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unrelated to pringles i am downloading these books now lol
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I got the tude now posted:gene wolfe was also an engineer for 30 years before he was a full-time writer. his most well known achievement was designing the machine that cooks pringles and the pringles guy is a nod to him and his iconic curly mustache. ordering the book now out of respect
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Mar 9, 2023 22:44
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I got the tude now posted:gene wolfe was also an engineer for 30 years before he was a full-time writer. his most well known achievement was designing the machine that cooks pringles and the pringles guy is a nod to him and his iconic curly mustache. engineers-turned-authors ftw
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Mar 9, 2023 22:45
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ive always wanted a fuligin cloak
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Mar 9, 2023 23:00
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When a friend pitched BotNS to me he omitted that it was a dying earth story and led me to believe it was just a dark fantasy setting. It was only when I got to a specific description of something that didn't make sense, re-read it a couple times, and realized what was actually being described that I was like 
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Mar 9, 2023 23:00
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MeatwadIsGod posted:When a friend pitched BotNS to me he omitted that it was a dying earth story and led me to believe it was just a dark fantasy setting. It was only when I got to a specific description of something that didn't make sense, re-read it a couple times, and realized what was actually being described that I was like i have one of these moments every time i read a wolfe book. he's the master.
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Mar 9, 2023 23:07
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copy posted:this sounds badass
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Mar 9, 2023 23:14
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I can confirm that Book of the New Sun owns. Did anyone read Long Sun/Short Sun, and if so are they good too? I always meant to read them but never got around to it.
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Mar 9, 2023 23:39
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I read Long Sun and didn't care for it that much. The first book in the series is great as a standalone and has almost a noir vibe to it, but the rest of the series gets bogged down in really long, dry, over-expository dialog. There's still some great characters in it, though. I heard Short Sun is really good but haven't gotten around to it because I want to read his Soldier series first.
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Mar 9, 2023 23:50
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Dr Kool-AIDS posted:I can confirm that Book of the New Sun owns. Did anyone read Long Sun/Short Sun, and if so are they good too? I always meant to read them but never got around to it. a lot of people dont like long sun as much but i loved it. it's got some good political intrigue but it's a big departure from new sun. i think it has some of his best characters. MeatwadIsGod posted:I read Long Sun and didn't care for it that much. The first book in the series is great as a standalone and has almost a noir vibe to it, but the rest of the series gets bogged down in really long, dry, over-expository dialog. There's still some great characters in it, though. I heard Short Sun is really good but haven't gotten around to it because I want to read his Soldier series first. i had a false start with soldier of the mists. the setting being based on history really made it clear that i'm dumb as poo poo. it's the most intimidating thing of his i've read.
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Mar 9, 2023 23:53
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VanderMeer owns and I think my favourite thing by him is still City of Saints and Madmen. It's basically... urban Gormenghast or some poo poo, just incredible setting and atmosphere. Stories/characters are kind of eh
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Mar 9, 2023 23:57
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I got the tude now posted:i had a false start with soldier of the mists. the setting being based on history really made it clear that i'm dumb as poo poo. it's the most intimidating thing of his i've read. That's how I felt reading it too, Wolfe definitely makes you work for it. There's a ton going on in New Sun too, plenty of which I'm sure went totally over my head, but I feel like it was better at being something you could read on either a surface level as a series of adventures or really dig into it to try to figure out more of what's really going on and get an enjoyable experience either way.
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Mar 10, 2023 00:06
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Jon Padgett is killing it with the narration in this Ligotti audiobook  >> clip <<
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Mar 10, 2023 00:28
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HolePisser1982 posted:Jon Padgett is killing it with the narration in this Ligotti audiobook thats so sick lol
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Mar 10, 2023 00:36
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NickRoweFillea posted:Thanks for the heads up, I think I’m gonna read The Martian. Lol ya exactly. They're scared and they're French they don't know poo poo, no idea why they think a crocodile has whiskers. Than the slow realisation owned. The statues were so so good too. I think the battle with the angel just after the riot with the guy raising the dead was my favourite. Just Thomas mind twisting not able to at all comprehend what was actually happening. HolePisser1982 posted:my buddy talks so much poo poo about the third book so i'm itchin' to get to it. but i'm loving having all these companion pieces to the movie to dig into, the gamer part of my brain almost sees it like epic bonus DLC for one of my favorite IPs, lol. but also, Jeff Vandermeer has written the forewords to like half the books ive read since covid, so it's gratifying to finally read his actual work If you liked the second one you'll like the third imo they're really a Part 1 and 2 I think. The third one does explain some stuff in a lot of detail and plain English which surprised me and I'd have rathered never knowing the answer to that stuff. Was still interesting though. The rest of that book is very weird and vague and the usual fare though. So it's strange to find it really bad but not the second one imo. I think of it like one of those cooking competiotsn where one guy made a movie with the ingredients and one guy made a book with them. And hell I'm gonna eat both dishes baby
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Mar 10, 2023 00:39
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Got a really nice illustrated hardback of all the earthsea books so gonna start those tonight
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Mar 10, 2023 00:39
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Fungah! posted:thats so sick lol ive only read 7 or 8 of his short stories but i can safely say that thomas ligotti loving pwns. eaaasy recommend
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Mar 10, 2023 01:37
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We got the books unpacked and I have Shadow and Claw waiting so hell maybe I’ll start it tonight.
