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Re: The Reading Room...
By: Callidus Thorn Date: July 23, 2014, 4:48 am
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And now, I'm reading Dragonquest.
Because when it's too hot to sleep, and you're up until 4am, you
can get a surprising amount of reading done...
[s]Dragonsong[/s]
[s]Dragonsinger: Harper of Pern[/s]
The White Dragon
Damn, these books are tough to put down ::)
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Re: The Reading Room...
By: Callidus Thorn Date: August 4, 2014, 2:05 pm
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Well, I smashed my way through the Pern books, read a trilogy
omnibus entitled Orcs, by Stan Nicholls, and then a duology: The
Innocent Mage and The Awakened Mage, by Karen Miller. There are
also three others set around them, two after, one before, but
the sequels are pretty bland and the prequel's an abomination.
No, really, it's like it's not even by the same author, it
throws out everything the first two books established about past
events in favour of turning the whole thing into a bad romance.
:(
And now I'm reading The Poetic Edda ;)
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Re: The Reading Room...
By: Elisabeth Hollow Date: August 6, 2014, 2:37 pm
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You went through all twenty seven Pern books?!!
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Re: The Reading Room...
By: Colonel Mustard Date: August 6, 2014, 3:06 pm
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Alternating between Dragon Haven by Robin Hobb, The Firebrand by
Marion Zimmer Bradley and To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. I
seem to have a female writers theme going on at the moment.
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Re: The Reading Room...
By: Callidus Thorn Date: August 6, 2014, 5:00 pm
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[quote author=Elisabeth Hollow link=topic=13.msg4682#msg4682
date=1407353833]
You went through all twenty seven Pern books?!!
[/quote]
Well, all the Dragon ones written only be her, based off the
list at the start of her books. Though I skipped a couple. Her
habit of dedicating entire books to insignificant characters
just got irritating. That and her inability to maintain
continuity.
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Re: The Reading Room...
By: Callidus Thorn Date: September 3, 2014, 4:46 pm
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Just about finished reading Destiny by Elizabeth Haydon, the
third book of the Rhapsody trilogy.
It's a good story, I'll give her that, but the main character,
Rhapsody, is a textbook Mary Sue. Strangely it's not something
I'd noticed before, but this time round it was unmistakable.
It's a shame really, because apart from that, it's a damn good
trilogy.
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Re: The Reading Room...
By: King Of Beasts Date: September 3, 2014, 4:58 pm
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There's a small game store near where I live that sells a shit
ton of older games.
I wanna work there lol
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Re: The Reading Room...
By: Elisabeth Hollow Date: September 3, 2014, 5:01 pm
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[quote author=Callidus Thorn link=topic=13.msg5011#msg5011
date=1409780791]
Just about finished reading Destiny by Elizabeth Haydon, the
third book of the Rhapsody trilogy.
It's a good story, I'll give her that, but the main character,
Rhapsody, is a textbook Mary Sue. Strangely it's not something
I'd noticed before, but this time round it was unmistakable.
It's a shame really, because apart from that, it's a damn good
trilogy.
[/quote]
I have SUCH a hard time not writing Mary Sue's.
Which is why this time around in Kayla's story, it's going to be
grittier and darker and she's gonna fuck up a lot.
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Re: The Reading Room...
By: Callidus Thorn Date: September 3, 2014, 5:29 pm
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[quote author=Elisabeth Hollow link=topic=13.msg5013#msg5013
date=1409781673]
[quote author=Callidus Thorn link=topic=13.msg5011#msg5011
date=1409780791]
Just about finished reading Destiny by Elizabeth Haydon, the
third book of the Rhapsody trilogy.
It's a good story, I'll give her that, but the main character,
Rhapsody, is a textbook Mary Sue. Strangely it's not something
I'd noticed before, but this time round it was unmistakable.
It's a shame really, because apart from that, it's a damn good
trilogy.
[/quote]
I have SUCH a hard time not writing Mary Sue's.
Which is why this time around in Kayla's story, it's going to be
grittier and darker and she's gonna **** up a lot.
[/quote]
I've never really understood how people end up writing Mary
Sue/Gary Stu characters.
I mean, what really makes a character come alive is their flaws,
more than anything else.
Then again, I've always hated paladin type characters, which
generally covers the MS/GS sort, so it might just be that...
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Re: The Reading Room...
By: Callidus Thorn Date: November 8, 2014, 4:47 am
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Reading Andrzej Sapkowski's The Last Wish
Makes me want to play the Witcher games, though I don't think
the first will run on my laptop*Grumbles inarticulately about
integrated graphics* so I'm probably going to end up buying the
second one. Again.
*Sighs*
And no, I don't have a clue how you pronounce his first name...
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