Books (General)

[minor sleet]

I do recommend Joyful Reunion, but skimming v1

[proper silo]

For now, I still have to finish Ballad of Sword and Wine; and also the war god concubine book (you will not get me to remember the title), cause the second volume is out.

[minor sleet]

I’ve got The White Cat’s Divine Scratching Post & 300 Years of Longing, plus I need to track down The Villain’s Divine Halo v2

POV: you have just been appointed head of a minor department and you arrive at your new post to this scene

[quaint tendon]

APOH 91-92 || jfc… it’s the primals.||

[raw musk]

PoH 91/92: ||That's probably the smallest bombshell of the next few chapters||

Have fun

[quaint tendon]

|| Jesus Christ. Chaco….||

[raw musk]

PoH 92: ||First Cascadia's flipper surgery, then Harbinger's... let's call it flip... and now Chaco's wing removal. The AI is truly all powerful when it comes to mortals||

Are you listening to the audiobook, or reading the physical copy?

[quaint tendon]

https://tenor.com/view/burst-cry-tears-birthday-surprise-gif-15620707

How it feels to be listening to this chapter while I’m supposed to be having fun with my whacky crazy book

[proper silo]

Ballad of Sword and Wine vol3 ||Me: "It's just a bandit leader, how many subordinates could he possibly have?"||
||The book: "The bandit leader will be attacking with forty thousand troops" Excuse me what||

[quaint tendon]

Jfc

[raw musk]

What?

[minor sleet]

||china is just like that. Big country ||

[proper silo]

i know but still

[quaint tendon]

https://tenor.com/view/spearhyunho-gif-1486869321024523992

What a friggin book

[ivory cypress]

historically in that sort of situation, bandits were often ex soldiers, so when an army was dissolved, particularly one that had just lost, they'd all probably turn to banditry. so like... for the enterprising, that's a free army

[quaint tendon]

https://tenor.com/view/martin-scorsese-absolute-cinema-absolute-cinema-meme-martin-scorsese-meme-martin-scorsese-absolute-cinema-gif-7188464701423971028

[proper silo]

That is more or less how they explain it later on 🤔

[ivory cypress]

oh sweet

[proper silo]

Ballad of Sword and Wine vol3 ||Funnily enough, now it turns out that he has maybe half that many troops, and is just spreading rumours to intimidate the city he's after I fell for the propaganda!||

[quaint tendon]

Audio

APOH 94

https://tenor.com/view/matthew-mcconaughey-strobe-light-strobe-smoking-smoke-gif-5536751375024236766

[proper silo]

Ballad of Sword and Wine ||Hot ||

[quaint tendon]

APOH 96 || “I haven’t been folded like this since Brandon taught us how to use tinder”||

https://tenor.com/view/you-what-wtf-disgusted-repulsed-reaction-gif-9521897686579036997

https://tenor.com/view/broad-city-abbi-abrams-i-love-you-and-support-you-support-abbi-jacobson-gif-4487475373787323907

|| “ I was hoping to take you to dinner first” ||

https://tenor.com/view/regular-show-rigby-disgusted-looking-away-slowly-turning-head-away-gif-12054983991679964282

[raw musk]

PoH 96: ||Yeeeaaaahhhhh, Taranis is mega yikes||

[quaint tendon]

I can’t decide what offends me more tbh

APOH 98

https://tenor.com/view/screaming-internally-spongebob-spongebob-scream-intensifies-gif-6589653077021924320

[raw musk]

APoH 98: ||Boop||

[quaint tendon]

Jesus

Christ

[raw musk]

Mmhmm

APoH 98/TW: bugs

[quaint tendon]

Horrendous

This secret skit is

Incredible

I cannot. Friggin believe

I now have to wait for book 9

My wife isn’t going directly to shadow rising after she finishes Carl, so I must fill this hole in my heart with Jason Asano

[minor sleet]

A tumblr blog is running a nonfiction book contest with a series of poll

But they’re including poetry in the category of nonfiction

That’s not right, is it? I though poetry was a type of fiction

[ivory cypress]

ehhhh it's a separate thing

it's kind of neither and both

or it can be neither or both

[raw musk]

Has anyone else read Nice Dragons Finish Last? I'm getting weird PJO vibes from the series, and I'm not sure why. I'm almost through book 2

[junior dew]

Wolf worm 7 || This man is clearly involved in some shady stuff right? Like almost certainly he’s responsible for everything going on and it involves his research ||

[quaint tendon]

Who wrote nice dragons finish last

It sounds familiar for some reason

[dapper eagle]

Why is are webnovels so expensive?

It would cost me almost $600 to unlock every Lord of Mysteries chapter

Stormlight would only cost like $120 for hardcovers all the way up to wind and truth

[velvet umbra]

how many chapters is that

[dapper eagle]

Like 1400 I think

Apparently about 2.7m words total

[long sorrel]

so.... that's why?

[dapper eagle]

It's not like it's 5 times longer than stormlight

[long sorrel]

no no, it isn't

[dapper eagle]

Or even close

[velvet umbra]

is this on webtoon

[long sorrel]

but any individual chapter release model is going to be more expensive

[velvet umbra]

or some similar service

dont they eventually let you read those chapters just slowly? idk I have minimal experience with the format

[dapper eagle]

Yes

[velvet umbra]

that's another factor then, they have ways to eventually access content if you wait other than just paying for the book

there's also just the minimum price factor, certain media types just have base lowest possible prices that they won't go lower than

this is true for normal books too

[dapper eagle]

I thought the chapters on there seemed expensive so I looked up the total word count and compared the price to 5 stormlight books

Which aren't quite as long but they are comparable

[velvet umbra]

I mean price is just not really based on word count

if it was Stormlight would be a lot more expensive

[old bone]

Yen Press is starting official physical volumes of lotm

So you can just wait

[velvet umbra]

they're like $10 more than other hardcovers for 3-4x the length

[old bone]

Oh wait first book already released last year

[dapper eagle]

I mostly read long fanfiction which is free

[dapper eagle]

Okay maybe I'm biased then

[velvet umbra]

its definitely not a good baseline cause it's so much longer than other books, I think Sanderson has even talked about it

that being said I honestly think the main thing is just the classic bulk buying thing

buying a single big item is almost always going to be cheaper than a bunch of individual small ones that add up to the same amount

[long sorrel]

It's a difference of compiled vs single chapters

If stormlught was released in single chapters you'd probably be paying even more than the 600$

[old bone]

Doing the quick math, buying the Yen Press editions (if they ever cover up to volume 8) would be slightly less than 500 dollars if you go with MRP
But usually since they are disounted, it would be upto sub 400

Its 8 volumes. All of similar amount of chapters which are done in 3 Yen Press editions

[dapper eagle]

Tho to calculate it like that you would just need to like double the cost of the books which is still comparing like 250 to almost 600

[dapper eagle]

So get physical books, got it

[old bone]

But the catch is, these came after first season was released

And only 1 out of 8 have been done so far

and it took them 8 months to get them printed and circulated. July, December and I forgot when

So there's tons of variables here.

[dapper eagle]

Geez

[old bone]

In terms of money, if this is done, it would be for the best but it would take you like

2033-34

To get them all

Cuttlefish wrote the first series in like 3 years lol

granted it was weekly (daily at some times I think? Idr)

it was more erratic schedule

[spiral jungle]

Seems very expensive to me

[old bone]

It's a good series

[spiral jungle]

I can get the whole discworld hardcover collection for less

[old bone]

but also expensive

as Yen Press stuff are

20 dollars for one edition is a lot

they should be like 10

[dapper eagle]

I didn't even realize it was longer than Worm until I looked up the wordcount to calculate

[old bone]

so that way total would be 240 dollars

[old bone]

It was that long

lol

[dapper eagle]

And that's not even counting 2

[old bone]

I am never gonna read COI

[dapper eagle]

Which is another 2.1m words

[old bone]

I have already forgotten the first one and I read so slow nowadays that I cba

Does WN app not have those redeemable coins nowadays?

Unlock without paying for them

[dapper eagle]

At least the first 40 chapters are free

[dapper eagle]

There are single chapter unlock things you can get daily

And extras for watching ads

[old bone]

Yeah well legally that's the best option

That's common for these web novel platforms

Tapas also has these

Otherwise I would say just buy Yen Press edition after looking at how they are planning to go about further releases

but keep in mind it would be a different translation than WN one

Or you could always wait for the donghua (the chinese anime adaptation) to finish

[dapper eagle]

Physical books are also usually more expensive than digital copies

I guess that's not the case for web novels tho

[minor venture]

the cruel prince 11 ||Jude said if Madoc will kill prince Cardan that would be treason. And then at the end Dain sent her a message to find treason. I wonder if it using the same word is a foreshadowing that she will at the end implicate Madoc in something.||

Overall in the last few chapter i started liking the book more. I took a long break and only in the last 2 weeks probably got back to reading it slowly. I still feel like i want to understand more the worldbuilding but i guess the book really is not going that way.

