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#861 User is offline   pat5150 

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Posted 29 March 2020 - 07:06 PM

All of C. S. Lewis Narnia installments are 1.99$ on Kindle​​​​​​​ (USA and Canada).
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Posted 29 March 2020 - 07:40 PM

Is Narnia worth reading in this day and age? I wasn't terribly impressed with the films. I think. I assume it's a contained series. Or does it just continue?
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Posted 29 March 2020 - 08:44 PM

I mentally bracket it as something you read if your wanting to read formative influential books of fantasy... my memory leers at the thought of reading them now.
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Posted 30 March 2020 - 05:32 PM

I had the Narnia series read to me as a kid, so I had fond memories of them. I tried rereading them to my kids maybe 10 years ago, and I had trouble getting through the second book.
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Posted 30 March 2020 - 05:43 PM

I think I'll pass for now then. There's plenty of other fish in the sea.
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Posted 30 March 2020 - 07:14 PM

View PostAptorian, on 29 March 2020 - 07:40 PM, said:

Is Narnia worth reading in this day and age? I wasn't terribly impressed with the films. I think. I assume it's a contained series. Or does it just continue?


Depends...how excited would you be to read bible stories as seen through the eyes of a fantasy author, where Jesus is a Lion, and kids growing up means they can't be a part of the world anymore?

If you answer not very...then it's probably not for you.

Reading it as an atheist adult makes the Jesus allegory stuff stand out a mile and it put me off...but I loved them as a kid.
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Posted 30 March 2020 - 08:33 PM

As a Christian I was encouraged to read them as a kid and in fairness I really enjoyed them and will encourage my son to read as well. Haven't read them for years but even if you ignore the religious elements I'm sure they're quite good fun. You could probably plough through all of them very quickly.
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Posted 31 March 2020 - 03:47 PM

Katherine Arden's The Bear and the Nightingale is 1.99$ on Kindle​​​​​​​.
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Posted 31 March 2020 - 05:01 PM

View PostAptorian, on 29 March 2020 - 07:40 PM, said:

Is Narnia worth reading in this day and age? I wasn't terribly impressed with the films. I think. I assume it's a contained series. Or does it just continue?



View PostAptorian, on 30 March 2020 - 05:43 PM, said:

I think I'll pass for now then. There's plenty of other fish in the sea.


I echo the upthread... great as a kid where the symbolism is less in your face. As an adult, major ymmv.
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Posted 31 March 2020 - 05:02 PM

Audible.com has KINGS OF THE WYLD as a daily sale. $5.95.
Worth it!
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Posted 01 April 2020 - 11:38 AM

Judas Unchained, the second of Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth duology is £0.99p on UK Kobo here: https://www.kobo.com...das-unchained-1

Is picked up the first for 99p a while ago, coincidence given the Void reco in another thread.
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Posted 04 April 2020 - 04:22 PM

Causal Angel by Hannu Rajaniemi on Kobo uk for £1.99 here: https://www.kobo.com...he-causal-angel
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Posted 05 April 2020 - 02:39 PM

Blake Crouch's Dark Matter is 2.99$ on Kindle (USA and Canada).

Chuck Wendig's Wanderers is 3.99$ on Kindle​​​​​​​ (USA and Canada).
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Posted 06 April 2020 - 10:39 PM

Award winning collection of stories on kobo UK for £1.99 https://www.kobo.com...Book/bone-swans
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Posted 07 April 2020 - 06:40 PM

The latest GGK, A BRIGHTNESS LONG AGO is on kindle sale right now for $5.

https://www.amazon.c...86284655&sr=8-1
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Posted 08 April 2020 - 02:56 PM

Kate Elliott's Black Wolves is 2.99$ on Kindle.
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Posted 09 April 2020 - 03:59 AM

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The latest Humble Bundle is a sweet sweet Jonathan Hickman collection...

Included ALL of epic series EAST OF WEST which if you have not yet read, you owe it to yourself to buy and read rtf now because wtf is wrong w you?

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Posted 09 April 2020 - 10:22 AM

View PostAbyss, on 09 April 2020 - 03:59 AM, said:

View PostAbyss, on 09 April 2020 - 03:50 AM, said:

The latest Humble Bundle is a sweet sweet Jonathan Hickman collection...

Included ALL of epic series EAST OF WEST which if you have not yet read, you owe it to yourself to buy and read rtf now because wtf is wrong w you?



This is such a good deal.
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Posted 09 April 2020 - 01:08 PM

View PostHammerhead88, on 09 April 2020 - 10:22 AM, said:

View PostAbyss, on 09 April 2020 - 03:59 AM, said:

View PostAbyss, on 09 April 2020 - 03:50 AM, said:

The latest Humble Bundle is a sweet sweet Jonathan Hickman collection...

Included ALL of epic series EAST OF WEST which if you have not yet read, you owe it to yourself to buy and read rtf now because wtf is wrong w you?



This is such a good deal.


Goddamn, if I didn't own most of this already I'cd be ALL over this. Hickman is by far my fave comics writer. Everyone who doesn't own this stuff GET IT.
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Posted 09 April 2020 - 02:21 PM

View PostQuickTidal, on 09 April 2020 - 01:08 PM, said:

View PostHammerhead88, on 09 April 2020 - 10:22 AM, said:

View PostAbyss, on 09 April 2020 - 03:59 AM, said:

View PostAbyss, on 09 April 2020 - 03:50 AM, said:

The latest Humble Bundle is a sweet sweet Jonathan Hickman collection...

Included ALL of epic series EAST OF WEST which if you have not yet read, you owe it to yourself to buy and read rtf now because wtf is wrong w you?



This is such a good deal.


Goddamn, if I didn't own most of this already I'cd be ALL over this. Hickman is by far my fave comics writer. Everyone who doesn't own this stuff GET IT.


I own all of EoW, may buy it for everything else even so.
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