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Tik Tok convinced me to buy every single book in The Stormlight Archive. For now, I'm just starting Ready Player One. After that, Ready Player Two.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Can we recommend you some novels? I'd love to get you a starter pack for reading fantasy or sci-fi! Please. I love Sci-Fi and Fantasy. I am trying to quit video games and replace them with books.
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Jan 30, 2024 21:23
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mystes posted:Perhaps you should stop taking Fair enough. But there are some elite book collectors on there.
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Jan 30, 2024 21:27
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StrixNebulosa posted:Try reading Pride of Chanur by CJ Cherryh - it's short (200 pages!) and fun space opera, about space lion people finding a weird alien sneaking on their ship. He's pink, furless, and is nothing like anything they've ever seen. War, Drama, Action, epicness.
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mystes posted:"Elite book collectors" makes it sound like they're rappelling into used books stores in tactical gear out of a helicopter https://www.tiktok.com/@moonsrarebooks StrixNebulosa posted:Glen Cook's Black Company, it's about a mercenary company in a fantasy setting. Ordered all. Need these Amazon points for free books.
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Jan 30, 2024 21:33
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buffalo all day posted:Some recs based on this and the books you mentioned from TikTok: I've heard of The Eye of the World from my old man before, so I'll have to see if he still owns the book. All of these getting ordered.
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Jan 30, 2024 21:35
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Yngwie Mangosteen posted:step 1: Do not read Ready Player One, if you started just put it down. It's absolutely objectively terrible and will turn you off reading because it's not a book it's just a list of cultural references and a guy screaming GET IT over and over in your ear. Say less, I will wait for the Prime box to arrive on my doorstep.
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Jan 30, 2024 21:54
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Yngwie Mangosteen posted:step 1: Do not read Ready Player One, if you started just put it down. It's absolutely objectively terrible and will turn you off reading because it's not a book it's just a list of cultural references and a guy screaming GET IT over and over in your ear. Despite popular advice, I am now through about a 1/3 of the book. It is a cesspool orgy love letter to the 80s with very little sense of direction. I am eagerly awaiting all the books I've purchased to touchdown so I can start something fresh.
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Jan 31, 2024 05:30
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Finished Ready Player One. I made the mistake of also buying Ready Player Two. The book did in fact, almost kill my will to read.
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Jan 31, 2024 21:37
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DurianGray posted:At least almost everything else is going to be better in comparison to those! Yeah, I'm thrilled I have some books on the way. Sidenote: What makes Barnes & Noble so cocky that they can charge double, if not triple, a book's price compared to BAM or Amazon?
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Jan 31, 2024 22:04
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Yngwie Mangosteen posted:I'm sorry, I tried to warn you. 4 pages into The Way of Kings and it blows RDP out of the water. mystes posted:The only good thing about having read ready player one is that you can now be entertained by the following two youtube videos 
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Feb 1, 2024 17:56
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pik_d posted:Are you just starting on the Cosmere? If so you are welcome to the Sanderson thread, we're very good about spoilers and love first time readers Bookmarked. Thank you!
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Feb 1, 2024 22:26
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Awkward Davies posted:Skimmed the last few pages so maybe someone else said this, but good lord, get a library card. Shits free. And through Libby you can get ebooks. The Hawaii Public Library system is extremely depressing, and one of my 2024 resolutions was to get back to reading, so I might as well start building my collection of books.
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Feb 2, 2024 07:11
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Yngwie Mangosteen posted:https://hawaii.overdrive.com/ https://hawaii.overdrive.com/media/515229 "Wait time: About 11 weeks"
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Feb 2, 2024 08:15
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I posted in the Sanderson thread, but here it is—the start of my Book Barn.
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Feb 2, 2024 19:57
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I just now realized that while reading a paperback book is the premium feel for reading, I won't have enough space for how much I will read. Are Kindles just as good as paperbacks? I know that accessibility is excellent since if you ever need a book, it takes two clicks, and now you own it. But I am not sure if the reading experience is the same.
