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2026-01-08 21:30:55 UTC

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i think for me the reason it stands out as an example on this issue is that around the time I came to terms with "oh shit this is a fascist dictatorship" (patriot act passed) hunter decided that the cutoff for people figuring that out had passed and so he decided to leave. In terms of the Vegas book, it is a good book. It is an insightful and interesting book if you take it seriously. It is a fun and silly book if you dont. It is not an easy book to take seriously.

2026-01-08 19:53:39 UTC

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sometimes when people have that moment of "oh, wow, this actually is a fascist dictatorship" I am tempted to say something like, "Hunter S Thompson spent his entire career pointing that out. It is literally the point of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." And then I hold my tongue because I dont want to argue with someone who just came to terms with it.

2025-12-26 06:30:46 UTC

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Elton John did play Tommy in the movie

2025-06-05 02:49:58 UTC

I liked the Farsight Books because they are gripping and exciting. They show a lot of stuff about the Tau and the Greater Good and talk about a society growing and developing.
I did not like the Farsight books because in all this talk of a Farsight Enclave independent of Ethereal influence I did not expect them to end on "yeah, technically we are but dont tell anyone around here."
#amReading #40k @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-05-27 01:29:34 UTC

Okay, this is neither whimsical nor lighthearted. This is a brutal exploration into watching a dynasty of necrons succumb to the Flayer curse and now this character who I very much grew to like over the first book as a decent protaganist has completely succumbed to self destruction to where he is butchering everyone of his own people and even, like, the idea of butchering a necron shouldnt work... but he does it and its excessive #40k #amReading @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-05-22 02:40:19 UTC

Lord of the Night is another Night Lords book where the horror and tragedy dont really set in until the end. Thats what really makes the Night Lord books slap, this dude crashed on a planet, accidently decided to incite religious fundamentalists into class war claiming the emperor sent him. He rationalizes the Night Lords to the many humans he befriends. He wins his crusade with them and recovers a present his dad gave him. It all goes bad after that. #warhammer #WH40K #AmReading @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-05-16 22:08:56 UTC

Gazghkull Thraka: Prophet of the WAAAGH!! Absolutely slaps as a book. Its framed as an inquisitor interrogating an orc which is different from Brutal Kunnin or Big Dakka but the stories that captive tells are real propa orky. The ending is fantastic. The way you see a human trying to rationalize the ork worldview is great.Hendriksen is probably my third favorite space wolf now. #40k #amReading #warhammer @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-04-19 03:00:22 UTC

Traitor General is a good book. The Gaunt's Ghosts series does keep getting better. I have stopped comparing him to the only other commissar I had liked before him.
Its a stealth mission and they do absolutely crush it and they build up this whole resistance movement, blow up a bunch of stuff and, sure, none of them die, but that comes to more of a #40k thing. Guilliman doesnt have plot armor. Its called the Armour of Destiny. Deus ex Machina just means the Omnissiah #amReading @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-04-03 23:35:32 UTC

Harry Turtledove wrote a book (Ruled Britannia) once about Shakespeare, and the Spanish Armada had landed and England was under Spanish rule and its actually by far his best #book because Shakespeare and Marlowe team up to make #agitprop about Boudica and at one point theres this line
"No Epilogue here, unless you make it.
You want your freedom? Go and take it."
No reason for bringing that up. #amReading #AltHistory @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-03-20 01:16:47 UTC

Reading the Ultramarines books is convincing me that Graham McNeill has pretty bad ADHD. #amReading @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-03-12 00:26:44 UTC

You know, I hate Pet Sematary and all of that, but theres a #theExpanse plotline in Strange Dogs that hits all the same notes and I kinda love it. It builds up so much in the books. Sometimes in the TV show because they only do the Pet Sematary plot it feels like a relief because in the books its actually so much worse. @npub1ny7…uv57 #amReading #Expanse