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I just finished Ivanhoe. My boss was clearing out his book shelf and gave it to me, a really nice leather-bound with gilded pages. I actually had no idea what the book was about before I cracked it, but turns out it's about knights and Robin Hood and stuff which I really dig.
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I tore through No Easy Day by "Mark Owen" in about a day and a half. It was a decent military memoir, although it was clearly cashing in on being a recent event. One thing that stuck out with me was that despite being a "kill or capture" mission, they didn't even try to hide that they blew Bin Laden away as soon as they saw him, then ran up to his body and shot him until he stopped twitching. Owen says words to the effect of "kept shooting until he wasn't a threat" but then three paragraphs later says Bin Laden's weapons were across the room and not loaded..
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The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson. I never thought I'd enjoy a hard fantasy economic thriller, but here we are.
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Oh hey I just realized who you are :p I've been reading your short stories online too, I like 'em.
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RiotGearEpsilon posted:Hey, as long as I've got you in the thread - are the Clarified at all inspired by / derived from the Dunyain from the Second Apocalypse sextet? Another question from the peanut gallery: Do you have a HEMA background? Cause I do and your swordfight scenes were legit.
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I finished all ten of Stephen R. Donaldson's The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. It was epic. Some of the most bad rear end scenes I can recall reading in a fantasy series, as well as some of the most tedious let-everyone-talk-about-their-feelings-in-turn-before-anything-else-can-happen scenes. 7/10
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A human heart posted:I'm glad that there's finally a book that explains the political success of Donald Trump iirc from reading that book years ago, he wrote it to explain the election of Bush Jr.
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Read each book in publication order, then listen to each episode of the Kurt Vonneguys after you finish each book.
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Peanut Butler posted:Discworld I'm finding Discworld to be very horny, it just doesn't happen to any of the POV characters or on-screen.
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I go through phases where I'll read an author's entire corpus. I like to see how they develop book to book. I took long breaks between the McCarthy's.
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Gaius Marius posted:David Wong pretending to be Asian for a decade is funnier than the novel ever was. He didn't pretend to be Asian, he was playing a gag that he was in hiding and Wong was the most common name in the phone book. This joke aged poorly and he dropped it.
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FreelanceSocialist posted:Just finished The Colour Of Magic and The Light Fantastic by Sir Terry Pratchett. I am now a dozen pages into Equal Rites. This is going to consume the next few months of my life, won't it? Ah, publication order. A goon of culture I see. And yes.
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