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I vaguely recall not hating a Planescape novel I've read a long time ago. I'm not sure which one it was but it might have been this one. Also, I think you might enjoy Three Parts Dead and The Half-Made World.
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Megazver posted:I vaguely recall not hating a Planescape novel I've read a long time ago. I'm not sure which one it was but it might have been this one.
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I've read Three Parts Dead and The Half Made World. They were both quite good, although not as ontologically pessimistic as Planescape.
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Neurosis posted:Anyone have an opinion on the Deepgate Codex books? I had a recent playthrough of Planescape Torment and I'm looking for something literary in the similar vein that isn't crap. The first one was quite good if very dark at times. The sequels as the poster above said get increasingly disconnected. There are some individually excellent moments (I loved the idea and much of the execution of the Penny Devils) with an interesting cosmology but really book 2 has almost nothing to do with book 1 and book 3 seems to be the end of another trilogy altogether. I didn't regret reading them but equally I'm not sure I'd choose to again. For that Planescape itch have you tried some of the later entries in Moorcock's muliverse?
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Neurosis posted:Anyone have an opinion on the Deepgate Codex books? I had a recent playthrough of Planescape Torment and I'm looking for something literary in the similar vein that isn't crap. Complete and total train wreck, of the kind where the train goes off the rails and careens off thru the wilderness with parts flying out all over until it finally falls over on its side.
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Neurosis posted:Anyone have an opinion on the Deepgate Codex books? I had a recent playthrough of Planescape Torment and I'm looking for something literary in the similar vein that isn't crap. If it's multiverse-type books you're looking for, Vellum by Hal Duncan is either the most ambitious or most pretentious use of that concept depending on how you take to its unusual narrative structure. Probably worth experiencing either way.
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Really liked City of Stairs, how's his other work? Specifically, I'm looking at American Elsewhere and The Troupe.
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Junkenstein posted:Really liked City of Stairs, how's his other work? Specifically, I'm looking at American Elsewhere and The Troupe. I just finished it up the other day myself and was wondering the same. It was definitely a nice self-contained book with excellent world building.
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Wowzer, Foxglove Summer sure does end, huh?
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Neurosis posted:Anyone have an opinion on the Deepgate Codex books? I had a recent playthrough of Planescape Torment and I'm looking for something literary in the similar vein that isn't crap. Completely unrelated but I hope they make an EE of Planescape so I can play it on my iPad. I'm just going through Durlag's Tower in BG and I've stuck with it better than ever before because I can just play it sitting in front of the fireplace instead of needing to be in my office.
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Junkenstein posted:Really liked City of Stairs, how's his other work? Specifically, I'm looking at American Elsewhere and The Troupe. I haven't read anything of his other than Mr. Shivers, but that book was godawful. Definitely stay away from that one. I think it even had its own mock thread here somewhere because it was so bad and that guy is/was a goon. It put such a bad taste in my mouth, I can't bring myself to read anything else by him even though I read an excerpt of City of Stairs and it was not bad.
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:Wowzer, Foxglove Summer sure does end, huh? Yeah it could have used an extra chapter as a summary/wrap-up device since that's kind of a standard for that type of book, still I admire the moxy it takes to just end the book at the plot's resolution and assume the reader was savvy enough to have picked up on everything that happened.
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Lowly posted:I haven't read anything of his other than Mr. Shivers, but that book was godawful. Definitely stay away from that one. I think it even had its own mock thread here somewhere because it was so bad and that guy is/was a goon. His second book, The Company Man, is really pretty good. It's a noirish detective story set in an alt history Seattle where this company has all this weird technology from mysterious origins. I haven't read anything by him other than City of Stairs, and The Company Man isn't like that book at all, but it's definitely a solid read and worth checking out.
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Lowly posted:I haven't read anything of his other than Mr. Shivers, but that book was godawful. Definitely stay away from that one. I think it even had its own mock thread here somewhere because it was so bad and that guy is/was a goon. I remember buying that for my Kindle, never realized City of Stairs was by the same guy. Didn't hate it, but it was largely boring. I haven't seen it mentioned much in this thread, and I don't want to touch it's thread for fear of major spoilers, but I'm really enjoying the audiobook of The Name of the Wind. It's not super duper original and unique or anything, but well written and fun to read. Though the main character might be a bit too perfect.
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Nevvy Z posted:I remember buying that for my Kindle, never realized City of Stairs was by the same guy. Didn't hate it, but it was largely boring. Everyone here loves this book.
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I want to buy a fantasy or scifi ebook for my brother in law for Xmas. Any suggestions? He's a computer geek that likes Discworld, Jim Butcher, Star Wars, Game of Thrones, LOTR, mainstream nerd stuff really. (He did not cry for the EU when Disney executed it.) City of Stairs has a decent following here, would that be a good choice?
