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Kestral posted:This is the Watts-est thing, gods bless him.
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pradmer posted:Hard Luck Hank: Screw the Galaxy (#1) by Steven Campbell - Free also it's pretty good
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watts is kind of ruined for me after the last like 6 years of people online posting like the world is ending after every headline. it was a uniquely bleak perspective when i first read blind sight (well, unique to me) and now upon reflection it's almost trite. that could be the fact my brain has basically not developed since i was 14 and i have an emo kid reflex to hate anything popular or ive seen a lot of lol. anyway lol at the email story.
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Larry Parrish posted:watts is kind of ruined for me after the last like 6 years of people online posting like the world is ending after every headline. it was a uniquely bleak perspective when i first read blind sight (well, unique to me) and now upon reflection it's almost trite. that could be the fact my brain has basically not developed since i was 14 and i have an emo kid reflex to hate anything popular or ive seen a lot of lol. Did you read his later stuff? He's always bleak, but it's not like he gets stuck in one particular vision of doom. I found Freeze Frame Revolution pretty neat and really different from Blindsight.
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i read echopraxia and between the two never really cared to look at any of his other stuff
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Someone is about to tell you why you dodged a bullet by not making it to the end of the Rifters books
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Larry Parrish posted:i read echopraxia and between the two never really cared to look at any of his other stuff I didn't particularly enjoy Echopraxia but thought Freeze Frame Revolution was pretty good. It's got some of the good Stephen Baxter quality of events happening across deep time without being quite as flat as Baxter
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Does anyone have any idea what Sarah J. Maas's work is like?
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FPyat posted:Does anyone have any idea what Sarah J. Maas's work is like? My buddy enjoyed the Court of Thorns and Roses stuff. Her prose is mostly decent but I don't have a *lot* of time for those 'falling in love with an rear end in a top hat' style fantasy romances. It's certainly not the worst example of those, though.
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Ended up reading Tommyknockers, then watching the 1993 tv-series miniseries of Tommyknockers, and now want to mix up Tommyknockers and Tommy K's whenever talking about the Tommyknockers now. Only people from the CT-MA-RI area might get the following "Tommyknockers-Tommy K's" joke. "Oh no the aliens are here and they want to rent us videos and give us fake tans!" In between the Tommyknocker marathon I managed to read Nona the Ninth. Liked the Nona bits, loathed the John the "10000+ years isn't enough to hide my butthurt-ness over being publicly wrong on the internet" story universe flashbacks. Would rate Nona the Ninth 7 out of 9 bejeweled skulls because I was drastically misled about how many dogs were going to be in book by the dramatis persona/party invite list.
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FPyat posted:Does anyone have any idea what Sarah J. Maas's work is like? I read the sample chapters for Throne of Glass once (her debut) and was instantly repelled. The prose is readable, maybe even the plot is fine too, but the characters are awful. We had:
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aaaaaaaa just stayed up all night reading Golem and the Jinni, what a great, unique book. Kinda makes me think of A Fine and Private Place in some ways
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idiotsavant posted:aaaaaaaa just stayed up all night reading Golem and the Jinni, what a great, unique book. Kinda makes me think of A Fine and Private Place in some ways I just finished that last week, absolutely loved it.
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FPyat posted:Does anyone have any idea what Sarah J. Maas's work is like? My partner loves these books and relates the storylines to me after she's finished, which is fun. The prose IMO is very bad but the plots are entertaining. ACOTAR is quite a bit better than Throne of Glass, and avoids the worst of the stuff that Leng's criticizing above. My favourite thing about Maas is that, like a gender-flipped version of a creepy 70s sci-fi guy, she wears her fetishes on her sleeve. She clearly has a thing for her heroines being captured, enslaved, humiliated, etc. In Throne of Glass there is a scene where the heroine pees her pants in front of the love interest.
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Sailor Viy posted:My partner loves these books and relates the storylines to me after she's finished, which is fun. The prose IMO is very bad but the plots are entertaining. ACOTAR is quite a bit better than Throne of Glass, and avoids the worst of the stuff that Leng's criticizing above. you post the teaser, but don't quote the scene? hosed up
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Leng posted:I read the sample chapters for Throne of Glass once (her debut) and was instantly repelled. The prose is readable, maybe even the plot is fine too, but the characters are awful. We had: Ngl, I would definitely read more of The Rahelu Review of Books Sailor Viy posted:My partner loves these books and relates the storylines to me after she's finished, which is fun. The prose IMO is very bad but the plots are entertaining. ACOTAR is quite a bit better than Throne of Glass, and avoids the worst of the stuff that Leng's criticizing above. Okay, request to change the thread title to Science Fiction & Fantasy Mega-thread: I wish there were more assassinations and less public pants-wetting. Everyone fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Nov 5, 2022 |
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Sailor Viy posted:My favourite thing about Maas is that, like a gender-flipped version of a creepy 70s sci-fi guy, she wears her fetishes on her sleeve. She clearly has a thing for her heroines being captured, enslaved, humiliated, etc. In Throne of Glass there is a scene where the heroine pees her pants in front of the love interest. So, the 21st-century Sharon Green, then?
