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Re: Sample Chapters?
« Reply #15 on: August 31, 2015, 02:57:33 PM »
Thankyou Oz for the direct link it was hard to navigate the homepage on cell phone so the direct link helped. I guess my favourite character so far is the mother.
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Re: Sample Chapters?
« Reply #16 on: August 31, 2015, 03:35:47 PM »
I don't understand, Dina. What didn't you like about the names?
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Re: Sample Chapters?
« Reply #17 on: August 31, 2015, 11:21:09 PM »
Ok, the first line of the prologue is
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Well, I just feel
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Re: Sample Chapters?
« Reply #18 on: September 01, 2015, 11:23:42 PM »
Oh, the agony! I want desperately to read Jim's new book, but I don't want to spoil it for mysel! I want a completely new experience from the very first word when I open the cover the first time. But I want to read the sample chapters! No! Yes! No! Yes! [runs screaming down the street, pulling out grey hair]

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Re: Sample Chapters?
« Reply #19 on: September 02, 2015, 04:01:23 PM »
Quote from: Dina on August 31, 2015, 11:21:09 PM
Ok, the first line of the prologue is
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Well, I just feel
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I kind of agree. Seriously, Jim needs someone to buy him this:
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Re: Sample Chapters?
« Reply #20 on: September 02, 2015, 06:04:50 PM »
Thanks, it's good to know I am not alone
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Re: Sample Chapters?
« Reply #21 on: September 02, 2015, 08:53:53 PM »
Quote from: Dina on September 02, 2015, 06:04:50 PM
Thanks, it's good to know I am not alone

Yeah, it was an interesting prologue, but that one thing made me less inclined to read the whole book. Where's the originality?
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Re: Sample Chapters?
« Reply #22 on: September 03, 2015, 12:47:45 AM »
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Re: Sample Chapters?
« Reply #23 on: September 03, 2015, 03:33:47 PM »
You know, I had absolutely no desire or interest to read the Cinder Spires series, but damn it, I went and read the sample prologue out of curiosity, and know I'm sucked in and am going to read the series... Damn you Jim Butcher, damn you for being such a good writer...
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Re: Sample Chapters?
« Reply #24 on: September 03, 2015, 03:49:11 PM »
They havent even gotten to the cats yet...
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Re: Sample Chapters?
« Reply #25 on: September 04, 2015, 12:09:46 AM »
Isn't the next installment, chapter 2, the one that has already been out for a while? I don't know if what's out is the entire chapter though.
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Re: Sample Chapters?
« Reply #26 on: September 09, 2015, 12:32:33 PM »
So, anyone know when chapter two will be posted?
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Re: Sample Chapters?
« Reply #27 on: September 09, 2015, 02:54:39 PM »
I sent a question to Priscellie, yesterday about that, but I haven't got any answer yet(so for now we can just wait and see, and speculate more about prologoue and chapter 1 I guess. ;)
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« Reply #28 on: September 09, 2015, 11:53:42 PM »
The second chapter is posted!

Thanks Priscilla!
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Re: Sample Chapters?
« Reply #29 on: September 10, 2015, 03:04:11 PM »
Here's the link.  I couldn't actually find a link or the initial post anywhere on the website itself, though eventually Google was able to get to it directly


http://www.jim-butcher.com/books/cinder-spires/the-aeronauts-windlass-1/aeronauts-windlass-chapter-two
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