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The Perfect Run
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Vagabond Treehouse ~ [Fall 2025: World of Chains #1-3 (Wayward Bard) | The Perfect Run 1-3 (alternating)]
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In the final book he dealt with an immortal dragon empire across multiple worlds... and that ended at like the halfway point of the book... then there was a long denouement, and an entire Dresden plot of Outsiders, that he just casually dealt with, while learning about the deity culture floating around...
This is honestly one of the best "life goes on endings" I think I've ever read... the last pages of the book involved gods coming to ask for help dealing with an upstart dragon cult in the far reaches of the multiverse, and the MC is like "I'll be home for dinner, honey" and goes off to "deal with the weeds", as a reference to the farming lifestyle he spends the whole series trying to settle down to, with varying success for short periods of time...
I guess we will find out :) About the Dresden files I mean.
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It's a shame, since I love the books and rate them highly... including Codex Alera... haven't read Cinder Spires since it's an unfinished trilogy...
I discovered Dresden Files (for the second time, since I saw the failed show years before, in college), at the perfect time to get the early books in paperback and Changes in hardback, before moving to ebooks in 2011/2012/2013... I was invested, buying the books instead of using a library... and then the drought started...
I finished Perfect Run 2. It was bonkers in the best way possible lol How does the apocalypse have an apocalypse lol (view spoiler) Not sure when I'll start book 3 but probably soonish.
I started How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes since it's pretty short and I think I can finish it by Friday :) One hour in and 3 chapters down... (view spoiler)
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I'll try to get out more thoughts in a bit, and revisit your spoilers above...
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This book is awesome, lol...
It's like the book version of Misfits & Magic Season 2, Episode 6: Code Crimson: a D&D campaign of Dimension 20 that parodies Harry Potter to some extent... the second season involves magic going wonky and exploring a number of islands where things are broken in different ways... episode 6 is very meta with the characters on an island trapped in a General Hospital / Grey's Anatomy format hospital soap opera... lots of tropes and romance in the closet... the DM and one or 2 of the cast members had a lot of fun with it... the others endured or were living in a nightmare to comedic effect... they escaped by taking advantage of Sweeps Week and the Sappy Holiday Episode tropes...
That's what the storyline of Quicksave and Wardrobe has been reminding me of a bit... they're living in their own little world, separate from basically everything else going on in the plot... living the dream of archnemesisness...
Oh yes they do lol They're fun together :)I finished How To Survive History. It was fun :) Yes, hiding in a cave the t-rex can't fit in is part of the advice but also they don't run as fast as hollywood has made out. Plus once they do get going they're too big to turn easily so a human in decent shape could likely outrun them too just by making abrupt turns. At least that's the theory since none are alive to test with :D Basically the book confirmed something I'd already suspected - I don't want to live in olden times. If time travel is discovered, I'm going to the future!
I'll be starting The Perfect Run 3 this weekend. I'm ready for the final insanity :D
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I've resisted that, despite mentioning it, for a couple years now... there's some real downsides to trying to do the Goodreads thing on Discord, in my opinion... but the real time updates and ability to ping people on their mobile devices can be kinda nice... maintain contact in emergencies...
With Discord, I had Sir Anni / Annika active on Goodreads in under 2hrs, after telling her Virginie had shown back up after a 4 year hiatus...
Meanwhile, we worried about Soo for a year before she turned back up... since none of us had a discord contact/etc...
I only have Annika because of the little short fiction thing we did for Virginie, years ago...dramatizing the spreadsheet creation...
Yeah, Discord chats aren't like threads in GRs. It could work for the bookclub style though less so when we have tons of new BRs created each month.
Timelord Iain wrote: "I only have Annika because of the little short fiction thing we did for Virginie, years ago...dramatizing the spreadsheet creation..."I still have it (well, it's at my mother's place, but it's there on a bookshelf!). I actually cried when I opened the package, I was so happy haha.
(Also, I wondered how the hell you summoned Anni so fast when I popped back up. Glad to finally have an answer lol)
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If the file is set up for printing, you could just print yourself a copy... ;)
It's nice seeing people back again. It got very quiet around here in October.
