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Kogut

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Re: Book Recomendations
« Reply #105 on: March 28, 2012, 06:38:57 am »
@Hunger Games

Readable, but nothing interesting.

Quote from: Flying Dice on March 27, 2012, 04:10:50 pm
Eh, personally I think that Huxley did it in a more interesting way than Orwell. For one thing, Strange New World doesn't turn the authoritarian government into a Disneyesque villain.
Disneyesque villain? In 1984? Who?
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Re: Book Recomendations
« Reply #106 on: March 28, 2012, 01:38:34 pm »
The Tomb by F.Paul Wilson. Great book. Favorite author. It's a guilty pleasure that I always fall back on when trying to read something else.
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Re: Book Recomendations
« Reply #107 on: March 28, 2012, 01:45:47 pm »
How good for pleasure reading is As Many Liars: The Story Of The 1995 Manitoba Vote-Splitting Scandal by Doug Smith?
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Re: Book Recomendations
« Reply #108 on: March 28, 2012, 05:46:24 pm »
Quote from: Kogut on March 28, 2012, 06:38:57 am
@Hunger Games

Readable, but nothing interesting.

Quote from: Flying Dice on March 27, 2012, 04:10:50 pm
Eh, personally I think that Huxley did it in a more interesting way than Orwell. For one thing, Brave New World doesn't turn the authoritarian government into a Disneyesque villain.
Disneyesque villain? In 1984? Who?
The government as a whole. It was rather heavyhanded (particularly once it got to Smith's torture). As someone else noted, Brave New World's government, while not exactly great, at the least wasn't just hamfistedly evil. There were points where you could honestly see some speck of sense behind its policies, even if you disagreed.
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Re: Book Recomendations
« Reply #109 on: March 28, 2012, 07:18:45 pm »
@Black Company Ratings

Which one was Soliders Live and Water Sleeps. If they are 9 and 10 then cool but if they are 7 and 8 that what are 9 and 10? I personally liked the last one, it had a generally satfysing clousure.
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Re: Book Recomendations
« Reply #110 on: March 28, 2012, 07:22:08 pm »
Quote from: mcclay on March 28, 2012, 07:18:45 pm
@Black Company Ratings

Which one was Soliders Live and Water Sleeps. If they are 9 and 10 then cool but if they are 7 and 8 that what are 9 and 10? I personally liked the last one, it had a generally satfysing clousure.
Water Sleeps is 9 and Soldiers Live is 10.

He's eventually going to write more of them. Not fast enough though, in my opinion.
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Re: Book Recomendations
« Reply #111 on: March 28, 2012, 11:14:46 pm »
I don't really know what plot he can put them in. They are pretty much unstopable with mgic shooting bamboo guns and Croaker's spear of +1 god slaying.
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Re: Book Recomendations
« Reply #112 on: March 28, 2012, 11:23:04 pm »
When the protagonists have everything, all you need to do to create conflict is to take away their goodies and have them kicked in the balls while some of their friends are left bleeding out in the alleys. Glen Cook seems to be this kind of writer to me.
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Re: Book Recomendations
« Reply #113 on: March 28, 2012, 11:37:56 pm »
True, Catcher will probably be realsed or something. Also the Black Company would be amazing in a Game of Thrones crossover, think about it...
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