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Jedit posted:Lukyanenko requires a bit of death of the author these days as he's cheerleading for Putin. On the other hand, so is anyone else over there who wants to live and keep being published. My general rule of thumb is that I try not to count "publicly supporting a dictator" against people who live within reach of that dictator.
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Khizan posted:My general rule of thumb is that I try not to count "publicly supporting a dictator" against people who live within reach of that dictator. Yeah, I find it harder with Lukyanenko than most because of the Watch series. In the books it's made plain that both fascism and communism were grand projects of the Light. That's not an equation I can see a hard liner making, particularly as communism came first and so by implication had failed before Hitler was allowed to rise.
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Khizan posted:My general rule of thumb is that I try not to count "publicly supporting a dictator" against people who live within reach of that dictator. He's an rear end in a top hat.
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General Battuta posted:MASTER AND COMMANDER BY PATRICK OBRIAN NARRATED BY PATRICK TULL I realize this isn't relevant to anything but I'm finally getting into Tyrant and had a moment where I was literally fist pumping IRL, and the fact that the author of this book I'm very much enjoying is also enjoying what I consider the best thing I've ever read makes me very happy. I would also recommend the Piranesi audiobook. A Proper Uppercut fucked around with this message at 13:19 on Nov 14, 2023 |
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Jedit posted:Yeah, I find it harder with Lukyanenko than most because of the Watch series. In the books it's made plain that both fascism and communism were grand projects of the Light. That's not an equation I can see a hard liner making, particularly as communism came first and so by implication had failed before Hitler was allowed to rise. Never got around to reading this, but what's the argument here? Some equivalent between Communism and National Socialism?
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genericnick posted:Never got around to reading this, but what's the argument here? Some equivalent between Communism and National Socialism? It's not an equivalency in that sense. The Light Others are constantly seeking ways to improve human social structures and set two such plans into motion in the 20th century. Communism is explicitly one of them, and it's at the least very strongly implied that fascism was the other. I think Zabulon actually says it outright, although while he lies surprisingly little for a Great Magician of the Dark - and almost never to Anton - it's not impossible that he was in this instance. It's also hinted at that Olga was turned into a stuffed owl for over 50 years because she interfered with the fascist plan, and she only wasn't destroyed because Gesar intervened.
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Crashbee posted:Also The Case of Death and Honey by Neil Gaiman is my favourite Holmes pastiche. My favourite is probably A Study in Emerald, also by Gaiman. Which also has the distinction of being the best story in Shadows over Baker Street by a wide margin, because it's a Holmes-esque mystery story in a Lovecraft-inspired nightmare world that everyone living in it just accepts as normal, while every other author wrote a Lovecraft-inspired horror/adventure story starring Holmes and Watson.
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Reading Jo Walton's Informal History of the Hugos and it's fascinating to see some opinions described as common that are far out of the realm of what I've seen in discussions of old SF books in my time, namely Double Star being possibly one of Heinlein's best books. Very endearing that as a little girl she thought it was a far-out science fiction conceit for the main character of Have Space Suit-Will Travel to serve soda and milkshakes to people in a drugstore.
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Trampus posted:I think this came up somewhat recently in the thread but I can't find it. Can anyone recommend a really good audible version of a book? I have a credit expiring soon and don't want to waste it. There's that door-loving book.
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thotsky posted:There's that door-loving book. Definitely second the Neverwhere audiobook. Or I guess technically the audio drama with James McAvoy.
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I can confirm for people that Between Two Fires is very damned good indeed.
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Imagining a world where Master Shake has wings.
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"I am not swimming in your birdbath, Carl. I am merely swirling the water about with my fingers, to and fro, like so..."
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FPyat posted:I can confirm for people that Between Two Fires is very damned good indeed. This is where I point out that the only book I've ever found that are remotely like this is Son of the Morning by Mark Alder. SimonChris posted:My favorite Holmes pastiche is Sherduck Holmes vs. Fantomius, the gentleman duck thief. Ah ok, I see why wingfic has fans
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zoux posted:Ah ok, I see why wingfic has fans
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Zore posted:New Murderbot is out, which jumps slightly back to fill in a story between the end of Network Effect and its epilogue.… To double-check if it was a Me Thing I went back and started Network Effect, then finished the whole thing overnight because I couldn’t put it down. It also put a lot of System Collapse into context and probably would have made it better had I reread it first,but IMO means System Collapse didn’t work as a stand-alone novel.
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zoux posted:This is where I point out that the only book I've ever found that are remotely like this is Son of the Morning by Mark Alder. I loved Between Two Fires so reading a couple reviews I bought a copy. The story sounds excellent, I can totally see us brits saying if the french have god on their side, gently caress it! we'll get satan. It's only £3.99 on kindle.
