# Any Dopers on Chain Reading? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 13, 2006, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-on-chain-reading/368501 "2006-08-13T00:19:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-on-chain-reading/368501/21 "2006-08-21T22:22:52Z")
[QUOTE=AuntiePam] Me me me. The third book in The Hidden Warrior trilogy is in my TBR. I loved the first two, but I’m not so smitten with this one. I looked at the Chain Reader website, but not thoroughly. Is there a way for readers to communicate with each other directly? That’d make it more worthwhile than just reading reviews. [/QUOTE] Another Flewelling fan. I’ve had Oracle’s Queen for a few weeks now, but I haven’t touched it. The…what?..3 or 4 year wait was way too bloody long, and I find I just don’t care about the characters anymore. I’ve been re-reading Traitor’s Moon at work on my lunch, and the characters are just so much more endearing. Then again, for a lot of people, Lynn Flewelling books go like this: **Come for the gay, stay for the Aurenfaie and gender-bending.** Except, you know, in Oracle’s Queen the whole gender-bending thing becomes a bit irrelevant, and it just becomes a book about a battle for the throne, which isn’t Flewelling’s speciality. She’s an average fantasy writer, it’s just that she isn’t afraid to embrace bisexuality, homosexuality and gender-bending. Well, okay. I also want to smack Ki around because I can’t stand him. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-on-chain-reading/368501/22 "2006-08-22T01:31:49Z")
You don’t like _Ki_? I love Ki! I do understand wanting to smack, though. You are Kushiel, after all. I objected to the fee at librarything, too. I’m cheap, and I need to be very hooked before I’ll pay. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-on-chain-reading/368501/23 "2006-08-22T01:31:47Z")
You don’t like _Ki_? I love Ki! I do understand wanting to smack, though. You are Kushiel, after all. I objected to the fee at librarything, too. I’m cheap, and I need to be very hooked before I’ll pay. ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-on-chain-reading/368501/24 "2006-08-22T20:07:27Z")
[QUOTE=Lissla Lissar] You don’t like _Ki_? I love Ki! I do understand wanting to smack, though. You are Kushiel, after all. I objected to the fee at librarything, too. I’m cheap, and I need to be very hooked before I’ll pay. [/QUOTE] Shhh. I’m harboring a secret hope that Tamir marries her royal cousin instead. Ki is your typical scruffy urchin kid that grows up to wheedle his way into nobility through who he meets. It’s the Aladdin syndrome, and I hate it. Same reason I don’t like Hyacinthe. Yes, _gasp_, I know, people just can’t comprehend the fact there are people who don’t like Hyacinthe. I like him better when he grows up and has to mature due to his role in the books, but the Prince of Travellers schtick ain’t my thing. I want to see a good, epic fantasy series where the main character is already in the line of succession but has to go through some adversity to get on the throne, but without the assistance of some poor commoner who would normally never get a second glance from nobility. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-on-chain-reading/368501/25 "2006-08-22T20:57:54Z")
I just signed up. I’m always looking for recommendations. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-on-chain-reading/368501/26 "2006-08-22T22:54:51Z")
Have you read the _Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn_ trilogy, by Tad Williams? I’m not too keen on Hyacinthe, either. I think I am most devoted to Imriel. **AwSnappity** (you used to be **FireUnderPantsBoobs** years ago, right?), what’s your chainreading name? ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-on-chain-reading/368501/27 "2006-08-22T23:13:48Z")
Lissa: Yep! I’m DumbelinaTheDaft on Chain Reading (if you happen to see that name anywhere else, it’s probably me). ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2006, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-on-chain-reading/368501/28 "2006-09-03T02:25:40Z")
There’s a new neat feature on the site. You can get a special Chain Reading [bookmarklet](http://www.chainreading.com/scripts/get) . Then, if you’re on a site like Amazon and you see a book you like, you can click on the bookmark and it will take you to the book’s page on CR, so you can drop it into your planned reading list. It is supposed to work on any page where the book’s ISBN is displayed. It’s a neat feature for someone like me who is always seeing books to read and never making note of them! It works on Epinions, too. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2006, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-on-chain-reading/368501/29 "2006-09-03T04:39:12Z")
Ooo, this is really neat. I just signed up (under [MsMcKnittington](http://www.chainreading.com/profile/msmcknittington)) and I’m busily adding all my favorite books. Maybe I’ll get around to writing reviews–who knows. I always welcome suggestions, though. Dopers have never failed me before when it comes to book suggestions. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-on-chain-reading/368501/30 "2006-12-25T23:09:52Z")
Has anyone tried to access Chain Reading lately? I’m getting error messages. I’m not web-savvy enough to know if there’s something I can look at to see if it’s gone for good. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2006, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-on-chain-reading/368501/31 "2006-12-26T02:14:58Z")
[QUOTE=jsgoddess] I just joined [chainreading.com](http://chainreading.com), which allows you to track what you read and get reviews and recommendations. Any Dopers on there? I’m [here](http://chainreading.com/profile/juliecarter). Recommendations always received with delight! [/QUOTE] Is this entire thread a whoosh? I get a 404 with the links, and when I enter [www.chainreading.com](http://www.chainreading.com) a 403. Both IE and Firefox give the same result. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-on-chain-reading/368501/32 "2007-02-15T18:06:24Z")
ChainReading is back up, ya’ll. I was clicking through my bookmarks, and voila! She lives. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-on-chain-reading/368501/33 "2007-02-15T18:24:01Z")
[QUOTE=Miss Purl McKnittington] ChainReading is back up, ya’ll. I was clicking through my bookmarks, and voila! She lives. [/QUOTE] Yes, I should have updated this thread. The owner of the site actually came to my blog to explain the absence of the site, after I whined about it. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-on-chain-reading/368501.md?page=1)