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Epic
Epic | Conor Kostick
7 posts | 8 read | 2 to read
Generations ago, violence was banned on New Earth. Society is governed and conflicts are resolved in the arena of a fantasy computer game, Epic. Everyone plays. If you win, you have the chance to go to university, get more supplies for your community, and fulfill your dreams; if you lose, your life both in and out of the game is worth nothing. When Erik, seeking revenge for the unjust treatment of his parents, dares to subvert the rules of Epic, he and his friends find themselves up against with the ultimate masters of the game: the Committee. If Erik and his friends win, they may have the key to destroying Epics tyranny over New Earth. But if they lose . . . Watch a QuickTime trailer for this book.
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Books_n_Whatnot
Epic | Conor Kostick
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Mehso-so

Recommended by my roommate. She read it in middle school and remembered liking it a lot. I loved the concept of a world where the justice system is a virtual role player game. Plot wasn‘t super well developed but it was a fun read.

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BarbaraJean
Epic | Conor Kostick
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1. The Litsy profile for this one consists only of my posts on how much I hated it. I feel kinda bad about that, but the book was terrible.
2. Pack for work, on weekends it depends.
3. Either that time I inadvertently flashed the entire church right before playing a violin solo or the time I nearly caused a large traffic accident while driving a group of visitors to the Voortrekker Monument.
4. Rain, coffee, clean laundry
5. Blue Joy
#friyayintro

wanderinglynn I‘m sorry you were tortured you this book. But that‘s rather funny that *all* the posts about the book are yours! 😂😂😂 5y
BarbaraJean @wanderinglynn I still haven‘t forgiven the book club member who recommended it!! 5y
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BarbaraJean
Epic | Conor Kostick
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1. No pictures from today—this is Sunday, from my husband‘s contemplative piano/prayer service. He also plays on Weds. so this will happen later today!
2. Seven.😱
3. No—high today is 80F. I‘m still fighting my husband over using the A/C!
4. No
5. Some of the poorest published writing I‘ve ever read. Stilted dialogue, flat characters, awkward sentences, inconsistent world-building—& more! I only finished because it was for book club.
#HumpDayPost

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BarbaraJean
Epic | Conor Kostick
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Panpan

I finished this last night, and the ending did not redeem the lousy writing. There were decent ideas, but those were buried under flat characters, stilted dialogue, awkward sentences, inconsistent world-building, and plot twists that went nowhere. It‘s a first novel, but that doesn‘t excuse some of the weakest published writing I‘ve seen. I wouldn‘t have finished it, but: book club. Sigh. It‘s the first in a trilogy which I will not be finishing!

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BarbaraJean
Epic | Conor Kostick
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My post-Festival bath is pretty epic, but the book selection sadly is not. I‘m slogging through the last 45 pages of this book club pick tonight and am finding it difficult to get through the poor writing. But I have a bath and wine and dark chocolate espresso Laceys and some juice (which is key because I totally made the bath too hot), so: epic.

GypsyKat Perfect! 6y
CSeydel That tray is epic! I had no idea such a thing existed. 😍 6y
BarbaraJean @CSeydel It is epic!! I‘ve wanted one forever, but we didn‘t have a bathtub until we moved into our new place at the end of January. This was an amazing birthday gift last month from a couple of dear friends. They gave me the wine, too. 😍 6y
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BarbaraJean
Epic | Conor Kostick
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Working on a book club read this afternoon. The friend who chose this one for our book group described it as “what Ready Player One should have been.” Conceptually, it‘s kind of as if IOI from Ready Player One had gained control of the Oasis and used it as a way of governing the real world. And there‘s less fanboy-ing and far fewer pop culture references. I‘m finding the story and the ideas interesting, but the writing is pretty sub-par. 😕

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BarbaraJean
Epic | Conor Kostick
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I stopped at the library to pick up my book club‘s April selection...and this happened. How does this always happen?! #blameitonlitsy #libraryhaul