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Have fun with y'alls class action money. I buy my ebooks through the US Kindle store, maybe got shafted a bit on price fixing, but as an overseas person I'm SOL I guess.
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Who gets money back and who doesn't? I use Amazon US for Kindle books but I live in Australia. Is the settlement only for US people?
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Jun 23, 2016 21:58
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Wow. I ended up with $74
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Jun 23, 2016 23:03
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 Do I win? TBF, I have something like 1400 books I've purchased in my Kindle library.
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Jun 23, 2016 23:20
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Can you guys take this derail to another thread please, this has nothing to do with sci-fi and fantasy specifically.
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Jun 23, 2016 23:23
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less laughter posted:Can you guys take this derail to another thread please, this has nothing to do with sci-fi and fantasy specifically. Somebody didn't get a credit.
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Just phrase your credit in the form of a relevant question, Jeopardy-style. Example: What scifi books should I buy if I have a $140 credit as a result of the price fixing settlement?
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Jun 24, 2016 00:43
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Turdis McWordis posted:Just phrase your credit in the form of a relevant question, Jeopardy-style. a vacuum cleaner
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Jun 24, 2016 00:48
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blue squares posted:a vacuum cleaner I recommend this option.
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Jun 24, 2016 01:01
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$60.98, here. I didn't even realize it was a thing until I saw this thread, so it was probably higher before I bought books earlier today.
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Has anyone read Joe Abercrombie's Sharp Ends? I've been trying to figure out what to start next, and it popped up in my recommendations list on my Kindle. I liked all of his First Law stuff. Also, The Rook was on that recommended list. That's a good one too?
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A Proper Uppercut posted:Has anyone read Joe Abercrombie's Sharp Ends? I've been trying to figure out what to start next, and it popped up in my recommendations list on my Kindle. I liked all of his First Law stuff. There's a Abercrombie thread. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3293685 But yes, it's very good but it's sort of a collection of stories happening around his world. Have you read his standalone stories? I'd finish Sharp Ends last since it touches on various things from his standalone stories. IMO his standalone ones are even better than First Law trilogy. The Heroes is probably one of the best things he wrote but I love Best Served Cold and Red Country almost as much.
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Xaris posted:There's a Abercrombie thread. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3293685 Yea I've read his standalone stuff too. Maybe I'll pick it up!
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WarLocke posted:It's weird when you can watch a writer make notable strides in his quality. A while back I plowed through B. V. Larson's Star Force books because I am a masochist apparently. (Seriously, don't read those books)
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coyo7e posted:I enjoyed the first couple of Undying Mercenaries books before the protagonist became unbearable, but I didn't get far into the first Star Force before I put it down and never intend to read it again. It's basically The Last Starfighter, except with a guy who's old enough to bang chicks and act like an rear end. Call Chuck Tingle to do one where bangs rear end and acts like a chick!
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coyo7e posted:I enjoyed the first couple of Undying Mercenaries books before the protagonist became unbearable, but I didn't get far into the first Star Force before I put it down and never intend to read it again. It's basically The Last Starfighter, except with a guy who's old enough to bang chicks and act like an rear end. I love the part where he wants to actually bang a chick something like 30 minutes after losing his son.
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^^^ Yeah that was about as far as I got. It went from "abducted and trapped in a mysterious spaceship!" to weird-rear end rape fantasy shockingly quicklyGeneral Battuta posted:Call Chuck Tingle to do one where bangs rear end and acts like a chick!
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Ringil's pretty much the manliest man in those books as far as I can recall. I think I've said it before, but I admire Morgan for sticking to his violence-and-pornography guns when he swapped from Kovacs to Ringil. Now there's a writer with principles!
