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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!
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Never played any Cosmic Horror themed games. Not really a "type" I've ever been too interested in exploring.
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Was there anything more to the village people at the start of the book. I kept waiting for the shoe to drop and for them to have some sort of connection to something else in the book. Or maybe break out some sort of Deliverance style menacing of the…
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Maybe this would be a nice Rorschach test for someone to sift through the book and pull out what they think things mean. I have no idea if he wanted things to mean more than just the up front weirdness, or if he was digging for something deeper.
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(Quote) This is about where I landed as well. Most of the book felt like some weird hallucinatory dream where I wondered if the guy who wrote the book was just having a breakdown of some sort, but the second half cranked that up to 11. I also didn'…
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I have not read any Stapledon so can't compare to him. I was trying to think if I had ever really read anything that has traditionally been labelled as "Cosmic Horror" and I really don't know. Certainly no Lovecraft. Would Stranger Things…
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All finished!
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They are kind of like dog ants.
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I thought the ants as this unknowable force that just grows and marches on and slowly consumes everything were interesting. We have a book exploring what it is to be human and then what it is to be mutant, and robotic, and an intelligent dog ( so al…
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(Quote) I definitely thought of Martian Chronicles when reading this book. Gave me similar vibes, but you do make a good point that City seems to be more on the descriptive side.
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At dinner I asked my kids (adult age now) what animal they would like to see rule the world if they could become intelligent and both of them immediately said dogs! I don't know what to make of that but thought it was an interesting data point. My …