Anyone interested in watching me dip my hand into the molten lead

[james_davis_nicoll]

That is Baxter's Proxima?

Comments

[gareth-wilson.livejournal.com]

I'd like to see that.

[jeffr23.livejournal.com]

What's the literary criticism version of the Liedenfrost effect, anyhow?

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Ironic reading.

Or that thing where the book is so gloriously bad that the badness becomes enjoyable, in the way a movie can be so exquisitely bad it's compelling.

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

It worked for The Eye of Argon.

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

I like the MST3K version of that.

[dsrtao]

A three-sentence review.

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

Go man go!

[awesomeaud.livejournal.com]

If you need something to compare it to, we have an antique typecasting machine with a *real* pot of molten lead. :)

Like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OPiWP12O3A
At about 45 seconds you can see the pot on the right.

[w. dow rieder (from livejournal.com)]

No. While I appreciate your efforts in throwing yourself on bad book grenades so others won't suffer, I already know I won't be reading anything by Baxter.

[ravenskyewalker.livejournal.com]

Please do. Because I was tempted to read it and need to remind myself that I probably shouldn't.

[seawasp]

Your tears are delicious to us.

[thomasyan.livejournal.com]

Just so we are clear: Are you proposing uploading to YouTube your reactions as you read it?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

No,I have a face made for radio.

[lostwanderfound.livejournal.com]

"Tears of a Nicoll: the Podcast".

[chuk-g.livejournal.com]

How bad can it be? Titan was great.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, Titan was the first book I remember reading in decades where I figured partway through that the only way to save this book is to have the protagonist wake up and declare it was all a dream.

[soren roberts (from livejournal.com)]

You read these things so we don't have to. Yes, please.