This was an interesting book, but not the best I’ve read. Like the last few space army books there was a hero figure who had all the action focused on them. The ending was a lot more morbid than I was expecting. The other books had a happy ending where everything turned out ok. In this book there was an ending where most of the named characters died, including the love interest (who was a hormonally aged 8 year old, strange), who was supposed to be one of the toughest in the group.
This was a pretty good game, but we didn’t really know what we were doing. That made some of our choices not ideal, and other choices simply stupid. I had a few instances where I was poised to do really really well, and the dice didn’t turn out as hoped. The first time I was about to take down the bad guy npc, to complete a mission and give me the regular goodies from defeating the bad guy, but the cop npc took him down before I could. I had done most of the damage and the other npc stole the kill. I’d love to play again, but with fewer people, a longer game, and now knowing what to do. Adam ended up winning, even though he rushed too much at the end and postponed the game about 4 turns.
This was a very different view of how to create habits and get things done in day to day life than what I’ve normally read. The method also strongly corresponds to the science about willpower and other aspects of motivation that I’ve been reading. The way it allows for success by small goals, and then you can feel good about going above and beyond is something that I should incorporate into my life. I typically set my goals far to high and then fall short (aim for the moon and land among the stars). There is probably a good time to use each of these methods and I’ll have to figure that out slowly.
This was a really good book except for the huge part in the middle where she is stuck in the heart of her mentor. The false realities were confusing, and didn’t seem to have any other basis in the world. I can appreciate the way she put the chambers of the heart together with the different emotions, but I didn’t enjoy the listen. I very much enjoyed the teaching phase early on, and the battle part at the end. I’ll certainly read Glass Magician when it comes out.
This book was not that good. The way in which Steel World was amusing isn’t in this series, but it has the same hero complex. For some reason without the silliness of the hero included the whole formula for a good overpowered sci-fi adventurer falls apart. I got a bit of enjoyment from it, but it wasn’t a series I’d read further into.
This was another amusing case of the Hero being too pivotal, as well as too macho. He was an amazing killer that just wants everyone to get along. That said I find it amusing as a story and would love to read more. This book like Steel world is especially amusing when they come in contact with the admin aliens.
I really liked this book, and the series is exciting to me. The main character has too much of the hero complex, and is too disobedient for it to make much sense. Other than that, somewhat because of that, the series is very amusing. The times that the main character comes in contact with the admin aliens is very amusing since it always seems to work out in his favor.
This was a festival party thrown by apple in Alameda at one of the hangers that had been converted to a winery. It was a very cool venue, but the festival part was lackluster. The fun house was incredibly disappointing, and the carnival game (singular) wasn’t very good. The wine flight was a little dry for my taste, and Steph agreed. What made it fun was the selection of food, and the people we were there with. Jeremy was nice enough to take us along, and drive. We met Brian and his wife there, and they will be moving back to South Bay soon from the sound of it. That will make for a lot more Rock Band and Dance Central.
I liked the story, but some parts of it seemed like the people weren’t behaving as they should. The parts where they didn’t listen to each other were especially hard to understand and accept. I really liked the ending, especially with the person destroying and escaping from silo 1.