[raw musk]

Rachel Aaron. I think was recommended Minimum Wage Magic here which is by the same author, so that might be where you heard of her?

[unborn furnace]

Dungeon Crawler Carl 18 ||HOLY CHRIST HE KILLED A BABY||

I LOVE THIS BOOK, 121 PAGES IN AND I ADORE IT

[trim tide]

Finished Project Hail Mary, really loved it

[unborn furnace]

https://tenor.com/view/phm-rocky-dancing-project-hail-mary-gif-17037390615447359100

[trim tide]

Next book to read is "I am not a serial killer"

[unborn furnace]

Amaze amaze amaze

[raw musk]

DCC 18: ||One baby? No. A nursery of babies? Yes||

[quaint tendon]

Lmao

Every time I go back to HWFWM I have the growing pain of having to readjust to enjoying Jason after several books worth of time reading people I like a lot more

Going to Jason after Carl and donut and co is especially hard

[deft stream]

Bread gang where you at?

[raw musk]

Yeah Jason's... abrasive...

[unborn furnace]

HWFWM?

What Is that?

[quaint tendon]

He who fights with monsters

A much more…traditional? I guess that’s right to say LIT rpg than Carl

I really enjoyed books 1-3

Almost gave up on the entire series cause of books 4-6

And tbh have been having fun with 7-8 and now I’m on 9

[raw musk]

LitRPG mixed with isekai

[quaint tendon]

I liked Jason plenty in the beginning but the second like

Arc to be spoiler free about it had him sort of stripped of a lot of the buffer characters that kept him enjoyable

Plus there’s just a lot of exposition in books 4-6 that I just find very tedious

[raw musk]

See I like seeing Jason suffer, so 4-6 are fantastic to me

[quaint tendon]

HWFWM books 4-6 || I’m not here for earth, earth sucks. The cast sucked, the stakes sucked. Jason’s character just left fully on display without his quick witted friends makes him entirely insufferable ||

[mortal wren]

Am here

[quaint tendon]

Hwfwm 4-6 || it’s really hard for me to find like. Kids enjoyable to read. And his niece was annoying as hell. The whole asano family is just Jason in different fonts||

Also this is very petty but HWFWM doesn’t have like individual book titles. So it makes discussing them annoying

[raw musk]

HWFWM 4-6: ||I enjoyed the Earth stuff, but I also want to see magic on Earth IRL, so I'm biased towards that type of story||

[quaint tendon]

|| the idea that magic had been there the whole time just makes me ask questions I don’t want the answers to tbh in universe||

[raw musk]

Preach! It's really annoying when a series does this. I'm finding this happens more often with self pub

[quaint tendon]

Like. Carl sort of does the opposite, where the books aren’t “DCC- a parade of horribles” but that is a non issue cause the individual titles make talking about them perfectly clear

And if you say dungeon crawler Carl it works as an informal series name anyway

Yeah according to a friend of mine that’s pretty common for self publish stuff. Plus I guess HWFWM is like also an online thing idk

[unborn furnace]

I love DCC

It's like playing an RPG who doesn't take seriously but at the same time does

Like the Borderlands spin off

Tiny Tina's Wonderlands

[quaint tendon]

Yeah DCC is superior for me in all aspects

But I do not have experience with the genre outside of HWFWM and DCC

I feel like I’ve heard that HWFWM is more akin with a lot of the genres stories though

And I already bounce off a lot of the more traditional isekai things in HWFWM anyway

[quaint tendon]

https://tenor.com/view/water-wet-breaking-news-water-is-wet-perry-white-dc-comics-gif-17801328

[mortal wren]

Ok who the eff is on team gale

[quaint tendon]

I don’t know much about hunger games, but even I coulda figured that

[quaint tendon]

Gale

[mortal wren]

There was one

[mortal wren]

Oh I see silly

Bro I just had to check cuz some people can be controversial and have there own opinions

[minor sleet]

Pervert fish

[quaint tendon]

Oh I didn’t vote

I’ve never finished the series so I didn’t feel qualified for an opinion

[mild lance]

FOB 2 ||the Swarm is the most interesting character for me right now. I’m really enjoying its dynamic with the people it’s eaten.||

[unborn furnace]

Dungeon CRAWLING IN MY SKIIIIIIIN Carl 20 ||SO THE KILLER WAS AN ICE AGENT?||

[wind sinew]

Which book?

[unborn furnace]

1

Book 1

The only thing I don't like is that the chapters are short

[wind sinew]

So, reading The Light Fantastic and, it's nice. It's fun. But it's not making me want to binge it like some other books I've enjoyed. Not sure what to make if this

[quaint tendon]

See this in here is the only actual problem with DCC having only individual titles and the series being colloquially DCC

[unborn furnace]

Like 2-6 pages each

[wind sinew]

Ohhhh I was thinking elemental ice and got confused lmfao

[quaint tendon]

They do get longer.

[unborn furnace]

Right

[wind sinew]

They get longer

And more fun too

[unborn furnace]

https://tenor.com/view/thats-what-she-said-what-she-said-dirty-joke-joke-laugh-gif-15661968

[quaint tendon]

I think for book one. It’s about as long as it needs to be

[wind sinew]

You read book 8 yet?

[unborn furnace]

I saw the massive brick that Butcher's Masquerade is

[quaint tendon]

Finished it today

[wind sinew]

Thoughts?

||Boop||

[quaint tendon]

https://tenor.com/view/thegrinch-theaudacity-gif-19711263

I thought it was incredible

I think this inevitable ruin is still my favorite

[wind sinew]

Same, kinda.

[quaint tendon]

But I really need to do a big reread

[wind sinew]

It wasn't perfect for me, but I kinda get why

[wind sinew]

Yeah, I have plans for that

[quaint tendon]

I don’t think of things as perfect Necessarily

But a book that’s 5 stars to me isn’t like

Pristine

[wind sinew]

I will say there's certain elements in this book missing that I missed from the earlier ones

[quaint tendon]

Word

[wind sinew]

Oh no, same. Nothing's exactly going to be "perfect"

[quaint tendon]

This inevitable ruin for me has this like

Special place for me

Jesus

Ffffing Christ

“For me” twice

Ugh.

Anyway, it’s still my favorite

[wind sinew]

For me, I think that's masquerade or feral gods

God, they're so good

Do you do audiobooks with the reading?

[quaint tendon]

But it’s the fact that dinniman still finds new ways to make me laugh and have fun and then immediately be disgusted with myself lol

Audio books yes

[wind sinew]

I think Hayes ruined most other audiobooks for me

They just don't match anymore

[quaint tendon]

Ahh no he’s just a great zenith tbh for me

Travis baldree does incredible work

[wind sinew]

I love his work too

[quaint tendon]

Kramer and reading are both great. But in different ways than Baldree or Hayes

[wind sinew]

One of the few I'm still impressed by

[quaint tendon]

Michael Page, he’s the performer for the Gentlemen Bastards series

Another incredible performer

His accent work is super impressive

Sometimes I don’t need a Jeff for something

[royal carbon]

I did listen to those audiobooks recently (Gentlemen Bastards)

[wind sinew]

That's on my list. I have the lies of locke lamora on my shelf

[quaint tendon]

I just need a good narrator

The Bartimaeus sequence by Jonathan stroud had Simon Jones

He was also really good for the story he was telling

[wind sinew]

Currently my big four narrators are baldree, Steven pacey, Jeff Hayes, and Andy serkis

Hayes tops it for me tho. His Prepotente

Lmao

[quaint tendon]

Andy serkis was pretty fun but I found him more like

It’s not that his range is especially great, but he just tells a really good story

His narration is very charismatic

[wind sinew]

Maybe, his work on the Hobbit was really good, but ofc the gollum part was the best

[quaint tendon]

Eragon had Gerard Doyle, he was really good too

[wind sinew]

Need to check that book out too

Too much of a classic not to have already

[quaint tendon]

HP may it never rise again, had Jim Dale for me as a US reader

[wind sinew]

Harry Potter?

[quaint tendon]

Dale was good but like he’s outclassed by everyone I mentioned outside of Doyle and jones

Yes

[wind sinew]

I really wanted to read those books again as an adult, but I can't bring myself to support them anymore

It's a shame, but there's plenty of other books I guess

[quaint tendon]

If you’ve never read Bartimaeus I highly recommend it

It’s from the same…era? Of YA stuff

And imo i liked the writing a lot better

[wind sinew]

Never even heard of it.

But I'll add it to my list

[quaint tendon]

It is a pretty niche one tbh

It got overshadowed by HP and PJO

One of the many

[wind sinew]

What's pjo again lol?

[quaint tendon]

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

[wind sinew]

And I tend to like overshadowed series

[wind sinew]

Ahhh

Yeah, another big one

[quaint tendon]

Now PJO

[wind sinew]

I never read those either, at least not all of them.

