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Does anyone have suggestions of books similar to The Lies of Locke Lamora? I'm not sure what about it, maybe it's just the heist aspect because I also liked the Great Train Robbery.
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XBenedict posted:The other Gentleman Bastards books? Haha yeah sorry should have said I read those already. Mistborn seems right up my alley and I like Sanderson
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Oct 7, 2019 22:32
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Mr Hootington posted:When does the Black Company become bad? I'm finishing up book 2 and will get book 3, but is that a good place to stop? Just keep reading until you stop liking it. Or keep reading and finish it if you like the characters. The first three books are pretty self contained
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Oct 24, 2019 15:32
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Kesper North posted:And glancing at your rap sheet and posting history is making me proud to have embarrassed you, friend. Goonspeed. Having to delve into someone's rap sheet because they posted a mean thing about you is very interesting
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Dec 25, 2019 02:17
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Like 3/4ths of Dunsany's books are public domain and available online with an easy search. There are good editions of two of them here: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks?query=dunsany Ah, so he wrote a slice of life manga
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Oct 5, 2020 05:47
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I liked spin quite a bit but haven't read the two other books yet
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Oct 5, 2020 23:38
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Lagoon is good
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Oct 6, 2020 02:35
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General Battuta posted:I am permabanned poster Apparatchik Magnet. i first started reading the Science Fiction & Fantasy Megathread when my girlfriend was about 12. by the time she was 14 i got really obsessed with the concept of "Age of consent" and tried to channel it constantly, until my thought process got really bizarre and i would repeat things like "My boredom and bemusement with those emotional irrational women is at this point shared by quite a few people who have posted" and "I’m trying to figure out what “underage” means" in my head for hours, and i would get really paranoid, start seeing Chris Hansen in the corners of my eyes etc, basically prodromal schizophrenia. im now on permanent house arrest. i always wondered what the kind of "I'm really just concerned for 15 year olds having sex with each other" style of advocating for ephobophilia was all about; i think it's my unconscious leaking in to my conscious, what jungian theory considered to be - and isn't it funny that 'jung' kind of sounds like '''young?''' i would advise all people who "get" libertarianism to be careful because that likely means you have a predisposition to a mental illness. peace. 
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General Battuta posted:Are you a Shivan superjuggernaught named Naruto I was namechanged in one of the gbs 'post here to have your name changed' threads years ago.
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Apr 10, 2021 14:20
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Reading the news stories about that just makes me ... So tired.
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Apr 13, 2021 20:29
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Goodreads doesn't really operate on a 5 or 0 ranking imo.
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Apr 18, 2021 12:45
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I liked the sword of truth books as a teen
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Apr 19, 2021 13:26
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I was a fan of the wheel of time ones, though they're not all actually dreams
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Apr 22, 2021 11:58
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So I picked up "This is how you lose the time war" on the suggestion of this thread and finished reading it in one sitting, hours later. This book is incredible
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Apr 22, 2021 16:57
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A Proper Uppercut posted:So the Cradle books are pretty dumb but fun. It's like eastern martial arts mixed with DragonBall Z. Cultivation is real and my friend. I have no idea about if those books are about that but I think they're on my kindle so I'll have to read them now
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May 1, 2021 13:12
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Ben Nevis posted:I recall we'd talked a couple weeks ago about fantasy with gay male protags, and I just read one that was pretty good. White Trash Warlock by David Slayton is the first in a series. The main character is Adam Binder, a witch from Guthrie, OK who heads out to help his estranged brother. When he gets out to Denver the city has a giant malevolent spirit hanging over it. Obviously Adam needs to fix this. Slayton says he based the character on his own experiences growing up gay in Guthrie, OK. The main plot of this one wraps up, though there's obvious hooks for a sequel (due out in October). I found it to be good, very readable. I got through it faster than expected. I enjoyed the working class protagonist, and being set in Denver, felt like a pretty decent take on the urban fantasy. bought it on this rec, sounds good
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May 7, 2021 16:35
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Groke posted:Y'all do realize "Parker" is actually Tom Holt, yes? (A revelation that stll blows my mind.) And had an established writing career for a decade before this came out. I read it as him saying it was the first book by holt as Parker and the story he always wanted to write when he started writing
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May 8, 2021 15:02
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Black company is one of my all time favorites but I'd recommend that after book three or four you implement dune rules
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May 20, 2021 03:27
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The Glumslinger posted:Oh and for the love of god, skip Port of Shadows. Didn't know that port of shadows was a thing tbh. And yeah I read the whole story and finished it but some of the Sleepy parts... Sheeesh
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May 20, 2021 22:21
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Hey thread, the first Baru in audiobook form is on sale for five bucks, https://www.chirpbooks.com/audiobooks/the-traitor-baru-cormorant-by-seth-dickinson As well as some others, such as the first two Malazan books for $2 and $3 here https://www.chirpbooks.com/authors/steven-erikson-audiobooks
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Jun 22, 2021 08:25
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Quorum posted:I had the same experience, which is a pity because I'm also in the wonderful and poorly-compensated world of archaeology and zombie Neanderthals with magic flintknapped swords ought to be my poo poo. Maybe that's why I liked them so much, it really reminds me of reading about various periods of history. Of course there are a whole new cast of characters on a different continent.
