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sebmojo posted:It's not a problem from a mod perspective. I'm glad to have an admin take on this. Early on some folks got upset because they thought Pradmer was spamming affiliate links. That these posts have grown in the esteem of the thread to the point that folks are clamoring for them to be affiliate links lol but it's been an organic process so I don't have a problem with it. (I can't use them of course since I can't buy Kindle editions from dot com) What I would have a problem with is if the thread became a battle ground of competing affiliate links.
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If there are going to be affiliate links then I will have quality expectations. If I'm not happy with my purchase then someone needs to make it right.
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FWIW I think Pradmer should have sole rights (so long as they want to do it) to post affiliate links in this thread, given they've been doing it for so long. I don't want to see this thread devolve into a bunch of people posting competing links.
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I never set out to gain anything and I'm already up a free avatar (which I still love, thanks Bilirubin!). Appreciate all the well wishes but I still think affiliate link stuff is kind of lame. I'm doing just fine without them. I can only imagine the general vitriol if I tried to branch out to twitter about promoting the wrong books or not mentioning whatever the new hot social media buzz is.
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pradmer posted:I never set out to gain anything and I'm already up a free avatar (which I still love, thanks Bilirubin!). Appreciate all the well wishes but I still think affiliate link stuff is kind of lame. I'm doing just fine without them. I can only imagine the general vitriol if I tried to branch out to twitter about promoting the wrong books or not mentioning whatever the new hot social media buzz is. Dude I always assumed you were gettin paid, I never even checked Don't work for free! never work for free! That's how they get ya!
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Dude I always assumed you were gettin paid, I never even checked Hey man, I even paid to work here.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Dude I always assumed you were gettin paid, I never even checked Joker said it himself: “If you are good at something, never do it for free.” Go get paid Pradmer
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Does Amazon still let you do affiliate links to a charity? Maybe do that, if an option.
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Book 4 is actually in first person.
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I just finished Blindsight. Extremely good book, but gently caress, what a bleak ending.
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nemesis_hub posted:I just finished reading Peter F. Hamilton's The Reality Dysfunction. I didn't think it was very good. I was looking for a popcorn space opera and this was....sort of that? But the execution was all hosed up. If you haven't got to the space ghost of Al Capone yet then you're still reading the best bits. Put it down, walk away, don't think about how hot PFH thinks the 16 year olds are
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Zorak of Michigan posted:WJW is one of my favorite authors. His Dread Empire's Fall series is space opera. He wrote those at the same time he wrote the Quillifer books, which are fantasy political comedy, or satire, or something like that. He's written in a great many genres, usually successfully. Agreed, have a huge soft spot for WJW, the only ones I'd avoid would be Arostoi (great idea, just didn't land for me) and the Drake Maijstral books, a sort of Wodehouse in space about an upper class space cat burgler
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fritz posted:Book 4 Yeah, there's one line in one chapter that implies that it's actually narrated by the Shape of Peace, but in practice this doesn't affect any other part of the book, especially given that the other parts featuring the Shape of Peace are narrated in third person like the rest, presumably because it's a different aspect of the Shape or something.
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Geisladisk posted:I just finished Blindsight. Extremely good book, but gently caress, what a bleak ending. The sequel might cheer you up We're going on an adventure!
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Children of Memory (Children of Time Book 3) by Adrian Tchaikovsky - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09ZTW4J6V/ This trilogy surely went places.
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branedotorg posted:Agreed, have a huge soft spot for WJW, the only ones I'd avoid would be Arostoi (great idea, just didn't land for me) and the Drake Maijstral books, a sort of Wodehouse in space about an upper class space cat burgler I have friends who think Aristoi is his best book! I also found the Maijstral books hilarious, but they are definitely in a different vein than his other work. For me, the two to avoid are The Rift and Days of Atonement. The Rift is his attempt to write an airport thriller, DofA is a police procedural that the protagonist discovers is also science fiction, and neither one landed for me. It felt like he was laboring to write, not enjoying the work.
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ringu0 posted:Children of Memory (Children of Time Book 3) by Adrian Tchaikovsky - $2.99 Places such as on an adventure.
