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>> | No. 5456
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This was really good. |
>> | No. 7645
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shopping.jpg This was pleasant enough, but it's a fairly inconsistent book so there were parts of it where I felt my attention drifting after a few pages. IIRC, it wasn't originally written as a humorous book and was heavily edited down so that may be why it feels like it can't make its mind up entirely what it's meant to be. |
>> | No. 7646
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>>13951 |
>> | No. 7647
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Plagiarist.jpg This novella is about a plagiarist, someone who travels into simulated worlds to memorise their great works of literature. The twist is that the protagonist is part of a simulated world, with a plagiarist mining him for his output. It wasn't anything special. |
>> | No. 7648
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EMgXyEuWsAEdaqB.jpg_large.jpg Got round to reading Dogs of War. Thanks for the suggestion, lads, it was pretty good. |
>> | No. 7649
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>>7648 |
>> | No. 7650
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Shadow_Games.jpg The Black Company travel to the Southern continent, i.e. fantasy Africa. The first two-thirds or so of this book are largely an unremarkable interlude with the occasional fetishisation of negroids, brownies and glistening dark skin thrown in for good measure. It's fine when it does eventually get going, although most of the twists can be seen a mile off. |
>> | No. 7651
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Dreams_of_Steel.jpg This was much better. |
>> | No. 7655
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s-l1200.jpg This spin-off is essentially The Black Company 3.5 as it's set at the same time as Shadow Games but concerns characters remaining north. It was good, for the most part, but patchy. |
>> | No. 7657
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Bleak_Seasons.jpg This is the most experimental book in the series so far because a) it's non-linear in time due to traumatic events happening to the narrator and b) it features a comatose wizard who can be used to float through time and space for spying on people. However, it's largely set during the events of Dreams of Steel so the narrative barely moves on; ultimately, it's largely filler. |
>> | No. 7658
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>>7657 |
>> | No. 7659
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fw1nbbc2j9m41.jpg >>7658 |
>> | No. 7660
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s-l1600.png This has been my least favourite book of the series so far. I found myself losing interest and not really caring what happened. The ending was fairly interesting, provided that you accept the main characters become uncharacteristically stupid and careless enough to fall into an easily avoidable trap set out for them. |
>> | No. 7661
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s-l1200.png Bob, who has just made a small fortune selling his software company, signs up to be cryogenically frozen when he dies and then goes off to a comic con to celebrate, which includes watching a panel discussing self-replicating spacecraft. The following day he is killed crossing the road. He wakes up in the year 2133 and finds out there has been a coup in America by religious fundamentalists known as Free American Independent Theocratic Hegemony (FAITH) who've destroyed his body but replicated his brain to be the pilot of their self-replicating spacecraft, Habitable Earths Abiogenic Vessel Exploration Network (HEAVEN), in their race against other empires to explore the universe. |
>> | No. 7662
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A_Little_LIfe.jpg I've done it. I've read the book every woman in the world loves. It's definitely a women's book, but it is nevertheless very good. It's a thousand times better than I expected. The famously unrelenting horrifying child abuse and bum-rape is not unrelenting at all; there are only three or four bits like that although if you don't like self-harm and suicide, there's a fair bit more of that. It's very long, but it's easy to read so it's not a daunting prospect if you want to read it. |
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>>7661 |
>> | No. 7664
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>>7663 |
>> | No. 7665
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THSHDWFTHB1981.jpg Shadow of the Torturer is something I've seen recommended loads of times over the year so I thought I'd check it out. I feel like I've been tricked by the internet again because it's not very good even for a YA quasi-fantasy. |
>> | No. 7666
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TerrorTome-HB-jacket-scaled-1914095181.jpg Matthew Holness writes as Garth Marenghi, a self-obsessed egotistical narrsisistic horror author of questionable talent. The book is pretty okay, not quite the Garth Marenghi you'd expect from Dark Place, but it's similarly ironic, self-aware to a degree and easy enough to enjoy. |
>> | No. 7667
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KLARA-HBPLC-1-e1643375892173.jpg This was crap. There was a brief moment, probably about 230 pages in, where it vaguely threatened to get interesting but that soon fizzled out and it went back to being flat. Stories from the perspective of an overly naive character making observations on humanity don't do it for me, especially when they're about as insightful as you'd expect in a book for children. |
