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Close to finishing ACoK, with start ASoS reread tomorrow

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Very likely should ngl

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anything I have read recently has failed me...

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and even stuff I used to like. Like Poppy war...

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its a good thing i can't read

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Other mediums ain't better either

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Project Hail Mary debuting with a 93% at 43 reviews on RT!

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@tawny parcel

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read through the premise and cast list

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not intersted man

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Brooo

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You are missing out

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I rarely watch horror comedy if at all bro

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I also wasnt interested but it was surprisingly amazing

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In fact i didnt think it could work lol

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sighs guess I'll trust you

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I think they nailed it and was super fun and satisfying

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Send Help ending ||"FUCKK YOUUUU BRADLEYYYY" KataOmegaLUL KataOmegaLUL ||

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I told my mom i was taking her she was very happy

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WoR 78 || yeah the love triangle šŸ’” ||

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A Clash of Kings 70%

|| > Then indigo turned to orange, and whispers turned to screams. Her heart was pounding, racing, the hands and mouths were gone, heat washed over her skin and Dany blinked at a sudden glare. Perched above her, the dragon spread his wings and tore at the terrible dark heart, ripping the rotten flesh to ribbons, and when his head snapped forward, fire flew from his open jaws, bright and hot. She could hear the shrieks of the Undying as they burned, their high thin voices crying out in tongues long dead. Their flesh was crumbling parchment, their bones dry wood soaked to tallow. They danced as flames consumed them, they staggered and writhed and spun and raised blazing hands on high, their fingers blazing like torches ||

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modern lichen
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Goro is stupid

tawny parcel
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He has good takes

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Frfr

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tawny parcel
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You canā€™t help the helpless

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modern lichen
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No itā€™s not

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Itā€™s just declining taste

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Anyways wombat only bring this convo when you have read Perdido

tawny parcel
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I am wombat from the future you still have bad taste

limber urchin
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Salem's Lot ||Chapter 12, a little over halfway through|| ||Book is still good, got more properly introduced to the vampires in general, with I think Susan finally being turned and the boy Mark she went into the house with escaping - via a goofy Houdini trick - Straker's attempt at tying him up. However, the book's not really scary. Granted, there's still more to go, so it's possible that King has a few aces up his sleeve for the genre.||

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AGOT (book) ||finally got some good reading in. Didnt know it was like 4 dominoes in a row after Ned tells Cersei that he knows about her kids and Jamie, right into Viserys getting a fancy new hat, then right into Robert befriending the wild life, right into Ned making I think the biggest mistake of not going with Renly. Ned is far too honorable for a world that is gonna eat him up||

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I can't stomach the level of violence in a visual medium like that

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Reading it I can handle much better

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But a "realistic" depiction of it just isn't my bag

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That being said, I can usually handle it in comics or manga. It's just the live action stuff is where my brain draws the line

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Martinā€™s prose is just some of the best in literature imo and it only keeps getting better with each book

limber urchin
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I can handle most gorey depictions in media. But I cannot handle murder mysteries or crime stories of the like. Because that is not fiction, making it far more gross and frightening.

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Kinda odd how everyone can handle things at different levels

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And for differing reasons

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I grew up with adult media as a child, so I might be desensitized. But real life stories that get turned into documentaries or movies are much, much harder for me to stomach.

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Violence is usually ok for me as long as it isnā€™t sexual

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For a long time it was Rothfuss in Name of the Wind

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But Martin has supplanted that

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limber urchin
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Jay Kristoff is my favorite prose for now, but I'm not well versed in literature.

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limber urchin
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yeah i also grew up with resident evil and silent hill at release. still, once my fiction becomes real life, I draw the line.

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Not trying to convince you but I do think youā€™re missing out a bit on the show, the books are better, but you rarely get that quality in a tv show

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Fair enough, can respect it

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Trust me, I will see a short of like

limber urchin
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I'm guessing Sabble won't like Game of Thrones. It's viscerally violent and sexual at times.

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Yeah itā€™s a shame I think, there are a few manga I avoided reading because they were a bit too much

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So I understand nonethelesss

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AGOT ||Like I saw Cersei and Ned talking in the Godswood about the kids and it was fantastic but at the same time Ive also seen Vierys get rekt by molten gold and I know comparing that to the book I easily withstood it in the book where as in the show, his scream still scars me||

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It sucks because I am sure I would love a lot of it

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But on the other hand I know there's just a level I cant do

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AGOT || of all things the Viserys one being an example is a bit funny, but yes I understand you,||

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AGOT and some ASOIAF||Well he was just the most recent thing I read. I also have seen Oberyn die by the Mountain's hand and that shit still messes with me||

modern lichen
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Sab you are blown by the prose already huh

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modern lichen
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It gets exponentially better with each book

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Considering I am already rating A Game of Thrones a 5 star book yes

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I've never read a long fantasy book like this that has not had like

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Lulls

modern lichen
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Martin is on the level of a stylist like Le Guin in fantasy

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It's paced magnificently. The prose is easily my favorite in fantasy so far

limber urchin
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Oh yeah AGOT is good, but if you're giving that a 5, just wait.

