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I too contemplate my non-descript body in the mornings before I boobily go off to do something (whilst wistfully remembering how much firmer they were when I was young as they flap around my hips.... or something) Actually thank you for posting this snippet because I'm not going to read it now. Not because it mortally offends me, but there is so much to read and avoiding dumb like this is helpful. Edit: Well gently caress. Welcome to the top of this page!
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Starting at the top just means you can boob breastily down to the bottom.
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Creating realistic descriptions of characters using a third person viewpoint is really turgid, he thinks, as he gazes at his slightly protruding “dad bod” in the mirror. A few days in the gym and he could be a few steps up on the competition at the night club scene, he smirks, as he flexes his abs, and turns sideways, squinting critically. Maybe do some squats and work on that rear end more, he reflects, as he gives himself a quick slap to check for firmness.
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Mar 23, 2021 15:33
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Leng posted:
Hey cool I've read those first 3 and they're (mostly) great. I had a few issues with how City of Stairs ended.
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Mar 23, 2021 15:41
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Velius posted:Creating realistic descriptions of characters using a third person viewpoint is really turgid, he thinks, as he gazes at his slightly protruding “dad bod” in the mirror. A few days in the gym and he could be a few steps up on the competition at the night club scene, he smirks, as he flexes his abs, and turns sideways, squinting critically. Maybe do some squats and work on that rear end more, he reflects, as he gives himself a quick slap to check for firmness. Please don’t post my internal monologue
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Mar 23, 2021 15:43
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ClydeFrog posted:I too contemplate my non-descript body in the mornings before I boobily go off to do something (whilst wistfully remembering how much firmer they were when I was young as they flap around my hips.... or something) I remember last time the book went on sale (or got recommended), I bought it, then like an hour later somebody posted that blurb and I deleted it off my Kindle
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Mar 23, 2021 15:44
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As my pace quickened, I was keenly aware of my shaft brushing up against my testicles, bobbing and bouncing beneath my loose fitting briefs. Finished Borne last night and wow I loved it. I was laughing a lot during the dialogue with Borne growing up and the author saying it was inspired by his kid/grandkid and cat makes a lot of sense. Very playful and silly even as it gets more and more suspicious and sinister
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Velius posted:Creating realistic descriptions of characters using a third person viewpoint is really turgid, he thinks, as he gazes at his slightly protruding “dad bod” in the mirror. A few days in the gym and he could be a few steps up on the competition at the night club scene, he smirks, as he flexes his abs, and turns sideways, squinting critically. Maybe do some squats and work on that rear end more, he reflects, as he gives himself a quick slap to check for firmness. Are you surveilling me??
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ClydeFrog posted:I too contemplate my non-descript body in the mornings before I boobily go off to do something (whilst wistfully remembering how much firmer they were when I was young as they flap around my hips.... or something) There's a bit of excuse here - this is someone whose memory has been erased and is essentially seeing her own body for the first time. I'd still recommend The Rook to people, though not the Starz miniseries which didn't seem to know what to do with the story.
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poo poo Borne is $2.99 now on us kindle.
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Hobnob posted:There's a bit of excuse here - this is someone whose memory has been erased and is essentially seeing her own body for the first time. I'd still recommend The Rook to people, though not the Starz miniseries which didn't seem to know what to do with the story. It's a shame she does it through the lens of her attractiveness rather than thinking how strong she might appear or how tough she is to have withstood whatever has happened (two black eyes but I could be cute with makeup ...) but I take your point as to what the author was trying to swing for. Thank you other posters on this page for making me chortle mightily.
