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Strategic Tea posted:I'm so glad I have almost zero awareness of any detail at all around homestuck because I think it would have ruined these novels for me When the locked tomb is all done, I might sit down and finally read homestuck. It's been a thing I've seen thrown around for a long time, and my curiosity keeps growing.
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Homestuck is uneven but there’s enough good in it to be worth checking out at some point, imho. Also then you can read Tamzyn Muir’s fanfics.
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Started the first few chapters of Harrow, and there is something weird going on here. Also I am reading on a Kindle, and there's some weird formatting around the last line of Chapter 4 and on a section break line in the same chapter, something about a highlighter. Is this a Kindle-specific goof or does it appear differently in the print version?
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Dec 20, 2023 09:11
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C-Euro posted:Started the first few chapters of Harrow, and there is something weird going on here. Harrow is fine idk what you're talking about
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Dec 20, 2023 11:19
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C-Euro posted:Started the first few chapters of Harrow, and there is something weird going on here. In the print version there's nothing at all strange about the end of chapter 4
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Dec 20, 2023 11:38
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C-Euro posted:Started the first few chapters of Harrow, and there is something weird going on here. If you write out your thoughts about what the weird thing is, you can go back to it once you finish the book and marvel at how right you were!
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Dec 20, 2023 13:07
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C-Euro posted:Started the first few chapters of Harrow, and there is something weird going on here. There *is* intentionally weird formatting throughout the book but I'm not sure about the end of chapter 4. My print copies are at home but this is the end of ch4 from an ebook copy: 
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Dec 20, 2023 16:22
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mewse posted:There *is* intentionally weird formatting throughout the book but I'm not sure about the end of chapter 4. My print copies are at home but this is the end of ch4 from an ebook copy: Oops wrong chapter on my part, Chapter 3 has these-   silvergoose posted:If you write out your thoughts about what the weird thing is, you can go back to it once you finish the book and marvel at how right you were! Way-too-early (and potentially mutually exclusive) called shots: 1. This book is about Harrow processing her grief around Gideon's death ("death"?). Denial being the first stage, these early chapters involve imagining that Ortus died in GtN instead of Gideon. 2. The bits that are in second person are either contents of some of Harrow's letters, or Gideon's spirit narrating events as they unfold. Or maybe the Body? Our girl Harrow's got some problems.
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Dec 20, 2023 21:38
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C-Euro posted:Oops wrong chapter on my part, Chapter 3 has these- oh that dotted underline looks like they are displaying “most highlighted” sections of the text, hope you have an option to turn that off because i’d find it annoying
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Dec 20, 2023 21:42
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C-Euro posted:Oops wrong chapter on my part, Chapter 3 has these- The dotted line is a (really obnoxious, IMO) feature on Kindle that shows you what OTHER people have highlighted. For some reason. I don't even highlight my own goddamn books, I don't want to know what 1000 other people did.
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Dec 20, 2023 21:49
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The most "interesting" the highlighting feature ever was to me was when I was reading a book that was briefly discussing how vicious slavery was in colonial Haiti on the sugar plantations, mostly because the picture the highlights painted was a lot of people getting ready to quote-mine the book for stuff that made US chattel slavery sound Not That Bad. It's a garbage feature.
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disposablewords posted:It's a garbage feature. I also resent that whenever I start a book, I have to put that book back into "show me the percentage complete" mode. It's not a global setting.
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Oh lol, can you tell that this is the first ebook I've actually purchased? High praise, at least.
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Started the Nona audiobook (previously read it) and Moira's voices for the children are delightful - except Kevin, nobody likes Kevin
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mewse posted:Started the Nona audiobook (previously read it) and Moira's voices for the children are delightful - except Kevin, nobody likes Kevin Kevin!
