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read the last two books in the old man's war series, The Human Division and The End of All Things. they're pretty good as long as you're not expecting some high level philosophical story. good amount of action, lots of good character moments and character building, it's a bit funny sometimes too. the way the "evil hidden" faction acquire and crew ships is... interesting in a  kind of way. worth a read if you liked books 1 and 3 in the series.
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Dec 25, 2015 18:33
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indigi posted:tbh with something like Star Wars I think common courtesy should be opening weekend. if you don't see it by then you don't really care about it. ah yes, the no-true-dorksman fallacy
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The second Craft novel features a big gay skeleton in a dressing gown who runs a water utility company in an aztec supermetropolis
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Dec 25, 2015 21:32
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I literally cannot get enough of gay skeleton wizard CEO laying down operational parameters to his board of directors following a merger, and then saying 'if you require further assistance, whisper my name three times in front of a darkened mirror'
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Dec 25, 2015 22:06
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fishmech posted:Kindles are just so great yo. Had one or more ever since the November 2007 release same lovin the paperwhite nowadays tho i miss the physical buttons
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Dec 25, 2015 22:33
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DOWN JACKET FETISH posted:The second Craft novel features a big gay skeleton in a dressing gown who runs a water utility company in an aztec supermetropolis Note that "big", "gay", and "skeleton" are all literal descriptions of the King in Red. Probably not a dressing gown, though. More of the thick, heavy, richly embroidered kind of robe that would make a cultist proud.
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Dec 25, 2015 23:12
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Dodoman posted:read the last two books in the old man's war series, The Human Division and The End of All Things. i just read the first book. so the characters are invaders and terrorists who kill innocents, okay. i thought it was going to reveal their brains had been altered to make them accept it but nope. i understand the sequels go into that but it's like the author doesn't want me to read them.
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Dec 25, 2015 23:56
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Action Jacktion posted:i just read the first book. so the characters are invaders and terrorists who kill innocents, okay. i thought it was going to reveal their brains had been altered to make them accept it but nope. i understand the sequels go into that but it's like the author doesn't want me to read them. you don't want to read the sequels because the characters think what they're doing is unsustainable and wrong and the sequels address the issue? that's a real weird line of reasoning.
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Dec 26, 2015 00:25
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A lot of people who read books and watch movies think it's intolerable to witness bad things being done by the main character, even though for Old Man's War it basically beats you over the head with all of the characters talking about how horrible it is, even the creepy semi-human special forces troopers.
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Dec 26, 2015 00:58
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ive not really read anything lately apart from The Martian (which I like) gimme some light similar reading please, not the culture series just now, assume ive read nothing, thank you please
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Dec 26, 2015 01:19
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Valeyard posted:ive not really read anything lately apart from The Martian (which I like) gimme some light similar reading please, not the culture series just now, assume ive read nothing, thank you please have you heard of this book called 1984
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Dec 26, 2015 01:22
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might i recommend the celebrated anthology known as my posts
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Dec 26, 2015 01:30
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serious answer i had avoided neuromancer for a long time but it's actually a really entertaining pulpy book
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Dec 26, 2015 01:35
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Al! posted:serious answer i had avoided neuromancer for a long time but it's actually a really entertaining pulpy book dag, yo the sprawl trilogy and maybe to a lesser extent the bridge trilogy are (subjectively) literary classics /my teenage self
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Dec 26, 2015 01:38
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do read neuromancer but whenever you roll your eyes at something unbearably cliched remember that you're reading the reason it became a cliche
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Dec 26, 2015 01:39
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haveblue posted:do read neuromancer but whenever you roll your eyes at something unbearably cliched remember that you're reading the reason it became a cliche same thing with die hard or aliens or a lot of old but iconic stuff
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Dec 26, 2015 01:55
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syscall girl posted:same thing with die hard or aliens or a lot of old but iconic stuff i am sadly completely unable to enjoy aliens because of this
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Dec 26, 2015 01:59
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haveblue posted:do read neuromancer but whenever you roll your eyes at something unbearably cliched remember that you're reading the reason it became a cliche its like reading clarke or asimov or wells at this point, its crazy
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Dec 26, 2015 01:59
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I was given the dying earth omnibus for xmas. looking forward to reading it
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Dec 26, 2015 02:00
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Amethyst posted:I was given the dying earth omnibus for xmas. looking forward to reading it looked this up and holy moly i thought jack vance was a lot more contemporary than he was
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Dec 26, 2015 02:01
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Moist von Lipwig posted:looked this up and holy moly i thought jack vance was a lot more contemporary than he was He was best friends with Ursula Le Guin, Phillip K Dick, and Frank Herbert and all lived together in san fran in the 60s. i only learned this recently, for some reason
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Dec 26, 2015 02:02
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that's pretty cool
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Dec 26, 2015 02:14
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I got my dad rgb mars for Christmas
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Glorgnole posted:I got my dad rgb mars for Christmas cmyk Mars was a bit richer, imo
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Dec 26, 2015 02:26
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the sprawl trilogy is good because the clichés that you find everywhere are just part of the world and not necessarily the core to the story. plus his style is interesting.
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Dec 26, 2015 02:47
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DOWN JACKET FETISH posted:cmyk Mars was a bit richer, imo
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Dec 26, 2015 02:57
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now I want to read Black Mars
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Glorgnole posted:I got my dad rgb mars for Christmas pro son move
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Dec 26, 2015 03:42
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Larry Parrish posted:A lot of people who read books and watch movies think it's intolerable to witness bad things being done by the main character, even though for Old Man's War it basically beats you over the head with all of the characters talking about how horrible it is, even the creepy semi-human special forces troopers. i don't mind stories with unlikable characters but with the book i didn't get the impression we were supposed to dislike the characters, i mainly thought it was dull but in a non-banality-of-evil way.
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Dec 26, 2015 04:36
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Shaggar posted:the sprawl trilogy is good because the clichés that you find everywhere are just part of the world and not necessarily the core to the story. plus his style is interesting. gibson has great style and sense of place
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Valeyard posted:ive not really read anything lately apart from The Martian (which I like) gimme some light similar reading please, not the culture series just now, assume ive read nothing, thank you please hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy
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Dec 26, 2015 06:14
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gibson's style is so good. who else even comes close in SF? sturgeon maybe. zelazny on his good days. walter tevis?
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Improbable Lobster posted:gibson has great sense of place his place is in the kistchen
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DOWN JACKET FETISH posted:cmyk Mars was a bit richer, imo the blacks are so much more prominent
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:his place is in the kistchen loving lol
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welp, the first big twist in mr robot just happened, namely that darlene is his sister pretty loving disappointing IMO. mainly because the show had a pretty interesting corporate espionage/hacking concept going already and now they've turned it into a run of the mill psych thriller. meh. e: ok watched the last two eps. Not too bad overall, not sure if I'll watch series 2 though. I don't think this kind of story will work as a never ending serial. Amethyst fucked around with this message at 11:38 on Dec 26, 2015 |
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Dec 26, 2015 09:44
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Moist von Lipwig posted:the blacks are so much more prominent lmao were there actually any black people in red etc mars? Apart from when nergal etc all go to Brazil
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Dec 26, 2015 12:50
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DOWN JACKET FETISH posted:lmao I don't think so. The joke kinda popped into my head and then I realized it was true.
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Glorgnole posted:I got my dad rgb mars for Christmas im reading this atm, i read red mars when i was like 12 and got bored to poo poo but now I'm 20 years older and have more patience i can just skip some of the more ridiculous 'heres my theory on economics' bits and it's better than i remeber it
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