gonna still be learning to roll a kayak when I’m 85.
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The game keeps changing and I feel like they keep adding things! I’m at the point where I’ve got, like, 40 different things on the list just to stay in place.
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Neither my publisher nor my agent is thrilled about me moving all my social media to Strava.
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I vote for the most important information simply being stapled to my kid’s shirt.
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So, you think less than 1 out of 100 people, fully funded for ten years, would produce an interesting book? I’d believe that! Just don’t have any conviction about that figure…
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What do you think: if 100 random folks were given 10 years (paid stipend, didn’t need to work another job) to write/revise a book, how many of those would finish books that you would find interesting? I have a hard time even guessing at an answer to this question.
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Good job.
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Congratulations!!!
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Oh cool! I’ll check it out. Thank you!
Actually the more I think about Keegan the more I think he might have been saying that the long-term psychological ramifications of modern war are worse. Not that it’s necessarily more frightening in the moment. I guess I could look!
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Congratulations, Max! Also, awesome cover!
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Interesting! It’s exactly the opposite thesis of Keegan’s Face of Battle, if I’m remembering that book correctly…
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Do you sortof need to know what it says or nah? I think I’d need to look…
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This is my area I will find it or die trying.
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I was thinking recently, for no particular reason, about the cigarette in this book. So bad ass.
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Congrats!
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Avatar the Last Airbender is excellent this way.