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Oh I know and that's why I am excited

limber urchin
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Storm will blow you away

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A Game of Thrones is up there as one of my favorite books ever and it sucks that I let fear kinda dictate how long until I read it

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But maybe this also was the right time to read it

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Also, we inevitably I catch up and Winds still isn't out, I am not one of them peeps who demands a book from an author or feels owed. I am just happy for the experience

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Literally

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I still love Name of the Wind, even with all the nonsense Rothfuss has done

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So

limber urchin
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Rothfuss has less of an excuse than Martin

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Martin has several engagements of his own

pale trellis
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true

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rothfuss is kinda just doing fuck all i guess

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Thing with Rothfuss is I wouldn't be upset if he just didn't do shit like the charity stuff

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That's where I was like

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Heā€™s also constantly showing heā€™s working, Rothfuss hasnā€™t even released a sample chapter that he was supposed to have released for charity

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Okay dude you dont gotta give me book 3 but don't do this shit

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Rothfuss hasnt posted on his blog since 2023

pale trellis
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Dude is gone

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Like thereā€™s no fucking way you pull off shit like that and cite ā€œmental health reasonsā€ for all that

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Yeah

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Crazy

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After all that I am just like "okay these are the books we are getting. That's it"

pale trellis
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thats insane

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the book is never coming out

modern lichen
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Iā€™ve really soured on his writing as well

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If and I mean BIG if Doors of Stone ever dropped, I would still read it

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But yeah I am relegated to the fact it isn't happening

pale trellis
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ive heard there is too much for one book

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Like, itā€™s beautiful and all but itā€™s in service of an empty story with a soul thatā€™s long gone

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to tie it all up

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It kinda is but like

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Martin has 2 books left and heā€™s working on a manuscript thatā€™s so big it has to be split into two volumes

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Idk like I said, Name of the Wind is gonna long remain one of my favorite fantasy books

limber urchin
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I can't bring myself to read that second Rothfuss book, so I'm good on whatever he does lol

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The second one was fine but

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Eh

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Iā€™m not sure weā€™ll get A Dream of Spring but Winds is being worked on and we know because Martin has actually released preview chapters

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MULTIPLE OF THEM

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Name of the Wind is it

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I do think Winds does

modern lichen
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Yeah

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George is too old now and Winds for me is enough

limber urchin
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ADOS is dead in the water most likely

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If the series remains unfinished, so be it

limber urchin
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We'll be lucky to get Winds

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Which is what it is

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I think we get winfs

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Winds

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Maybe not soon

modern lichen
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Of course

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Thatā€™s my prediction as well

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But we will get it. Dude is pretty deep in

limber urchin
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Brandon Sanderson finishes ADOS QueenKEKW QueenKEKW QueenKEKW

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Fuckkkkkk no

pale trellis
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if we get twiw we will get ados

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Brandon has denied it lol

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Now that I've read Martin a good deal

modern lichen
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Sanderson would not at all be the dude to finish this

limber urchin
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It would go against Brandon's morals to write Dream anyways haha

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But highly improbably regardless

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i think twiw is like the big mountain he has to climb

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and i think ados is like on the way down after climbing it

limber urchin
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they're probably both mountains at this point

modern lichen
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In a way, Martin shot himself in the foot planning these and he has said it himself but what we ended up getting with these books is like, fucking insane because theyā€™re all great books

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and we can't rely on the show as any indication

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Brando Sando writing Martin style proseā€¦ heā€™d explode

pale trellis
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brandon doesnt have the prose to finish it for him

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I enjoy Sanderson but man Imma be that dude. None of Sanderson's work pulls the same as Martin for me now

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Ive not read a Sanderson book that has pulled emotions like this from me, even if I know what is coming

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Like I really respect Brandon, but heā€™s not got that dawg in him to do it like Martin

limber urchin
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brandon would do pg-13 westeros and I would puke as a result

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and yeah harsh is right. Martin is like fucking insanely brutal at times

modern lichen
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Not just that, the way he writes is so lyrical and yet direct

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Thereā€™s a certain power to the flow of Martinā€™s language and how he writes in characters voices

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Also, I want to say with all this, I do love what Martin is doing and after this I am planning on Malazan

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But

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brandon is utilitarian

limber urchin
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Martin is excellent at peeling back the layers of the human psyche

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I think I still prefer quest like fantasy for fun. But I appreciate the depth of dark fantasy

modern lichen
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Brandon is for a lack of a better term, cinematic in his writing and descriptions

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Brandon makes superhero stories

limber urchin
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i've heard someone describe Brandon's prose as cinematic and that feels very correct, especially with fight scenes

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And that's cool

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But it's what it is

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Which for me is kind of a negative when itā€™s not battle sequences

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I do still think Words of Radiance is a 5 star book but it's 5 star in a different way to A Game of Thrones

limber urchin
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reading King again for the first time in 10 years reminds me how much I need good worldbuilding in my stories. or at least good environmental descriptors

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Someone described his writing as being like ā€œa cool nat geo documentaryā€ with his descriptions

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I really don't like Stephen King's style anymore

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It just soured hard for me

limber urchin
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i love how he writes in Salem's Lot so far

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but i've only read that and IT

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After the Dark Tower

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Idk I checked out

pale trellis
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Nicee

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I know some of it but I also know it's an extremely dense read

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Compared to the norm

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I may chase Martin with a Wheel of Time reread tho

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(Not all of it, just the first three)

pale trellis
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i heard stop trying to tie everything together and ull have fun

limber urchin
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I think after Salem's Lot, I'm going to give Prince of Thorns another try and see if I can stomach its edginess.

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Just let it roll, smart

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Prince of Thorns omg

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I forgot about that book

limber urchin
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I had to put it down early on

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Too much edgy cool guy stuff?

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the edge feels a bit too forced for my liking

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i hear it has a purpose

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of salem or thorn?