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Jul 5, 2021 15:49
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Something about the structure of the series, probably the billions of characters and the refusal to stick with a particular set of them for longer than a book at a time, is just hell on my brain.
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Jul 17, 2021 06:14
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I loved the bells
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Aug 21, 2021 00:31
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I actually like the sfl copy paste but maybe it's own thread idk.
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Aug 24, 2021 20:46
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Kraps posted:Is Axiom's End by Ellis good? She has a sequel coming out. Fwiw I checked it out from the library and returned it a week later unread. The first couple of pages feature high school essay level writing which is fine sometimes but I bounced off this one.
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Sep 10, 2021 04:21
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Finished the Two of Swords by KJ Parker. I actually liked how it ended, and the main conceit of the story being told from a bunch of different pov early on was cool. Of course it necessarily narrowed down the pov later. Now on to Between Two Fires
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Sep 12, 2021 09:18
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You could try Malazan and see if you like the writing. Or Black Company for 'morally ambiguous mercenaries end up working for Satan'
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Oct 4, 2021 13:39
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Khizan posted:I picked up the first Commonweal book after the talk about it in the thread. I quite liked the first one. Had a real Black Company vibe to it, the whole 'scrappy undersized company suddenly paired with legendary ancient terrors". I loved the black company so I'm gonna start the first Commonweal book then
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Oct 13, 2021 15:11
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I just finished the first one and liked it fairly well. It does very much have the feeling of the black company, but I'm not sure I like the writing a ton. Regardless it's interesting enough for me to pick up the second one Edit:it's funny that people keep sniping that it's Graydon and his fifteen alts promoting his books. If Larry is a Graydon alt then I guess I'm a fan
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Oct 15, 2021 11:35
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packetmantis posted:Lol, of course Larry thinks caring about ableism is "baby-brained." It's a fantasy book and the people calling glokta a cripple are generally outdone by... Glokta. Idk
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Oct 31, 2021 05:09
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pradmer posted:Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky - $1.99 First book is excellent and what STALKER was based off of, second book is a standard 'aliens come to earth' that is still pretty good, though I'm sure it was a lot more interesting when it came out
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Nov 6, 2021 00:04
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I actually liked seveneyes until the weird decision where the last third was fanfiction
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Nov 18, 2021 01:44
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packetmantis posted:Uhhh, how can he write fanfiction of his own book? 
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Nov 18, 2021 05:10
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bovis posted:Read through the first 4 Malazan books over the past month. I had first attempted the series 5 or so years ago and for some reason gave up 3/4 of the way through the 4th on so I'm finally ahead of my last attempt! The Chain of Dogs was so loving good
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Nov 26, 2021 02:24
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I still liked it because Dark Forest is an interesting idea and 3bp explored that some And most of the time I don't even notice bad writing, or can get past it. I think the only books I've had to put down in the last couple of years because they're offensively bad was the Lindsay Ellis book (axioms edge?) and ready player one SSJ_naruto_2003 fucked around with this message at 06:05 on Dec 3, 2021 |
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Dec 3, 2021 06:03
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I do the same thing and yeah kind of half skip paragraphs that don't look like they have a lot of important information. It's just how I've always read, I remember being a speed reader as far back as when I was a kid
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Dec 18, 2021 14:59
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I haven't stopped raving about between two fires to all my friends tbh. One of them will eventually read it if I pester enough...
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Dec 23, 2021 05:33
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BananaNutkins posted:I just read the first chapter of the first Commonweal book...and it was like I was having a stoke. The words were English words and some of them had meaning, but none of them connected in any meaningful way. I've read and enjoyed A Clockwork Orange and Anathem, but this was like taking all the Asperger's in the world and mixing it with high fantasy Capital Names. Surely there was a better way to introduce the book (unless bafflement was the desired effect). Have you uh, never read anything unfamiliar before? It throws you into the middle and you figure it out while you go. Malazan is another series people get mad at for this tbh
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Soysaucebeast posted:So apparently every year this guy on Reddit organizes a huge two-day book sale for charity (don't ask me details, I just found out about it this morning lol). This year it's 400 sci-fi/fantasy e-books for 0.99$ each, with the proceeds going to St. Judes. If you've got reddit, here's the direct post, but if you don't wanna go there here's the google doc spreadsheet with everything (and links to the non-US Amazon pages). There's some good stuff on there, and A LOT of stuff I've never heard of, but I figure for a buck a book you can't really go wrong. It seems like a ton of these litrpg books feature army people as characters or were written by veterans. I wonder if it's bc the linear advancement of a litrpg is similar to how the up the ranks hierarchy works in the army. (half my family were army)
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:If Tolkien and Jordan are any example, it's because veterans tend to have shitloads of trauma to work through and so they sometimes do it by writing. Yeah maybe just noticed it because I went through the books on sale and looked at the authors all at once.
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