Re: Book recommendations urgently needed

Re: Book recommendations urgently needed @BGT Lover, yeah, read Huxley quite a few years ago, it was interesting to compare with Orwell's 1984, indeed I've seen those two along with handmaid's tale called the three great dystopias. Huxley was an interesting idea philosophically, though

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed @35O right, trans, I think.  Yeah.  It's been a while since I've read them.  Unfortunately, among many other things, The City We Became definitely makes a thing of it. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/580800/#p580800 -- Audiogames

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed Tonkee, or whatever her name is, presents as female, but has biologically male sexual equipment. It's just sort of dropped in when Tonkee is washing herself or something. No fanfare, never an issue made of it. It's just something that happens. God

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed @33Huh, I actually entirely forgot they even had a gay character.  It's very much not central to the plot; by the end of the second one they have much bigger problems.It's a shame the city we became was meh. Not sure how they can do something

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed I'll tell you why the Fifth Season didn't come up. One reason, and one only. I forgot.That was an amazing book though, and I'm going to read the second one soon. Add it to my list from my first post in this thread. It's an excellent blend of fantasy

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed Thing about Malazn is either you love it or you hate it but I have yet to find someone with an opinion in between.  Being as I haven't recommended it, you can probably guess what camp I'm in there.Not sure how Jemisin's recent work hasn't come up

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed another one you guys might be interested in is also one of my favourites, somewhere in the fifth place, I'm talking about a brave new world by Aldous Huxley. yeah, it's not sf or dark fantesy, instead, it's...dk how to call this kind of books

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed @bgt lover, I did consider recommending the wheel of time, but there's already a long topic about that and about fantasy books so thought I'd hold off on the WoT discussion here too much. I still need to try thee Stephen Ericson stuff, the webmaster

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed I wander why didn't anyone recommend the malazan book of the fallen series? or, even better, the wheel of time? I am writing from the phone, so can't write so much with this fucked up keyboard, but I guess people who are into those things know what

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed thanks dark, I never heard of it before, but I have heard of octavia Buttler's writings. I have gotten intrested in the philosophy of Schopenhower, and I wanted to find some fantasy/sci-fi books that may be bare his influence. URL: https

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed If you want litrpg that's not focused on the system, you want Dungeon Crawler Carl.  it's not very big on character development, but is as well-written as pick a mainstream novel.  Unfortunately the first book is now Kindle, not Royal Road.If you

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed Hello,Lucas 1853, that it is. Unfortunately a lot of the books have very in depth system option definition in them to the point that it's more like a guidebook for an online game rather than a story, and you have to remind yourself what

Re: Book recommendations urgently needed

Re: Book recommendations urgently needed The disclaimer about Litrpg is that it's cool, but the probable reason that it hasn't broken through into the mainstream is that the focus of the genre is on the system, not on the characters. The most important thing in litrpg is building the story

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed Hello,Thank you for helping me create my future read list. Literally I just created the TXT file .Let me tri to return the favor with a few recommendations of my oan. These are the books I enjoyed immensely.2 things, first, I'm not good

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed @Camlorn, I was pleasantly surprised with peace talks, since though it had the patant Dresden winjing and acquiring more power, it had far more setup and danger and actually progressed both relationships and the world, indeed it feels like we're

Re: Book recommendations urgently needed

Re: Book recommendations urgently needed Hello,Thank you for helping me create my future read list. Literally I just created the TXT file .Let me tri to return the favor with a few recommendations of my oan. These are the books I enjoyed immensely.2 things, first, I'm not good

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed well can someone recommand   abook in which one of the characters is nihilistic but at the same time he or she wants to find inter order, but he or she bings chaos. I would want to find a book with bypolar character someone who is nither hero nore

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed are we doing regular books or graphicaudio too? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/580566/#p580566 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed Unfortunately, recent Dresden Files really sucks now.  IMO it stops being fun after Changes. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/580560/#p580560 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed I feel like the Dresden Files hit that sweet spot for me. Main character does succeed more often than not, even against some pretty insane odds, and he's kind of a jerk and smug as hell at times. But he's also fallible, gets hurt, suffers losses

