[AlbertaCowboy]

Originally Posted by Andy_T

AlbertaCowboy ... that is what I meant - I am sure there are lots of you out there who love it :-)

Spoiler:

I personally found the part a bit too much where they are followed by an invincible stone gargoyle and end up outside a small cabin, fearing death ... and suddenly an old guy with an NRA cap on his head comes out of the cabin, wielding an elephant gun (Winchester 458 magnum), kills off the gargoyle and then says that this should finally prove to his wife that he was right to buy an elephant gun. Well, in most other areas of the world, that would qualify as a "deus-ex-machina" type of rescue, but in Alabama it might be expected ;-)

Best regards,
Andy

Yeah, actually I even found that to be a little on the "deus" side, myself. Although I wish my wife would let me get a .458 :P

Originally Posted by Toxaris

Well, if guns get a better character description than actual characters of the book, something is not quite right. I am not a gun nut at all and couldn't see the difference between all the models named. I didn't even know there were so many different manufacturers.

I do agree to some extent, that the guns get a loving description, while I still don't really have a solid mental picture of Trip, for example. (But man oh man, do I ever want the Abomination).
It can be a bit overwhelming for non gun nuts I guess, but at least Correia doesn't infodump for twelve pages a-la Tom Clancy. It's kind of funny though, I love the gun descriptions and action sequences where the usage is correctly described, and find that it adds to my own enjoyment of the action.

Originally Posted by leanansidhe

106 DAYS!!!

or 3 months and 17 days!

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!