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Wow, that cover is awesome! I can't wait to run this!

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My preorder says "Pending"! Woo-hoo!

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Zeugma wrote:
I also read a lot of Ray Bradbury. My parents had a huge anthology of his short stories I would read from, and that’s probably what got me into science fiction more than anything else.
Was it The Stories of Ray Bradbury? My parents got me that for my 10th birthday. My god, but that book messed my head up (in the good way).

Yes. That very book. I had to go to the bookshelf and thank goodness I did because now I see it’s an autographed copy! Signed by Ray Bradbury to my mom in 1980!

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My first was "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne, and I love it to this day. there is something about this journey into the unknown led by character that is intimately familiar that I will always like. I guess that it allows the in-depth explanations if how so much more digestible and natural.

Also one of my favorites! I read it on a camping trip to the beach in college. I finished it under the glow of a flashlight while the waves were crashing wildly against the shore just after sunset over the Pacific and I felt like I could almost look out and see The Nautilus breaching in the surf.

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I also read a lot of Ray Bradbury. My parents had a huge anthology of his short stories I would read from, and that’s probably what got me into science fiction more than anything else.

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The first sci-fi I remember reading was The Tripods, by John Christopher. Another sci-fi juvenile novel that impressed me was The Giver, by Lois Lowry. My first fantasy novel was probably The Hobbit. The first sci-fi novel that changed my worldview was Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness. That was the first time I’d read any sci-fi that had narration from an alien’s viewpoint, instead of an Earthling’s.

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I’m reading Starfinder, because my library finally got it. So far I think I’m gonna go with Numenera if my after-school club wants to do a sci-fi RPG.

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I just finished The Inquisitor’s Tale, by Adam Gidwitz. A bit serious in its themes for a kid’s book, but enough juvenile humor for a typical middle-grade reader (there’s a farting dragon! That sets people on fire with its farts!)

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There are usually a few Pathfinder games at each con. You can check on Warhorn.net for what PFS games will be there.

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We have Strategicon down here in Los Angeles. They put on 3 cons a year: Orccon, GameX, and Gateway. Next one is in February 2018.

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I read Lincoln in the Bardo , which is a very good ghost story. I think it would make a good radio play, since it’s essentially a series of monologues and letters.

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I read Girl Waits with Gun, by Amy Stewart. It's about the first woman deputy sheriff in New Jersey during the nineteen-teens, when she goes up against gangsters threatening her farm. It wasn't as hilarious or suspenseful as the jacket copy led me to believe, but it is a solid, lighthearted historical crime novel. I'd recommend it to people who enjoyed "Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries."

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I finished The Underground Railroad. I really liked it. It reminded me of Orwell a bit - lots of allusion and allegory (well, I'm not sure allegory is quite the word for it, but close enough).

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The horsemen could wipe out their lead in short order.
--The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead

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Starting "The Underground Railroad," by Colson Whitehead, and "Princes of the Apocalypse," which is D&D 5e's Ferun update to the Temple of Elemental Evil.

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I'm not sure another 8th level module is what I need right now, but since it's a ways off I'll wait and see what develops.

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Rysky wrote:

MODULE!

NIDAL!

SQUUUUUUUUUUUUUUEEEEEEEEEE!

Ditto!

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To me it felt really solid from first to last. There weren't any plot threads that were picked up and dropped - everything is nicely foreshadowed and none of the books were really weak, although I've only read through it and not played it yet.

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The trailer wasn't great, but I'm hoping the movie will be good. I liked the book and graphic novel adaptation. It's a good story.

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Please cancel my Pathfinder Adventure Path subscription. Thank you.

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Not reading anything serious now. I finished a sci-fi novel: Shadrach in the Furnace, by Robert Silverberg. A lot of the stuff he explores about body-switching and body-farming was already becoming cliche by 1967 but, as with most Silverberg, he carries it off with panache and lots of focus on fallen-empire window-dressing that he so loves (and that he does quite well compared to, say, Michael Crichton).

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Does "Earnest Scared Stupid," "Earnest Goes to Jail" et. al. count as terrible? I like them. They're really stupid though.

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I'm reading Jack London's The Sea Wolf, which I'm enjoying so far even though I've already seen the film. I've just realized the title isn't the name of the ship, but of the story's main character, and I'm on chapter 10. : -/

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I finished The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA, by Doug Mack.

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I think it works for what it is - part travelogue, part impassioned plea for unity and understanding of these very different regions with very similar status and colonial history. However, I almost wish it were longer because although Mack makes his point within roughly 300 pages I wanted more of the meat of the politics, history and trajectories of the territories. In other words, there were not enough footnotes/it wasn't long enough. However, there were some and I would probably be confused if he'd really gotten into the legal aspects of territorial law. The Jones Act plays a big part in the narrative and I want to understand it better than the gloss Mack gives it. The book hasn't enlightened me on what's going to happen to Puerto Rico, which is partly why I read it. But it's interesting and it would be nice if it spurred America to reconsider her colonies and do right by them, not leave them as nearly-forgotten footnotes to the Teddy Roosevelt era.

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NobodysHome wrote:

Use the Urban Dictionary.

Though I was surprised; I've never heard "plotz" used negatively before...

It can be either. Like, when I'm exhausted after a rough day at work and someone calls to invite me out: "I can't. After the day I've had, I'd just plotz!"

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I mostly like the cover, but the red is weirding me out, because it really shouldn't show up that well under water.

