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Zore posted:To be fair, Chitinous and Susurrus are almost all in the Codex Alera stuff. I think Chitin comes up maybe twice in Dresden proper when he's describing some of the Denerians. So people who haven't read Alera probably aren't going to have the instinctive reaction. Oh maybe I should give Alera a second chance after Skin Game then. I found the first book to be mediocre. I liked the premise though
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Oh, also, that was my question at the very end, but the guy asking it messed it up - I phrased it as "Who's your favorite character to have only appeared in one Dresden book?"
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May 16, 2014 02:04
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Screen Door Slams posted:Butcher's doing a video chat right now: http://booktalknation.com/video/butcher Oh his hair is long again.
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May 16, 2014 02:29
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Xtanstic posted:Oh maybe I should give Alera a second chance after Skin Game then. I found the first book to be mediocre. I liked the premise though The first book is mediocre, easily the worst of the series and arguably worse than Fool Moon. It gets a lot better from there on out though.
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May 16, 2014 04:36
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Skippy McPants posted:The first book is mediocre, easily the worst of the series and arguably worse than Fool Moon. It gets a lot better from there on out though. I like the first book; it's the second that I hate. The second act is torture.
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Here's the next batch of words people wanted to know about. feline: 40 serpentine: 16 sinuous: 19 murphy is good people: 2 snarl: 551  chitinuous: 5 susurrus: 1 murphy : 3303 marcone : 823 mab : 886 bob : 1405 molly : 1881 michael : 1617 charity : 474 susan : 1196 red court : 329 white court : 173 black court : 58 law\laws of magic: 73 circle: 893
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Screen Door Slams posted:Oh, also, that was my question at the very end, but the guy asking it messed it up - I phrased it as "Who's your favorite character to have only appeared in one Dresden book?" Well he did answer that anyways, saying the new character in Skin Game was fun to write
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May 16, 2014 12:24
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Fried Chicken posted:Well he did answer that anyways, saying the new character in Skin Game was fun to write Fair point, heh.
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May 16, 2014 12:51
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Say, look what showed up at my store. Good thing I can read it during my breaks.
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May 16, 2014 15:25
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Beastie posted:Say, look what showed up at my store. Good thing I can read it during my breaks. You lucky bastard  edit: Definitely checking out a nearby store that broke street date on Dance With Dragons, maybe I'll get lucky!
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May 16, 2014 15:27
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Beastie posted:Say, look what showed up at my store. Good thing I can read it during my breaks. What city are you in? I ordered a signed copy online but maybe I can find it in the shelves early
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May 16, 2014 15:38
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No stores near me ever break street dates. I hate you people. So much.
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May 16, 2014 15:41
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Oh I can't sell this yet, but that doesn't stop me from taking a copy and reading it on my breaks over the next 10 days.
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May 16, 2014 15:55
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:No stores near me ever break street dates. I hate you people. So much. Worst for me was White Night. We were deploying the day it came out for a month at sea, so I'm at B&N at closing the night before trying to explain it and bribe to get it 2 hours before street and they wouldn't deal. Before the crash retail stores were staffed by easily bribable high schoolers who didn't give a gently caress and you could deal with, not adults who understand what it means for the store and care about it. Thanks Obama
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May 16, 2014 15:57
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Beastie posted:Oh I can't sell this yet, but that doesn't stop me from taking a copy and reading it on my breaks over the next 10 days. I don't want you to sell it to me, I want you to "accidentally" put it on the shelf so I can read it at the in store coffee shop and then hand it to you when I'm done and you can get praise from you manager for catching the "mistake" of breaking street
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May 16, 2014 15:58
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I want you to post dozens of fake spoilers with one real spoiler in the mix.
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Which book and roughly what page is does the whole polka dinosaur thing start? I've got these all as e-books and want to dig out that chapter or so.
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Silento posted:Jim seems like a cool guy. You make that sound like a bad thing.  Beastie posted:Oh I can't sell this yet, but that doesn't stop me from taking a copy and reading it on my breaks over the next 10 days. You bastard. Best lunch breaks you're gonna get!
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May 16, 2014 16:43
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It just means he's going to have to endure an even longer wait than the rest of us for the next book. That makes things on our side a little bit better.