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Reminds me of when I started reading Theft of Swords and had to dnf

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thorn

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I don't even remember at this point

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but he was an asshole for sure

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Theft of Swords ||WOAH YOU GUYS ARE THE COOL GUYS WHO ARE REALLY COOL AND GOOD WITH SWORDS AND REALLY COOL?? WE DONT WANNA MESS WITH THESE GUYS||

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Theft of Swords example

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I very much

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Hate this kinda thing

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There's more but basically

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Theft of Swords ||If you have to have your bad guys say how badass someone is, immediately they are not badass||

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Did you see that chick who asked george what heā€™s going to do since heā€™s ā€œdying soonā€

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Its one thing to think that to ask it directly to the authors face

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Is insane

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Yeah I think that was at World Con in Seattle

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Ridiculous

limber urchin
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yeah it was con recently

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Sab Iā€™m excited for you to continue reading

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Some of the prose he writes

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Is legit on another level

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Some scenes are just burned into my brain

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I am excited to read more myself. I am enjoying taking my time with it

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Asoiaf end dont open ||burned being the right word because that dragon scene in dance is written so damn well ||

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I am like 70% done

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But I already know the ending and stuff

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It's just some smaller parts

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Like AGOT||When I first read I didn't know there was a scene where like some deserters of the nights watch and wild men come after Bran and Grey Wind and Summer fuck em up along with Robb. That was cool. Or did I know that Jon and Tyrion had a cool connection or how Samwell is treated and protected so much by my boy Jon||

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ASOS end, don't read Sabble ||They're gonna lose their mind over Lady Stoneheart.||

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Game of Thrones show ||Which was a HUGE loss for the show, fucking imbeciles.||

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Agot ||i found bran so so boring in this book lol||

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Agot ||just a complete drag in an otherwise amazing book||

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Oh dont get me wrong AGOT ||I do enjoy his learning to deal with his disability now and I think there are hints at some interesting stuff to come. I just liked THAT scene in particular. I love northern scenes. I love stuff in Winterfell and the Wall||

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cold stuff is just cozy

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AGOT ||idk how Martin coulda done it but I do wish I got more Ned in Winterfell||

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Agot ||the moments between ned and his kids are really good||

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AGOT ||I know his fate but Ned is a favorite. He is the take on the father/mentor archetype I enjoy and I think was done well. Also shout out Sean Bean playing multiple fantasy dudes who get murked early||

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ASOIAF in general, don't read Sabble ||Man I love me some Davos chapters - my beautiful Onion Knight.||

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AGOT ||When I read that, even if it was small, and I felt the like scorn of it, I knew that Martin was a master. If he could build a scene where a sentence made me feel unwanted, I was in for a ride||

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@limber urchin have you ever ordered from Beastly Books?

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I would love a signed copy and I know this is his store

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Asos /show || yes s4 is mostly still asos ||

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Stupid people

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It's been 20 years

pale trellis
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and i dont think has signs of like dementia or anything

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thats so wack to even say

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Even if he was 88

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It's not a cool thing to say

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I am very picky in that regard

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Who are your favorite authors for prose?

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I like Octavia Butler's

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I haven't read much Butler, but she is on the list

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I like the prose in Perdido street station

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I like Pratchett's prose, Robin Hobb's and R Scott Bakker

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That's about it

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Interesting, Interesting

tawny parcel
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šŸ˜­ šŸ˜­

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GG

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Well everyone has their taste

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sage remnant
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I thought that was LeGuinn or Wolfe

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If its scifi, then Dune's fantasy

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Is there anyway to define good prose to you guys or is it just a feeling thing

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Which must doesn't work for me

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Cause its so subjective

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Dune kinda is part fantasy

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That's the requirement for me

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Shadow of the Torturer and Dune both have fantasy elements

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But both have sci fi elements as well

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For me the genre's mostly the approach than elements

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so first is fantasy, latter is scifi

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Mostly the approach?

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How so?

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And like using this example cuz was in a convo yesterday || Cosmere being space age doesn't change it to scifi for me|| Cosmere general

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Idk anyone who would argue Cosmere as sci fi

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There are technically elements but I think that's different than something like Dune

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# spiral quest Mostly the approach?

Uhh say there's a portal.
The reasoning behind how the portal works would defines the genre.
If its bunch of scientific lingo where the base seems to be earth or similar, then its scifi.
If its some entirely different laws at work, then it's magic.

Idk if I explained it well

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Also, genres while helpful, can be limiting to creativity. I don't think things have to particularly fit into one box or another if they don't wish to

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Dune is a really imaginative and bold approach to scifi worldbuilding that even calling it Fantasy undercuts that for me

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But why?

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There are legit fantasy elements within dune

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Even if it is Sci Fi

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It doesn't mean it is diminished

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||The spice and Shai Hulud are just flora and fauna from other worlds ||

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Dune

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Yes but Dune ||what about the Voice, all the Bene Gesserit stuff, it's been a minute since I've read dune||

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|| And the Voice is just humanity changing the approach from developing tools to augment themselves to bio engineering. || dune

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Okay, but Dune ||does that distinction at all make the fantastical elements of it no longer fantastical? I mean it's not like Dune is approached aa a hard fantasy ||

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|| BG stuff is just decades of organized manipulation and absolute power of religious institutionalism || Dune

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I suppose, idk man Dune to me always read like Sci Fi through a fantasy lens. At least compared to what sci fi was before it

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I don't view Dune the same way I view Foundation

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Foundation is also similar

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Foundation || you could call I forgot the main psychohistorian scientist as a prophet with power to see the future ||

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but its like specified to be not

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Hmm. Well, I view these things a bit differently than you, which is fine. Besides, I am someone who thinks hard genre lines leads to less creativity overall. It's fine if you want a hard sci fi or low fantasy story, I just don't think, and maybe I misunderstood, that the fantastical elements of Dune, no matter the explanation, are undercutting the book by acknowledging them as such

