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Hey, someone read a book I recommended and liked it!
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Great stuff @Ray_Otus ! Not too long - thought provoking passages. These kinds of observations heighten my enjoyment. Incidentally I was watching two caracaras through the binocs just an hour ago. @Bill_White says SF. I say Fantasy. You say both.…
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> @clash_bowley said: > I get the "weird-ass", and can agree for the most part, but isn't calling redditors "aliens" a bit harsh? Have you seen Reddit’s logo?
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FOMO at work on Clash Bowley? I never... Anyway good on you for putting your money where your vote is. I read this once a couple of years ago and seem to recall he leaves the guild early in the book and embarks on a picaresque adventure. I think the…
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Tolkien, LeGuin, and... Tanith Lee?
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I saw Kargs as Klingons, and we all know what colour they are.
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I admit to being intrigued by Torchbearer, but my first reaction was 'gee, somebody wrote a game about all the things nobody likes to deal with in RPing - whaddya know.'
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On the matter of announcements, we can easily create a single thread for club news that gets updated when new books are announced, when new discussions start, and just generally whenever we want to post an update. However, it would have to have comm…
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Nice to see you, @evangineer
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Nice review!
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(Quote) Best head-math I've done in years.
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I'll probably be late joining this one (breaking rule 4 already!) but will catch up. 41 weeks - this will bring us to Christmas, I think. This looks daunting when presented this way, but the chapters are quite short, and the entire work amounts to a…
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Quite a few options, there @Feral_Ink ! Octavia's Brood has been nominated to read sometime this year, though nothing has been firmed up. Is there one that catches your eye more than others? If so, why?
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@rossum NP. FYI, I'm going to be on vacation come discussion time, so you're on your own for getting that going. I'll be reading the book while I travel and will try to chime in - not sure how timely I'll be, though.
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Dramatic. And Tolkien... so tall and strong and powerful.
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Yes, I just love her writing. There was a scene early on in which one of the young priestesses was eating something that really stood out for me on this read.
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@Michael_S_Miller Sounds like a good set-up for an old-fashioned tournament dungeon!
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(Quote) This is an insightful observation. :smile:
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(Quote) As a reader, I usually find it difficult to predict how a book will go, and have no expectation that the author is choosing the path of greatest pleasure. An author picks a path, but just how they pick that path is usually enough of a myster…
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Maybe. I've never played Amber, but I've read it. It trades on the notion of a web of influence, in which each character is best at something, but weaker at other things. That's true of the Arha-Ged pair, but I suspect Amber would struggle with a on…
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Why are you sorry to me? This seems like a more clearly conceived version of what I was fumbing for.
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Reading this I was struggling a little with this question. What can we use? Certainly the world-building elements are all useful and that would be my main takeaway. LeGuin manages to create a sense of place, of culture, of history, with only the lig…
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Both as characters and gods they are pretty subtle. Are they a force, or are they a culture? Or, put another way, are they a force in the same way that a culture is a force?
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I love the tombs. There's actually quite a lot of good world-building in this novel which I had forgotten about. LeGuin is quite adept at creating a rich world in a small novel. Tanith Lee could do the same. Clark Ashton Smith, too, I suppose. As f…
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Arha's role as a priestess seems to be a trap. Expectations and rules are laid upon her - she's not really free to break those. Is that intended as a comment on religion? I'm not so sure. Arha's faith is tested in the novel, but it doesn't take all …
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The most interesting exchange between Tenar and Ged was when Tenar despaired that the gods she served did not exist - that her very own reason for being was a lie. Ged could have claimed a victory at that point - he could have said YES! Now you see …
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I don't mean that it's a literal romance, of course. What I mean is that the way their relationship grows resembles a courtship. The way Tenar changes in response to Ged are similar to how a woman might grow to love a man. And the things Ged says, …
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I will answer these more fully tomorrow, but to start off with this one, my great sense on this reading of the book (which I think is my fourth) is that this is less a coming of age story and more of a romance. Is LeGuin really describing a wooing? …
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Whoa - got sucked into the rabbit hole reading this for a while. FYI, the header text "The Fellowship of the Read on..." which appears on several pages (such as 99) has the word 'fellowship' spelled with 3 Ls, like we were discussing P.G.…
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Glad to have you with us,, @Bill_White ! How did you come to find us, anyway?