Recent content by prabe

I sincerely hope that isn't entirely the voice of experience, because that sounds like an experience that--as you say--really, really sucks.

In your household, both too high and too low seems distinctly plausible.

I don't need them to be immiserated, but I need there to be a lot of tension.

Reminds me of what I've said about the novels I like best being like chewing on a live wire.

Working in a context where you hear words pronounced on the regular sometimes gets in the way of communication ... :LOL:

When I was recording audiobooks, we often found errors--some of them were pretty egregious (such as "two-car garbage"). I sometimes notice things in the books I'm reading for pleasure, now, but reading the text aloud is, I think, more likely to find them.

When it became possible to record music, there were professional musicians strongly opposed to it, because they guessed (more or less correctly) that the ability to play back recordings would reduce the number of jobs for musicians performing in public. The record business has always been...

I don't know which specific poster you're talking about (so many options!) but I figure the answer to the question is "no."

People said it about the written word, centuries before Gutenberg. For whatever that's worth (and I don't think it's worth a lot).

The vacation had the days kinda packed full of doing things (and those things were why I was on the vacation). I had a reasonable sense of how much free time I was going to have.

Also this.

Your point that King needs to hear "no" from his editor/s more often isn't even close to wrong, but it's not because Tabby is editing him. She's long been the first person to read his novels, but A) that's a different thing and B) she pulled Carrie out of the trash can.

I find places with physical books easier and more aesthetically pleasing to browse, and I find the experience of reading a physical book to be more engaging. Those are my preferences and needn't be relevant to anyone else, and shouldn't be taken as slagging on e-books and e-readers. I'm also a...

In my case it usually involves reading the player-side notes to refresh my memory of the situation the PCs are in, and/or the direction they're moving. There's usually some working out what sort/s of opposition they could run into, and some picking from my physical maps (I don't run on a VTT...

Another side-effect of doing that gig for like fifteen years is that I mostly can't listen to people talk as a pleasure thing, whether that's audiobooks or podcasts or whatever, unless there's something to watch alongside (and watching the people talk isn't adequate). This--along with my bad...