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Timelord Iain wrote: "I knew they'd be as excited to see you as I was... "
Oh shit, I DO have her book 👀
I completely forgot, I moved several times since. It's probably at my mother's place too, now that I think about it.
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Timelord Iain wrote: "I think it's setup for book binding printing... not sure I'd get the same result at the library printer..."Only one way to find out! For science!!! It has to be easier than out running a t-rex lol
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Oh shit, I DO have her book 👀
I completely forgot, I moved several times since. It's probably at my mother's place too,..."
There's a surprise... you can send it back without notice, and she'll probably pop in when she gets the mail :D
Narilka wrote: "I started How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes since it's pretty shor..."That book sounds like so much fun. It's a running joke I have with my brother that, if there's ever a zombie apocalypse, zombie-me would be faster than human-me considering my negative agility stat lol.
Virginie wrote: "Narilka wrote: "I started How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes since ..."It was a fun book :) I'm glad I picked it up in an Audible sale. Turns out you could also out run the destruction of Pompeii if you started running at the first volcanic explosion AND went the correct direction (north or south, not east/west). That one is technically easier than a t-rex because you have more time though you can't dawdle. A determined fast walk could escape Pompeii.
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Timelord Iain wrote: "There's a surprise... you can send it back without notice, and she'll probably pop in when she gets the mail :D"Good idea! I'll do that when I go to my mom's for the end-of-year celebrations (if I can actually find her address... Maybe she moved since, actually :o)
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I was very discrete...
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Timelord Iain wrote: "I was very discrete..."Huh huh, I can see that, yes 😂
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Huh huh, I can see that, yes 😂"
You triggered something... I've had a nice long chat with Anni today, on Discord, because of this... lured her into checking in a bit more often, alerting to future Drew Hayes BR plans, and even trying to get her and her husband to try Dungeon Crawler Carl...
Oh, nice! I think she'd really like DCC :)
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They might also like The Perfect Run then.
Aww, this was a great chat to read, though I have nothing to add. I laughed at Iain's attempts at "discreet."
I'm almost done with Perfect Run 3 with about an hour to go. I was going to do God's Junk Drawer next but the publishers pushed back the release. Iain, would you like to give the first Starry Hollow Witches a try next or go back to Wayward Bard? Starry Hollow is supposed to be cozy if you want to keep with Nov's theme.
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Holiday Dungeon Core: Novella 1-5
Christmas Core
Valentine Core
Easter Core
Independence Core
Halloween Core
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Timelord Iain wrote: "Starry Hollow works... and/or Holiday Core omnibus..."They both sound good to me though isn't Holiday Dungeon Core a LitRPG? Whichever your preference. I should be starting a new audio book tomorrow.
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Timelord Iain wrote: "Holiday Core is novellas, I think the whole series is about the length of some LitRPG books... 18hrs..."That sounds good. Can listen straight through with the omnibus unless we absolutely hate it.
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The first one on his Audible Author page immediately caught my attention tho:
Vainqueur the Dragon: The Complete Series: A LitRPG Series Bundle
Vainqueur Knightsbane is your average dragon: a giant, fire-breathing lizard who loves to take naps on his golden hoard, kidnap princesses for fun, and make the life of adventurers miserable. Vainqueur's only pleasure in life is to watch his treasure get bigger, one coin at a time.
So when a would-be thief turned unwilling minion tells him about "classes," "levels," and "quests," Vainqueur wonders if maybe, just maybe, he should consider a career change.
After all, why bother hunting monsters for free when you can get paid for it?
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Vainqueur the Dragon: The Complete Series: A LitRPG Series Bundle (other topics)The Perfect Run III (other topics)
Valentine Core (other topics)
Christmas Core (other topics)
Independence Core (other topics)
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Nathan Lowell (other topics)Nathan Lowell (other topics)
Nina Bangs (other topics)
Anyway... at this rate, it'll take 40-50 years to finish the series, and he turned 54 today...