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pradmer posted:A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin - $2.99 Earthsea is a classic, read it if you haven't. I really liked TBTIF. It's not in her main series, it's a novella about people exploring another star system. As usual with Chambers, it's very character driven with little actual conflict, just challenges for the characters to overcome. Read this one too.
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Dark477 posted:Are you talking about the quantum thief or the quantum magician? Good pick-up, I did mean the magician. Sorry for the confusion.
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pradmer posted:New kindle deals today. I liked it but it is a huge downer (not a surprise seeing as the premise is that the Civil War ended before it began and slavery has survived to modern day.)
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Hey, asked an offsite for book recommendations for a present. Anyone read To Say Nothing of the Dog? It sounds like a good fit and I'd like impressions
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StashAugustine posted:Hey, asked an offsite for book recommendations for a present. Anyone read To Say Nothing of the Dog? It sounds like a good fit and I'd like impressions By Connie Willis? I remember liking it, but I also read it like 10+ years ago so I don't remember what I liked about it.
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Not sure if this got lost, but any thoughts on the Lightbringer series? Looking for some big rear end fantasy books to get into.
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StashAugustine posted:Hey, asked an offsite for book recommendations for a present. Anyone read To Say Nothing of the Dog? It sounds like a good fit and I'd like impressions It is very much a book that your mum who reads Jane Austen will enjoy. It is written like a comedy of manners where the protagonists are time travellers snooping around for an antique.
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Who doesn't read and enjoy Jane Austen?
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To Say Nothing of the Dog is funny and good be with a good audiobook too
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Tokamak posted:It is very much a book that your mum who reads Jane Austen will enjoy. Or Jerome K Jerome : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Men_in_a_Boat
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StashAugustine posted:Hey, asked an offsite for book recommendations for a present. Anyone read To Say Nothing of the Dog? It sounds like a good fit and I'd like impressions It's a lot of fun, as long as you're okay with time travel. (There are basically two kinds of time travel stories: the ones where it's just a plot convenience for getting a character from the future to the past or vice versa, and ones that delve deeper into the mechanics of time travel and play around with time loops, questions of causality, etc. To Say Nothing of the Dog is more the second kind.)
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StashAugustine posted:Hey, asked an offsite for book recommendations for a present. Anyone read To Say Nothing of the Dog? It sounds like a good fit and I'd like impressions It's one of my favorite comfort reads and happens to be a pretty charming romance novel. Be sure and google a picture of the bishop's bird stump. It is a real thing that existed.
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A Proper Uppercut posted:Not sure if this got lost, but any thoughts on the Lightbringer series? Looking for some big rear end fantasy books to get into. I liked them as audiobooks where I could just tune out the annoying parts but not sure if I could stand reading them. The actual "main character" is just annoying, which Weeks tried to make that intentional to start with but even beyond that he's just annoying as all hell and feels overshadowed by other POV characters. The other reason I didn't like it is hard to explain but if you're a stickler for detail and consistency (which, unfortunately, I am) there are several major plot points that get constantly "updated" in the sense of everything you thought you knew via the story before hand was actually a misdirection/not the actual thing and the new state of the world is out of sync with the previous story as written. Best way I can think of as a comparison is imagine The Last Jedi movie and the hyperspace thing. A few similar sort of story changes here, where you can be bothered that it's just changed the rules in ways that make a lot of previous stuff make no sense or you can just take it face value and keep reading. Edit: Other than that it's a decent epic fantasy style series with a common (as in it shows up regularly in the books, not common as in D&D style) magic system, so if you're looking for Sanderson-esque style of magic systems then it's a great alternative. It's also worth pointing out I listened to the Graphic Audio versions, so annoying character (plus a couple others) in an abridged format. Could be much worse if you listen to the normal version. nessin fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Dec 16, 2019 |
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pseudorandom name posted:Who doesn't read and enjoy Jane Austen? Raises hand. She's got a lot to answer for from my teenage years.
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Mr Darcy posted:Raises hand. 
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Old Man's War by John Scalzi - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000SEIK2S/ Rightfully criticized for some of his later books, like the one where he tells the same story twice. This one is still good imo. Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FBJAGO/ Haven't read it yet, but I've seen it much discussed and loved here.
