Originally Unintended 

I was about to do aVibi. Pulled myself together in time, thank carrot. Immensely satisfying as it might have been, I called the guy an idiot (which he is) for doing it. But, oh, the temptation...

On another note... I've finished reading David Weber's eleventh Honor Harrington book, At All Costs. I... Am not quite sure what to say about it. To write 11+ books featuring the same characters in the same universe, and still be able to keep the plot interesting is no mean achievement. I mean, look what happened to Robert Jordan - he barely managed five. But I have a feeling he can't keep up with the character development any more, he seems to be repeating the same descriptions, the same dialogues, again and again. Maybe because those are, after all, those same characters he's writing, but it's starting to feel stale. Even his excellent space combat model is becoming old and dry. Maybe because it has grown in scale enormously. Or maybe because the precise counts of ammunition fired and detailed descriptions of the resulting damage just aren't worth reading unless one wants to make diagrams out of them. I'm starting to hope he'll wrap it up in the next book, because the end of this one definitely has 'sequel coming' written all over it.

Now I'm wondering if it would be better to read the first three Song of Fire and Ice books before starting with the Feast for Crows...