Slaanesh69
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Yeah, I don't really recommend it. I loved his other books.
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What did you just read?
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Blood Meridian is a book I have a hard time recommending, but one I feel made me a better, more observant reader. One of the most bizarre, great, dogshit books I’ve ever read. Years after reading it, I finally “got” the ending with the kid and the girl. First read, I’d stupidly assumed the kid was the hero!
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Just read this. I love Correia's other series Monster Hunter International. This one is way different but the main character is not such an annoying prick this time so its a step up in that regard. Worldbuilding is pretty cool its like everyone lives in the Planes of Power and the hub city is PoK. To practice magic you need a specific reagent from the respective plane. This ends up being some red dust from the Plane of Fire, some clear liquid from the Plane of Air, and so on. The world is completely totalitarian and the magelords that run society prohibit anyone from learning magic through slavery and other social barriers.
Our hero here comes to the PoK and inadvertently stumbles on a conspiracy while trying to escape the Plane of Fire.
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Intrinsic
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There was a short film by Dust that came out not too long ago. Dust is pretty popular sci-fi short troupe and puts out some interesting stuff.
I also posted over in my Small Press thread a while back that Conversation Tree Press is doing an edition of the book. They had a waitlist sign up (which was kind of odd since they never do that). Probably a 2027 publish date since they always run a little behind.
There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
Signed, limited edition of qntm’s There Is No Antimemetics Division imagines a war fought not in secret, but in absence—a conflict against entities that erase themselves from perception and memory alike.
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I have read a whole bunch of mysteries by Freida McFadden. They're not anything high brow, but they're pleasantly diverting.
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This is what I said about that book a few months ago. tl;dr it was meh.
To reiterate what my previous posts said, it wasn't bad, it just didn't provide anything at all that made me give a shit about it.
And my biggest pet peeve about it is that the fucking cover used to say "A Progression Fantasy", and there is almost zero progression of any kind.
My Kindle advertised a new Larry Correia book so I'm checking it out. In case that name isn't familiar, he did the Monster Hunter Internation books, and the Grimnoir series. MHI was really good at the beginning and was ok at the end, and Grimnoir was pretty good. This one is supposed to be in a magical world where there are different realms connect to a main hub sort of and wizards are the ruling class, and our intrepid hero wants to become a wizard. It sounded decent enough, and the reviews are sky high, but reviews on Goodreads are usually skewed so high as to be straight retarded.
I'm not quite halfway yet, and it just isn't grabbing me like MHI did. It isn't bad or hard to read or anything like that, but I'm just not excited about it like I was right from the get-go with MHI. So much so, that I'm tempted to just do a re-read of MHI anyway.
Anyway, so far I'm pretty disappointed with something from a guy I really like, but I can't say there is anything actually bad about it. It's just not attention grabbing.
I'm not going to say the India thing is blatantly obvious, but it isn't hard to spot either.
To reiterate what my previous posts said, it wasn't bad, it just didn't provide anything at all that made me give a shit about it.
And my biggest pet peeve about it is that the fucking cover used to say "A Progression Fantasy", and there is almost zero progression of any kind.
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So no one has to squint her hat says "Welcome to the Shit Show."
A 26 year old small time streamer from a broken home doing uber for extra work has a young woman offer him 100k to transport a big black box across the country to Washington DC for the 4th of July and becomes the focal point of a social media driven mass psychosis.
This was the first book of the author's that I have read that was not part of his John Dies at the End series (book 1 good, book 2 good, book 3 ass, book 4 good, book 5 comes out this November) having not heard anything stellar about his other books. I was expecting a story where some under achievers get in over their heads and some whacky shenanigans ensue. On that front the book delivered.
I listened to this on audiobook and it's a time where that medium impaired the work. Our main character is some kind of redpilled/blackpilled frequents the manosphere anxiety ridden loser. The performer (guy doing the reading) makes him, at times, kind of annoying. During the road trip with the girl, GSG, they have maybe half a dozen conversations where he's mad at women and she's trying to convince him the world is pretty great and I cannot help but interpret these sections as the author trying to talk to troubled young men and it just doesn't work for me. I know both sides of all of these conversations better than either of them. He's a whiney bitch. She's got the author tipping the scales just slightly in her favor. I was checking the run time to decide whether or not to bail.
It's still like a C+/B-, probably a solid B if I had read it. The second half really saves the thing. It's what I thought the entire story was going to be.
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Still working through Shōgun. My version is 1600 pages, and Ive got about 400 pages left.
I listened to the audiobook for Chariots of the Gods (1968) by Erich van Daniken. I expected it to be very low IQ takes, such as the Ancient Aliens tv show, but I'm actually really impressed. Very well developed, nothing definitive, more just proposing ideas and asking questions. The major hypothesis is what if the ancient gods to our primitive ancestors were advanced alien species? Pretty interesting ideas. Im not a believer, but its a fun listen. For free here:
It reminds me a bit of Fingerprints of the Gods (1995) by Graham Hancock, only with better writing. Best quote was, "Scholars behave like stuffed geese who refuse to digest anything else. They simply reject new ideas as nonsense.'"
I started Lord of the Flies this weekend. I'm 1/3 through it and have had nightmares each night I've read it, so far. It's a short read so I'll knock it out soon. I've never read it before. Pretty wild that it takes place during an atomic war. It was hinted at in Chapter 1, then the narrator directly said the outer civilization was in ruins in Chapter 3 (or 4?). Its a throw away line, but it was narrated, not dialogue.
I listened to the audiobook for Chariots of the Gods (1968) by Erich van Daniken. I expected it to be very low IQ takes, such as the Ancient Aliens tv show, but I'm actually really impressed. Very well developed, nothing definitive, more just proposing ideas and asking questions. The major hypothesis is what if the ancient gods to our primitive ancestors were advanced alien species? Pretty interesting ideas. Im not a believer, but its a fun listen. For free here:
It reminds me a bit of Fingerprints of the Gods (1995) by Graham Hancock, only with better writing. Best quote was, "Scholars behave like stuffed geese who refuse to digest anything else. They simply reject new ideas as nonsense.'"
I started Lord of the Flies this weekend. I'm 1/3 through it and have had nightmares each night I've read it, so far. It's a short read so I'll knock it out soon. I've never read it before. Pretty wild that it takes place during an atomic war. It was hinted at in Chapter 1, then the narrator directly said the outer civilization was in ruins in Chapter 3 (or 4?). Its a throw away line, but it was narrated, not dialogue.
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