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I liked the characters and found them convincing. I thought the reason they didn't become something was because their inherent natures were not compatible in that way, and the profs recognized this long before the students did. There were some thin…
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I don't think Vita Nostra is about a child who goes to boarding school to learn magic. I think it's about a pupa that goes to boarding school to become a butterfly. That's a very different premise than Harry Potter. Harry Potter grew up while he was…
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Good questions :-) I definitely got that this was a coming of age story, but I'm not entirely convinced that everything in the book is a metaphor for coming of age. Or rather, I'm not convinced by these metaphors - I can accept that these are meant…
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Good for me.
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They’re young because they always lead people back in time? Makes sense. Maybe that’s also why they’re so bitter.
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The time slip after his first tour was 23 months, wasn’t it? And on this trip he racked up 17 days just getting to Muriseay. That’s the part where I really struggle. I mean, he can’t be the first. It seems like something important enough that it…
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We’ll, this isn’t really the solders story. I also think it’s possible that Denn and And Ante haven’t met yet. I haven’t thrown out the idea that And Ante is somehow Jacj, but given the time slippage and how Sandro seems to be able to be in two …
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That’s an interesting take.
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@clash_bowley I think we can examine it metaphorically, but the logic being used is not the logic we're used to. We may all struggle to find what that logic is, by the end. You know how in the multiverse, physicists say that different universes have…
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Speaking of the next batch - it is scheduled to include chapters 36 to 40, but I'll ask you to include 41 as well, as the end of 41 is a better logical break. This adds about 5 pages.
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@clash_bowley your going to hate the next batch of chapters. The thing is, this setting is built like a house of cards. A house of cards can be a marvel to behold, but it doesn’t bear close scrutiny. The minute you take one card out to examine it…
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I think his confidence comes from naïveté. Is the Generalissima Margaret Thatcher?
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In a way, it does seem out of character because he’s never really complained about his home country or his leader before. On the other hand, I think we can accept that he’s somehow been changed by his travels in the islands, so maybe this is not so …
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(Quote) He meets with Ganner for a friendly drink, forms a support group for musicians out of time that presumably meets regularly. His music continues to be highly regarded and he performs concerts. He's even invited on a second tour, for which he …
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On Good Reads it’s labelled as ‘Vita Nostra #1’ so I was tipped off. Hopefully it stands alone?
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BTW, I'm finding Vita more intriguing now. Initially I kept trying to compare it to Harry Potter because of how it's reviewed, but I've begun to realize it's more Kafka/Hesse. I'm 75% done. There's still a lot about it that doesn't add up, but mayb…
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I have no strong preference. I’ll be finished Vita by the end of the month, so I’ll be better able to discuss it by the original schedule. But Stangers will make a nice December book, so I don’t mind that option either. We could keep Vita in Sept…
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@BarnerCobblewood i think you should read A Stranger in Olondria with us.
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What you could do with this is rotate GMs, so let’s say you have a group of 4 people, each runs a different scenario for 3 players. And each player carries their basic character from one to another. The name changes, and the occupation. But the gene…
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This story felt like full circle to me from a world- building point of view, because it’s a rebirth. The next progression in time would have been similar to Ewing’s timeline.
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Maybe, but I normally have much more tolerance for setup than @NeilNjae does, so I think in this case it’s more a function of my state of mind.
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Phrasing it as Predacity is easier to understand. Ewing by Goose, Moriori by Maori In the Frobisher story, they mostly prey in each other. It’s more like an ecosystem. Del Rey, the plant preys on society. Smoke is the hunter and several character…
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> @NeilNjae said: > (Quote) > And indeed, why would anyone make a film of Cavendish's experience, outside of the context of filming The Cloud Atlas novel? To capitalize on the success of One Flew Over tge Cuckoo’a Nest?
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I got that they included the same people at both the entrance and exit of the one island, but not they the same people appeared multiple islands.
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Ewing is taken advantage of on a personal level, but is socially quite successful. Frobisher is, if anything, is socially disenfranchised and must rely on relationships with others, but seems more that willing to play the game. Del Rey lives in a ti…
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On the first read through I found all the stories absorbing. This time, however, this one was one of the least interesting to me, though I found the second half much more absorbing than the first, for this and other stories.
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> @NeilNjae said: > the story is a person alone, while RPGs typically have teams of protagonists. Who would the other PCs be, apart from Rey? This comes up a lot as is a fair point. How important is it to the question of whether a story ca…
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Not to kill the joy, but I’m not feeling the same.
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Yes, that seems like a plausible interpretation.
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I’m not sure I’d call a fictional character speculation on a story ‘a spoiler’. He could have been wrong, for one thing. And it’s not like you learned the facts of the story before the author revealed them.