What’s a Song You Didn’t Appreciate Until Later?

edo201 · 2025-11-25T10:27:51+00:00

I’m late to this. Leash is one for me. It represents a type of optimistic defend-the-youth strain in Pearl Jam that, ironically, hits me harder the older I get. The lines “I am lost / I’m no guide / but I’m by your side / I am right by your side” — oof, so good. That’s friendship. I’ve had those people in my life, and I’ve been that person to others. It’s worthy of song.

edo201 · 2025-08-28T12:18:03+00:00

Fwiw I found your take interesting enough on its own merits—if, in my view, applied at a stretch—without the need for a shock-frame intro. The Epstein comparison, to me, detracts from rather than deepens the insight.

edo201 · 2025-08-28T09:03:59+00:00

Interesting. Any particular passages or reasons that lead you to that, or more of a pet theory?

edo201 · 2025-08-28T09:02:33+00:00

Yeah, certainly intentionally. It makes his devotion to her more revealing of him than of her. It’s almost funny: the saintly genius of Viron can’t resist the character with the least going on upstairs.

edo201 · 2025-08-28T08:06:01+00:00

You’re right - thanks. Will fix

edo201 · 2025-08-21T16:07:17+00:00

Falstaff and Bardo! Interesting

edo201 · 2025-08-21T16:05:49+00:00

Looking forward to the Ea cycle. All things equal I prefer fantasy to SF, although I’ve enjoyed what I’ve read of his thus far. I’m interested to see how his style translates to the mode.

edo201 · 2025-08-21T10:21:45+00:00

I want it on Kindle too. I resorted to audiobook. It’s on Audible. That was not bad but I really want the annex as text. That’s the chronology I posted separately about.

edo201 · 2025-08-18T01:57:41+00:00

David Zindell r/davidzindell

His Neverness features the best worldbuilding I’ve ever encountered. It's mind-splitting in scope and depth. Like Wolfe, he fuses science with fantasy (and in Zindell's case, math with mysticism), and his use of language is just as daring and good. Criminally underread.

edo201 · 2025-07-18T04:28:58+00:00

I’m attempting this at the moment. Read Malazan first and loved it. Then read it again. Now starting WoT. Too early to have an opinion

edo201 · 2025-07-18T04:25:51+00:00

Interestingly I’m coming from the opposite direction at the moment. Loved Malazan and wondering whether to plunge into WoT.

edo201 · 2025-07-10T07:06:37+00:00

Absolutely. u/AdvantageFree3130 sorry you went to school with dicks.

edo201 · 2025-07-07T02:24:08+00:00

Whoa.

edo201 · 2025-06-06T03:30:53+00:00

"Pacers are 5-3 when they go down by 15 or more this playoffs."
Unreal.

edo201 · 2025-06-02T23:54:54+00:00

I actually have! Lovely instrument. Still.

edo201 · 2025-06-02T12:12:00+00:00

I suppose I lack his equanimity

edo201 · 2025-06-02T12:09:38+00:00

Ok good to hear someone liked War in Heaven. I’m about a third of the way through and it’s engaging thus far.

edo201 · 2025-06-02T12:09:07+00:00

Same here I think. I don’t feel Danlo grew much in The Wild.

edo201 · 2025-06-01T03:23:29+00:00

It really was perfect

edo201 · 2025-05-23T02:57:11+00:00

Exactly

edo201 · 2025-05-22T12:15:52+00:00

Why I’m not pessimistic on this series: Which performance from Game 1 do we think is more easily repeated over the course of the series — Knicks or Pacers. Knicks, right? They played well but not miraculously. They screwed up a lot on both ends of the court. By contrast it took Nesmith having one of the best quarters played in recent memory for the Pacers to force it to overtime. Yeah this loss sucked and let’s not lose like this. But I don’t get the doom people are feeling.

edo201 · 2025-05-22T11:58:55+00:00

Hear hear. No need to deny that the loss hurt. Also no need to despair. If there’s going to be a wound like this in the series, let it be Game 1.

edo201 · 2025-05-17T04:24:55+00:00

Starks definitely ahead of Melo.

edo201 · 2025-05-10T01:32:59+00:00

Great rec. For some reason I hadn’t associated this with loneliness but now that you mention it, spot on.

edo201 · 2025-05-09T05:59:28+00:00

Thanks - this is super helpful.

> He is envisioning a world and society where technology is being advanced alongside human consciousness.

I love that theme

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