Monthly Archives: December 2021

Book Reader Looks Back at Season 1 of The Wheel of Time on Prime

Posted on December 31, 2021 by H.P.

What Friday would be complete without a Wheel of Time post?  I’m not quite ready to give up on writing about the show yet.  I recapped and reacted to each and every episode in basically real-time, but an episode-by-episode analysis … Continue reading →

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Book Reader Wheel of Time Recap and Reaction: Season 1, Episode 8

Posted on December 24, 2021 by H.P.

There are a couple primary problems with Amazon’s adaptation of The Wheel of Time.  The first is a lack of respect for the source material.  The second, and more serious, is that the show creators are not very good at … Continue reading →

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Book Reader Wheel of Time Recap and Reaction: Season 1, Episode 7

Posted on December 17, 2021 by H.P.

Changes in adaptation are inevitable.  Making a TV show is a messy, collaborative process that demands endless tradeoffs.  It’s an iceberg, because it happens almost entirely out of the public eye and, frankly, I know little about making talkies.  But … Continue reading →

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Book Reader Wheel of Time Recap and Reaction: Season 1, Episode 6

Posted on December 10, 2021 by H.P.

I’ve been pretty lenient with the book changes up to this point.  A certain amount of leeway is necessary—the change in format requires changes in storytelling, and any creator worth their salt is going to put their own spin on … Continue reading →

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Audiobook Review: The Voyage of the Iron Dragon by Robert Kroese, narrated by J.D. Ledford

Posted on December 7, 2021 by H.P.

I couldn’t resist the premise of the Iron Dragon trilogy—using advanced knowledge to build a space program from scratch in Viking Europe.  I very much enjoyed book one and book two.  But those books tended to be heavier on human-human … Continue reading →

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Book Reader Wheel of Time Recap and Reaction: Season 1, Episode 5

Posted on December 3, 2021 by H.P.

The strident pleas of book hipsters and show apologists notwithstanding, after five episodes we have a sense of what we are getting from Amazon’s adaptation of a landmark work of epic fantasy.  A high production value work that mostly looks … Continue reading →

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