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Similarly for Shadow of the Torturer || is a fantasy world that has advanced to a super developed one and then collapsed ||

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Dune ||my intent is not to say that the Voice or the BG are just fantasy and oooo magic, it's more to say those elements have shown up in fantasy stories, even if the reasons for them existing is science based||

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I mean scifantasy works for me

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If that's the middle grorund

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Ground

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I just hate that term man G5Laugh

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Unfortunately right now the face of that would probably be Suneater

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Which sadly took a turn that I wish it didn't

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Suneater is, despite what the author calls it, scifi for me

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I mean, there's very big fantasy elements

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It's far from a hard sci fi story at the very least

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Fair

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Like yes I would put it in the sci fi section at B&N

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my memory of suneater is very bad to discuss it so I'll trust you lol

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I remember the first three books very well

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I read the first two before you started it and haven't continued it since

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Then I was informed how things went and I lost interest

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I even got rid of the books, I don't plan to finish the series

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Yes I remember the convo

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Same thing happened to the Lightbringer books

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Just unfortunate

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Well

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It was a few things

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Tbh

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Suneater & Lightbringer ||the biggest thing actually is he took a stance similar to lightbringer where it was like embrace the church and Idk I am not opposed to ideas that oppose mine but I have a list of books that Id rather read for my own enjoyment||

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And yes that

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Fair

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tho Sab read The Way Station

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Really really really quintessential scifi

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If you need more credibility for the rec, it won the Hugo Award

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I'll put it on the tbr

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šŸ™

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And its very short

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like <60k words

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Good for palate cleanser

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Holy shit

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Daredevil season 3 episode 6 was crazy

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Daredevil s3 ||the entire scene with dex as daredevil was crazy insane how brutal it was, first time I've actively was shocked by the brutality||

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Legend of Korra season 1 midway ||Wow, the setpieces and animation are sick. Not as big a fan of, well, all the characters, but still really fun plot||

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Good luck

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finished rereading a clash of kings

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ACOK ||My personal favorite of the books, just love being with Tyrion in King's Landing so much along with the Battle of the Blackwater.||

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ACoK ||winning that battle led to the Lannister rule unraveling unironically after the chaos of that shit flinging riot ||

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Is that new OP season any good?

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I can't get thru this love is blind season.. I hate all the couples

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people seem to like it more than s1 yea

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but also yeah separate channel

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Better ask it here but Iā€™ve been seeing positive reactions

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ohhhh

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kk

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i'll ask it there later

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Acok ||really love the scene in the books, tyrion's plan and actually having a spine to charge into battle himself. The chants of "half man half man". Its just so hype unironically.||

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Wow that fan art is crazy

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reminds me of some Zan fanart

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@sage remnant https://youtu.be/rWoItgZMauM?si=avZYR7aU3z4CTpqd

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I am like 30 eps behind

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I'll listen to it eventually

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I don't like to break continuity/chronology

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I have a feeling people like Perdido Street Station

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its pretty good

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amazing

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Tho I think I am underwhelmed by the cover

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the inside arts are so amazing tho

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yeah

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I read Perdido just to read The Scar but I haven't started it yet šŸ˜­

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@tawny parcel get this edition and gift it to me BBWise

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it's only 121 usd

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folio edition of AGOT

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i want this

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Folio's other GoT one was better

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or was it broken bidning

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speaking of broken binding tho

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imagine having this amazing of a cover. Garden of the Moon

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@limber urchin check this art out

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don't really vibe with the artstyle in these ones

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yeah this is the one I was talking about

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oh same one

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lol

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dawg

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lol I didn't check through it all G5Laugh

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a clash of kings ||this illustration of renly's death is so good from the folio edition||

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the artstyle in the first few pieces and the one you sent are different so thought it was something else LUL

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Ah, I think Malazan is somewhere on my list to begin one day. That's a darker series, right?

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Darker and well it doesn't hold your hand

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You aren't even told allegiances or anything

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and must figure out through the conversation

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Well it does hold the reader's hand more than I would have wanted, but yea

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Well I am only 50% in the first book so idk much more than that either

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@modern lichen @tawny parcel Project Hail Mary || https://youtu.be/CO6oyFP14rU?si=srmqMqAoIrQ38Ud0 ||

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we are so back bros

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Illustration from Folio version of A Storm of Swords

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I think I've chosen that Small Gods is the next book

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ASOS ||"The Lannisters send their regards"||

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@sage remnant whats your second fav Discworld book

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Night Watch

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Salem's Lot

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Have they tried actual voice actors?

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Ok but letā€™s be honest. Theyā€™re only trying to get him cuz he was on Breaking Bad

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Not cuz heā€™s a good voice actor

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Same thing with Invincible Season 3 ||Aaron Paul as Powerplex||

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I don't watch invincible so I wouldn't know

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At the very least it's nice that Cranston has the ability to voice act, but he made the right call in saying no

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It's a publicity thing more than anything

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Oh wait I was confusing Cranston with someone else LMFAO

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Yeah idk if he's done any voice acting

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He did a long time ago

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He was actually a monster on power rangers lmao

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For those curious

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He dubbed anime

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I'm watching Stranger Things rn cause one of my friends kept glazing it

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Iā€™m sorry

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at S3E6, so far it's alright

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some lines of dialogue are so ass tho

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like stranger things s3 ep 1 ||Hopper saying "A heart to heart, what's that?" when he has one like every few episodes istg. He's a grown ass man, he knows what a heart to heart is. Plus in S2 he said he'd talk to Eleven more. They did the thing where they reverted his character arc so he can have it again this season||

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Dude daredevil is such a peak show

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Season 3 is wild tho

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Daredevil ||dex is such a fucking crazy dude i love it. The damn smirk when he was wearing the daredevil suit was sk peak||

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First looks at character designs for atla movie

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Maybe main villain in atla movie. Spoilers

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Atla movie spoilers, peak

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atla movie ||adult toph pleaseee give me a chance||

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ASOIAF || what happens if like a king tells one of his kings guard to sleep with his wife? Thatā€™s like breaking your oath both ways right? No winning that one.||

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dr evil looking mfer

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@modern lichen did we receive the release date of Buried Giant adaptation by del toro?

