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Larry Parrish posted:i read a LOT of fiction and while there's a lot I can recommend on a general book or web novel I liked level there's not much I can recommend and enjoyed the economic or political detail of. It's a detail a lot of authors phone in, or if it well fleshed out, it's written by a liberal and so is fairly infuriating. The Goblin Emperor is really good, though. Healer's Road is amazing. The Radch novels (ancillary justice, mercy, sword) are top tier. Murderbot Chronicles is ftw and seems to be hilariously critical of capitalism but doesn't really have an answer besides 'why don't we just be nicer'. Good books despite that, though. The culture novels flip flop in my mind between being hilariously critical of liberal interventionism and free love type stuff or a love letter to the same. I can't tell you which is what Banks was going for.
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people say all this good stuff about Malazan but I forced myself through the first book (Gardens of the Moon?) and it was hateful fantasy swill on more or less the same level as Wheel of Time. I do hear that the very next book is a gigantic improvement but I also kept hearing how one of the characters I hated most who talked about himself in the third person all the time was a fan favourite and that seriously put me off lol
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Jun 26, 2021 11:01
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John Charity Spring posted:people say all this good stuff about Malazan but I forced myself through the first book (Gardens of the Moon?) and it was hateful fantasy swill on more or less the same level as Wheel of Time. I do hear that the very next book is a gigantic improvement but I also kept hearing how one of the characters I hated most who talked about himself in the third person all the time was a fan favourite and that seriously put me off lol So couple things: gardens is the worst book and there's a huge quality jump between it and deadhouse gates for two reasons 1) ten year gap between the two bring written 2) gardens was originally a screenplay that never got made Also deadhouse gates is about an army escaping rebellion with no supplies and everyone trying to murder them and it rules, generally speaking. Also kruppe is always just a side character and his entire thing is an act to at least some degree (he does it just to annoy people so they don't realize how big a deal he actually is) I'm plugging away at book 4 now and it's such a difference from where it started. Cannot recommend enough
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Jun 26, 2021 11:20
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Also wheel of time is wayyyyyy more hosed in it's politics than Malazan. Erikson is some strain of leftist and the only people who are outright gross monstrosities are the ruling class, everyone else is like "yeah that dudes weird but he's one of us, whatever" as opposed to the constant gross gender politics of wot
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Jun 26, 2021 11:24
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Josh Christ posted:Also wheel of time is wayyyyyy more hosed in it's politics than Malazan. Erikson is some strain of leftist and the only people who are outright gross monstrosities are the ruling class, everyone else is like "yeah that dudes weird but he's one of us, whatever" as opposed to the constant gross gender politics of wot oh now this I definitely believe, Jordan was a terrible loving person so I'm being unfair calling anything 'hateful' in comparison to Wheel of Time
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Jun 26, 2021 12:15
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I couldn't make it through the first Malazan book so I have no strong opinion. I dropped it to read some other books. They used to be my on old phone and now I can't remember the dang name. The first one is about a soldier who gets a magic sword from a wizard, except it's totally cursed. It owns.
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Jun 26, 2021 12:41
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smashing a hammer into a trash can, demanding everyone read Deadhouse Gates, a book where the happy ending is an entire army being crucified because the world sucks and is unfair and its because the people in power want it to be
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Jun 26, 2021 14:00
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I've been reading the Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archives, and it's pretty good so far. Would recommend.
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Jun 26, 2021 16:16
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ASAPRockySituation posted:tedious megathreads the megathreads in D&D are not tedious because they are megathreads
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Jun 26, 2021 16:35
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StashAugustine posted:Have you read The Traitor Baru Cormorant yet? Its got a similar premise to Goblin Emperor (in this case, a woman from a conquered people enters the imperial bureaucracy to ~change it from the inside~) but is more skeptical of the ability to reform such a system. Baru fuckin kicks rear end. Can't recommend it enough. Also, Dickinson is a goon (GeneralBattuta, IIRC) He also wrote all the good parts of the Destiny series' lore. This isn't really a recommendation for any of the games (unless you and 5 friends have a lot of free time) but if you do play and notice that some of the lore stuff sticks out like a sore thumb because it's actually good and not just more video game writing, that's my boy Seth
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Jun 26, 2021 17:41
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AnimeIsTrash posted:I've been reading the Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archives, and it's pretty good so far. Would recommend.
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Jun 26, 2021 19:58
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John Charity Spring posted:people say all this good stuff about Malazan but I forced myself through the first book (Gardens of the Moon?) and it was hateful fantasy swill on more or less the same level as Wheel of Time. I do hear that the very next book is a gigantic improvement but I also kept hearing how one of the characters I hated most who talked about himself in the third person all the time was a fan favourite and that seriously put me off lol First book is terrible and ganoes is isekai, absolutely. Kruppe reading is tortorous but I appreciate it.
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Xaris posted:Bran-san is my guilty pleasure, Stormlight is a lot of fun. he's actually grown quite a lot as a writer and i think it shows, especially in his newer shorter stories. once you finish that, I'd also throw a rec out there for Brian McClellan's Powder Mage series, it's very bran-san like Nice i'll check them out after. This is how I feel about sanderson as well. I remember reading mistborn a while but getting kind of bored with it. Stormlight archives takes a while to pick up/world build but it's really good once you get slightly invested.
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