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The precinct novels by Kieth Candido are pretty good. Fantasy csi/detective stories are my jam. Has a bi lead if you just gotta know about a character's sex life. Not really brought up often. There's a new series called 5th Ward by Dale Lucas that's pretty good. It's also fantasy detective/investigation stuff. I think Glen Cook wrote a fantasy detective series as well, can't recall it offhand, had metal in the names of the book like cold copper tears or something like that. The copper cat stores is pretty good as well. Not really a detective series but a decent fantasy series. The god fragments series by Tom Lloyd is pretty good also.
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New calibre is out, up to 4.0.
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Oct 4, 2019 22:05
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The Last Policeman was pretty good, but was in no way an upbeat book. Was honestly surprised at how well the story came together.
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Oct 7, 2019 09:38
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ToxicFrog posted:you might want to check out Rachel Aaron's Legend of Eli Monpress (5 books + 1 prequel novella; fun as hell but not particularly queer) Yea, there's not anything really queer going on in the series but it is a really good fantasy one. It's one of the few you can say PLEASE DO NOT JUDGE THIS BY THE COVER because for some reason the first few covers look like some weird romance novel, when it's really not. Like, exceptionally not.
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Oct 9, 2019 17:25
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Didn't he write a book where some gay warrior guy ends up getting his nephew or something killed because he volunteered to fight in his place, and then ended up loving an elf or something and it turns out that in elf land time passes WAY FASTER so a night for him was like a week for normal people?
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Oct 10, 2019 22:04
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The Copper Cat trilogy has a gay protag. He gets romanced in the books, but it's nothing like, horrendously graphic and badly written. Just dudes who like dudes. I actually felt kinda weird about it, because the main protag is a chick who really doesn't hook up with anyone and the third protag is a guy who starts out as a pain in the rear end and ends up being not a pain in the rear end as much, but also not balls deep in the female protag (which is kinda rare for the fantasy genre in general). At least I don't think he does, I haven't read the books in a while.
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Oct 11, 2019 05:49
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There's no rape (that I can remember anyway) in the Esthar series. Other than the feeling of "gently caress, I bought this piece of poo poo" for the dragon's blood book and the one about the chick with the feathers. The rest are all pretty great. Those 2 are just, bad. Put it this way, I'd recommend him in the same sentence as Pratchett to the same people, if we are talking about just the esthar series. I haven't read his other stuff.
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Oct 14, 2019 06:04
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Well, the good news is you are free to enjoy the stories without having to worry that you are financially supporting a horrible person. Both he and his wife are long dead.
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Oct 18, 2019 19:27
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There wasn't much small girl being all kissy controlling old men in the belgariad or malloreon. There is a princess, but she was actually more commanding (literally, eventually) and whatnot than all girly hair and ponies and love. That was mostly in the other series he did. Kinda weird in retrospect but I still laughed when she confused the poo poo out of the troll gods by kissing one.
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Oct 18, 2019 23:59
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I haven't read it in years but I must have missed the rapist part, who was it? Edit - oh poo poo, I just remembered the tale of belgarath and the dryads. drat, eddings did have some hosed up views.
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Oct 19, 2019 00:32
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Brian Keene has an underwater base that poo poo GOES BAD in Pressure. Deep Storm by Lincoln Child is an underwater base where weird poo poo happens and it's pretty good.
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Oct 23, 2019 02:09
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They turn into a moon when they see a wolf?
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Oct 24, 2019 07:08
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The first book was decent, and had a hell of a cliffhanger. I thought it was gonna be a bangin new sci fi series. Then I tried to read the second one and yea, it was a combination of a sad trombone noise and a fart. I liked the idea of "nanoplague destroys all plastics and metals, what happens to civilization? DUHN DUHN DUUUUNNNNN" as a plot, but then it kinda meandered into just dumb poo poo. Honestly I was hoping for aliens to show up.
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Oct 24, 2019 23:46
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Wasn't that also the big plot bit of that Trigger Warning book? Where the ex marine guy owns the libtards and then has to save em all from a school shooting terrorist or something like that?
