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LLSix posted:Moved on to Moon Over Soho, the second Rivers of London book. I'm about 3/5ths of the way through it and its still good. There's way more, mostly plot irrelevant, sex than I was expecting. Why are you sure it’s plot irrelevant?
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Wolf Pussy posted:Why are you sure it’s plot irrelevant? Haven't finished the book yet, but I'm 7 hours into a 10 hour audiobook and it hasn't been relevant yet. I have a creeping suspicion his lover is a magic something but I can't think of anything that even hints at that other than her getting involved with Grant. It's possible I'm not paranoid and it is plot relevant, which is why I said mostly, but I can't think of anything that points in that direction.
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Oct 1, 2018 23:03
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tasteful eroticism for its own sake
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Oct 1, 2018 23:07
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I like how Grants tastes are a fair bit away from blonde pneumatic perfect lady. Simone is described as chunky, unkempt, with a huge appetite. I appreciate it.
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Oct 1, 2018 23:16
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Sloth Life posted:I like how Grants tastes are a fair bit away from blonde pneumatic perfect lady. Simone is described as chunky, unkempt, with a huge appetite. I appreciate it. Excellent post/username combo
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Oct 2, 2018 03:36
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LLSix posted:Haven't finished the book yet, but I'm 7 hours into a 10 hour audiobook and it hasn't been relevant yet. I have a creeping suspicion his lover is a magic something but I can't think of anything that even hints at that other than her getting involved with Grant. It's possible I'm not paranoid and it is plot relevant, which is why I said mostly, but I can't think of anything that points in that direction. At some point Aaronovitch commented on the sex in Moon Over Soho and said that he put that in there because he didn't want Grant to be a stereotypical pining can't get laid nerd character.
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Oct 2, 2018 03:42
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Also, LOL if you don't pick up on the plot relevance after reading how Grant's mom reacts to her.
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Oct 2, 2018 05:43
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Just finished reading the two crossover Schaefer books and drat, the last one can't get released soon enough. That was really good.
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Oct 2, 2018 18:24
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Sworn to the night was a bit, well, bdsm porny. It put me off.
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Oct 2, 2018 20:35
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Sloth Life posted:Sworn to the night was a bit, well, bdsm porny. It put me off. There was maybe, maybe two paragraphs of lesbian BDSM in the most detached and lame "Nessa pulled Marie's hair, and then two hours later they were tired and cuddling, it was totally awesome but I'm not detailing it here" narrator description. If that put you off, then you must have had real trouble with the super-graphic (in comparison) passages in various Dresden books where people hosed.
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Oct 2, 2018 21:09
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biracial bear for uncut posted:Also, LOL if you don't pick up on the plot relevance after reading how Grant's mom reacts to her. Hadn't reached that bit when I'd posted. I actually don't like how its handled since his parent's have previously resisted the idea he's a wizard, so his mom being 100% certain Simone is a witch is odd. Especially since she's wrong. She's a Jazz Vampire! Not a witch. So the sex is plot relevant in that it informs why Grant works so hard to keep the vampires alive. Hieronymous Alloy posted:At some point Aaronovitch commented on the sex in Moon Over Soho and said that he put that in there because he didn't want Grant to be a stereotypical pining can't get laid nerd character. Nightingale remains consistently awesome and deserves props for his resolution of the Jazz Vampires investigation. Looking forward to the next one.
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Oct 2, 2018 21:17
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LLSix posted:Hadn't reached that bit when I'd posted. I actually don't like how its handled since his parent's have previously resisted the idea he's a wizard, so his mom being 100% certain Simone is a witch is odd. Especially since she's wrong. I'm pretty sure he says something about his mother being happy about it, because she considers his new job to be "witchfinder" and that she considers that a more respectable job than "policeman".
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Oct 2, 2018 21:43
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Khizan posted:I'm pretty sure he says something about his mother being happy about it, because she considers his new job to be "witchfinder" and that she considers that a more respectable job than "policeman". The line you're thinking of is right at the start of the third book.
