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Sept 8, 2018 2:08:21 GMT
Post by Site Admin on Sept 8, 2018 2:08:21 GMT
This thread is all about whatever books you want to talk about.
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Sept 8, 2018 21:14:50 GMT
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Post by Iakus on Sept 8, 2018 21:14:50 GMT
Currently reading The author Jon del Arroz is a conservative author who contributes to The Federalist, fyi delarroz.com
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Post by novatrex on Sept 8, 2018 23:23:08 GMT
Steampunk? That sounds cool.
So I hear a lot of talk about people becoming disenfranchised with comics because of the blatant personal politics being injected into them. I never have been much of a comic reader. I'm curious, are there any big ones left that just try to tell a story instead of pushing an agenda, or is it all indy now?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2018 12:53:42 GMT
Steampunk? That sounds cool. So I hear a lot of talk about people becoming disenfranchised with comics because of the blatant personal politics being injected into them. I never have been much of a comic reader. I'm curious, are there any big ones left that just try to tell a story instead of pushing an agenda, or is it all indy now? Pretty sure its all indy now. There are really no untarnished places left in the comic book world, at least among the big names.
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Sept 11, 2018 0:29:26 GMT
Post by Iakus on Sept 11, 2018 0:29:26 GMT
Steampunk? That sounds cool. So I hear a lot of talk about people becoming disenfranchised with comics because of the blatant personal politics being injected into them. I never have been much of a comic reader. I'm curious, are there any big ones left that just try to tell a story instead of pushing an agenda, or is it all indy now? Pretty sure its all indy now. There are really no untarnished places left in the comic book world, at least among the big names. Yeah the only Marvel title I read anymore is Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows (which pretends Civil War and One More Day never happened) I also get the Dresden Files collections from Dynamite when they come out. I am backing a couple of indie comics: /7366945#/ /7366945#/
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Sept 14, 2018 20:47:36 GMT
Post by Iakus on Sept 14, 2018 20:47:36 GMT
New book I'm reading: Evelyn Adamsen grew up knowing she had to hide her psychic abilities, lest she be labeled a witch. However, when the U.S. Army Air Corps came calling in 1943, looking for psychic women to help their beleaguered bomber force, Evelyn answered, hoping to use her powers to integrate the bomber crews and save American lives.
She was extremely successful at it…until her aircraft got shot down.
Now, Evelyn is on the run in Occupied Europe, with a special unit of German Fallschirmjager and an enemy psychic on her heels. Worse, Evelyn learns that using her psychic powers functions as a strobe that highlights her to the enemy.
As the enemy psychic closes in, Evelyn is faced with a dilemma in her struggle to escape—how can she make it back to England when the only talent she has will expose her if she uses it?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2018 21:21:47 GMT
Loved The Broken Empire. First two books in Red Queens War was ok, didn't like the protagonist. Hoping Book of The Ancestor will be similar to Broken Empire.
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Post by Donk on Oct 1, 2018 1:53:44 GMT
I started reading this one. So far I have to commend Sanderson for his originality.
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Post by Ruliya on Oct 1, 2018 10:59:28 GMT
I'm currently reading A good sequel to Runemarks.
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Oct 1, 2018 11:33:32 GMT
Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2018 11:33:32 GMT
Still on a Vietnam literature fix and starting to dig into this one: The first part was slow, talking about the lead up and some of the big names involved, but now the actual battle is on and its great. I also heard that FX might be doing a mini-series off of this.
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Post by Iakus on Nov 6, 2018 0:14:18 GMT
The year is 2066 and the world is oblivious to the threat it faces.
The fate of humanity lies on the shoulders of Burt Radcliffe, the new head of NASA's Near Earth Object program.
He's been rushing the completion of DefenseNet, a ring of satellites that are both part of an early-warning system as well as the means to eliminate incoming threats.
Yet Burt knows that despite the world's best efforts, nothing can be done about the alert he's just received.
Coming out of deep space is a danger that's been approaching since the dawn of time. A black hole. An unstoppable threat that promises death for all in its wake.
Dave Holmes was a modern-day Einstein. As the original architect of DefenseNet, he'd had visions of this Primordial Threat before he disappeared, yet he'd left behind no details on how the problem might be solved.
Can Holmes be found, and if so, will his solution even work?
The world has less than a year to find out.
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Post by Iakus on Nov 14, 2018 16:33:05 GMT
A Chaplain's Assistant, serving in Earth's space fleet, is trapped behind enemy lines where he struggles for both personal survival and humanity's future.
