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  2. The cranky thread

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    People still use IE? I use Firefox almost exclusively' date=' mainly for the Adblock and Flashblock extensions.[/quote']

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    Between Adblock Plus (ABP) for Firefox and Netflix Streaming I have very nearly eliminated ads from my daily life. I still do Tivo live TV so have to fast-forward through ads. I am so spoiled, especially when it comes to interenet ads that it is a shock when I use a browser without ABP. BTW, the main reason I'm not using Chrome is that ABP is not as effective on Google's browser as it is on Firefox. Considering how Google gets their revenue I'm tempted to believe this is not an accident.

  3. What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

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    I think I'm breaking some unwritten rule by posting twice in a row but I didn't want my review to get buried in my comments on Vondy's post, so here goes.

     

    I just finished "The Bards of Bone Plain" by Patricia A. McKillip. It's a story with a lot of mystery and with two separate plots, separated by many years, that eventually weave together at the end. I liked the characters for the most part and didn't mind the odd steampunk details thrown into an otherwise straightforward fantasy. In general there is a good variety of characters but my one complaint is that the book is unnecessarily confusing due to plot and character similarities between the two plot lines. There is good reason to have a lot of the similarities but McKillip didn't do a good enough job differentiating the settings, characters and plots. She is a very experienced author and I would have thought she could make these more clearly separate if she wanted to. It's possible the blurring and confusing is intentional but if so I didn't think it worked as she intended.

     

    This was the first book of hers I've read. I will probably read more of her books. I like her sense of characters, the way she created suspense and mystery and overall writing style.

  4. What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

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    Valid points Vondy. I don't disagree with you but just didn't find the faults to be bad enough to stop reading...at least the first book. In fact I was so taken by the world and the characters that I really enjoyed it overall and looked forward to reading the second one. I think I read about three before I decided it just wasn't worth my time and effort to continue. Similarly with Tolkien, I loved the Hobbit and really enjoyed the Fellowship of the Ring but nearly didn't finish the Two Towers. That was a case where I forced myself to finish the book. It probably took me a few months to finish while reading several other entire books in between. Return of the King picked up again and for the most part held my attention.

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