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TOOT BOOT posted:I think it's early on after she graduates from the Masquerade school. She's just a little kid at the beginning, remember? Yep.
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Anyone read Eon and Eternity by Greg Bear? Eon has been a book that I've consistently reread every couple of years and I'm just entranced by the Way.
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May 19, 2017 05:57
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SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:Anyone read Eon and Eternity by Greg Bear? Eon has been a book that I've consistently reread every couple of years and I'm just entranced by the Way. Yeah, Eon was one of the very first grown-up books I read in English, back when it came out and I was an impressionable 13-year-old nerd. Unable to have an objective view of that book.
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May 19, 2017 11:32
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mllaneza posted:Have a seat and enjoy a great novel ! 
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May 19, 2017 16:51
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Groke posted:Yeah, Eon was one of the very first grown-up books I read in English, back when it came out and I was an impressionable 13-year-old nerd. Unable to have an objective view of that book. Concur. Read it when it came out and civilization-ending nuclear war was still a profound childhood fear. The bits of them up there on the stone watching the nuclear spasm down on Earth is still chilling even as a recollection. The second book is marred by a subplot I didn't care about, but I loved the Teilhardian bits of it. Never read the third one.
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May 19, 2017 18:33
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Groke posted:Yeah, Eon was one of the very first grown-up books I read in English, back when it came out and I was an impressionable 13-year-old nerd. Unable to have an objective view of that book. Yeah I think i read it about the same time.
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May 19, 2017 18:37
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It's just occurred to me that one of my favourite novels is kind of a litRPG. Anyone else read Tim Etchells' The Broken World? It's written as a walkthrough of a game called The Broken World, written by a guy whose paying far more attention to the game than to his life, which is simultaneously unravelling and not going anywhere, and it's excellent and weirdly heartbreaking. And also I want to play the bloody game. I love his Dream Dictionary for the Modern Dreamer too, and I've been delighted to spot a couple of copies in 2ndhand shops in with the psychic and New Age stuff.
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May 19, 2017 21:10
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Groke posted:Yeah, Eon was one of the very first grown-up books I read in English, back when it came out and I was an impressionable 13-year-old nerd. Unable to have an objective view of that book. Much like you said about Eon, the Integral Trees, mentioned a few posts back, is the same for me.
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May 19, 2017 21:22
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i still have a few of these to give away  http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/318370/free-space-by-sean-danker/9780451475800/ if anyone wants one, pm edit: anyone in the US lower 48, that is (sorry) Danknificent fucked around with this message at 20:56 on May 20, 2017 |
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May 20, 2017 13:54
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I finished reading a bunch of good sci-fi and fantasy (as well as terrible). Echopraxia by Peter Watts stayed with me because I really have no loving clue what precisely happened in two spots: 1) The lamprey 2) The very end Really, it's the lamprey section I'd like someone to shed some light on.
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May 20, 2017 19:16
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I decided to clear out some stuff that's been sitting around for a while that I haven't read. Is Tower Lord really as bad as the reviews are making it to be? I don't remember too much from Blood Song but I did really like the early parts in The Order or whatever that training was...
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May 20, 2017 23:06
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Robot Danger posted:I decided to clear out some stuff that's been sitting around for a while that I haven't read. Is Tower Lord really as bad as the reviews are making it to be? I don't think Tower Lord is bad, although it's slow to get started and in the end probably not as good as Blood Song. Worth reading if you really liked Blood Song, I'd say.
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May 20, 2017 23:19
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Robot Danger posted:I decided to clear out some stuff that's been sitting around for a while that I haven't read. Is Tower Lord really as bad as the reviews are making it to be? It is pretty bad. I can recall one interesting thing that happened in the entire book and the rest was just an awful slog.
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May 20, 2017 23:20
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The third book, Queen of Fire, is so bad that I didn't finish reading it.
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Alright, think I'm going to quit while I am ahead. Thanks!
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May 21, 2017 00:55
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Khizan posted:The third book, Queen of Fire, is so bad that I didn't finish reading it. I don't think I made it more than 5% of the way into the book. I always figured it was just that I wasn't in the mood when I picked it up, so it's kinda disappointing to hear it was just not a good book.
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If I remember right, Ryan originally had some kind of normal day job, wrote Blood Song over the course of however-long in his spare time, and spent a few years polishing it while looking for a publisher. Then he got signed by Penguin to finish the series, and they expected to crank the books out according to their deadlines, starting right now, which turned out to be something he wasn't ready for at all. I thought Waking Fire was pretty good, so hopefully he's adjusted to being a full-time writer now. Also I made the mistake of looking at the Goodreads reviews for Revenger, and one of the top 5 recommended reviews was a '0 stars, did not finish", which I'm gonna reproduce in full here because I could feel my brain melting as I read it, and I really need to share my pain: quote:This review is dedicated to Choko, Luna, Lee and Gavin, my Should-Have-Been Reading Buddies for this Should-Have-Been Buddy Read (SHBRBfrSHBBR™). If this slightly awesome team hadn't taken one for me here, I'd probably be severely traumatized by now. Or dead. Yeah, make that dead.
