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In Topic: The Book I bought today is...
Yesterday, 08:44 PM
So I'm trying to limit myself to buying 1 book a month for my shelves so that I can actually polish off my dead-tree trp within a year or so. I think this is also helping me be slightly pickier about which books I'm willing to buy as I've find myself to be a bit more adverse to risking buying a book I might not like.
November was No Life Forsaken and January is a no brainer with Twelve Months coming up.
This month was a bit harder though. I almost landed on The Strength of the Few but Islington but then an author I haven't touched on awhile dropped a book that has me very intrigued. Mark Z Danielewski (of House of Leaves) dropped Tom's Crossing, which appears to be a Western stylized ghost story and the blurb is crazy.
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While folks still like to focus on the crimes that shocked the small city of Orvop, Utah, back in the fall of 1982, not to mention the trials that followed, far more remember the adventure that took place beyond municipal lines in mountains ready to shrug even the bravest from their backs, as one Orvop local would put, with another characterizing the astonishing journey as crazy as it was foolish as it still is just plain beyond imaginin. But them kids went for it anyway.
Not that such daring was entirely unexpected considering how some of those involved included the likes of young Tom Gatestone, already a bit of an Orvop legend, and his friend Kalin March, new to the area, the two of them takin it upon themselves to rescue a couple of neglected horses from the Porch paddocks on Willow and Oak.
Who knows what would have happened if they hadnt?
For sure no one expected the dead to rise but they did. For sure no one expected the mountain to fall but it did. For sure no one expected an act of courage so great, and likewise so appalling, that it still staggers the heart and mind of anyone who knows anything about the Katanogos massif to say nothing of Pillars Meadow.
As one Orvop high-school teacher would describe that extraordinary feat days before she died: Fer sure, no one expected Kalin March to tell Old Porch: You get what you deserve when you ride with cowards.
So yeah, I'm a bit excited for this one. -
In Topic: Reading at t'moment?
01 December 2025 - 07:51 PM
Abyss, on 01 December 2025 - 07:28 PM, said:Azath Vitr (D, on 01 December 2025 - 04:09 PM, said: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?
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Back to reading comprehension school for Azath.
Need more input to improve the AI training? -
In Topic: Reading at t'moment?
01 December 2025 - 04:34 PM
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. -
In Topic: The Cheap/Free Ebooks Thread!
01 December 2025 - 03:31 PM
So there's a massive humble bundle featuring Image comics up right now that is maybe the craziest bundle I've ever seen.
$18 for East of West, Paper Girls, Saga, Black Science, Deadly Class, Descender and a whole bunch more I don't recognize. It's like 175 tpbs. -
In Topic: Reading at t'moment?
26 November 2025 - 09:01 PM
I get it, Macros. That scene is fucking awful and I didn't blame you for throwing in the towel. It's far from the first bit of bleakness in the series though. It really starts in DG and just never stops.
We all have our limits though. Over in the classics thread, I've mentioned that I've had to DNF two of the more modern novels this year due to content. Now, I have a hard time remembering the last time I've had to DNF a book but both of these ended up withSpoiler. Now, both authors had interesting themes they were exploring that kept me engaged right up until I hit those sections. After that, didn't matter what point there were time to make, I was out and have no intention to pick up another novel by either author.
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