[quaint tendon]

If you want a horrible audiobook

It’s PJO

[wind sinew]

Ouch lol

Skipping that ig

[quaint tendon]

The books themselves are good

But Bernstein is awful

He has this completely unnatural inflection to all the dialogue

And like. It isn’t present on the audiobooks anymore…but he does not have the ability to do accents that do not sound offensive

He had one voice for a Japanese character in Percy Jackson that was so bad it was taken out

[wind sinew]

TBH, I don't know what a bad audiobook narrator is going to sound like. I've only had one bad experience and it was the Raven scholar. Tried to do some research before I get any audio books so I've kind of lucked out

[wind sinew]

This made me giggle

How'd it get released in the first place with a voice that bad?

[quaint tendon]

Cause it was the mid 2000s

[royal carbon]

Audiobooks were an afterthought

[quaint tendon]

Riordans books unfortunately have about a 50/50 of being okay narrator wise or bad

PJO is bad

But the heroes of Olympus books are like fine

Kane chronicles has bad narration

[wind sinew]

That annoyingly explains so much

[quaint tendon]

But the trials of Apollo narrator isn’t too bad

And it actually can be good

But then you have the audio performance for the Magnus archives. Which was so horrendous I didn’t even last a single chapter before I returned the book

Shirtaloon the performer for He Who Fights with Monsters is hit or miss

Most of the time I like him just fine

But his women tend to be samey in a way that isn’t as charming as say Kramer is

Scott brick, he narrated Jurassic Park another decent performance. But as Owyn sort of implied. It’s really only recently that audiobooks started being treated anything beyond just a book recording

[potent linden]

poetry is closer to a medium which can be either fiction or nonfiction - I wonder if the person making the poll had only read biographical poetry or something

[quaint tendon]

Oh another bad one is Jack Garret

He did the audio book for elantris

[potent linden]

The Magnus Archives or Magnus Chase?

[quaint tendon]

https://tenor.com/view/robin-williams-thats-the-one-the-one-yep-yes-gif-17579779

When I looked at that message I was like “that can’t be right right? Eh whatever”

[potent linden]

I was gonna say, TMA had room for improvement at the start but it wasn't that bad

[velvet umbra]

I dont really find this one as bad as people say

I found it just completely unremarkable

[quaint tendon]

Oh I just.

Cannot stand how

Slow it is

[velvet umbra]

oh

[quaint tendon]

And I have a strong distaste for his inflection

[velvet umbra]

I dont even register that being an issue since I can speed it up

[quaint tendon]

Idk I’m full of really petty opinions about these things

As evidenced by how long I’ve been able to ramble about it

I liked one half of the narrators for isles of the emberdark

I can’t remember the ladies name hang on

Jennifer Jill Araya

I wasn’t a fan of her reading, it had this weird. Upwards lilt

kaleo Griffith was really good though

Empress of forever had a good narrator Natalie naudus, so did broken earth with Robin miles

Who did this is how you lose the time war

[velvet umbra]

I felt like this was meant to be in line with the pov she was narrating but I can see it being annoying

[quaint tendon]

Cynthia Farrell and Emily Woo Zeller

[quaint tendon]

I agree

[royal carbon]

I've definitely had narrators that made me stop listening. I've also had narrators that were good enough to make me finish a pretty bad book.

[quaint tendon]

But it’s just a personal issue

[velvet umbra]

I've had a pretty good selection recently looking through my recently read

Hayes, Moira Quirk, Tim Gerard Reynolds, Steven Pacey

[quaint tendon]

Who did sunlit man

[royal carbon]

Anyone else get annoyed when they change narrators mid series?

[velvet umbra]

I haven't really come across it but it would probably bug me

[quaint tendon]

William Demeritt

Oh yeah I hate that

It happened with heroes of Olympus

And what’s annoying is that it didn’t even improve the performance

It just went from mid to mid

[velvet umbra]

I've seen several add additional narrators as the series goes on

[quaint tendon]

Kane chronicles tbh it was my first exposure to multiple narrators as I’ve said before

So it put me off the idea

Oh I like the woman who read warbreaker

It’s so weird but I used to be under the impression that it was Kate reading

[velvet umbra]

Emily Wilde is really funny with this cause it lists a seemingly equally billed male and female narrator at the beginning like a lot of romance-adjacent books have but (light spoilers)|| the dude reads like 2-3 pages per book lol||

[cloud socket]

Travis reads Operation Bounce House and Jeff voices a character which startled me when he shows up, so kind of an inverse of Eye of the Bedlam Bride haha (though I actually had to look up who Travis is in that because Jeff is too good at doing voices)

[quaint tendon]

Travis was so amazing in bounce house

[wind sinew]

Never happened to me, but just the idea of it annoys me

[velvet umbra]

I haven't gotten to that one yet but I do find like brief appearance character narration kind of weird

[wind sinew]

Now I wish I actually got the audiobook for that one

[velvet umbra]

like it doesn't bother me persay it's just kind of random idk

[quaint tendon]

Actually it happens 3 friggin times in heroes of Olympus

God it’s a wonder I ever finished this series

[velvet umbra]

oh wow that sounds really annoying lol

[quaint tendon]

It seems like they stopped trying to do the multiple narrators after lost hero

I wonder if it was a money thing, a negative reaction thing, or both

[wind sinew]

Wait, Travis was in that one?

[quaint tendon]

Travis is the main narrator for bounce house

Jeff features as a single character

[cloud socket]

Bedlam Bride ||he is Raul the crab||

[quaint tendon]

Oh I’m dumb

[wind sinew]

No, I mean bedlam

[quaint tendon]

Nvm

Ignore me I’m info dumping

[wind sinew]

OH MY GOOODDDDDDDDDD

[cloud socket]

Right????

[wind sinew]

He was so good

This just got so much better for me

[quaint tendon]

Man thinking of Travis makes me want to reread cradle too

[cloud socket]

I did cradle as ebooks, but I've heard Travis do the bonus scenes on YouTube

[wind sinew]

I first came across Travis through his books, never would have imagined that he was a better narrator than an author.

And his books are really good too.

[quaint tendon]

I found it cool that Travis tried out to read tress

I would have loved that

[wind sinew]

My favorite Sanderson standalone

No wait, that's Yumi

[quaint tendon]

Though I also wish I could have lived in the alternate universe where David tennant had worked out

[light drum]

Hmm should I do a Cradle or DCC relisten

[analog geode]

Tainted Cup

[zinc flicker]

House of Leaves Introduction ||I feel like I’m going crazy reading this because WHAT IS GOING ON||

[analog geode]

Leafy things?

[zinc flicker]

I don’t even know

HoL intro ||ok the book is making me confused enough without being tired when reading it so I’ll reread this come morning lol||

Update: I dropped the book and couldn’t find where it went which is not a fun experience for a horror book 😭

[frozen glacier]

Finished witch king. Is good

[analog geode]

Tomorrow it’ll appear under your pillow

[zinc flicker]

I found it 😭

[old bone]

Don't apply the normal book publishing logic to Chinese and Japanese based web novels at all lol

[old bone]

Hopefully you are reading the physical book?

[quaint tendon]

The amount of ai generated images in regards to fandoms like he who fights with monsters or DCC is disgusting

[snow vessel]

I'm almost finished god emperor of dune. About 20 pages left

[viral fractal]

Less bandit, more warlord lol

[snow vessel]

God emperor of dune done.

I'm... conflicted. geod all ||I thought the ending was very strong, and a lot of the ideas in the book were interesting, but it didn't really land for me as well as the others||

||I think... messiah and children do a lot to evolve the story of dune, but I feel like GEOD only hit that level of recontextualisation at the very end||

||I like the idea of leto ii freeing them from prescience and "saving" humanity, his romance with hwi is nice and Duncan's arc is fun, but idk about a lot of the book. I don't feel like a ton really happened outside of a few key sequences, both in terms of action and ideas||

||kinda feels like it could've been a novella to me||

||but, I liked this book overall||

||just didn't entirely live up to expectations ig||

[minor sleet]

God emperor of dune ||but it’s the first ever book to ask the important philosophical question: “Would you still love me if I was a worm?”||

[snow vessel]

GEOD ||eh, children of dune basically did that :p||

[minor sleet]

||But we gotta check again just to be sure that the answer is still no not really ||

[snow vessel]

||he wasn't a worm yet but ghani married him knowing what would happen||

GEOD ||tbh I think this book just suffers from being a dune book||

[minor sleet]

They get worse and weirder after this

Especially once his kid starts writing them

[snow vessel]

||normally i think it would work for me as just a little study into these four characters but it just doesn't bring the level of new ideas and context that I loved in the previous two||

||it feels like a slice-of-life entry almost||

||even though leto ii did die and all... it feels like a little window into normal empire days||

