lol, I'd believe it.

Mine comes Monday!

I just started The Spear Cuts Through Water last night, which is one I've heard a LOT of praise for.

It's got a frame story inside a frame story and seems to have a fun time playing with the narration and POV. The "primary" story is written in third person narration, but it frequently and randomly throws in miniature first person POVs of minor characters (or groups of characters) -- sometimes mid-paragraph, indicated by italics. So you're just reading along and suddenly there's a few words or a whole paragraph in first person (in italics) from some bystander who was previously mentioned.

It's unique in a really fun way. :) Excited to see where it goes.

The prologue in Redshirts was hilarious though the rest of the book didn't particularly wow me. I think I'm just not a big Scalzi fan because Old Man's War was also just kind of "okay" for me. It's amusing when it plays with tropes, but I think I just didn't particularly like the characters.

I remember the Codas being a really fun treat though. (Part of that is maybe the way they were so experimental, and at the time I read it I didn't have a lot of experience with something like them.)

Hang on to that declaration at least until October ;)