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Post by Fiona on Aug 23, 2015 13:37:40 GMT -8
Jim Butcher and Larry Correia. I'm sure I've heard them both mentioned on the show via Monster Hunters International and Dresden Files. Are they worth a read? 'cause I'm in the market for new reads.
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Post by sbloyd on Aug 23, 2015 14:28:41 GMT -8
Dunno why this is in Strategicon Discussion, but I'll bite.
Butcher's Dresden Files are great - starting with the third or fourth book. He was still learning the craft at first, and it shows. The audiobooks are great, though the pronounciation in those first few books for words like 'sidhe' is wonky.
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Post by Fiona on Aug 23, 2015 15:28:12 GMT -8
My fault. I put it in the wrong place. S'what I get for forum posting from the workplace. I'll delete it when I get home tonight.
Incidentally, I was directed to their sties shortly after posting this question on my social media accounts, and I really liked what I read of the first Dresden book so I guess I got my answer. If he gets better at the third or fourth book like you said, I might be onto a new fandom here. Thanks for the response.
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Post by ayslyn on Aug 23, 2015 15:35:48 GMT -8
I love both of them. Larry actually writes for Privateer Press' Iron Kingdoms fiction lines as well.
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Post by Fiona on Aug 23, 2015 15:51:14 GMT -8
Iron Kingdoms eh? Haven't heard of that. Something else for me to google up. Thanks for the feedback.
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Post by ayslyn on Aug 23, 2015 16:10:32 GMT -8
Short form....
Iron Kingdoms is the setting for Privateer Press' Warmachine and Hordes wargames, as well as their new RPG lines. They call it Full Metal Fantasy, rather than steampunk...
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Post by Fiona on Aug 23, 2015 16:21:06 GMT -8
Not much of a war gamer, but I'm not adverse to fiction set in such worlds.
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Post by HourEleven on Aug 23, 2015 18:22:41 GMT -8
The lore in iron kingdoms is fantastic. I own all the rule books just for the fluff, I don't even play warmachine.
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Post by Fiona on Aug 23, 2015 18:54:41 GMT -8
Sounds promising! Thanks again for the feedback guys. I'm gonna go ahead and delete the thread since I posted in the wrong place. Sorry again for the mix up.
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Post by Fiona on Aug 23, 2015 18:56:19 GMT -8
Or I will make myself look a fool by realizing that I can only delete individual posts, not entire threads. Wellthen.
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Post by ayslyn on Aug 23, 2015 19:57:24 GMT -8
If you prefer the audio route, the Dresden books are read by James Marsdon (sp?) and the Monster Hunter books are Owen Wilson. Both do fantastic jobs.
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Post by Fiona on Aug 23, 2015 20:19:57 GMT -8
I'm sure it's a good performance, but I'm a paperback man. Love the feel of the book in one hand, my coffee in the other.
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Post by chronovore on Oct 3, 2016 6:39:12 GMT -8
Dunno why this is in Strategicon Discussion, but I'll bite. Butcher's Dresden Files are great - starting with the third or fourth book. He was still learning the craft at first, and it shows. The audiobooks are great, though the pronounciation in those first few books for words like 'sidhe' is wonky. Butcher: I read Storm Front (Dresden series 1) and really disliked it, despite a fantastic reading by Marsters. Several friends encouraged me to continue with the series, so I read the 2nd book, Fool Moon. I disliked it more. One specific friend said it was the worst of the books, and things pick up with the 3rd, Grave Peril.Boy, do they ever. I've just started the fourth book today, Summer Knight. It is starting on a fantastic high note, and I suspect I'm on my way to being as well-and-truly hooked as some of my cohort. Correia: I read and enjoyed Hard Magic, an alternate history where magically powered beings form something of a strikeforce. The first book was exciting and fun, the second only slightly less so. As a fan of urban fantasty, crime fiction, and noire, I thought this series would be perfect, though it's less about noire detective/hard man fiction, and more about an elite team of operatives set in the '30s/'40s during a magical WW II. I liked these. Then I started trying his Monster Hunter series, and got 2 or 3 books in, and stopped. Leaving aside his recent "Puppies" shenanigans, I was not into the gun fetishizing, broad-stroke criticism of law enforcement and government, and aw-shucks levels weird, chauvinistic, tone of the Mary-Sue protagonist who wants a girl who is currently dating a Camaro-driving lothario; what finally caused me to give up on the book was the bizarre inclusion of gnomes who had appropriated ebonics and gang finery for no other apparent reason than to raise a chuckle. Then Correia decided to go all in on rules lawyering the Hugo awards through the Puppies' movement, and I'll happily never read anything by him again.
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Post by weaselcreature on Oct 3, 2016 8:23:30 GMT -8
Iron Kingdoms is my favorite setting. It actually started out as an RPG (they shoehorned their setting into d20 OGL as they were a small company and felt it would get more exposure). Then they came out with WarMachine and that took off like gangbusters.
A few years ago they re-released the RPG with their own system, one they felt better fit the original vision.
The setting is very in-depth and flushed out. A lot of similarities to steampunk, but still vastly different. The new books are beautiful, but even the old d20 books had tons of great info in them.
Dresden Files is excellent. The later books lose some of the noir fell to them, but are still very good. Correia is pretty good as well; I've read some Monster Hunters and his Iron Kingdoms stuff, and it's good. I will agree with the gun fetish of the Monster Hunter series; he apparently used to be in the military gun sale business to some extent, so knows his stuff, but can go overboard sometimes. The 1 or 2 Monster Hunter books I read were still entertaining. I don't know anything about this Puppies thing, so I'll have to look into it.
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Post by Fiona on Oct 3, 2016 16:22:50 GMT -8
Wow. Thread Necromancy. But I'm no longer interested. The guy's works aren't my cup of tea, though I fully support the Puppies and what they stand for. Which should come as no surprise to anyone remotely familiar with me.
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