Mine just throws a fit every decade or so, and stops generating heat.

Also, it’s the most famous appliance in my house because a video on YouTube of me opening my dryer door has almost 500k views

My feelings on books 2 and 3 are complicated; but I hated book 2 because I saw the ending coming from a hundred pages in (“ohhh, this is gonna be tragic AF, right?”) and I just in general found 2 and 3 to be much darker than I like. I mean, those books are both SO dark.

But dark doesn’t mean they were badly written, or even badly plotted, and both books still had moments of incredible beauty, or stunning revelation, or twisted WTF that made me gawk.

It’s a good series; I just think Steven Erikson is too mean to his characters. ;)

Finally on Book 10 of the “Malazan: Book of the Fallen” series by Steven Erikson, “The Crippled God”. Been a long road getting through this series. Started at the end of June. It’s had it’s ups and downs. I adore Book 5 but hated books 2 and 3, and I’m not a fan of how many plots are surely going to be left unresolved at the end of Book 10.

…I guess that’s why there’s another 17 books in the series or whatever, but I’m likely done with it once Book 10 is done.

Is… Is that something he’s done before?

Yeah, it’s not bad. Pretty sure it falls into the genre of “cozy” science fiction

1. Pick some friends that you like
2. Download “I Am Never Going To Give You Up” by Rick Roll
3. Put the song on the disk in very low quality .mp3
4. Give the disks away as “fun, retro” drink coasters
5. Watch as they use the coasters, unaware that you Rick Rollered them

FFS = for fuck’s sake

But that doesn’t make sense in this context, so I am left confused and emotional. :)