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pseudorandom name posted:Hatetris isn't an original idea, btw. It was preceded by other versions like Bastet. Qntm also created Absurdle, which is fun for a certain variety of fun.
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A Proper Uppercut posted:Thinking about picking up this illustrated Books of Earthsea for my 12 year old niece- IMHO the HUMONGOUS thing makes it a bug, especially for a 12 year old. They can't stick it in a backpack, can't read it casually, can't really do more than put it on a table and read it like an art piece. It's also not as illustrated as you'd like - very high ratio of text to images - which is fine! But it was a little disappointing when I flipped through it. Now mind you this still might be a great gift - I know 12 year old me would have eagerly taken it to the floor of my bedroom for perusal, but I don't know your niece. I think the safest option is to get her the first book, and then later you can talk to her about it and ask for her next gift if she wants the BRICK.
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Thanks, I'm kind of leaning that it may make it more difficult for her to enjoy it and maybe I'll just get the first book. Barnes and Noble also has a cool hardcover of A Wrinkle in Time so maybe I'll get her that too.
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I own the big Earthsea and it’s beautifully done, everyone should have it, but yeah, it’s definitely not portable.
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A Proper Uppercut posted:Thanks, I'm kind of leaning that it may make it more difficult for her to enjoy it and maybe I'll just get the first book. Barnes and Noble also has a cool hardcover of A Wrinkle in Time so maybe I'll get her that too. This is an excellent decision imo
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Well I went with Wizard of Earthsea, Wrinkle in Time, and the first Prydain book, all stuff I really liked when I was also reading LOTR at her age. I already had the big Earthsea book on order and if she digs the first book I'll probably give her that too, possibly after I do a re-read. A Proper Uppercut fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Sep 30, 2023 |
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A Proper Uppercut posted:Well I went with Wizard of Earthsea, Wrinkle in Time, and the first Prydain book, all stuff I really liked when I was also reading LOTR at her age. This is how you become the cool aunt.
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Foundryside (Founders #1) by Robert Jackson Bennett - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077RG422Z/
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StrixNebulosa posted:This is how you become the cool aunt. And uncle!
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A Proper Uppercut posted:And uncle!  When I was 13 or 14 my uncle gifted me A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge and it blew my mind. I loved the idea of the hive/pack-mind dogs who could trade out bits of themselves, and honestly I would have gone for 10 more books about the Tines, but for some reason Vinge kept wanting to look at humans and leaving the planet and booooo
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A Proper Uppercut posted:Thinking about picking up this illustrated Books of Earthsea for my 12 year old niece-
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Just finished Even Though I Knew the End by C. L. Polk. And it's a lovely little sapphic 40's noir urban fantasy with magic and demons all in less than 200 pages in case anyone needs a satisfying and quick read. Nails the details and the murder thriller beats. Just the right balance of everything.
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I enjoyed Elder Race, short little novella that is sci-fi with part of the story being more fantasy
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Traitor's Blade (Greatcoats #1) by Sebastien de Castell - $0.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TV2K5NC/ If you like swashbucklers, this one is perfect. Not particularly SFF, as I recall. It is alt-universe, absolutely, but no magic.
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A Proper Uppercut posted:Well I went with Wizard of Earthsea, Wrinkle in Time, and the first Prydain book, all stuff I really liked when I was also reading LOTR at her age. The big illustrated book is absurdly well crafted, especially if you're at all interested in books as a physical medium. The paper weight alone is astounding, which is not a sentence I expected to ever write. Here's a picture comparing it with another doorstopper:  The book on the left is Illustrated Earthsea at ~1,000 pages. The book on the right is actually longer at ~1,200 pages, yet is substantially smaller. They did not cheap out honestly I would have died of happiness if I got that as a 12yo. That was about the age I was digging into Harry Potter tombs and I loved enormous books WarpDogs fucked around with this message at 20:50 on Oct 1, 2023 |
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Traitor's Blade (Greatcoats #1) by Sebastien de Castell - $0.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TV2K5NC/ from memory it gets more magical as the series progresses with Gods, demi-gods and saints in the mix. I only read the first three as they came out and really enjoyed them, Dumas meets modern fantasy.
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branedotorg posted:from memory it gets more magical as the series progresses with Gods, demi-gods and saints in the mix. quote:I only read the first three as they came out and really enjoyed them, Dumas meets modern fantasy.
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WarpDogs posted:The big illustrated book is absurdly well crafted, especially if you're at all interested in books as a physical medium. The paper weight alone is astounding, which is not a sentence I expected to ever write. Here's a picture comparing it with another doorstopper: I work in an adjacent industry where we produce paper, board, foam, etc for retailers and having the Earthsea Tome in hand made me go "this thing was loving expensive to make" I had seen shittier paper presented for fountain pens and middle grade mixed media. It really is kinda crazy how hard they went on this book. The drawback is you have to be reading it propped up somehow. If teens are like I was and try to lie in bed and hold the book over them, it's going to confuse them when they drop it.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I read them as they came out and not since, so you're no doubt right. SL Huang I believe is also a stunt performer/choreographer, and her action scenes are (generally) believable even though thy have no business being so.