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed @camlorn, I have no problem with "rule of cool", if there is something to back it up or if I like the character enough to want to see them succeed. Likewise, I've read plenty of YA books I liked with big battles and lots of awesomen

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed @16You're kind of saying you didn't read it for all the reasons that those of us who thought they were good loved it.  I'm 99% sure that it was written for a particular target audience from the start, and that that particular target audience all

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed @Lucas1853, definitely more badass than the people in the red rising series, who just tell everyone they're badass because the main character is an egotistical arsehole . As to the red rising series, I wrote detailed reviews of the first three boks

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed @Lucas1853, definitely more badass than the people in the red rising series, who just tell everyone they're badass because the main character is an egotistical arsehole . As to the red rising series, I wrote detailed reviews of the first three boks

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed @Lucas1853, definitely more badass than the people in the red rising series, who just tell everyone they're badass because the main character is an egotistical arsehole . As to the red rising series, I wrote detailed reviews of the first three boks

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed @Lucas1853, definitely more badass than the people in the red rising series, who just tell everyone they're badass because the main character is an egotistical arsehole . As to the red rising series, I wrote detailed reviews of the first three boks

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed @9I'm really interested to hear what you didn't like about the Red Rising series? They actually topped the list of "good stuff I read this year", which is honestly a pretty long list. I'd write some of them here, but none of the books r

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed thank you everyone. I’m gonna get started on this right away. I have to agree with the previous post, the tag dark fantasy intrigued me and I think I will be starting with it URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/580514/#p580514 -- Audiogames

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed hey there@Jaide, thanks for the list of books you provided there. The titles actually got me trilled and i think i'll start with American Gods by Neil Gailman, and continue from there. I'm more interested by those horror books. redshirts doesn't get

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed Dark, in the Hell Divers series, hell divers are people who parachute down from airships into the wasteland to gather supplies to keep the ships in working order. Without those people, the airships, which are the presumed only remaining humans

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed Lol Dark. Maybe I am easy to impress but I really, really enjoyed his books. I think they are worth a try. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/580504/#p580504 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed the half orks siris, buy daivid dalglish URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/580497/#p580497 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed I've actually got the nicholas Sansbury smith books. They looked like the sort of thing which either could be really good, or shallow pieces with brainless action and stereotyped characters . I also confess I'm unfairly put off by the "helld

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed Yeah Lucas. I have red hell divers, trackers, extinction cycle and sons of war by Nicholas. I loved them all. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/580485/#p580485 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed @Lucas1853, I don't doubt that there is some good quality fan fiction out there, and indeed communities who recognise the inequities, it's just that generally in my experience as you said, there is a lot of dross as well, particularly because

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed @2, Fanfiction has various sub-communities. Some of them hate the things you mentioned, especially the author creating their own overpowered characters. Some of them embrace it and that's why they write fanfiction in the first place. IT's all about

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed For something nonfiction--the only nonfiction I have actually ever read and enjoyed--A Queer and Pleasant Danger by Kate Bornstein.  The full title is "A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the C

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed trackers, by Nicholas Sansbury Smith. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/580466/#p580466 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed Fantasy series1. Daniel Abraham - The Dagger and the Coin2. Joe Abercrombie - First Law trilogy3. Patrick Rothfuss - Kingkiller Chronicles4. Brian Staveley - Unhewn Throne trilogyFantasy Standalones (thus far)1. Leigh Bardugo - The Ninth House2

Re: Book recommendations urgently needed

Re: Book recommendations urgently needed Fantasy series1. Daniel Abraham - The Dagger and the Coin2. Joe Abercrombie - First Law trilogy3. Patrick Rothfuss - Kingkiller Chronicles4. Brian Staveley - Unhewn Throne trilogyFantasy Standalones (thus far)1. Leigh Bardugo - The Ninth House2

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Re: Book recommendations urgently needed At risk of repeating myself, I write book reviews over on fantasybookreview.co.uk, which you can find here. I personally haven't been a fan of fan fiction, or even licensed works set in preexisting universes, even for things I'm a major fan of in Rl