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Critical Hit
Drifters Alliance
David Eddings
Bobiverse
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Kings of the Wyld
Riftwar Cycle
Allister Reynolds - revelation space
Chronicles of the Black company - Glen Cook
Red Rising - Pierce Brown
My list "to read" books.
Read the Stormlight Archives. It's very good.
Drifters Alliance
David Eddings
Bobiverse
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Kings of the Wyld
Riftwar Cycle
Allister Reynolds - revelation space
Chronicles of the Black company - Glen Cook
Red Rising - Pierce Brown
My list "to read" books.
Read the Stormlight Archives. It's very good.
nukes
I Eat Buttholes Raw
Thinking about wasting my life away on the G.R.R.M bibliography.
I tried game of thrones for a few pages and hated it, but I might just need to soak in it for a bit until I get used to the writing style.
I tried game of thrones for a few pages and hated it, but I might just need to soak in it for a bit until I get used to the writing style.
Mr. Argumentor
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Mr. Argumentor
I fab shitboxes and shitbox accessories.
The David Eddings books focused on Belgarion and The Orb aren't bad. The rest of them are kinda... eh. They get kind of derivative.
Reread them recently, I never noticed when I was younger, but there is a lot of emotion on the pages. Moreso than most books. Gives them a good rich feeling
got into a zora neale hurston kick last week and read their eyes were watching god again before stepping into barracoon. incredible pairing.
barracoon is something else. written in 1927 and never picked up by a publisher, so it sat there unused for 80 years. finally published just a few months ago. compelling tales from the last remaining survivor of the transatlantic slave trade, cudjo lewis.
think I'm gonna start the power of myth by joseph campbell now. building a base on the history of religion and myth to eventually work my way through a reading list around slavery and black history. topic I always wished I understood more of the complexities behind.
barracoon is something else. written in 1927 and never picked up by a publisher, so it sat there unused for 80 years. finally published just a few months ago. compelling tales from the last remaining survivor of the transatlantic slave trade, cudjo lewis.
think I'm gonna start the power of myth by joseph campbell now. building a base on the history of religion and myth to eventually work my way through a reading list around slavery and black history. topic I always wished I understood more of the complexities behind.
Jehannum
Puts the "pro" in procrastination
I haven't read TEWWG in a long time, but I enjoyed it when I did. Gonna have to pick up Barracoon and see what's what. Thanks!
2 things.
I read the series. Once they make it through the portal, it get's a little weird, but then it gets back on track, kind of. But it becomes a case study of how a species can self destruct for petty reasons.
BTW, you did hear that The Expanse was picked up by Amazon and will be doing the following seasons on Prime?
I'm on chapter 3 of A game of thrones now. I'm enjoying it much better than before. I must have been in a bad mood before.
Mr. Argumentor
I fab shitboxes and shitbox accessories.
I picked up the first book in the Prince of Nothing series again. I read the trilogy shortly after they came out, probably 10-12 years ago. I didn't like the books because the main character isn't a hero, he's a bit of a dick (not an anti-hero, and not a Joffrey Baratheon, maybe Chaotic Neutral is the best way to explain it)
Rereading them to see if there is a change. The third book built up to some epic shit, but I was so put off that I didn't realize there were more books after the Prince of Nothing series (I think its a trilogy of trilogies)
Rereading them to see if there is a change. The third book built up to some epic shit, but I was so put off that I didn't realize there were more books after the Prince of Nothing series (I think its a trilogy of trilogies)
it's funny, I read TEWWG years ago and then again just before I started barracoon, and halfway through barracoon I started to notice many parallels. realized that it was written 10 years earlier, just never published, and that's likely where a lot of the themes for TEWWG came from. lots of little things from cudjo lewis's story that you can tell influenced plot decisions and characters in the novel.
