Quick note on the RPG books

At lunch before work today* I was reading away in the 3rd book in the Drizzzzzzt series. And I caught myself thinking that I was pleasantly surprised, as it looked like Salvatore's writing had gotten a little better. I couldn't quite place my finger on it, but it seemed smoother and I actually was able to summon up a little bit of caring about what happened to the characters.

And then I turned the page and encountered the coquettish female Ranger. *headdesk*



* 1-5 PM at the ref desk, and the #1 question is "I don't understand the instructions to register my computer on the network." Which I don't blame them for, as they're slightly confusing if you haven't done anything more technical than opening Facebook and Word on your computer before.

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Aaaand Gmail tanks (or perhaps just my access to it tanks) as I'm attempting to reply to batwrangler's email. *sigh*

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Entire campvs network down as thousands of students arrive and try to set up email and wireless access! Fun times!

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I invite you, if you dare, to enter and meet the...

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Another small bit...

...in the continuing RPG tie-in novel saga. I'm going to be doing art for the rest of the evening instead of reading this book and thinking about all the skeevy gender and racial politics in the series, but I thought I'd let this part of the book speak for itself:

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