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I've added #1 to my reading list. I'll try it after I finish Hyperion.
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Been going through a bunch of stuff lately..
Pretty fun summer read. Progression fantasy with a neat world. New book this month.
One of the best sci-fantasy series I’ve ever read. Really really enjoyed the series, book 7 November. Maybe recency bias but it’s definitely a top 5 fantasy series for me surpassing Sanderson, and similar.
Fun easy read but almost too quirky/snarky. Good, but much prefer his grimdark series’
Surprisingly well written vampire fantasy. Really liked this and last book out soon. Crazy late fall fantasy release schedule for me and the above doesn’t even cover the new Erikso/Karsa book coming this month.
Pretty fun summer read. Progression fantasy with a neat world. New book this month.
The Sun Eater Series by Christopher Ruocchio
The Sun Eater is a sweeping mix of epic science fiction and space opera, blending political intrigue, philosophical depth, and high-stakes adventure. Set...
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One of the best sci-fantasy series I’ve ever read. Really really enjoyed the series, book 7 November. Maybe recency bias but it’s definitely a top 5 fantasy series for me surpassing Sanderson, and similar.
Fun easy read but almost too quirky/snarky. Good, but much prefer his grimdark series’
Empire of the Vampire Series by Jay Kristoff
In internationally bestselling author Jay Kristoff's new dark fantasy series, daylight has failed, and vampire armies wage war against humanity in the en...
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Surprisingly well written vampire fantasy. Really liked this and last book out soon. Crazy late fall fantasy release schedule for me and the above doesn’t even cover the new Erikso/Karsa book coming this month.
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I started Abandon by Blake Crouch last night after /r/MichaelCrichton recommended it. I noped out after the end of the first chapter. Not saying it doesn't have an audience, but I am not its target audience at all.
Currently working on Congo by Michael Crichton and The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy.
Currently working on Congo by Michael Crichton and The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy.
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I went back and read Dune again after playing the game. Everything more makes sense now.
Really if I'd just pushed through the dry ecological crap at the back, there's a full glossary that explains most of the strange words.
I'll probably give the movies another shot as well.
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All words are made up. But my Dune reading experience improved 100% when I stopped reading any time I didn’t know something and looked it up in the glossary.
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I didn't know it had one sadly. I have the kindle version, and the first time I read it I noped out of the appendices, and was really just ready to be done with the entire universe.
There's a long quest chain in the game for the ecology stuff, and some of it was kind of interesting. The quest was maddening and buggy in that funcom way. No markers or hints, you just had to stumble into him. He was also in a cage that perfectly blended into the background.
Imagine slavers have you in a cage and someone you know runs by. You'd probably yell "Hey over here!", but this asshole just stays quiet. I'll bet 99% of people (that didn't google what to do) didn't even see him.
I'd actually cleared the place. Killed everyone inside and looted everything that wasn't nailed down, on two characters, and never noticed him.
But yea long story longer, that annoying quest made me curious enough to read through the book appendix on ecology, and then I was rewarded with the glossary when I turned the page.
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I've learned that any modern game created from a famous movie/tv IP is not going to be a good experience. And it's often going to be more expensive than other games to pay for the IP, and also never going on sale (due to the IP). There are exceptions, but I generally just stay away from any games in early access and any games from movie IPs.
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This is why I prefer to read ebooks. The app I use (Moon Reader Pro +) allows you to look a word up in it's own on device dictionary (that is downloadable and changeable) and to google it.
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Yeah I now started using the iPad Books app and just highlight a word and click "look up." Huge game changer.
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When I was reading on iPad's I used an app called I think Marvin / Melvin , something like that. It was pretty great. Been a few years though. I quite dislike my tech 'letting me do what it want's' instead of what I want. I use android tablets now.
In other words - Apple can take their 'walled garden' and shove it up their ass.
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I agree with you. My wife bought me my iPad as a gift a few years ago and who am I to complain about a gift? iPad does everything I want but I don’t use it for much. I use an iPhone X, but that was also a gift from one of my clients. I have bought a new Apple product myself since 2019, I think.