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I really like the cover. Awesome evil dryad!

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I'm reading The Not-Quite States of America, by Doug Mack. It's about the past, present and future of the Commonwealths and Territories of the USA. Very interested and can't wait to read the chapter on Puerto Rico in light of the recent "not-chapter-11" bankruptcy proceedings.

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Da Vinci sounds like my kind of epicurean! I love all those foods too!

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Thanks Aberzombie. I needed cheering up after a tough day.

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The common theme was that even by the pluralistic standards of the USA, American Samoa was different, more foreign than familiar.
~ Doug Mack, The Not-Quite States of America

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Yes! This one looks fun! I can't wait!

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My sister, a middle-school science teacher, has just started an after-school RPG club! She has about 7 students interested. I'm so proud of her!

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I probably shouldn't post here, but IMO Rutger Hauer was the only good actor in that movie. Everyone else was just playing a role.

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I'm working my way through the Lord Peter Wimsey detective novels, and wondering why it took me so long to find them.

That is iNterspersed with whatever catches my eye in the library, which means rereading The Handmaid's Tale today.

I used to own some of the books in that series but they got moldy and I had to throw them out. : (

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I actually find Douglass easier to read. Yes he's flowery but he's not sugar-coating his message to the same degree.

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I'm currently beginning The Souls of Black Folk, by W.E.B. DuBois. I have Booker T. Washington waiting with Up From Slavery after that. Maybe Samnell is rubbing off on me... :)

Booker T Washington kind of frustrated me because there is so much subtext that doesn't get said in his 19th century style - the racism and discrimination that I want to see called out for what it is. But that could be just me having read up a bit on Reconstruction, particularly Jim Crow, and not buying into the Horatio Alger spin he puts on his story. It certainly worked for his audience but not for me. But I may try UFS again someday; it could have been the wrong time for me to try it.

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Reading an ARC I got last month (librarian perks): Black Moon Rising by DJ MacHale. It's middle grade fiction and I'm skimming so I can review & booktalk it. I thought I was getting into familiar "Carrie"-esque territory but now its taken a turn towards "Hocus Pocus" which appeals to me way less because I am getting tired of girls-with-magical-powers = witches. Still it's fast-paced and some of the more obvious plot twists will still be new and fresh to the 11 to 13 crowd. I'd probably recommend it over the Goosebumps books they're always reading.
I'm beginning to really appreciate the power librarians have when it comes to influencing our youth. Just recommending books can lead to a cascade of events resulting in major consequences. There are so many books, and such little time, that the tiny percentage of publications you do get to read are so precious.

Thanks Smilo! I tend to look at it more negatively, as in so-many-books,too-little-time, and it can get frustrating when my list of go-tos just leaves a patron cold; so I don't always appreciate that each recommendation could be precious. I try to see it from the patron's POV.and try to conjure up my inner child. But it doesn't always work.

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Now now Gregor, that joke doesn't work. You know you're not in that story.

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Reading an ARC I got last month (librarian perks): Black Moon Rising by DJ MacHale. It's middle grade fiction and I'm skimming so I can review & booktalk it. I thought I was getting into familiar "Carrie"-esque territory but now its taken a turn towards "Hocus Pocus" which appeals to me way less because I am getting tired of girls-with-magical-powers = witches. Still it's fast-paced and some of the more obvious plot twists will still be new and fresh to the 11 to 13 crowd. I'd probably recommend it over the Goosebumps books they're always reading.

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I hope y'all feel better soon. I miss my free entertainment.

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I started in a Play-by-Post of Castle Whiterock here on Paizo.com and it was early-days Pathfinder rules, but that game petered out quickly and we barely got into the castle, so I don't know how much fun it would have been.

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I'd love to see another AP or Module set in the same area as Second Darkness - kind of like a SD do-over, since there were all kinds of problems with that AP.

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Naga and medusa on the cover! So cool! I hope the interior art is just as awesome!

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I finished "The Wall of Storms"! Finally! As in book 1 the best parts were: 1. The bickering gods of Dara, 2. The advances in technology due to necessity, and 3. The fantastical setting. Note how only 1 of those deal with characterization. Liu is okay at some of his characters, but others (like Empress Jia) are Machiavellian plot-movers. I'm still looking forward to book 3 but I hope it isn't 800+ pages like this one.

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I'm more than halfway done with "The Wall of Storms" and only now has a character actually gotten to the wall of storms! On page 509 no less! Only 300 pages left to go!

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My favorite part of the James Whale's Frankenstein (1931) is the long tracking shot of the father carrying his dead daughter through the wedding festival, and the gradual change in tone from festivity to absolute shock and horror. And the best thing about that scene is that there are zero special effects, zero "surprise" cuts, and it is still emotionally effective - I had to remind myself that it's only a movie and that little girl isn't actually dead. Go watch that scene. It's great.

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They searched the room and found the remains of a dwarf, including a masterwork stone hammerhead that Narlock easily identified as one of the treasures of the Kraggorach clan of dwarves. After figuring out that it would take them days to return the hammerhead properly, the party just shrugged its collective shoulders and sold it to the Free Captains instead. (The Free Captains are making out like pirates in this campaign. It's pretty awesome.)

Fixed a typo.

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We'll Shakespeare sort of was a rebel, wasn't he? What with Richard II being a "treasonous" play.

Shakespeare's Richard II and the Essex Rebellion

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