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RichardAbbott
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Yah, 2600 pages would be a seriously long read so we'd have to cherry pick. One of the interesting things about The Odyssey, Arabian Nights (I think) and Beowulf is that we would be dealing with works originally constructed in an oral tradition and …
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Sorry all for some reason I didn't get any notifications of all these additions and only just checked back. @Apocryphal for July shall I set up for Come Looking for Me, by Cheryl Cooper? @NeilNjae I'd actually be cool with an RPG guide book - it d…
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Sorry I posted this next bit in the wrong thread... All: we have Theory of Bastards, chosen by @clash_bowley as our June read. Presuming that the rotation goes on as before, July would be @Apocryphal then August @NeilNjae then September me. @Nei…
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Sounds good
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I think one can see the trend towards length even within authors - for various reasons I have started rereading the Foundation series, and the original three, written in the early 1950s, are short and punchy (especially when you remember that they …
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(Quote) Probably. I must start reading Theory of Bastards now...
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Now if only you'd written a book set in that world that you cold point to and say "just read that first" :)
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Maybe he's working out a world setting into which he can drop PCs at some future stage for their own adventures?
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I kind of felt most of them were 20s from the writing, and it was an adjustment every time I was reminded that they were in fact teens
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I think what I meant by "digression" here was something that could potentially have been pruned out if one was being ruthless with the main target of the story (viz, the unmasking of Veretaine's true identity and how he was defeated while …
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I have been meaning to read some Jack Whyte since you first told me about him but haven't yet managed it. Very interesting points about this story
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I guess that he wanted to avoid any suggestion that he was using actual Scottish clan names
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(Quote) :D
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I'd forgotten about Locke Lamorra - didn't we read it together in TTRPBC quite a long time ago? Not all that long after @Apocryphal invited me in I think.
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It's funny - first time I read this I hardly noticed the digressions, but after @NeilNjae 's comments on starting to read they were much more apparent to me. However, I ended up enjoying them all the more because of the fact that Ed McDonald uses th…
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(Quote) Great!
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Starters for Daughter of Redwinter posted...
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Great, I'll post starters later today
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All: how are we getting on with _Daughter of Redwinter_? If we're on track I'll post starters in the middle of next week but can wait a bit if people prefer
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Category now added, with book and author descriptions therein. Time to update notification preferences!
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(Quote) I'll set up the discussion area tomorrow
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(Quote) So... final choice?
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Who'd have thought the judges might come to a different conclusion than TTRPBC!!!
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(Quote) They both look interesting but Caribbean is a monumental length (898 pages according to Amazon, but some of that is an extract from another book). Maybe too long for a single month?
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There may well be some more chatter about Red Scholar's Wake now that the excitement of the weekend is past (we've had a major cycling event here in Cumbria on the same weekend as the coronation) but this is also to remind everyone that May's read w…
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Going back to the aspect of this question which addresses AR, I actually thought that this was well done and provided an interesting extra dimension to the story. Not just "what does it look like compared to what it actually is" but also &…
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(Quote) Which itself raises another bunch of interesting questions and potential book topics! For example when Rice Fish and Xich Si have sex, do we understand this as a lesbian human relationship, or as sex between different species? Not unlike Lar…
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To add to that list of questions - is a shipmind - human relationship normal or unusual (whether same sex or different). Or do shipminds normally hook up with other shipminds?
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(Quote) Totally agree - is being turned into a ship mind a reward or a punishment? Does the individual and/or their parents (adopted, biological?) have any say in it or is it simply something imposed - a bit like being a eunuch in former days. How d…
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(Quote) I guess that's another area where details were scanty :)