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Post by OFTHEHILLPEOPLE on Aug 8, 2017 13:13:45 GMT -8
Wayward recently came off hiatus after their story arc and I couldn't be happier. It's a comic I've been loving and got my wife hooked on it. If you are of the trade paperback comic book reading variety I recommend picking it up. Jim Zub is one of my favorite comic writers and is killing it with this comic.
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temmogen
Initiate Douchebag
I am the thread killer
Posts: 40
Preferred Game Systems: 1st Ed. AD&D; Pathfinder; Mongoose Traveller; Call of Cuthulhu
Favorite Species of Monkey: Space Monkey
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Post by temmogen on Aug 8, 2017 18:47:00 GMT -8
Role-Playing Mastery by the E.G.G I've decided to start up my gaming philosophy studies again.
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dnddad
Journeyman Douchebag
They're bullywugs aren't they Pat...
Posts: 200
Preferred Game Systems: WEG D6 Star Wars, Shadowrun 2nd, Battletech 3rd, Mechwarrior 2nd, AD&D 2nd, AFMBE rev, Savage Worlds Deluxe, Usagi Yojimbo, Marvel Super Heroes Advanced
Currently Playing: Frostgrave & Boltaction
Currently Running: from my problems
Favorite Species of Monkey: Spong
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Post by dnddad on Aug 22, 2017 7:53:29 GMT -8
On Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb. Read the prologue for Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson(they are posting chapters on Tor's website up until its full release.) www.tor.com/series/oathbringer/I don't know what I want to read after I'm done with the main Farseer trilogy.
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Post by vyrrk on Aug 22, 2017 13:13:44 GMT -8
On Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb. Read the prologue for Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson(they are posting chapters on Tor's website up until its full release.) www.tor.com/series/oathbringer/I don't know what I want to read after I'm done with the main Farseer trilogy. Oh man... I loved those books by Hobb!
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Post by chronovore on Aug 24, 2017 1:12:12 GMT -8
On Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb. Read the prologue for Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson(they are posting chapters on Tor's website up until its full release.) www.tor.com/series/oathbringer/I don't know what I want to read after I'm done with the main Farseer trilogy. Oh man... I loved those books by Hobb! You guys have more stamina than I do. I love Robin Hobb's luscious prose and considerable worldbuilding, but I couldn't deal with the amount of misery the first Assassins arc contained. She is fond of showing you every way something can go right, before dashing the reader's hopes on the rocks of misfortune she is so good at placing. I still have an unread hardback of one of the Fool's books on my shelf, preordered before I realized how consistently sad her books made me.
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Post by chronovore on Aug 24, 2017 1:19:15 GMT -8
Iain M. Banks Use of Weapons is shaping up pretty nicely. I was having trouble determining if there were multiple Zakalwe characters, or if it was being told out of chronological order. It turns out I'm in a much, much more complicated book than I'd expected, according to wikipedia's introduction:
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fredrix
Master Douchebag
Posts: 2,142
Preferred Game Systems: Fate, L5R, Pendragon, Gumshoe, Feng Shui
Currently Playing: Pendragon, Song of Ice and Fire, L5R, Feng Shui, Traveller
Currently Running: Fate, Coriolis, Nights Black Agents
Favorite Species of Monkey: 1970's NTV, dubbed by the BBC (though The Water Margin beats it)
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Post by fredrix on Aug 24, 2017 5:53:22 GMT -8
Iain M. Banks Use of Weapons is shaping up pretty nicely. I was having trouble determining if there were multiple Zakalwe characters, or if it was being told out of chronological order. It turns out I'm in a much, much more complicated book than I'd expected I love Use of Weapons. Possibly (very probably definitely) my favourite Banks book. (Though The Bridge keeps hanging on in there).
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Post by vyrrk on Aug 24, 2017 9:22:20 GMT -8
Oh man... I loved those books by Hobb! You guys have more stamina than I do. I love Robin Hobb's luscious prose and considerable worldbuilding, but I couldn't deal with the amount of misery the first Assassins arc contained. She is fond of showing you every way something can go right, before dashing the reader's hopes on the rocks of misfortune she is so good at placing. I still have an unread hardback of one of the Fool's books on my shelf, preordered before I realized how consistently sad her books made me. Ok... yeah that is 100% true. I was literally depressed after the second assaisn book for a couple days.