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The children have to accompany Kevin to the bathroom, not because Kevin needs help using the bathroom, but because he has a habit of locking himself inside the bathroom
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Ahhh so that's the titular Locked Tomb tyvm
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I forget when it was in the book, but at one point he just sadly says "Kevin" as his contribution and it slayed me
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mdemone posted:I forget when it was in the book, but at one point he just sadly says "Kevin" as his contribution and it slayed me That was my reference yeah, it was when they were pledging to be a gang forever but he just said Kevin!.
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mewse posted:Started the Nona audiobook (previously read it) and Moira's voices for the children are delightful - except Kevin, nobody likes Kevin Don't make fun of Kevin. 
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HtN Act 2: Oh my God is this a loving isekai lmao?
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sebmojo posted:This is not how it happens Is this how it happens?
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Well that's maybe not the right term, but I get the feeling (HtN, about a third of the way through) our boy John was a regular dude who found the secret to space necromancy on Earth, and eventually got in way too deep in over his head. Also Ortus the First is definitely Gideon the First, but Harrow Ctrl+H'd so hard it seeped into the present day. This book is a trip but a super-interesting trip given the fairly straight putt that was GtN.
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C-Euro posted:Well that's maybe not the right term, but I get the feeling (HtN, about a third of the way through) our boy John was a regular dude who found the secret to space necromancy on Earth, and eventually got in way too deep in over his head. sorry we're just messing with ya, keep it going!!
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C-Euro posted:Well that's maybe not the right term, but I get the feeling (HtN, about a third of the way through) our boy John was a regular dude who found the secret to space necromancy on Earth, and eventually got in way too deep in over his head. Yeah we won't confirm or deny anything until you're done, unless you want us to! just ignore our  ing. Harrow the ninth is my favourite of the three, and imo a fair bit more slickly written than Gideon which coasts over some clunky bits with pure panache and charm
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sebmojo posted:This is not how it happens It feels a little worse Like when we drove our hearse Right through that screaming crowd
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C-Euro posted:HtN Act 2: Oh my God is this a loving isekai lmao? Truck-kun is a plot point in NtN, though.
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Finished Act 3 of Harrow just now and whew lawd. Never dine with your co-workers I guess.
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A delicious bone broth
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The entire Ninth house relationship to food is hilarious, especially when you go back and reread the first book with foreknowledge of who and what John is and recognize that the skeletal chefs at the facility were serving UK/New Zealand public school cafeteria food mainstays but Gideon was too much of a gormless goober to know what fish and chips or a curry look like.
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M_Gargantua posted:A delicious bone broth First bone broth, then boner broth 
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:The entire Ninth house relationship to food is hilarious, especially when you go back and reread the first book with foreknowledge of who and what John is and recognize that the skeletal chefs at the facility were serving UK/New Zealand public school cafeteria food mainstays but Gideon was too much of a gormless goober to know what fish and chips or a curry look like. Listen, when you've spent your whole life eating snow leek gruel and nothing but snow leek gruel
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Because I got to see this, other people get to see this. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheNinthHouse/s/6y0M7fJlUO Spoilers for end of Harrow I guess. Do not click if you're allergic to shipping which would be weird since Taz was a Homestuck fanfic writer but you do you.
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silvergoose posted:Because I got to see this, other people get to see this. This is a crime. Also I've finally decided to listen to the audiobooks to get through the series again and look for foreshadowing, because I am terrible at focusing on a book I've already read once before, and yes fine it was a mistake to resist listening this long just because "oh I just space out and lose track of what's being said."
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Harrow mid-Act 5: aaaaaaaa, also all of my predictions are broadly being confirmed, also aaaaaaaa. Haven't felt compelled to tear through a book this hard in a while, not even with Gideon. I even read a chapter in the car earlier today, despite getting debilitating motion sickness if I do anything in a car besides stare out a window. E: finished. What the gently caress did I just read. C-Euro fucked around with this message at 17:34 on Dec 29, 2023 |
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C-Euro posted:E: finished. What the gently caress did I just read. Correct!
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C-Euro posted:E: finished. What the gently caress did I just read. 
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The Aristonecrocrats!
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