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Nicholas Karpuk
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The Bane of Yoto
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In Search of a City: Los Angeles in 1,000 Words
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Sideshow Fables (#1)
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| The Devils is the closest challenge I've experienced to my belief that I don't care if a book is funny if I'm otherwise enjoying myself. The Dresden Files are a regular test of this principle, as I find the stories exciting and fun, but I also find J ...more | |
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"If Guy Ritchie made a horror epic fantasy set in the Crusading era. Funny, weird, violent, and all kinds of fun. I do think it's Abercrombie having fun more than trying to write a great novel. I mean, he's certainly after that, too, but fun seems par"
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"Picked this up during an unexpected long layover in the Dublin airport, where there was a solid wall of Maggie O'Farrell books. I went through a phase of Irish literature obsession and it felt like a return to a familiar landscape. There is something"
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| I've developed a sort of test to see if I'm actually unhappy with the character development of a novel, or if I'm just using that as a flippant fallback when I can't quite determine what's bothering me (people do this a lot, because it's hard to refu ...more | |
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| On so many levels the Plastic Magician is exactly what I was hoping for with this series. Holmberg is great at making these sort of magical student stories fun and engaging. The main issue I had with the previous books, while generally engaging, ofte ...more | |
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| It's almost tempting to just include a link to my review of the previous book. If ever there was a fantasy series that's essentially just one nightmarishly fat book, it's Dungeon Crawler Carl. It's like reviewing a bag of Doritos, I've had a bag befo ...more | |
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| I read the previous book in this series a few years ago, and it's one of the few times when the Amazon series summaries were actually helpful. Holmberg's books are very odd to me, because they're deeply readable, with a style that flows through even ...more | |
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| Sometimes we forget what books are actually about, in terms of sheer volume, when they get famous enough. People associate Lord of the Rings with exciting fantasy battles, when the vast majority of those books are about seeing interesting things whil ...more | |
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| I once had a creative writing teacher in high school once quote Shirley Jackson as saying, "Good writing is like good conversation." I've never been able to find any source for this quote, but I can't quite shake the idea, because it definitely infor ...more | |
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Mother Night
― Mother Night
“Time makes more converts than reason.”
― Common Sense
― Common Sense
“The difference between stupid and intelligent people -- and this is true whether or not they are well-educated -- is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambigous or even contradictory situations -- in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious when things seem overly straightforward.”
― The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
― The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
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Space Wizards Book Club
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Space Wizards: A Denver Book Club Adventure, is a monthly book club discussing newer Science Fiction and Fantasy novels. We meet once a month on the t ...more
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Oct 07, 2013 07:55PM
Sassy, huh? lol Thanks for the invite! :)
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Colin wrote: "Hey, Nick, have you read Stitches? I saw it at King Soopers (of all places) the other night, saw the fancy medal on the cover, enjoyed a bit of it, and wondered what you thought. Bobby gave it a go..."No, but it's now on my wishlist.
Hey, Nick, have you read Stitches? I saw it at King Soopers (of all places) the other night, saw the fancy medal on the cover, enjoyed a bit of it, and wondered what you thought. Bobby gave it a good review,
Glad you made it here, mate. Beware, Goodreads is the land where everyone insists on mostly four- and five-star ratings. I have a hard time convincing people that a three-star rating is actually a recommended book. Most people won't read your reviews, which is a shame, because you've got a good mind and it translates to your criticism. So it is. I still like reviewing books. It takes a different level of thinking.