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Mar 10, 2023 01:43
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EmmyOk posted:Got a really nice illustrated hardback of all the earthsea books so gonna start those tonight Earthsea owns. It feels like the story kind of peters out towards the end but I guess that's kind of the point, and what a journey getting there anyway
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Mar 10, 2023 01:48
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drat. I have a trip coming up, might go out and pick up book of the new sun before I leave. Sounds awesome
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Mar 10, 2023 02:25
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Read a few chapters so far and it’s evocative as gently caress, really glad I decided to start it thanks to this thread
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Mar 10, 2023 03:00
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 i was tellin you about that prose dog
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Mar 10, 2023 03:02
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Hearing this as an argument between Llewelyn and Chigurh
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Mar 10, 2023 03:07
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one piece is crazy good this week.
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Mar 10, 2023 03:24
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Man this 13 Nights with Elvira show was like a dream come true when I saw it on le Peacock (truth be told lmfao I only know about her from pinball and Wrestlemania 3) but either she ain’t funny or the writers aren’t. Anyway here was a joke, Guy talking about the “Avocado Affair” and then Elvira’s clippy pop up of her pogging says, “*babloop* He’s had a lot of affairs with avocados”. Bro. Wtf. Get real.
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Mar 10, 2023 07:54
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The worst part is I’m actually kinda into the movie lol. So Elvira is just blowing the vibe. Come on…
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Mar 10, 2023 07:56
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I got the tude now posted:gene wolfe was also an engineer for 30 years before he was a full-time writer. his most well known achievement was designing the machine that cooks pringles and the pringles guy is a nod to him and his iconic curly mustache. Wtf I’m getting this book from the library asap
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EmmyOk posted:Lol ya exactly. They're scared and they're French they don't know poo poo, no idea why they think a crocodile has whiskers. Than the slow realisation owned. The statues were so so good too. I think the battle with the angel just after the riot with the guy raising the dead was my favourite. Just Thomas mind twisting not able to at all comprehend what was actually happening. That section with the harrowing was so good. Thinking about both how and how much he suffered…it’ll drive you to church. I love that loving book.
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I think the girl’s encounter with Madam Broom or whatever the weird witchcraft creature was called was the bit that scared me most, when it’s just a creepy voice circling around her in the dark and every now and then it brushes against her and she gets a slight feel of how hosed up it is. I feel like a lot of horror authors try to do the “only use vague descriptions so the reader’s imagination conjures up something scarier than you could write” thing but most flub it, but when it does work it affects me like nothing else. The most scared I’ve ever been while reading a book was the bit in The Haunting of Hill House when the narrator and Theo are hiding in her locked room and listening to the ghost walk down the hallway and try every door, and then after failing to get into their room it makes it into the next one and they can hear it walking around and chattering to itself. Nothing really happened but the scene is set up so good to get your own imagination running.
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It sounds lame written out like that but the way Shirley Jackson wrote it affected me so bad that I put the book down, got up, and locked my own bedroom door lol. Just in case.
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:It sounds lame written out like that but the way Shirley Jackson wrote it affected me so bad that I put the book down, got up, and locked my own bedroom door lol. Just in case. It’s not lame! It’s a sign of good writing!
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Mar 10, 2023 16:43
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doin my hxh rewatch and i just got to the spiders requiem, just fuckin incredible
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I'm loving how straightforward the actual plot of Book of the New Sun is. Like, it feels like Wolfe isn't cheating or being unnecessarily complicated, he's just letting me feel stupid all on my own as I try to piece together what's going on under the hood.
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I fell asleep during my Elvira sesh. She reels back the popping up to riff on poo poo thankfully. She’s nice to look at but not when she’s over selling a naughty joke she couldn’t have popped wood with in the 70s. Anyway I don’t recommend it, especially to Elvira fans. But Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle is kinda cool.
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Mar 10, 2023 22:42
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Wormskull posted:I fell asleep during my Elvira sesh.
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Mar 10, 2023 23:08
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Been there brother. Hope it went to screensaver lmao
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Mar 10, 2023 23:10
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Been there brother. Hope it went to screensaver lmao
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Mar 10, 2023 23:11
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Been there brother. Hope it went to screensaver
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Been there brother. Hope it went to screensaver Lol
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Elvira is the topless chick on the cover of Tom Waits - Small Change
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