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May 21, 2017 01:23
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Well, I'm sorry I read that. As far as I can tell they didn't even read the book and this shitshow is based on someone else's review of it?
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May 21, 2017 01:32
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I rate that review a Talk to the Hand.
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May 21, 2017 01:50
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Why did someone need to rate a book they never even opened to fellate their mental illness... Wait..Clark Nova posted:Well, I'm sorry I read that. As far as I can tell they didn't even read the book and this shitshow is based on someone else's review of it? Yes, it appears they rated it a zero based on someone else's review.
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May 21, 2017 02:23
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To be fair I am pretty sure that review was liked by people who found the insanity amusing. I don't understand spongebob worshipping Glen Cook though?
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May 21, 2017 02:25
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Glen Cook is good but Tbh I'm not reading that whole review to see what he says about it
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May 21, 2017 02:26
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SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:Glen Cook is good but Tbh I'm not reading that whole review to see what he says about it She, and nothing.
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a foolish pianist posted:She, and nothing. I feel that one of my favorite authors (Glen Cook, you should read some of his stuff) is somehow diminished by being associated with that word vomit.
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May 21, 2017 04:49
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I didn't even know Glen Cook wrote scifi. Or that you could in-line animated gifs into goodreads reviews good lord "I was reading Dragons of SPring Dawning and :eggplant: :dollarsign: :datsracist: :woopwoop:"
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May 21, 2017 09:32
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I'd like that review, TBH. I derived amusement from it.
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May 21, 2017 09:50
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At the risk of replying to coyo7e, Glen Cook's SF: The Darkwar trilogy (plus a short story) counts as SF. Shadowline/Starfishers trilogy Passage at Arms (prequel to Shadowline/Starfishers) The Dragon Never Sleeps Heirs of Babylon So nine books out of his 40 or so are science fiction .
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May 21, 2017 09:59
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I think the risk there was that you'd out yourself as knowing everything Glen Cook has written - or that probably you read most of them, too. Didn't your momma warn you about naming a trickster?
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mllaneza posted:At the risk of replying to coyo7e, Glen Cook's SF: Passage at Arms is a submarine thriller in SPACE and The Dragon Never Sleeps is a respectable attempt to squeeze the scope of the Dune saga into 500 pages. Glen Cook's SF is great.
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How is the sequel Stiletto compared to The Rook? Stiletto is on amazon US's daily ebook deal; I enjoyed The Rook but I thought the ending was a bit of a let down with how anticlimatic it was, and while I normally wouldn't hesitate to spend a few dollars on an ebook, I have so many unread books in my backlog that I'm reluctant to add another that I may not get around to for months or more.Antti posted:Passage at Arms is a submarine thriller in SPACE and The Dragon Never Sleeps is a respectable attempt to squeeze the scope of the Dune saga into 500 pages. Glen Cook's SF is great. I disliked Cook's Black Company, but Passage at Arms was really really good, very tense. He did the "submarine in SPACE!" perfectly.
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PlushCow posted:How is the sequel Stiletto compared to The Rook? As far as I'm concerned, boo.
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coyo7e posted:I didn't even know Glen Cook wrote scifi. Or that you could in-line animated gifs into goodreads reviews good lord Sit down. I have something to tell you... ...that's like 80% of them.
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May 21, 2017 15:28
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Goodreads shouldn't be used without a custom adblock filter for gifs in reviews.
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May 21, 2017 15:58
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imagine reading the reviews on goodreads Hmmmm lemme read these reviews on goodreads, hrrrmmmm yes now lets check some youtube comments, ahhhhh very good Perhaps I can search feminism on reddit next... Also: Neuromancer almost done, deciding on I, Robot, Snow Crash, or Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? next
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May 21, 2017 16:03
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mllaneza posted:At the risk of replying to coyo7e, Glen Cook's SF: I haven't read it, but "A Matter of Time" should probably count.
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May 21, 2017 16:16
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fritz posted:I haven't read it, but "A Matter of Time" should probably count. Time travel does count as SF !
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May 21, 2017 16:33
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I don't know of any real links between the two but feel like chronological order would make sense for the two robot/android-themed books there.
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May 21, 2017 17:30
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The only remotely useful Goodreads feature is the upcoming publication schedule of authors you follow and even then they screwed that up by mixing in authors you've rated.
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May 21, 2017 17:37
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Goodreads reviews are very good and fun.
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Once I was considering trying some Abercrombie and went to Goodreads to see which of his books was considered best and they all had exactly the same rating.
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