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sebmojo posted:Yeah that us cover is pretty good. I'm pretty sure that's why General B decided to title the last book The Ends of Baru Cormorant - so the UK publisher would either have to put the full title on the cover or have people asking why the book was called The Ends Of.
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Jedit posted:I'm pretty sure that's why General B decided to title the last book The Ends of Baru Cormorant - so the UK publisher would either have to put the full title on the cover or have people asking why the book was called The Ends Of. They will just call it "The End".
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RDM posted:Kazuo Ishiguro is an amazing author and he's never going to win a scifi award writing near-future science fiction because nothing explodes and nobody gets murdered, despite probably being the best living near future scifi author. The only LitRPG I've read has been more like LitRPG-lite: Beware of Chicken and Wandering Inn. Or at least it looks at the whole idea in a different way. Kind of got the impression that DCC is also like this.
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Jul 17, 2023 14:34
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The King Must Die (Theseus #1) by Mary Renault - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DCGJ6UO/ The Two of Swords: Volume One by KJ Parker - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06Y5K2CK3/ Solar Lottery by Philip K Dick - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005LVR01K/
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To Kill A Mockingbird Baru Cormorant
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Everyone posted:"The" traitor? I think every character in that series is a traitor to someone/something and it is glorious. 
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Tars Tarkas posted:To Kill A Mockingbird Baru Cormorant I'd be down to read The Maltese Cormorant.
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Finished CJ Cherryh’s The Dreamstone yesterday. It’s the first of her books that I’ve read, and I really enjoyed it. Very flowery language, felt like reading a Celtic myth or something. I also picked up her book Foreigner, and am excited to start in on that.
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Jul 17, 2023 20:37
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I was sent this excerpt from Brian Herbert and Kevin J Andersons new Princess of Dune book. Look I know you guys rag on Andersons writing a lot but I think he’s on to something here.
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Jul 17, 2023 21:08
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Jul 17, 2023 21:13
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Jul 17, 2023 21:42
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Princess-Dune-Brian-Herbert/dp/1250906210 Oh no! 
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Jordan7hm posted:Finished CJ Cherryh’s The Dreamstone yesterday. It’s the first of her books that I’ve read, and I really enjoyed it. Very flowery language, felt like reading a Celtic myth or something. I also picked up her book Foreigner, and am excited to start in on that. Flowery language is not what I’d call typical, but yeah cjc owns. The morgaine trilogy is tense gritty science fantasy with a couple of tormented badasses roaming through doomed worlds, the chanur books are tense gritty hard sci fi with blue collar traders trying to stay ahead of political machinations. They are all fantastic though, you can’t go too far wrong.
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Lightbringer by Pierce Brown comes out next week. I am quite hype given the 4 year gap since Dark Age.
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I cannot tell you how utterly thrilled I am to have the new sci-fi classic Worms-a-Poppin' to look forward to.
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Ccs posted:I was sent this excerpt from Brian Herbert and Kevin J Andersons new Princess of Dune book. Look I know you guys rag on Andersons writing a lot but I think he’s on to something here. seems legit
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Ccs posted:I was sent this excerpt from Brian Herbert and Kevin J Andersons new Princess of Dune book. Look I know you guys rag on Andersons writing a lot but I think he’s on to something here. He’s jus’ a li’l ol’ kid
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Finally finished Zodiac. Honestly pretty good, as Stephenson goes. Fairly tight, moved well. Kicked into sixth gear with a lurch at a certain point. Feels very Snow Crash-y. Wasn’t a billion pages long.
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habeasdorkus posted:Lightbringer by Pierce Brown comes out next week. I am quite hype given the 4 year gap since Dark Age. That series is so good. Book, I think, 3 was a little weak but the next one got back down to business.
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I'm about halfway through rereading Dark Age. God, it's ghastly. Can't stop though - and I should finish just in time for 6.
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habeasdorkus posted:Lightbringer by Pierce Brown comes out next week. I am quite hype given the 4 year gap since Dark Age. I've been needing some more Lyria in my life for a while now.
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Kazzah posted:I'm about halfway through rereading Dark Age. God, it's ghastly. Can't stop though - and I should finish just in time for 6. Lots and lots of awful things happen in that book, and it's told at a breakneck pace so I felt constant anxiety while reading it. And then things kept getting worse!
