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Post by Noxluxe on May 8, 2024 9:57:55 GMT
My mother, who raised me on a steady diet of Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft and Dean Koontz even before I learned English in school, lent me the Paul Cleave books I gave her for Christmas this weekend, and I just had my first serious conversation about remembering to give trigger warnings with her on the phone. Almost finished with the first book. The writing is fantastic. Imagery and descriptions are somewhere between King and Jeff Lindsey's Dexter (the books, not so much the show), with King's ironic tongue-in-cheek bleakness and Dexter's zany and warped perspectives, self-satisfaction and complete lack of empathy. The result feels a lot darker than Dex, seeing as the titular serial killer protagonist is an unapologetically sexual predator (though the "romantic" moments are mercifully just fade-to-blacks and playfully alluded to) on top of being a murderer, and therefore necessarily more human and realistic, and is both a bit less cheeky and a lot less responsible about his hobby. Have always felt that the inherent energy and cheer of sunny Miami as a setting helps to make Dexter work as fairly light-hearted reading, while Christchurch New Zealand feels more like one the various shitty and dysfunctional provincial cities in any number of Stephen King novels, with some fundamental spiritual rot and isolation causing the paint to peel on the community. Cleave might as well have called it Derry. The character, Joe, is a few shades closer to 'incel with a god-complex' than 'supervillain in jeans', but both are present in his presentation and demeanor, and the question is which one is going to turn out to be more objectively true in the story, depending on how his luck holds up as his desperation, arrogance and nuttiness leave him more and more vulnerable to mistakes and assumptions that could get him caught. The trigger warning conversation with mom occurred because of a scene halfway through the book where the protagonist suddenly has the tables turned on him and suffers some very graphic damage to certain parts of his anatomy that at minimum will leave a male reader flinching and involuntarily curling up through a couple of chapters. Heartily recommended!
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Post by Iakus on May 8, 2024 15:41:19 GMT
New books out: Listening to: Monster Hunter International may have had its roots in the United States of America, but there are plenty of monsters in the big old world. And wherever there are monsters, humans will need monster hunters. Here then, stories of the things that go bump in the night and the men and women who bump back—focusing on the myths, legends, and folklore of Czechia, by Czech authors. Includes a new short story by Larry Correia.And reading: Caledin knew he could never go home.
Two decades after losing his family to Zhretennais saboteurs, the former Ajenite naval officer made his living as a pirate, prowling the shipping lanes and picking off rich Zhretennais merchant vessels. For the most part, he’s content, and he tells himself often that the Free Ship Rampart and his crew are all the family he’ll ever need again.
But then the Rampart stumbles upon a strange lifepod deep in the black nothingness of space. And against all the odds, the occupant in stasis—a girl named Siolene with ancient, royal DNA—is still alive.
Now Caledin must decide how best to help Siolene take her place in the modern world. Especially when it becomes clear that the powerful Crown of Zhretennais would rather she return to being dead… permanently.
But the wishes of the Crown of Zhretennais doesn’t factor in the will of a ruthless pirate captain. Caledin’s lost one family to Zhretien, and he’s not about to lose another.
Even if he has to fight the entire galaxy, he will save The King’s Daughter.
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Post by q5tyhj on May 10, 2024 19:40:46 GMT
Picked up Fall of Gondolin from a friend, have wanted to read this for a long time:
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Post by AngryFrozenWater on May 11, 2024 18:48:32 GMT
Picked up Fall of Gondolin from a friend, have wanted to read this for a long time: Let me know what you think of your book. I have this version on my to read list. I assume it is more of a history of the writing than a complete story. Have fun.
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Post by dazk on May 16, 2024 3:48:22 GMT
I started Peter F. Hamilton's Salvation Series which apparently is his latest book series. I could have sworn I'd read some of his books but must just have known the name or heard people talk about them. Anyway I have invested a fair amount of hours into the first book and am only 30+ % into it and every night it breaks my brain. Not sure if the books I have been reading have been to shallow/easy or whether I am just too tired when I am reading them. However my head hurts after every session, it is however very enjoyable even if I am a bit confused at this stage. It reminds me in it's style of The Hyperion Cantos so far but a very different story, maybe. Hell even the blurb is confusing: "Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton AD 2204: a mysterious shipwreck appears on a planet at the edge of the galaxy. Its cargo is troubling, so a team led by Security Director Feriton Kayne is sent to investigate. But what they discover raises bewildering questions – and could predict humanity’s demise. In the far future, a group of genetically engineered humans are training for war. Their ancient enemy scattered human civilization across the galaxy. And if they aren’t stopped, it could mean the end of mankind." So finished a week ago and still digesting it in terms of the overall story arc while trying to start the second one but illness and corresponding fatigue is defeating me. So the book is very similar in it's structure and in some ways to The Hyperion Cantos and like those books especially the first I struggled with the building of it and the multiple character arcs. I will entirely admit I was pretty much at sea as to why I cared who these people were and what the hell they meant to the story, it's a slow burn for at least the first half of the book which is long at 552 paper pages. That is comparative to a lot of current Sci Fi books. Straight up I will say it is a very good book even if a hard slog. In hindsight the book does set up what is going on but it is confusing as to what role the characters play overall and why you are getting their story or at least it was for me for a good while. Those stories are very interesting and once I fully understood why we were examining "what" they were doing/investigating later it made a whole lot more sense. The end of the book was damn good and very sudden and climatic in regard to the premise of why the people had been brought together and their back stories. The Parallel story and it's timeline is OK but I in all honesty struggled to grasp it till the end of the book and more so the beginning of the second book. Overall as I said if you like The Hyperion Cantos which is the only other book I can think of to compare it to, maybe a little bit of Abercrombie's "Final Architecture" you will I think enjoy this book but the main characters, well most of them are a bit less engaging and as well developed in terms of personality. I'd struggle to rate it but out of ten maybe an eight. Second Book
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