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Ruin Explorer replied to the thread Audible credit burning a hole in my digital pocket...suggestions?.Yeah it does seem like we're there, but it was a lot of books to get to that point! Personally I think they just need to do a... -
Ruin Explorer reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Audible credit burning a hole in my digital pocket...suggestions? with
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I've listened to most of the Rivers of London series on Audible and I like them. The narrator does a great job of making the character... -
Ruin Explorer replied to the thread Audible credit burning a hole in my digital pocket...suggestions?.I'd personally strongly rate Novik's Uprooted over Spinning Silver. It's got a lot of similar ideas but it executes insanely better on...
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Ruin Explorer reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Audible credit burning a hole in my digital pocket...suggestions? with Like.
Locke Lamora, if you haven't read/heard them yet, are delightful. Not necessarily light, but optimistic in dark times, is the wonderful...
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Ruin Explorer replied to the thread What Geek Media Do You Refuse To Partake In?.I mean, was there a time when most SF/F books weren't? After the 1970s anyway. Maybe there was a brief window in the 1990s and early...
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Ruin Explorer replied to the thread What videogames are you playing in 2026?.For sure, but that's not really the issue I would suggest. A four-year-old can footle around hitting the easiest monsters (if it's...
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Ruin Explorer reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread What videogames are you playing in 2026? with Like.
Ever tried the Dynasty Warriors series?
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Ruin Explorer reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread What Geek Media Do You Refuse To Partake In? with Like.
It might be more accurate to say Romantasy is assimilating pulp fantasy, not killing it. I’m always suspicious of genre labels...
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Ruin Explorer replied to the thread What Geek Media Do You Refuse To Partake In?.I am always interested in excessively long YouTube video essay recommendations! This one has appeared in my YouTube recs before but I...
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Ruin Explorer reacted to Dannyalcatraz's post in the thread What Geek Media Do You Refuse To Partake In? with
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I think this is just the discoverability problem clashing with widening readership and genre splitting. For a specific kind of reader...
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Ruin Explorer replied to the thread Cosmere picked up by Apple TV.I'm a little worried about this. Not because I don't think Sanderson is sane, relatively sensible, or organised or whatever, but for...
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Oh, for Murder ot it was a absolute necessity...the novels are fully first person with tremendous interiority. While I like the...
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Uh oh. 😂 That said, it was probably necessary for this show. From what I have read of Stormlight Archives, absolutely not necessary there.
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Ruin Explorer reacted to Olgar Shiverstone's post in the thread Cosmere picked up by Apple TV with Like.
That seems ... ambitious.