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cultureulterior posted:The Waterstones special edition has a short story set right after the last chapter. About driving home to london with the elf child I haven't read the story, but isn't he going back with the human Nicole who was abducted way back when? In the book, the mother wanted to exchange the human child for the elf she raised.
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Are Coe's other series good? I've checked him out on goodreads and all 3 of them (Tobyn, Forelands and the third one) sound like generic fantasy.
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g0del posted:Agreed. Minor spoilers for Annihilation Score: Towards the end of the book, Mo feels betrayed by someone she trusted, and she compares it to how she would feel if Bob had cheated on her. Despite the fact that she's been actively cheating* on Bob! That kind of hypocrisy might be typical for a lot of people, but those are the kind of people that I don't really like very much. I haven't read the new book yet, but didn't Bob leave her because of the violin in the previous one?
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Jul 11, 2015 14:58
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torgeaux posted:Yeah, it is. It's badly written, mostly cliched, and I recommend anyone who wants to try it borrow it and read the first bit. You'll know if you can stand it or not right away. Badly written? Maybe if your reference point is actual literature. Then 99% of fantasy & SF will be badly written. But if it's Dresden, then Generation V is either equal or better than.
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Jul 21, 2015 11:20
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torgeaux posted:No, I'm keeping the level steady. It's badly written, very much so, by the standards of urban fantasy. I know tastes are very different but I didn't see this at all. And I didn't like the first two Dresden books either, the only reason I read the third is cause everyone was saying that that's where it gets good.
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Jul 22, 2015 01:19
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Azuth0667 posted:I knew that part but, is this just hyperbolic hilarity or is that the stated reason of their divorce? I seriously doubt that someone with even a minimum of self-awareness would put "doesn't let me write sex scenes in his book series" as a reason for divorce. That kind of stuff is what the wonderful phrase "irreconcilable differences" exists for.
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Jul 24, 2015 07:16
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coyo7e posted:So we've got "the outsider", who is nearing their own personal coming of age - yet hasn't fully embraced, accepted, or learned his own powers! - takes up "a quest" which the general group he's familiar with cannot/won't take up, and which they don't feel he can overcome.. He meets a magical sidekick and goes through a small training montage to make the most of his unique powers - even if his opponents have the same powers and are more practised, he's got a secret weapon to beat the odds! When you put it like that, it does sound a bit formulaic. On the other hand, this is a thread about Harry Dresden, a wizard PI. Also, doing something like this: Wolpertinger posted:It's just a decent UF series coyo7e posted:(referring to the above quoted Wolpertinger post) Totally gritty urban fantasy makes you look like a poo poo.
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Aug 3, 2015 08:03
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I think it's Policeman, not Detective.
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Aug 21, 2015 07:46
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I've finished the 3 Pax Arcana books and I like 'em. Any other new-ish good UF series?
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Sep 25, 2015 15:20
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Paragon8 posted:The sex workers are humanized just enough to be a titillating backdrop that doesn't condone sex work at all. They're all in it for the money to support their kids or trying to get out of the industry etc. I don't really get the problem with this, was he supposed to portray work in porn as something to strive for?
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Mar 19, 2016 11:09
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Magres posted:You could depict it as a valid life choice instead of something for the desperate and the pathologically vain. I don't know about the vain part, but isn't it mostly for folks who can't get a job that isn't porn and pays as much as porn? I know there are porn stars who've left legitimate careers to work in porn but I've always seen them as a very small percentage.
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Mar 19, 2016 12:27
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I suppose I'm as uncomfortable with sex work as Butcher is. On the other hand, so is the rest of society.
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Mar 19, 2016 12:57
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darth cookie posted:I didn't want to get into this stupid argument but please don't speak for the rest of society. I'm part of the rest of society and you don't speak for me. You know what I mean, you're being obtuse on purpose.
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Mar 19, 2016 13:11
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darth cookie posted:No I'm not. I don't care what you personally believe about sex workers. You are entitled to your opinion, whatever that may be, but you don't get to claim that everyone agrees with you or shares that opinion.
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Mar 19, 2016 13:50
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jivjov posted:He writes Harry as a big goony guy who can leer quite a bit, but then suddenly turns around and takes a moral high ground against a lot of casual sexuality. It's called being human.
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Mar 20, 2016 17:55
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Omi no Kami posted:I just caught up with the Rook show, and holy crap this is garbage. We all knew it was gonna be, but holy cow. it's impressively bad
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Jul 21, 2019 19:27
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anilEhilated posted:Going through the first book of the King's Watch series that was briefly talked about here a couple pages ago. I'm leaning on the "uncomfortably Tory" interpretation from what I've seen so far, with stuff like the main character sadly remarking that very few breakfast places in London are not run by foreigners and so on. I don't remember that part but this is definitely wrong. I didn't really like the series so I quit after book 2 or so, but I didn't pick up any "tory" undertones, especially "uncomfortably Tory" ones.
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Apr 2, 2020 17:31
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FairyNuff posted:To note: Well, there's me told off. Don't know how I missed some of these.
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Apr 3, 2020 20:32
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young john constantine would somehow help voldemort escape from azkaban or wherever and then adult john constantine would trick him into going back (but only after he's killed a fair number of constantine's friends and/or family, never constantine himself)
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Jun 3, 2020 07:56
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Beachcomber posted:I'm reading the latest Laundry files book and I got very angry around page 100 when I realized what he was doing. what's that? I haven't read it and probably won't but put it in spoiler tags for those who will.
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Jan 31, 2021 11:43
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Omi no Kami posted:Hmm, I'm looking for a terrible book out of morbid curiosity, but I can't for the life of me remember what it's called: it was a fascinatingly bad story about a guy who was basically a cross between Florida Man and an NRA lobbyist, who went around shooting every single monster he saw with just oh-so many guns, pausing between action beats to wax poetic about all of the awesome guns he was using to horribly murder things. My brain seems to think it was an Eric Flint book called Monster Hunter, but I'm pretty sure both the author and title are way off. lmao would it surprise you that the author was the initiator of the sad puppies campaign
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Apr 18, 2021 19:39
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Mike/M. R. Carey is a recommendation whatever genre/medium he's working in. I haven't read his Felix Castor series but everything else has been very good.
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Aug 20, 2021 17:17
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biracial bear for uncut posted:Yeah, he was the guy that wrote the Lucifer comics everyone loves when that character got his own series separate from Gaiman's Sandman, right? yes to all of this rampart is already finished (book 1 & 2 came out last year, book 3 in this one) as far as his comics works goes, also read crossing midnight, the unwritten, the highest house and the dollhouse family i'm sad that there probably won't be more of the highest house
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Aug 21, 2021 09:13
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InCryptid: I liked the prequel stories much more than the main series, which I quit after 5 or 6 books. The Aeslin mice rule.
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Your Uncle Dracula posted:What would be the worst were-thing to enter a paranormal romance with? were-rat of course
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Beachcomber posted:Codex Alera finished with book 6, afaik. yes, 15 years ago. the son is the better writer, IMO, I enjoyed the two books he's put out so far.
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