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#663

If it helps, I don’t see that at all.

I’ve not seen you shoot any minions because you felt like and I rarely quote your witticisms!

I just love everything that’s done with that world, in particular the juxtaposition of Jorg vs Jalan in Broken Empire vs Red Queens War.

They’re both amoral self-serving pricks, it’s just that Jorg has the ambition dialed up to 11 and Jalan is maybe at a 1-2.

The conversation that the guy puts before the both of them-

“What do you think you would have done if you hadn’t been born a prince?”
“Oh. I’d be king. It doesn’t matter if I was born a stableboy, I’d be exactly where I am today, doing exactly what I want.” - Jorg

“What would you be doing if you weren’t prince?”
“… I dunno. Something with horses?” - Jalan

Both are paraphrased, but that one key change of Jorg having always wanted the world and Jalan having always wanted to just live in comfort with no problems is perfect. For all the lying, stealing, cheating, and manipulation both characters do, this one modification makes them perfect foils and it gets me a little chubbed up.

#664

these, right here, is why. I dial them WAY back for these forums.

#665

My favorite book series is The Isle of the Lost by Melissa de la Cruz.

I highly recommend it if you like fantasy or if you’re a fan of the Disney villains.

#666

Here are a few of my faves :

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and obviously

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#667

See, he mentioned fantasy specifically.

Otherwise I would have brought up dune.

I think it’s interesting how it can have such a good story with a lot of good philisophical points but by todays standards…

Well, no pun intended.

It’s dry as ■■■■.

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#668

It was in 1965 too ( not that I was alive then, but my dad got it when it came out and said as much ). I could never get through it.

As far as fantasy is concerned, I don’t really read traditional fantasy anymore - so you get a list of books that are merely fantastic.

Edit - shotgun on the 666 post :metal:

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#670

Gwynne and Castell are both on my backlog. Also, Your missing book 7 of Grant’s Gone series, Monster. And book 4 of the Summoner -Outcast. and the prequel.
Which I’ll be starting the summoner books right now…

#671

Harry Potter and Flann O’Brien… you are a gentleman of literary distinction! :no_bicycles:

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#673

I love Shusterman, mans a genius. Throne of glass is bland and cookie cutter and boring as ■■■■.

#675

I’m halfway through Eragon, apparently one in a series of four. It’s fun so far.

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#676

The Inheritance Cycle is excellent, though you REALLY see Paolini’s age. He wrote Eragon at 15.

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#677

I’m looking forward to rereading it, but yeah

I’m kinda worried.

I feel I was lucky to be young when it came out.

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#678

Moved on to the second set of ravnica books which are… Real short.

There’s a big drop off between the two series too.

Oh well. Bloody rose from the kings of the wyld came out, so I’ll have a good palette cleanser after all this magic stuff.

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#679

I did notice some, repetitive sentence structures when describing a landscape/situation, but not so much that it was a deal breaker in any way.

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#680

@Hattie - at one point you had asked for a recommendation for something light, fun and not Irish. The Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger is a blast :

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It’s steampunk with vampires and werewolves written in a late 19th century style a la Oscar Wilde, Saki, etc.

#681

Speaking of which @Hattie

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#682

I saw that :joy: Trump’s phrasing is… truly extraordinary.

I highly recommend this, it’s terribly pleasing

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#683

It’s not Trump related but it’s a really good book:

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I’m currently on the fifth chapter.

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#684

I’ve been… utterlly shamefully not reading as much lately. I’m almost ■■■■■■■ done with the RTR books, as horrible as they are. I think that’s whats been killing me lately. I’m either too tired to read or remember I’m legally obligated to read… that, so no movement.

Got a nice little set up for afterwards though. Bloody Rose came out and I dabbled in the start of it, seems like a good read so far. Three cheers for metal-themed fantasy and lesbianism.

After that I’m probably going to hit up a few more Discworld books just to break the monotony.

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#685

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