I dunno

Next up is Starless Sea

[zinc flicker]

Yes physical (its the paperback full color edition)

[old bone]

nice

[raw musk]

Bedlam Bride all: ||No more kowtowing, no more kowtowing!!!||

[oblique zodiac]

"Almond" book written by a korean author was so good

Reminded me of horizontal relationships I never had during my childhood

[unborn furnace]

Anyone here has read the book "Psi"

Dungeon Crawler Carl the first book 22 ||So Carl now it's going to fight a Dinosaur with a club?||

[quaint tendon]

I gotta read dune

[trim tide]

I am not a serial killer chapter 3

||I hate johns mom lmao reminds me of mine||

||"just dont be a sociopath"||

[proven token]

Oh yeah finished Three Parts dead

Pretty peak novel

[trim tide]

Ch 5 ||I cannot express how much I hate his mom.||

[unborn furnace]

Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 1 chapter 25 ||THAT GAUNTLET IS AMAZING, ALSO THE DESCRIPTION IS REALLY FUNNY||

Also also (quoting CinemaSins) I love that the book it has a ton of references to other stuff

And that ||Beatrice was putting the horns to Carl||

[mortal wren]

So here’s the thing two days from today on the 26th a new Wandering Inn book drops on audible say what you want about DCC but so far my favorite LitRPG has been The Wandering Inn

I did it, I did the controversial thing

[quaint tendon]

The wandering inn is hilariously close to an old irc chat room I used to rp homestuck ocs in years ago

[mild lance]

FoB 7 ||the Swarm has revealed itself to Dafyd. Glad they didn't drag that out. Dafyd is understandably upset, but I hope he can still be at least a little practical about this. Also he now has alien security so that's interesting.||

[trim tide]

Finished "I am not a serial killer" I quite liked it

Good short read

Man idk what to read next

[mild lance]

FoB 9 ||Dafyd getting Uuya's help to teach the kids how to rebel in secret is really interesting. My new theory is that the quotes at the start of each Part are from something Uuya wrote for that purpose.||

||there's clear historical parallels in how American slaves had songs that secretly were instructions on how to escape||

• Mistborn Era 1 ||also reminds me of how Preservation used the religions to hide a message for Sazed to eventually rebuild the world||

FoB 10 ||well the shoe has finally dropped. The enemy of the Carryx are the humans and they haven't figured that out yet. That's not too surprising. Jessyn actually encountering another human? A little more surprising||

||important question: does the Swarm know?||

[snow vessel]

Mr Monster?

[wind sinew]

Orconomics?

[wind sinew]

I have a question for anyone who's read discworld books. What would you suggest the reading order should be? Chronological or by series?

[rugged tartan]

Read each individual series in order, but hop around to what interests you

[snow vessel]

I think my first discworld book was something like #36 chronologically?

[rugged tartan]

Release order for the whole series is like, not wrong, but it starts you off on a bad intro to the series (Not necessarily a bad book, but one that's not representative of the rest), and chronological just doesn't make sense because you'd be hopping around too much in too many different directions, not to mention that what even is chronological order is ambiguous

[wind sinew]

So it doesn't matter for the experience? Wasn't able to decide between guards! or sourcery

[snow vessel]

I would just go with what interests you

[wind sinew]

I meant release order when I said chronological. I just finished the light fantastic and wanted to know what was best to do next

[rugged tartan]

Putting too much effort into what to read next in Discworld I think distracts from part of the magic, which is that it mostly works in any order. Like, as above, reach individual series in order, but even that's got some wriggle room; I read Soul Music before Reaper Man because the book store I was at didn't have the latter, and I still plenty of fun with both. There's no one correct answer to what to read next. The different sub-series do offer insights into each other that are fun and interesting, but the map is too complicated to concoct a best Reading Order, and a lot of the references work both ways

[wind sinew]

Kinda like the Cosmere

Got it

Guards! it is then, heard a lot about it

[rugged tartan]

I would say much less interconnected than the Cosmere, to iits benefit

[wind sinew]

Fair enough

[rugged tartan]

You really don't need to ping me four times for a conversation I'm actively participating in

[snow vessel]

The Starless Sea early ||this book was already vaguely reminding me of the Secret History, so the Donna Tartt reference made me chuckle||

[trim tide]

Went with the unabridged Invisible man

Then Frankenstein after I finish that

Then after that I wanna do "the will of the many

[snow vessel]

I really like frankenstein

I really enjoyed wotm but I dnf'd the sequel. So.

[trim tide]

Ive read abridged versions of both but I wanna do unabridged, it's been like a decade

[old bone]

would I enjoy it if I didn't enjoy WoTM

[snow vessel]

I... am not sure

Maybe??

Probably depends on why you didn't enjoy wotm

[old bone]

in the aspects that || I found the character work barebones or sloppy, too much focus on plot and even then in the not so interesting academia portions and not the ruins and stuff, interesting world which we don't explore at all, interesting magic system but we rarely explore it, and a very interesting magic system which has these complex systems built on top of it that we talk in the school but the fundamentals and etc of magic system aren't even properly explored at all ||

wotm

[old bone]

yeah was typing that 😔

[snow vessel]

Wotm/sotf vague ||mmmmmmmmmmm I'm not sure. I could see it being better I could also see it being worse||

||it does more of some of those things but in a... way that I could see you feeling either way on||

[old bone]

hmmmm

yeah I'll hold it off still ig

I am not super anti-plot focused stories, but it would need smth like licanius for me to actually work and not wotm

😔

[snow vessel]

Wotm all/sotf premise-y stuff ||following the twist at the end of wotm we have some more main settings/characters, and so you get some more magic system/character/world stuff, but it's not always... from the main arc||

[old bone]

idk plot focused is the proper word but you get what I mean

[snow vessel]

Yea

[old bone]

hmmmm

[minor sleet]

The scifi one, presumably, not the one about racism

[trim tide]

Aye

[minor sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/dr-jack-griffin-the-invisible-man-claude-rains-take-this-creepy-gif-18790279

[cunning pivot]

Need the "The" to clarify.

I read Invisible Man in high school. My (lily white) class was not ready for that kind of discourse.

[minor sleet]

The one black girl in my AP lit class had a noticeably different experience with Their Eyes Where Watching God than everyone else did

[cunning pivot]

I'd imagine so.

I went to overly pasty schools (in the south mostly, though Invisible Man was in Kansas) so we honestly never got that deep into it because well...nobody really knew to care.

Really not a great experience, would not recommend.

[minor sleet]

Sounds like a good thing the book was assigned

[cunning pivot]

Yes but at least in Kansas folks were a bit more open. It was mostly them not liking being assigned literary fiction rather than the subject matter.

In Georgia I distinctly remember the evolution debates I had with classmates. Anything related to race was just a no go...

Folks were also blissfully unaware of the subtext of A Separate Peace which is quite funny in retrospect.

I am just glad to be out of that environment.

[abstract kiln]

Glad I grew up in a pretty diverse area

Though, the music kids I spent the majority of my time with were definitely mostly white

[minor sleet]

Same. My school was almost majority minority. It’s just that the AP classes weren’t as evenly distributed as everyone liked to pretend

[abstract kiln]

though I also hated most of them so... shrug

[cunning pivot]

Yeah it's really hard to see the issues when folks have basically just been excluded from the community...

Books however were a great window outside the bubble.

Part of why I have a great love for Le Guin's works. The other part being she is awesome generally l.

[abstract kiln]

I also paid very little attention to english class

I was much too busy reading other stuff, since I had usually already read the relevant books years ago

Except the Kiterunner
Gosh i HATE that book

[cunning pivot]

My favorite English/reading class moment was when a teacher said "Excuse me but can you put your Bible away. I appreciate your fervor but you do need to pay attention in class"

Chat it was in fact a fancy B&N edition of the Hitchhikers's Guide books.

Just so indicative of the local point of view. I never told her.

[abstract kiln]

I had several teachers be... uh, violent towards books I was reading in class

[cunning pivot]

The only book that I just couldn't finish was Silas Marner which was a summer reading assignment.

I just read 20 pages and noped out. Took the L on the beginning of the year quiz on it.

[abstract kiln]

In all fairness I HAD been warned to stop reading in class multiple times at that point

And the only time I got actual detention was, you guessed it, for reading in class

He was a jerk

It was a good book

[cunning pivot]

I got detention once in elementary school.

Don't know if I was reading in class but certainly was not doing my classwork. You see the teacher said we could just finish it at home so I saw no need to do it then. She was not amused when I told her that.

Probably should have gotten an ADHD diagnosis.

