« Back to Eithin's profile
Eithin's Comments
“Hyperactive git”: Lois McMaster Bujold’s Miles Vorkosigan "CRYOBURN SPOILERS in this comment. What saddened me the most about Cryoburn was that we never got..." on “Hyperactive git”: Lois McMaster Bujold’s Miles Vorkosigan at Thu Nov 18, 2010 08:35am
"I remember reading the book early on, perhaps before I was 12, and watching the film afterwards - it..." on Rabbit realism and folklore: Richard Adams’s Watership Down at Tue Oct 19, 2010 17:54pm
"Hm, just had a comment flagged as spam. Anyway, the gist of it was that the site @Aladdin_Sane cites..." on Next-door to Fairyland: Hope Mirrlees Lud-in-the-Mist at Thu Oct 07, 2010 06:42am
The Malazan Re-read of the Fallen: <em>Gardens of the Moon</em>, Chapters 20 and 21 "The Deck of Dragons seems to be more descriptive than prescriptive so far - the cards/titles gravitate..." on The Malazan Re-read of the Fallen: Gardens of the Moon, Chapters 20 and 21 at Sat Sep 18, 2010 10:28am
<em>LotR</em> re-read: <em>Return of the King</em> V.9, “The Last Debate” "There are a couple of other, more or less contemporary examples of magic fading due to/correlated with..." on LotR re-read: Return of the King V.9, “The Last Debate” at Tue Jul 20, 2010 11:08am
"I have two to add. Dan McGirt wrote a series of three over-the-top comic fantasies, starting with..." on OK, where do I start with that? M at Wed Jul 07, 2010 06:05am
"Regarding JV Jones, I'd suggest starting with The Baker's Boy, which is the first book of her first trilogy,..." on OK, where do I start with that? I and J. at Mon Jun 14, 2010 07:59am
"If you can get hold of a copy of The Tsaddik of the Seven Wonders, by Isidore Haiblum, you should. It's..." on OK, where do I start with that? H. at Mon Jun 07, 2010 06:17am
"Karel Capek: Famous mostly for RUR, but the only thing I've actually read of his is War with the Newts...." on OK, where do I start with that? C. at Tue May 04, 2010 07:50am
2011 Hugo Best Novel Nominees: <em>The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms</em> by N.K. Jemisin "I've just finished this, having picked it up in town today, and I agree; it's wonderful. The names..." on 2011 Hugo Best Novel Nominees: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin at Tue Mar 30, 2010 14:43pm
<em>LotR</em> re-read: <em>Return of the King</em> V.2, “The Passing of the Grey Company” "Aladdin Sane @7 is entirely correct regarding the words of Malbeth the Seer, but allow me to add something. at..." on LotR re-read: Return of the King V.2, “The Passing of the Grey Company” at Tue Mar 09, 2010 06:41am
<em>LotR</em> re-read: Boskone panel on worldbuilding anomalies with Tom Shippey "The idea of the manuscript translation as a framing device signifying an unreliable body of work didn't..." on LotR re-read: Boskone panel on worldbuilding anomalies with Tom Shippey at Fri Feb 19, 2010 06:00am
"Depends also on what sort of SF you're trying to get them into - the field's fragmented enough that nobody..." on Gateway drugs: what books are good for introducing non-SF readers to SF? at Mon Jan 25, 2010 18:04pm
"Jo: Hm. I'm having a great deal of trouble working out what there is to "being a dragon" (or a secretary)..." on SF reading protocols at Wed Jan 20, 2010 14:45pm
"I'm completely willing to accept that the dragons in Tooth and Claw (which I loved, incidentally) are..." on SF reading protocols at Wed Jan 20, 2010 11:32am
"For me, it was an utterly unmitigated pleasure, and a very easy read - though that's probably because..." on Kim Stanley Robinson's Galileo's Dream at Wed Jan 20, 2010 07:50am
"Ellen at 61: Oh, goodness, thank you for the pointer!" on What books do you buy to give to other people? at Mon Dec 28, 2009 20:51pm
"I'm extremely fond of these books, especially this one, but like you I first encountered them as a child..." on “Tonight will be bad, and tomorrow will be beyond all imagining”: Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising at Mon Dec 28, 2009 20:17pm
"++ to Tam Lin and Bridge of Birds. Others I'll generally try and push on people are Tibor Fischer's..." on What books do you buy to give to other people? at Sun Dec 27, 2009 08:53am
"Issue #3 - I love Cain & Abel. More so later in the series, when they get some more subtlety and depth,..." on Sandman Re-read Index at Thu Dec 17, 2009 09:52am
Eithin's shoutbox
2 recent messages | show all
fritzfoy fritzfoy said (4 years ago):
Eithin shout test
Eithin Eithin said (4 years ago):
(i) Hoverboxes uninformative in the extreme.