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Oct 3, 2018 03:33
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LLSix posted:Hadn't reached that bit when I'd posted. I actually don't like how its handled since his parent's have previously resisted the idea he's a wizard, so his mom being 100% certain Simone is a witch is odd. Especially since she's wrong. Eh, I think we have to assume a certain amount of lost-in-translation there. His mom isn't wrong she's just . . .defining her terms differently
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Oct 3, 2018 10:31
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My favorite bit in Rivers of London is how Magic is supposed to be this big secret or something, but then it turns out that people are totally aware of it, but they want to react like it doesn't exist. Using euphemisms like "Falcon Bollocks" and other phrases when discussing it in police work, etc.
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Oct 3, 2018 11:02
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biracial bear for uncut posted:There was maybe, maybe two paragraphs of lesbian BDSM in the most detached and lame "Nessa pulled Marie's hair, and then two hours later they were tired and cuddling, it was totally awesome but I'm not detailing it here" narrator description. The sex scenes were short yes, but the Dom/sub relationship extended outside the bedroom. And Dresden has terrible sex scenes which I skip over but they are pretty self contained
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Oct 3, 2018 16:00
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Yeah, well, I don't see how you'd have a problem with that if you'd read the books leading up to this crossover because there is a lot of history there that makes it a bit more than merely "dom/sub" relationship stuff.
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Oct 3, 2018 18:37
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biracial bear for uncut posted:My favorite bit in Rivers of London is how Magic is supposed to be this big secret or something, but then it turns out that people are totally aware of it, but they want to react like it doesn't exist. Using euphemisms like "Falcon Bollocks" and other phrases when discussing it in police work, etc. I like how The Folly and The Destruction of the Flower of British Wizardry is initially presented as a sad romantic parallel to the decline of the British Empire then follows through on the metaphor with "lol no Pax Britannia was bullshit and terrible and so was The Folly"
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Oct 4, 2018 13:05
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Yak of Wrath posted:I like how The Folly and The Destruction of the Flower of British Wizardry is initially presented as a sad romantic parallel to the decline of the British Empire then follows through on the metaphor with "lol no Pax Britannia was bullshit and terrible and so was The Folly" I still want to read the story about Nightingale and the Folly assaulting WWII-era Nazi strongholds and the sheer awesomeness behind the glimpses we've had of it so far.
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Oct 4, 2018 13:20
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biracial bear for uncut posted:I still want to read the story about Nightingale and the Folly assaulting WWII-era Nazi strongholds and the sheer awesomeness behind the glimpses we've had of it so far. Most of them weren't like Nightingale though. He was and is extraordinary and exceptional.
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Oct 4, 2018 14:08
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wiegieman posted:Most of them weren't like Nightingale though. He was and is extraordinary and exceptional. Yeah, but Nightingale blowing up Tiger tanks and pulling an awesome covering action to save as many people as he can sounds pretty loving epic.
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Oct 4, 2018 14:21
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I'm keen on that one moment from the first book where Peter asks Nightingale, what's the biggest thing he's ever destroyed with a spell and Nightingale replies, "A Tiger." So Peter asks if that was when he was in India and he says, "No, it was when I was in Germany." Because he'd been talking about tanks.
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Oct 4, 2018 14:22
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Nightingale is really interesting because he's kindof presented as an analogue for everything that was cool about the British Empire: Magic James Bond Nazi Destroyer and then he got PTSD and spent forty years hiding from the world and painting kinky pictures of his magic girlfriend instead of doing his job I especially like that he's not technology-averse.
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Oct 4, 2018 14:23
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biracial bear for uncut posted:Yeah, but Nightingale blowing up Tiger tanks and pulling an awesome covering action to save as many people as he can sounds pretty loving epic. "Smell that? You smell that? Lux, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of Lux in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill cast upon, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' Jerry body. The smell, you know that vestigium smell, the whole hill. Smelled like… Victory. Someday this war's gonna end…"
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Oct 4, 2018 14:43
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Apparently there is an untitled Nightingale short story in the works? http://temporarilysignificant.blogspot.com/p/a-chronology-of-rivers-of-london-books.html Scroll down.
