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I deifnitely couldn't go down the rabbit hole as deep as this book did, but a situation with a small group living on the margins is a decent plot hook.
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I felt the same way @Apocryphal. Normally this would lead me to DNF a book like this but I was somehow still strangely attracted to the way she wrote. The rambling prose was difficult but it also seemed to add to the chaotic and meandering world tha…
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I wasn't sure if I could really line up the kids in that way, though I guess there was some sibling murder going on. I'm not sure about the headmaster but he fits well with the OT prophet style character in my mind. This book had a weird mashup of …
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Was Aquinas some sort of play on the futility of using reason? Of a day long gone? I was counting on your guys to work this out for me! :D
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Sarah Canary is not a book I am familiar with at all. Even though the book was probably named after Dolores, it felt to me like there actually was no real main character, and certainly no protagonist. The apocalyptic world felt to me almost like i…
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Yeah, the question as to whether there were actually other groups didn't seem to be one that Williams seemed too interested in actually answering, but rather it was a plot device to drive the narrative along. The deformities were just from the inces…
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I'm still sort of unsure how I feel about this book overall. I'm not generally one who enjoys disturbing things in books but in this case because the whole thing was this long stretch of failed humanity, I felt a little more detached from it all tha…
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The author also ran a play which was King Lear with sheep. Seems she has some sort of sheep thing going on.
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I'm looking forward to reading it.
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Questions are going up. I wasn't able to select the Monthly Book Discussion Category for these threads. Put it under Book Reviews for now, but they can be moved if possible.
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I should have some questions up by the weekend.
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I kept picking this up and putting it down again. Couldn't connect with it at all and DNF'ed about halfway through.
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I just started it - maybe 50 pages in.
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1) A certain level of literacy still seems to be required. I suppose it would be possible to use some sort of app to create a character but it would lead to a pretty bad experience for the others players and GM if you didn't have the literacy levels…
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My suggestion for March is The Doloriad by Missouri Williams. It may not be for everyone (it may not be for ME - we will see!) so if anyone is really opposed let me know.
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It's funny, I had never heard of it before you mentioned it and now I have heard of it from a few different people in the past couple days. I think I like the idea of it.
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1) I'm actually going through this a little bit in the game I run right now. One of the players has created an elaborate backstory for their character with all of this history to it, but the character isn't supposed to actually know any of it. The r…
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I thought the worldbuilding was being propped up by an interesting idea (the anti-meme and the creatures that surround it, as well as the secret organization fighting it all) and as that aspect of the story became more convoluted, the threads of the…
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Interesting thoughts. I never read anything on the website at all. I read a digital copy of the book and really really liked it. It instantly drew me in and had me wondering how it was going to wrap up and how it would get there. A really cool idea …
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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.