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I just finished Planetfall. Read it based on the praise it got in this thread. I didn't really like it that much. It felt like it wasn't quite sure what it wanted to be and in that process maybe lost focus on what could have made it interesting. There were some things that I felt were just plain wrong I just can't accept that a colony full of scientists would just take Mack's word and never go inside or study one of the most interesting scientific finds ever. I guess if you really read into it you could make the connection that Mack was in charge of recruiting people and in the end just recruited a bunch of religious idiots with fancy degrees or some poo poo, but man that just doesn't quite cut it for me. Especially when you take into account that Suh was actually interested in the science of it. I wish one of two things, either the book had focused on the anxiety and OCD of the main character or had focused on the exploration or science. Obviously my biggest wish would be that the book would have been written in a way where both were explored to some kind of satisfaction, but it felt like one of those times when the author was like "Where do I go from here?" and there really isn't a satisfying resolution to anything.
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Reason posted:I just finished Planetfall. Read it based on the praise it got in this thread. I didn't really like it that much. It felt like it wasn't quite sure what it wanted to be and in that process maybe lost focus on what could have made it interesting. There were some things that I felt were just plain wrong I just can't accept that a colony full of scientists would just take Mack's word and never go inside or study one of the most interesting scientific finds ever. I guess if you really read into it you could make the connection that Mack was in charge of recruiting people and in the end just recruited a bunch of religious idiots with fancy degrees or some poo poo, but man that just doesn't quite cut it for me. Especially when you take into account that Suh was actually interested in the science of it. Yeah, I didn't like it that much either. Although I did find the beginning and setting really interesting, the ending was just too rushed and poorly executed and too much doesn't make sense if you think about it. I really hate it when the protagonists are just dumb (especially if they're supposed to be really smart). Another example in addition to yours. So they assume this other group of colonists all died 20 years ago. Then one guy comes along from the other group and says "yeah, we survived for 20 years, but suddenly everybody died a few months ago and now I'm the only one and came here". And everybody goes "oh, let's just believe everything you say despite us knowing you have a very good reason to be extremely mad at us. It makes perfect sense that your colony, despite surviving for 20 long, suddenly had everybody die except for you. It also makes perfect sense that you only found us after 20 years despite the distance only being a few months travel and you knowing our location. Let's never consider the possibility that your group, who clearly survived for 20 years, might still be around. Nor consider the possibility that your group, who clearly must hate us a lot, might be planning against us. " Normally this wouldn't bother me so much, but Mack is described as having extreme paranoia. He kills one group just for the chance that people might be unhappy if they knew things some people in this group saw. And then he kills the other group so the first group crashing is not as suspsicious. Both these actions did not make any sense to me and did not seem logical choices a normal person would make. So how can somebody that is so paranoid never consider this stranger not telling the truth?
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General Battuta posted:Ringil's pretty much the manliest man in those books as far as I can recall. I think I've said it before, but I admire Morgan for sticking to his violence-and-pornography guns when he swapped from Kovacs to Ringil. Now there's a writer with principles! I might give manliest man to the Dragonbane, but totally agreed on the second part.
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Walh Hara posted:Yeah, I didn't like it that much either. The more I think about it the more frustrating the book becomes too. Like why Does Suh immediately kill herself after finding a dead body? That makes absolutely no sense. She's supposed to be super, super smart, but she sees a dead body and is like whelp thats it all for nothing killing myself on the first trip to this place without any further study of it or the rest of the planet. Ugh such a frustrating book that had some potential. Doorknob Slobber fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Jun 24, 2016 |
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Any of you Chomos reading the Interface Series? Its really very good, irrespective of the "publisher"/medium.
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General Battuta posted:Call Chuck Tingle to do one where bangs rear end and acts like a chick! The Vibrator Baru Ignore-a-oval office?
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Shbobdb posted:Any of you Chomos reading the Interface Series? Its really very good, irrespective of the "publisher"/medium. Yeah it's dope.
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Got the Kindle Unlimited Trial, what should I look into reading on it? The only new scifi/fantasy I have read in the last 4-5 years is The Goblin Emperor, Traitor Baru and working on Declare now.
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I kept going with the Takeshi Kovacs books, finished Broken Angels and now I'm on to the next one. Great books, the universe Morgan created is so cold and scary yet really vivid and cool.
