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26 | 18.18% |
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49 | 34.27% |
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Srice posted:I have read Perdido Street Station and The City & The City. I enjoyed the former and loved the latter so I'm gonna say he's...good. Kraken is really really good.
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Davincie posted:embassytown does a lot of fun things with language as well, for the bas lag series, the scar is immensely easier to read and better then iron council which gets caught up too much in fantasy communism Cool to hear. I think I'll try to pick up Embassytown in the near future.
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Sep 17, 2015 22:37
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Davincie posted:the last book i read before this one was skylight by saramago I really liked Death, With Occasional interruptions. They should've made a movie out of that, instead of Blindness. I mean what the gently caress, a movie version of Blindness is like, missing the whole point. It'd be like making a movie of Shaow of the Colossus. Some things only work in one medium
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Sep 17, 2015 22:37
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Srice posted:Normally I'd say it would be okay if you wanted to chat about sci-fi or fantasy because that composes 99% of the threads there Are they still on about that sci-fi awards gamergate thing?
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Sep 17, 2015 22:38
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 Success! The yeast was a bit old, so the dough didn't rise as much as I would have liked, but they're very tasty.
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Sep 17, 2015 22:38
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everythingWasBees posted:Kraken is really really good. it lacked depth imo
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Sep 17, 2015 22:39
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greets all. i just slept for sixteen hours.
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Srice posted:I have read Perdido Street Station and The City & The City. I enjoyed the former and loved the latter so I'm gonna say he's...good. The Scar is better than Perdido, IMO. And The Iron Council is better than the Scar
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the last book i read was consider the lobster but i didnt finish it cuz i got tired like 60 pages in to the dumb political essay
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boom boom boom posted:Are they still on about that sci-fi awards gamergate thing? The last time I poked my head in there they were angry about Conan
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Sep 17, 2015 22:39
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 the mieville babe...
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Yes_Cantaloupe posted:
that looks v good goodbye for now chat thread. I'm glad we got to have book chat about cool modern fiction
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everythingWasBees posted:Kraken is really really good. Noted! Also dang my book backlog is worse than my anime backlog
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Srice posted:The last time I poked my head in there they were angry about Conan conan is so epic. i've read everything howard wrote and its fantastic pulp
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Sep 17, 2015 22:40
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Davincie posted:it lacked depth imo nice
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Sep 17, 2015 22:40
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Endorph posted:greets all. i just slept for sixteen hours. Hi! I hope it was nice.
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Davincie posted:
loving would
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Srice posted:The last time I poked my head in there they were angry about Conan The 80 year old adventure stories for boys?
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Sep 17, 2015 22:41
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I kinda hate adults who exclusively read YA novels
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Sep 17, 2015 22:42
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boom boom boom posted:Are they still on about that sci-fi awards gamergate thing?
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Davincie posted:conan is so epic. i've read everything howard wrote and its fantastic pulp The kerfuffle was about how everything Howard wrote is worthless because he was a racist dude
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Davincie posted:it lacked depth imo I guess I can see that. Was definitely one of my favorite plane reads though. It occupies the same headspace as a Pratchett book to me. Silly fantasy books, and easy reads.
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Srice posted:The last time I poked my head in there they were angry about Conan I haven't read a lot of it, but I've enjoyed what I have.
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Sep 17, 2015 22:43
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Endorph posted:wasn't that just some christian group spreading fliers around because they were mad black people were writing sci-fi I don't know about that, I meant the one publisher getting flooding the votes so only their stuff got nominated in some categories, so the awards show just didn't give out those awards this year.
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Endorph posted:wasn't that just some christian group spreading fliers around because they were mad black people were writing sci-fi i think it was guys on twitter telling people to stuff the hugo ballet box i think
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Sep 17, 2015 22:43
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Darth Windu posted:I kinda hate adults who exclusively read YA novels I think it's stupid to judge people by the books they choose to read.
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Sep 17, 2015 22:44
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Droyer posted:I think it's stupid to judge people by the books they choose to read.
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everythingWasBees posted:loving would 
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Droyer posted:I think it's stupid to judge people by the books they choose to read. I think you're stupid
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Sep 17, 2015 22:44
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howard wasn't even that racist for his time, and he certainly bettered himself over time unlike his friend lovecraft
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Sep 17, 2015 22:45
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Bad Seafood posted:Conan the Barbarian is good. I have only read a little bit (just a few short stories) and felt it was pretty neat from a historical perspective.
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Sep 17, 2015 22:45
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Darth Windu posted:I think you're stupid The feeling is mutual
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Sep 17, 2015 22:45
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Droyer posted:I think it's stupid to judge people by the books they choose to read.
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boom boom boom posted:I don't know about that, I meant the one publisher getting flooding the votes so only their stuff got nominated in some categories, so the awards show just didn't give out those awards this year. That owned it was basically the gamer gate people crying that there's too much political correctness in books lmao
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Sep 17, 2015 22:45
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I read everything in like one or two sittings so I've shifted towards just reading manga unless somebody like, gifts me a book.
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Droyer posted:The feeling is mutual Rude
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Sep 17, 2015 22:46
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if you can't be bothered reading books the conan comics are fine for what they are >->
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Sep 17, 2015 22:46
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Davincie posted:howard wasn't even that racist for his time, and he certainly bettered himself over time unlike his friend lovecraft And dying so young didn't help matters either.
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Sep 17, 2015 22:46
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My book backlog is all Mieville and Pratchett...
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everythingWasBees posted:My book backlog is all Mieville and Pratchett... I have read a lot of Discworld.
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