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Harry returns to his home planet. Murphy and Mike get engaged but the wedding is cancelled, BY VAMPIRES. Snape kills Dumbledore
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AMA is up http://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/25q3em/i_am_jim_butcher_author_of_the_dresden_files_the/ If people haven't seen it yet.
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Beastie posted:Harry returns to his home planet. Seems legit.
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May 16, 2014 18:53
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Captain Capacitor posted:snarl: 551 Hahahah, I knew it! But seriously, knock that poo poo off Butcher.
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Tunicate posted:AMA is up quote:Is Mac more than a human? I think he's not, but there's a growing faction that believes he's either Merlin or some sort of Gray Angel Jim Butcher posted:Mac has never once done anything beyond the capability of a plain old vanilla human being. Kind of interesting, but absolutely worthless as far as actual information goes.
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May 16, 2014 19:09
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That is an interesting non-answer.
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May 16, 2014 19:20
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Book 16 is titled Peace Talks "and will probably be one of the more supernaturally violent books to date  "
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Arcsech posted:Kind of interesting, but absolutely worthless as far as actual information goes. This has me wondering about something. Could a supernatural being freely act if they were to constrain themselves to working as a vanilla mortal? Could say, Uriel, decided "gently caress this noise I'm gonna go mix it up" and put his power and most of his knowledge in storage or something, then go after Nicky with a shotgun?
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Peace Talks... Mavra or Titania I wonder? If guess the former as formal peace between vampires and the white council is now viable while peace between the courts is against their very natures. Is the next book due to be a vampire book?
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Masonity posted:Peace Talks... Mavra or Titania I wonder? If guess the former as formal peace between vampires and the white council is now viable while peace between the courts is against their very natures. Well they are at peace with the vamps. Lara set it up, and then Harry killed all the Reds so it isn't starting up again. I'd guess the formor
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Arcsech posted:Kind of interesting, but absolutely worthless as far as actual information goes. I dunno, I thought the bit about the eldest of each race being a mantle was pretty interesting. e: doh, I completely misread that. My bad
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OptimusWang posted:I dunno, I thought the bit about the eldest of each race being a mantle was pretty interesting. Ah, no, I was referring specifically the question and answer that I quoted. There's some other stuff in there that's interesting, but that non-answer stuck me as a particularly good example of using very specific wording to say not a whole lot. Other interesting stuff: quote:How did Mouse use Dresden as a mana battery? Is it a question of ambient siphoning, i.e. being around a large enough power source 'gives off' a certain amount of atmospheric grounding that Mouse absorbs, for lack of a better term? quote:1) He didn't. Maybe Mouse was drawing strength from Dresden's conviction about saving Maggie? It's not a threshold but it would kinda make sense, given that foo dogs are guardians. Arcsech fucked around with this message at 20:07 on May 16, 2014 |
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Masonity posted:Is the next book due to be a vampire book? Here's the pattern so far: Vampires: every 3rd book. (Grave Peril, Blood Rites, White Night, Changes) Fairies: every 4th book. (Summer Knight, Proven Guilty, Changes) Denarians: every 5th book. (Death Masks, Small Favor) Bad Wizards Did It: Every prime number that isn't one of the above (Storm Front, Fool Moon (someone gave the FBI guys shapechanging), Dead Beat, Turn Coat, Ghost Story) If the pattern holds true, Skin Game will be Denarians (which is confirmed) and vampires, which no one has confirmed yet. I'm hoping Mavra pops up from the grave. She's one of my favorite villains in the series.
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My first guess is that Peace Talks will be about the Fomor. Could be a lot of things, though, so who knows?
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Bobs new vessel (or Harry suffering for failing to craft one) will be in skin game Little bit of winter lady Molly in skin game, much more in peace talks
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Fried Chicken posted:Well they are at peace with the vamps. Lara set it up, and then Harry killed all the Reds so it isn't starting up again. Ugh. I forgot about the former part. Obviously I knew they were at peace with the red court these days... The best kind of peace at that!
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Masonity posted:Ugh. I forgot about the former part. Obviously I knew they were at peace with the red court these days... The best kind of peace at that! Pax Dresdenada, one might say.
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