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Take a look at the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch. City of Stairs is a decent book but I think it might be a little niche -- it's very social-issues fantasy about religion and colonialism etc.
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It is also really really very good. I agree that it's pretty niche and probably won't appeal to everyone, but its one of those books that does it's niche very well indeed.
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I'll look at Rivers of London, keep the recs coming if anyone else has any.
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HIJK posted:I'll look at Rivers of London, keep the recs coming if anyone else has any. You might want to look at Paul Cornell's London Falling. On its face it sounds a little like Rivers of London (London police dealing with the occult), but it's very different in tone, and also an excellent read. The sequel, The Severed Streets just came out, and was also great.
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HIJK posted:I want to buy a fantasy or scifi ebook for my brother in law for Xmas. Any suggestions? Good Omens
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HIJK posted:I want to buy a fantasy or scifi ebook for my brother in law for Xmas. Any suggestions? The Laundry Files by Charles Stross sound like they might be his catnip.
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Lots of good suggestions guys, thanks!
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McCoy Pauley posted:His second book, The Company Man, is really pretty good. It's a noirish detective story set in an alt history Seattle where this company has all this weird technology from mysterious origins. I haven't read anything by him other than City of Stairs, and The Company Man isn't like that book at all, but it's definitely a solid read and worth checking out. I second that. Company Man was pretty solid.
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LAST ARGUMENT OF KINGS (FIRST LAW) SPOILERS HEREGreyjoyBastard posted:Logen is not exactly a people person. On the other hand, I did just get up to him challenging Bethod for Carleon and Bethod making us realise that the younger Logen/Bloody Nine is basically responsible for all of this and...drat.  The death of Tul Duru Thunderhead loving sucked too. Torrannor posted:I found the wrap-up of the First Law trilogy was handled well. Nearly every story and character arc will be resolved, so you don't need to worry.
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VagueRant posted:LAST ARGUMENT OF KINGS (FIRST LAW) SPOILERS HERE Well, Red Country puts another perspective of him. Saying Logen is a good man is kinda hard to motivate. On the other hand, there are no good people in Abercrombies books, just morally ambiguous ones.
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VagueRant posted:The death of Tul Duru Thunderhead loving sucked too. This one hit me really hard and I still dunno why.
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Grimwall posted:Everyone here loves this book. gently caress off, not everyone does. I thought it was terrible.
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Hedrigall posted:gently caress off, not everyone does. I thought it was terrible. Pretty sure that was meant sarcastically.
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I still didn't get around to reading The Way Into Chaos but the Black Gate review seems very promising.
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Grimwall posted:Everyone here loves this book. The Auri novella has torn apart the Rothfuss thread apart! 
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Snuffman posted:The Auri novella has torn apart the Rothfuss thread apart! I occasionally dip in there, and even before then it seemed to be a lot of words people had written about a series they hate. Like The Bad Thread, but less talk about genitals.
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Megazver posted:I still didn't get around to reading The Way Into Chaos but the Black Gate review seems very promising. Speaking of Connolly's kickstarted books I actually liked A Key, An Egg, An Unfortunate Remark a lot more than the Great Way series, which I thought was kinda mediocre The ending is super deus ex machina and comes from nowhere with little buildup. A Key, An Egg, An Unfortunate Remark is basically a much less grimdark version of his Twenty Palaces series and was pretty good IMO. Piell fucked around with this message at 03:03 on Dec 24, 2014 |
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Talking of which, Radio 4 are currently doing a version of Good Omens
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Wachepti posted:Seconding this. He has read and enjoys Good Omens. 
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Ursus Veritas posted:Yeah it could have used an extra chapter as a summary/wrap-up device since that's kind of a standard for that type of book, still I admire the moxy it takes to just end the book at the plot's resolution and assume the reader was savvy enough to have picked up on everything that happened. Turns out the Waterstones special edition actually had an extra chapter which sounds second-hand like it might be that chapter. Which sucks, moving relevant material into single-supplier special editions is not playing the game well.
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My admittedly second-hand understanding is that it was a chapter set during the drive back to London with Beverly and the child who was raised by the faeries. I'm not going to buy it myself.
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Piell posted:Speaking of Connolly's kickstarted books I actually liked A Key, An Egg, An Unfortunate Remark a lot more than the Great Way series, which I thought was kinda mediocre The ending is super deus ex machina and comes from nowhere with little buildup. A Key, An Egg, An Unfortunate Remark is basically a much less grimdark version of his Twenty Palaces series and was pretty good IMO. Are they basically the same plot over and over again like Twenty Palaces was?
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