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K’chain Che’malle. Fricken’ dinosaurs with fricken’ sword arms.

They’ve got Seth Dickinson as part of the writing team and literally everything I’ve read of his is fantastic, including game stuff and his novels and short stories, so I’m hopeful.

As long as nobody tries to give me a receipt for the donut I have for dessert.

I’m for 'em!

The video for Pump It is also amazing

Take my opinion with a slight grain of salt because it’s been at least a decade since I read the book and a half of the series that I got through, but from what I recall the books just didn’t really have much to them - flat characters, awkward dialogue, and the actual prose itself was pretty bad. It was also boring enough that I just didn’t care about anything that was happening, and I’d read enough good fantasy by the time I read Eragon that its flaws were hard to look past - I know the dude was a teenager when he wrote it, but that doesn’t make the work magically better. Not trying to shit on anybody’s parade, but it just really wasn’t my thing.

I don’t know about worse, but the Eragon books and movie are equally terrible.

It may be space madness, but that’s no excuse for space RUDENESS.

Malazan Book of the Fallen, Gentlemen Bastards series, most of Neil Gaiman’s work, The Library at Mount Char, the Baru Cormorant series, Gatsby, Flowers for Algernon, and most of Plath’s work - I go back to most of those every few years.

The “smart home” story in particular is oddly prescient.

“Watching porn at work, so both.”

He’s not the Chosen One, he’s a very naughty boy!

I can totally see that Time War isn’t for everyone, it’s quite an odd one in style, structure, and just about everything else.

Feel free to read it, obviously lol. It wasn’t outright bad, just so dull and I had really high expectations from all the hype it got. Beautiful cover though, I’ll give it that.

A lot of those are excellent but The Priory of the Orange Tree is one of the most boring books I’ve ever read. The high-level idea isn’t bad, but the big bads are just evil because… they are? Most of the characters are pretty flat, the worldbuilding is incredibly shallow (ok the religions seem semi-interesting, but they get mostly glossed over) and I only finished it to see if there was something to all the hype that I was missing. Having major characters be women/LGBT+/POC is awesome, but those things alone can’t carry a book, especially one this big.

Bitching over, sorry. Replace that one with The Library at Mount Char or How To Lose The Time War.

Edit: bitching NOT over, where the hell is goddamn Baru Cormorant?!