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Message: <blockquote data-quote="spacemonkey" data-source="post: 1458391" data-attributes="member: 13180">Bam! Ground Floor on my first ENWorld Book Club participation <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />---Anyway, I thought The Anubis Gates was great.  I also often have problems with the way time travel is wrapped up (or not..), and was pretty well satisfied this time around, especially with the paradoxical 'so who wrote all of Ashbless' stuff?' question.  Kinda like the universe won't let a dangerous paradox happen - or, (even more interesting) that the 'loop' of events we saw happened as a result of 'previous' actions or loops and was the only way that things turned out stable.  Perhaps Doyle really wrote those lines in an alternate history that was erased as people went back and forth and changed its course even as they remembered some bits from it?  That scenario just screams to be used in a game... if it could be done right.Powers' writing was great - quick and light when needed, but stopping every now and then (and this is probably what I enjoyed the most) for a supremely bizarre and contorted look at one scene.  There were points where I had to stop and just think for a moment about some greatly described situation that just popped off the pages.  I also read this work mostly at night, and some parts were nice and spooky <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Oh, and I guessed pretty early that with the coming body switches blondie was going to end up as Ashbless.  The descriptions were pretty close most times.  From there it wasn't a huge leap to realize that either Doyle or Coleridge would end up in him, as he had to be a poetry guy.  Still quite fun though.-spacemonkeyOh, and sawfages <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  I love that olde-timey spelling  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Oh, and elementals, gotta love them elementals.  Really good portrayal as well, though I'm not sure why the fire ones liked toys so much..</blockquote>

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