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Finished reading through Chapter seventy-seven (which is all there is available). I agree with the author, if you don’t find this funny by chapter ten, give up. I think I laughed straight through from chapter two through chapter twelve. At that point, I took a break, and when I came back I couldn’t quite manage the same level of mirth, but there are still fantastic quotes and snippets of dialogue throughout.

This “parallel universe” work poses a lot of what-ifs, but after recently being introduced to the idea of feminist bingo (which provides an easy way to categories and ignore certain arguments based on the probability that anyone who uses one of those arguments is likely anti-feminist) I decided that I like this even more. The primary love-interest story is appropriately muddled by the two characters attempting to approach the problem from pure rationality (which adds extra humor for me since love is, by definition, not rational).

 

The Fantasy Novelist’s Exam.

Great list of things to check in your Fantasy novel to make sure you’re not doing something potentially cliche. I read through most of it and thought Dragonlance then got to the question about whether I was Robert Jordan and guessed that he must have used every cliche and trope used in Dragonlance.

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