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  1. In Topic: A long lost soul needs your recommendations

    19 August 2025 - 07:05 PM

    View PostQuickTidal, on 19 August 2025 - 11:30 AM, said:

    View Postworry, on 15 August 2025 - 03:26 PM, said:

    The Spear Cuts Through Water -- a one-off non-medieval fantasy that does the meta-fiction thing really well (in this case, a kind of storytelling nesting doll) without ever compromising an excellent central narrative.


    ....like Cloud Atlas? Ooooooo, that seems cool.



    Not really like Cloud Atlas, from what I remember of that. More that the main story has a framing narrative which has its own framing narrative, and then within the main story there's little asides and vignettes and mini-stories.


    It is cool though. My description of the book is imagine Gene Wolfe meets Matthew Stover and you're somewhere in the ballpark, or at least as close as I can make it.

  2. In Topic: Ye Big Movie thread

    09 August 2025 - 09:40 AM

    Anyway, have you guys seen Belle, by Mamoru Hosoda? It's not similar to K-Pop Demon Hunters really, it's more of a cyberpunk retelling of Beauty and the Beast, but there's a musical focus including one really showstopping climactic performance that the final one in KPDH brought to mind. It's a great movie (maybe Hosoda's best so far, though he sets a high bar and The Boy and the Beast and Wolf Children are both great too).



    I also just discovered this trailer for Hosoda's next film, which looks so frigging cool





  3. In Topic: Ye Big Movie thread

    06 August 2025 - 06:30 PM

    I didn't like KPop Demon Hunters as much as QT did, like, but for a show that isn't aimed at me in any way it is very good. Double stamp.

  4. In Topic: The Marvel Cinematic Universe Thread

    06 August 2025 - 06:29 PM

    Eyes of Wakanda rocks.

  5. In Topic: Reading at t'moment?

    30 July 2025 - 08:01 PM

    View Postamphibian, on 30 July 2025 - 01:24 AM, said:

    Hail Mary by Andy Weir was a very good read - better by a wide margin than The Martian due to being less of a "guy puzzle solves everything" and more of a series of puzzles/challenges intermixed with real character work.

    I think the buddy dynamic really works well in both ways it gets done in this book.

    I skipped Armada, has anyone read it?



    Funny, I had the opposite opinion: I prefer the Martian a fair bit coz I think there are parts where Weir's tried to force a similar style onto a story that would have benefited, in parts, from something very different in tone and and structure. Though it did settle in for the second half.


    Spoiler



    Anyway I've been in a bit of a reading doldrum but I've just started Metal From Heaven, by August Clarke, an anticapitalist revenge thriller type thing with some excellent prose. Only just started but it's caught my attention.

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    Tsundoku 

    22 Jul 2025 - 07:50
    happy 39th
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    Tsundoku 

    22 Jul 2024 - 09:29
    happy #38
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    Tsundoku 

    22 Jul 2023 - 09:51
    happy birthday PG
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    Tsundoku 

    21 Jul 2021 - 20:03
    35!
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    Tsundoku 

    22 Jul 2020 - 07:25
    And again. Hope it's a good one.
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    Tsundoku 

    22 Jul 2019 - 08:30
    Ermagerd, another year rolls around. Happy birthday.
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    Tsundoku 

    22 Jul 2018 - 00:29
    Happy beerthday
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