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flosofl posted:
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The Ninth Layer posted:I kept going with the Takeshi Kovacs books, finished Broken Angels and now I'm on to the next one. Great books, the universe Morgan created is so cold and scary yet really vivid and cool. When you're done, immediately pick up his Land Fit For Heroes series. There are some easter eggs in it you will enjoy. Be prepared for kind of a meh ending, but the ride is fun.
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Are all the Amazon credits going out at once? I got about $80 at Kobo, but I have 147 Kindle books; I'd have expected to receive at least a dollar or two, but so far nothing. Maybe it's just a matter of who I bought books from?
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Just read Daniel M Ford's Paladin - Ordination and, while not an incredibly deep story, was a surprisingly enjoyable, feel-good read without being juvenile or YA-ish, since grimdark, realistic, heavy fantasy can get tiring and a lot of the alternatives are YA or self published crap. It reminds me in some ways of the Greatcloaks series in that it's about a (now disgraced) knight in a splintered country of squabbling warlords fighting over scraps of land for decades who don't give the slightest poo poo about the misery decades of warfare cause trying to do good, only unlike Greatcloaks the world doesn't pile a mountain of suffering on him for being a good person. Anyway yeah it's good. Wolpertinger fucked around with this message at 11:18 on Jun 27, 2016 |
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Ninefox Gambit is pretty drat good, if a bit mental after throwing you in at the deep end. Do you end with a good grasp of how this calendrical system works exactly? Coming up to halfway and it's pretty out there.
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i agree with whoever complained about too like the lightning ending with a comma. i get that it's part of a planned series but that's sort of the problem these days, i'm kind of getting sick of seeing INTERESTING HALF OF A BOOK (part 1 of 3 of the overwrought title cycle)
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andrew smash posted:i agree with whoever complained about too like the lightning ending with a comma. i get that it's part of a planned series but that's sort of the problem these days, i'm kind of getting sick of seeing INTERESTING HALF OF A BOOK (part 1 of 3 of the overwrought title cycle) I think they just split the already written book in half, because it was just too big. The second half, Seven Surrenders, is coming out in December - according to John Clute at least.
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I started this novella called The Emperor's Railroad by Guy Haley. It has a dying earth post apocalyptic fantasy type setting in the Southern US, with a Last Gunslinger knight type character helping a mother and her son travel to one of the few civilised places left after their hometown had been wiped out and another shift in power. It's pretty good so far, with an original narrative voice I haven't seen done much in fantasy yet, and also a blend of different setting/worldbuilding elements that come together to give it a unique feel and stand out different than a lot of fantasy for me.
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andrew smash posted:i agree with whoever complained about too like the lightning ending with a comma. i get that it's part of a planned series but that's sort of the problem these days, i'm kind of getting sick of seeing INTERESTING HALF OF A BOOK (part 1 of 3 of the overwrought title cycle) It's a shame because it's been engaging and fairly well-written but this pops out at literally every chapter so far so there better be a story reason for it. I really like how the book plays with the concepts of religion and dealing with the Enlightenment; hell, I'd like its take on gender issues if it didn't feel the need to hammer them into my brain. anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Jun 27, 2016 |
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I finished Baxter&Reynolds' 'The Medusa Chronicles' and that was probably the most disappointing book I've read in a long time, like some terrible relic out of the 1960s. I know Reynolds can do better than this, so I'm going to blame Baxter.
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Without spoilers: there is a reason for it.
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Junkenstein posted:Ninefox Gambit is pretty drat good, if a bit mental after throwing you in at the deep end. Do you end with a good grasp of how this calendrical system works exactly? Coming up to halfway and it's pretty out there. It's a really cool idea -- the dominant social order doesn't want to enforce a religion because it keeps them in power, but also because doing so keeps their technology running. There's also interesting problems when you enter heretic space and have to on-the-fly figure out the specific values of that place and what effects it might have on the functioning of your weapons or exotic abilities. I would love to play a game where this was a mechanic 
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1/3 through the Nightmare Stacks I kind of love it.
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