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Murderbot: did not like Fugitive Telemetry as much as Network Effect. I mean, I liked it, but it was the first Murderbot book that felt like "the next instalment in the continuing adventures of Murderbot", rather than something that was going somewhere. And the cops weren't working for me as a supporting cast. Not enough colour there.pradmer posted:Anthony Ryan So did this guy ever do anything good again, after Blood Song? I remember people hating hard on Queen of Fire.
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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:
I was about to ask the same thing. I don’t remember liking Tower Lord or whatever much but never got the last one for that reason.
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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:So did this guy ever do anything good again, after Blood Song? I remember people hating hard on Queen of Fire. Blood song wasn’t even particularly good, so in a sense it is impressive to go downward from that. Or to put it like this, there was nothing new or interesting in Blood song ie a generic fantasy series. Also finished A memory called empire a couple of days ago. Someone should have told me it was a sci-fi political version of 24h.
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I though it was obvious what was going on in Harrow, though I listened to the excellent audiobook and the voices kind of gave it away.
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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:So did this guy ever do anything good again, after Blood Song? I remember people hating hard on Queen of Fire. He wrote an unrelated trilogy about dragons and trade that I thought was reasonably enjoyable -- quite a different feel from Blood Song. Also he recently write a two book series following up on the Blood Song trilogy. It was better than Queen of Fire but not as good as his first book, I thought.
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packetmantis posted:Harrow was confusing and lovely. Unlike the end of the first book, which was just lovely. We have very different opinions about this and that is okay.
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packetmantis posted:Harrow was confusing and lovely. Unlike the end of the first book, which was just lovely. I'm legitimately confused about why you'd waste your time with Harrow if that's how you felt about Gideon.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Harrow's hanging out with the Necrolord Prime and thinking about her buddy and cavalier, Ortus, who tragically died at the end of the first book. okay what the gently caress this is making me more confused why is ortus ahhhh
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A Proper Uppercut posted:okay what the gently caress this is making me more confused why is ortus ahhhh
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tiniestacorn posted:The Steerswoman by Rosemary Kirstein. If you enjoyed Chambers, I think this'll be right up your alley. Just started reading this and thus far it is extremely my jam.
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Danhenge posted:I'm legitimately confused about why you'd waste your time with Harrow if that's how you felt about Gideon. Because now I'm emotionally invested in this poo poo-rear end series thanks to one loving scene in the first book and I hate it and myself.
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packetmantis posted:Because now I'm emotionally invested in this poo poo-rear end series thanks to one loving scene in the first book and I hate it and myself. You have a great gecko av. Digging that gecko.
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A Proper Uppercut posted:okay what the gently caress this is making me more confused why is ortus ahhhh There are convenient flashback chapters to the events of the first book if you need a reminder.
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Fighting Trousers posted:Just started reading this and thus far it is extremely my jam. Steerswoman is very good indeed and maybe, someday, we'll even get that last book in the series
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Consider Phlebas (Culture #1) by Iain M Banks - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0013TX6FI/
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ToxicFrog posted:Steerswoman is very good indeed and maybe, someday, we'll even get that last book in the series She has parts of the next two books written.
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packetmantis posted:Because now I'm emotionally invested in this poo poo-rear end series thanks to one loving scene in the first book and I hate it and myself. it should have been the hyperpotamus scene in the second book how can you hate anything with that adorable cheerful gecko avatar though, even your hate seems enthusiastic beside it
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pseudorandom name posted:She has parts of the next two books written. That’s been the line for like a decade at this point. Which sucks because they’re some of my absolute favorite books.
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packetmantis posted:Because now I'm emotionally invested in this poo poo-rear end series thanks to one loving scene in the first book and I hate it and myself. Why not just read the wikipedia synopsis or get someone who enjoyed it to describe it to you?
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 Because I'm mentally ill and that doesn't satisfy the compulsion.
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I found Gideon and Harrow fairly fun reads but their success probably helped The Unspoken Name get published because it’s also about lesbians and Necromancers (though this time the lesbians aren’t also the necromancers) and I really enjoyed that book. I’m still mad the top Goodreads review for that book is a 2 star rating from someone who didn’t even finish reading it. 😞
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Ccs posted:I’m still mad the top Goodreads review for that book is a 2 star rating from someone who didn’t even finish reading it. 😞 poo poo, is this the thing that's finally going to get me to make a Goodreads account?
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I am looking for a book, or series of books, but I don't know the titles in english and I don't remember the author's name. It's about 3 planet colonies connected by wormholes, and they were named after the three wise men. There were some strange egg shaped gems on one or all of them. That's it for the premise, other than that I remember that the cast changed between books. I was reading in this thread about self hate and sometimes I wake up in sweats in the middle of the night having no idea if that story went anywhere at all. I think I read two of the books 15++ years ago so they can't be much older than that, and I'm not even sure if it was an english speaking author. There's perks and cons to the library, yeah you'll remember those books forever but you may forget what it was and who the hell wrote it.
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Elijah Snow posted:I am looking for a book, or series of books, but I don't know the titles in english and I don't remember the author's name. It's about 3 planet colonies connected by wormholes, and they were named after the three wise men. There were some strange egg shaped gems on one or all of them. That's it for the premise, other than that I remember that the cast changed between books. A bit of googling suggests that Jack L. Chalker is your man.
