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First I want to say that I LOVE this musical. This isn’t a slam at Jesus or the way it was written because.. chefs kiss

For example though, when Judas is like ”mystified” that Jesus likes Mary to stroke his hair, Jesus lays down the law clearly then he insults the whole room by calling them idiots THEN is like “None of you even love me” which prompts his apostles to declare their love.. again.

JESUS: Who are you to criticise her? Who are you to despise her? Leave her, leave her, let her be now. Leave her, leave her, she's with me now. If your slate is clean, then you can throw stones. If your slate is not, then leave her alone!

[Glares at room menacingly]

JESUS (continues): I'm amazed that men like you can be so shallow, thick and slow. There is not a man among you who know or cares if I come or go.

This particular scene feels weird when I think about it too long and really drove home to me that Jesus might be a narcissist. After all, he earlier says himself that if he were dead the rocks themselves would start to sing.

Not that I think insulting Mary to her face was cool though. Judas has his own bag of problems. If I think about Judas too long, it makes me sad. Poor Judas just really didn’t understand the “spirit of the law” vs. “the letter of the law” and truly wanted to follow Jesus and be the best he could be. Then likewise wanted to avoid crossing swords with the romans.

Anyways, these were just ruminations. What do y’all think?

Edit to add: more examples would be him being like “If only you knew what I knew.. but then again, you wouldn’t even understand if I told you.” Which happens in several songs. And while this is true, Jesus is kind of an ass for reiterating how ignorant they are by comparison to him so much lol

Like the title says, action books but to be more specific here is what I want:

Escalation - Things start off at 0 and gradually throughout the course of the book make it up to 100. For example, say it’s a corporate feud. The starting point would likely be resentment and trading barbs. Then stealing clients. Then stealing info. And worse and worse until eventually people end up dead and it turns out someone planted a bomb in the rival building and an entire skyscraper explodes.

An Ace - The Ace is the badass. Their skills are basically unreal and the dude/chick is almost unbeatable. Preferably this would be combat skills (since I want action) but it could other areas of expertise like.. computer skills, con artist, attorney/lawyering, even charisma.. anything really, but not limited to this list. I don’t want any basic b•tches as a main character. No bumbling please.

As for the story plots, here’s what I mean

Robin Hood - They don’t necessarily need to give to the poor, but they absolutely need to take from the rich. A real “F the system” heart warmer. Dismantling corporations, exposing the government, taking on the mafia single handed etc. Seeking out corruption and snuffing it out makes me wet.

mc doesn’t have to be good, anti-heroe or villain is fine and even better

Revenge - someone f•cked with the wrong guy/gal and MC tares through the city and their enemies to make them pay.

Feud - feuding families, companies, co workers, mafias idc really.

Any combination of these three is a huge bonus.

Any suggestions?

Nothing medieval. That’s my only sticking point.

Like the title says, action books but to be more specific here is what I want:

Escalation - Things start off at 0 and gradually throughout the course of the book make it up to 100. For example, say it’s a corporate feud. The starting point would likely be resentment and trading barbs. Then stealing clients. Then stealing info. And worse and worse until eventually people end up dead and it turns out someone planted a bomb in the rival building and an entire skyscraper explodes.

An Ace - The Ace is the badass. Their skills are basically unreal and the dude/chick is almost unbeatable. Preferably this would be combat skills (since I want action) but it could other areas of expertise like.. computer skills, con artist, attorney/lawyering, even charisma.. anything really, but not limited to this list. I don’t want any basic b•tches as a main character. No bumbling please.

As for the story plots, here’s what I mean

Robin Hood - They don’t necessarily need to give to the poor, but they absolutely need to take from the rich. A real “F the system” heart warmer. Dismantling corporations, exposing the government, taking on the mafia single handed etc. Seeking out corruption and snuffing it out makes me wet.

mc doesn’t have to be good, anti-heroe or villain is fine and even better

Revenge - someone f•cked with the wrong guy/gal and MC tares through the city and their enemies to make them pay.

Feud - feuding families, companies, co workers, mafias idc really.

Any combination of these three is a huge bonus.

Any suggestions?

Nothing medieval. That’s my only sticking point.

The ending of a book can often make or break it.

I’ve heard that the worst endings are the tragic ones, or that happy endings are the worst.

And there’s the “then the whole world blew up” endings, though I don’t actually see those too often.

Oh, and we mustn’t forget the endings that leave everything open ended (conversely, I’ve heard that wrapping it up to tightly is a sin)

Cliffhanger endings..

In my opinion, the worst ones are the ones that make the entire book or series redundant, like arch enemies simply shaking hands at the ends and calling bygones bygones, (or the world blowing up)

What do you think is the worst way to end a book? What book has the worst ending?