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Oct 25, 2019 02:57
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Dunno who'd be interested in knowning, but if you are a Crowley fan, James A Moore has put out 2 books recently that has him in there and gives a bit more of his backstory. Boomtown and Where The Sun Goes To Die. Both are pretty good. Western fantasy, I guess, since you can't really call miners and horse thieves and whatnot "urban". I'm really enjoying the character of Slate. He makes a nice addition to the character of Crowley.
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Oct 25, 2019 04:54
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The Copper Cat books has a co-protag that's gay.
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Oct 26, 2019 00:38
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Those are still in my TBR list. Just finished up The Sleep Experiment by Jeremy Bates, and while it was ok, it wasn't fantastic. I dunno, I just had high hopes since it's one of my favorite creepypastas out there. All in all not really much horror or action until like the last 20 pages of the book. I'd rank it firmly a 3 star. Not bad, not great, but readable. Weird, and has a decent take on the whole sleep experiment outcome and reasons, but still just not that terrific of a read. He's got some "WORLD'S SCARIEST" something or other books, like places? I think, where it's about campers at that russian mountain pass, or the japanese haunted suicide forest. Oh yea, the island of the doll heads as well. Might give one of those a shot to see if the action kicks off a bit faster. Currently reading Mythical : Stone Soldier by C.E. Martin. It's not fantastic but it's kinda... sort of like David Conyers' Harrison Peel series meets The Arcadian series by Greig Beck. Only about a third of the way into the book and he's already zapped a kid in the head with a tazer to take out a telepath, so it's at least entertaining.
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Oct 28, 2019 09:07
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Currently reading Steel Frame and it's entertaining and weird, but I was kinda sad at the introduction of I GUESS BIG OL PLOT SPOILERS space robot zombies. Went from being maybe weird sci-fi to weird sci-fi and maybe horror, and that's rarely done well in books. Keeping my fingers crossed though.
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Oct 29, 2019 20:54
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I consider romance (or porn books) as chick books, but that's just me. Edit - Not saying that dude's can't read em, just saying the audience for something like 50 shades is gonna be a lot more female oriented than the audience for something like space opera. Stupid_Sexy_Flander fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Oct 29, 2019 |
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Oct 29, 2019 22:54
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There's nothing to know, honestly. The title kinda tells you all you need to know about the main character.
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Oct 31, 2019 20:12
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New Joe ledger book is pretty good. Finished it up and was impressed. It's always nice when the star of the book actually has to deal with the repercussions of getting beat up or shot or blown up. It's why the old series was one of my favorites. The first book in the new series is pretty good. Rage by Jonathan Maberry.
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Nov 10, 2019 13:14
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I read the first one and kinda like it, but it also remains the only paperback book I own that the cat specifically went out of his way to poo poo on, so YMMV.
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Nov 12, 2019 23:41
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The Andromeda Evolution is actually pretty good so far. I'm kinda surprised. Still kinda stumped by why it has Michael Crichton's name on it, since he's been dead for a decade or so. He may have literally ghost written it, I guess. 
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Nov 15, 2019 09:54
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Basically, yea. Mary/Gary Stu is exactly what you said. Perfection in a character that is completely unrealistic to the story.
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Nov 19, 2019 09:33
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Never read the book, so I have no idea who that is. Just saw the discussion of Mary/Gary and thought I'd lob in an opinion grenade. In other news, the new Wolf Hunt book is out by Jeff Strand! Wolf Hunt 3! Just came out, so I haven't read it yet, and I have to wait for my kindle to charge because we live in the most retarded timeline. Ah well, gives me something to do tomorrow.
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Nov 19, 2019 10:04
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General Battuta posted:A dereyl, so to speak. I'm Larry, this is my brother Dereyl, and this is my other brother Dereyl.
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Nov 20, 2019 01:01
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Finished up Wolf Hunt 3 by Jeff Strand, and it's a pretty great book. If you liked the first 2, you'll dig this one.
