The "Why aren't you reading Worm yet?" Thread.

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Pact 2 is up, and again this has caught me more than the others. I want to know what's going on.
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I would not at all be unhappy with Boil, but I'm seriously pulling for Pact.
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Definitely rooting for Pact.

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I'd still prefer boil, purely on the science side. Pact was well written, but there's tons of well written horror out there.
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Pact doesn't really strike me as something original - it's a basic monster story. Still rooting for Boil.
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I'd be happy with either Pact or Boil, wildbow's style seems to add more to the basic premise.

Pact 3 up, with a lot of answers to what's been going on, and how deep our protagonist is in it.
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Pact is starting to look interesting. I'm still hoping Wildblow goes with Boil though.
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To be fair, I took a week off to read a book and then read Pact 1-3 in one sitting, which may have influenced my impression of it, but it definitely sparked my imagination more than the others. Where else are we going to get an utterly fucked Protagonist / Protagonist's Cousin / Protagonist's Alt-Universe Female-Self-And/Or-Maybe-Dead-Grandma love triangle, huh? Huh? ;]

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ok, Pact is growing on me.

Still feels a bit like a retread of the ground used in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_S ... Mr_Norrell but meh.

Here's hoping for Boil
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and it's pact:
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http://wildbow.wordpress.com/2013/12/31/sample-pact-4/
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On it.
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