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Sailor Viy posted:My partner loves these books and relates the storylines to me after she's finished, which is fun. The prose IMO is very bad but the plots are entertaining. ACOTAR is quite a bit better than Throne of Glass, and avoids the worst of the stuff that Leng's criticizing above. There's a lot I can say for these paragraphs but I'm gonna settle for please don't tell me your favorite parts of anything anymore.
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Larry Parrish posted:There's a lot I can say for these paragraphs but I'm gonna settle for please don't tell me your favorite parts of anything anymore.
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I read through the Throne of glass series. The first one was kind of dreadful basically for the reasons mentioned above. But from then on it continuously got way better to the point that I am a legitimate fan of the series. Some characters (which don't appear a lot in the first book) are quite cool and I like the absurd fantasy politics and leveraging fractions which are relevant later on. I only stuck with the series because a friend was a big fan and urged to give it a bit mire if a chance. And quite frankly they were right. This is one if these genuinely good series which is just not easy to recommend because it starts quite bad. Like how the first season of Parks and Recreation is the worst of the bunch. cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 13:21 on Nov 6, 2022 |
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Professor Shark posted:Yeah, something along these lines, but much longer and more specific. It made me sad but I think it was supposed to be a joke(?). I think that’s an horrific misread of what a new parent really needs to hear (save it for the second kid, we don’t care by then) but very on brand.
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Cicero posted:No need to be a dick dude, especially a passive-aggressive one. I chuckled. 
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Sailor Viy posted:My favourite thing about Maas is that, like a gender-flipped version of a creepy 70s sci-fi guy, she wears her fetishes on her sleeve. She clearly has a thing for her heroines being captured, enslaved, humiliated, etc. In Throne of Glass there is a scene where the heroine pees her pants in front of the love interest. My impression is that she also seems to have a lot of main characters who look quite similar to her + love interests who at least broadly resemble her partner?
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tildes posted:My impression is that she also seems to have a lot of main characters who look quite similar to her + love interests who at least broadly resemble her partner? I wonder if that's a trend and now if Laurel K Hamilton has her own dude harem.
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Hello, SFF thread. This year's TBB Secret Santa is on, and I invite all to participate. What better opportunity to acquaint others with your favorite authors' favorite fetishes?
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tildes posted:My impression is that she also seems to have a lot of main characters who look quite similar to her + love interests who at least broadly resemble her partner? Her partner has wings?
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Sailor Viy posted:Her partner has wings? Ok I now know more specifics about this than feels normal, but eg Court of Thorns and Roses has a blonde blue eyed woman who falls in love w a man with short black hair.
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well, I'm not disputing that there could be a pattern of her fictional love interests resembling her real love interests (I haven't read any Maas so I can't say for certain) but I do have to point out that "man with short black hair" is almost as nonspecific a physical appearance as it is possible to have, and unless there's somehow more to it, I'm not too convinced? "your honour, I draw your attention to the fact that the defendant has four limbs... the exact same number of limbs as the murderer!"
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Reckon this twitter takeover is adding depth and realism to the emperor's character in Nona the Ninth.
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branedotorg posted:Reckon this twitter takeover is adding depth and realism to the emperor's character in Nona the Ninth. It was always completely believable.
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branedotorg posted:Reckon this twitter takeover is adding depth and realism to the emperor's character in Nona the Ninth. Somebody asked why Joe Biden would ever nuke New Zealand in the GIP Current Events thread a week or two back! So naturally I replied "because cows stare at sunsets".
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a computing pun posted:well, I'm not disputing that there could be a pattern of her fictional love interests resembling her real love interests (I haven't read any Maas so I can't say for certain) but I do have to point out that "man with short black hair" is almost as nonspecific a physical appearance as it is possible to have, and unless there's somehow more to it, I'm not too convinced? 1) In the interest of science (and as a non-Maas expert) looking at the pictures on the character page of the wikis for her two big series, it’s a lot more uncommon in those books than irl. 2) yes I see your point, it is kind of a default option, but I think the idea is kind of endearing so I’m choosing to believe.
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branedotorg posted:Reckon this twitter takeover is adding depth and realism to the emperor's character in Nona the Ninth. Not... really? Emperor John seems like a person who has been trying for a very long time to come to grips with a horrible mistake he made way back when all this started. I can't imagine Musk ever accepting that he'd made something as prosaic as a mistake.
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Shards of Earth (Final Architecture #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08HLPZY6X/ Against All Gods (Age of Bronze #1) by Miles Cameron - $0.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09K78SJV3/
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Everyone posted:Not... really? Emperor John seems like a person who has been trying for a very long time to come to grips with a horrible mistake he made way back when all this started. Do you think he really truly believes it was a mistake
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I like John. He's not a good person but he's a great character.
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Evaporating every ocean on earth could not generate a tenth the salt Musk buying twitter has. Not only is he providing continuous chuckles, but also forcing people to look at just how pointless and sad engaging on Twitter discourse is.
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sebmojo posted:Do you think he really truly believes it was a mistake I do. That said, I think John believes that his real mistake was not killing the gently caress out of the rich assholes before they launched. If he had, they'd have been dead and he wouldn't have had eight other Resurrection Beasts on his rear end.
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