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The librevox recording of the ending of Faust Pt.1 is the hardest I've ever laughed in my life.
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I always wished there was a Rama style game where you just walked around and explored a mysterious alien location without understanding any of it
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Lord Dunsany Alfred Bester
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Pirate it all.
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Time spent reading wot is time you could be spending reading Conan. Consider that
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Read them all. Don't be a quitter
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Everything's genre until someone decides it's too good to be genre. Vonnegut is a fantastic writer though. More people should read mother night and breakfast of champions
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Including urth?
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Carrier posted:Not yet, still need to get my hands on a copy. Is it that necessary? As a matter of fact, are the short sun/long sun books good? It's a full sequel that makes what is very vague explicit while adding a whole lot more questions. Long and Short sun are fantastic, quite a few people will tell you Short sun is the best of the whole Solar Cycle, I don't know if I'll go that far, but I lean that way. The Long/Short sun is in form a sort of examination of different genres e.g Detective Fiction, Crime Fiction, Revolutionary Fiction, Natural disaster fiction, an Odyssey like journey, a disastrous expedition. Compared to New Sun being a sort of biblical project, it's also written in a very different style with each of the hundreds of characters talking in distinctive speech and written with some slang but a lot less archaic words. Silk is also just a huge breath of fresh air after dealing with the interesting but still weird as hell Severian. Silk just seems like a really nice dude who I want to hang out with and die in the service of.
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sebmojo posted:I can't stand what I've read of long sun fwiw, it's just endless scenes of people speculating about what the plot might be. I really fall off Wolfe after Soldier of arete, though that's not a common view so take it with a grain of salt. How far did you get into it? By the third novel poo poo is happening so fast that I was really hoping they'd pump the breaks for a minute so I could catch up
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His prose is bad
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Twitter being dumb as hell I'm shocked to be honest.
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Your going to need to reread botns anyways so reading it the first time as a standard story is not that bad an idea.
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Nabokov.
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Knowing nothing about Coventry of Tom, I can say for certain Severian was.
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If you want, the Long Sun cycle doesn't spoil anything for New Sun and it's principal character Silk is maybe the nicest character in any book I've met. Dude really with his whole heart just wants people to live their best lives and be happy. Dude spends most his time trying to impress wisdom on the younger generations, help out the destitute of his quarter even the church non attendees, and frying tomatoes. Short Sun is more connected and shouldn't be read without New Sun and Urth
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Why'd you post a can of Pringles?
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cant cook creole bream posted:
Pale Fire. Lolita
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Anyone sleeping on Wolfe's short stories should grab that. ¢99 is a drat steal
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Ccs posted:The new lord of the rings tv series had me revisiting that series. While i still don't enjoy it as much as more cynical fantasy like The First Law, I've noticed the main difference between it and the newest series influenced by Song of Ice and Fire are the latter has a lot of "twists", where things generally get worse for our characters. This makes it very easy to spoil. The former has a lot of "gently caress yeah, the people are coming together to fight for a common cause! (with a little bit of prodding from the supernatural)". And that's refreshing. Just the idea that humans can be noble is lost in a most modern fantasy. It's really a larger problem with literature and all of media, the idea of the death of sincerity and the rise of irony. It's much harder to make something with purely noble intentions when the average viewer or reader is in the mindframe to mock anything that isn't at least somewhat tongue and cheek.
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The worst part of reading a Wolfe novel is seeing Gaiman's quotes plastered all over it.
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a computing pun posted:the boundary between children's lit and YA is: in YA the characters are allowed to die messily. Narnia is YA?
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Narnia good
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90s Cringe Rock posted:a desert called peace by tom kratman opens with space 9/11 but with blimps, and is 148.8% fascism by wordcount I'm getting mixed messages. You say not to read it than use the phrase 9/11 with blimps?!
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neongrey posted:a lovely alt history where after 9/11 the world chooses to outlaw airplanes and all air travel is now carried out by blimp You mean objectively superior right?
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The greatest summary I've ever seen was the series finale of Mad Men "Don Draper has a problem". Accurately describes that episode and also every other episode in the show.
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They're useful on Russian novels where you need to know a dudes name, his father's name, and his nickname
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Evil Fluffy posted:DE is also a bit more grounded than a fantasy setting where people have a bunch of magical powers and various higher level entities actively shaping reality. It's a bad example to compare to Stormlight (Mistborn, especially era 2, would be a better comparison) and considering how it's not really an issue in other Cosmere settings it's pretty intentional for Stormlight. DE literally has higher level entities shaping reality.
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Is there any sci Fi series that are just Conan but in space. I need a giant muscle bound spacebarian busting heads
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You have to clear samples
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Kalman posted:That’s an excellent way to make sure no one makes machine learning algorithms. good
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If you trace them you could
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If your "work" is produced by an object without a soul then it's worthless garbage that does nothing but crowd out actual beauty in this world.
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The art of photography is on the composition not the objects captured
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