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how accurate is this:Milkfred E. Moore posted:The first chapter of Red Rising is like: I am the grittiest toughest miner known to man -- a helldiver. I use my helldrill to hellmine Helium-3 as I sip from my drinktube. My frysuit is ironically named because it keeps me from frying. I spit into my helmet that stinks like piss. Here on Mars, the planet that is red, girls get married off at fourteen. Life's just that tough on the red planet but my uncle is weak and my father is dead -- everyone is weak, my hands are worn and my expression grim and the caverns of Mars smell like death. The society killed my wife on our wedding day. I am fourteen years old.
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Fifteen years have passed, and Darrow the helldiver is now, like, getting strapped into a mech suit just before the nuke goes off overhead, and looking into the eyes of the pit crew as they melt against his faceplate
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I just finished Tim Powers' Declare , and holy poo poo I think I have a new favourite book
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yeah it's a great book and i haven't come across anything else that does the occult le carre mash as well
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Ccs posted:I was sent this excerpt from Brian Herbert and Kevin J Andersons new Princess of Dune book. Look I know you guys rag on Andersons writing a lot but I think he’s on to something here. Bold move to release a Dune book written by AI trained entirely on social media posts.
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Matter (Culture #7) by Iain M Banks - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000VMHI98/ The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DHJT92Q/ The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart by Jesse Bullington - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002UGU33Q/ The Once and Future King by TH White - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AEDDSQG/ The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0047Y0FIM/ Exogene (Subterrene War #2) by TC McCarthy - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004RCNGS0/
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Doktor Avalanche posted:how accurate is this: A little bit. The first RR trilogy is very dystopian YA. The second trilogy is more "What if, after the grand triumph in Return of the Jedi our heroes had to actually govern the horrific mess that was the Empire while fighting a slog of a civil war against those parts of the Empire that don't care that Palpatine is dead?"
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I'm conflicted by Red Rising. On one hand, it sounds totally uninteresting to me. On the other, it did make a certain neofascist political blogger I despise write this, so it can't be entirely bad.quote:I remind myself, however, that I’m not the target audience for these books. What does the target audience think? I’m not sure what the demographics of readers of these books are. In general, today, boys don’t read books. At the children’s bookstore where I went the other day, none of the books are directed at boys, none at all. I suppose they are directed at girls, or maybe feminized boys, or maybe at feminizing boys. But I doubt if girls love the endless fight scenes in this trilogy. Maybe young men read this, thinking it’s “based” because there’s a lot of fighting, not realizing that the oozing propaganda is colonizing their minds (something also true of every action movie nowadays). Somebody must like these books; on Amazon, Red Rising has 47,951 reviews (not including mine; the court in my lawsuit against Amazon for deplatforming me has ignored my case for more than six months now). Brown has talked about how he writes for “outsiders,” naming specifically homosexuals and [slur]; maybe his readers are all the supposedly sexually-fluid Gen-Z types, who like to imagine that a real Space Rome would allow them to be heroes while still catering to their mental illness. Maybe it’s older lonely women, Karens and wine aunts, who want to imagine themselves as girlboss warriors; at least some of the reviews on Amazon seem to come from such people. Beats me.
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I simply cannot understand what universe these freakos come from, like they all somehow spontaneously budded from a forgotten 50s sitcom or something. "These books can't be for boys because boys don't read books (and I know from hunting down children at bookstores) but they can't be for girls because girls hate action and fights! Based! Girlboss! Homosexual propaganda!" also big lmao at (not including mine; the court in my lawsuit against Amazon for deplatforming me has ignored my case for more than six months now)
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FPyat posted:I'm conflicted by Red Rising. On one hand, it sounds totally uninteresting to me. On the other, it did make a certain neofascist political blogger I despise write this, so it can't be entirely bad. .. . .wait, does he think there weren't any homosexuals in Ancient Rome? because rofls anyway yeah that's a hell of a pitch to get me to buy it why were you reading that kind of shithead's blog
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:.. . .wait, does he think there weren't any homosexuals in Ancient Rome? because rofls "Education" (good to know what shitheads are thinking in their poo poo filled heads) and amusement?
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Everyone posted:(good to know what shitheads are thinking in their poo poo filled heads)
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Many different amazons state they do not like or want me reviewing.
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Red rising was fine but "I have been cruelly betrayed by my closest friends" loses some of the impact when it happens every 50 pages.
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