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Feb 3, 2024 00:51
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mystes posted:sorry didn't you just start reading books like two days ago? don't you think you're getting ahead of yourself? If reading 8 hours a day is getting ahead of myself, I may be in trouble.
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Feb 3, 2024 00:54
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Side-note: Has anyone read Ruination with no outside knowledge of League of Legends? Curious to what people thought of the League universe with no background.
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Feb 3, 2024 08:25
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pradmer posted:The Destroyer of Worlds (Lovecraft Country #2) by Matt Ruff - $1.99 1. Thank you for always doing these. I’m going o start snagging some steals. 2. Make these affiliated so you get a small cut. Mere Pennie’s to the dollar but it all adds up.
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Feb 3, 2024 18:46
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Admiralty Flag posted:That time that someone was bitching about you spamming the thread with affiliate links (and they were wrong about [a] you spamming and [b] these being affiliate links) -- I'm not a mod or anything, but I can certainly see it as permissible for you to post affiliate links to get a few cents for each purchase as recompense for bringing these deals to everyone's attention. You've been doing this for what, a year, out of the goodness of your heart, and have saved thread regulars tons of money (myself included); it seems like the least that could be done to pay you back. Yeah, I think he should be allowed to get paid. Hell, what he should be doing is creating a Instagram or Twitter page for these type of steals. Personally, I know a couple of people who do this sort of thing with sneakers, clothes, and handbags, and they make a very pretty penny. If he can be fast, and always post first, he’s got himself a good side hustle.
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Feb 3, 2024 22:26
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mystes posted:That does sound like something a sneaker broker would say 
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Feb 3, 2024 22:53
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Dude I always assumed you were gettin paid, I never even checked Joker said it himself: “If you are good at something, never do it for free.” Go get paid Pradmer
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Feb 4, 2024 01:09
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pradmer posted:Cradle, Foundation (#1-3) by Will Wight - FREE I got the free book. Thank you!
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Feb 6, 2024 06:10
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I think my TBR Order is finishing Stormlight Archives > Red Rising > Sword of Kaigen. I want to read ASOIAF, but I don't want to be completely sucked in and then have to wait till GRRM decides actually to finish a book.
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Feb 19, 2024 19:28
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mllaneza posted:He's not finishing the series. Just gown that and you'll be a much happier person. Yeah, that's what I keep hearing and reading so in that case: Stormlight Archives > Red Rising Series > Sword of Kaigen > Mistborn Saga > Burning Series
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Feb 19, 2024 20:23
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What do you all do to avoid distractions while reading?
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Feb 23, 2024 20:56
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I appreciate the Lord making me a lil tall so the big pants I wear can easily fit my Kindle in one of the pockets. If I ever get bored? Bam, reading time.
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Feb 26, 2024 21:52
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Every time I check this thread, my TBR grows. Painful.
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Mar 6, 2024 22:07
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pradmer posted:Big JRR Tolkien sale going on. Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Silmarillion, and all his other works. The Hobbit for $1.99? Yes, please. Thank you Pradmer
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Mar 26, 2024 21:15
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After I emerge from the void that is the Cosmere, I need help deciding where to go next on my TBR. I can choose all of Red Rising, Dune, or Sword of Kaigen. Please help me.
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Mar 29, 2024 03:15
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I have yet to read any of his books, but I wonder if John Gwynne's books are as epic as those cover art. Because if so, I'm so in.
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Mar 30, 2024 22:15
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Also, I’m curious. Has anyone here read the Silo series? Was reading through it a little bit at B&N and I’m undecided if I wanna buy the full book or not.
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Mar 31, 2024 17:13
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Is anyone reading the Sun Eater Series? I've been seeing it show up on my Book-focused TikTok account and on my YouTube feed, with multiple creators dubbing it the next "epic" space opera.
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Apr 2, 2024 19:32
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Sword of Kaigen, Green Bone Saga, and more are now accessible with Kindle Unlimited, FYI. After I just bought them all not even 3 weeks ago.
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Apr 5, 2024 02:50
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There are so many good books on sale right now for Kindle. Thank goodness I got one because it's saving me money even if I'm spending money. Now to debate if I spend all of 2025 reading WoT.
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