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I have read multiple books in this series. It's an interesting concept throughout all the books, but the writing is god awful bad. Shame really, because the concept is great.
Also the audiobook narrator is terrible.
What did you just read?
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I have read multiple books in this series. It's an interesting concept throughout all the books, but the writing is god awful bad. Shame really, because the concept is great.
Also the audiobook narrator is terrible.
Ukerric
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Half of the fun was looking forward to the next completely twisted sex joke he'd find. Alas, after a while, he ran out, so he entirely shelved the sex parts (there's only very occasional allusions) and focused on the slaughter gallows humor. With the occasional weird joke (like that immensely powerful and expensive waterbreathing artefact he had for his harpy pet)
"It's a duck suit, right?"
This is a series that should absolutely not work. Like never. But it somehow does.
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Arbitrary
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Finished up Uncrowned, book seven of Will Wight's "Cradle" series. The further I got in to the series the less time it took me to finish each one. It's been a while since I decided to just stay up through the night to finish a book but here we are. It's just such a damn treat when each entry in a series is better than the last.
They're just such a good time.
They're just such a good time.
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Mudcrush Durtfeet
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Short story called 'Poke'. Sample...
"She was amused by the froth that was produced as she vigorously brushed her teeth; white mixed with blood, bubbling over like the foam of a feral dog’s mouth, before she retracted one set of teeth and redoubled her efforts with the second, being careful around the razor blades and glass shards.
She replaced the toothbrush, wiped the froth away with her hand, then shook off most of it before using the remainder to sort through her hair and get the most offending clumps set down into place. Where hair was too matted or clumped to get her fingers through, she pulled until the offending clump of hair came free of her scalp.
It was hard to know what gunk went where, but she had things kind of figured out. Kind of. One mistake with one spray made her arm stick to her armpit. One bottle had an eye on it and that fucking said ‘contact’, that should have been the stuff to clean her eyes with direct contact. Instead, the traitorous plastic bottle spat out a thin jet of cold liquid that stung like piss, eliciting a screech from her. A neighbor thumped on the ceiling above, and she flipped them the double-bird, hands raised to the ceiling.
I know where you live, she thought, blinking fiercely with trails of the chemicals trailing down her cheek. I will put a lightbulb in your mouth while you sleep and then drop-kick you in the balls. Or cunt, depending."
"She was amused by the froth that was produced as she vigorously brushed her teeth; white mixed with blood, bubbling over like the foam of a feral dog’s mouth, before she retracted one set of teeth and redoubled her efforts with the second, being careful around the razor blades and glass shards.
She replaced the toothbrush, wiped the froth away with her hand, then shook off most of it before using the remainder to sort through her hair and get the most offending clumps set down into place. Where hair was too matted or clumped to get her fingers through, she pulled until the offending clump of hair came free of her scalp.
It was hard to know what gunk went where, but she had things kind of figured out. Kind of. One mistake with one spray made her arm stick to her armpit. One bottle had an eye on it and that fucking said ‘contact’, that should have been the stuff to clean her eyes with direct contact. Instead, the traitorous plastic bottle spat out a thin jet of cold liquid that stung like piss, eliciting a screech from her. A neighbor thumped on the ceiling above, and she flipped them the double-bird, hands raised to the ceiling.
I know where you live, she thought, blinking fiercely with trails of the chemicals trailing down her cheek. I will put a lightbulb in your mouth while you sleep and then drop-kick you in the balls. Or cunt, depending."
Campbell1oo4
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Mudcrush Durtfeet
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Author is Wildbow (does good web serials), character is a goblin (not the WoW kind).
Ritley
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Caught up to the current chapter of Wandering Inn that V velk recommended, and I wanted to say that it is probably one of the best self published series I’ve read. And that’s coming from someone who doesn’t like most litrpg series.
All of the characters are great, everytime he introduces a new one im kind of annoyed at having another character to split time with only to be totally engrossed by the time their chapter ends.
By word count alone this series surpasses most completed ones, so not only is it a good story but there is a ton of content.
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Slaanesh69
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Figured I better leave the Dune movie thread alone, right after doing a quick drive-by.
