445 Autobots
426 Decepticons
allhailgrimlock

Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus

I'm a well read grad student who's bluntly honest about all things, although I try to be most honest about myself.   

Currently reading

Honor Among Thieves
Ann Aguirre, Rachel Caine
Progress: 225/470pages
Avengers and Thunderbolts
Pierce Askegren
Progress: 19/288pages
Spawn Origins, Volume 4
Greg Capullo, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri
Progress: 25/160pages
Permanence du discours sur Israël
Juliette Lichtenstein
Anti-Semite and Jew: An Exploration of the Etiology of Hate
Jean-Paul Sartre, Michael Walzer
Illuminae
Jay Kristoff, Amie Kaufman
Progress: 64/608pages
Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948
Tanya Reinhart
Progress: 44/304pages
Vision in Silver
Anne Bishop
Progress: 38/400pages
Optimus Prime #24
Andrew Griffith, John Barber
Describing Archives: A Content Standard by Saa (2013-12-01)
Saa
Progress: 20/198pages

Reading progress update: I've read 52 out of 400 pages.

Raven Stratagem - Yoon Ha Lee

I have zero idea what's happening during the fights, but I also don't give a single fuck.   Unlike, say, Bayverse Transformers which would be nothing without the explosions because the characters aren't as rich and complex as you'd like, and the plots aren't great, this one has a lot of character work that I love, and there's enough politics that I do understand to make this compelling. 

 

Lee could very easily be accused of sloppy, or lazy, world building and I think I've read a couple reviews that have made a good argument for this. 

 

I don't read it that way myself.   Lee seems to realize that while he could describe the details of the fights by a calendrical system, it would be so complex and mind numbingly dull - like those and he begat who begat who begat sections of the Torah - that it wouldn't be worth it. 

 

I don't understand, but I"m also okay with that because it's not the crux of these novels.   
http://allhailgrimlock.booklikes.com/post/1765370/reading-progress-update-i-ve-read-52-out-of-400-pages
allhailgrimlock.booklikes.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2019-13
28362
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:WA4HMUZEHRH37RV3GT62QWICC5DGIF3N
<urn:uuid:7ab03922-d5e5-4546-839f-ee194263686c>
2019-03-25T14:35:25Z
192.99.40.218
text/html
sha1:KLCDSCJBXFEMQXURDCNPSY5DJ6U2GPJQ
<urn:uuid:141245c9-ea32-4653-ac2b-92d933d22eab>
http://allhailgrimlock.booklikes.com/post/1765370/reading-progress-update-i-ve-read-52-out-of-400-pages
response
<urn:uuid:305e8bf5-f21e-407f-bad1-245cc82aa929>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-13
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for March 2019
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-150-237-245.ec2.internal
software: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/