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clash_bowley
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This is very cool! @Apocryphal should see this! Right up his alley! I find it fascinating, but useless for my roleplaying. I find it impossible to understand pre-Renaissance people. To me they are more alien than aliens.
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(Quote) Haven't read this yet... (Quote) And you are cleverer than I, my friend! (Quote) The series is very well done, and I have read many such.I am glad you enjoyed it enough to continue! I am continuing the Becky Chambers series and really enjo…
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(Quote) Or because it's essential to the plot? (Quote) See above? :D (Quote) It's Jija's, and he has only murdered one person, while Nassun murdered a large indeterminate number of people. Nissun is clearly better. (Quote) I thought we had seen t…
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(Quote) She is a stone killer, like everyone else in this world. (Quote) Of course it is deliberate! (Quote) Just more racism. (Quote) Whatever! Who cares? It's just more awful people.
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Boughted! Hope I can read it!
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(Quote) Well, being completely unbelievable has never stopped Jemesin before! Nothing I have read is actually believable.
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(Quote) Really? :D (Quote) It is what it is - a book where unspeakable people do unspeakable things to other unspeakable people, and we are entertained by the vile gory mess - whatever order anything was presented in. If it all ends in any other wa…
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(Quote) Bought it.
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(Quote) That looks like it might be fun!
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(Quote) I'm still up for Gods of Jade and Shadow. I don't think it will be much like Jemesin really!
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(Quote) They would be all worked up at the LOGIC behind everything! :D
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Oh oh! "For fans on NK Jemesin?" THAT does not bode well! :o
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(Quote) I don't think there is any realistic chance I won't! ;)
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Dammit! I have just started Richard's new book, a book on Egyptian ruling queens, the sequel to The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, and a couple others along with the Slow Read. I just didn't hit it off with the LeGuin book. I would have loved Re…
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I AM Victorian...
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All I can say is: https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/laying-pipe/
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The phrase 'laying pipe' must have a very different connotation in your part of the world than mine, @NeilNjae! :p
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(Quote) I agree with everything @Apocryphal says here, but especially this: (Quote) Every time I come across a reference to her age, it jars me! Screw that! I refuse to accept the author's assertion that Nessun is a child. She has not and does not …
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Professor Tolkien would be delighted!
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(Quote) > Salmoning warning! (Quote) Let go of your logic! Logic gets in your way here. Eventually all these vicious, nasty people will go after each other, and only one brute will survive! Look forward to that! :p
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(Quote) Don't get caught in the 'this word is not known in the fiction' trap, @NeilNjae! Jemesin refuses to play by those rules! Remember 'satellite'? Q.E.D.
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(Quote) > (Quote) His concern for Nassun wipes out all the babies he has killed completely - right? Just being sorry is enough! Right? Urgh! He's probably contemptuous of Jija because he has only killed one child. (Quote) Because that is import…
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(Quote) This is exactly what I meant. I just roll with whatever she says while reading.
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(Quote) I meant as a author. I have no idea nor do I care what she thinks as a person. As an author she writes whatever the hell she wants, presents it as if it were science, and expects you to go along with it.
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To Jemesin, science is fake news.
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(Quote) My opinion on Essun's parenting stops short at "killed her own child" and there it rests. (Quote) Damifino. I am doing my best to not project. Projecting seems stupid and leads to salmoning. I will instead be surprised. (Quote) S…
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huh! Interesting! Very close conceptually!
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(Quote) I hate this presupposition and its baggage.
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(Quote) Yes. I have no concept of place in this series.
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When I grow up I want to be a niche player! :D