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TheSmilingJackal
Apr 30, 2007

Don't worry, it's a very heavy feather.

Samizdata posted:

Still trying to work out the three testes though,

:eng101: Well you see, unlike the other two, the third testicle produces sperm during sex.

Hope that answers your question without raising any others!

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TheSmilingJackal
Apr 30, 2007

Don't worry, it's a very heavy feather.

Sham bam bamina! posted:

3. This is the least entertaining thing possible to mock the book for or care about at all, you dork. And you wonder why A human heart hates this thread.

Eh, different things will stick out to people as being naggingly wrong with the story telling or prose. OP hates all of the "oct" prefixes, someone else complained about smiling dialog.

For my part, I'm endlessly annoyed that generic classes (ie- human, furlite, monii, etc) are capitalized. I think that because Main Coon is capitalized, she thinks cat is capitalized too.

I also think it is stupid that the child welfare laws of this planet are set up to split the children from the vast majority of their family for no good reason. But that's less quibbling than bad grammar complaints.

But I think this thread has enough room for all of our baffled irritation! Complaints large and small are all welcome! Let your incredulity run free and wild like a shartball in the wind!

TheSmilingJackal
Apr 30, 2007

Don't worry, it's a very heavy feather.

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Elara waited as Shaltra detached the infant from her breast.

Sooooo, not lizards then.

Honestly what was the point of making them dinosaurs if you didn't want any reptilian features?

TheSmilingJackal
Apr 30, 2007

Don't worry, it's a very heavy feather.
I think "failure to understand the basics of evolution" can jump to the top of this book's sins list. Goddamn, reading that hurt.

TheSmilingJackal
Apr 30, 2007

Don't worry, it's a very heavy feather.
They spent their whole childhood together, presumably past the one year old mark for the girl- so even if they didn't creepily bond at birth, they could have creepily bonded at toddlerhood, which is an apparently acceptable bonding age for the freaks. Why did no one figure this poo poo out when the girl had an emotional break down after the separation? If this was a thing that happens? They had years to figure this poo poo out.

Goddamnit the only reason they figured it out now and not before is because the characters are 'on screen' now that the book has started. So loving stupid.

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