Just finishing Book 6 of the Dune series, Chapterhouse. I've read 1 to 6 with one palate cleanser after book 3. I have to say Chapterhouse is the worst of the bunch and I've actually started skipping paragraphs of useless exposition. Herbert goes deep into the politics and religion and a lot of what he says has been a revelation, but I am officially over it and he is getting pedantic now. I think I am getting a little bitter, because I am starting to feel like Herbert is just smelling his own farts at this point now and reveling too much in twisting schemes within schemes and talking about it way too long.
And, as I said in the movie thread, I cannot believe he decided to drop in the Jews at this point in the series. And they are still bitching about persecution millennia later. Sweet Jesus (the prophet and not the son of God, of course, since we are speaking in Hebrew here).
It has been an enjoyable ride, except for this last book.
Just finishing Book 6 of the Dune series, Chapterhouse. I've read 1 to 6 with one palate cleanser after book 3. I have to say Chapterhouse is the worst of the bunch and I've actually started skipping paragraphs of useless exposition. Herbert goes deep into the politics and religion and a lot of what he says has been a revelation, but I am officially over it and he is getting pedantic now. I think I am getting a little bitter, because I am starting to feel like Herbert is just smelling his own farts at this point now and reveling too much in twisting schemes within schemes and talking about it way too long.
And, as I said in the movie thread, I cannot believe he decided to drop in the Jews at this point in the series. And they are still bitching about persecution millennia later. Sweet Jesus (the prophet and not the son of God, of course, since we are speaking in Hebrew here).
It has been an enjoyable ride, except for this last book.
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TJT
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I read the Trapped Mind LitRPG. Had to stop after the second book. I kind of liked it but the author writes it like he never had a girlfriend or woman in his life. I can only take so much of cooing and fucking insufferingable lovey dovey idiocy that NEVER ENDS and isn't funny or endearing. It's just tacky.
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Was it this one? (I only posted this one about a month ago, but it might be what you were thinking of.)
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LachiusTZ
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Alright, I read book one of Everyone Loves Large Chests : Morningwood. I know a guy that has some fondness for RPGLit and this was the first one I've ever read.
I'm way more interested in the mimic getting absurdly powerful than the busty ladies. This was the literary equivalent of eating a snack pack sized bag of Fritos. It is what it is.
I'm way more interested in the mimic getting absurdly powerful than the busty ladies. This was the literary equivalent of eating a snack pack sized bag of Fritos. It is what it is.
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Oblio
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I have about 2 hours left in Sharp Ends and I am loving it. I wish Shev and Javre had been in the prior books.
I am really enjoy Abercrombie's writing style, I will probably pick up that YA Series of his that was mentioned a a few pages back. I am just debating if I should start a new series or go back and give the Mistborn Book 1 another chance. I started Mistborn after listening to all the available Stormlight Archive and was a bit disappointed with it in comparison. Maybe after some time away I will appreciate it more now.
I am really enjoy Abercrombie's writing style, I will probably pick up that YA Series of his that was mentioned a a few pages back. I am just debating if I should start a new series or go back and give the Mistborn Book 1 another chance. I started Mistborn after listening to all the available Stormlight Archive and was a bit disappointed with it in comparison. Maybe after some time away I will appreciate it more now.
Mudcrush Durtfeet
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I highly recommend The Wandering Inn, though it starts kind of 'eh' as the author gets his thing going. It's totally worth it.
Wildbow has three completed (quite long) stories, Worm, Pact and Twig and is doing a sequel to the first one. The first one is like 10 novels in length or something. All his stuff gets dark.
A few others I recommend highly are Unsong by Scott Alexander (finished) and A Practical Guide to Evil (ongoing).
Everybody Loves Large Chests is also pretty good. It is not about what you prolly think of by the name, it is NSFW. The protaganist is a mimic (the treasure chest kind) and it is very long and ongoing. You'd think that wouldn't be possible with a near mindless mimic. Different point of view, that's for sure.
These suggested stories will give you a LOT of good reading.
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Oh, i didn't realise this was a serial too - looks like the amazon books are only half the series. That's convenient.
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