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just--a--random--human--being · 27 days

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lierenprotectionsquad · 3 months

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If you want to read the Maze Runner books, but the size of the universe is intimidating, here’s my recommendation.

Obviously, you’d need the main trilogy, The Maze Runner, The Scorch Trials and The Death Cure. But after that is where it gets optional and interesting.

The Kill Order is the origin of WICKED and the flare, and is very good for anyone who wants more exposition and world-building. As well as a deeper look into Teresa and her motivations.

The Fever Code is the origin of the maze and the gladers. It’s very bts-heavy, and dives deep into Thomas’ motivations, as well as his relationships, not only with his friends, but the people in charge as well. It’s also where you want to go if you want more backstory on Newt, both his life before WICKED and during. Also if you just wanna see Newt living rent free in Thomas’ head for three hundred-something pages.

Crank Palace is for us mentally ill Newt-girlies (gender neutral) who just want to see him happy and loved, and is somehow naive enough to think we’ll get the former in this novella.

The sequel series is also heavy on what was going on behind the scenes for Newt, but it’s a whole other commitment, especially since it’s an ongoing series. I’d mostly recommend it if you read everything else and miss the universe and want to go back. I will say, tho, Crank Palace is imperative to these two books.

There’s also the short e-book, The Maze Runner Files, which contains some exposition, and some short stories about Thomas, Minho and Frypan.

Now, everything I listed that isn’t the main trilogy is a fully optional read, they are not necessary. However! I will list the entire series, both in chronological order and my recommended first-time-reading order, in case anyone else might want to try all of it.

So the chronological order goes as follows:

The Kill Order, The Fever Code, The Maze Runner, The Scorch Trials, The Death Cure, The Maze Runner Files, Crank Palace, The Maze Cutter, The Godhead Complex

And for my recommended reading order for first time readers:

The Maze Runner, The Scorch Trials, The Death Cure, The Kill Order, The Fever Code, The Maze Runner Files, Crank Palace, The Maze Cutter, The Godhead Complex

TLDR

The Maze Runner, The Scorch Trials and The Death Cure are must-reads

The Kill Order is for world building and Teresa

The Fever Code is for maze building, Thomas and Newt

The Maze Runner Files is an add-on that is wholly unnecessary for understanding the context of any of the books, but is just kinda fun

Crank Palace is for Newt and being very very depressed

The Maze Cutter and The Godhead Complex is for continuing in the universe, longing for Newt and depression

#newtmas #the maze runner #the scorch trials #the death cure #the kill order #the fever code #the maze runner files #crank palace #the maze cutter #the godhead complex #newt #newt tmr #tmr newt #thomas #tmr thomas #thomas tmr #teresa agnes #james dashner #shut up sparky

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newtish250 · 6 months

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Newt & Sonya

Anyone else often think about how Newt & Sonya both remembered each other? They never got to tell each other or say goodbye

Sonya got her memories back in death cure & newt got his in crank palace.

#tmr #tmr newt #newt tmr #sonya tmr #tmr sonya #newt and Sonya #crank palace #the death cure #the maze runner #maze runner

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follow-my-literature · 4 months

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A Palace Full of Cranks - Newt x Reader

— Back to Summary

Chapter One: SHORT GOODBYE'S

NEWT'S POV:

— I had felt a lot of pain in my life, both inside and out, but I believed that very moment, watching Tommy and the others leave me for the last time, was my rock bottom. A part of me desperately wanted to accept the reckless whims of love and friendship. To run off the Berg and join my friends in their quest to find Hans, get their implants removed, and accept whatever came next.

But I'd made up my mind, as fragile as it might be. If ever in my life I could do one thing right, the thing that was unselfish and full of good, this was it. I'd spare the people of Denver my disease, and I'd spare his friends the agony of watching him succumb to it.

My disease. The Flare.

I hated it. I hated the people trying to find a cure. I hated that I'm not immune, and I hated that my best friends were. All of it conflicted, battled, and raged inside me.

I know that I'm slowly going insane, a fate rarely escaped when it came to the virus. It had come to a point where I didn’t know if I could trust myself, both my thoughts and feelings.

Such an awful circumstance could drive a person mad if they weren’t already well on their way to that lonely destination. But while I knew that I still had an ounce of sense, I needed to act. I needed to move before all those heavy thoughts ended me even sooner than the Flare.

I can do this, he thought. For them.

I got to my feet and ran to the bunk I'd used on the flight from Alaska. Throwing what little possessions I owned into a backpack. Including water, food, a knife I'd stolen from Thomas to remember him, and a launcher from Jorge. Then I grabbed the most essential item—a journal and pen I'd found in one of the random cabinets on the Berg.

My breath came in short, stuttered gasps. My chest hurt with the pain of it. My thoughts turned cloudy as my breathing nearly stopped in choaked sobs. I have a plan, don't I? Several plans, depending on the contingencies. But each plan had the same ending—it was how I got there. I will last as long as I write what I need in that journal. Something about that simple, empty little book waiting to be filled.

It gave me a purpose, a spark, a winding course to ensure the last days of my life had reason and meaning. A mark left on the world. I will write all the sanity I can muster out of my head before it is taken over by its opposite. Wiping my eyes and grounding myself before the anxiety attack could take over my body.

The only item left to settle now was how to leave it with Thomas and the others. Maybe give them a little closure. I decide that my journal will survive if it weighs less by one page. I tear out a page and take a deep breath. Pen almost to paper when I stall as if I'd had the perfect thing to say, but it floated out of my mind like vanished smoke. Sighing, I itched with irritation. I am anxious to get out of the Berg and walk away—limp or no—before something changes, so I refocus my emotions. Scribbling down the first thing that pops into my head, I leave the note for the others.

