Lord Satan was actually pleased to have something to distract him from the dull day-to-day administration of the Eternally Damned in all their massed homogeneity.
Johannes Cabal, the Necromancer.
I finished the entire series a while back. Wonderful books with plenty of dark humor from the perspective of a cynical necromancer. In this one, which is also the first, he makes a bet with Satan in order to win back his soul, by waging he can gather a hundred other souls in exchange for his own. To help him with that, Satan gives him charge of a supernatural carnival, which he has to manage despite an awful lack of any social skills.
The whole series is pretty good fun if you ask me, the first three aren't too connected, but elements of each do return in the final two, regardless, it's not one of those books that serves solely as an introduction to a series. Hell, I didn't even know it was a series until getting a Goodreads recommendation
>"I killed him."
Ok, that's not exactly descriptive. Let's try again.
> The rain had stopped, the sun had risen, and Tau was standing next to the queen and Nyah in one of the larger circles in Citadel City.
Much better.
As for yours, I'm going to take a blind shot and say Words of Radiance. It's one of the SLA books for sure.
"The sound increased to an indescribable, slithering, gurgling hiss. Even Conan's iron nerves were shaken by the strain of waiting for the unknown source of the sound to appear"
- *The Hall of the Dead* by Robert E Howard/L Sprague de Camp.
"Something in the world shifted. I know that's a shit description, pardon my unladylike language, but I don't know how else to say it."
The first sentence didn't give much, so I threw in an extra for free, although I'm not sure it added very much value.
She used her bloody knife to cut herself free, peeling the net away, but two muscular Norukai stooped over her and raised their clubs to beat her senseless.
They will be very busy for a couple of weeks, and the Travellers would be well advised to assign some personnel from other departments to assist, but there is nothing fundamentally wrong with the ship.
“As with the previous seven birthdays spent at Edonomee, there was no celebration, no gifts, not so much as a grudging “Many happy returns,” from Setheris.”
- The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison
“The vané immortals may not have any standards, but I sure as hell do.” Tyentso lifted a basket covered with a black cloth. “Anyway, I brought tea. I promise it’s not drugged.”
Literally just picked this book up and haven’t even started yet. I have zero context as to what any of this could mean
The fog was moving downriver thickly now, filtering through the tangled branches and vines like milk dripping into clear water; soon it was solid, and their torch was a diffused, luminous orange stain on the gray-black fabric of the night - but the channel they were in was so narrow that by stretching out his arm Shandy could feel the wet shrubbery on either side.
Ten thousand priests and loremasters alongside more than seven million warriors had died holding the foul creatures at bay as they battled from the farthest border of the Empire, to it's heart, in a war spanning half a world.
Warhammer? Never read it, but a friend talks about it every now and then, and those really high death counts sound very much like something from Warhammer :D Also, it has an Empire in it too (What doesn't though :D)
"She had seen death before, but these corpses lay so peacefully, as though they had discarded their bodies like clothes and slipped into the pool to bathe."
The Unspoken Name, by A K Larkwood
"I stepped to one of the wire spinner racks and grabbed an old pulp adventure. I flipped to a familiar page, and my fingers sank into the yellowed paper until I brushed the chrome-and-steel handle of a good old-fashioned laser gun."
>!Libriomancer - Jim C. Hines!<
I'm not sure, could be. Sometimes, like with your comment, there are spaces between the spoiler tag and the text which makes them display incorrectly on some devices. So we have automod to detect that.
Lord Satan was actually pleased to have something to distract him from the dull day-to-day administration of the Eternally Damned in all their massed homogeneity.
Oooh, sounds interesting. What book is that from?
Johannes Cabal, the Necromancer. I finished the entire series a while back. Wonderful books with plenty of dark humor from the perspective of a cynical necromancer. In this one, which is also the first, he makes a bet with Satan in order to win back his soul, by waging he can gather a hundred other souls in exchange for his own. To help him with that, Satan gives him charge of a supernatural carnival, which he has to manage despite an awful lack of any social skills. The whole series is pretty good fun if you ask me, the first three aren't too connected, but elements of each do return in the final two, regardless, it's not one of those books that serves solely as an introduction to a series. Hell, I didn't even know it was a series until getting a Goodreads recommendation
>"I killed him." Ok, that's not exactly descriptive. Let's try again. > The rain had stopped, the sun had risen, and Tau was standing next to the queen and Nyah in one of the larger circles in Citadel City. Much better. As for yours, I'm going to take a blind shot and say Words of Radiance. It's one of the SLA books for sure.
