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^^This.

Gotta say parts of it felt uncomfortably close to debugging software. ;)

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As you can tell from the 'Fan of', this is a weird book that takes some big swings & is destined to be a classic.
Not just because it's very compelling and obscenely well thought out, but because there's nothing else like it.
Finished it in an evening.
Will be thinking about it a lot longer.

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Fan of:
- Working with negative space
- Debugging
- Amnesiators
- Always being your best
- Second first days
- Weaponized hard drives
Try: @qntm.org's
There Is No Antimemetics Division
qntm.org/antimemetics
A secret agency tracks deadly things that don't want to be remembered.

(And as Katta mentioned Pratchett, here's a bit more)
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I'll +1 the Pratchett and Kingfisher (see other post). Pratchett's early Discworld books are pretty quick reads, and they get a bit more dense as they go along. Pretty much anything by him is gonna be good.

Or T. Kingfisher:
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Or Naomi Novik:
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Lawrence Watt-Evans' stuff comes to mind:
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...aaand some thinking person's horror SF to start...
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Some 'messed with the wrong people' SF.
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Some mysterious drifter SF
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Well, we got military SF with some side effects:
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That Halloween, Crumpet was a SPIDER!

Ah. Understandable, but a real bummer.

Yeah, that's like picking a favorite child.

I gotta say, though, that the John Carter covers defined how I pictured everything in those books.

I just looked, and while they don't seem to be there, if prints of them are ever available in the shop I'll be first in line.

(Hm. There seems to be no good way to reliably point to one's profile picture.)

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Hey, you had this guy at 'Om Nom Nom.'

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The fun of TKPS is JS coming up with plausible explanations for the physics of these beasts and presenting it through the eyes of a bio-engineering in SF major.

It's quick. It's fun, & JS already knows what you're thinking and is there with an answer.

It's a must for any fan of giant monsters.

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Fan of:
- A particular Blue Öyster Cult song
- Big-ass monsters!
- Large animal vets
Try
@scalzi.com's
The Kaiju Preservation Society
whatever.scalzi.com/2022/03/15/t...
A literature major gets a job working for a secret agency dedicated to the study of city destroying monsters.

Peter Clines' Threshold books feature cosmic horror. One of my favorites was:
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Can confirm. +1 for Dungeon Crawler Carl and the rest of the series. It's way better and a lot deeper than you might think.

Not gonna lie, I did zoom in to see if I could find a Red Bull logo on it :).

Though on topic, I know Starship Troopers used that idea, but can't immediately think of any other books that did.

Re: always the economy.

In my experience there are a lot of people in this country that (manufactured outrage aside) believe if it's not _their_ problem it's not _a_ problem.

So bombing someone _else's_ children is fine, until the price of gas goes up.

And that's the media pitch for engagement.

Predictably, Frank's manners blew his cover.

I think I'd read Boneshaker, around it's publication date and recall it being pretty good.

Sounds exactly like my house. Hair tie theft is the most common crime. So my wife keeps buying more, so then there are more to steal.
It's a vicious cycle.

Same here. We put straw-on-a-string to drag around and that was a hit.

I dunno why we bother with cat toys when a plastic straw, a hair tie and an approximately cat sized cardboard box to pounce out of is peak entertainment.

Me: my cat is bored.

Vet: Say no more. Have you tried...garbage?

A few thoughts:

- There doesn't seem to be a film adaptation of TFP, but book -> film adaptations aren't nearly as straightforward as you'd think.

- What _would_ happen with the salvaged parts of a haunted house that were sold?

- & a shout out to John Wiswell for the rec:
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Look, if the summary above didn't sell you on this book, I don't know what to tell you.
I'd be hitting "Buy!" as fast as I could.

CP does an excellent job of pacing out the backstory of the place with a flawless execution of the haunted house salvage concept.

This book does _not_ disappoint.