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RETIRED THREAD: Vagabond Treehouse Book Club
Wandering Inn: It's a potential answer! I do think we will find out at some point. Sandman Slim: There are so many things that haven't been touched or dealt with that I'm not sure if I will think it's satisfying. No way am I going to read reviews on that book! Not spoiling it for myself. lol
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Sandman Slim: I wasn't aiming for spoilers, just a cursory glance after reading the blurb... blur sounds like nefarious Covid plot...
I agree it's a tall order to wrap everything up, and I had big problems with that 2nd trilogy... sounds like Kadrey is ready to start a new series... hope it's decent...
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I'm not a fan of the text readers, but you could go that route. Most people seem to be okay with it. I wasn't a fan of the copy, paste & listen to voice. Had fun trying out different voices. lol I'm almost done with my Vol6 re-read. I was close to finishing that when I started to read comics. lol Comics have sidetracked me! Heheh
Pirateaba is on break. I have about 4 chapters unread in Vol8. I'll probably let it pile up a bit more and dive into it.
Starting Manifest Delusions today. Sorry, running behind on everything lately.
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Wandering Inn sidetracked me from finishing Manifest Delusions...
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Pisces seems to have "won" the mistletoe scene...
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BUT, Relc and Klgch trying to be Santa around town to get more presents from Erin is 100x better... can't stop laughing... I think they're unintentionally channeling more olden stories where Santa was scary... mostly just because they're a Drake and Antinium...
Brian, no worries! I'm probably going to start Beyond Redemption later today or tomorrow. =)Wandering Inn:
TTS - What a hilarious nightmare! I tried with several books and I can't handle the mispronunciations. It drives me batty!
Pisces being a ladies man is HILARIOUS! (view spoiler)
Mrsha and matches was a great side story. =D
Ralc & Klblch were hilarious in trying to figure out the whole how to get more presents and not coal. Hahahahhah
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Quick search online shows that I'm not the only one that things the 3-6 characters were (view spoiler)
Also noticed that Volume 4 ended December 30th, 2017, so definitely real world timing lined up...
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LoL the irony about the magic food Erin makes is that the way they are talked about is inconsistent. Affects and cheaper than other potions are the same but whether or not it tastes awful or better than potions is a roller-coaster.
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I assume the taste has to do with freshness, partially?... altho I guess Pirateaba can't decide how much the needs of the magical recipe are hindering flavor?... early on, Erin was hopeful that once she made functional magical food, she could fine-tune the taste... then again, with high demand comes less time to perfect... that's kinda been Erin's problem since returning from Celum and finding the Inn crowded with guests...
Trying to make the magic food taste better is a running joke/theme in the later volumes. There's a few story additions that deep dive into alchemy/etc. It gets interesting because it's dependent on Alchemist skills/etc. For Erin, I think if taste was a priority vs the magical effect, it would taste good and be magical. The whens and hows stuff works for Erin is one of the ongoing mysteries.
Gods: Not going to touch that one because a lot happens in Vol7/8. Hahahhahahhah
Since I'm on my 2-3+ re-read of some of the volumes, it's cool to note how early hints are strewn all over the volumes. I forgot some of them because so much happens.
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=) It's a lot of stuff that expands on characters, various politics, etc. Plus funny moments to be thrown in with the tragic.
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Dehumidifying now... they'll be out a couple times over the next week to treat the ceiling once it dries and prep it for a new tile to be put up and sealed...
The wonders of a basement apartment... best thing is cooler summer temps... I always hear horror stories about trying to cool 2nd/3rd floor apartments since heat rises from lower apartments...
At least they came out to fix it right away. Sometimes, it takes forever to get stuff fixed.
Oy. Yeah, at least they got on the repairs quickly. Hopefully that will be the last of your troubles for a little while.
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Read about 60% of that today, too... light on character details, lots of action... see why people compare it to Jason Bourne movies...
Which is ironic considering that the Bourne books are like the movies and not. LoL
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Yea... I think I read the first Bourne book... never made it further... the movies are much faster paced, since it cuts the slow parts, as movies tend to do...
