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#28981 User is offline   WithdrawalRoutine 

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Posted 20 June 2023 - 06:40 AM

Just started reading Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon and am loving it so far. It's the first fantasy book to scratch the Malazan itch since Malazan itself, plus it's full of lesbians :wub:
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Posted 20 June 2023 - 12:16 PM

 TheRemovalProcess, on 20 June 2023 - 06:40 AM, said:

Just started reading Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon and am loving it so far. It's the first fantasy book to scratch the Malazan itch since Malazan itself, plus it's full of lesbians :wub:


Lesbians AND Dragons!

I own it, but have yet to really dive in.
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Posted 20 June 2023 - 01:13 PM

 QuickTidal, on 20 June 2023 - 12:16 PM, said:

 TheRemovalProcess, on 20 June 2023 - 06:40 AM, said:

Just started reading Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon and am loving it so far. It's the first fantasy book to scratch the Malazan itch since Malazan itself, plus it's full of lesbians :wub:


Lesbians AND Dragons!



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Posted 20 June 2023 - 01:41 PM

 QuickTidal, on 20 June 2023 - 12:16 PM, said:

 TheRemovalProcess, on 20 June 2023 - 06:40 AM, said:

Just started reading Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon and am loving it so far. It's the first fantasy book to scratch the Malazan itch since Malazan itself, plus it's full of lesbians :wub:


Lesbians AND Dragons!

It's like someone has been checking out Tsundoku's search history!
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Posted 20 June 2023 - 01:43 PM

 QuickTidal, on 20 June 2023 - 12:16 PM, said:

 TheRemovalProcess, on 20 June 2023 - 06:40 AM, said:

Just started reading Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon and am loving it so far. It's the first fantasy book to scratch the Malazan itch since Malazan itself, plus it's full of lesbians :wub:


Lesbians AND Dragons!

I own it, but have yet to really dive in.


LESBIANS AND DRAGONS!

It's everything I wanted Robin Hobb's Dragon Keeper series to be and way more.

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Posted 20 June 2023 - 03:00 PM

 TheRemovalProcess, on 20 June 2023 - 06:40 AM, said:

Just started reading Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon and am loving it so far. It's the first fantasy book to scratch the Malazan itch since Malazan itself...


I'm curious how the comparison to Malazan holds up as you get further in.
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Posted 20 June 2023 - 08:32 PM

 Tiste Simeon, on 20 June 2023 - 01:41 PM, said:

 QuickTidal, on 20 June 2023 - 12:16 PM, said:

 TheRemovalProcess, on 20 June 2023 - 06:40 AM, said:

Just started reading Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon and am loving it so far. It's the first fantasy book to scratch the Malazan itch since Malazan itself, plus it's full of lesbians :wub:


Lesbians AND Dragons!

It's like someone has been checking out Tsundoku's search history!


True. Best RPG ever! :D
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Posted 21 June 2023 - 05:01 AM

I adored PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE when I read it a couple of years ago. I remember someone else here reading it on my recco but not particularly liking it (Abyss?), which made me sad. I just picked up the prequel ebook cheap, so that's on the shortlist for future reading.
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Posted 21 June 2023 - 05:09 AM

Are they talking dragons?
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Posted 21 June 2023 - 03:26 PM

It's been on my radar to read for a while, gorgeous cover art for the sequel caught my eye in a bookshop somewhere
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Posted 21 June 2023 - 03:35 PM

 Salt-Man Z, on 21 June 2023 - 05:01 AM, said:

I adored PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE when I read it a couple of years ago. I remember someone else here reading it on my recco but not particularly liking it (Abyss?), which made me sad. I just picked up the prequel ebook cheap, so that's on the shortlist for future reading.


That's me. Hey, tonnes of people loved it, it gets all kinds of recos across the medias. I am smarter and more discerning than most of you worms have a particular set of tropes and styles that i think suck don't work for me, but i think less of you and scorn your opinions don't begrudge anyone reading what they lower themselves to enjoy like hack job romance plots and random character shifts and tropey dragons and dear god that lead character was annoying and the action scenes were a mess .
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Posted 21 June 2023 - 03:36 PM

 Macros, on 21 June 2023 - 03:26 PM, said:

It's been on my radar to read for a while, gorgeous cover art for the sequel caught my eye in a bookshop somewhere


Beautiful covers on both books.
(see i didn't completely hate it)
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Posted 21 June 2023 - 03:45 PM

 Abyss, on 21 June 2023 - 03:36 PM, said:

 Macros, on 21 June 2023 - 03:26 PM, said:

It's been on my radar to read for a while, gorgeous cover art for the sequel caught my eye in a bookshop somewhere


Beautiful covers on both books.
(see i didn't completely hate it)


More publishing houses should design series covers that are not only nice, but when lined up on the shelf show a picture (the dragons on those covers do this)....most recently the Jin Yong Condor Heroes series translated English books did this and it's lovely on the shelf.

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Posted 21 June 2023 - 04:46 PM

About 1/4 into my re-read of ROYAL ASSASSIN by Hobb, and of course it's still excellent. In the early days before he named Nighteyes, I'm always like....IGNORE BURRICH, name the damned Cub Fitz!
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Posted 22 June 2023 - 02:54 PM

 QuickTidal, on 21 June 2023 - 04:46 PM, said:

About 1/4 into my re-read of ROYAL ASSASSIN by Hobb, and of course it's still excellent. In the early days before he named Nighteyes, I'm always like....IGNORE BURRICH, name the damned Cub Fitz!


I tore through Fool's Assassin and am on Fool's Quest now. The scenes with Fitz and
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in Oaksbywater was...not great? I don't think that Fitz's actions against the beggar were authentic to his character.
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Posted 22 June 2023 - 05:50 PM

Finished John Dies at the End and have moved onto This Book is Full of Spiders. It's quite entertaining but not as funny (IMO) as it's been made out to be. Certainly insane in scope and imagination and it does get a few chuckles out of me but I'm not laughing loads. Enjoying it enough to keep going though!
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Posted 22 June 2023 - 07:51 PM

 Tiste Simeon, on 22 June 2023 - 05:50 PM, said:

Finished John Dies at the End and have moved onto This Book is Full of Spiders. It's quite entertaining but not as funny (IMO) as it's been made out to be. Certainly insane in scope and imagination and it does get a few chuckles out of me but I'm not laughing loads. Enjoying it enough to keep going though!

JOHN DIES leans more into the batshit humor aspect, while SPIDERS leans more horror, so I enjoyed the first book much more than the second. One of these days I'll read the third (and I think maybe there's a fourth?)
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Posted 23 June 2023 - 12:49 AM

The second has so much friendship and the third one just goes into meaningful characters. I hope there's a fourth bc I want to read it.
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Posted 23 June 2023 - 01:46 AM

The fourth is out. IF THIS BOOK EXISTS, YOU'RE IN THE WRONG UNIVERSE. It's worth noting that the author has dropped the David Wong pseudonym and is now releasing them under Jason Pargin.
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Posted 23 June 2023 - 03:14 AM

 JPK, on 23 June 2023 - 01:46 AM, said:

The fourth is out. IF THIS BOOK EXISTS, YOU'RE IN THE WRONG UNIVERSE. It's worth noting that the author has dropped the David Wong pseudonym and is now releasing them under Jason Pargin.


....or IS he???
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