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I'll come up with an idea by this weekend for my next book.
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I also finished it.
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I don't see why a lack of men would then eliminate the desire to still be viewed as a woman. It wouldn't eliminate sex, but it certainly would create some diversity in terms of gender roles, which I felt like she was touching on a bit in this book. …
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It could work as a board game similar to 'Small World'. Different factions with different personalities and powers that want to take over each other's areas. Throw in the virus and you might have something there.
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I think there would be a lot more room to continue the story for anyone who enjoyed it enough to read it. How would this planet of people cope with the Company coming? How would the planet itself potentially deal with the Company? I wasn't too inter…
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Hmm, I didn't catch those parallels. The one that it reminded me of a bit was maybe The Left Hand of Darkness but to be honest it's been so long since I read that book that I might be off on that as well.
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I always find this type of Win Hoff stuff a little too woo woo for me but it was essential for the story. Probably one of the least interesting parts of the book unfortunately.
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The idea that people can be all different types, even if they are all women, was well done. A little heavy handed perhaps, but with all of the stereotypical alpha male vs submissive women tropes in SF, I was okay with something different. I definite…
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I definitely could see it being a place where people would go for resource extraction and study. I mean, humans are more than willing to spend long periods of time in Antarctica, and there is way less to do there. Then they were trapped after being …
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I thought it not bad. Pretty hand wavy with some of the ways that the world operated and it made it feel like a mashup of science fiction and fantasy because of that. In that sense I had to suspend disbelief a bit more. The essentially spontaneous p…
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Just wrapped up Ammonite.
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I am borderline illiterate when it comes to this particular period of history :D
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(Quote) Ah, I did not know this! I guess I thought they were the nobility as well in some sense. That makes a bit more sense.
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Interesting. So it was addressed to gentlemen, but with the idea that it wouldn't only be gentlemen who would read it, but the majority perhaps?
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(Quote) Were any women considered part of the elite at this time? Would any of them have been allowed to read this?
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(Quote) Ahh, makes sense! I am pretty ignorant of this particular set of stories so I didn't know that!
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This book has been all over the place lately, at least in places like Bluesky.
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(Quote) The tension of setting two equally important tasks is always fun to present to players in a game. You have told someone that you will meet them at midnight at the tavern to make an important trade, but then a little girl comes along and tell…
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So much of the decision making seemed to be driven by momentum. Once you started on a task, that was it. You completed it and it was dishonourable to let yourself be distracted, even if those reasons would have been otherwise "better" thin…
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I thought it was fine. The clerk at the end of the Lancelot tale just ending the story with a bit of a "Big gulps eh? Well, see ya later!" ending was funny to me. He also explicitly calls the reader Gentlemen. Does this give any insight in…
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At times the magical side was too jarring for me. Where things were just randomly happening and we just had to let it be what it is. I think that I probably just don't have the education to appreciate what was going on with it all in these stories, …
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@RichardAbbott I also wondered if the beauty of the women was sort of the "returning soldier" or "just got out of prison effect" where the lack of any options for a long time made them find their options instantly much more appea…
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I have to say that I did enjoy revisiting the movie 'A Knight's Tale' when reading the Lancelot story. When Guinevere tells him to lose, then lose some more, then go bash some skulls in. So over the top, but fun. It worked well in the movie as well.…
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I found this hard to really wrap by brain around for sure. At some points they are supposed to be totally loyal to the King and sacrifice their life for him etc. Then at other points it was totally cool to just be getting it on with his wife. Needin…
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I'm not educated enough on the history of these stories to know exactly why they were written, but as light-hearted fun stories that seemed to want to tell a sort of mostly straightforward morality tale, they did the job. I enjoyed the Yvain story …
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I finished the second one today. Good to go!
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Gotcha. I'd be up for reading the book. I don't think I would have the attention span to try and tackle it on a website.
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I'm a bit confused! Would we be required to read all of the hyperlinks on the 'Suggested Reading Order' list? Does the book contain the exact same material? The Guide for Newcomers says that there are over 10,000 articles on the website. It looks …
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(Quote) Just not something I ever would have chose to read. It's a great way to be exposed to things I otherwise would have avoided though.
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Oh boy, these Arthurian stories are WAY out of my wheelhouse. I guess this is why I do things like this!