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Peter Clines (Ex-Heroes series, Threshold series, other stuff)

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Posted 25 July 2013 - 01:06 PM

Finished book 1. Really awesome and finished as strongly as it started. Some big surprises near the end, some of which I wasn't expecting.

A few spoilerific things.

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Anyways, great stuff. Can't wait to start book 2!

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Posted 25 July 2013 - 01:20 PM

View PostQuickTidal, on 25 July 2013 - 01:06 PM, said:

Finished book 1. Really awesome and finished as strongly as it started. Some big surprises near the end, some of which I wasn't expecting.

A few spoilerific things....

Spoiler


Anyways, great stuff. Can't wait to start book 2!



Spoileriffic responses....

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Seriously, just go read 2 and 3. Just go.
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Posted 25 July 2013 - 02:48 PM

I'm picking up both books tonight on my way home from workie. The plan is to read EX-PATRIOTS right away and leave EX-COMM for next weekend's cottage funtimes!
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Posted 25 July 2013 - 03:09 PM

View PostQuickTidal, on 25 July 2013 - 02:48 PM, said:

I'm picking up both books tonight on my way home from workie. The plan is to read EX-PATRIOTS right away and leave EX-COMM for next weekend's cottage funtimes!



I'll bet even money QT leaves for the cottage minimum half-way thru EX-COMM, 3/2 he's finished and rereading the end.... any takers?
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Posted 25 July 2013 - 05:56 PM

I just finished Ex-Communication and WOW what an AWESOME book! My favorite of the series so far. That finale, and the whole build-up to the finale, was crazy good. Loved it! Can't wait for the next book!

14 by Clines is also very good btw! Sort of a cross between Lovecraft, Lost and The Twilight Zone. Different in style and tone from the Ex-books, but Clines keeps steadily building the tension and the suspense, which keeps you turning pages to know what will happen next. Anyway, this is one of those books where the journey is more interesting than the destination (finale). Excellent book!
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Posted 01 August 2013 - 08:02 PM

Blurb on amazon.ca for EX-PURGATORY....

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Wow... looks like we're going alternate dimension or telepathic attack this time...

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Also, i just realized that in the finale of EX-COM
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Posted 09 August 2013 - 07:51 PM

Having seen the 'Byss raving about it, bought the first three last week and ploughed through them.

Thoroughly enjoyable, deserves a TV series by HBO.

Can't wait for no 4.
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Posted 09 August 2013 - 08:23 PM

View PostCocoreturns, on 09 August 2013 - 07:51 PM, said:

Having seen the 'Byss raving about it, bought the first three last week and ploughed through them.

Thoroughly enjoyable, deserves a TV series by HBO.

Can't wait for no 4.



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Posted 09 August 2013 - 09:13 PM

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I WIN!!!!!


Don't start that sh** again, don't you remember what happened last time?
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Posted 14 August 2013 - 01:47 PM

spoilers for EX-PATRIOTS

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Posted 14 August 2013 - 03:39 PM

Yeah, you should read the books more carefully if you're going to start casting people like that, QuickTidal.
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Posted 14 August 2013 - 04:30 PM

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Yeah, you should read the books more carefully if you're going to start casting people like that, QuickTidal.


Meh, I cast who I wanna cast. I care little if they fit perfectly.

If they ever made a movie they'd make concessions on casting as well that might not match the books.
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Posted 14 August 2013 - 06:23 PM

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Posted 14 August 2013 - 06:39 PM

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spoilers for EX-PATRIOTS

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Posted 14 August 2013 - 06:43 PM

While we are at it, the periphery human characters are getting lost in the shuffle for me every time they go out on patrol. Can we do a list?

Jarvis - Southern guy, yes?

Billie - No idea. Old, young?

Hector - Latino, tats, buff.

Lynne - Young girl, brown hair, not exactly the sharpest tool

Danny - No idea.

I can't think of anyone else just now....but those are the ones I've run across that I'm trying to keep track of. I wish there was a character list.
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Posted 14 August 2013 - 07:46 PM

View PostQuickTidal, on 14 August 2013 - 06:39 PM, said:

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I vaguely recall the Barry info comes up only once and fairly quickly at the beginning, easy to miss.

The Stealth thing is a total RAFO but you'll get a good laugh when you get to it.

Morena Baccarrin is a bit more pixie than i picture Lady Bee, esp since it's hinted but never stated Bee was a stripper before the zombocalypse.



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This just goes to show you how fast I'm blowing through these books when I read them. I'm missing important character shit.
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It's popcorn reading at least on the surface, easy to blow by little details. And (most of) it isn't really important to the story.


View PostQuickTidal, on 14 August 2013 - 06:43 PM, said:

While we are at it, the periphery human characters are getting lost in the shuffle for me every time they go out on patrol. Can we do a list?

Jarvis - Southern guy, yes?

Billie - No idea. Old, young?

Hector - Latino, tats, buff.

Lynne - Young girl, brown hair, not exactly the sharpest tool

Danny - No idea.

I can't think of anyone else just now....but those are the ones I've run across that I'm trying to keep track of. I wish there was a character list.


One of my few critiques of the series is that Clines intros 'normal human' supporting characters with just a name, ie: 'Billie and Jarvis started firing their guns at the exes' as the reader's first intro to Billy and Jarvis. Sure the 3p viewpoint character knows who they are, but it's a bit jarring to the reader who feels like they missed an intro somewhere.

Not spoiling anything, Jarvis is a late 50s male, rancher type with a beard, and Billie is an ex-marine, female, blond pixie cut. No recall re the others.
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Posted 14 August 2013 - 07:53 PM

I picture Barry as a kind of cross between Community's Donald Glover and the guy who plays Miles Dyson in T2.

Oddly, I also pictured Regenerator as Donald Glover, but in a lab coat.
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Posted 14 August 2013 - 08:41 PM

I'm reasonably sure Regenerator was white based on an EX-H description
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Posted 14 August 2013 - 09:40 PM

Regenerator is basically an older version of Cyclops from X-Men.

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Posted 14 August 2013 - 10:00 PM

Oh no, Regenerator is definitely white, I think that's made clear at some point. I just pictured him as black for the entire first book. I did that for one of the main characters in Karen Traviss' Wess'har series, as well (plug, plug): Adrian Bennett, who even got his own cover art.

I figure it almost makes up for me picturing Duiker, Dassem, Shadowthrone, and Pust as white dudes. :doh:
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