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By the way I appreciate the sales posts in this thread. I don't do ebooks but I share them with my non-goon bookchat and they're all over 'em.
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So I finished Recursion and man, that stays strong all the way through.
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StrixNebulosa posted:By the way I appreciate the sales posts in this thread. I don't do ebooks but I share them with my non-goon bookchat and they're all over 'em. Thanks. Glad I'm not just annoying everyone.
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pradmer posted:Thanks. Glad I'm not just annoying everyone. Nope, I picked up Rage of Dragons Much appreciated.
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pradmer posted:Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge - $2.99
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Just finished The Light of All that Falls, the final book in the Licanius trilogy by James Islington. Overall I think I really liked it, but gently caress me if I wasn't struggling to remember all the terms and events from the previous books. Also not sure how I feel about Aelric (who I'd completely forgotten existed) coming out of nowhere and god mode-ing to destroy the columns and save Wirr, I understand he's going to go more into the backstory there in another book but it felt very deus ex machina-ey. Still good though.
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Just finished Steel Frame and loved it, but then again Pacific Rim is one of my favorite movies so I was definitely the target audience here.
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Richard Morgan (Altered Carbon/Steel Remains et al) is a massive loving terf https://twitter.com/quellist1/status/1207744446340747273 This seems like brainworms given his breakout series essentially said that flesh was mutable and you could switch bodies, and his fantasy series had a hella gay protagonist, but...yeah, apparently the signs have been there for a while, he's just now come out with it to defend jk rowling of all people (whose post basically ignored all of the actual legal reasons why the employee was fired, the court supported that firing, and then the appeal court supported it, all because they were a massive bigot as well). PST fucked around with this message at 03:10 on Dec 20, 2019 |
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gently caress. Thanks for letting me know.
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Well, at least I can save a few bucks down the road now.
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Ah poo poo.
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PST posted:Richard Morgan (Altered Carbon/Steel Remains et al) is a massive loving terf "I'm a feminist, equality for women!" *sees a trans person* "No not that one." Rowling continuing to out herself as a huge pile of poo poo isn't anything new, sadly.
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lmao vandermeer owns, it's nice to see https://twitter.com/jeffvandermeer/status/1207780226228523011 eke out fucked around with this message at 06:11 on Dec 20, 2019 |
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VanderMeer is a solid dude. Also, takes great bird pictures.
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Richard Morgan's big money making book is literally a story about people changing bodies gaaaaaaaaaaah
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Sci-if authors have this extra bone that starts growing and pushing into their brains in their fifties. There is no other explanation
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I mean it's not like the signs of him being a idiot weren't already there, from when he was going around yelling "THE SEX I WRITE IS THE SEX I HAVE" and "YOU CAN'T HANDLE MY DEPICTION OF A BLACK ALPHA MALE" at random review bloggers.
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gently caress's sake Morgan, but at least Jeff's good. Take the plunge! Okay! posted:Sci-if authors have this extra bone that starts growing and pushing into their brains in their fifties. There is no other explanation It may not be a bone, it could be some awful new organ or something.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:gently caress's sake Morgan, but at least Jeff's good. I believe you are referring to the lower horn.
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PST posted:Richard Morgan (Altered Carbon/Steel Remains et al) is a massive loving terf Terfs are some of the dumbest poo poo. I mean even suppose you believe all trans people suffer from some kind of social delusion that just reduces the court cases to something like defending the god-given right to call fat people fat to their face. What has to be wrong with your brain if you don't get this?
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FYI the judge in that employment case loving served her.  quote:The Claimant’s position is that even if a trans woman has a Gender Recognition Certificate, she cannot honestly describe herself as a woman. That belief is not worthy of respect in a democratic society.
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genericnick posted:Terfs are some of the dumbest poo poo. I mean even suppose you believe all trans people suffer from some kind of social delusion that just reduces the court cases to something like defending the god-given right to call fat people fat to their face. What has to be wrong with your brain if you don't get this? I've never seen a terf who wasn't, on some fundamental level, gleefully cruel. It really does come down to "I want to hurt people, I want to make them miserable, and I want to be held above reproach for it because I'm BeInG ScIenTiFic and ReAsOnAbLe"
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