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Oct 4, 2018 14:54
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Nightingale is really interesting because he's kindof presented as an analogue for everything that was cool about the British Empire: Magic James Bond Nazi Destroyer Yeah and I think he kind of works best as an enigma. My vague mental image of his time in WWII is probably better than anything discrete. I'd be okay with occasional metal-as-gently caress interludes, but the more that gets explained the more risk they have of turning his past into something mundane.
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Oct 4, 2018 15:28
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So I’m 6 chapters into the first Faust book and this is pretty good you guys. Some of the characters feel pretty cookie-cutter, but otherwise I dig it.
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Oct 4, 2018 16:31
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OptimusWang posted:So I’m 6 chapters into the first Faust book and this is pretty good you guys. Some of the characters feel pretty cookie-cutter, but otherwise I dig it. Good news for you, Schaefer puts out a book every 3 months or so between his 3 current series set in the same universe.
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Oct 4, 2018 16:41
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xsf421 posted:Good news for you, Schaefer puts out a book every 3 months or so between his 3 current series set in the same universe. Thank god, I had just finished catching up on the last 3 Sandman Slim books and was seriously considering going back to the Iron Druid books.
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Oct 4, 2018 17:48
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New Kim Newman is out in a couple of weeks. I will probably get that when it drops. It is a sequel to his Drearcliff Grange School book from a few years ago.
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Oct 4, 2018 17:52
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Wheat Loaf posted:I'm keen on that one moment from the first book where Peter asks Nightingale, what's the biggest thing he's ever destroyed with a spell and Nightingale replies, "A Tiger." So Peter asks if that was when he was in India and he says, "No, it was when I was in Germany." Because he'd been talking about tanks. I think it went more like Grant: "Bengal tiger?" Nightingale: "No, Panzerkampfwagen VI Ausf E"
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Oct 4, 2018 19:29
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Foxtrot_13 posted:I think it went more like Moments like this really shine in the audiobooks, as well, because the Narrator loving nails every single accent shift and pronunciation.
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Oct 4, 2018 19:44
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biracial bear for uncut posted:Moments like this really shine in the audiobooks, as well, because the Narrator loving nails every single accent shift and pronunciation. Yeah Kobna Holdbrook-Smith is awesome, even if his American accent is hilariously bad.
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Oct 4, 2018 22:08
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I must have missed it but new Rivers of London book out in November!
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Oct 4, 2018 23:50
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superbelch posted:I must have missed it but new Rivers of London book out in November! New Laundry Files and Baru Cormorant sequel on the 30th of October too.
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Oct 5, 2018 01:27
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xsf421 posted:New Laundry Files and Baru Cormorant sequel on the 30th of October too. Hell yes! (for both) This is the penultimate Laundry Files book, right?
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Oct 5, 2018 03:11
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Proteus Jones posted:Hell yes! (for both) He wrote in his last big writing update that the series will finish in 2–4 books. He wants to keep the universe around in a form that allows him to write books outside the mainline (prequels or side stories), but the basic story will end in 4 books max, since he's feeling finished with it after 20 years writing it.
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Oct 5, 2018 03:42
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No idea if this is applicable outside the UK, but the Kindle store has books 1 to 5 for 99p each as today's deal if you wanted a digital copy or were waiting for a sale to get a friend into the series etc
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Foxtrot_13 posted:I think it went more like quote:“What’s the biggest thing you’ve zapped with a fireball?” I asked. E: And this comes right after Nightingale explains that he prefers to use fireballs rather than guns because they're easier on maintenance, concealability, and paperwork than pistols, and carry a greater/more versatile punch than any pistol he'd care to carry. darthbob88 fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Oct 8, 2018 |
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The Dresden Files Fantasy Novels Being Optioned For A New Series Developmentquote:Jim Butcher's urban fantasy book series The Dresden Files is being developed for a new TV series again, and this time, it will be from Fox21 Studios. ...tentatively excited.
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