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Sounds cool. Judging by your ‘who would like it’ section, I likely would’ve because I like those things. But let’s not get too optimistic - I’m sure I could find totally new things to dislike about it that you never thought of. 😁
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People writing books that are a semblance of SF without really feeling like SF seems to be a theme lately. I said much the same about that Aliette de Bodard novel, and I often feel this way about contemporary SF. I attribute this to TV/Film. In the …
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Did you mention that this series of Book Notes deals only with local authors Lake District authors? EDIT: Oh, never mind - I see they're not.
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Might well be. So far it’s the only one I’ve read by him, some another reviewer said his disdain for bureaucrats is a theme of his.
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I’m not sure how someone could write this novel without having the bonobos as characters, so I don’t really see it as the author blurring the lines between the species, so much as just making sure all characters are interesting. She certainly made n…
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Yes, but it’s the name of the book - one expects it to be more than a background element.
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> @clash_bowley said: > but now I am uncertain after what you all said. Then our work here is done. 😁
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I read the paperback. Initially, I thought the lack of quotes would annoy me, because I had to work harder to parse when people were speaking - but in the end this turned out fine and didn’t bother me. Overall, I thought it was a decent story. It…
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Ditto. I liked the individuals. The ‘romance’ seemed contrived, like it was a thing the publisher wanted. It wasn’t really a romance, though, was it?
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There honestly isn’t much I would draw on, here. The notion of a group of PCs escorting a bigger group of apes to safety in a post apocalyptic world sounds like it would work on paper, but playing all those apes doesn’t appeal much to me as a GM, so…
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I think they found plenty of places of human habitation - just none that hadn’t been abandoned, except one - the shopping mall city, where they couldn’t say. As to the ending - the beginning book did end, but what conclusions did it draw? I remai…
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It was an interesting aspect of the book. What thing that ‘Frankie subsequently did’ are you thinking of?
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I enjoyed the tech aspects. Despite the constant flow of tourist traffic through the place, the institute did seem oddly isolated from society. And as I mentioned elsewhere, the theory of bastards seemed oddly isolated from the setting and other plo…
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@RichardAbbott How do you think the ideas went down? How is the theory of bastards applicable to society? I kept looking for some connection between this idea of choosing a sexual partner from outside a pairing with the environmental collapse that w…
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It’s definitely a fiction about scientists! Scientist- Fiction? I think it could be called speculative fiction. She’s definitely projecting a future, which is normally one of the provinces of SF (e.g. Station Eleven), but it’s one of those niches th…
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I have finished. Interesting book.
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The version I was speaking of is The Arabian Nights, Translated by Husain Haddawy. It’s a translation of the complete Mahdi edition, which is the definitive Arabic edition of a fourteenth C manuscript, the oldest surviving version. It has 31 tal…
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Maybe the Arabian Nights or Odyssey could be done slow-read style. @RichardAbbott Sure, you can set that up. 😁
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I’d be ok with RPG guidebooks, though I’m not sure Richard would be too interested. In general, I’m cool with non-fiction (incl. history books and travelogues). I was going to propose Arabian Nights at some point, but the version I was going to …
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I have that book, so yes from me!
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I also didn’t feel like there was too much description at the beginning. If there was padding, it was in the middle of the book where the tone turns quite domestic for a time. But I just assumed this was setting up the setting for future novels. …
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Here's my pick for when i'm next up in the rotation. My wife 'found' the book on the current shelf at the Book Trader and picked it up on a whim. She loved it - great writing and great characters, apparently. Then my mother read it and she also love…
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So, I guess that’s it for that book?
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It’ll be his next album 😁
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Similarly - not the setting either. I'd rather it be real Scotland, or more fantastical. Changing M to L didn't really do for me. Listening on Audio as I was, without seeing the text, this change was barely perceptible anyway and might as well have …
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I agree with Clash, it didn't really feel like a game narration to me. Though I do think it probably bears a decent resemblance to the kind of game narration you find on Critical Role (a TV show in which actors perform a live 'professional' roleplay…
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I thought the pacing was fine. 'Not much to see here' anyway. I thought Lies of Locke Lamora was a much better fantasy novel, but even so I can't find much to criticize in Redwinter.
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I thought the characters were well enough developed (though I'm liking Forest Laird in this regard much better, I have to say). Honestly, the 'teens' thing didn't really come across to me that well via Raine, since I thought she was a 20-something.
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(Quote) Really?! You often complain when the author strays off the story into diversions, saying you wished he'd just get on the the story. You bring it up every time we discuss the Book That ShaIl Not Be Named, for example. So how do you really fee…
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I enjoyed it well enough. I can't really find much to criticize in the novel, to be honest. My GR rating was three stars, meaning 'I Liked It', and that's because I just couldn't muster more interest in the story at this time. I have also recently r…