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I got an early delivery email, but I guess it never showed up because it's memorial day.
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StoneOfShame posted:God I need to get a little sleep but, spoiler for chapter 23 that was not what I was expecting for the parasite at all, but I suppose it totally ties in with the Athena comparison someone had in the old thread, spirit of intellect and goddess of wisdom. How can I stop reading now? Easy! You pass out because its 2 in the morning! http://i.imgur.com/f6gotdm.jpg Seriously though, I reacted the same way Murphy did...right up until I realized this means Lash is dead
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May 27, 2014 06:53
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Little Witch on the Prairie? ..er..on the island that drives people insane in the middle of the great lakes? This series needs some more short stories at least. Especially from the perspective of characters who can't wave their hands to rip open holes in reality and deflect bullets ,and who can't get back up from demons, angels, goblins, faeries, magic dogs and Santa Claus. Ghetto Prince fucked around with this message at 12:20 on May 30, 2014 |
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May 30, 2014 12:12
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I didn't like the first two , but I picked up Unbound because you fuckers wont stop raving about it. The cover is loving terrible though, even by Urban Fantasy standards.
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Jan 26, 2015 01:40
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ConfusedUs posted:Judging a book by its cover     This thread is great at finding good urban fantasy, but the genre started out as vampire/werewolf/faerie porn and it's no coincidence that the Dresden Files is full of sexy vampires, werewolves and faeries.
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Jan 27, 2015 01:16
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Did they sell seven million books? Because Anita Blake did and that's what everyone else is trying to cash in on.
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Jan 27, 2015 11:06
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Guilty Pleasures came out in 93, and started to make bank with werewolf/vampire sex around 97/98. I know Hamilton introduced Butcher to her own agent and helped him get Storm Front published around 2000.
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Jan 28, 2015 02:36
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Ornamented Death posted:By your logic the horror genre didn't get started until the mid-70s when Stephen King started making millions off of each book. All I'm saying is that the modern subgenre of urban fantasy was created by Hamilton when she realized that werewolf sex sells books, and that her success influenced publishers and authors.
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Jan 28, 2015 18:05
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None of those examples are urban fantasy.
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Jan 28, 2015 22:03
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Ornamented Death posted:Which is more likely: Glen Cook's Garrett series isn't urban fantasy, or you're just an idiot? If that's urban fantasy than so is Discworld and Harry Potter. Ghetto Prince fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Jan 29, 2015 |
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Jan 29, 2015 01:14
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This thread can get really loving weird.
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Apr 11, 2015 09:44
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Kea posted:Not out till tail end of september. If you like stuff in that vein, there's this really good old series of short stories called Alabaster , about an albino girl who travels the south to hunt and kill monsters at the orders of an Angel or possibly about a psychopathic albino drifter who travels the south murdering random people, the stories are really vague about that. It got made into a decent graphic novel at one point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabaster_%28book%29 http://www.amazon.com/Alabaster-Horse-Caitlin-R-Kiernan/dp/1616553006/ref=pd_bxgy_14_text_z http://www.amazon.com/Alabaster-Wolves-Caitlin-R-Kiernan/dp/1616550252 Ghetto Prince fucked around with this message at 09:14 on Aug 8, 2015 |
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Aug 8, 2015 03:34
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http://www.jim-butcher.com/books/cinder-spires/the-aeronauts-windlass-1/aeronauts-windlass-prologue I just read the first sample chapter from Butcher's new book; the dialogue is terrible.
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Aug 27, 2015 10:44
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There's supposed to be some more samples coming out this week; it stumbled at the gate, but i guess you can't judge an entire book from one short chapter.Mars4523 posted:I thought Furies of Calderon were the worst of the lot. Books 3 and 4 were the series' peak, but the last two books weren't so much bad as they were disappointing. Like someone else said, it may be that Butcher can't divide his attention. He's been working on this one for three years, and the last Dresden files book was also a step down in terms of quality. I still enjoyed it, but it's the first one in years that I haven't reread.
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Aug 29, 2015 17:10
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Huh, I think it sounds more like a mash up of Jack Aubrey , Treasure Planet and The Aristocats.
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Sep 2, 2015 08:02
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They don't have to be Dickensian - The Clockwork Century is a fun "fantasy , but with goggles" series that turned out well. http://theclockworkcentury.com/?page_id=2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boneshaker_%28novel%29 Wait , never mind, it's been a few years since I read them and I forgot how bleak the whole setting is.... Yeah, you're probably on to something there.
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Sep 3, 2015 09:37
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Finally picked up the new Libriomancer and I'm about a hundred pages in. The characters and dialogue are getting a bit better , and I like how the reaction to magic is a modern day HUAC doing a literal witch hunt.
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Feb 16, 2016 05:21
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Oh nice, I didn't realize Stiletto would be out this year. Khizan posted:I'll sum up the entirety of the important bits of Fool Moon and save you the trouble. "Dresden saves some werewolf college students and they become his friends" I still think he was trying to go for the traditional werewolf/vampire sex audience ,and that he was as surprised as everyone else when it became a hit fantasy series.
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Jul 18, 2016 11:26
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Just dropping back in to say that the American Gods TV adaptation is the best urban fantasy I've seen in years. And also, goddamn, it's been three years since Skin Game was released.
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Have any must reads come out in the past four years? I haven't read any dumb urban fantasy since the last Dresden book came out and I kind of miss it.
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