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Oh my god please tell me that Harrow is not written mostly or entirely in second person. I had no idea how much that triggered me until I read the first page and recoiled in horror.
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silvergoose posted:Mebbe half. I still don't get the hate from folks on that, though. Yeah. I didn’t know I hated until I ran into it. I don’t think I’ve read a second person book since my last Choose Your Own Adventure.
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Sep 18, 2020 06:21
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ConfusedUs posted:Oh my god please tell me that Harrow is not written mostly or entirely in second person. Past me was an idiot. Harrow was one hell of a book.
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Jan 10, 2022 19:53
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It was the continued references to The Fifth Season that convinced me to give Harrow another chance. I loved The Fifth Season, a lot. A whole hell of a lot. And I figured if I could deal with its limited second-person-present-tense PoV, I could suck it up and deal with it in Harrow. It took me a good 150+ pages to get used to it though. The sheer weirdness of these Locked Tomb books just compounded the issues I have with second-person-present-tense. I'll re-read both Gideon and Harrow when Nona comes out. I'll be ready for it this time.
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Jan 11, 2022 21:17
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I don't think I'll ever get tired of Gideon's sunglasses. They're pitch-perfect for her character.
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Jan 12, 2022 17:03
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This series is weird, but I love it so very much. There's a part of my brain that seizes on clues and half-truths and context-less details, then tries really hard to fill in the gaps. These books are like mainlining heroin into that part of my brain. I run into something that does this to me every few years, at best, so it's absolutely lovely that there's a whole god drat series of books that do it. Nona the Ninth is just as obtuse and weird as the others in the series, and I love it so very much
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Sep 19, 2022 16:33
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Humerus posted:Nona Spoilers Relating to Gideon's Soul Speculation: We know from Earth/Alecto that someone doesn't need a whole soul, because John only ate some of Earth's soul and the rest is walking around. So partial soul fragments can live on and have their own deal. Joddamn it now we have to pay attention to half-souls wandering around? The shell game is rigged!
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Sep 28, 2022 15:46
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Happy Landfill posted:I've had this image in my head of a Locked Tomb manga that has an art style that's a mix Tatsuki Fujimoto (chainsaw man) and Ai Yazawa (Nana). A good mix of styles that can be weird and violent but also have a strong sense of introspection and character. Or something like that. Chainsaw Man vibes are a definite Must, though. The art style of Kill Six Billion Demons is the correct vibe, IMO.
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Oct 14, 2022 22:37
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Entropic posted:My only strongly held GTN fancast opinion is that Aiglamene should be played by Shohreh Aghdashloo. She should play every older badass woman. I absolutely love her presence in everything she appears in. She just exudes that “I know, dear, have a cookie while grandma makes everything better *cocks pistol*” vibe.
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Nov 25, 2022 16:35
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loving Ted Faro. I’ve never hated someone in a video game as much as him.
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Dec 25, 2022 18:56
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Get busy tryin' and get busy dyin'.
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Jan 24, 2023 17:14
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Happy Landfill posted:Found a couple of really awesome Ianthe fanart on Tumblr I can fix her.
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Jun 9, 2023 16:04
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Dawgstar posted:There were a few at GenCon as well. Also a Jod but sadly nobody knew who he was except my GtN-reading friend who went. Why should they know? He’s only god.
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Aug 14, 2023 19:18
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FuturePastNow posted:This was posted in the OSHA thread but it made me think of this series: Don't pet the skulls, Gideon
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Aug 17, 2023 17:53
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A little bit of Ianthe in our lives Oh my god she gives me hives A little bit of Gideon is what I need She’ll pick me up and make me bleed
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Oct 20, 2023 20:40
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bravesword posted:John is a human being trying to be god. He just sucks at it, because human beings can’t be god, no matter how much power they accumulate. This is a pretty straightforward reading in my mind — being strong enough to quash any dissent doesn’t give you any moral authority, and indeed, John is morally bankrupt, because it’s the only justification he’s got. "Absolute power corrupts absolutely," applies to previously corrupted souls, too.
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C-Euro posted:Oops wrong chapter on my part, Chapter 3 has these- The dotted line is a (really obnoxious, IMO) feature on Kindle that shows you what OTHER people have highlighted. For some reason. I don't even highlight my own goddamn books, I don't want to know what 1000 other people did.
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