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With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

Discussion in 'Creative Writing' started by Mr Zoat, Jan 27, 2019.

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  1. King of Frost

    King of Frost Wishing I was somewhere colder no doubt.

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    I've been meaning to read the Terry Pratchett's series, still haven't even started any of them.

    My favorite book series is probably either "The Dresden Files" or the "Suzumiya Haruhi" books honestly.
     
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  2. RichardWhereat

    RichardWhereat Aia airëa Fëanáro.

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    Start with Equal Rites, if later Rincewind books interest you, you can always go back. But the first two Discworld Books are almost standalone compared to the rest of the series.
     
  3. LiamOfOrmonde

    LiamOfOrmonde Know what you're doing yet?

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    My favorite book is also by Terry Pratchett. Thing is, I can’t tell you what it is exactly because my feelings are equally tied between The Last Continent and Snuff. Raising Steam was good too, but reading it makes me feel a bit too sad for me to call it my favorite. The Last Continent feels like a story about how you can’t escape fate, except when you do. Snuff feels like a story where you are on the backdrop by the awfulness there is in the world. Leaning more forwards The Last Continent because of Rincewind.

    When I was young I wanted to be like Rincewind. Not cause he was a WIZZARD of course. I wanted to be like Rincewind because he escaped. He endured. No matter what the world threw at him he lived as best as he could and undoubtably made the world a better place as he made his way in life. Rincewind had a strength I envied. His resilience even when it felt like the whole world was against him was something I admired as a child, and still do to this day.
     
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  4. Sockmonkey

    Sockmonkey I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    Probably Robert Asprin's "Myth" series. The stories flow well enough that none of the bits feel like something you have to slog through to get to the good part.
     
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  5. Mr Zoat

    Mr Zoat Dedicated ragequitter

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    Leonard Snart is American. Isn't that how they spell it?
    I couldn't finish Raising Steam. Snuff felt like generic fantasy, but Raising Steam was genuinely bad.
     
  6. david

    david Getting sticky.

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    on the other hand, you can say the same thing about Batman and women, rogues aren’t contractually obligated to be miserable and/or villains in this story.
     
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  7. Ngamer11

    Ngamer11 Experienced.

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    Seeing Snart being so cooperative makes me wish the Team could meet Peter Wynne for some reason. It would interest Paul at least, who said he would have liked to see a pure uplift version of himself back in Episode 24: Fool's Canon.

    I also really hope Snart can become a legitimate inventor and work in WayneTech to improve the world.

    All in all, nice conversation between OL and a reforming supervillain.
     
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  8. edmantgoog

    edmantgoog Not too sore, are you?

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    Just the sadest but also most endearing thing I have read this year
     
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  9. geniusboi

    geniusboi Your first time is always over so quickly, isn't it?

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    You know what? I like these moments where paul just talks with people more than the action or intense scenes. The author should do more of them, especially one with diana, I feel like we didn't get that much of cute paul and diana intersections, they are always related to missions and paul keeps calling her sir which makes me sad :(
     
  10. LiamOfOrmonde

    LiamOfOrmonde Know what you're doing yet?

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    I appreciate the message that Snuff tries to convey, albeit poorly. Also the idea of Nobby Nobbs hooking up with a goblin girl is hilarious. The quality of those books does genuinely feel like they have dropped in some areas compared to the rest of his works, but to be fair those two books were the first two books he wrote when his Alzheimers started getting really bad.
     
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  11. OrigamiPhoenix

    OrigamiPhoenix Getting sticky.

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    I'd appreciate some more context here.
     
  12. Pinklestia

    Pinklestia Well worn.

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    I have many books I like, but one of the ones I have read a lot is Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen by Jules Verne.

    It may not be the masterpiece that Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea was but it was the most "for kids" book he ever wrote and I was a kid when I first read it.

    Yes even with the Captain and sailors death.
     
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  13. Chojin Patriarch

    Chojin Patriarch Veteran Lurker

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    The problem is, he switches between 'favorite' and 'favourite' several times. For instance, his second and third lines in the scene, after the first correction... I just went for the lesser number of apparent errors. Otherwise, every occurence of 'favourite' in his dialogue is wrong...
     
  14. Grimnar

    Grimnar Versed in the lewd.

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    Probably Guards, Guards! for me.

    God I love that series.
     
  15. Chaoswind

    Chaoswind Lord of nonsense

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    I couldn't honestly answer about a favorite book and I have read plenty... On the other hand I can readily answer what is my favorite video game (Chrono Trigger), my favorite visual novel (Muv Luv even if the Fate stay series is universe is better) and favorite web serial novel (Mushoku Tensei)...

    I guess since visual components are such a huge part of the focus of how I store long lasting memories, most books just don't have enough an actual impact for me, fanfiction is slightly different because my favorites are retellings of universes that were already visual. The one outlier would be the web serial Mushoku Tensei, but I read it when it had already one of the light novel volumes already released thus I had the images of the first volume on hand to associate the characters of the novel.
     
