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TinyBomby food-and-pet-pix
Replying to TinyBomby #tinybomby
I have just finished reading "From the New World" (Shinsekai Yori) An incredibly strange book, gosh. I don't remember who recommended it to me, but I've had the PDF sitting in my downloads for a while. It has an anime too which is more likely anyone would know it from I suppose.
I was very surprised to learn a man wrote this book. It is very female-author coded Female lead, includes gay (male) sex, describes female genitalia more than male genitalia, includes the protagonist complaining about woman things.
Kribbles food-and-pet-pix
Wait, was it full on gay sex? In the anime, it's just a bunch of teenagers suddenly getting really horny on a hill and they all go for the same sex all at once. They all just cuddle and kiss
Spooky Phijkchu food-and-pet-pix
Replying to TinyBomby #tinybomby
Anyway, I really appreciate standalone books. So many books nowadays are massive series, especially ones that aren't finished yet, and it's nice to have a book that just has an ending with nothing else to it.
the lost art of being to tell a complete story in a couple-hundred pages
Spooky Phijkchu food-and-pet-pix
Replying to legorhin #jazardly
if an author has put in the effort to make a universe to put the story in, put another story in it
At least for me, It's rarely the larger lore/universe that puts a self-contained story over-the-top I agree that works for some things, but most of my favorite books are either heavily character driven or are written around exploring some concept/philosophy, that you can't just tack-onto as easily
Pyrrhic food-and-pet-pix
2 differences between the books and the OVA for LOTGH: in the books alliance troops use mirror shields to deflect lasers. Which is why Schonkopf always calls his ax a "Tomahawk" since that's a one-handed axe. The other difference for Legend of the Galactic Heroes is that since the liquid metal shell is OVA original, what you get instead of speeder-bike jousting on the liquid metal, when Walter von Schonkopf goes out for exercise in the Fortress vs Fortress episode, you get WW1-style Death Star trench warfare.
TinyBomby food-and-pet-pix
Replying to Pyrrhic #swiss_army_cheese
2 differences between the books and the OVA for LOTGH: in the books alliance troops use mirror shields to deflect lasers. Which is why Schonkopf always calls his ax a "Tomahawk" since that's a one-handed axe. The other difference for Legend of the Galactic Heroes is that since the liquid metal shell is OVA original, what you get instead of speeder-bike jousting on the liquid metal, when Walter von Schonkopf goes out for exercise in the Fortress vs Fortress episode, you get WW1-style Death Star trench warfare.
oh yeah I do remember the lack of speeder-bike jousting in the books. It's still pretty minor of a change though. What's your opinion on if the books are worth continuing to read though?
Pyrrhic food-and-pet-pix
At least this one (book 4) has my favourite line of foreshadowing in the final chapter. Though you can get that from watching DNT. Book 5 is kind of worth it for Bewcock's aide's backstory. I don't remember much else about future books except being disappointed in how they translated certain lines, including Dusty's catchphrase. Though they then fired that guy and lifted the quote from the Central-Anime subs.
Pyrrhic food-and-pet-pix
You can complain about the bad translations or you can use it for headcanon fodder. Book 4 seems to imply that Erwin Josef is predisposed to marry Charlotte Phillis, admiral Alex Caselne's daughter. Since there are a lot of paragraphs that talk about Erwin Josef where Caselne's name shows up.
TinyBomby food-and-pet-pix
Replying to Pyrrhic #swiss_army_cheese
You can complain about the bad translations or you can use it for headcanon fodder. Book 4 seems to imply that Erwin Josef is predisposed to marry Charlotte Phillis, admiral Alex Caselne's daughter. Since there are a lot of paragraphs that talk about Erwin Josef where Caselne's name shows up. (edited)
Er spoiler? You should mark that…
Pyrrhic food-and-pet-pix
thought you read chapter 5. Sorry. Although double checking there were only two instances of them sharing a paragraph. And one of them was just Caserne saying "White knight syndrome is engulfing the capital".
TinyBomby food-and-pet-pix
oh I'm pretty behind on the books, still on the last section before this current bookclub. I didn't realize that was a thing that had happened in our current section of the bookclub, so it was fine to not spoiler it.
Pyrrhic food-and-pet-pix
I had been under the impression that if you didn't bring something up it was because you didn't find it interesting enough to mention it. Like, I thought it strange you didn't mention the lard kaiser, who was the worst kaiser since Rudolf. But figured that maybe it wasn't as interesting as Rudolf naming a unit of measurement after himself. I don't want to be the guy who constantly points stuff out from the books. Which is why I reference the manga and DNT. And the musical.
TinyBomby food-and-pet-pix
Replying to Pyrrhic #swiss_army_cheese
I had been under the impression that if you didn't bring something up it was because you didn't find it interesting enough to mention it. Like, I thought it strange you didn't mention the lard kaiser, who was the worst kaiser since Rudolf. But figured that maybe it wasn't as interesting as Rudolf naming a unit of measurement after himself. I don't want to be the guy who constantly points stuff out from the books. Which is why I reference the manga and DNT. And the musical.
If that's something from a while back, I don't remember it at all
TinyBomby food-and-pet-pix
but I like you referencing things from the books. I'm in a similar place in our meetings though where I don't really want to just constantly bring up "and then this happens in the books, which is different"
Pyrrhic food-and-pet-pix
It's something from the chapter I mentioned (though lard kaiser is a moniker I made up). Schumacher starts to wonder how bad a kaiser Erwin Joseph will become, then the narrator goes onto a tangent about a kaiser whom plunged the galaxy into civil war, (edit:which he lost) before being replaced by another Goldenbaum.
TinyBomby food-and-pet-pix
I've actually been constantly one-meeting behind on the books so I haven't been able to talk too much about anything, even if there were things I could've brought up. I remember one thing I noted was the descriptions of the axes. Like, they're diamond encrusted melee weapons, which I suppose might make sense, but it feels a bit silly.
Kribbles food-and-pet-pix
It was fun! I got into the story. Sanderson does seem to have an annoying flaw in writing where, whichever character the MC meets first, is always the most trustworthy person or someone important. Like, you just happen to stumble upon the leader or whatever when you start exploring, c'mon now
TinyBomby food-and-pet-pix
Replying to Kribbles #kribbles1
It was fun! I got into the story. Sanderson does seem to have an annoying flaw in writing where, whichever character the MC meets first, is always the most trustworthy person or someone important. Like, you just happen to stumble upon the leader or whatever when you start exploring, c'mon now
I never actually realized this though, that's funny.
Kribbles food-and-pet-pix
My mom said Theo of Golden is really good, but the story felt like an old man's wet dream, coming into a new community and helping solve problems with all his wisdom. It felt too... contrived. Granted, I only got about 100 pages in.
polu food-and-pet-pix
Replying to Kribbles #kribbles1
My mom said Theo of Golden is really good, but the story felt like an old man's wet dream, coming into a new community and helping solve problems with all his wisdom. It felt too... contrived. Granted, I only got about 100 pages in.
Lol My mom also recommended it and I did not enjoy the authors style at all. You probably got farther then I did.
polu food-and-pet-pix
Replying to Kribbles #kribbles1
My mom said Theo of Golden is really good, but the story felt like an old man's wet dream, coming into a new community and helping solve problems with all his wisdom. It felt too... contrived. Granted, I only got about 100 pages in.
I told my mom your review, she thought it was funny
TinyBomby food-and-pet-pix
It's definitely at its best as a travel/commerce story. The action scenes at the end felt out of place in this type of story. If there's going to be a lot more action, I'm not really interested.

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