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I mean the only one that is definitively correct is Gideon, of course.
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Sep 4, 2020 02:22
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Khizan posted:I sorta feel like Camilla should be a bit closer to "McDonalds! McDonalds!" Her rolling her eyes while pushing a half plate of food towards Gideon is one of those moments that just sticks with me.
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Sep 4, 2020 02:44
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So I gather the word after "someone's crying, lord" is kumbaya, but what's after "“Oh—” He used a word you did not understand. “Harrowhark, no theorems!”"? Jesus, maybe?
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Sep 7, 2020 17:12
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Drone Jett posted:So what’s the deal with the missing Resurrection Beast? There were nine, they killed five, three remained at the beginning of Harrow. Alecto? I feel like the final one is in John, because that's kinda how he described the resurrection and Harrow's parents' conception ritual? I dunno.
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Sep 7, 2020 23:27
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Yeah, like, I don't exactly feel like I could prove it with text, but it seems plausible.
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Sep 7, 2020 23:37
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well I sure didn't catch this the first two times through HtN ...said Ortus. Harrow regretted not making him take a solemn pledge of silence, to walk the pace as the mute and intimidating bulk his father had been; but only a very obedient idiot of a cavalier would have stuck to that. Ah, foreshadowing. I mean, pastshadowing? Whatever.
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Sep 7, 2020 23:44
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Drone Jett posted:Did Wake’s full name work for anyone as a joke or am I right that it was pure cringe? Works perfectly for me, and it's clear that a lot of what people say is stupid tumblr humor is (in universe) references by idiots who refused to let their era of pop culture go.
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Sep 8, 2020 02:55
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meanolmrcloud posted:Reading some non-spoilery reviews for harrowhawk, I’m glad I’m not the only one who finds the books hard to follow sometimes. Oh I found harrow very, very hard to follow the first time through, but that's pretty deliberate given the constant jumping around between different times.
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Sep 13, 2020 11:42
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"Your tolerance for man-eating magma fish would have been tested sorely by anyone who was not God." seriously it's sentences like this that just make me laugh
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Sep 14, 2020 02:09
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ConfusedUs posted:Oh my god please tell me that Harrow is not written mostly or entirely in second person. Mebbe half. I still don't get the hate from folks on that, though.
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Sep 18, 2020 00:43
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ConfusedUs posted:Yeah. I didn’t know I hated until I ran into it. The other one recently was The Fifth Season which I guess you might want to avoid now! (it's one of my favorites, so clearly the concept doesn't bother me)
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Sep 18, 2020 11:35
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Collateral posted:I just took it to be Gideon's perspective of the goings on told through an internal narrative, since Harrow had absorbed her. The circumstances of what she had done to herself told to herself since she didn't want/couldn't to do it for herself Oh it's undeniably Gideon's perspective, but that doesn't change one's like or dislike of 2nd person narrative. Just doesn't work for some people.
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Sep 20, 2020 19:29
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Gatts posted:I heard there were lesbian necromancers raising bones... The execution of this joke in the second book is pretty spot on.
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Sep 21, 2020 03:19
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I really liked it in both. Different tastes, I suppose!
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Sep 23, 2020 21:32
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Entropic posted:It's arguably the biggest clue as to Gideon v2.0's true parentage. I really don't think meme lordship is genetic. I ...think
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Oct 17, 2020 15:33
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Dang that's a long long time
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Oct 20, 2020 21:24
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"I wrote Gideon focusing on an inevitably homoerotic relationship between every woman who stands next to another woman for more than five seconds." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-butch-lesbian-sci-fi-aesthetic-a-conversation-with-tamsyn-muir/
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Oct 22, 2020 01:59
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I read some of Dorothy Dunnett's stuff as a teen (game of kings, queen's play), and had to look up so, so many words. Didn't need to look up oriflamme, though, that I knew from a certain magic card. Short story shorter, looking up words is fun and good.
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Nov 2, 2020 12:50
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There's also the unknowns about how he came to be god, and that could be super super creepy and awful. How many billions died... We'll find out in 2022!
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Nov 8, 2020 14:43
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Strategic Tea posted:Was it ever explcitly stated why God made the Lyctors unecessarily kill their cavaliers? Would having a live cavalier allow them to become as powerful as him? Not explicitly, so also, 2022!
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Nov 8, 2020 14:59
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seven for beauty that blossoms and dies...
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Nov 16, 2020 23:28
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drat, those are really good
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Nov 17, 2020 22:36
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Anxiety and stress woke me up at 4am and couldn't get back to sleep Yep decided to read Gideon again and it's just so good. Like other books that I reread for comfort, I notice new things every time I read it, this time paying even more attention to dulcie's chatter during the avulsion challenge. Good stuff.
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Nov 21, 2020 15:15
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goddamn
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Nov 22, 2020 21:26
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A friend created this review: "Delightful, pure entertainment: it's got sly humor, emotional intensity, lovely fight scenes, and a thrillingly low-key sexiness, and it's just about as unlike Gene Wolfe as a pulp-inspired planetary romance about a sword-wielding orphan in a black cloak who was raised in a necropolis and quests to serve the enigmatic demiurge-king of a dying far future empire can possibly be."
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Dec 4, 2020 20:45
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Yeah that's amazing.
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Jan 20, 2021 20:44
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If her jaw was replaced, whatever the gently caress she did to ensure Ianthe didn't tell harrow what she had done might be gone.
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Jan 23, 2021 13:46
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Love the post, but one thing I specifically disagree with. It's pretty obviously our solar system, but the houses are not named by distance from the sun, but to me, by order of settlement. First is earth, second the warlike soldiers is Mars, jovial fifth is jupiter with its poems about a giant red spot, sixth is mercury closest to the sun, seventh is the other close by and it's obsessed with beauty which fits Venus.
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Feb 15, 2021 14:21
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...huh. Okay that's downright intriguing.
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Feb 23, 2021 13:33
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I kinda like it a lot, because the third is the rich house, and asteroid mining is one of those things supposedly going to make spacefaring worth it...
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Feb 23, 2021 13:37
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Have people started making Hades Alecto crossovers yet?
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Feb 26, 2021 04:50
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I'm assuming she doesn't know for that reason. Not even sure if anyone knows in the nine houses, other than pacify planets, fight insurgents, etc etc
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Mar 1, 2021 20:45
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That is *solid*.
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Mar 3, 2021 17:42
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His "your organs are measured and claimed by the ninth" speech is so loving creepy and weird. In, you know, a good way. Really sets the tone for his character.
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Mar 7, 2021 22:59
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Kesper North posted:Hey, random question, does the Ninth House have any pubs... One of the things I love about the first book so much is Gideon's shameless bad jokes. "So you're saying you want to...throw her a bone?"
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Mar 10, 2021 02:14
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Idaholy Roller posted:Cant imagine anything more insulting than anything from the Locked Tomb Trilogy being compared to something from Ready Player One.
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Mar 10, 2021 14:31
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mdemone posted:At this stage all I really want out of Alecto is to give me some basic answers about the world-built, and I'll be super happy. It's already a cherished trilogy no matter what the third one does. More or less me, too.
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Mar 11, 2021 02:33
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Happy Landfill posted:Here we go, here's some Aiglamene (and Baby Griddle) well now that's just goddamn adorable
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Mar 11, 2021 20:41
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yeah I remember reading that post and thinking "that just makes me more excited to read alecto"
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