[abstract kiln]

It was the Brothers, the prologue to what I can only describe as a LDS armageddon fiction series
I liked it way more than the others

And I also remember the book way better than whatever we were learning in class that day

I also fondly remember finishing Warbreaker in the middle of Social Studies and yelling in the middle of class due to the final twist

[junior dew]

Wolf worm 19 || This book is excellent. Some horrendous stuff going on here. It’s very fascinating ||

I’ll have more to say when I finish the book but I can say book very good

[proven token]

Nah the middle school meta is reading in the hallways

[long sorrel]

https://tenor.com/view/fire-gif-10341555270454130792

I hope this makes you want to read other of her horror stuff

[junior dew]

It does! Between this and sworn soldier I like her writing and ideas. Well done stuff

[unborn furnace]

Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 1 26 ||THE BALL OF SWINES IS AMAZING||

[wind sinew]

Yes it is

[light drum]

What is

[mild lance]

FoB mid-17 ||it's only occuring to me know that Jessyn doesn't have her medicine. This could turn out badly||

[mild lance]

FoB start of 18 ||I'm very curious where Rickar and Campar's storyline is going. It's pretty easy to see how the Dafyd/Tonner/Swarm and Jessyn subplots will be important to the main plot but I'm not really sure about this one||

||it does seem very plausible that the Swarm's spy could be in one of them though||

FoB 18 ||oh they might actually meet opposing humans and/or livesuits. This just got a lot more interesting||

[high latch]

Could i get audiobook suggestions?

Going on a trip

Maybe smth like orson scott card or terry pratchett

[mild lance]

FoB 20 ||... okay, that entire chapter was not at all what I expected. Suddenly Tonner is dead and Dafyd is working with the Soft/Deep Lothark. Alright then||

||rather abrupt for a main character death||

[mild lance]

have you read Small Gods?

[high latch]

Read them all

Many multiple times

[mild lance]

okay I misunderstood the prompt

[high latch]

Nah its ight

[raw musk]

If you want absurdist like Terry Pratchett, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. If you want sci-fi like OSC, the Bobiverse series. If you want general audiobook recs, Cradle or Dungeon Crawler Carl are my go-to recs

[mild lance]

I was also about to say Hitchhiker's Guide lol

[high latch]

Thank you

I'll check libby

Who is bobiverse by?

[raw musk]

Dennis E Taylor. I think that's an Audible exclusive though

[high latch]

Can't find it, that tracks

[raw musk]

I'll also throw out Operation Bouncehouse by Matt Dinniman. Same guy that wrote DCC, but you have a much higher chance of finding that

Although I think I heard DCC is not Audible exclusive anymore

[high latch]

Dcc is on libby but I'm impatient

Bouncehouse is an approximated 11 week wait...

All the good books are taken

[raw musk]

Yikers

[velvet umbra]

oh fr?

[raw musk]

Fr fr

[quaint tendon]

He who fights with monsters is a decent listen. But everyone else is better versed with your parameters

[high latch]

My parameters are more like floss in a pool

Not hard guidelines

[raw musk]

Also Audible exclusive allegedly

[quaint tendon]

Damn

The Gentleman bastards books are a great listen

[high latch]

10 week wait lol

[velvet umbra]

DCC audiobooks are still audible exclusive, Bouncehouse isnt

[quaint tendon]

Lies of Locke Lamora is book 1

[high latch]

I grabbed the seventh son by orson scott card

[velvet umbra]

got all these physical and audio on sale

[high latch]

I personally recommend 7th son

[quaint tendon]

This is a weird hill for me but I’ve always felt the series itself should be called “The Lies of Locke Lamora” and book one should be Gentleman Bastards

[high latch]

Yall are awesome, thank you all so much

I've obtained books

[raw musk]

If you want to be scared, check out Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen. Surprisingly accurate to what could happen

[high latch]

For the future anyway

[raw musk]

What'd you go with?

[quaint tendon]

This is how you lose the time war is cool too

As is empress of forever

Idk if empress is audible exclusive my Apologies if it is

[high latch]

I already grabbed first hitchhikers, and all others are just gonna be floating around in my memory for the future

The books are so good everyone else wants them

[quaint tendon]

You should read the wheel of time

[high latch]

Did, twice

[quaint tendon]

Nice

[high latch]

Too much of a slog for me

[quaint tendon]

Smfh

[high latch]

I was really bored

[quaint tendon]

Not nice

Oh well lol

[high latch]

I like the characters a lot

I love mat

Apparently there's new audiobooks if youre interested

My sis has been enjoying them

Anyway thx all

[quaint tendon]

Np

[junior dew]

Okay I just finished Wolf Worm

That is amongst my top books of the year so far!

That was SO GOOD

Wolf worm all || Such a fun twist on the idea of vampires and parasites. It was so visceral. The acknowledgements at the end having Kingfisher talking about describing things and knowing they have a hit when they’re explaining an idea their friend makes “the face” is great.

Super fun read. Very neat combination of ideas. Really glad I read that one. ||

[ivory cypress]

yesssssssssssss excellent!

[junior dew]

Wolf worm all || The whole bit with the animals coming to feed Saul was wild. It took me until like chapter 20 to clock that we were doing vampires. I was like damn Saul is HELLA DESPERATE if he’s eating disease ridden animals like that. But then everything else made it make sense.

And then at the end how Sonia was like… scared to go back out and be in human society because of the risk of being parasitized What a fantastic read. ||

Guess I’m going to have to read more kingfisher this year

Like sworn soldier books were very good but damn this one really slapped

[long sorrel]

Every new book is better than the last

Although each is different so that doesn't mean you'd necessarily like the newer stuff better

Having been reading a lot of her recent stuff as it comes out does show the technical skill increase

[junior dew]

Yeah that does make sense. Looking forward to checking out some of her other stuff at some point for sure

After dinner I’ll have to check out some of the other comments made on the book when y’all were reading it

[long sorrel]

I was just very grossed out

There aren't many things that gross me out, worms is one of them

[ivory cypress]

it's not final until sometime in August and i can revise all i want, but i've started the process of voting for the Hugo's 👀

[somber timber]

You know what else is final in august?

That’s right A Trade of Blood comes out august 11th

[analog geode]

woo!

[somber timber]

-# this is what pops into my head when I think of august

I might need help

[junior dew]

I don’t blame you. They gross me out too typically. Luckily I didn’t have to visually see worms so that helped in my case 😅

[mild lance]

It’s arrived!

[long sorrel]

I cannot read without visualizing all im reading so...

[junior dew]

Oh yeah that’d be tough haha. My brain doesn’t visualize as strongly as it once did. Often it doesn’t at all or if it does there may just be vague impressions at times.

It’s so weird because it used to be like a movie in my head as a kid

[ivory cypress]

:O that can stop happening???

new fear

@ripe tide just finished Labyrinth's Heart 😭😭😭 that was unbelievableeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!! so good. oh my god.

i'm trying to formulate some words for a longform review. i'm so out of it tonight so maybe not. but it's ... really really good. these are incredible books, written in a way i adore, always focusing on the things i find most interesting. love to feel on the same wavelength as the authors here. mwah

[ivory cypress]

what Tears of the Kingdom does to you

i've been sitting on Labyrinth for well over 15 days i can say

[junior dew]

Great line haha

Yeahhhhhhhhhh fr tho

[light drum]

DCC 8, Ok having read this on rhe patron the audiobook is like a completely different book or at least Jeff Hays brings so much more life to it

[junior dew]

I think wolf worm I was not quite as grossed out as I expected to be based on what Usha had said during her read. The Troop still definitely tops my list of gross reads by far. That book gave me the reactions wolf worm gave Usha

This had its moments but it didn’t hold a candle to just how much I hated parts of The Troop It was a very well done book that I absolutely would never read again

[junior dew]

Haven’t read DCC 8 yet but yeah I couldn’t imagine not doing the audiobook for those

[light drum]

I wouldn't be surprised if they are specifically written with the audiobook in mind

[junior dew]

I think it’s kept in mind these days at least. There are some fun blurbs at the end of the books that have hinted at that being the case and writing stuff just to make Hays say it lol

[mild lance]

FoB Part 4 ||the Swarm is self-actualizing. This should be interesting||

[mild lance]

FoB 28 ||interesting that the other aliens allied with the humans also are using livesuits. The tentacled thing acting like its missing limbs were still there suggests that the livesuit has some limitations we haven't seen before.||

FoB 29 ||rip Rickar. Very curious about the Sovran breeding, and the fact that apparently even the Sovran herself doesn't know the details of it. I feel like there's something very important here||

[mild lance]

FoB 31 ||I'm honestly a little shocked that the humans didn't just destroy the Carryx ships and kill Jessyn.||

[untold leaf]

Finished Artemis in time to get The Martian back.

It was alright. Not as good as Martian, imo.

Book only really got interesting halfway through.

[snow vessel]

I'm enjoying the starless sea so far (just finished book 1). Has the same sort of vibes-heavy style as the night circus but feels very distinct nonetheless

[long sorrel]

Yuuup

[trim tide]

Never knew another existed.

The invisible man was a good read though

Frankenstein has been as well

[cunning pivot]

Invisible Man is also a very good book but it is very much a different thing altogether.