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No

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also crazy Klara and the sun is set to release this year, and we haven't gotten much news about it yet

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Whoā€™s directing it

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Taika

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Oh

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šŸ˜­

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@foggy mirage we getting a The Mist remake by Flanagan???

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Yes

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crazy times

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Flanagan doing Mist and then DT

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Heā€™s doing Carrie first

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adaptation of Buried Giant by del toro

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And heā€™s also doing a new Exorcist film

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neuromancer

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We are

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every single decade

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Flanagan is perhaps the busiest man in Hollywood

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Flanagan could make an excellent new mist film

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also Piranesi adaptation by Laika

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such a good time for adaptations man

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Mike Flanagan hates not working

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šŸ˜­

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imagine if even Taika delivers on Klara and the sun

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Dude has his hands in every pie

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Iā€™m not complaining

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Clayface, carrie, the mist and possibly the dark tower ?

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Heā€™s a great creative

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Like good god

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The Dark Tower has been teased for like

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5 years by Flanagan atp

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Heā€™s doing it yeah

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Add that too

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What does he not do ?

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Is the real question

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Heā€™s gonna finish Winds of Winter for us

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At this point I might just let him

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also Dune messiah and new Blade runner in this year too

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how stacked is 2026

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I forgot that is this year

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Thereā€™s a ton of shit this year that Iā€™m excited by

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Why did everyone decide to drop everything this year

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Monarch has been going great, new episode tomorrow

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Been hearing good things

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We have Dhurandhar 2 (Goro/Neko knows) and Project Hail Mary just in a few days

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Project hail mary being good

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Taika's Klara and the sun
Dune Messiah
blade runner
del toro's Buried Giant
PHM
Piranesi by Laika
MFing Neuromancer

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Had me shocked

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Mistborn

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Ngl

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how many shit are we getting these two years

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Thereā€™s more

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Have you read the book

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Neko, thereā€™s the new Ramayana film this year

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I have not but I heard the movie had people worried

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what the fuck

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when

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Diwali

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Due to amazon

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In a few months time

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HANS ZIMMER DOING THE OST

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AND AR RAHMAN

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Yeah

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Hans just doing the ost to all film

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At this rate

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Havenā€™t you seen the announcement vid

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Is the VFX by the same studio that did the great one a couple of years ago

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DNG

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Has done VFX for multiple huge blockbusters

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Been hearing india vfx can cook

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there was a Ranbir Kapoor movie with amazing VFX

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something fantastical

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Brahmastra, and the VFX is ok

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ā€œFrom the directors of Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballsā€

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I hadn't expected Indian cinema other than Red Chilli studios or Rajamouli movies to do anything as good

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@sage remnant India now has Asiaā€™s biggest motion capture studio where Rajamouli has shot a lot of scenes for Varanasi

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in Hyderabad?

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damn

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Yes

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Nagarjuna money

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this year gonna be amazing for movies

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packed every month hopefully

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tho Idk if I can take Ranbir in that role LUL

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Letā€™s see

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I am more excited for Mahesh Babu as Rama in Varanasi

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For me for some reason he's typecasted in the Wake up Sid or ajab prem ki gajab kahani

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I know he has done more different roles

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like Animal or Sanju.

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but I default to that

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Rajamouli had Mahesh Babu do 6-7 months of Kalaripayattu and posture training just for Ramaā€™s posture

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Ranveer singh howevery greatly varied his range

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Like I wouldn't have thought he would do as well he did in 83 or Dhurandhar

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the emotional depth

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Which movie composer would be best for Stormlight and Mistborn @sage remnant

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oh yeah Disclosure day

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The Odyssey is much later I think

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I am not much of a movie guy man

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I won't know names

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lame

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@modern lichen what do you think

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ask someone like Buffy or harsh

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yea

modern lichen
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isn't it already released

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it's for upcoming movies

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he hasn't read MB to talk about that

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I also would think Justin Hurwitz (who did the score for First Man)

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I have read the first MB trilogy

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oh

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damn

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didn't know lol

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Itā€™s ok

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I donā€™t talk much about it frankly

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I like book 2 a lot except the ending

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Book 2 was kinda meh true

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Book 1 was really fun

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book 2 was the best one for me šŸ˜”

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would have been a top one if not for the super meh climax

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I dont remember much about Mistborn

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did you see its getting adapted

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Yes

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Excited

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Isnā€™t it a Mistborn film

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Or series of films

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Trilogy yea

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And Stormlight TV show

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Stormlight would be a series

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Oh so each book is a film

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?

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For MB?