"They got inside somehow. They’re taking me to live with the other Cranks.Its for the best. Thanks for being my friends.Goodbye."

I put the notebook down as tears blur my vision. Was it short and curt enough to prevent them from coming after me? To get it through their thick skulls that there was no hope for me and that I'd only get in the way? That I didn’t want them to watch me turn into a mad, raving, animalistic human? To give my friends the best shot they had at succeeding, it would be with one less obstacle.

Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter at all. I am going one way or another. I scrawl out the rest of what my mind can put together and hope that will be enough for them.

"Even as the darkness whispers across my mind, beckoning with smoky tendrils of blackness and rot, even as I breathe in the stench of a dying world, even as the blood within my veins turns purple and hot, I feel the peace of a certain knowledge. I have had friends, and they have had me. And that is the thing. That is the only thing."

Steeling myself one more moment to panic I stuff the notebook into my bag, double-checking I have all the supplies I need. With a deep breath, I open the Berg doors and look out into the chaos. A mass of disorder, shaken up like dice and spilled across the land. But that wasn’t the scary part. The scary part was how normal everything felt....

— Excerpts from Crank Palace

#thomas brodie sangster #thomas sangster #thomas brodie #tbs #the maze runner #newt the maze runner #newt tmr #the scorch trials #the death cure #crank palace #crank newt x reader #tmr cranks #crank newt #newt x reader #newt x y/n #tmr newt

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tinyfrogcroak · 8 months

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We need a Crank Palace movie with TBS 🥱

And tell me why Newt's book is ONLY like 130 pages?? He deserves better smh.

#the maze runner #tmr fandom #tmr newt #tmr thomas #tmr minho #newtmas #crank palace

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thesongofvillains · 2 years

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I just pretend it isn't real.

#more depressing newtmas bc i have feelings #i’ve been sad about this for a decade #tmr #the maze runner #the scorch trials #the death cure #the fever code #tst #tdc #tfc #newtmas #newt #thomas #crank palace #thomas brodie sangster #dylan o’brien #tmr edit #thesongofvillainsedits

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hello-flosch · 2 months

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So was anybody going to tell me that there's a whole novella just centered about Newt or did I have to find out by myself?!?!?!

Honestly I don't know if my heart can take it though🥲🫠🥹

#crank palace #maze runner #the maze runner #newt

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stubbornnly · 6 months

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I’m sorry but work and class have been kicking my motivation for art.

But as a little update I picked up this guy while I was out this weekend.

I will be highlighting parts I want to draw, and you guys will get to see that when I have my motivation for art back :)

#crank palace #tmr #maze runner #the maze runner #newt #tmr newt #james dashner

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scarasmood · 17 days

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I found a pdf of 'Crank Palace' a Maze Runner novella by James Dashner, that follows Newt's point of view of "The Death Cure" book and after searching for so long (tried to order the book but never got it due to import issues etc) I finally found a pdf format of the book and now I don't dare to read it because idk it will officially give me closure of the fact The Maze Runner is like over?

I don't want it to end but I do want to read how my beloved Newt endured it all help sqmmsq

#the maze runner #newt #tmr #the maze runner newt #james dashner #crank palace #crank palace: a maze runner novella #the scorch trials #the death cure

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just--a--random--human--being · 3 months

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Welcome to TMR

#the maze runner #maze runner #tmr #the scorch trials #scorch trials #tst #the death cure #death cure #tdc #the kill order #kill order #the fever code #fever code #crank palace

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lierenprotectionsquad · 6 months

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I have birthday headcanons! Well, only two, but still!

Thomas’s birthday is December 22nd. Clues in the Fever Code suggest he might’ve been born late in the year, and Thomas being a Christmas baby just makes too much sense to me.

Newt’s birthday is June 6th. Purely because of how fucked up it is. Enjoy!

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chippedshake · 9 months

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It's not remotely fair for Newt to make me suffer so many times. I mean, first when they say he's not immune, then when he starts getting mad, then when Thomas reads the note, then when he actually does what the note says, and everything intensifying when you meet him as a little kid with the fever code, and then just everything all over again when you read the Crank Palace. Just... Dude. No.

#tmr #newt #newt tmr #the maze runner #the scorch trials #no but seriously #he's made me sadder than any other character ever #crank palace #chippedshake

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newtish250 · 4 months

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i actually need Dante in the 3rd maze cutter book

don’t care what he does, just have him pop up somewhere

#he was the best #i mean he would only be #what?#76?#maze runner #godhead complex #maze cutter #Crank palace

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foxevxid · 4 months

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do i currently have 13 books sitting on my nightstand that need to be read? yes. did i order over $100 worth of books last night on impulse? also yes. and i need them to get here NEOW

#what can i say #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the maze runner #crank palace #the song of achilles #billy the kid #henry mccarty #william h bonney #a farewell to arms

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bellzsad · 2 months

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NEWTMAS ALWAYS but thomesa has me feeling different ways fr

#i like this ship cuz it’s honestly so sad likeee #maybe they weren’t soulmates but they were each others first loves #thomesa #newtmas #tmr #the maze runner #maze runner #tmr newt #tmr thomas #tmr teresa #tmr tommy #tmr ships #tmr ship #the scorch trials #scorch trials #the death cure #death cure #crank palace #the crank palace

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tinyfrogcroak · 1 month

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Holy hell, Crank Palace was a wild ride. I loved it sm. If you love his character, you NEED to read it. And also it warms my heart to see that Ava actually cared so much about Newt at the end.

That being said, R.I.P. 2 my Youth by The Neighborhood is literally Newt's song.

#he called tommy and minho his world ya'll #the maze runner #tmr #tmr fandom #tmr newt #crank palace #newtmas #thomas x newt #newt x thomas

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