[trim tide]

Sounds like it lol

[trim tide]

After that imma do the time machine, I think

Then finally the will of the many

[abstract kiln]

Eye of the bedlam bride ||this series is often quite violent
So, handling this death like this, almost quiet and unassuming, is quite powerful in its tonal difference.
I wonder what happened to Asher. ||

[abstract kiln]

||...oh the AI has full on lost it ||

[unborn furnace]

Dungeon Crawler Carlos Book 1 27 ||FINALLY THIS GUYS ARE GETTING INTERVIEWED||

||also I love princess Donut, she reminds me a lot of a friend of mine||

also when I finish book 1 of DCC I'll start Red Rising, then I'll read Doomsday Scenario and Golden Son

[abstract kiln]

Eye of the bedlam bride ||...okay, I believe Agatha is a residual, but I just can't believe the Pacificists goal was to nuke the crawl through total annihilation. Mostly because of the yam. What was the point of that? And something tells me the residual probably had something at least sort of relevant to say, even if literally everyone said he didn't.
I'm not sure what to make of this but it definitely has to do with how this is all going to end. Which... Other than Carl maybe blowing himself up in a big sacrifice I have no idea how this is going to end, Dungeon Crawler Carl. ||

[raw musk]

EBB general: ||What did you think of Patrick Warburton?||

[minor sleet]

https://www.tumblr.com/wormbraind/817677808568582144/you-all-really-hate-chuck-dixon-huh

[mild lance]

FoB ALL ||okay, a lot of interesting things to think about here. Dividing the Carryx with two Sovrans would actually disrupt their entire structure, so I think Dafyd is onto something. We still have no idea what goes on in the crèche, and that seems important. Also apparently livesuits actually are way older than humanity? I was under the impression that humans created them.||

||the coda was low-key kinda disappointing, pretty much no new info. I kind of expected more from an epilogue.||

[long sorrel]

||I think the juicy piece of info is that the livesuit is a preexisting alien (probably?) and not humanity tech, everything else was kind of "ah, yeah this is vaguely what I expected||

||In fact, it might seem the whatever-the-livesuit-is is integrating things into their fight much like the Carryx is, in some conscious or less conscious way||

[versed agate]

FOB All ||the Livesuits and the Carryx are both galaxy consuming, in their own way. I wonder if they'd be seen as quite so benign if the Carryx weren't there as a much more obvious threat||

also, wtf discord spellcheck ||why is one Carryx bad, and not the other?||

[somber timber]

I want to touch the buttons

[long sorrel]

go reaaaad

you told me you would

did you lie to me again 😭

[somber timber]

I read 2 chapters!

I haven’t been reading other things either!

[lusty meteor]

she has eight panels and you have them all memorized. her cleavage is the primary subject in 3 of them

[minor sleet]

Not true

The panel looks like this and the author swears it isn’t gay

Huh I guess her cleavage is the center of this image

[lusty meteor]

why is she grabbing her boob like that

[minor sleet]

For super hetero reasons

[lusty meteor]

the way middle aged hetero white male comic book writers of the late 90s and early 2000s have this generation in a headlock

[long sorrel]

Because it isn't gay

[minor sleet]

It’s because the New52 sucked and Rebirth isn’t old enough to get a nostalgia yet

The Absolute writers are gonna have this treatment for sure

[lusty meteor]

yeah but absolute is really good

too good to get the type of people who primarily enjoy mediocre media bc they want a sense of ownership in making it good

[minor sleet]

Hence the comment about Rebirth being too young for nostalgia

[lusty meteor]

rebirth was better than 52

[minor sleet]

Yes, but not perfect. Fans need time to forget the bad as well as celebrate the good

[quaint tendon]

Rebirth was better than new 52, but unfortunately it’s climax (doomsday clock) dragged out way longer than necessary and interest and hype died out

At least in the experience I saw among readers

Plus despite his infamy now tom kings Batman promised big things and then rug pulled the whole readership which just put a sour taste in my mouth for the rest of his run on the main book

Plus while this is not a rebirth specific thing it was a mess of other huge cover banner events all at the same time

Dark knights metal

The justice league book that spun out of it

The weird villains event that spun out of the JL book

The bendis of it all as well

Bendis made me drop Superman after rebirth Superman and rebirth action comics was my first time ever following Clark like issue to issue

I have heard really good things about absolute I just don’t really have time for issue pick ups these days

[minor sleet]

I read the trades of Becky Cloonan’s WW run and there were so many issues where it was clear I was An Event and because that hadn’t been included well, never mind all that

[quaint tendon]

Oh I have also heard plenty of negatives about Kings WW run

[minor sleet]

The worst was when ||Hippolyta was randomly dead while Themyscira had been attacked and fought off the dead. Diana did not seem sufficiently upset by either of those, because she’d been in a different run when they happened and already mourned there||

[quaint tendon]

It’s hard to reconcile how much I liked Mister Miracle and Vision as well as the first half of his Batman run when I disagree so completely with everything the man stands for

[minor sleet]

This isn’t about Tom King, this is about Becky Cloonan and also editorial mandated Events tm

[quaint tendon]

Oh I know

I’m just

Rambling I’m sorry

[minor sleet]

No I support taking potshots at Tom King

Or should I say drone strikes instead?

[quaint tendon]

https://tenor.com/view/snl-badumtiss-badum-tiss-badumtsss-gif-9176475220402736941

https://tenor.com/view/dark-gif-22817650

When was Becky Kloonan on the book

[minor sleet]

Just after Death Metal

So 2021-2023. I think she was writing Batgirls at the same time

Yeah ok Wikipedia said she had WW from March 2021-June 2023, and Batgirls from Dec 2021-it’s cancellation

[quaint tendon]

Ohhhh

Yeah I was fully on the outs with comics in general tbh

Event fatigue from dc, and just fatigue in general from marvel

[mild lance]

||the ending of Livesuit definitely makes me feel like we’re meant to see the livesuits as a threat||

[quaint tendon]

HWFWM book 9 chapter 8 it’s wild hearing a European narrator speak in Spanish lol

[minor sleet]

The New52 (curse you Scott Lobdell in particular) drove me away from DC for 15 years

[quaint tendon]

A very fair reaction

And one I mostly shared

[minor sleet]

Scott Loeb doesn’t even merit the post above because he wasn’t even a good writer and his comics were terrible

[quaint tendon]

I think I gave court of owls a try

[lusty meteor]

Biggest what if is they did a full reboot

[quaint tendon]

And I read Batman zero year or whatever that one was

[minor sleet]

The New52 Teen Titans one was even worse than his Red Hood and the Outlaws run where he lobotomized Starfire

[quaint tendon]

The 52 redo of year one

[raw musk]

This is Australian erasure smh

[quaint tendon]

Is heath miller Australian

That is my bad

[minor sleet]

Just one more reboot to fix the continuity. We just need to retell it one more time. Cmon, you know you want another backstory for Donna Troy

[raw musk]

Lives in LA now according to Podium Audio

[quaint tendon]

Ah

You know what was pretty fun

The dick Grayson super spy series

I read that

That’s probably the best thing from the new 52

[minor sleet]

Also Tom King I think

[quaint tendon]

Admittedly that’s basically from right before it ended

[quaint tendon]

https://tenor.com/view/big-oof-size-small-medium-switch-gif-17355313

[minor sleet]

The one where they tried to make him “Ric Grayson” instead

[quaint tendon]

Ew gross

Worst thing in my life

I had successfully repressed that thanks

[minor sleet]

You will remember the Spyral arc in all its idiocies and you will like it

[quaint tendon]

😭

Can I excise bendis’ horrendous writing of Jon Kent then

That and whoever. I think it was Devin Grayson may she burn in hell

[minor sleet]

I can’t stand Jon Kent. Biggest potential man DC is pushing right now

[quaint tendon]

Wrote that tone deaf pride issue where Jon was like “omg Damian pride isn’t a riot anymore it’s a ✨party✨

[minor sleet]

And he’s taking the slot of “younger Superman” away from my boy Kon while he’s doing it

[quaint tendon]

Also weird choice to make Damian a phobe . But whatever

[minor sleet]

Wait that’s your problem with Devin Grayson, not the time in her Nightwing run where she had a character ||rape Nightwing||?

[quaint tendon]

I have room in my heart for both Jonathan and Kon El

[minor sleet]

I don’t

[quaint tendon]

No that’s just

The latest

Thing

I already had beef with Grayson

[minor sleet]

Ah fair

[quaint tendon]

That was on me, wording was weird

Everyone was so hype for Bendis and then he just comes in and completely derails everything

[minor sleet]

Hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby problem

[minor sleet]

He does that a lot

[quaint tendon]

Facts

[minor sleet]

Some people love to kick over the sandbox

[quaint tendon]

I’m surprised Clark and Lois didn’t suddenly adopt 30 year old kitty pryde

[mild lance]

Bendis did give us this incredible reaction image though

[minor sleet]

Is this a promise or a threat or a set up for a dirty joke?