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Yea probs

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Did Sando clarify

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Brandon wants to do the scripts

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Yea he always wanted a trilogy

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Brandon wants to do trilogy of movie yes

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Isnā€™t he writing the Stormlight scripts

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rn Mistborn

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nah only Mistborn

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Ok

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What I would give to get a really accurate ASOIAF show

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it's at 25% for first draft iirc

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With the bright colors and the weirdness

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With the Apple budgets

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personally I am not very excited for Stormlight adaptation or Mistborn as much

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I don't see them being any remotely good

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plus it's also like OP where I would be super source purist

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and the adaptations would surely make a lot of changes

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He would be great yea

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@foggy mirage imagine a fully accurate ASOIAF adaptation with Apple money for VFX and costuming and scale

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for stuff like Neuromancer, I am only interested in getting the soul of the book right

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I think a lot parts can be cut

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Neuromancer is so much a product of its time and how it subverts the trends of its time

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Even the opening line itself is obscure at the moment weā€™re in

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I like adaptations so I can talk to people who dont read books about the books

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yeah I am different for stuff where i like like everything about it

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like part of the reason I hate OPLA but don't want to go into that

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OPLA is just a different story than the main one

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With that thinking I could enjoy it more

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OPLA is pretty good

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and so I don't have much hope

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i dont like early OP much so i dont really care

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I would even swear by syrup village

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the arc which everyone apparently hates

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but yeah Neuromancer adaptation would be great

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Apple TV budget

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There is not enough good fantasy being made, and Amazon fucked up all their fantasy shit

sage remnant
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I wish I had watched Foundation tv show before reading the books

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it's crazy how badly they fumbled

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that way I could have enjoyed both

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Wheel of Time G5Laugh G5Laugh G5Laugh G5Laugh

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What a waste

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WoT, Rings of Power

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well people should just stop with adapted works šŸ˜Ž

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no more LOTR or ASOIAF

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Rings of Power has definitely soured a lot in my mind but itā€™s continuing and hopefully it keeps improving

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just adapt Second apocalypse for people who want more ASOIAF

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Meh

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I think ASOIAF as it is is perhaps unadaptable

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have you read The Darkness that comes bfore harsh

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It has to be watered down because the books are so expansive that its scope is kinda incomprehensible

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I think ASOIAF fans would like it

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I mean ASOIAF is popular enough that another better adaptation could happen if GRRM published more

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but i dont think the original actors are replaceable

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harsh imagine if we get The Tainted Cup adaptation!

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The costume designs

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And an accurate iron throne finally

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Accurate everything

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oh speaking of that

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Seven Dials apparently got an adaptation

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saw that on Netflix recently. need to get to it

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Yeah itā€™s ok

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I forgot from season 4

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Is this year too

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From it's still going on?

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šŸ˜­

foggy mirage
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Pulling a Lost

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šŸ˜­

foggy mirage
# brave orbit Pulling a Lost

||https://youtu.be/uTR_NzGAUOU?si=WrGyAQMj99ufmrJx|| from season 4

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Created by John Griffin (Crater) and executive produced by Griffin, showrunner Jeff Pinkner (Lost, Alias, Fringe) and director Jack Bender (Lost, Game of Thrones, The Institute), the series unravels the mystery of a nightmarish town that traps all those who enter. The new season will premiere Sunday, April 19 on MGM+.

In Season Four, the closer...

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Was so confused

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you'd think after Lost they'd realise they shouldn't drag mystery shows so much...

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Yeah ngl 3 should be the max for a mystery

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Like dark

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should be 1

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Depends on the concept

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And the setting

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Like how True Detective ended in s1

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# foggy mirage And an accurate iron throne finally

ASOIAF || Giant fucking monstrosity of a jagged throne, colorful dragons, accurate locations (Kingā€™s Landing, Dragonstone, Stormā€™s End, Harrenhal, Casterly Rock, Winterfell), Others not fucking sucking in their design and ephemeral nature, the armor of the knights and the colorful silks and attires, the exotic locales of Essos and its all expanding scope from Qarth to the free cities to Braavos and all in between ||

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I mean you're not wrong

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Season 3 is ok imo

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Itā€™s definitely trying to borrow on S1ā€™s formula but it doesnā€™t have Cary Fukunaga directing it to perfection

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WAIT Devil's Hour S3 is coming out this year

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pog

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what's that even

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Well it's hard to explain

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but Peter Capaldi is the Main character

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kinda like horror mystery thriller show

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he is super passionate about it also

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wait I think my sister talked about it once

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shows more than 1 season are just too long for me to care anyway

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unless I am already super interested

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foggy mirage
# modern lichen ASOIAF || Giant fucking monstrosity of a jagged throne, colorful dragons, accura...

Asoiaf ||holy hells thank you for pointing out how shitty the others looked. They looked like dried out old people. When the books tell us they are beautiful lithe ice people. And we'd get to see volantis, the river rhoyne and mereen properly. A qarth that could actually have Danny explore a bit. I'd kill to see moat cailin done right, dorne and the westerlands šŸ˜­ . I'd wish for some iron islands but maybe I'm asking too much. I do enjoy the iron borne and their drowned god. Not getting this victarion or euron annoyed me to no end||

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ASOIAF ||a more accurate Pyke LETSBUGGINGGO ||

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ASOIAF ||Victarion and Euron got merged into Hot Topic Pirate who tries to fuck ||

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We also need a Elric of Melnibone adaptation

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tho the structure would probably not work for current audience

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Elric of Melnibone

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Michael Whelan's art is so good man

foggy mirage
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have you read Elric Lisa

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I dont believe I have

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ASOIAF ||all of the ironborn are kinda dumb, besides Euron whoā€™s bringing Cthulhu to Westeros ||

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The main cast's family/kingdom could be called proto targaryens. You should check it out

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ASOIAF ||itā€™s crazy that the Targs were not even a major dragonlord house in Valyria and they managed to have three dragons be able to conquer the entirety of Westeros ||

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ASOIAF || all of the large dragons died in the doom so Balerion which is the largest dragon known to the world since after the Doom is barely a worm compared to those monstrosities ||

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Imma need that Clive one again

sage remnant
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Imajica?