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Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GD46PQZ/ Eden by Stanislaw Lem - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008533D44/ The Soldier Son Trilogy by Robin Hobb - $3.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007Z4SH5O/ The Rage of Dragons (The Burning #1) by Evan Winter - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07L2VKFP5/ Halting State series by Charles Stross - $4.99 each Halting State - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000W9180A/ Rule 34 - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004Y3I6XW/ The Last Policeman series by Ben H Winters - $1.99 each The Last Policeman - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0076Q1GW2/ Countdown City - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B6OV90E/ World of Trouble - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HXYHVNU/
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cptn_dr posted:Currently working my way through the Nebula novellas shortlist, just finished FINNA by Nino Cipri. Brisk, fun read about a couple of minimum wage workers forced to go through a wormhole that opened up in Not-IKEA to try and rescue a lost elderly customer. Nice balance of humour, swashbuckling, and saying "gently caress you, capitalism". Speaking of Not-IKEAs, I just finished Horrorstor, which as the title implies is more suited to the horror thread, where I put my small review. It's fun enough if somone is looking for a quick read about a haunted not-IKEA. The phyisical format is a bit quirky, bot nothing worth paying extra for. https://www.amazon.com/-/es/gp/product/B00JCRXBSU/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i2
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Weird, that makes 2 books I've seen this year about weird poo poo happening in a not-ikea. 3 if you count the section of Unfiction by Gene Doucette. Not a topic I'd have imagined would be popular.
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ClydeFrog posted:Wow I really fell down the SCP wiki rabbit hole. Google for the "scp to epub" GitHub site, they have tons of converted stories/entries with high-quality formatting.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Weird, that makes 2 books I've seen this year about weird poo poo happening in a not-ikea. 3 if you count the section of Unfiction by Gene Doucette. China Mieville has a short horror story, The Ball Room, set in an Ikea. It's in the Looking For Jake collection.
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Horrorstor takes place in a shop called Orsk, that's referred to as a "cheaper alternative to IKEA" in the book itself. Finna takes place in a "big box furniture store". They literally take place ina shop inspired by IKEA. Particularly by the disorienting and labyrinthic nature of those stores.
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Come to think of it, I haven't had those Swedish meatballs in years.
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I don't really get the horror angle because ikea is like a fuckin magical fairlyland adventure compared to wandering around a run-down walmart, hoping to find what you need at the back of a bare shelf or piled on the floor
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Clark Nova posted:I don't really get the horror angle because ikea is like a fuckin magical fairlyland adventure compared to wandering around a run-down walmart, hoping to find what you need at the back of a bare shelf or piled on the floor you could have written a horror story about the K-Mart in my old town without embellishing any descriptions
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quote:For those who haven’t seen this news, I wanted to alert you that the Tor Books ebook version of Unconquerable Sun is on sale for $2.99 through March 28, 2021 (Sunday). USA/Canada region only. https://www.amazon.com/Unconquerable-Sun-Kate-Elliott-ebook/dp/B07WPNFXN6/?_encoding=UTF8&&sr= https://books.apple.com/us/book/unconquerable-sun/id1481079184 https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unconquerable-sun-kate-elliott/1133175475?ean=9781250197252 https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/unconquerable-sun https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/book/detail/209770287/ https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250197252
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Fair enough. In other news, I'm 2/3 of the way through Harrow the Ninth's audiobook and the fact that the narrator uses the same voice for the second person sections as she did for Gideon in the first book makes it pretty clear what's going on. I wonder of reading it on the page maintains the mystery longer? jng2058 fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Mar 24, 2021 |
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Eh just responding to the Ikea chat, but edited out
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jng2058 posted:Fair enough. Not much longer. the things she says are so clearly her sometimes
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I've been working night shift for the last few months and I've been using this thread for book recommendations. So far I've read Book of the New Sun, the Quantum Thief trilogy, Between two Fires, Ninefox Gambit, Lord of Light, the first two Baru books, and I'm about to start Aurora. I've adored every single one of these books, so just wanted to say thanks! And seconding the love for Borne, such a great, sad story.
