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#24321 User is offline   Mentalist 

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Posted 08 April 2019 - 06:03 PM

View PostAptorian, on 08 April 2019 - 05:00 PM, said:

It's free but shipping will be 500 dollars.


I'll let you know next time I'm in Ottawa to pick it up
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And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.
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Posted 08 April 2019 - 06:12 PM

View PostMentalist, on 08 April 2019 - 06:03 PM, said:

View PostAptorian, on 08 April 2019 - 05:00 PM, said:

It's free but shipping will be 500 dollars.


I'll let you know next time I'm in Ottawa to pick it up


I can have the drones deliver it to your house.
We just need to know longitude, latitude, colour, and whether you want it on the front step, back step, or cranium as you innocently depart one day.
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Posted 08 April 2019 - 06:23 PM

View PostMentalist, on 08 April 2019 - 06:03 PM, said:

View PostAptorian, on 08 April 2019 - 05:00 PM, said:

It's free but shipping will be 500 dollars.


I'll let you know next time I'm in Ottawa to pick it up


I'm still not sure Abyss isn't a sentient cat with WiFi access...there is no evidence he's a human at all really.

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Posted 08 April 2019 - 06:56 PM

I've heard he's actually just a hundred thousand spiders hiding inside a trench coat.
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Posted 08 April 2019 - 08:34 PM

View PostAptorian, on 08 April 2019 - 06:56 PM, said:

I've heard he's actually just a hundred thousand spiders hiding inside a trench coat.


So he's this dimensions Spiders-man?

makes sense.
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Posted 09 April 2019 - 08:17 PM

I was asked to wait before posting my review for A Brightness Long Ago. Now that the pub date is just a few weeks away, you can now check it out here.

Not as sprawling or as vast in scope as Under Heaven or River of Stars, Kay's latest remains another memorable read.
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Posted 10 April 2019 - 02:47 AM

View PostQuickTidal, on 08 April 2019 - 06:23 PM, said:

View PostMentalist, on 08 April 2019 - 06:03 PM, said:

View PostAptorian, on 08 April 2019 - 05:00 PM, said:

It's free but shipping will be 500 dollars.


I'll let you know next time I'm in Ottawa to pick it up


I'm still not sure Abyss isn't a sentient cat with WiFi access...there is no evidence he's a human at all really.



View PostCoco with marshmallows, on 08 April 2019 - 08:34 PM, said:

View PostAptorian, on 08 April 2019 - 06:56 PM, said:

I've heard he's actually just a hundred thousand spiders hiding inside a trench coat.


So he's this dimensions Spiders-man?

makes sense.


Spider-cat, spider-cat, goes wherever the party’s at...Can he spin? ...listen spud, he smokes radioactive bud,Look out! ...here comes the Spider-cat.....
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Posted 10 April 2019 - 02:46 PM

Just finished STILETTO, O'Malley's bk 2 in his Chequay series.

It was much MUCH better than book 1 THE ROOK. The cast is more interesting and better developed, the humour more present and worked in better, the action more over the top and violent, the sf/f elements better thought out and genuinely fun to read about. The author improved on all his strengths from bk 1 with this book, and even managed to keep the espionage/spy elements prominent and logical to the story.

I can't say much about the plot without spoiling some major developments from the first book, so let me leave it with this: the duology is entertaining urban fantasy with a spy theme, the first book is worth a look and the second is just great great fun.



Started the latest Expanse book TIAMAT'S WRATH... 3 chapters in and oh god, the feels... SO MUCH THE FEELS.

(i mean that in a good way btw)
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Posted 10 April 2019 - 03:07 PM

Kickstarter backers got Michael J. Sullivan's 4th Legends of the First Empire novel AGE OF LEGEND three months early. Robin dropped the eBook VIA Kickstarter backer page last night. So I'm going o be starting that presently.
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Posted 10 April 2019 - 07:40 PM

View PostBriar King, on 10 April 2019 - 07:11 PM, said:

Abyss have you read Inheritance books? Macros to.

Just curious about something


Only bk 1.
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Posted 10 April 2019 - 08:49 PM

Only read book 1. Wasn't a huge fan, possibly actively disliked from what I remember. Was a long time ago but wasn't for me and felt zero inclination to continue.

