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May 24, 2014 23:05
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I'll remove it, I preordered it so long ago I just was surprised when it showed up today, and planned on catching up on the thread when I finished.
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May 24, 2014 23:16
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OneTwentySix posted:Without spoiling anything, can someone who's read it confirm that it's really good? Finished half of it so far, and I don't think I'll get any sleep before I'm done with the rest.
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May 25, 2014 01:22
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Darth Walrus posted:Anyone else finished The Severed Streets yet? Because whoo, what a ride. Just got an email saying release has been pushed back to 2015, it was listed as beginning of june when I ordered 
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May 26, 2014 18:41
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I think the hardcover is out here as well, but I ordered the paperback since the release date was a week later and it was less than half the price. Guess someone mixed the dates up in the database. Guess I'll pick it up next time I'm in the UK cause there is no way I'm paying 20 euros for it.
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May 26, 2014 18:47
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Fried Chicken posted:Harry has such a strong anti-authority streak he remains anti-authority even when he has become the authority. That reminds me of Vimes.
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May 30, 2014 00:31
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The guys missing a big pointy red hat that says wizzard on it.
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Jun 5, 2014 23:26
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Raygereio posted:That might have been retconned. In Small Favor it's mentioned Ivy's mother killed herself. Maybe she didn't do a good job?
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Jun 12, 2014 20:10
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limited posted:Ditto. I don't mind them too much, expecting how they tend to go. But it's definitely wince-worthy in plenty of places. I'd recommend the Alex Verus books by Benedict Jacka. They can get a bit angsty and drawn out in places, but they're not bad. Might pick up the first one next time I'm in town, has anyone else read them?
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Jun 28, 2014 01:17
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Felix castor is pretty decent. I also just finished the first alex versa book, and enjoed it (I always want to call him alex versus). His magical abilities are pretty cool and original.
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Aug 4, 2014 22:21
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I finished the four alex versa books in about a week, they weren't as over the top awesome as the Dresden files and unlike harry alex can be a pragmatic ruthless bastard, but overall I enjoyed them. Slightly off topic but while preording the new bobby dollar book I saw the shadowmarch books on sale, are they decent?
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Aug 15, 2014 00:34
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Rhymenoserous posted:The Unseelie Accords are the basis for feudalism I think you mean. I thought the accords were recentish.
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Aug 27, 2014 18:44
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darth cookie posted:Why does the publishing industry do anything? On a similar note; why does amazon charge insane shipping costs from the US to Australia, when I can buy the exact same books from thebookdepository (which is OWNED BY AMAZON) and get free shipping, and often a cheaper title price? Half the time when I order stuff from nongerman amazon due to significant price differences, it is still shipped from the german warehouses, and I am still charged international shipping.
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Sep 13, 2014 09:45
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NinjaDebugger posted:He pretty much gets this out of the way in the first book. Either 1) The book is locked, or 2) The book isn't widely read enough, so it doesn't have enough power for you to pull X busted-rear end thing out. Or 3) You pull out a sonic screwdriver and can't figure out how to get it to work.
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Sep 21, 2014 18:47
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probably legal perl. In other news you can now preorder dresden files #16, for feb 2016 release.
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Oct 22, 2014 11:41
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^^^^^^ its true!daggerdragon posted:Provide us a link, man! Amazon.de here
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Oct 22, 2014 21:05
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I'm most of the way through the book, and I just noticed that (non plot related)when he gets a ride in a car someone mentions how the only CD in the car is a Best of Queens CD, I'm wondering whether that is a callout to Good Omens.
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Jan 14, 2015 20:31
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The thing Is the American publisher has (pseudo)exclusive rights in the US and sets the release dates, the UK publisher does the same for the UK, and in Germany you can buy from both since they are imported anyway.
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Jan 27, 2015 21:02
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Weird, over here they send single books in cardboard envelope like things and multiple books include wadded up paper as padding. I still try to avoid them because I prefer buying from companies that pay taxes in my country.
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Feb 10, 2015 00:57
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Does anyone have the quote from pratchett on writing YA stories handy? I seem to recall him saying YA is darker. I can't find it.
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Mar 6, 2015 19:00
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That sounds like the plot of a really bad book and not something that would really happen. WTF is wrong with people?
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Apr 7, 2015 19:34
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All I heard about the entire thing before was a comment somewhere saying that books should be nominated base on the quality of the book, and not just because the author fulfills some criteria. Sendng pictures of guns to people seems like there was quite a bit of information missing. Personally I would prefer the award going to a lesser known author, I think jim butcher has sold enough books to not need the extra attention. (To paraphrase what pterry said about never winning one)
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Apr 7, 2015 20:01
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Deptfordx posted:According to Stross's blog Pterry bowed out of accepting Hugo nominations after his first one because he had Angina and found the waiting for the announcment at the ceremony so stressful he couldn't face going through it again. I didn't know that. I just read what Stross had written earlier, and interpreted it that way. quote:Terry had not won a Hugo. He didn't need to. (As he said, "I was in the audience at some literary awards ceremony or other with J. K. Rowling one time, and she was lamenting how they'd never give her one, so I turned to her and I said, Jo, me neither: we'll just have to cry ourselves to sleep on top of our mattresses stuffed with £20 notes."