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Nov 20, 2019 08:27
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I haven't read the directive 51 book in a long time, but I did like the "Oh gently caress, the world is ending" and it actually WAS pretty well hosed. I didn't continue past it though, cause it was just kinda lamely comical in parts that should have been played for seriousness. Was a neat idea for an apocalypse though. Grey Goo but instead of making, well, goo, it just eats all the electronics and rubber stuff.
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Nov 26, 2019 23:08
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Don't remember those. Were they in the sequel books? It's been years since I read the first one though, so there's probably a lot I don't remember. Edit - The only thing that I remember was some scene towards the end where the genius guy who had implants and whatnot to live ended up getting infected with the plague so his girlfriend had to shave all the hair off her body to visit him in whatever isolation ward he was in. There's a 50% chance I'm getting that wrong, but it was one of the weirder moments in the book, besides the evil bad guys calling some dude's girlfriend a cocksucker before blowing up a big nuke bomb on a boat, but it was made with GOLD! so it was way ~weirder~ and therefore somehow plot relevant. Stupid_Sexy_Flander fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Nov 27, 2019 |
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Nov 27, 2019 00:36
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Sykes shitposted hard enough on twitter to get a movie made about his shitposts. That's gotta be some kinda record. In case you are wondering, You Might Be The Killer is the movie I'm talking about (and it's actually pretty good).
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Dec 4, 2019 07:00
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Anyone read Dead Moon by Peter Clines? I liked it, but I'm kinda stuck wondering how it ties into the rest of the Threshold series.
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Dec 12, 2019 15:15
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Deptfordx posted:Hated it. I read and really enjoyed 14 and Threshold. Was bored to tears by Dead Moon. Just completely failed to engage me in any way. Abandoned it halfway through as I couldn't bring myself to slog through another word. It picked up about halfway through, I was leaning towards dropping it myself but I'm familiar enough with his work to know sometimes it's a slow boil before poo poo gets weird. When it does get weird, oh drat does it get weird.
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Dec 13, 2019 10:10
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There are people who spend their entire lives studying humans and sexes of people and so far, those doctors have said collectively "It ain't binary, and doesn't loving matter anyway, go try to not be an rear end in a top hat", so maybe take the professional's advice and don't worry about it unless it involves you somehow.
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Dec 20, 2019 20:24
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This was posted up a little while ago as well. I haven't read it, so I can't comment on em. https://twitter.com/TwinCitiesGeeks/status/1208077457439559680
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Dec 21, 2019 01:00
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Long shot, but does anyone remember an urban fantasy novel that had Samson from the bible show up in it? I think he was leading a biker gang called Sons of Samson or something like that. I thought it might be the nightside series, or even the drood series, but nope. It's definitely an ebook, and was something I've read in the last 10 years or so. More than likely part of a series. I don't think they were the main characters or anything, just like, cameo appearances... but I can't be 100% sure. Friend got it, was the Remy Chandler series, he showed up in a book somewhere in it. Stupid_Sexy_Flander fucked around with this message at 04:19 on Dec 23, 2019 |
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Dec 23, 2019 03:33
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NGL, sounds like you are trying to talk your girlfriend into trying anal. "You just need to ignore your 'limitations' and think of it more of an 'opportunity' to experience joy, and let me boldly go, into your rear end in a top hat"
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Dec 25, 2019 02:03
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Considering we worked with other countries to land a rover on mars, and we landed it IN mars cause we were not using metric and they were, any group project involving nuclear bombs is gonna be a horrible idea.
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Dec 26, 2019 05:34
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For anyone wanting to try Cry Pilot on the cheap, it's 1.99 on amazon at the moment. https://www.amazon.com/Cry-Pilot-Joel-Dane-ebook/dp/B07KDY6JJZ/
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Dec 27, 2019 20:10
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Wraith squadron best squadron.
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Dec 28, 2019 23:29
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New Craig Schaefer book out!  WOOPWOOP
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