[mild lance]

Yes

[quaint tendon]

https://tenor.com/view/thegoon-bigoldgoon-ted-lasso-yes-yes-yes-yes-gif-701975896996955852

[lusty meteor]

Hey didnt retell it is the thing!!!

[minor sleet]

They will next time tho. In the next reboot that fixes everything

[proven token]

Me watching from the sidelines as the one nerd who never got into comics:

[minor sleet]

It’s not too late

You can pick up comics right now

They have specialized stores and everything

Join us in complaining about enjoying reading comic books

[proven token]

No like I tried to get into comics when I was young
Just not my medium unfortunately

[lusty meteor]

what highs codenames

what highs

[minor sleet]

Batman: No Man’s Land

I wouldn’t have kept reading comics if not for that

Also of course, her

[wind sinew]

Ordered 4 books. The first law book 9, The names, Yesteryear, and The mysterious affair at styles by Agatha Christie

Excited af

[lusty meteor]

ok this one is good

and i say this for non lesbian reasons too

also read absolute martian manhunter

[mild lance]

Paul Rabin

[lusty meteor]

ok that was pretty good

[velvet umbra]

DCC 5 chpt 47 ||These are supposed to be the fun goofy books why am I crying 😭 ||

[little dock]

That’s how it gets you

[ivory cypress]

Operation Bounce House came in on audiobook (the only version Libby had for me), and boy it is hard to focus 😩 like I think I'm following the story but i am missing so so much detail and nuance that I usually get when I read myself

the voices are nice though

[abstract kiln]

Cuz I don't think they're really supposed to be fun and goofy

the dark humor is a cover for the even darker subject matter
For heavens sake the premise is a mass death game intergalactic TV show after like half of earths population dies in an instant

And as it gets deeper, it only gets worse

[quaint tendon]

HWFWM is always an odd read for me post book 6, I kinda keep expecting it to hard turn into sucking again lmao

[abstract kiln]

Then it doesn't lol

[quaint tendon]

Indeed it doesn’t

But i don’t think ill ever really get back to how much I liked the characters before books 4-6

[abstract kiln]

Then there's me forever wondering when book 13 will release sigh I hear the author got sick so it's taken a lot longer but it's been so long

[quaint tendon]

Ahh I was wondering why it was only 12 for so long

That’s awful he got sick

Though I can’t deny I’m glad I have some sort of chance to catch up

[abstract kiln]

Yeah it's just... I have suspicions about whats going to go down in volume 13 and I really, really want to know what's going to happen

[quaint tendon]

HWFWM book 9 chapter 11 || we get it liyara you and Bassef were arranged but you’re besties who sorta love each other. It’s very mildly sweet.||

I swear some of these things are just here for a letter count they show up so often.

HWFWM books 7-9 general || I’m hoping this whole “leaving rimoross” thing does get on with it. This place is cool but I wanna see more of Palimastis.||

[abstract kiln]

Book 13 speculation ||Im pretty sure we're going to see whatever threat what's her face has warned about a few times, and unless it's something entirely new I think we're going to see another OG astral King attack Earth
They're the only beings I can see being a credible threat at the moment that also would attack Earth||

[minor sleet]

I did! The art was so pretty

[quaint tendon]

I might have to check out absolute green arrow

[minor sleet]

Oh yeah, the one where Green Arrow is a serial killer going around killing people who are making his city worse

Where have I seen that before

https://tenor.com/view/stephen-amell-green-arrow-arrowverse-arrow-gif-18957838

Jokes aside it does look really good

[quaint tendon]

Hey from what I’ve seen absolute GA is not supposed to emote

[minor sleet]

Great news about Stephen Amell’s acting

[quaint tendon]

Legit though the moment he stopped killin was the moment I lost interest

Like now he really is just worse Batman

I jumped ship to the flash

Tbh I never even made it to the hotly contested “we are the flash” moment that everyone says ruined that show

Like girl that show ruined itself

I forget iris actress name but tbh she was really good

[minor sleet]

None of the cw shows were good but they all failed when they each stopped being compelling or entertaining or violated their own rules from the premise

[quaint tendon]

It is not her fault she was on a cw show

[minor sleet]

Which is why the undisputed champ is Legends of Tomorrow

[quaint tendon]

Legends of

My Guy

Yes

https://tenor.com/view/yess-yes-gif-25420589

Legends of Tomorrow is the best CW show I’m not sorry

It was funny, it was gay (intentionally)

They played the thong song that one time

Tbh legends of tomorrow all || legends went down hill when they made Gary an alien. Really hate that season…it died a sad death for me.||

Legends of tomorrow all || Steel atom for LIFE||

[minor sleet]

They did this tho

https://youtu.be/OS1m3-LmoX0?si=LvRMDG-YdwVmU3xt

[quaint tendon]

https://tenor.com/view/it-was-a-different-time-cordelia-hanani-spyrka-claire-forlani-industry-times-have-changed-gif-10207599047563478371

I remember hearing from a friend just how much tumblr like

Hated Gary

[unborn furnace]

Bella should have ended with Jacob or with Edward?

[hollow hedge]

idk, which character won in the fanfic version of 50 shades?

[marble sinew]

No, both are deeply problematic for different reasons

[hollow hedge]

the only things I know about Twilight come from pop culture osmosis, I never watched or read any of the official releases

[wraith lynx]

Twilight all ||Yeah the legit answer is neither because Edward is terrible and Jacob progressively gets worse with each book||

[unborn furnace]

Eddie

In the original version of 50 Shades it was Bella x Edward

[unborn furnace]

Tell me why

[wraith lynx]

Sure! I love yapping about twilight! (Twilight saga all) ||So. Keep in minf Edward isnt really a teenager, hes like... 109-110 I believe? But being perma 17 kinda makes him emotionally... not great. He basically abandons Bella in the second book to the point where she rots for 4 months and has night terrors. Jacob starts out better because he starts as a friend but once he starts canonically getting obsessed with Bella because her egg produced his future mate... it gets bad. He has to sleep with her to keep her warn in the mountains in book 3 and thinks of getting freaky with her just to piss off Edward (edward can read minds). By book 4 I cant stand either of them tbh||

[unborn furnace]

What the

So one is toxic and the other one is worse

[minor sleet]

On th either hand because Edward is the Brooding Byronic Hero type, if Bella told him to leave and let her live a normal life or marry Jacob at any point he would’ve been elated

Over the moon! He could’ve spent the rest of his immortal life brooding about how she has what he cannot and would’ve left her alone. Jacob would not have

So I’m Team Edward because he’s the better of the two bad options

[unborn furnace]

is like saying: Would you rather have one eye, one arm and be cursed or having no senses at all

[wraith lynx]

13 year old cosmic was team Jacob and grown up cosmic (me) is team edward because of what codenames said 😌

[unborn furnace]

the worse option is the 1st one

yes, I just quoted Berserk

my best friend Marilú says that she prefers the vampire because the werewolf was a hippie

[vivid badger]

Any malazan fans here?

[wet belfry]

There's a whole ass thread

[vivid badger]

Hey , great seeing you all here again. I remember y'all used to stream on their Voice channels here

Wonder where everyone is busy now

[vivid badger]

Yea I just saw lol

[wraith lynx]

Job hunting will do that to you 😔💔

[vivid badger]

Ah ok

Gg

[abstract kiln]

Eye of the bedlam bride epilogue ||👀 👀 oh... OH my. Agatha with the colossal lore drop
Though she also wants the extermination of life in the galaxy.
Also they totally should blow up the star. They're not going to, and they're going to regret it||

[ivory cypress]

https://www.tumblr.com/pangur-and-grim/817783662095532032/cover-reveal-the-designer-miss-nat-mack-had-to

greer's pet blog

COVER REVEAL! our talented designer, Miss Nat Mack, had to fit in a lot of discordant imagery such as: spider centaurs, medieval times, beetle aliens, goddesses, spaceships, tentacled brain slugs, and of course, m/m erotiscism.

the book's not out until next March, so pre-order links are still going live, but I'll list the early ones under the readmore:

US/Canada: Rarewaves.com

UK: Waterstones, Forbidden Planet, Amazon.uk, Hatchards

Germany: KulturKaufhaus, Thalia

Luxembourg: Ernster

France: Fnac

Denmark: William Dam Boghandel

Spain: Casa del Libro

Sweden: Adlibris

Switzerland: Orell Fussli

Lithuania: Knygos

South Korea: yes24

-# #sorry! links are pretty limited right now #a lot of sites start listing pre-orders 9 months before the release #and 9 months will be mid-June #so I should have more links to share next month #The Ignoble Invasion of Prince Proculo #book

Tumblr · May 27, 2026, 4:27 PM

omg

next Greer Stothers book announcement!