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Apr 8, 2015 18:57
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ookiimarukochan posted:For what it's worth a more appropriate address would be 85 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7TP, United Kingdom Going from the last time I was in London and google maps, is that MI6?
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Jul 6, 2015 00:38
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That reminded me to search for the building whose roof was completely covered in satellite dishes just before vauxhall station: 1 Wyvil Rd, London SW8 2SU, UK Officially a broadcaster ... yeah...
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Jul 6, 2015 18:47
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Wouldn't you start with the prequel though?
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Oct 16, 2015 20:03
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Ramadu posted:Man I just finished up that 20 Palaces stuff and now I'm sad there aren't more of them. Why would a publisher drop them when they publish so many other terrible books? because terrible books sell. I really wish that series would continue, I finished it a couple of weeks back and thought it was a quite interesting setting and a decent story. E: I had the dead tree editions, didn't notice any editing issues. Ika fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Feb 3, 2016 |
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Feb 3, 2016 19:19
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Oroborus posted:Have there been any updates on Peace Talks? I thought it was mentioned it was due to the editor by Jan 1st. This is taken from his website "•As of January 2016: Jim is currently writing Peace Talks (#16), so we’re still quite a ways from having a release date."
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Feb 24, 2016 00:11
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Tunicate posted:Amazon just makes dates up. Hence why I got an email the other day saying "good news, dresden files is coming out earlier than expected", with a date for September now instead of October.
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May 3, 2016 20:37
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One thing I thought of while reading burned (alex verus): The bubble realm sounds a lot like the ways from WOT. I wonder if that was just my interpretation, random chance, or a callout.
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May 10, 2016 21:59
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OmniBeer posted:Ah, see, I was baffled by you loving Owen too, and I think this might be why- in the latest book, he's in it A LOT- the book is pretty much even thirds- and so much of his chapters is just, "What! Banking? ONLINE? What's an internet? drat kids." I'm reading the latest book now because I got it for cheap and am waiting on other books to arrive, and its fairly tedious... I'd tell myself "I'll stop reading these" but at some point I'll run out of books and see the next one on sale and probably grab it as well.
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May 29, 2016 23:48
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Who killed sherlock holmes chapter one spoiler: LOL @ "The force has been with you"
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Jun 2, 2016 23:54
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So, I now finished Who killed Sherlock Holmes. After reading it it seems like its doing a significant amount of setup for whatever is coming next, but it feel like it answered that many questions about the otherarching story.
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Jun 11, 2016 16:30
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mirthdefect posted:Is it better than the previous one? I really enjoyed the first, but the bullshit with Gaiman really messed with the tone and soured me on the second. Glad to hear about the overarching story stuff though, it certainly has potential there. I'd say its between the first and the second one, but I put aside a half finished iron druid book when this one arrived so maybe I just didn't have high expectations.
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Jun 12, 2016 20:57
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Just got an updated shipping date for peace files. September .... 2017. Hopefully that is just a wildly inaccurate random guess and it will come out earlier.
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Aug 14, 2016 18:40
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Stupid nerdy rulemongering libriomancer question: At some point I think it was said there was no need to lock large objects, because they were too big to let libriomancers pull them out of a book. Now that there is at least one person that can use e-readers, what is stopping them from using a stadium screen setup as an e-reader and pulling out spaceships?
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Sep 11, 2016 19:26
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Cythereal posted:It's the first time I've ever gone back and read the series from the start. It's interesting to see how things evolved and potential plot threads like Dresden speculating a MIB/TFV equivalent is around, the as-yet unanswered question of where the FBI agents got the Hexenwulf belts from, and the suggestion that Saint Patrick created the loup-garou. Any of those could be a great hook for a future book. y only reread so far was a while after ghost story came out, and I went backwards.It was interesting seeing how every book he was just a little bit weaker.
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Oct 2, 2016 22:20
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RockyB posted:Interesting if rather British concept, our government does have a habit of privatising every single thing it thinks it can get away with. If anyone thinks selling off our defence against eldritch horrors might be going a bit too far, well just look at what happened with QinetiQ / DSTL in the defence sector. Then National Rail, then British Gas, then the recent Post Office fiasco... Isn't most of the six month wait because the book was just about done, brexit happened, and stross said that his entire satire of the british government was much tamer than reality and he had to rewrite it all?
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Jan 2, 2017 21:33
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I'm gonna read it this weekend, already lost too much sleep this week due to glass predator.
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Apr 5, 2017 20:42
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jivjov posted:He's living with his fiancee's family. What are they supposed to do, go buy a new house while they wait for construction to finish on the house they already contracted? Rent an office in a building that may or may not be owned by vampires and laced with C4? E: Whoops, didn't realize I was so far behind. So instead, is there any ETA on a fourth shadow police book? Ika fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Sep 5, 2017 |
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Sep 5, 2017 20:04
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