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Vagabond Treehouse (2023) [Beware of Chicken 3 - December 4th]
I may be jumping the gun, but I think I found my new 🤣🤣🤣 LN. Side Character Transmigrations: The Final Boss is No Joke
Basically, Shi Sheng is a jerk author that loves to write cliffhangers, drop stories into deep freeze and kill off protagonists. 🤣☠️
Quote from Ch1:
Authors who write cliffhangers will be punished.
She's transmigrated into stories where the side characters had bad ends. There's a System that does the bare minimum and threatens Sheng with death to complete missions.
🤣🤣🤣
Only a few chapters in, but highly amused.
I'm pretty new to this book club, but want to join :)
Hi! This is a casual BR club & hangout spot. I recommend reading the 1st post of the thread and chat as ya will.
Elena wrote: "I'm pretty new to this book club, but want to join :)"Welcome Elena!
Just heard about the whole crazy ReviewBomberGate thingy... I'm probably pretty late to that news... but it's making me want to read the books by the authors who were targeted, to support them...https://xiranjayzhao.tumblr.com/post/...
Kamilah Cole - So Let Them Burn
Bethany Baptiste - The Poisons We Drink
Molly X Chang - To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods
Frances White - Voyage of the Damned
KM Enright - Mistress of Lies
RM Virtues - Drag Me Up series
Thea Guazon - The Hurricane Wars
Review trolling is not new. It's a known problem. I didn't know about this particular streak. What a jerk move by that author! 😠😤Gonna go read the book blurbs for the listed books, but I'm not gonna say I'll definitely read them. Cause, ya know, gotta want to read it due to interest.
Also, personally, I'm not a fan of all the LGBT focused books that came out in waves like they didn't exist before and had to fill some made up void. It became a social political deal and I am fairly meh about that.
I was happily reading stories about all sorts of people, genders, etc without specifically looking for it. I will continue to do that, but I haven't had a good experience with most of the new publications labeled as LGBT.
🫠 I had an immediate mental dislike to the author name Virtues. 😅Now I'm gonna find sample of the book & read a page as punishment.
Ok, read a few pages. Still don't like the name and not interested in the book. Couple of the titles on the list were interesting, but not published yet. Will leave it up to fate & chance on if I read them later. Which is probably 65-80% of my reading. 😆
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It’s alot more random than other sanctioned bookclubs around here, and well-structured weekly/bi-weekly/monthly Buddy Reads with 1 book per thread…
We just talk about what we’re reading/finding, random stuff, and squeeze in the occasional Buddy Read when we have time… we did alot more last year, before me and Nirkatze started signing up for 75% of the normal Buddy Reads…
This year, we did a few early year, a few in August/September, and Beware of Chicken 3 this month, a new release in a successful BR from September… to give you an idea what this thread is like… we’ll be making a new thread in a few weeks for 2024-2025…
Elena wrote: "I'm pretty new to this book club, but want to join :)"Welcome! Feel free to hop in with whatever random read that pops up. Our little group is super informal.
1&2 of Codename: Freedom are great! In general, I like Apollos Thorne's books. I think the series would be stronger if he wrote the story consistently. Cause he seems to lose a bit of the series story voice and it takes him a bit of writing space to get back into the groove. The whole series is like a Rocky training montage. 😄
Training/Battles with light romance thread, some politics and interesting elements on the VR training and abilities.
I'm on book 4, Vanguard. It's good but will be disappointed that there isn't a book 5.
Nirkatze wrote: "Just heard about the whole crazy ReviewBomberGate thingy... I'm probably pretty late to that news... but it's making me want to read the books by the authors who were targeted, to support them......"
I saw that! She effed around and found out for sure.
Dang, I just had to do 3 Capshaw Checks to make notes on Devolution. 👎👎👎
@Soo--aww, I appreciate you looking at all those book blurbs!re: Captcha Checks--those just seem to be getting more and more constant... grrr
Added Codename: Freedom to TBR list... is the series done at book 4 then?
Ann-Marie wrote: "I saw that! She effed around and found out for sure...."
re: ReviewBomberGate--what I was really impressed by, at that link, was the amount of research that went into figuring it all out... I appreciate the amount of work Xiran Jay Zhao put into it, and also the video they put together explaining the whole process...
I'm thinking I might toss the list to the general pool to see if anyone is interested in BR when they come out...
Nirkatze, Codename: Freedom is ongoing. Books 1 & 2 were the best. 3 was good and 4 felt like rough transition piece. Which would be ok if author was more prolific, but he's not. He's more of a publish 1.5 books a year-ish.I read all the blurbs of the harassed authors and read few pages of Virtue's Drag Me Up. I wasn't a fan of the writing. 🙃🫣
Ooo Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is o Audible +.
Started The Captain by Will Wight and it's like spastic mech-magic anime.LoL
Varic is made uber OP x 6 from the get go.
Soo wrote: "Started The Captain by Will Wight and it's like spastic mech-magic anime."I like Will Wight's books mostly. But I do struggle with a few of his.
Soo wrote: "Started The Captain by Will Wight and it's like spastic mech-magic anime."Thanks Soo. Just downloaded it
Brian, did you get it via Audible +? I think it's still on Aud+. I bought it for $1 during the site wide sale.
I like the Cradle book covers, but this one for Captain screams meh newb art. 😅😶🌫️
Soo wrote: "Brian, did you get it via Audible +? I think it's still on Aud+. I bought it for $1 during the site wide sale."Yes Audible +
Captain, 20% Ch8: Horizon 🤣Ship is more OP than Varic.