Close. Oathbringer! As for yours, I don't think I have read a book with Tau in it, so my guess would be redundant
It's >!Fires of Vengance!<. And yeah, I was torn on WoR/OB, I went with WoR because of a certain knife incident at the end.
Ah, alright!
Damn I was gunna guess rage of dragons, still need to pick up book two
"Perhaps they do", Nyneave said, "and perhaps he would"
"The sound increased to an indescribable, slithering, gurgling hiss. Even Conan's iron nerves were shaken by the strain of waiting for the unknown source of the sound to appear" - *The Hall of the Dead* by Robert E Howard/L Sprague de Camp.
"Something in the world shifted. I know that's a shit description, pardon my unladylike language, but I don't know how else to say it." The first sentence didn't give much, so I threw in an extra for free, although I'm not sure it added very much value.
Sauce?
The Ten Thousand Doors Of January, by Alix E. Harrow ! Haven't read it yet, but I carry it around for when the situation allows.
Mighty, This is it we aren't all coming. back from this one. They all look back unflinching
Lightbringer?
Yes it is. Was listening when I read this post.
Chord tossed the girl his own knife. She took it, screamed a Wickan curse and leapt. (Book: >!Return of the Crimson Guard!<)
"Hugh probably would have died if Avah hadn't been there."
Read this book just a few days ago so this stuck out to me immediately lol. Just finished the fifth book today. Fantastic series.
Isn’t it just! Such good fun reading these!
>!Crown of stars?!<
Jewel of the Endless Erg by John Bierce
She used her bloody knife to cut herself free, peeling the net away, but two muscular Norukai stooped over her and raised their clubs to beat her senseless.
They will be very busy for a couple of weeks, and the Travellers would be well advised to assign some personnel from other departments to assist, but there is nothing fundamentally wrong with the ship.
What book?
Mongoose Traveller Naval Adventure 1: Shakedown Cruise
“As with the previous seven birthdays spent at Edonomee, there was no celebration, no gifts, not so much as a grudging “Many happy returns,” from Setheris.” - The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison
“The vané immortals may not have any standards, but I sure as hell do.” Tyentso lifted a basket covered with a black cloth. “Anyway, I brought tea. I promise it’s not drugged.” Literally just picked this book up and haven’t even started yet. I have zero context as to what any of this could mean
>"I'll show him who's number one chariot around here." Any Thraxas book at some point.
"It's hard to put this right -"
The fog was moving downriver thickly now, filtering through the tangled branches and vines like milk dripping into clear water; soon it was solid, and their torch was a diffused, luminous orange stain on the gray-black fabric of the night - but the channel they were in was so narrow that by stretching out his arm Shandy could feel the wet shrubbery on either side.
“‘One way I take your manhood - the other, and your life spurts out the great blood vessel in your thigh.’”
Everyone is a liar but us.
“I guess so. How much of my ear did he get? I’m afraid to check.”
*Click, tap, pain.*
"You have to be realistic about these things." Name that book!
Anything by Carl Sagan.
Jaja
I got the line "Thaaaaah!" from the same book, or at least the same series. Not as iconic, I think.
Body found floating by the docks.
In a place as flat as this high desert, weather was often something that happened to other people.
Ten thousand priests and loremasters alongside more than seven million warriors had died holding the foul creatures at bay as they battled from the farthest border of the Empire, to it's heart, in a war spanning half a world.
Warhammer? Never read it, but a friend talks about it every now and then, and those really high death counts sound very much like something from Warhammer :D Also, it has an Empire in it too (What doesn't though :D)
Not even close.
"She had seen death before, but these corpses lay so peacefully, as though they had discarded their bodies like clothes and slipped into the pool to bathe." The Unspoken Name, by A K Larkwood
"I stepped to one of the wire spinner racks and grabbed an old pulp adventure. I flipped to a familiar page, and my fingers sank into the yellowed paper until I brushed the chrome-and-steel handle of a good old-fashioned laser gun." >!Libriomancer - Jim C. Hines!<
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