[tight kindle]

Omgggggg

I missed that it was Stothers when I started reading and saw "and of course, m/m eroticism" and was like
I'm sold

[ivory cypress]

hell yeah

[abstract kiln]

Oh goodness this next book is gonna be insane

So of course I'm going to take a break and listen to Primal Hunter

[long sorrel]

I can't read proculo without having a 5yo reaction to it. @buoyant whale help

Also who's that on the bottom right? 👀

[buoyant whale]

Omg fjjfkfkgkkfkfkfk

[ivory cypress]

that is the spider centaur love interest

evidently mainly inspired because stothers was so annoyed that you couldn't romance the drider in bg3

[proper silo]

huh

i have just been aggressively reminded that i never did finish Sir Cameron

is this a sequel to that, or a separate thing?

[ivory cypress]

different thing

sequel is later and sir cameron will be in the title

[proper silo]

I see I see

Sir Cameron worldbuilding ||the mix of space stuff and medieval stuff made me think it was at least the same setting 🤔 ||

[ivory cypress]

this one starts on Earth

our Earth

although, you know, like the way many fictional stories take place on our Earth, but the people are fictional

[velvet umbra]

I thought the same thing, especially since they have similar cover designs (although for a romance novel these days that doesn't mean much lmao)

[ivory cypress]

okay yeah there we go, I knew I posted something with the upcoming titles

[proper silo]

You know, I respect a romance story where neither of the participant is a human

I will not be reading it, since Stothers' writing style sadly disagrees with me, but good for them

[proper silo]

lmao, true, there's like only three kinds of romance novel covers nowadays

[minor sleet]

Yeah it’s very self aware of how funny the author is trying to be, in a way I find incredibly tedious

Like a less skilled Terry Pratchet or Douglas Adams

[trim tide]

I quite like The Will of The Many

Thus far

[mortal wren]

Man can‘t wait for The Justice Of One

[mortal wren]

Is very gud

The strength of the few picks up fast too kinda like stormlight exponential scaling

[ivory cypress]

Stothers has read enough of the "they're trying and failing to be Pratchett" enough to comment on it

where the comment was, that's nowhere near the inspiration, but if people said that about the author whose style i really was inspired by, it'd be crushing, but as it is, that's a shrug-offable comment

I definitely don't see the comparison except that the intent is comedic

[mortal wren]

Oof, you mean Terry Pratchett?

[ivory cypress]

right, as above

[proper silo]

Well, humour is subjective and all that, and it did not work for me here

That aside, the book has created what may well be my last favorite POV character ever, and then proceeded to make almost every other chapter from her perspective, which is what finally broke me and made me dnf

My attempts to return to the book have been repeatedly foiled by the realization that I left off at the start of one of her chapters

(meanwhile, the alleged love interest has zero POVs)

[ivory cypress]

I didn't say it had to work for you, either, just that it isn't a Pratchett like or intended to be

[proper silo]

No, I'm not saying you said that, just talking about why I disliked the writing style

[ivory cypress]

personally I have zero interest in whether both sides of a romance get povs

[proper silo]

I prefer it

And the fact that we got whatever-her-name instead felt like salt in the wound, really

[ivory cypress]

probably best to have stopped

[proper silo]

ye

[long sorrel]

Interestingly I expected the humour to not work much for me

I went with that in mind

and it did, indeed, not work a lot for me, which was about what I expected

Not that expecting it makes it better or worse but I don't like comedy overall so when I read heavy comedy things I'm expecting to not give quite a crap about the comedy aspects

Some stuff did hit for me though, just not a lot

I did enjoy it fully despite that, but probably in a different way than someone else for whom the humour did fully hit

[proper silo]

i can think of one moment where i found the book funny, and that's with me having read through more than 3/4ths of it

[ivory cypress]

it was exactly my style of humour, so I was very pleased. I enjoyed how it felt deserved and well executed throughout - some comedy works I'm sick of it before the halfway point and just would rather they dropped it and do the story

[long sorrel]

I don't read stuff that's pure comedy, I think Sir Cameron has a lot of things besides the comedy, otherwise I don't think i'd have been able to read it

[proper silo]

If I were to review the parts I've read with some pithy statement, 3/5, a fantasy comedy romance with a comedy i did not find funny and a romance i did not find engaging.

which leaves just the fantasy part, and I dnf'd before I learned what the big secret behind the world was

[long sorrel]

I think the fantasy part isn't the most engaging of it so

This book definetely not for you

[proper silo]

alas 😔

[long sorrel]

I quite liked the romance, exactly my type

Which is a very uncommon thing for me to say

[proper silo]

i found it... not enough romance in the romance? like somehow every romantic development between the two main characters took me completely by surprise cause i didn't think they were at that stage yet.

[long sorrel]

Yeah, it had the perfect amount of romance, but also...

Hmmm, I do think we're both biased by different expectations when it comes to romance?

Which is most romance has too much romance imo

[proper silo]

i mean, i did read it after a long streak of damnei, which tends towards the melodramatic

i might've built up a romance overdose like when you eat so much of the stuff that lower doses no longer work

[ivory cypress]

my favourite romance is romance as character study

[long sorrel]

There's something romance books do a lot right, which is give you long explanations of why things happen, while I'd rather read less dramatic romance in which stuff happens because we're creatures that randomly get attracted to people and then want to be closer to them and that's just about it

[ivory cypress]

so, funnily, sir cameron ended up being perfect for my interests

[proper silo]

...sir cameron had a character study?

[long sorrel]

I feel everything's so fake if you can actively explain why you have every single one of the feelings and relationship takes, in a relationship. (In a book that is), it gives me a "this isn't actually romance, it's just pragmatic" vibe

[ivory cypress]

if that's going to be a point that shocks you, then i'd rather not even get into it tbh'

[long sorrel]

Which is why Witch Roads also did a great romance for my specific taste, too

[proper silo]

yeah tbh i think we're on such different pages in regards to this, we're reading different books

so happy to drop the topic

[long sorrel]

feels like

[ivory cypress]

otherwise i might just bring up what a failure captive prince was in every single way again because i'm getting heated

[proper silo]

🤨

okay, then let's not

[long sorrel]

Talking about Captive Prince, I got this email about this merch which... I'm quite I guess people like to put these on their books a if they were signed. (I post the one about Dark Rise)

IT's stickers

I didn't know this was a thing until when I got the email like a few days ago

[proper silo]

that's... a little silly

[long sorrel]

That is what I felt too

[proper silo]

are those stickers actually hand-signed or just printouts of the signature?

[long sorrel]

The signature looks different so Imma guess hand signed?

Here's the full picture

[proper silo]

i guess it's like

[proper silo]

book-signing by proxy

[long sorrel]

yeah

Update your book to signed version with a sticker

[low hill]

I've seen them done before when there was no way for the author to be present with the books before they were shipped.

[long sorrel]

like I get it but also I don't get it-kinda thing

[low hill]

Instead of the tip-in pages that Sanderson does.

[long sorrel]

mhm

[ivory cypress]

they're called bookplates or something like that

i have some from kate elliott

[long sorrel]

yeah, bookplate

[ivory cypress]

put them in a few of my favourites

[hollow hedge]

that's how a fair amount of "signed books" are produced, except in this instance you apply the sticker yourself

[long sorrel]

Nice nice, I also found out I just don't care about signatures at all, all the books I got signed I cared more about getting to talk with the author than the signature itself I guess

[low hill]

I various ones which I've never actually stuck in.

[long sorrel]

I had no idea these things existed

[ivory cypress]

i basically got them as a freebie when i got an old book from kate elliott's personal backstock, i don't think i would go for them just BECAUSE. but i wouldn't refuse them if they just give em!

[proper silo]

diy book signing

[hollow hedge]

what's next, paste in your own tip-ins?

[ivory cypress]

authors don't like. come where i live :P so it is pretty much the only way i'm getting it done

[long sorrel]

Yeah fair! I think these stickers are cute, but I'd prefer them without the signature

[proper silo]

Instead of stickers, they could give us the release date for Dark King...

(i'm whining, this is not a serious complaint)

[long sorrel]

haha

1.5 months til I go to Celsius and nag Pacat in person 😌 (This is a joke and I will not do that)

I do have the pending question we talked about

That is probably what I will ask if I do get the chance

[proper silo]

awesome

[long sorrel]

Dark Heir all ||The one about the locations of the doors was it? I have it vaguely on the back of my head||

[proper silo]

same ||Yeah, if the kingdom that's now underwater is meant to be located in any specific sea||

||iirc, i figured it was either the baltic or the black sea||

[long sorrel]

ah yes yes

||and if all the doors lead within europe||

[proper silo]

right, right

[lusty meteor]

This really depends on the trope for me

It really adds to enemies to lovers and takes away from all others in my experiences

[ivory cypress]

right, like, it depends on what type of book it is, and povs achieve a goal