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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > General TBB Chat/questions thread - I'm on Earth in 2023.
 
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Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010
 Edit: wrong thread, sorry. :sweatdrop:

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Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010
 Pride & Prejudice & Zombies and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Killer were great books, but I'm feeling a little trepidation about his Seth Grahame-Smith's next book. It will be either amazingly good or horrifyingly bad.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005SCR5R6/ref=pe_174260_23257570_nrn_desc

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They're an iconic part of history's most celebrated birth. But what do we really know about the Three Kings of the Nativity, besides the fact that they followed a star to Bethlehem bearing strange gifts? The Bible has little to say about this enigmatic trio. But leave it to Seth Grahame-Smith, the brilliant and twisted mind behind Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies to take a little mystery, bend a little history, and weave an epic tale.

In Grahame-Smith's telling, the so-called "Three Wise Men" are infamous thieves, led by the dark, murderous Balthazar. After a daring escape from Herod's prison, they stumble upon the famous manger and its newborn king. The last thing Balthazar needs is to be slowed down by young Joseph, Mary and their infant. But when Herod's men begin to slaughter the first born in Judea, he has no choice but to help them escape to Egypt.

It's the beginning of an adventure that will see them fight the last magical creatures of the Old Testament; cross paths with biblical figures like Pontius Pilate and John the Baptist; and finally deliver them to Egypt. It may just be the greatest story never told.

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Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010

Conduit for Sale! posted:

Are you sure?

Ok lets rephrase that. They were extremely enjoyable fun books.

I've read lots of great literature that I appreciated on an intellectual level which I did not particularly enjoy.

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Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010
 This book sounds interesting

https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1212569252982591489

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Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

https://twitter.com/nataliesurely/status/1405960843481726978?s=20

Some of those books are great, especially the biographies.

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Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010

Megazver posted:

I think people's brains worked different back then. We've been rewired by the internet.

I like wordy descriptive books. I love stuff like GRRM's depictions of medieval feasts or RJ detailing the backstory of every random villager from Emonds Field. (Not being ironic.)

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Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010
 https://twitter.com/outspanned/status/1440279968554967057

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