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[mybudgee]

I can't put it down ever since reaching page 12. King never fails me tbh. I love collecting, reading and rereading his books.

I love that he has such an odd writing style (I read that he almost never uses outlines or traditional procedures. He just free-forms entire novels)

[Johnnie Walker]

I love that he has such an odd writing style (I read that he almost never uses outlines or traditional procedures. He just free-forms entire novels)

 

He's right up there with H.P. Lovecraft with odd writing tbh. Except Lovecraft loved using the word "notwithstanding"..

 

But I love how King's books can be so fcuked up. Not just in the horror of things but also crap that really does happen irl between human beings. Some seriously messed up stuff tbh.

[Dominus]

I'm reading the Berserk manga, which is bloody awesome. Right around Volume 10. MY EYES

[mybudgee]

He's right up there with H.P. Lovecraft with odd writing tbh. Except Lovecraft loved using the word "notwithstanding"..

 

But I love how King's books can be so fcuked up. Not just in the horror of things but also crap that really does happen irl between human beings. Some seriously messed up stuff tbh.

Agreed. King's true strength isn't horror, but characterization

[Johnnie Walker]

Agreed. King's true strength isn't horror, but characterization

 

I bet he could come with with one of the best horror survival video game tbh.

Now for some reason I just had the image of King playing Outlast. o:<

[A Crusty Knight Of Colour]

The true horror is human nature.

[Neoleviathan]

I'm dividing my reading between Connie Barlow's "Ghosts of Evolution" & G. R. R. Martin's "Game of Thrones".

Thrones has been pretty good, I haven't seen the show but I was worried it wouldn't amount to what people were saying it was. But the writing is comfortable, & it's sucked me in few times. I read a little before bed to try & encourage sleep, but twice now I've read till early morning.

Ghosts is about the legacy of Pleistocene extinctions. I read a book by Paul Martin on the subject, "Twilight of the Mammoths", & I thought this book would be a nice pick to fill in more about the world's state around that time. Basically it looks at those living plants which are missing their partners... Avocados, mangos, osage orange, papaya, honey locust, etc. Looking into who were eating & acting as the key dispersers of their seeds, which I think will help me understand the lives of the creatures. And what the arrival of Native Ancestors & later Europeans with their cattle, horses, & various other intruders meant for these plants... as some of these people & our domestic animal breeds seem to have taken the megafauna's place, saving some plants from the downward spiral towards extinction. I find the idea of modern ranching & herding being used as a tool for environmental benefit intriguing as well. This book kind of touches that when discussing domestic animals acting as proxies for long missing seed dispersers.

[mousestalker]

I found out after finishing it that the author is one of the writers for My Little Pony. If you are a fan of the show, you might like it. For me, it was mediocre. The characters were cardboard and while the main character, Evie, has some major shocks and reveals, she doesn't really grow that much and she should. Also, she utterly fails to consider the actions of her sister at one critical point. That was a major plot hole.

[Decepticon Leader Sully]

[mousestalker]

M.A. Larson is well-known, but I wouldn't pin him necessarily as one of the best writers. Dave Polsky and (for the most part) Meghan McCarthy have better reputations in that department. As far as fanfics, I haven't strayed very far outside of The Big 3(FO:E, Project Horizons, Murky Number 7) and The Monster Below, so I'll trust your opinion that the overall quality doesn't quite cut it.

It isn't MLP fanfic. It's a fantasy book from a mainstream publisher based upon a respinning of Grimm's Fairy Tales. It just isn't a very interesting respinning.

[Dominus]

Oh. :x Oops.

[Kynare]

Lady of Mazes inspired my FemShep

The Vampire Genevieve (Warhammer) inspired my mage Amell

 

Not quite what you asked since I read those all a long time ago though, but I felt like sharing regardless. I'm not reading anything right now sadly. 

[Zekka]

Just finished Eden: It's an Endless world! Great read, shitty ending. I heard that it was actually cancelled.

[o Ventus]

 

Also a hardback collection of the first 60 issues of the Fables comics. So gooooooooooooood....

[AtreiyaN7]

[Dobby]

[Johnnie Walker]

Rereading this trilogy for the first time in 13 years. 

 

[mousestalker]

[Barry-Allen]

Red Lanterns Vol. 5
Batgirl and Robin Year One
Infinite Crisis
Daredevil by Mark Waid
Batman and Robin by Grant Morrison.

[o Ventus]

Red Lanterns Vol. 5
Batgirl and Robin Year One
Infinite Crisis
Daredevil by Mark Waid
Batman and Robin by Grant Morrison.

I had a lingering suspicion you might be a comic book person.

[Lunch Box1912]

Game of thrones... a Feast for Crows.

[TheRealJayDee]

I read a lot of fantasy, like for example the first Ryiria trilogy by Michael J. Sullivan and a lot of stuff by Robin Hobb (I liked all of those). What else? The Martian, which was exciting and at times hilarious. A few comics, like Matt Fraction's amazing Hawkeye run. Last I read most of the Witcher books, which, to my surprise, I didn't like all that much.

 

Right now I'm occupied with something that is just... well, I'm not quite sure what exactly it is yet, but damn, I like it a lot. A LOT. 

 

[Fidite Nemini]

Since I played some XCom: Enemy Unknown again I also had a sudden urge to check for XCom fanfiction,  lo and behold Psi Effect a crossover between Mass Effect and XCom: Enemy Unknown.

 

Superbly written so far and the fight between Wrex and Shepard in chapter four has to be read to believe it. It is GLORIOUS and I found myself cackling in maniacal glee like back in the glory days of playing ME3 MP as a Krogan headbutting everything.

 

10/10, would bang, would not throw out the airlock!!!