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Post by chronovore on Oct 11, 2017 7:00:46 GMT -8
Reading The Expanse book 3, Abaddon's Gate. Well, listening to it. While the writers have found their style and managed to really get their emotional hooks in me, I've been caught off-guard by their timing and occasional stutters in their rhythm. This one feels less like they're working from a shared outline and more like they're passing it back and forth, saying "OK you decide what happens next."
I wish there was a spoiler text option here, as I'd like to list incidents.
I'm impressed at how much strife the human explorers manage to create on their own. The authors' ability to shift me, as a reader, from sympathy to hatred, back to sympathy… and again to disappointment is surprising. I feel emotionally involved with the characters and the situations they're in.
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blydddreug
Apprentice Douchebag
BAAAAD doggie!
Posts: 69
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Post by blydddreug on Oct 18, 2017 17:31:24 GMT -8
Iain M. Banks Use of Weapons is shaping up pretty nicely. I was having trouble determining if there were multiple Zakalwe characters, or if it was being told out of chronological order. It turns out I'm in a much, much more complicated book than I'd expected I love Use of Weapons. Possibly (very probably definitely) my favourite Banks book. (Though The Bridge keeps hanging on in there). Although I haven't read all of Banks's books set in the Culture universe, I liked Surface Detail the best so far. Not so much because of plot or story line, but because it was the most oddly imagined...
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Post by chronovore on Oct 18, 2017 22:22:41 GMT -8
Just finished The Expanse book 3: Abaddon's Gate. I was pretty unsure if the Rocinante's crew was going to make it out of this one intact. In the first book, they unceremoniously off one of their crew, and also transformed another beyond humanity, and it made remaining characters feel very tenuously attached to life, like they could be cut from the story with a casualness approaching GRRM authored works. However, while a number of very good characters were killed off during this book, I'm beginning to feel the Rocinante crew is now off-limits. This was a good story with realistic reactions to shitty situations, some good people died, not enough of the bad people got what was coming to them… in short, a very emotional ride.
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Post by chronovore on Dec 5, 2017 23:33:23 GMT -8
I finished the audiobook of Stephen King's IT. Very good reading, and it reminded me of how much Stephen King used to enthrall me. I mean, I have enjoyed his recent stuff too, but the weaving of the 1957 and 1985 storylines was just enthralling. I don't think I've listened to 40 hours so exhaustively in a while. From what I've seen of the previews of Netflix' Stranger Things, there is a fair amount of crossover with "kids battling evil in a nostalgic era" thing going on. Currently wrapping up John Scalzi's The Collapsing Empire, a foul-mouthed and funny space opera with an unwieldy but entertaining dollop of political positioning. Apparently the TV rights have been sold, though the second book isn't even out yet.
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Post by vyrrk on Dec 8, 2017 11:45:21 GMT -8
Currently wrapping up John Scalzi's The Collapsing Empire, a foul-mouthed and funny space opera with an unwieldy but entertaining dollop of political positioning. Apparently the TV rights have been sold, though the second book isn't even out yet. I've only read the first 3 Old Mans War books. How are you liking Collapsing Empire?
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Post by chronovore on Dec 8, 2017 19:54:56 GMT -8
Currently wrapping up John Scalzi's The Collapsing Empire, a foul-mouthed and funny space opera with an unwieldy but entertaining dollop of political positioning. Apparently the TV rights have been sold, though the second book isn't even out yet. I've only read the first 3 Old Mans War books. How are you liking Collapsing Empire? It's good. It's post-wannabe-Heinlein Scalzi, which is both a strength and weakness to Old Man's War. Scalzi has found his own voice, and it's a welcome one. I enjoyed the varying characters, and the world-building is solid. My only complaint was a couple of call/response dialogs which were altogether too obviously awkward infodumps. I can't wait for the next one, but I hope it's planned as a solid arc with an ending, and not extruded space opera product.
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Post by ayslyn on Dec 9, 2017 12:18:20 GMT -8
I just finished both of John Wick's 7th Sea novels (Daughter of Fate, and Born Under the Black Flag). Both were quite good, with fun, compelling characters.
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