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I've finished: The Simoqin Prophecies by Samit Basu

Self-aware and breaking the fourth wall, The Simoqin Prophecies makes fun of classic tropes from myth, fairy tale and fantasy. But it is not trying to be funny, it is deadly serious about its own high fantasy world.

While it is not perfect in all it's choices, as an experienced fantasy reader I enjoyed the references to classic tropes and their deconstruction. Satire can be better when it's not trying too hard to make you laugh.

app.thestorygraph.com/books/c4

I'm glad I found it through a Story Graph reading challenge prompt. Sometimes you find a book that was written for you 20 years after it was published and wonder where it's been all these years.

I love reading challenges with prompts that specify a type of book and let you choose the book you'll read for that prompt. You can also use these prompts to find novels other members think fit a prompt you like. I found The Simoqin Prophecies in the Speculative fiction genres challenge, under the prompt for Comic Speculative Fiction.

The speculative fiction genres challenge:

app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/fff6ad46-1acf-4f0b-a841-b769b72f7d14

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Book cover for The Simoqin Prophecies by Samit Basu
app.thestorygraph.comThe Simoqin Prophecies by Samit BasuThe Simoqin Prophecies, first published in 2003 in India, was critically acclaimed and an instant...
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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Horace

But he that touches me, (hands off! I cry, —
Avaunt, and at your peril come not nigh!)
Shall for his pains be chaunted up and down,
The jest and byeword of a chuckling Town.
 
                                        [At ille,
Qui me conmorit (melius non tangere, clamo),
Fiebit et insignis tota cantabitur urbe.]

Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 1, “Sunt quibus in Satira,” l. 44ff (2.2.44-46) (30 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/horace/14901/

WIST Quotations · Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 1, "Sunt quibus in Satira," l. 44ff (2.2.44-46) (30 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)] - Horace | WIST QuotationsBut he that touches me, (hands off! I cry, -- Avaunt, and at your peril come not nigh!) Shall for his pains be chaunted up and down, The jest and byeword of a chuckling Town. [At ille, Qui me conmorit (melius non tangere, clamo), Fiebit et insignis tota cantabitur urbe.]…
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