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HampHamp posted:I've been working night shift for the last few months and I've been using this thread for book recommendations. So far I've read Book of the New Sun, the Quantum Thief trilogy, Between two Fires, Ninefox Gambit, Lord of Light, the first two Baru books, and I'm about to start Aurora. I've adored every single one of these books, so just wanted to say thanks! Hell same, I've been stealing book suggestions from this thread for years.
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Poldarn posted:Hell same, I've been stealing book suggestions from this thread for years. When I worked at the library, I regularly used this thread for read-alikes when people asked me for good sff books.
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Poldarn posted:Hell same, I've been stealing book suggestions from this thread for years. Yeah like 2/3rds of my kindle library is poo poo that got posted in here at some point
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As previously mentioned, I just recently finished Borne and I really did like it, but I think my main complaint is that the depiction of collapsed society under siege from external forces is not really what was seen in the siege of Sarajevo, where, my vague understanding, is that people actually banded together despite the constant threat of violence from snipers or artillery or attack. even with the constant forays into the city we didn't really get a sense of society continuing beyond the faction of the magician and Wick's dealings with contacts. Rachel never seems to come in contact with any groups of people, partially because she actively avoids them and is in competition with them, but there have to be other groups out there, civilians just surviving. I might be wrong about the world they're living in because I just started strange bird, so we'll see.
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cptn_dr posted:Currently working my way through the Nebula novellas shortlist, just finished FINNA by Nino Cipri. Brisk, fun read about a couple of minimum wage workers forced to go through a wormhole that opened up in Not-IKEA to try and rescue a lost elderly customer. Nice balance of humour, swashbuckling, and saying "gently caress you, capitalism". Just finished Finna. Really, it's more of a short story than even a novella. The kindle is 4 bucks, so it's about fair? I wanted to keep the "weird IKEA" train going after Horrorstor. This one is much lighter. I'd say it's a 3/5. I can't bring myself to recommend it because there's nothing outsanding in it, everything is just nice. If you are desperate for a queer fantasy romance then sure.
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How is CL Polk’s stuff if you’re not into romance novels per se? They seem to keep getting nebula nominations so I feel like I should check them out, but am not sure if I’d be into it (or if I’m even at all right that it’s romance novel adjacent to begin with). And is Witchmark or Midnight Bargain the better place to start?
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jng2058 posted:Come to think of it, I haven't had those Swedish meatballs in years. IKEA is the unofficial
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I started Unconquerable Sun but the first 50 pages are just characters reeling off massive, dense exposition dumps. Does it get any better? This is the worst job of “show don’t tell” that I’ve seen in a while. Edit: it’s even more jarring coming off after Two of Swords where you are deliberately told almost nothing until the very end. withak fucked around with this message at 07:22 on Mar 25, 2021 |
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withak posted:I started Unconquerable Sun but the first 50 pages are just characters reeling off massive, dense exposition dumps. Does it get any better? This is the worst job of “show don’t tell” that I’ve seen in a while. That’s the one where the college students make up their own religion right? edit: no that’s the Sun and I
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pradmer posted:The Last Policeman series by Ben H Winters - $1.99 each If Winters' publisher is going to keep putting these on sale, I'm going to keep recommending them: these books are really good and you should read them.
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Just read The Stars are Legion based on thread comments. That was a ride and not the one I was expecting. It felt like it was two slightly different stories jammed together but in an interesting way, by which I mean both the intership intrigue and the intraship travelogue felt a little bit more developed than I expected. The 'twist' felt pretty obvious but not annoyingly so, after the first chapter it stopped being about who Zan was and more about enjoying the journey to me. I found the ending a tiny bit of a letdown and after sleeping on it I think it's because the world building kind of just stopped so there could be an ending. It felt like I was seeing/learning about something new and wondrous/horrific/bizarre every chapter then the finale was rather prosaic in comparison. I very much appreciated the author resisting the urge to explain everything, must have been a great temptation to reveal the origins of the Legion etc. Overall definitely worth the read and about the right level of complexity for my tired brain on a few days off work.
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