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  16. Ej190

    Ej190 Making the rounds.

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    Dresden files for me.

    The 1st 3 books are a bit rough but man, the books after hook you to the series so hard.
     
  17. Mr Zoat

    Mr Zoat Dedicated ragequitter

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    I used to play a game called Magic: the Gathering, produced by a company called Wizards of the Coast. I also used to frequent their forum. One of the boards on the forum was called 'Novels and Storylines', where people discussed the fictional works associated with the game. At the time, each of the three card sets released every year had a novel associated with them. The first few I read were... Okay. Some interesting ideas, no real depth. Some people liked them, some didn't.

    Then the Onslaught block happened. Three books of pure crap, and the forum united in its opinion on the subject. And the Mods had an episode, and I think this is where my distaste for moderators started. Initially, the forum was shut completely. Then they put it back with 'Novels' shorn from the name and a firm instruction to everyone not to discuss the novels. Which provoked the response: 'How do we discuss the storyline without discussing the novels?'

    It was a classic case of 'once people start talking in ways we don't want them to, shut it down and pretend it was always against the rules'.
    I'll correct those then, thank you.
     
  18. Belenus

    Belenus Versed in the lewd.

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    That is really very sad.

    Since we're comparing favorite books, mine would have to be Lord of the Rings. Been my favorite since I was 8 years old, don't see that changing any time soon.
     
  19. Prince Charon

    Prince Charon Just zis guy, you know?

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    I like a lot of books, but I'm really not good at settling on a favourite anything.
     
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  20. FeepingCreature

    FeepingCreature Not too sore, are you?

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    Hm.

    I think I'd have to say Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect. I think Egan's Permutation City is the one that influenced my philosophy the most, but it's not very *good*; Egan is way better at ideas than people. And both MoPI and Blindsight have influenced me a lot, Blindsight probably more, but MoPI is the first book aside maybe the Culture series that I'd read that actually formulated a halfway plausible utopia actually worth living in. (Even if the characters disagree.)

    And of course Pratchett is more skilled than all of those as an author, but I feel the Discworld series has sometimes a hard time transcending the tropes it invokes, and when it does, it's to emphasize a point I'll probably already agree with. I love Discworld, but it never blew my mind. (And for a series that bemoans treating people as things, it has a sore lack of genuinely relatable villains...)
     
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  21. Queshire

    Queshire Not too sore, are you?

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    My favorite book is generally whatever I've read most recently. =_='
     
  22. CTrees

    CTrees Chasing the ring

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    Favorite author is definitely Neal Stephenson, but my favorite of his books? Either Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, or the first half of Seveneves, but identifying which is my favorite is difficult.
     
  23. Chojin Patriarch

    Chojin Patriarch Veteran Lurker

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    :oops: Hate to be the one to point it out, but...
    ...You missed one.
     
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  24. néocorvinus

    néocorvinus Versed in the lewd.

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    Even considering how intelligent the guy is, he must at least have read a book about engineering. K say his favorite book is porn
     
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  25. Xelloss

    Xelloss Know what you're doing yet?

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    My fav is Les Trois Mousquetaires de Dumas Père. Action, Romance, and lots of historical side notes.
     
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  26. Ace Dreamer

    Ace Dreamer Questioning The Nature of our Realities

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    You see, the problem is he's translating this strange language, 'American', for English speakers. Oh? You mean there might be Americans reading this?

    ("Two people(s), separated by a common language" :) )
    ((irony; if the Roman Empire was still around we might all be using Latin... No, I don't think the European Union is a disguised version of it. :) ))
     
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  27. NullVoid

    NullVoid Getting out there.

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    Favorite book, favorite music, favorite color... Life is too short and neurons too finite to waste on such things. How do I compare Agatha Christie's work to Tolkien's to Jules Verne's and to William Gibson's? The same goes for the several styles of music and colors depend on the mood you want and contrast to other colors around it.
     
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  28. nogoodnames

    nogoodnames Getting out there.

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    Good thing he asked about favourite novel instead of comic. Wonder how long it would be before we get crossover elements with Diskworld. I'm imagining this story written with elements of Pratchett's style, such as asides or similar bizzare situations or however that makes might work. Also what would an iced themed criminal favourite novel be Cat's Cradle for the ice jokes
     
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  29. Enochi

    Enochi Having way to much fun with AI.

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    Hmm favorite book? Probably Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn.

    Favorite fanfic? The Great Alicorn Hunt by R. H. Junior.

    TGAH isn't even finished but I swear I reread it a couple times a year.

    Of Terry Pratchett books Probably The Wee Free Men is my go to.
     
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  30. Siskulous

    Siskulous Know what you're doing yet?

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    I've not heard of Suzumiya Haruhi, but seconded on Dresden Files. If I had to pick one of the books it'd be a tough call between Dead Beat and Changes. I'm sure Sue would agree with Dead Beat.
     
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