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Tsundoku, on 01 December 2025 - 11:03 AM, said:

Reading my first Joe Abercrombie "The Devils". Quite a fun read so far. Would make a good mini-series.
I keep seeing Anya Taylor-Joy as Sunny and Steven Lang as Jakob. Maybe Diego Luna as Diaz.

Easily front runner for my favorite read of the year. It's just such a great fun book that hits every note i generally look for... great engaging characters, fast pace, excellent action, interesting magic, evil villains, sticks the ending.

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QuickTidal, on 01 December 2025 - 12:44 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 25 November 2025 - 12:38 PM, said:

I finally decided (after years of it sitting on my digital ToReadPile) to give RED RISING a chance...

Finished on Sunday night. Fastest I've read a book in like 2 years...safe to say I not only liked it, I'm IN.
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So yeah, thanks again all. I loved this book and I can't wait to continue the series. I'm grabbing GOLDEN SON from the library tonight on my way home and starting it immediately.

Welcome to the party my goodman. It is a frikkin ride.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Abyss, on 01 December 2025 - 03:51 PM, said:

Easily front runner for my favorite read of the year. It's just such a great fun book that hits every note i generally look for... great engaging characters, fast pace, excellent action, interesting magic, evil villains

Evil villains? Thought that was one of your main objections to The Priory of the Orange Tree?

One section of A Day of Fallen Night tries to reframe them as embodiments of "chaos" rather than "evil"---though If they were truly chaos incarnate, they wouldn't conform so consistently to our common conceptions of "evil".

Granted the old "Tiamat = archetypal chaos" is maybe a bit too redolent of Jung, Campbell, and Jordan Peterson (guess the next name in that devolving sequence might as well be... IDK, Nick Fuentes?) for my taste...

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I polished off No Country for Old Men over the weekend. McCarthy, why do you have to hurt so good? At this point I think I've just got to accept that he's going to be another author of which I'll end up reading all of his works.

I think I need a bit of heart cleansing after that, so I'm going to focus on Castle in the Air by Dianna Wynne Jones. I'm about five chapters in and it's hitting the right notes for something hopeful, even though I'm giving a healthy side eye to some of the cultural decisions made with the book so far.

QT, happy to see you liked Red Rising. Now the series really gets good. Btw, sorry for the neg rep. Fat fingered on mobile and can't figure out how to fix it. Repped you elsewhere to make up for it.

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JPK, on 01 December 2025 - 04:34 PM, said:

QT, happy to see you liked Red Rising. Now the series really gets good. Btw, sorry for the neg rep. Fat fingered on mobile and can't figure out how to fix it. Repped you elsewhere to make up for it.

Ha, no trouble. All good.