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Beeftweeter posted:i understand the sentiment about the writing team ostensibly dragging their feet but i feel like it works for the series. if publick & hammer can make it work on their own schedule then more power to them imo the venture brothers is one of my all time favorite series but I think its time has come, I just hope they do a supplement for the book with season 7 and the movie [which will be published in 2030] qirex fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Apr 20, 2023 |
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Beeftweeter posted:i don't really like that one either. the next episode is pretty good though, a genie makes a guy hitler lol I love the genie hitler one because the guy wanted to be the powerful leader of a country or some poo poo and he got transported to the bunker lmao this is after the genie hosed him over TWICE on his other poorly thought out wishes, so clearly he deserved it
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Fart Sandwiches posted:I love the genie hitler one because the guy wanted to be the powerful leader of a country or some poo poo and he got transported to the bunker lmao this is after the genie hosed him over TWICE on his other poorly thought out wishes, so clearly he deserved it i love that episode but the turn is so obvious lol pretty good moral also, i guess it can be boiled down to "be happy with what you've got and don't try to rely on supernatural things to save you"
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scott and keanu having a fun conversation about keanu's action movies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUcRqFfjJSk
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venture bros is great but the last season or two is kind of a slog, still haven't finished it
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Silver Alicorn posted:I’ve been reading Shards of Earth and it’s good, probably my favorite Tchaikovsky book so far shards? of earth? no shade on the book but that name lmao
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i liked Shards of Earth and just finished the sequel, Eyes of the Void which i was more luke warm on. Its not bad, but it basically ends on a setup for the 3rd book which comes out next month. Whats some other stuff people have been reading recently? Some of the stuff i really liked in the last few years A Memory Called Empire (the sequel was ok) Ninefox Gambit (i liked the sequels too) House of Suns Other Tchaikovsky stuff like Children of Time, Elder Race, and The Expert System's Brother/Champion
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Shaggar posted:A Memory Called Empire (the sequel was ok) have the sequel sitting around, liked memory a lot. been reading through book three of whatever the big ship at the end of the universe trilogy is called. don't think it has the snap of the first two books but still has a bit of the magic
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Shaggar posted:i liked Shards of Earth and just finished the sequel, Eyes of the Void which i was more luke warm on. Its not bad, but it basically ends on a setup for the 3rd book which comes out next month. I've just started Station Eleven, seems good so far. The Shadow of the Torturer - liked this, the sequel less so Red Plenty - OK Spy novels (A Perfect Spy, The Quiet American) - excellent genre imo I think you've already read Ancillary Justice.
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I really didn't like A Memory Called Empire, the disconnect between the scale of the actual plot and characters and my expectations given the genre was something I just couldn't deal with
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distortion park posted:Spy novels (A Perfect Spy, The Quiet American) - excellent genre imo also if you havent read them go ahead and work your way through the classics of the hardboiled detective genre, especially raymond chandler (start with the big sleep) and dashiell hammett (red harvest will knock you on your rear end)
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:have the sequel sitting around, liked memory a lot. the sequel is not bad, i think it just feels rushed and i really liked the first one alot so that kind of impacts expectations. Are you thinking of "The Exiled Fleet"? I think i was gonna try that one but never got around to it. distortion park posted:I've just started Station Eleven, seems good so far. Ancillary Justice was good. I should probably try the sequels.
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Shaggar posted:the sequel is not bad, i think it just feels rushed and i really liked the first one alot so that kind of impacts expectations. "the salvagers" is the trilogy name
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Shaggar posted:Ancillary Justice was good. I should probably try the sequels. teah the whole series is great. there's also another book, Provenance, i think, that takes place in the same universe, also worth reading. all of the murderbot diaries books are excellent and worth reading too imo. most of them are shorter, like, novellas i guess. they're a lot of fun.
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FMguru posted:graham greene and john le carre are a good call. throw in some len deighton too i think i might take a break from scifi and do these cause i saw them recommended elsewhere and just forgot about them. Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:"the salvagers" is the trilogy name cool, putting it on the list Elder Postsman posted:teah the whole series is great. there's also another book, Provenance, i think, that takes place in the same universe, also worth reading. i read the first murderbot and was kinda meh on it. Amazon loving loooooooves to recomend the sequels tho.
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distortion park posted:The Shadow of the Torturer - liked this, the sequel less so I'm wrapping up The Book of the New Sun series (Urth) now actually it's really good. I can't even remember the second one at this point very distinctly as the series kinda jumps all over... IIRC the first one ends kind of on a climax then the second just kinda skips ahead after it and you have no idea whats going on / it's kinda boring? if I'm right then yea as I recall the second book is a little slow but it picks back up eventually and I thought books 3/4/5 just keep getting better.
