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#20601 Lady Bliss

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Posted 14 July 2017 - 08:50 PM

Abyss, on 10 July 2017 - 06:53 PM, said:

I will keep saying this until you all fucking learn it....
Fucking Stover's fucking Acts of Caine.
Fuck.

acesn8s, on 11 July 2017 - 12:26 PM, said:

and of fucking course, the god damned, fucking Acts of mother-fucking Caine! Shit, piss, fuck, fruitloop, cocksucker, motherfucker, tits!

Still haven't read them. Think I'll like the books?

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#20602 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 14 July 2017 - 09:29 PM

Lady Bliss, on 14 July 2017 - 08:50 PM, said:

Still haven't read them. Think I'll like the books?

Fuck yes.

"Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?"
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#20603 Abyss

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Posted 14 July 2017 - 11:53 PM

Salt-Man Z, on 14 July 2017 - 09:29 PM, said:

Lady Bliss, on 14 July 2017 - 08:50 PM, said:

Still haven't read them. Think I'll like the books?

Fuck yes.

Fucking seconded.

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#20604 JPK

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Posted 15 July 2017 - 12:00 AM

Briar King, on 14 July 2017 - 11:58 PM, said:

Abyss, on 14 July 2017 - 11:53 PM, said:

Salt-Man Z, on 14 July 2017 - 09:29 PM, said:

Lady Bliss, on 14 July 2017 - 08:50 PM, said:

Still haven't read them. Think I'll like the books?

Fuck yes.

Fucking seconded.

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#20605 Macros

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Posted 15 July 2017 - 07:57 AM

First two are fucking good.
Third fucking ok ok and the fourth a waffly self indulgent disafuckingpoinment

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#20606 worry

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Posted 15 July 2017 - 08:51 AM

I haven't read any of these friggin books, and I'm dang tired of hearing about them.

They came with white hands and left with red hands.

#20607 Abyss

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Posted 15 July 2017 - 07:03 PM

Macros, on 15 July 2017 - 07:57 AM, said:

First two are fucking good.
Third fucking ok ok and the fourth a waffly self indulgent disafuckingpoinment

That's your fucking opinion and you're enfuckingtitled to it.
But I disagree and think 4 was mindfuckingly brilliant.

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#20608 polishgenius

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Posted 15 July 2017 - 07:46 PM

Fucking four fucking was fucking the fucking best fucking fucking fucking one fucking.

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#20609 QuickTidal

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Posted 15 July 2017 - 11:36 PM

Shit.

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#20610 Coco with marshmallows

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Posted 15 July 2017 - 11:41 PM

i guess i was the only one that found the girl with all the gifts to be, well....average at best?

read it before i knew there was going to be a movie based on it and found it distinctly meh.

Anyways, on topic, finished Nevernight, quite enjoyable, though cliche in places.

now on to either "The Ninth Rain" by Jen Williams or "Legion of Flame" by Anthony Ryan.

meh. Link was dead :(

#20611 worry

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Posted 16 July 2017 - 01:28 AM

Finished Rain Wilds book 1, Dragon Keeper.

Spoiler

Now I think I'll read Joe Hill's The Fireman.

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#20612 JPK

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Posted 16 July 2017 - 02:53 AM

worry, on 16 July 2017 - 01:28 AM, said:

Now I think I'll read Joe Hill's The Fireman.

Yay! I liked that book. Have you read any other of Hill's work before?

#20613 worry

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Posted 16 July 2017 - 03:58 AM

I've read Heart-Shaped Box, 20th Century Ghosts, and Horns. But that reminds me I have NOS4A2 on Kindle, I just keep forgetting it exists. I'll still skip to The Fireman though cuz I have it in dead-tree and I kinda prefer that for horror, for some reason.

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#20614 JPK

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Posted 16 July 2017 - 04:29 AM

worry, on 16 July 2017 - 03:58 AM, said:

I've been through each of those except Heart-Shaped Box myself. NOS4A2 is my favorite this far, though I really enjoyed Horns. I've really got to get to HSB soon.

#20615 Abyss

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Posted 16 July 2017 - 07:38 PM

I was sufficiently impressed with the LOCKE N KEY series that I got the audio play version from Audible for near future eartime.

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#20616 acesn8s

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Posted 16 July 2017 - 07:39 PM

Lady Bliss, on 14 July 2017 - 08:50 PM, said:

Abyss, on 10 July 2017 - 06:53 PM, said:

I will keep saying this until you all fucking learn it....
Fucking Stover's fucking Acts of Caine.
Fuck.

acesn8s, on 11 July 2017 - 12:26 PM, said:

and of fucking course, the god damned, fucking Acts of mother-fucking Caine! Shit, piss, fuck, fruitloop, cocksucker, motherfucker, tits!

Still haven't read them. Think I'll like the books?

I think it is a great series: brutal in places, critical of society in places, with great character insight. Caine is an "Ends justify the means" character. He's what Jorg wishes to be when he finally grows up.

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#20617 QuickTidal

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Posted 16 July 2017 - 07:50 PM

Finished THE WITCHWOOD CROWN by Williams...thoughts in ded-thread, but I loved it!

Taking a brief book break to consume some comics. Trying out ALL-NEW GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY by Gerry Duggan and Aaron Kuder. Stunning art, and Duggan was a recent guest on a podcast I listen to talking about structure for the books arcing narrative and it sounded amazing! So far it's great!

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#20618 Maark Abbott

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Posted 17 July 2017 - 01:54 PM

FINALLY finished Crown of Stars #5. Slog of slogs, but rewarding in the end.

Onto The Court of Broken Knives now.

Debut novel 'Incarnate' now available on Kindle

#20619 Chance

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Posted 17 July 2017 - 07:55 PM

Going through the last parts of The Court of Broken Knives and it is just getting better along the way, probably because it was unclear where the fuck it was going for a while. The books is rediculously grimdark in nearly every aspect but still it has wonderful language and some characters that are just a joy to read when they aren't too far down in the dirt and self-pity.

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