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Zorak of Michigan posted:I have friends who think Aristoi is his best book! I also found the Maijstral books hilarious, but they are definitely in a different vein than his other work. For me, the two to avoid are The Rift and Days of Atonement. The Rift is his attempt to write an airport thriller, DofA is a police procedural that the protagonist discovers is also science fiction, and neither one landed for me. It felt like he was laboring to write, not enjoying the work. What's dofa?
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General Battuta posted:What's dofa? Dofa deez nuts it’s Days of Atonement
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Groke posted:I'm just 2% into Exordia. This is going to be a weird loving ride, isn't it?
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:Dofa deez nuts Thank you for doing the needful.
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Groke posted:I'm just 2% into Exordia. This is going to be a weird loving ride, isn't it? huh I just hit about that too I almost feel like everyone's wrong, it's not that more happens in the first third than most trilogies, more happens in the first ten pages than most books, what the gently caress
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General Battuta posted:.. . General Battuta posted:What's dofa? Looks like our boy just needs about twelve more reviews on Amazon to hit that fifty-review threshold! I did not spot the goon stuff but that's probably because I was reading the book too fast
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Looks like our boy just needs about twelve more reviews on Amazon to hit that fifty-review threshold! Fucker named a character Grover Howes
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mewse posted:Fucker named a character Grover Howes How long will it take to capture Blackbird? 2 days Will Iruvage be killed? Yes ...and so on, and so on.
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mewse posted:Fucker named a character Grover Howes You’re lying
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navyjack posted:You’re lying They are not.
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Milkfred E. Moore posted:How long will it take to capture Blackbird? 2 days Oh godddammmit
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navyjack posted:You’re lying
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I'm so excited to get to these Genuinely not sure when the last book hooked me so well in the first chapter or two.
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ringu0 posted:Children of Memory (Children of Time Book 3) by Adrian Tchaikovsky - $2.99 definitely my least favourite of the 3
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sebmojo posted:It's not a problem from a mod perspective. Imho, they were bit annoying, but you can just put them on ignore. I did. 
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Issaries posted:Imho, they were bit annoying, but you can just put them on ignore. post username lore violation combo
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redleader posted:definitely my least favourite of the 3 same, and that's with having entirely forgotten everything about 2
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Exordia. JFC what a trainwreck. In the best possible sense! There's this sense of inexorability, "surely this isn't going to go like that" (oh yes it will) and the escalation and horror just keep... escalating. You keep hoping that everything will turn out fine, that the plucky heroes will save the day, the train will stop in time and surely nobody important will get nuked, until at some point you realize that this is not that kind of a book. Honestly I was kind of surprised this didn't go full Greek tragedy, but I guess GB might like to write a sequel or two at some point... I've read reviews complaining that the first act writes checks that the rest of the book can't cash, but I feel that this is the wrong way to look at it. In the end I thought the first part worked fine as a kind of prologue, or like the cold open in a Bond movie. This is a (dark) first contact novel after all, even if it looks almost like some sort of odd couple / buddy-cop thing in the beginning. Great characters, snappy dialogue, obviously very well researched. The scientific underpinnings were fresh in a pretty Greg Egan sort of way. Also loved the very small number of fucks the characters had to give. And the easter eggs, goddammit absolutely worth it, at least those few I found. Hats off, General Battuta, this is a fine work indeed. I will probably need 30 to 50 cozy books to get over it. Also I hate Clayton so much.
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Cradle, Foundation (#1-3) by Will Wight - FREE https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076G8DVN6/ Witch World: Estcarp Cycle (#1-3) by Andre Norton - $3.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GQPFPW5/
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Reading Exordia on my Kobo, a lot of Khaje dialogue is strings of ☒☒☒☒ ☒☒☒☒. Is this supposed to be Arabic script that I don't have the right font for? Alien talk?
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Tokelau All Star posted:Reading Exordia on my Kobo, a lot of Khaje dialogue is strings of ☒☒☒☒ ☒☒☒☒. Is this supposed to be Arabic script that I don't have the right font for? Alien talk? It displays correctly on my kindle as arabic script
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