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My brain did summer sault

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Off a cliff that day

sage remnant
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I probably recced Imajica to you

foggy mirage
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elric of melnibone

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tho fyi, it's pure sword and sorcery fantasy. To the core

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I wouldn't have enjoyed it at all if not for the way it was written

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I have always said asoiaf ||I believe magic just taints the land it afflicts for centuries to come. Like its some sort of radiation. It causes diseases like Grayscale which I think its 100% supernatural and things like asshai by the seas aura of death.||

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oh on that note, have you read The King In Yellow

foggy mirage
# sage remnant elric of melnibone

Eric off melnibone ||that is a sick ass cape. But I can rock with fantasy so this isn't a problem for me. I like rober e Howard Conan type of things.||

foggy mirage
sage remnant
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but yeah it's kinda cosmic horror

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kinda psychological horror

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kinda gothic

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kinda weird fiction like china meville's stuff

foggy mirage
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well I always recommend with what people like previously

modern lichen
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oh yeah @young compass where's the Poppy War rant

foggy mirage
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I only talk in BBR (that too very less nowadays) and 17th shard, and the recs there are amazing

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I read King in Yellow as buddy read in that place initially

foggy mirage
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well they organize like buddy reads where if 4+ people are interested in reading smth together, they create a thread for discussions

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so like irl book club

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they started Dark Tower Buddy read this January

foggy mirage
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They are gonna be on that for a good while

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šŸ˜­

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some of the folks there read like 200 books a year

foggy mirage
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That speed is just busted good god

sage remnant
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while discussing about each book

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I take my sweet time with stuff. Haven't touched a book in a while either šŸ˜”

foggy mirage
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I need to get in a super mood

sage remnant
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Today's read

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I wish comics still had this sort of fanfare over new visuals in the current age

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like imagine a marvel making huge announcement to give peter parker the brocolli hair

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New editor, new writer, new artist, new status quo all at once, after like a 10 year run with the same writer/artists/editor lol

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They had this running the previous month

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lol good one

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@sudden swift what does this mean

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I have no idea what "ARIRANGAR" means

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I think it's something related to bts

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(I saw the comments)

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@haughty ruin Marvelous Mrs. Maisel ||Okay yea you wasnt lying i havent gotten past the full opening narration/wedding speech and im hooked||

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it's peak

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mrs maisel ||the writing is so... sharp||

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||the cast is phenomenal of course, tony shalhoub is amazing as midge's dad||

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wat dat mean šŸ˜­

mild seal
half steeple
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crazy to see Mrs Maisel talk here

mild seal
haughty ruin
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Rachel Brosnahan is so good in that role

half steeple
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Salem's Lot ||maybe 3/4 done?|| ||OK, I like Barlow - the main vampire - a lot. While not a scary book, King is doing a great job making him feel ancient and vampiric.||

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judaism ||so the basic rules are you can't have pork, you can't have shellfish, and you can't mix meat and milk (no meat and dairy at the same time)||

limber urchin
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did you spoiler tag a religion?

haughty ruin
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yeah

limber urchin
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lol

crimson bane
limber urchin
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that is pretty funny

sage remnant
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more King?

limber urchin
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Honestly, I want more Kristoff.

sage remnant
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so uhh nevernight?

limber urchin
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I want Nevernight, see where he got his stardom

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I don' think I can go back to Prince of Thorns honestly

sage remnant
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fair

limber urchin
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and I want to see him tackle 3rd-person, since Empire has so much 1st person

sage remnant
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still surprised how you managed to get through ASOIAF tho

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cuz like it's also gorish

limber urchin
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because Prince feels edgy in a "i'm 14 and this is deep" kind of way

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ASOIAF isn't edgy, it's just very adult and brutal

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the prose is massively different between the two

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i can handle gore and violence all day

sage remnant
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in a good way

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Empire has it in doses, and some of it i do criticize. but Prince, for me, was like being slapped in the face

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hmm

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like the author was trying really hard to get his point across with that MC

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I haven't read this but you could try The Book that wouldn't burn

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it's the more liked work for that author

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i may try it one day, but not anytime soon

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'cause I don't know what I will want after Nevernight. Maybe that poppy trilogy i heard about?

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yeah just mentioning it cuz like you wanted to try Mark Lawrence out

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i do prefer fantasy on average

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i always have

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but I chase it with other stories like Stephen King which is more real world

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Idk if I would really recommend Poppy war since it dropped from a 5/5 this is the best thing I have read to 3/5 in my reread :kekhands:

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I really shouldn't have reread it...

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can others here give opinions on Poppy?

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Juba hates it. Harsh hates that author's every book he has read QueenKEKW

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OK hate is a bit too extreme of an opinion for me

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tho their problem is more of she lacks subtlety

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she's extremely blunt with her themes

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in a bad way?

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I don't find that to be an issue because the stuff she covers really makes me think

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but for Juba and Harsh, it was done distastefully

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perhaps I will give it a try

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@worthy crypt has read Poppy War. He liked first two books and disliked the last one

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iirc

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Rebecca Kuang is probably the most mixed author I know

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in the reception of her books

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Take 2021, Poppy War and everyone loved it. Booktube would swear by it. A few years go by everyone started to hate it

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Same for Babel

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I know after Neverwinter I probably won't want a long series

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Poppy war is trilogy of book where each book is like

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like I have zero plans to read Wheel of Time for example. that will be waaaay later down the line

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60% of a Mistborn book

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Iirc

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Have you heard of The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

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I would recommend that Buffy

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no

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assume i have not heard of most books. i'm not well read

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i'm trying to rectify that

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Kazuo Ishiguro won Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017

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and The Buried Giant is getting a stop motion adaptation by one and only Del Toro

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can you give me a quick non-spoiler summary?