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Elder Postsman posted:teah the whole series is great. there's also another book, Provenance, i think, that takes place in the same universe, also worth reading. Leckie also has a new book coming out next month, Translation State
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:I’ve been watching Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal, and it is probably one of the best animated shows I’ve watched. I really like how most of the dialog is with facial expressions, and for having no intelligible dialog I’ve teared up multiple times it's really good
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Mr. Crow posted:I'm wrapping up The Book of the New Sun series (Urth) now actually it's really good. I can't even remember the second one at this point very distinctly as the series kinda jumps all over... IIRC the first one ends kind of on a climax then the second just kinda skips ahead after it and you have no idea whats going on / it's kinda boring? if I'm right then yea as I recall the second book is a little slow but it picks back up eventually and I thought books 3/4/5 just keep getting better. gene wolfe's writing kicks rear end
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I enjoyed the ancillary sequels so much less than justice, it's like "here's this huge empire, now all that galactic civil war is going to happen off screen while we have a murder mystery and get real mad about teacups" they're not bad and I enjoy leckie's writing but don't measure up to the scale implied in the first book
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I borrowed "changing seasons" by stephen king and it's weird to read these stories that are much more famous as movies. apt pupil is a whole lot more grim in the original story which is saying a lot because the movie is not exactly a laugh riot. also the entirety of the shawshank redemption was narrated by morgan freeman in my head I've been trying to read more not white dude genre stuff lately, city of brass was good and I've bought the sequel. I also read gideon the ninth and it was pretty entertaining plus the worldbuilding was pretty original qirex fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Apr 20, 2023 |
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re: ancillary series agreed the 2nd and 3rd book could have been condensed into a one-off that happens in the same universe still enjoyed them though also, taking the opportunity to plug The Raven Tower
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Shaggar posted:Ancillary Justice was good. I should probably try the sequels. I didn't love them but that might just have been in comparison to the first, which felt revalatory to read. Mr. Crow posted:I'm wrapping up The Book of the New Sun series (Urth) now actually it's really good. I can't even remember the second one at this point very distinctly as the series kinda jumps all over... IIRC the first one ends kind of on a climax then the second just kinda skips ahead after it and you have no idea whats going on / it's kinda boring? if I'm right then yea as I recall the second book is a little slow but it picks back up eventually and I thought books 3/4/5 just keep getting better. I'm going to keep going just because I think the world building is very cool and I like the style a lot, I just didn't enjoy some of the characters that much. I adore the constant bombardment of half formed ideas.
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I've tried three times to read gideon and have bounced of early every one
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yeah raven tower was cool but man I do not prefer second person fiction
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confession: despite living in maine for most of my life, i have never read a Stephen King book
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read a short story collection of his. skeleton crew is good
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Shaggar posted:confession: despite living in maine for most of my life, i have never read a Stephen King book take it to the confessions thread
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qirex posted:I borrowed "changing seasons" by stephen king and it's weird to read these stories that are much more famous as movies. apt pupil is a whole lot more grim in the original story which is saying a lot because the movie is not exactly a laugh riot. also the entirety of the shawshank redemption was narrated by morgan freeman in my head i liked the fifth season series. they start at like 9.5/10 and finish at a 7 or 8
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read anything by Octavia Butler, an American treasure
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Shaggar posted:i liked Shards of Earth and just finished the sequel, Eyes of the Void which i was more luke warm on. Its not bad, but it basically ends on a setup for the 3rd book which comes out next month. the Kameron Hurley worldbreaker books are excellent, nominally fantasy but not really adopting any fantasy tropes. the first Derek Künsken Quantum Magician book, the sequels much less so. Walter John Wiliams Dread Empire books for good old fashioned space opera.
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:Walter John Wiliams Dread Empire books for good old fashioned space opera.
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:the first Derek Künsken Quantum Magician book, the sequels much less so. i'm going through the most recent one and yeah, the sequels aren't as good but as audiobooks they're easy listening. space political intrigue is fine and all but i prefer the space heist energy in first book more
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Silver Alicorn posted:I’ve been reading Shards of Earth and it’s good, probably my favorite Tchaikovsky book so far I have a love/hate with AT, I absolutely couldn't get away with SHARDS OF EARTH - while the central conceit was OK for your general Space Opera (though it felt like something of a Neal Asher knockoff with ultratech planet-killers) the book felt like it went on and on too long by about half, and the fact that he did the 'Oh no, the Architect, if only I could think hard enough it would go away! <thinks really hard> Ok it has gone' three times? in the book. I was Oh God Please Finish by about three-quarters through. The 'CHILDREN OF ...' Spiders and Octopuses uplift books of his I liked a lot (haven't read the third in the series yet) , DOGS OF WAR is still a must-read, and CAGE OF SOULS that has divisive reviews I really enjoyed.
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also c book s I never read Gibson's 'Blue Ant' books before and I'm enjoying them well enough, though them being so much closer to 'the future' than the Sprawl books are makes a lot of the tech less 'spooky prescience' and more 'extrapolation from WIRED articles he read' - the stuff at the beginning of SPOOK COUNTRY with the VR/GPS Celebrity Deaths art pieces is something I could easily see right now, and for a book written in 2007 its not such a quantum jump in concepts. Still fun reads, though.
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Ancillary Justice relies on a gimmick (which is great); but the sequels can't reuse the same gimmick and they are merely very good. Basically every novel series has this problem -- the first book is outstanding because the author has been refining it for a decade before they convinced a publisher to buy it; but the publisher bought a trilogy and now the author has twelve months to pump out the middle sequel and it can't possibly be as good.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:also c book s I never read Gibson's 'Blue Ant' books before and I'm enjoying them well enough, though them being so much closer to 'the future' than the Sprawl books are makes a lot of the tech less 'spooky prescience' and more 'extrapolation from WIRED articles he read' - the stuff at the beginning of SPOOK COUNTRY with the VR/GPS Celebrity Deaths art pieces is something I could easily see right now, and for a book written in 2007 its not such a quantum jump in concepts. Still fun reads, though. the series is good, but odd. idk exactly how i felt about them by the end. it is as you noted, barely even speculative fiction, coming from gibson
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infernal machines posted:the series is good, but odd. idk exactly how i felt about them by the end. Reading some refs I found this: quote:https://brill.com/display/book/9789004533288/BP000010.xml welp;  Also lol the throwaway line I just read that in PATTERN RECOGNITION the search for the mysterious film footage clip creators that the protagonist Cayce Pollard agonises over not revealing in case it gets twisted by the big money of Bigend's advertising company, the film clips in SPOOK COUNTRY have now been edited to include shoe advertisements in the background; I'm just imagining Cayce going ah lads I've done it now.
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