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Trainee PornStar posted:I loved Between Two Fires so reading a couple reviews I bought a copy. It's not as dark as BtF, it's more of a class satire, but basically the premise is "What if all the poo poo that medieval people believed about the divine right of kings was true"
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Trainee PornStar posted:I loved Between Two Fires so reading a couple reviews I bought a copy. Welp, looks like you've got the advantage over US amazon there. It's still $17.99 for the kindle edition for me (I've had it bookmarked for a while hoping for a sale).
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zoux posted:basically the premise is "What if all the poo poo that medieval people believed was true" That's kinda how I took Between Two Fires to be honest. On a side note, BTF reminds me a lot of an old Sean Bean film called Black Death.
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zoux posted:It's not as dark as BtF, it's more of a class satire, but basically the premise is "What if all the poo poo that medieval people believed about the divine right of kings was true"
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anilEhilated posted:It's really fun though, I wish he'd write the third part already. There is a "third" book in the trilogy that I haven't read because it takes place centuries later and is completely different. IDK what his problem is, finish your dang series!
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SimonChris posted:My favorite Holmes pastiche is Sherduck Holmes vs. Fantomius, the gentleman duck thief. Note that "Fantomius" is a pastiche of a different series, Fantômas.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Note that "Fantomius" is a pastiche of a different series, Fantômas. While that is indeed the source of the name, the actual character has more in common with Diabolik, although there are traces of both. Anyway, I'm posting all of the Fantomius comics in the favorite comics thread.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Note that "Fantomius" is a pastiche of a different series, Fantômas. PHANTOM LIIIIIIIIMB he was HERE in this THREAD
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uber_stoat posted:was listening to the Blacktongue Thief audiobook again and got to wondering about if/when we'd see any other stuff in that setting. well whaddaya know... Oh wow I was just looking for any news on the next book a week or two ago, that's great!
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ToxicFrog posted:My favourite is probably A Study in Emerald, also by Gaiman. It was the only one that worked. There would be a certain incongruous humour in Holmes whipping out his pocket Necronomicon and revealing his thorough knowledge of the Mythos, sure, but that just does not work with his character and history, and none of the other authors seemed to get that. Gaiman's story does, perfectly. Though it's just topped by Kim Newman's The Red Planet League for me; Moriarty's hilariously over the top revenge on an astronomer who dissed Dynamics of an Asteroid is too glorious for words. (Don't bother with his other Moriarty stories though; The Hound of the D'Urbervilles sucks.)
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Runcible Cat posted:It was the only one that worked. There would be a certain incongruous humour in Holmes whipping out his pocket Necronomicon and revealing his thorough knowledge of the Mythos, sure, but that just does not work with his character and history, and none of the other authors seemed to get that. Gaiman's story does, perfectly. There really should be more good Lovecraftian Holmes pastiches, especially since Lovecraft was a big fan of Sherlock Holmes and even started a "Providence Detective Agency" when he was thirteen with a couple of his friends from the neighborhood. I just remembered there's All-Consuming Fire, which crosses over both Holmes and Lovecraft with Doctor Who.
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Chairman Capone posted:There really should be more good Lovecraftian Holmes pastiches, especially since Lovecraft was a big fan of Sherlock Holmes and even started a "Providence Detective Agency" when he was thirteen with a couple of his friends from the neighborhood. I think "Scream for Jeeves" had Holmes show up in one of the stories, but it's been a long time since I read it.
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fritz posted:I think "Scream for Jeeves" had Holmes show up in one of the stories, but it's been a long time since I read it. And that just reminds me of the Jeeves/Lovecraft crossover that Alan Moore wrote for one of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen volumes. Looking it up, "What Ho, Gods of the Abyss!" from LOEG: Black Dossier.
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Ninth House (#1) by Leigh Bardugo - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07LF64DZ2/ The Two of Swords: Volume Three by KJ Parker - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06Y5K2CK2/
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SimonChris posted:While that is indeed the source of the name, the actual character has more in common with Diabolik, although there are traces of both.
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pradmer posted:Ninth House (#1) by Leigh Bardugo - $2.99 I'm seeing double here: 12 swords!
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Runcible Cat posted:Though it's just topped by Kim Newman's The Red Planet League for me; Moriarty's hilariously over the top revenge on an astronomer who dissed Dynamics of an Asteroid is too glorious for words. (Don't bother with his other Moriarty stories though; The Hound of the D'Urbervilles sucks.) The Red Planet League is genuinely great, though. e: Actually, The Seven Maledictions is pretty fun as well. anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Nov 16, 2023 |
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pradmer posted:Ninth House (#1) by Leigh Bardugo - $2.99 That first one is also necromancers but not locked tomb; anyone read it?
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It's good, about secret societies at Yale being filled with rich failkids but also having actual magic power and the scholarship kid who gets invited in solely to be exploited because she can see ghosts
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The first one is about how the author went to Yale and the second one is about how did you know that I went to Yale? Actually, I went to Yale. They're weirdly entertaining despite the author wanting you to know she went to Yale. Write what you know, I guess.
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