This was a nice little book, and I enjoyed listening to it. The characters didn’t evolve much in the book, but the little bit that did happen was nice. The story didn’t touch on much more of the sentience and intrinsic value question, but the recap was nice.
This was a really nice book, and it reminds me of bending in the Avatar. I’ll probably go through the rest of the series.
Sunday, I took a train to the city to hang out with Nick. I showed up about an hour late, but was the second person there. We hung out for a good while. A few others came over, and we played a round of Ticket to Ride. It worked out really well for me, since everyone else was concentrated in another part of the board. I was having a really good time, and made a total of 138 points, completely destroying all the other players.
Stephanie was amazing, and took me to a surprise event on Saturday for my birthday. We went east into the valley and when we started getting close I saw the advertisements for the caves. I was still excited to see if it was going to be the caves. We got there and saw a map of the caverns, It went very deep and on top of that we got to repel through the ceiling! I was scared when I came through the crack in the top, because it was 100 feet from the floor. On the floor there was a “bone pile” that was made of hundreds of people who fell through the crack in the ceiling. We continued down to the adventure tour. The tiny cracks we crawled through in the adventure tour were just big enough to squeeze through. The best part was the final climb up a chimney and then the slide down the cave wall. I really enjoyed the trip and would love to do something like it again.
We biked to Palo Alto to meet up with some of Steph’s MIT friends at Patxi’s Pizza for dinner and got some tasty deep dishes. Then we stopped by Cream for desert. Two of the four friends live very close by, but they don’t come over much. They were pretty cool guys, so it would be nice to see them around more.
We played a good number of games Thursday, and I played all of mine with Chris and Jeff. It went surprisingly well, and we didn’t get into too much analysis paralysis. The first game I got out front with some really strategic plays and stayed there. I was also able to get a massive last turn that put me way out front. Chris got second by one point, just barely nudging out Jeff.
In dungeon dice, I was nice at one point and that came back to get me. I should have just been mean and let them take damage, but oh well. I enjoyed it, but it was a little short. There wasn’t time to build up a character and enjoy the abilities, because the game only goes to 4 points. It also doesn’t make sense to go past that since the monsters don’t get harder as your character gets better. I like the mechanics, but it seemed to be missing something in depth.
As always I liked playing Gauntlet of Fools. That is one game that never seems to get old. We played two rounds with Paul winning the first, then Chris and I tied on the second.
This was a pretty good book, and I like the magic history that is put into the book. There was surprisingly little that happened in the book, with most of it being politics. They mention a lot of things that are on the horizon and a lot of things that had happened, but not much goes on in the book itself. I like the writing and world building though. I’m going to have to finish up this series to get all the good action parts as well.
This was a very enjoyable book, and I like most of the characters in it. There isn’t any super character, but they all have their super moments. I like how the story wove together and I can see mostly where it is going. I look forward to listening to more in this series.
This was a quite good book, and it also talked about the moral questions I like. I took a more pragmatic and economic bent to it with politics taking a front seat. I think I’ll listen to the rest of the series.
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