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murderbot in a bad mood is one of my favourite things in all of literature. "Balin didn't lift heavy things? Well, gently caress Balin then." made me laugh way harder than it has any right to. I think dollar per enjoyment-unit the murderbot books are the best value things I buy.
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Ccs posted:I found Gideon and Harrow fairly fun reads but their success probably helped The Unspoken Name get published because it’s also about lesbians and Necromancers (though this time the lesbians aren’t also the necromancers) and I really enjoyed that book. I’m still mad the top Goodreads review for that book is a 2 star rating from someone who didn’t even finish reading it. I went and looked the goodreads page up because this made me curious and I have been annoyed by that person's reviews before! I remember they were the top review for Gideon the Ninth before it really blew up, and they were really negative about that too so I was motivated to leave a good review. Their reviews are so overwritten and annoying. quote:The premise of “queer orc assassins and magical intrigue” had me clamoring to read “the Unspoken Name”, but the novel’s offerings left me unmoved, and about a quarter through the story, that initial cheeriness fell from my face, like a person slipping into sleep. Once my mind started to meander and the boredom glazed my eyes and I had to squint the words into focus, every page feeling like a heavy stone lifted with terrible effort and dropped again and again to the ground, I knew I had to call it a DNF (at 67%). Relax with the similes! Anyway, you've pushed The Unspoken Name up my priority list for sure.
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New Super Metis posted:Relax with the similes! Patrick Rothfuss was not a fan, eh?
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Jack Chalker wrote lots of involuntary species body transformation/involuntary gender swap/skeevy sex fiction. Anyone coming across his work in 2021 be triply warned. On my latest readthrough of frankenstein: the modern promethesus earlier this week, I finally made the connection that the discovered in the woods satchel full of books is essentially "woods-porn". Possibly one of the first appearances of "woods-porn" in english fiction. Paradise Lost, one of the books the Creature mentions reading was pretty much the 17th century version of literary porn. And to balance out the creepiness posting, the 1993 paper The Coming Technological Singularity by Vernor Vinge provides Intel Corporation a perfect excuse for their repeated failures IF they have the stones to admit it....."We didn't want to kick off the technological singularity, so we've been loving up shrinking our chipsets on purpose". quantumfoam fucked around with this message at 12:15 on Apr 29, 2021 |
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New Super Metis posted:I went and looked the goodreads page up because this made me curious and I have been annoyed by that person's reviews before! I remember they were the top review for Gideon the Ninth before it really blew up, and they were really negative about that too so I was motivated to leave a good review. Their reviews are so overwritten and annoying. That person's review could be the poster child for frustrated, jealous authors inflicting their terribad prose on actual published writers.
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quantumfoam posted:On my latest readthrough of frankenstein: the modern promethesus earlier this week, I finally made the connection that the discovered in the woods satchel full of books is essentially "woods-porn". Possibly one of the first appearances of "woods-porn" in english fiction. Paradise Lost, one of the books the Creature mentions reading was pretty much the 17th century version of literary porn. I, too, learned to read from woods porn, which is why every other word I say is "gently caress". I'm with Steve King on that scene. Ain't nobody self-teaching literacy with Paradise Lost and The Sorrows of Werther as primers.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Would you like to hear some poetry? Ahem, *clears throat* The last one of those was so, so amazing
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Jedit posted:I, too, learned to read from woods porn, which is why every other word I say is "gently caress". To be fair, the Monster was built using parts (presumably including a brain) from corpses. Arguably a lot of what he "learned" was actually "remembering."
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New Super Metis posted:Anyway, you've pushed The Unspoken Name up my priority list for sure. It's a good book! I have a lot of issues with the broad critiques people make of it, since that review is hardly the only 2 star review. This might contain spoilers so maybe don't read it yet, but for the people who have the biggest critique is probably that Csorwe is underwritten, but she reminded me a lot of Logen from The Blade Itself. Someone who is good at violence and follows along with a wizard's plan because she's at an aimless place in her life and allying to power seems like a good idea. Then she gradually discovers a greater purpose that puts her at odds with her previous benefactor. But everyone complains about how she doesn't have enough feelings, that she needs to be getting in touch with her emotions all the time to be relatable. No one has problems with stoic characters when they're men, why does she need to be reflecting on her feelings when she's trained herself to be a hardened fighter? She does at a few points but apparently that's not enough for these readers. Also people complain that it feels like a trilogy squeezed into one book but that was refreshing, I didn't need 1000 pages of Csorwe skill acquisition or to read about her time with the mercenaries who never play a part in the actual heart of the story. Maybe that's why wannabe-Rothfuss reviewer disliked it, they'd probably have enjoyed 1000 pages of training among some stereotypical tribe where Csorwe can sleep with some ladies and get in touch with her feelings.
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During the initial #DisneyMustPay campaign, SFWA proposed a hypothetical situation based on Disney’s position that they had purchased the rights but not the obligations to Mr. Foster’s work. In this scenario, Company A might sell a property to their sister Company B to get out of paying royalties. This situation is no longer hypothetical. Fox had licensed the comics rights to Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Dark Horse. After Disney purchased Fox, they withdrew those rights from Dark Horse and granted them to Boom! Comics. When one Buffy author contacted Boom! about missing royalties, they were told that “royalties don’t transfer.” Disney is one of the owners of Boom! Comics. lol death to the mouse
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How tf is that legal
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Doctor Jeep posted:How tf is that legal
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