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M. Jonathan Jones
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No such thing as a new story
A few years ago, I had the idea for a series of political events which would cause a crisis between neighbouring kingdoms; the kind of trigger incident which is commonplace in fantasy. Mere weeks after my oh-so-bright idea, I discovered that almost exactly the same series of events had happened in the history of the Pagan Kingdom of what is today Myanmar. So if history has always done it before, w
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"'A bullet kissed a hole in the door-frame close to my noodle.
More bullets made more holse in door, door-frame and wall, but by that time I had carried my noodle into a safe corner, one out of line with the window.' A detective rocks up in Poisonville" Read more of this review » |
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Been on my to read list for a while: the inspiration for Kurosawa's Yojimbo starring Toshiro Mifune and via that film for A Fistful of Dollars as well
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"Funny, but if you're a teacher it's funny and painfully accurate. We've all had the 'psychos in 4C'.
I was afraid getting halfway through that this would have a mawkish, saccharine ending where all the boys find empathy and greater meaning in life - " Read more of this review » |
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"Great story and dialogue. Beautiful line art. And a fun, thought out magic system.
If you like this, I also recommend Frieren (darker, much slower) and Delicious in Dungeon (more humour, but equally detailed world building). All great fantasy manga. " Read more of this review » |
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Did Not Finish, so be wary of this review! I really like Angela Slatter's writing and have read some of her stories in Of Sorrow and Such by Angela Slatter, which are marvellous and spark with wit, imagination, and sensibility. I found this somewhat h ...more |
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| This book came with some heavy expectations, and it definitely came up to scratch. A weird, dystopian, mediaeval horror, which I think captures not only the details of the era (Christopher Buehlman acknowledges Barbara W. Tuchman's classic A Distant ...more | |
“The troll’s tones were rough, his vowels most uncul-tured, the whole tenor of his speech was slovenly and un-educated to a degree far worse than any rustic peasant might employ: in fact, to Rambo’s ears, the accent might even belong to that most awful of entities – a town!”
― The Robbit: Or Turned Out Nice Again
― The Robbit: Or Turned Out Nice Again
“The only one not partaking of the general merriment was Rambo.
“But,” he said, with more than a hint of bewilderment in his voice, “do you mean to say that this secret door only opens on one day a year, and then only at sunset? I don’t pretend to know much about these things, but surely it would be easier to have a door one might access at any time? The builders can never have known when it might have been needed. It all seems a little odd.”
The dwarves’ smiles faded a little; Thorny frowned.
“No, no. Not odd at all,” Grendelf replied. He leant forwards, bushy brows bristling. “Not at all odd.”
― The Robbit: Or Turned Out Nice Again
“But,” he said, with more than a hint of bewilderment in his voice, “do you mean to say that this secret door only opens on one day a year, and then only at sunset? I don’t pretend to know much about these things, but surely it would be easier to have a door one might access at any time? The builders can never have known when it might have been needed. It all seems a little odd.”
The dwarves’ smiles faded a little; Thorny frowned.
“No, no. Not odd at all,” Grendelf replied. He leant forwards, bushy brows bristling. “Not at all odd.”
― The Robbit: Or Turned Out Nice Again
“IN A HOLE IN THE GROUND, there lived a dwarf.
The hole was a nasty, damp, foul-smelling pit hacked out of a pile of slag on a barren mountainside, but dwarves are not averse to roughing it, and to this particular dwarf the hole was Home.”
― The Robbit: Or Turned Out Nice Again
The hole was a nasty, damp, foul-smelling pit hacked out of a pile of slag on a barren mountainside, but dwarves are not averse to roughing it, and to this particular dwarf the hole was Home.”
― The Robbit: Or Turned Out Nice Again
“IN A HOLE IN THE GROUND, there lived a dwarf.
The hole was a nasty, damp, foul-smelling pit hacked out of a pile of slag on a barren mountainside, but dwarves are not averse to roughing it, and to this particular dwarf the hole was Home.”
― The Robbit: Or Turned Out Nice Again
The hole was a nasty, damp, foul-smelling pit hacked out of a pile of slag on a barren mountainside, but dwarves are not averse to roughing it, and to this particular dwarf the hole was Home.”
― The Robbit: Or Turned Out Nice Again
“But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.”
― Master & Commander
― Master & Commander
“The way I see it, anyone who's proud of their country is either a thug or just hasn't read enough history yet.”
― Thirteen
― Thirteen
“Like many business men of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient.”
― The Godfather
― The Godfather
“A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.”
― Broken Angels
― Broken Angels
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