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BENGHAZI 2 posted:I'm rereading cold days for the first time since it came out, and I haven't read ant Dresden since skin game released probably. It was one of the short stories.
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Proteus Jones posted:It was one of the short stories. Gah Do you remember which collection Edit looks like Something Borrowed from Side Jobs, Will and Georgia's wedding BENGHAZI 2 fucked around with this message at 05:07 on Feb 7, 2019 |
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Dear Jim gimme a short story set before Cold Days about Sarissa and Mab hanging out thanks love Dickeye
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:Dear Jim gimme a short story set before Cold Days about Sarissa and Mab hanging out thanks love Dickeye Yeah, sure. He'll get right on that right after he starts writing Peace Talks.
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biracial bear for uncut posted:Yeah, sure. He'll get right on that right after he starts writing Peace Talks. You realize he started that one ages ago, right? Like...we've gotten an excerpt and everything
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Yeah, it’s in the same status as Winds of Winter.
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Drone Jett posted:Yeah, it’s in the same status as Winds of Winter. Technically speaking, at least the tv writers have finished *a* version of WoW.
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biracial bear for uncut posted:Yeah, sure. He'll get right on that right after he starts writing Peace Talks. There's a post on the website that basically says "it's been a couple crazy fuckin years here, my bad" and I choose to believe him that things like getting divorced and remarried and moving and poo poo eat into time to write At least he's not blogging about the bears every week
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Finished the Hum and The Shiver and cannot recommend it. I suppose its rural fantasy, might not belong in this thread. A well-written novel that makes a bunch of mistakes and the book loves to tell you how promiscuous the protagonist is. It's so bad that I thought I was reading a bad romance novel. The tufa are mysterious, but without anything to ground them or to create a base set of rules, they seem to gain powers as the plot demands. Guess I'll read the Laundry Files next, thats a good series right?
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Exmond posted:Guess I'll read the Laundry Files next, thats a good series right? It's intermittently great, good, and not-so-good. Charles Stross is a good writer, but he also likes to experiment and gets bored easily, so for a while each of the laundry files books was written in a different style to satirize a different genre: book one is "What if the X-files had an IT department?", book 2 is "What if James Bond, but Lovecraft?", etc. After a while he dropped the pastiche, and that was also fine. But sometimes they don't stick the landing on a cohesive theme (Book 6: "What if superheroes, but also feminism and clinical depression?") or are just kind of weird (Book 7: "I unno, maybe some elves and poo poo?"). I like the first 3 books a lot.
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Oh dang I didn't know Starz was doing a Rook series. Neat. Good.
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Deathlove posted:Oh dang I didn't know Starz was doing a Rook series. Neat. Good. gently caress guess I’m getting Starz
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Deathlove posted:Oh dang I didn't know Starz was doing a Rook series. Neat. Good. I lost all interest when Stephanie Meyer was involved.
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Just went thru a re-listen of the Rivers of London series...and I skipped the Hanging Tree because I actively disliked it first time around. So, I decided to go back and give it a chance. Nope. Bad book.
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biracial bear for uncut posted:I lost all interest when Stephanie Meyer was involved. Good news! https://www.indiewire.com/2019/02/the-rook-why-stephenie-meyer-left-olivia-munn-therapy-1202043698/
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jng2058 posted:Good news! https://www.indiewire.com/2019/02/the-rook-why-stephenie-meyer-left-olivia-munn-therapy-1202043698/ And instead we find out that Olivia Munn thinks that crystals and magnets make her injuries heal quicker. I'm not sure who's worse.
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Tornhelm posted:And instead we find out that Olivia Munn thinks that crystals and magnets make her injuries heal quicker. I'm not sure who's worse. Well one person would actively ruin every aspect of what makes the books great and the other will play with shiny rocks in between takes.
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"Aldrich needs to be more sparkly. Also, I think we need a love triangle between Gestalt, Myfanwy, and Gestalt."
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Just got the email that book 10 of Alex Verus is slated for late September. I can't loving wait.  Been a while since I took a day to read a book, and I might do just that. Really hoping we get more on his relationship with Caldera and a bit more Vari and Luna this time around.
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NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:Just got the email that book 10 of Alex Verus is slated for late September. I can't loving wait. I have some Anne news for you.
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Anyone read Jade City? Amazon is trying to hawk it to me for one euro and at that price I'm willing to take the plunge, but still...
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I read it when it came out and I enjoyed it. The magic system is kinda cool.
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anilEhilated posted:Anyone read Jade City? Amazon is trying to hawk it to me for one euro and at that price I'm willing to take the plunge, but still... Your answer to the question "wouldn't it be great if somebody crossed the Godfather with wuxia?" will answer the question "would I like to read Jade City?"
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Hey just an FYI as of a couple days ago the Peace Talks draft is at chapter 46. We might get a 2019 release date assuming the editing process isn't too crazy.
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I would shitcan that draft at the first typo I saw if it took this many years for the writer to turn it in.
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Yeah, I only read it not long after it came out and still haven't got round to Stilleto, but I remember it being a lot more.....fun than that looks. Despite the plot borrowing heavily from Bourne, it wasn't really a spy pastiche in tone. I mean, was it pure comedy in parts or am I misremembering? Junkenstein fucked around with this message at 13:28 on Mar 9, 2019 |
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Junkenstein posted:I mean, was it pure comedy in parts or am I misremembering? Naw, you're remembering correctly, it's definitely got a lot of overtly farcical elements. The end of the book with the main bad guy gloatingly revealing his evil master-plan in detail, when the protagonist just spent the entire book carefully dismantling said plan piece by piece because the main bad guy accidentally miscalculated and spent an extra week in suspended animation and hasn't stopped to check his emails yet is one of the finest long-game jokes I've ever seen in fiction.
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I mean, all the stuff in the trailer is also in the book. It is, after all, a book about someone who got murdered and then a new persona that arose in the body is trying to not get killed again, while trying to blend into a secret organization, while also trying to investigate her own murder and fighting terrorism at the same time. I feel it's a bit too early to say whether they completely blew the more light-hearted bits or whether they just chose to focus on the more 'exciting' stuff for the first trailer.
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From what I remember of The Rook, most of the comedy was in the writing, not plot events. Just going by what happens in the book would make for a pretty serious-faced UF series. That being said, the trailer seems boring as hell and utterly charmless.
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"Abilities only possible at the extreme edge of human biology." The book includes a freaking vampire and a person who can fly without wings. I'm pretty sure this one line tells us everything we need to know about how much attention they paid to the book. The trailer also seems to have missed the huge personality change in Myfanwy that took place in the book. The sudden transformation from retiring and easily controlled nerd to murderously assertive super spy boss is admittedly understated in the writing since the new personality doesn't realize how much she diverged from her old one but it's a pretty key element in why everyone kept underestimating her even after she survived multiple assassination attempts. I'll probably still give it a try as long as it comes out on one of the streaming services.
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LLSix posted:I'll probably still give it a try as long as it comes out on one of the streaming services. It's on Starz. It won't be.
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Wait until all the episodes have aired, then binge it during a free Starz trial on Amazon.
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anilEhilated posted:From what I remember of The Rook, most of the comedy was in the writing, not plot events. Just going by what happens in the book would make for a pretty serious-faced UF series. It's this.
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I don't know. The whole bit with the dragon would be pretty funny. From the pompous kid getting eaten to the kinetic bombardment.
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Most of what makes the Rook work is Myfanwy's internal monologue/dialogue with her past self. It'll be really hard to translate that to screen. I'm glad the author got a payday.
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