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Joel Jorden
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in Austin, TX, The United States
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Influences
Gene Roddenberry, Donald Westlake, Eastman & Laird, Ronald D. Moore
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May 2018
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TJ Klune calls himself the Anti-JK Rowling, and I think that's fucking awesome. This book's climax felt too hopeful and too optimistic for me. And the point of that, I think, is that we deserve to live in a world where this novel (magic aside) DOESN'T ...more |
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[advance review from reading monthly issues] It's a good story with an interesting premise (marooned and can't audibly talk) that also serves to underline how the cadets have to learn to talk to and listen to each other. Feels just like an episode of t ...more |
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Read this for our TMNT podcast (79th Dimension, coming soon) and... this may be the worst TMNT comic published. Blood, boobs, bullets; grotesque art; frenetic energy; Raph dropping the R slur (it was the 90s)... there are the bare (VERY bare) bones of ...more |
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That amazing cover art is the best part of the book. I had really high hopes for this one, but it just didn't deliver what I was looking for. Was it trauma? Was it a demon? What exactly was with the grandmother and her spirituality? Did therapy help? I ...more |
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| This was a great vampire novel, soaked in blood and PTSD and the sacrifices we make for love | |
“All of us steal our lives. A little here, a little there. Some of it given, most of it taken. We wear ourselves like a coat of many patches, fraying at the edges, in constant repair. While we shore up one belief, we let go another. We are the stories we tell to ourselves. Nothing more.”
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
“We’re all the story we tell about ourselves, silly.” Another wave rocked them. “That’s all anyone ever is—the story they tell, and the stories told about them. Fiction captures more than facts do. That’s why the library keeps it. It’s the most important part of our memories.”
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
“Children are dying."
Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.”
― Deadhouse Gates
Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.”
― Deadhouse Gates
“Every story instructs. The teller ignores this truth at peril.”
― House of Chains
― House of Chains
“I pray that doubt comes to you, that it tempers you with its wisdom. Those heroes in our legends, Karsa Orlong, they were terrible, they were monsters, for they were strangers to uncertainty”
― House of Chains
― House of Chains
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