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Absurd Alhazred posted:It isn't making me uncomfortable and tense, it's just boring me. I'm not invested in any of the characters or the setting. if you don't like it, i'm not standing over you mate.
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I am not standing over you either. I am currently climbing into your colon
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General Battuta posted:I am not standing over you either. I am currently climbing into your colon Good! Let me know if you see any polyps, I'm getting to that age.
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Sci-Fi Author Climbed Into My Butt and Discovered I Have Concerning Polyps? is the next Chuck Tingle book
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WarpDogs posted:Sci-Fi Author Climbed Into My Butt and Discovered I Have Concerning Polyps? is the next Chuck Tingle book The proctologist baru, etc
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Sounds more like the latest light novel hit series tbh.
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General Battuta posted:I am not standing over you either. I am currently climbing into your colon If you're only halfway in, it's a semi-colon.
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Jedit posted:If you're only halfway in, it's a semi-colon. Punctuation tip.
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Groke posted:Basically, don't try reading these books when you're going to be sleep-deprived and stressed. I have a 4yo and a full time job, if I follow this advice I'll never reread em.
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Lunsku posted:Sounds more like the latest light novel hit series tbh. 
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LitRPG but it's part City builder / City management about the butthole worms from Futurama
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sebmojo posted:The proctologist baru, etc Silly General Battuta fan-creature that I have become, I would absolutely read, The Proctologist Baru Cormorant.
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Gideon the Ninth (Locked Tomb #1) by Tamsyn Muir - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J6HWLPR/ Kushiel's Dart (Kushiel's Legacy #1) by Jacqueline Carey - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0055DLCAY/ To Hold Up the Sky by Cixin Liu - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082RT6BGG/ Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0879GHMW7/
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Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome is also on sale today https://www.amazon.com/Garth-Marenghis-TerrorTome-Dreamweaver-bestseller-ebook/dp/B0BCVJPPXC/
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Haystack posted:Kaiju Butthole Landscaper That's Cody Goodfellow's All-Monster Action!
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Leng posted:I could not get past the first book of Arcane Ascension because it reads like someone's gamelogs of their text-based MUD play sessions in prose form: God, it really does. Every time the main character looked at their mana watch(?) I can just see the person behind the keyboard typing "score" and looking at their stats and xp tnl. I'm not too surprised to the the series do well on a reddit poll. IIRC the author is the creator of a LitRPG subreddit and a little push can go a long way in those.
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Evil Fluffy posted:God, it really does. Every time the main character looked at their mana watch(?) I can just see the person behind the keyboard typing "score" and looking at their stats and xp tnl. is a mana watch some sort of isekai fitbit
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MockingQuantum posted:is a mana watch some sort of isekai fitbit 
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BetterLekNextTime posted:I can't believe there's no colon in the title. ? The title involves three of them.
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pradmer posted:Kushiel's Dart (Kushiel's Legacy #1) by Jacqueline Carey - $2.99 This book is very good imo
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tiniestacorn posted:This book is very good imo i hadn't heard of her, it seems very heavy on the alt-history and also very heavy on institutional sex and BDSM, not really my thing but the reviews i checked out are all glowing. What genre would you put it in?
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They're all fantasy. Kind of epic fantasy, but without elves and dwarves and stuff. Have a definite "eastern" vibe. If I remember correctly, they're basically extremely elaborate and long “white girl ends up in the sultans harem“ bdsm romance novels.
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On the one hand ugh but on the other hand I really liked that Master assassin's book that was shared here a little bit ago and I want to get the sequel so you know to each their own
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There's I liked the melodramatic bisexual romance and some really good alt-europe high fantasy stuff in there but I checked out in book three where (spoiled for some real nasty sexual violence) she's repeatedly raped by a psycho prince guy with a spiked metal strapon in his hareem Also it's a series where her superpower is being the world's ultimate sub who can perfectly heal from any superfical injury, if that doesn't sound up your alley it's probably best to pass
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thotsky posted:They're all fantasy. Kind of epic fantasy, but without elves and dwarves and stuff. Have a definite "eastern" vibe. If I remember correctly, they're basically extremely elaborate and long “white girl ends up in the sultans harem“ bdsm romance novels. The pseudo-Middle East/harem stuff doesn't come in till the third book, IIRC. It's more alternate world than alt-history; the world is basically our world with names swapped around and different religions, but there's no attempt to stick to a similar historical timeline. As for the story itself, it's mostly spying and palace intrigue with lashings (see what I did there?) of BDSM -- the protagonist is a masochist, so if that's not your sort of thing, look elsewhere. I'd compare it to Holly Black or some of Tanith Lee's work.
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Harold Fjord posted:On the one hand ugh but on the other hand I really liked that Master assassin's book that was shared here a little bit ago and I want to get the sequel so you know to each their own this? https://www.goodreads.com/series/216413-the-fire-sacraments they're great
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thotsky posted:I remember thinking they were very impressive for porn, and in general I am all for more weird sex in genre literature. Yeah, it's basically a book about a really precocious and talented duelist, but instead of violence it's sex, and instead of killing people for political advantage she learns secrets and stuff. There's a big conspiracy and war and (from what I read of the extremely long first book) not very much actual sex writing for the sake of sex writing. I wrote a bunch of complicated feelings about the handling of various sexual mores vs. our own society, but I can't imagine it leading to good posts, anyway I think it is a book that is very substantial and has a lot of power.
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General Battuta posted:Yeah, it's basically a book about a really precocious and talented duelist, but instead of violence it's sex, and instead of killing people for political advantage she learns secrets and stuff. There's a big conspiracy and war and (from what I read of the extremely long first book) not very much actual sex writing for the sake of sex writing. 
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The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke - $4.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002UM5BUU/ The Silo Series Collection: Wool, Shift, Dust, and Silo Stories by Hugh Howey - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B088BBLMGS/ Empire Games (#1) by Charles Stross - $3.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HMMYSOW/ The Book of Koli (Rampart #1) by MR Carey - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07W54MPDZ/ Numbers in the Dark by Italo Calvino - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E9FYU12/ Traitor's Blade (Greatcoats #1) by Sebastien de Castell - $0.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TV2K5NC/ Knight's Shadow (Greatcoats #2) by Sebastien de Castell - $0.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TV1V7SW/ The King Must Die (Theseus #1) by Mary Renault - $3.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DCGJ6UO/
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I do get the impression that the Dune sequels suffer from Star Wars syndrome, where that which first seemed wonderfully enigmatic as a background detail becomes less impressive seen directly.
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pradmer posted:The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke - $4.99 I love this book. Well worth a read.
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One you missed: Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky Book 2) by Rebecca Roanhorse $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0983WDNV5/?coliid=I1LKFONHI2DHDR&colid=30BMWTZBYAZYK&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
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FPyat posted:I do get the impression that the Dune sequels suffer from Star Wars syndrome, where that which first seemed wonderfully enigmatic as a background detail becomes less impressive seen directly. And just wait until you hear about the prequels!
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FPyat posted:I do get the impression that the Dune sequels suffer from Star Wars syndrome, where that which first seemed wonderfully enigmatic as a background detail becomes less impressive seen directly. Somewhat true, but we see the evolution of societies and mores as a constant presence throughout the books (which necessitates exposure into some of that background detail). Herbert also doesn't really pull back the curtain too much on his world as the books go along except in service of the plot (e.g., expanding our view of the Guild as needed for Edric). Of course, this last point doesn't apply to the KJA/failson "sequels" and "prequels." There are, of course, other things to complain about when it comes to the Herbert sequels, like the increasing horniness that permeates them.
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