>> | No. 7668
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hbg-title-9781841490595-376.jpg I've read four Culture novels so far. I'd say this is my third favourite out of those and it was excellent. |
>> | No. 7669
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1103808869.0.x.jpg I finally finished The Dark Tower series and wouldn't recommend it to anyone unless they have a deep interest in Stephen Kings work. The series starts interesting but it gradually breaks down into a boring episodic quests toward the a lacklustre ending. The main character reaches The Dark Tower, and that's it. In a way I'm thankful for the ending as it's let the series simply fade out of my mind (I even forgot that I'd finished it one night when picking up the book for my reading session). |
>> | No. 7670
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>>7669 |
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>>7668 |
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>>7671 |
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>>7672 |
>> | No. 7688
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>>7665 |
>> | No. 7700
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Screenshot from 2024-01-24 01-37-32.png A friend recommended this to me on Saturday night. I wasn't going to buy a copy, but when it's reduced by 110%, perhaps I should reconsider? |
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>>7700 |
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>>7700 |
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>>7701 |
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>>7700 |
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>>7700 |
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>>7714 |
>> | No. 7716
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>>7669 |
>> | No. 7717
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>>7715 |
>> | No. 7718
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Why can't I find Phillip K Dick on Library Genesis? |
>> | No. 7719
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>>7718 |
>> | No. 7720
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>>7719 |
>> | No. 7757
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Screenshot_20240203_152107_Google.jpg Just finished reading Animal House by James Brown. It's the memoir of a Ln NME editor who went on to launch Loaded. Its made me all nostalgic for when magazines were good before the Internet and I do wonder if the moral crusade against lads mags in the 2010s is in part responsible for the rise of wronguns like that Tate character in prominence. |
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>>7757 |
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>>7758 |
>> | No. 7760
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>>7759 |
>> | No. 7767
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TheUnteleportedMan(1stEd).jpg >>7719 |
>> | No. 7768
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4955876005_818aafc875_c.jpg I'd put this at #4 on the list so far. |
>> | No. 7769
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Rory Stewart's Politics on the Edge put to bed any desire, however unlikely, to become an MP. Fascinating but utterly miserable sounding existence. |
>> | No. 7770
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>>7769 |
>> | No. 7771
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House_Of_Leaves_Motto_1462.jpg House of Leaves is okay, I guess. Sure, it's experimental, but that's really all it is. It's a book about, effectively, that Simpsons Halloween special where Homer gets lost in "the third dimension", and I loved that far more than I liked House of Leaves. My main problem is, the author will have fun and interesting ideas for the layout, but he still needs words to type, and he often just reverts to empty filler. For example, the chapter in this picture I found is pretty much as weird as the book gets, and there's a footnote about architecture that occupies the side of about 15 consecutive pages, before ending with another footnote which starts on the opposite page and continues, backwards, to the page you initially started on. That's a cool idea, but what do these footnotes actually entail? Well, one is a list of every single famous architect ever throughout history, and the other one is a list of names of probably over 1000 film directors. A cool idea it may be, but it's not enjoyable to read and it feels like the author couldn't be bothered to actually write a proper story. |
>> | No. 7772
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maxresdefault-3350127349.jpg >>7771 |
>> | No. 7773
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wstgff.png Mogworld and Jam are decent enough stories which are quite poorly written. Will Save the Galaxy for Food is a dull story, quite poorly written. |
>> | No. 7774
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LB.png This is a retelling of Peter Pan from the perspective of Jamie, Peter's right-hand man, who realises over time how evil Peter really is. The ending of the book, where he has turned from Lost Boy to Captain Hook, was obvious from the very beginning so it was more an exercise in trying to unsettle the reader and build up suspense (at least by YA standards) with what Peter gets up to in the meantime. It was an inventive enough premise but the writing was a little infantile for me, although that could be because the protagonist was a child. |
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