Okay, Viral Hit is one of the most ridiculously action packed comics. I didn't like it at first because it started off with a cringe worthy bully scene. Then it snowballed into a story where I'm watching the train wreck and cheering on the MC. LOL This is really good! Teamwork of two artists. It's an ongoing series and there are 73 chapters out.
Aw, more changes to GR and making it less useful as a book sharing/loving community. Is there a good option that's not GR? I haven't found one...
Changed how links work. You can only do named links for GR stuff. External links can only be posted as the link and not renamed link. So if I post about a WebToon comic, I can only post the actual link and not rename it as Viral Hit/etc. The changes with captcha's & stuff is to help cut down on fake accounts. *shrug* I don't think it's helping that much but most of the recent changes are geared towards that.
Another annoying thing I noticed a few days ago is that I can't delete comments from my reviews. I can only block the user or flag it as spam for GR to deal with.
Woohoo! Google Translator has a live camera function. I'm using that to read Viral Hit on the Korean WebToon. Only for parts. The art is good enough for me to know 80% of what's going on.
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The html helper popup and preview don’t indicate the change…
I'm going to guess that GR forgot to update that part. I mean, a lot of the functions here haven't changed for a long time. Though, things have been steadily adjusted since the Amazon buy.
Viral Hit (Comic): It's ongoing and there are over 70 chapters out on WebToon. At first, I thought it was going to be a standard bullied teen learns to stand up for himself story, and it is. It also has great fight scenes & dives into various fighting styles. I like the way it's current & has streaming/video as part of the plot. There are more chapters on the Korean Webtoon. I went on there and got caught up to the current release. The expressions and fight scenes are great!
Oh joy. I tried the href thing and you get an error even though just like Iain said the "some html" helper and preview both still work.
Yeah... it's a topic at SFFBC. The change broke some of the things that Mods post/etc.
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People will be really sad if they shutdown img src gif posting...
This is a cool meteor/falling space debris shot I got during my try to see the meteor shower.
I don't think images are affected as much as external website links. Not sure why that has been deactivated but I'm going to guess that some scammers may have used the function to link to things that may have stolen info/etc?
This is me guessing.
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Seal Team 13: Liberation - Evan Currie wrote a new book for the Seal Team 13. Which is awesome because that was my fav book of his that I've read. It's only on KU right now, but I may read it at some point. =)
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I'm nearing the end now, tho, and that arrow with rotten bird innards for infecting Court was kinda gross and ongoing... and clearly Court wasn't made for bodyguard work... this isn't The Hitman's Bodyguard, with Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson...
LoL He's a bit disconnected from what it's like to have a regular life.
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If you want a funny story, read God of High School on WebToon. There's a bunch of chapters out and it's hilarious! Lots of ridiculous fighting and nods to popular anime/etc.
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Real machiavellian Hitler / Kristallnacht vibes...
But then Part 2 finally started (I think previous books had 4-5 parts, this one will be lucky to have 3... I think people that say this is more half of a two-part finale are right)... and something just happened that I did NOT see coming, that is probably gonna have awesome ramifications...
There's also been a bit of foreshadowing, like the MC is telling of past events, that indicate things are gonna change drastically before the series is over (quadrology?)
They also resurrected the romance angle that's been frustrating me since nothing came of it in book 2... but at least now I think I see why it's lingered...
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I'll definitely get back to comics, but I've been having a bit of an uptick in active gaming and reading, lately... running low on TV I want to watch... been watching Doom Patrol, which feels like a cross between Umbrella Academy and Mystery Men
It's fun to run in phases! Keeps life interesting. =D
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Also seems to have resolved my concerns that the threat of war was turning into a xenophobic red herring... it's still pretty xenophobic, but going to be a focus of the final book, for sure...
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Wandering Inn: Back to Ryoka, reading Magnolia's history books... makes me wonder (view spoiler)[if sudden new species are other occurrences of worldhopping... Demons, Antinium, etc... species that came out of nowhere decades/centuries/millennia ago (hide spoiler)]