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dr_mitch
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I always read the introduction first. I've got a bad habit of tending to read end notes first, which has spoilered me sometimes. But I tend to read all the bits and pieces before the main book. A bit like how, with a short story collection, when …
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Lyonesse is simply wonderful. I only discovered it last year or so, but it's probably my favourite Vance, The Fae are a particular high point, but far from the only one.
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(Quote) It kind of bluffed us, right? I mean it looked post-apocalyptic until the full apocalypse. Oh, the Postman was rather fun. And yes to rebuilding. Another I liked (albeit more like a vampire apocalypse than anything else) was Justin Cronin'…
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(Quote) You're totally famous. I can't believe I'm friends with the clash bowley. In all seriousness, I knew about some of your games before I knew you.
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@Michael_S_Miller ah, I wasn't hinting. ;) Somehow I'd never made the connection that you were RPG-famous before you turned to fiction.
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@Michael_S_Miller it had never clicked that you wrote Fvlminata! I've been trying to get hold of a hard copy for absolutely ages.
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I'm chums with Neil. And the recommendations of each-others' games on threads with clash were a lovely thing to behold. As for Beat to Quarters, it's a game I enjoy lots as a player, but runs too much against my style as a GM. Though I've only play…
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To be pedantic, surely The Girl with all the Gifts was post-apocalyptic. I ought to get round to rereading A Canticle for Leibowitz. I remember being very impressed with it, but almost nothing else. It's the only one on the list I've read!
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Who is this Paul Mitchell of whom you speak? Apocryphal has already mentioned most of the ones I'm familiar with, including Agon and the Mythic series. For a purely fantasy but bronze-age inspired setting, there's a Fate-based game, Crestfallen. …
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@Apocryphal I didn't start reading it intending to take it so slowly, but after a while I found it the way I enjoyed it most. Lots of tasters, an island at a time, rather than trying to devour it. I'm enjoying it. A comparison to Invisible Cities i…
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I'm still reading The Islanders, despite (or maybe because) of taking it incredibly slowly. I started it near the beginning of the year, and still haven't finished. I might be missing some of the connections between things that way, but most of it i…
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(Quote) I think the setting books look likely to be a great read even without playing. Even Transhuman has substantial non-mechanical bits which were a really fun read. It's delving into a science fiction universe without all that plot and story bus…
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I've now read Eclipse Phase and one of the supplements. The setting is absolutely superb, and very well-written. The book's graphic design is similarly superb. The system seems perfectly serviceable, but with two small caveats...character generatio…
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This worked rather well for me. I was gripped and creeped out, and tempted to "reread" in audio format, even though I don't normally do audio books. The film intrigues me....in some ways film is the wrong medium for it! I wonder if there'…
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I loathe reading anything lengthly on a tablet or phone. I'm happy with reading fiction (though oddly, not non-fiction through some odd mental quirk) on my Kindle, which is 90% of the way for me to having something nice and physical and papery. I'v…
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@Ray_Otus I've now, thanks to you, realised why I've slowed down this year. One thing I have been keeping records of is RPGs read this year. And I've read 40 so far, including both short books and rather substantial books (eg: Eclipse Phase), and sk…
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I remember quite strongly disliking Stranger in a Strange Land, but it's been long enough I can't remember why. Probably mainly the obnoxious part of Heinlein's philosophy coming through. As mentioned, it gave the world the word "grok", wh…
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For 2016 and 2017 I kept lists (and one sentence commentaries- I won't call them reviews) of books I'd read. I always knew I read c.50 books per year, and this confirmed that. This year I wasn't feeling it, so I thought if recording things was brin…
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Rosemary Sutcliff had an extremely good voice in my opinion, and a gift for conjuring up imagery and mood. I don't think she's quite up there with (say) Tanith Lee or Ursula Le Guin, but she's still to me impressive.
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(Quote) Altogether now... All the Young Dudes, Carry the News...
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I'm Paul Mitchener. I've been with the club for about half of its life, which makes me feel old, since I could swear it's only been a couple of months since I joined in, but we've read quite a few things together since then, and some of them have be…
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Sorry- I should have clarified that rather than just changing the month.
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Also, I initially posted this in the wrong place, and had to use my moderator privileges to move it to the right category, but I'm sure nobody will notice if I don't say anything.
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(Quote) The same from me. And that's despite chatting to him in a video call.