I think QT or Morgy sing the series praises though? Could be wrong
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Posted 10 April 2019 - 08:58 PM

Finished Tchaikovsky's Cage of Souls. That is an excellent book - he's crafted an incredibly rich world and a pretty massive cast of interesting characters within the 400-odd pages. There's a whole bunch of completely different great ideas in here without it ever being rushed. Basically he's created a dying world with a long long long history and done a great job of having the fragments and remains of several different parts of that history come together into one concrete story in the world's dying throes. Probably my favourite Tchaikovsky so far.



Then I read Permafrost. Was enjoyable, though it didn't grab me the way it did some of y'all others. I share the view that a bit more could have been done to establish a certain character and generally feel the stakes feel more personal.
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Posted 10 April 2019 - 09:28 PM

On Inheritance:

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They're both significantly better books than the first one imo, you could really see Jemisin learning her craft. It took me a fair while to read on after the first book, but I read the second two in quick succession.
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Posted 10 April 2019 - 10:10 PM

Yeah. It's incredibly vague. Although I think I misunderstood your question anyway?
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Posted 11 April 2019 - 03:03 AM

View PostBriar King, on 10 April 2019 - 09:24 PM, said:

View PostMacros, on 10 April 2019 - 08:49 PM, said:

Only read book 1. Wasn't a huge fan, possibly actively disliked from what I remember. Was a long time ago but wasn't for me and felt zero inclination to continue.

I think QT or Morgy sing the series praises though? Could be wrong


It's Morgypoo that does. I was just curious how you 2 reacted to the
Spoiler


Is that a factor into anything going forward for y'all?


I liked, didn't love bk 1. Didn't read 2 because I was more drawn to other stuff. On the strength of Broken Earth, i likely will eventually.

As for the thing you mentioned, it's utterly different...
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Posted 11 April 2019 - 04:12 AM

View PostQuickTidal, on 10 April 2019 - 03:07 PM, said:

Kickstarter backers got Michael J. Sullivan's 4th Legends of the First Empire novel AGE OF LEGEND three months early. Robin dropped the eBook VIA Kickstarter backer page last night. So I'm going o be starting that presently.


That sounds like a bad idea. Why wait three months when you can just pirate 5 MB on a torrent site.
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Posted 11 April 2019 - 05:21 AM

I disliked Tigana because overall it was a crap book.
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Posted 11 April 2019 - 05:30 AM

Just finished listening to Jemisin's Inheritance trilogy. Very good books. First one probably shows some signs of being a first novel, and the plotting reminds me a bit of 19th century Gothic novels, but overall the world-building is excellent. The erotica scenes almost start to get boringly repetitive but ultimately transcend repetition. Books 2 and 3 go in more of an "urban fantasy" direction (though the level of technology remains mostly pre-industrial) and are far less focused around erotica. No audiobook of the novella alas but I plan to read it soon (won't fit into my limit on screens right before bed, though... so next bedtime audiobook is Holy Sister).
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Posted 11 April 2019 - 12:05 PM

Jemisin has said numerous times that the one area of book publishing that she pays lots of attention to is the romance novels bc they keep publishing as a whole afloat.

That's possibly why the first book of the Inheritance trilogy is somewhat romance novel-y.

I too liked the shifts in the second and third books, plus the novella. But it might have been necessary for her to get the first novel in that form in order to get published.
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Posted 11 April 2019 - 12:26 PM

View PostAptorian, on 11 April 2019 - 04:12 AM, said:

View PostQuickTidal, on 10 April 2019 - 03:07 PM, said:

Kickstarter backers got Michael J. Sullivan's 4th Legends of the First Empire novel AGE OF LEGEND three months early. Robin dropped the eBook VIA Kickstarter backer page last night. So I'm going o be starting that presently.


That sounds like a bad idea. Why wait three months when you can just pirate 5 MB on a torrent site.


Because every single backer is likely very respectful of the author and his team? I would certainly never do such a thing to one of my favourite authors. Pirating books is the epitome of dirtbagness and it disgusts me those who do it. Pay for your entertainment.
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