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WarpDogs posted:digging into Harry Potter tombs This got dark fast.
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branedotorg posted:from memory it gets more magical as the series progresses with Gods, demi-gods and saints in the mix. I've only read the first one but I'm going to have to pick up the other two eventually. pradmer posted:The Compleat Traveller in Black by John Brunner - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00J5X5OM2/ Well worth picking up if you haven't read it, especially if you like Zelazny, Vance, and/or Dunsany. (as you wish, so be it)
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Safely You Deliver by GS was good. gently caress around Reems and find out indeed. I know some folks in thread have a low tolerance for gore. Specifically I remember folks talking about Dungeon Crawler Carl being a little too graphic, which is fair. I think the Commonweal can probably top that though, some of those weed descriptions are absolutely grotesque.
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Remulak posted:SL Huang I believe is also a stunt performer/choreographer, and her action scenes are (generally) believable even though thy have no business being so.
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Bayham Badger posted:I enjoyed Elder Race, short little novella that is sci-fi with part of the story being more fantasy Same. I'd definitely enjoy a continuation too but I don't think it's really set up for that.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:(Looks up author) Holy cow, why haven't I heard of these books? Is The Water Outlaws a good place to start? The Water Outlaws was fun as hell
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Arsenic Lupin posted:(Looks up author) Holy cow, why haven't I heard of these books? Is The Water Outlaws a good place to start?
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Leng posted:The Spear Cuts Through Water is on my TBR and I am kinda shocked it wasn't included given all the critical raves. Just finished this at long last and dear book deities of all the universes, I can't believe this got passed over by all the award noms this year, what the actual gently caress. I'm in awe. Somehow this book pulls off second person framing narrative with two more nested narratives and three timelines all running at once and the prose is also lovely and the way it plays with the concept of the Inverted Theatre and how it represents the stage and performance—it's just bloody brilliant. Thank you everybody who recommended this repeatedly; this is a new favorite.
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Leng posted:Just finished this at long last and dear book deities of all the universes, I can't believe this got passed over by all the award noms this year, what the actual gently caress. Yeah. I read this on my summer vacation and it was very tasty indeed. And it's only the author's second novel? drat.
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Across the Sand (Sand Chronicles #2) by Hugh Howey - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09PGBRYK2/ Machine Learning by Hugh Howey - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MQVT2RA/ In the Shadow of Lightning (Glass Immortals #1) by Brian McClellan - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09C4FTG83/ Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08WLWC6GZ/
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Leng posted:Just finished this at long last and dear book deities of all the universes, I can't believe this got passed over by all the award noms this year, what the actual gently caress.
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anilEhilated posted:Yeah, I've finished it last week and pretty much share the feeling. Can't say I was very invested in the main story, but the presentation is utterly amazing; I love how it gave voices to throwaway characters who only appeared for a couple lines. I love how they tied that to the moon goddess being telepathic as well. But also because every bit player was a person whose descendants were probably in the dream theatre audience.
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There was a book I read a while back that I really enjoyed and was supposed to get a sequel, that I cannot remember the title of. It was about a glorified merchant marine capital starship that was one of four in the galaxy that start getting targeted by unknown attacks. The author really nailed the feeling of a fleet carrier in space.
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Springfield Fatts posted:There was a book I read a while back that I really enjoyed and was supposed to get a sequel, that I cannot remember the title of. It was about a glorified merchant marine capital starship that was one of four in the galaxy that start getting targeted by unknown attacks. The author really nailed the feeling of a fleet carrier in space. It was ARTIFACT SPACE by Miles Cameron
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General Battuta posted:It was ARTIFACT SPACE by Miles Cameron Sequel has been delayed because it was bought (Gollancz), there's some related short stories this year and the direct sequel some time in 2024
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Finished Gideon, which was very good. I don't really have anything to add except I can see why it got so much hype. The only problem I had is there was a short period in the middle where a bunch of characters talked about what was happening in the plot which sort of bogged the book down for a chapter, but that's really a very mild complaint. That and I found the 17 characters indistinguishable but that's a ME thing and I knew who the important ones were so it was fine. The bit at the end of the origins of all the names was very funny and I enjoyed that. Now i'm reading Project Hail Mary, which seems a very light and pleasant page turner. It's different to a lot of things I've read recently.
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Definitely finish the locked tomb series. As far as it's got, anyway, one book still to come. It goes places.
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algebra testes posted:That and I found the 17 characters indistinguishable but that's a ME thing and I knew who the important ones were so it was fine.
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algebra testes posted:Finished Gideon, which was very good. I don't really have anything to add except I can see why it got so much hype. The only problem I had is there was a short period in the middle where a bunch of characters talked about what was happening in the plot which sort of bogged the book down for a chapter, but that's really a very mild complaint. That and I found the 17 characters indistinguishable but that's a ME thing and I knew who the important ones were so it was fine. The bit at the end of the origins of all the names was very funny and I enjoyed that. This is like going to a michelin starred restaurant and following it up with mcdonalds.
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