After I posted my incredibly irreverent and scathing review of Fallout: Equestria (which, to my wonderful surprise, /r/falloutequestria seemed to like), people had a few things to say to me. Here are some quotes (I paraphrase):

“Oh, give it twenty chapters! It gets better after twenty chapters.”

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It took me nearly two and a half months, but I'm done. What a journey. It is beyond my ability to talk about this book, but I will do my best.

Short answer: it was easily one of the best books I've ever read.

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I believe it was David Sedaris who said that if people who like books are called bookworms, then it logically follows that people who like books on tape are called tapeworms.

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I used to be a big fan of the speaking verb "said." It's small, only four letters, doesn't detract from the dialogue (i.e., the most important part that the reader should take away with him), but still allows the reader to know what is being said. Your eyes skim over it without staying too much on it, but you still understand what is being done.

Not anymore. "Said" is perhaps the most bland speaking verb in the English language.

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Just had the opportunity to watch the finale of Season 3, as I always have to wait an extra day to watch the new episodes, as I'm a PROUD CUSTOMER OF APPLE INC. ® and the ITUNES STORE ®. Just a bit of a digression: I know many of you don't buy the episodes off the store, but you should, really, and I say this not as an Apple fanboy (I'm not), nor as a My Little Pony fanboy (I unashamedly am), but as a man who knows what the spirit of money is and who respects the work and effort and value

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There’s no way I could do justice to Victor Hugo’s magnum opus with just one review, so now that my e-reader says that I’m one-third through it, I’d figured I’d just post my thoughts on the first tome, Fantine, and the first six books of Tome II, Cosette. I actually think I’m going to complete this in the three-month timeframe I gave myself.

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During long, boring lessons in high school, some kids whispered to each other, some doodled on the desktops or in their notebooks, some passed notes, others twirled their hair, chewed gum, or texted. Some actually listened to the teacher.

I was the one the who was doing calculus in my notebook. Don’t judge me.

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Except that I finished Rainbow Six yesterday, and I picked up Les Misérables right afterwards. I'm making this blog post just to note my start time: two years with Atlas Shrugged, six months with The Count of Monte Cristo, and about a month with both Metro 2033 and Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas. I'm working past my obsessive-compulsive tendencies with will alone, and I think I've gotten a lot better. With Les Misérables, I'm shooting

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A long time ago—that is to say, a shorter time period ago than I’d care to admit—I was your stereotypical crazed teenager with a high-pitched voice (didn’t hit puberty until the eleventh grade), foaming at the mouth, guzzling Mountain Dew by the liter, and insinuating to strangers on Xbox Live while playing Call of Duty that I had engaged in sexual relations with their mothers.

Yes, I was that kid. Oh, hoh, how times have changed.

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Where does my favorite music come from? Easy. Musicals, no question.

I hate almost all modern-day music (with a few notable exceptions, which I'm very ashamed of). I find that music nowadays is designed to make the singer look good. This is why I like musicals so damn much: the point of every song in a musical is to push a story in a very creative way and, most importantly, to bring out the emotion of the singer.

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