Just Finished Reading The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

Posted: December 2, 2013 by patricksponaugle in Book Review
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I should have written a novel in November (since it is National Novel Writing Month), but now it’s December and apparently I didn’t. But I have two really great excuses:

  1. Writing is Hard Work
  2. Patrick Rothfuss’ sequel to The Name of the Wind is 1100 pages long, and it was too hard for me to put down.
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So Good.

I’ll totally write a novel next November. But right now, I want to talk briefly about this excellent sequel, The Wise Man’s Fear. This review will not be any more spoilery than the book’s dust-jacket blurb. Trust me, warrior.

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November #MicroStory Collection

Posted: December 1, 2013 by patricksponaugle in Flash Fiction, Writing
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It’s December, so I went through my social media feeds and grabbed all the MicroStories I tweeted during the month of November. As a reminder, these represent story-essences composed in 140 characters (so I could tweet them with the hashtag #MicroStory.)

I should have been working on a novel, since it was NaNoWriMo. I needed NaNoWriMoTime.

For really great #MicroStory action, please follow @MicroSFF, the twitter account that inspired me to participate in this minimalist writing exercise. That feed puts out great science fiction and fantasy MicroStories all the time.

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In Defense of Stannis Baratheon.

Posted: November 26, 2013 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, Opinion, TV
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There’s not a lot of love thrown around for the character of Stannis on HBO’s excellent Game of Thrones. I think it’s time to enumerate some of Stannis’ many positive qualities. And just maybe the naysayers will come around to consider dead King Bob’s younger brother as the right man to run Westeros. After all, at least he’s not Joffrey.

Usual spoiler warnings apply. I’m not going to be revealing anything that hasn’t happened on the show, although there’s always the chance that I’ll bring in some book detail from the same period that’s covered by the TV series. But this is going to otherwise be all HBO show-related. (Look, just watch the show.)

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Season Two Breaking Bad – We Just Finished It! (Part 2)

Posted: November 24, 2013 by patricksponaugle in TV
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Last post, I explained that my wife and I had just finished Season Two of AMC’s excellent series Breaking Bad. That post was a recap. This post will be observations. Hopefully it won’t go on too long.

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Just What Kind of Critter is This Thing?

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Season Two Breaking Bad – We Just Finished It! (Part 1)

Posted: November 23, 2013 by patricksponaugle in Breaking Bad, TV
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Way late to the party, my wife and I just finished watching an excellent season of television. The Second Season of Breaking Bad.

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Just like my last series of posts covering Season One Breaking Bad, this series is going to contain spoilery details for Season Two. If you haven’t watched the show but for some reason you want to read my blog, do yourself a favor, go to Netflix right now, and get caught up.

I have not seen any later seasons of Breaking Bad (although I do know some details… just getting GIFs and JPEGs for these posts is fraught with peril) so please don’t reveal any future plot points or spoilers should you choose to comment. Please.

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In Defense of Theon Greyjoy. WHAT?

Posted: November 9, 2013 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, Opinion, TV
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Relax, you people, relax. This isn’t going to be a six-part series defending Theon Greyjoy’s actions or character like I did with Jon Snow. (Or my one-part post defending Ned Stark, for that matter.)

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I’m more interested in discussing HBO’s Game of Thrones showrunners’ decisions in regards to Theon Greyjoy’s storyline, as presented in Season Three of the show. His torture, and the cagey and dodgy manipulations of keeping his captor’s identity secret have been somewhat controversial. And I have some opinions on that.

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October #MicroStory Collection

Posted: November 5, 2013 by patricksponaugle in Flash Fiction, Writing
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It’s a brand new month, so I dragged a virtual rake through my Facebook account and fetched all of my flash-fiction that I had posted during October. As a reminder, these represent story-essences composed in 140 characters (so I could tweet them with the hashtag #MicroStory.)

For really great #MicroStory action, please follow @MicroSFF, the twitter account that inspired me to participate in this minimalist writing exercise.

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Zombies, Quasi-Zombies, and Happy Halloween

Posted: October 31, 2013 by patricksponaugle in Opinion
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It’s Halloween and why not have a post about shambling, walking corpses that feed on the living? Or angry, adrenaline’d infected that attack the healthy? Or things that kind of fall into that category of scary? Zombies and quasi-Zombies.

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Recently on Facebook, one of my friends commented that they were so bored with zombies, that zombies weren’t interesting. I understand there’s a certain amount of Zombie Saturation Syndrome going on right now, but I think stories featuring elements of the relentless, indefatigable, cannibalistic undead aren’t necessarily played out.

And since I enjoy talking about zombies, I thought I’d put finger to keyboard and do just that.

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Season One Breaking Bad – We Just Finished It! (Part 3)

Posted: October 26, 2013 by patricksponaugle in TV
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Two posts ago I explained that my wife and I had just started watching Breaking Bad, and we’d recently finished Season One. I gave a quick recap of the season. In the following post, I talked about Walter White and his family. And Jesse, yo. Now I’d like to cover a series of topics in this final installment of my Breaking Bad Season One observations.

And then I can start working on my Breaking Bad Season Two observations.

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Season One Breaking Bad – We Just Finished It! (Part 2)

Posted: October 26, 2013 by patricksponaugle in TV
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Last post, I explained that my wife and I had just started watching Breaking Bad, and we’d recently finished Season One. I gave a quick recap of the season, and now I’d like to talk more in-depth about the major characters.

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