Well, in attitude. Heh
I thought I would up the speed from 2.55x but I think Travis Baldree is narrating at a faster rate? Could be an audio distortion in memory comparison, but Baldree's narration at 2.55x seems to be the same as the audio cast in Zero Tolerance at 3.25x. 🤔
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LoL
Varic is made uber OP x 6 from the get go."
Chapter 1: OP x6
Chapter 2: Saved the Day x6
Chapter 3: Now what?
Chapter 4: Last Horizon McGuffin...
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Ship is more OP than Varic.
Well, in attitude. Heh
I thought I would up the speed feom 2.55x but I think Travis Baldree is narrating at a faster rate? Could be an aud..."
I think I slowed it down, as well... I feel like Travis's speed varies by book, or I can handle higher speeds with certain books/genres more, or something...
Fell asleep and woke back up. Captain, Ch21: 🫣🫥👎
It's a less cool crew of uber OP characters. Also, it's obvious that the book needs more editing and polishing. Lots of broken phrases vs full sentences and repeated words.
The whole knowledge of 6 lives in one that sorta gives foreknowledge makes the story kinda dull.
Varic teaching combat magic is the best part.
Ch28: Varic's Dad 🙄🧐💩
Finished Captain. Loved the bloopers at the end and the thin sliced scenes of Varic teaching combat. Other than that, story was a dry & not polished bullet point adventure story. Plus there's an issue with math.
The spell in the beginning has up to 7 light markers. The point of the spell was to bridge alt dimensions and gain abilities. Let's say 1 marker per dimension.
By end of spell, 6 markers are lite. That should mean Varic gained from 6 dimensions. So, it should have been 6 lives & deaths. I don't see how Varic's original life would count as one of the 6. He is currently living that life and not dying to take from other dimensional lives.
So either Varic gained 6 NEW SET OF memories & skills + deaths, or he gained 5 sets. Except later, there's a scene that makes the count questionable again.
It's bad writing. I went back to beginning a few times. 🧐😶🌫️🙄
This all happened in Ch1. No spoilers. 🤣🤣🤣
That does look sweet. Adding it to my Cozy list...
Started Dungeon Crawler Carl! Through chapter 19. Really enjoying it! The cat is a nice touch. Of course she would have an off-the-charts charisma.The goblins make me think of Rags & co in Wandering Inn... >.<
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For those who finished Captain, I have a crazy hypothesis! Let's chat about it! 👻DCC has a great start! The event speed stays fairly consistent.
I am 90% in Captain, and I see what you are saying about the writing style, but I am enjoying it despite it:)))
Iain, Choko, etcI have A WiLd hypothesis for Horizon.
Let us discuss! 🧐🙃🥸
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Captain #1: Crazy Hypothesis!Horizon: (view spoiler)
My Hypothesis is a way cooler spin than whatever is the real spin on the series. 🤣🤣🤣
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What if some of the bloopers were real, tho, like (view spoiler)
I'm not sure even blooper made real would be enough to get me to read the whole series. Wight needs to work on polishing his writing. He made bank on all of his kickstarters for Cradle.
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And, this is the first time in awhile where I finished a book and kinda feel like I need someone to explain it to me, and the internet isn't being very helpful :D...
The book has 2-3 main plots/sub-plots, that all converge on this planet, and go haywire to great effect... and then about 90% gets wrapped up tidily, with some dangling elements for the future of the main story arc... but there's this weird framing story throughout, with a mother reading fairytales to her kid(?), and the stories start warping/being rewritten, and eventually are pretty clearly pretty thinly veiled stories about Ian Cormac and what's going on in the main plots of the book... and then in the epilogue I think the mom dies in the vacuum of space and the son is now with an adult male telling him stories instead...
and NONE of this is ever explained... or if it was, I blinked and missed it...
😆😆😆I have Prador Moon on my read in sooner 2024 list.
I read The Departure (The Owner) by Asher, Neal (2013) Paperback #1 a while back. This trilogy is on Audible Plus. Probably wrap this up first.
I don't remember any fairytales in Departure.
Soo, I just finished Captain and your theory sounds very plausible, actually. I would hate it, because I am always for the good guys to win and actually be good, but the way the author is utilizing bad guys, I think your theory might be exactly what he is going for, or something of the sort.... After all, The Ship was very casual about destroying his previous ship without absolutely no remorse or second thought... And yes, she is bet-shit insane! I am in for the long haul on this series:)))
Iain, we're 2 for Crazy and 1 for pseudo-norm baddie. 🤣🧐
Now, when I see an author has rated their own work, it makes me take the book less seriously. It's just weird to see the author's rating be at the top of the rated/liked reviews. How do ya'll feel about it?
Soo wrote: "Now, when I see an author has rated their own work, it makes me take the book less seriously. It's just weird to see the author's rating be at the top of the rated/liked reviews. How do ya'll fee..."
I personally don't mind... It is just one of those things:)))
I started this hilarious rom-com manhwa:https://harimanga.com/manga/a-master-...
I've been laughing in each chapter. The title was cut down from Master Martial Artist Woke Up as a Concubine. 🤣🤣🤣
Her reborn name is Soju. 🤣🤣🤣
Finished Dungeon Crawler Carl and loved it! I really enjoyed how it had a very high stress level--and really leaned into the hideous cruelty of the situation--but still had a lot of levity. Might jump in on Captain since I'm pretty much caught up now on BRs...
YAH! DCC is very blunt, has stupid cute and interesting twists! 😎Captain is short. Read it! Discuss with us! Woo
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