The What I'm READING Thread!
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A short, fictional, but horribly teasing and interesting insight into devils (RP?) in christianity
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For some like me, AD&D was just one of the many early Role-play games that occupied my youth. Cyberpunk was definitely a tie, with a few Steve Jackson games for fun (also Battlemech).
Anyway, here is an interesting tale of these games:
http://boingboing.net/2015/05/08/your-c ... dange.html
Anyway, here is an interesting tale of these games:
http://boingboing.net/2015/05/08/your-c ... dange.html
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I recently finished
I will soon be reading the next book Exile once I get it tomorrow
I will soon be reading the next book Exile once I get it tomorrow
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I finished the last book of this saga some months ago, but it's a collection I strongly recommend as they automatically entered in my top-3 book series. I'm talking about the Joe Abercrombie books: the "The First Law" trilogy, and the books "Best Served Cold", "The Heroes", and "Red Country" (not sure if the last one is the exact title as I read them in spanish). Dark characters, very well constructed, good history... they are simply amazing.
Myrualae - Chantress of Doron Amar
Snow - Sorcery and carrots!
Gomez de Aguirre - The Fabulous Knight of the Mystic Fire
Uelaereene Sai'zzel - Once I saw the stars...
Lilly Sai'zzel - Stormy snowflake
And more...
Snow - Sorcery and carrots!
Gomez de Aguirre - The Fabulous Knight of the Mystic Fire
Uelaereene Sai'zzel - Once I saw the stars...
Lilly Sai'zzel - Stormy snowflake
And more...
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https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/04/2 ... ales-fear/Children like being frightened by fairy tales. They have an inborn need to experience powerful emotions. Andersen scared children, but I’m certain that none of them held it against him, not even after they grew up. His marvelous tales abound in indubitably supernatural beings, not to mention talking animals and loquacious buckets. Not everyone in this brotherhood is harmless and well-disposed. The character who turns up most often is death, an implacable individual who steals unexpectedly into the very heart of happiness and carries off the best, the most beloved. Andersen took children seriously. He speaks to them not only about life’s joyous adventures, but about its woes, its miseries, its often undeserved defeats. His fairy tales, peopled with fantastic creatures, are more realistic than whole tons of today’s stories for children, which fret about verisimilitude and avoid wonders like the plague. Andersen had the courage to write stories with unhappy endings. He didn’t believe that you should try to be good because it pays (as today’s moral tales insistently advertise, though it doesn’t necessarily turn out that way in real life), but because evil stems from intellectual and emotional stuntedness and is the one form of poverty that should be shunned.
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Lockonnow wrote:greatest fear like the movie Hellraiser they show you what you most fear and take a Image of IT
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I am not sure if I like it yet... Just started reading but it was suggested after The Picture of Dorian Gray which I loved!
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I'm currently reading a chinese xianxia webnovel (translated to english) called Renegade Immortal.
What is xianxia?
Give it a try and see if you like it or not.
You can read it here. It's a website that's been translating webnovels like these for a while now.
What is xianxia?
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You can read it here. It's a website that's been translating webnovels like these for a while now.
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Schrödinger's Cyricism: NPCs simultaneously know everything and nothing about Cyric until observed by the Cyricist. Then they default to the state that disadvantages the Cyricist the most.
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Recently I read a book called "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline. Great story that any gamer will enjoy. I highly recommend it and also suggest reading it without googling it or reading any of the backstory or synopsis as it is more fun to discover organically as you ready.
Recently I've been reading the "Critical Failures" series by Robert Bevan. I can't honestly endorse them as great books, but I will say that my wife stares at me while I laugh hysterically at the toilet humor mixed in with various D&D / nerd tropes that appear in the story lines. I didn't go in to the first book expecting much and it delivered just about on target... However, the author's various portrayal of the characters and the bugs bunny style things that happen to them are really funny (in a depraved, I probably should seek help kind of way).
Recently I've been reading the "Critical Failures" series by Robert Bevan. I can't honestly endorse them as great books, but I will say that my wife stares at me while I laugh hysterically at the toilet humor mixed in with various D&D / nerd tropes that appear in the story lines. I didn't go in to the first book expecting much and it delivered just about on target... However, the author's various portrayal of the characters and the bugs bunny style things that happen to them are really funny (in a depraved, I probably should seek help kind of way).
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