I was reading some of those reviews, and it seems silly to be judging the books for not showing sufficiently advanced technology. They seemed plenty futuristic to me when I read them. I need to find the Diane Duane books again, I think they're in the garage.

Huh. I had no idea she wrote Trek books. But I think you've just inspired me to put the So You Want to be a Wizard series up next on the to-be-re-read list.

Oh the wizard books! Good stuff. I lost track of them around the eighth book though - eight is too many of most things.

I will leave megan's response as my own. I don't think you are prepared for the WTF.

I'm now three-quarters of the way through [Gone Girl], and holy shit. Unprepared is an understatement.

Yeah, I agree about the wizard series. I enjoy them, but they keep getting more and more complicated. Which is true of her Star Trek books as well.

I'm now three-quarters of the way through [Gone Girl], and holy shit. Unprepared is an understatement.

And yet, the HSQ increases.

Man, I am nearing the end of The Shadowed Sun, and I am having Mark-level reactions to this book.

I told you those books were awesome.

I'm more into the characters in this book (Hanani especially is way more relatable than Ehiru, and I love her). Though both books could use more Sunanda.

Finished Gone Girl. Talk about being unprepared for the ending.

I do think there's a lot of really perceptive stuff about relationships in there, despite the WTF of the plot. But it's not actual Amy who has them, it's Diary Amy -- some of the things she writes early on seem very true when it comes to expectations and what happens the longer you know each other.

I also think Nick's decision to stay with her in the end is completely crazy, but when you look at what they've just been through, it makes a horrible kind of sense. And Nick's realizations about what his life would be like without her are also crazy, but they struck me as really honest, too. Some people love the pain, you know?

I was most impressed with the voices throughout -- Nick and Amy both seemed very real to me, maybe because they admitted to so much ugliness and pettiness and violence?

Also not sure how realistically we're supposed to take it. The whole book is so over the top, I think the end makes perfect sense, as megan said. And I've read/edited enough true crime that it doesn't seem that terribly far-fetched, although Nick and Amy are miles smarter than most of the people in those situations.

I have to read her other books immediately.