The mantis cyborgs: insectlike, cruel, and determined to wipe humanity from the face of the galaxy.
The Fleet is humanity's last chance: a multi-world, multi-national task force assembled to hold the line against the aliens' overwhelming technology and firepower. Enter Harrison Barlow, who like so many young men of wars past, simply wants to serve his people and partake of the grand adventure of military life. Only, Harrison is not a hot pilot, nor a crack shot with a rifle. What good is a Chaplain's Assistant in the interstellar battles which will decide the fate of all?
More than he thinks. Because while the mantis insectoids are determined to eliminate the human threat to mantis supremacy, they remember the errors of their past. Is there the slightest chance that humans might have value? Especially since humans seem to have the one thing the mantes explicitly do not: an innate ability to believe in what cannot be proven nor seen God. Captured and stranded behind enemy lines, Barlow must come to grips with the fact that he is not only bargaining for his own life, but the lives of everyone he knows and loves. And so he embarks upon an improbable gambit, determined to alter the course of the entire war.
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Nov 16, 2018 18:54:42 GMT
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Post by masterwarderz on Nov 16, 2018 18:54:42 GMT
What I am currently going over
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Post by Donk on Nov 19, 2018 0:58:52 GMT
I am reading this
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Post by Iakus on Dec 10, 2018 4:50:31 GMT
Another comic I'm backing:
The Ember War Graphic Novel
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Dec 19, 2018 21:51:45 GMT
Post by Iakus on Dec 19, 2018 21:51:45 GMT
Might toss a few bucks this way too:
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Post by Iakus on Dec 19, 2018 22:32:16 GMT
Over a millennium in the past, humans fleeing Earth in slower-than-light vessels discovered the Waywork, an abandoned alien superhighway system that allows instantaneous travel from star to star. The problem: there are a finite number of Waypoint nodes—and the burgeoning population of humans is hemmed in as a result. Furthermore, humanity is divided into contending Starstates. One of the strongest is based on an oligarchy ruling families, but still mostly democratic. The other is a totalitarian nightmare. War seems inevitable.
Now a new Waypoint appears. Might it lead to the long-lost creators of the Waywork? If so, there may be knowledge and technology that will tip the balance in the coming war.
Three people race to make it to the new Waypoint—and beyond. These include Wyodreth Antagean, the reluctant son of an interstellar shipping magnate, Lady Garsina Oswight, the daring daughter of a royal family, and Zuri Mikton, a disgraced flag officer seeking redemption. They are facing an implacable foe in Golsubril Vex, a merciless, but highly effective, autocrat from the Waywork’s most brutal regime. Vex is determined to control the new Waypoint and whatever revelation or power lies on the other side.
Now humanity’s fate—to live in freedom or endless dictatorship—depends on just what that revelation might be. And who gets there first.
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Dec 24, 2018 16:42:40 GMT
Post by Iakus on Dec 24, 2018 16:42:40 GMT
I'm planning on running a Ravenloft D&D campaign for some friends in a couple months. SO to prepare, I'm reading I, Strahd to learn more of the character's motivations and backstory.
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Post by Iakus on Dec 29, 2018 17:45:41 GMT
Anyone who's familiar with Middle Earth knows this is true:
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Post by Iakus on Dec 30, 2018 17:22:25 GMT
On my walks I listen to audio books. Lately I've been listening to the Super Powereds series by Drew Hayes. It's pretty good. Sort of an adult-version of Harry Potter. College age kids with abilities working to become certified to do hero work. Currently I'm listening to Corpies, a side-story set between books 3 and 4. Titan was one of the nation’s most loved and respected Heroes, until an infidelity scandal tore his image and family apart. After decades spent out of the limelight, Owen Daniels has decided to take up the mantle of Titan once again to try and make amends for his years away. Unfortunately, the Titan Scandal is still common knowledge, and no Hero team wants such a polarizing figure. With no other options, Owen is forced to take a job overseeing a group of corpies, corporate-sponsored Supers who do rescue work… as long as there are cameras around.
Between a team that doesn’t want him, fellow Heroes who don’t trust him, and a nation that might not be ready to forgive the sins of the past, the return of Titan could prove even harder than the scandal that drove him away. But Owen will have to push on, because his new city is far from a peaceful one. A mysterious enemy is attacking Heroes and growing steadily stronger. An enemy that only the once-legendary Titan might be able to stop.
If he can manage to stick around this time.
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