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just giving the wikipedia's premise of it since I couldn't really phrase it in a way that's non spoilery

|| The novel follows an elderly Briton couple, Axl and Beatrice, living in a fictional post-Arthurian England in which no-one is able to retain long-term memories. The couple have dim memories of having had a son, and they decide to travel to a neighbouring village to seek him out. || The Buried Giant

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||In its core it's examination of memory, guilt and trauma ||

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@haughty ruin Mrs. Maisel ||Holy beauty standards. My heart is breaking a bit. Like she's all smiles but damn||

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Mrs. Maisel ||Her and her mom talking about the newborn daughter hurts a bit||

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Oh ok

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i'm so glad you see it rich

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The writing is amazing

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mrs maisel ||fun fact, you briefly saw a guy in the intro flashback, they went to see a standup guy, lenny bruce - he's actually a real comedian||

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||very controversial guy||

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Mrs. Maisel ||Bro stealing jokes and, holy shit he would fall apart without her i love how they show that even back then the stay at home mom was the glue that held the house together.||

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Mrs. Maisel ||Ight her husband starting to pmo||

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|| pmo? || mrs maisel

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piss me off

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Mrs. Maisel ||Holy bombšŸ˜­šŸ˜­||

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ah yes yep

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mrs maisel ||ted the moth?||

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LMAOOO

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YES

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Mrs. Maisel ||Bro you just not funny its okayšŸ˜­||

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Mrs. Maisel ||OH HELL NAHHHHH YOU LEAVING BECAUSE YOU BOMBED?!||

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Mrs. Maisel ||Bro omg this fucking guy.||

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you get it rich

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i knew you would

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Guys guys

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Stewie

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Tv show

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We are ALL watching Stewie

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Mrs. Maisel ||MAYBE IF YOU TALKED TO YOUR FUCKING WIFE AND DIDN'T JUST USE HER AS AN ASSISTANT YOU TWO WOULD HAVE BETTER UNDERSTANDING HOLY SHIT||

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Who cares about some Maisel we are talking about Stewie

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Mrs. Maisel ||Fucking Penny!!!!||

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||I fucking knew ittttt||

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yeah

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Mrs. Maisel ||My heart is breaking||

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Mrs. Maisel ||Omg her mom just pmo again i understand the time and culture but bruh "what did you do?" Girl do NOT pmo||

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mrs maisel ||sorry i guess i should have expected this to be a ragebait show for you lol||

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Mrs. Maisel ||No I love it sis and i understand the themes but yeah her parents definitely both rage baited tf outta me with that "Joel left me" scene||

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Mrs. Maisel ||But I love how even with all this going on she still finds a way to make jokes like you can tell that comedy is something natural for her I cant wait to see her get on the stage for herself (they already said shes gonna be a comedian in the Prime description so I know thats coming soon)||

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...

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true!

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I haven't heard of rina kent tho

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dark romance author

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yeah all adult romances/dark romances

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it's such a huge market man

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Mrs. Maisel ||OMG SHES WALKING TO THE STAGE IS SHE ABOUT TO TRAUMA DUMP||

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rina kent has 35 books published, different series but all sent in the same world

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there's a reading order on her website

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I wouldn't really kink shame or anything for people who read these books cuz everyone knows it's guilty pleasure and you should read to enjoy

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but some parts of Colleen Hoover's books just...

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there are 2 reading orders actually

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It ends with us. Like why man why

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What could this book possibly be about

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you didn't have to click man

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I warned

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And wish I was illiterate

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Ugly Love

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šŸ˜­ šŸ˜­ šŸ˜­

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Ugly love|| ā€œwe both laugh at our sonā€™s big balls.ā€ This had to go through editors and publishing||

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NYT best seller btw

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Isnā€™t that just a genre

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yes

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NYT best seller is a genre

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Like I could get behind Romanticized Toxic Love/relationship. Everyone knows it's bad and it's just a fantasy or kink or w/e that people easily differentiate between real life and story

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but those two examples...

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Dark romantasy being so big is just like

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Kind of crazy

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eh not really

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I guess not really

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Its just so shameless

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Lmfao

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meh

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People before used to read fanfic

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are you kinkshaming women now wombat

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Its legit like hentai level plots sometimes i skim the back of these books when im at book stores

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hentai level?

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Fucking pig

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a woman wrote it

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it's way advanced than that wombat

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also yeah almost every popular Dark romance oro monster smut are like written by women lol

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What does oro mean

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Goro

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just do data analysis on goodreads

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a huge percentage is written by women

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prose
almost everything there is dialogue man

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bro's making me defend ugly love...

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divorced moms love that shit

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does the book also has bisexual werewolves

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the demographic is much more varied

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It probably has its own shelf section at Barnes and Noble by now

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yeah

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been a while even

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speaking of awesome letterboxd brownie point content

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y'all ever watch hundred nights of hero

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I think those genre's are fun guilty pleasure. Except Colleen Hoover tho

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Please no man

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Also I just finished Stormlight Way of Kings ||what an epic ending||

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the fuck, how many big names are in this fucking movie

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it's real surface level feminism

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I found a new fave

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YES