[the peacemaker]

i yell HOOD to people in Wow (yes i am a geek) and i use hood balls and Chew hard (fid in ehter HoC or TBH need reread) to those i know that have read SE just for the fun (stil geek)

the funniest Quote HAVE to be Fidd in RG: yes we are a deadly bunch ani't we.
just after sombody stept on sombodys finger and the gy now with a finger pointing the wrong way just snap it back (think sombody1 was Gesler not shure tho)

This post has been edited by the peacemaker: 06 December 2008 - 09:13 PM

[Ain't_It_Just_]

In TtH, when Kruppe is out of money to pay for lunch:

"Dear Meese, yet another discovery..."

Lol'd.
@Lisheo

Live the dream, buddy! You can't say "God's balls" without fear of divine wrath, so go for it!

[D'rek]

Well this isn' from TtH, but I doubt most of you visit the GotM forum, and I didn't feel like making a new thread, and it's relevent since Kallor features so much in TtH, and I need to stop making more excuses...

Anyway:

GotM, on Chapter 10, said:

Brood looked around. 'Where's that damn horse of mine, anyway?'
'Probably cowering,' Kallor said drily. 'Word is, his legs have become shorter and stubbier beneath your prodigious self. I remain unconvinced that such a thing is possible, but who can argue with a horse?'

[Andirak]

This is not a quote so much as a turn of phrase I found funny:

When Chaur and Barathol are being escorted to jail, Chaur explodes into motion, punching guards right and left. And then:

'...Chaur and his broad smile, as the simpleton, with a roundhouse swing, drove his fist into the side of the man's head, collapsing the helm on that side and sending the headpiece flying. In a welter of blood from ear and temple, the guard fell to the ground, alive but temporaliy unwilling to acknowledge the fact.

And this (Abyss did mention it, but it's worth another mention):

The undead Seguleh Second facing the Hounds of Light:

'Skinner!' he roared. 'I'm coming for you! But first, these guys...'

You gotta love the dude.
Some more from him:

When Hood's army had just arrived inside Dragnipur, the Seguleh is addressing Hood:

Second: 'This is the sorry sh*t-hole you want us to fight for, Hood?'
...
Hood: 'Do you now change your mind, Knight?'
Second: 'No, I was just complaining.'

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[Mcflury]

aye, since the Seguleh have actually started to use words to converse and not only their silly nods and glares I actually started to love the balls on those guys... Of course, I already loved them before.
In fact, I want a Seguleh as a pet

[Lisheo]

They are amusing fellows, alright, and they kick ass.

Laster Lycaon Lisheo, loved a Seguleh once.

Wait. What?

[wolfgang]

Tufty was great value, but for me the best one liner was Cartographer holding up some ropes, asking to be tied back to the wheel.

[Mcflury]

wolfgang, on Dec 16 2008, 07:44 AM, said:

Tufty was great value, but for me the best one liner was Cartographer holding up some ropes, asking to be tied back to the wheel.

Ah yes, a very funny passage indeed.
And to say something useful (for a change) too, here's the exact quote:

TtH p756 said:

Cartographer held up some ropes. 'Who will kindly tie me to a wheel?'

[Saf]

kcf, on Jul 14 2008, 02:33 PM, said:

Agraba;351255 said:

In Karsa's lips, that would be: "Too many words." And both Karsa and Kruppe are right, and Steven Erikson is right for having Kruppe say that, and yet, on he goes. You have to acknowledge that, in general, the very message Kruppe attempts to deliver could be delivered in far fewer words, and what he's doing is simply an artistic weave of the english language in order to glamorize his message; no other purpose.

While what you say is true, SE isn't writing an epic fantasy series in the fewest words possible. He's not just telling a story here. He's not doing what's been done a hundred times before.

SE has some (well a lot) of clear thematic goals that are really what he seems to find most interesting and seem to be the reason he keeps writing. It's not about the plot - this is clear from all the time-line troubles, inclusion of unrelated subplots, the rapid writing and resulting inconsistencies, etc. It's the thematic aims that keep him going, and these goals are getting better and more powerful. His wrting approach for TtH that has so turned off many readers around here works because of the these thematic goals - I found it to be brilliant. And it wouldn't have worked in brevity.

I agree, I don't understand how people were turned off of this book, it was brilliant. His depth of character was astounding although dark. But many of us cherish a very tragic eye for life in general. I love how he thinks out philosophies of living for every character. Brilliant because to one degree or another every person in the world has their own philosophy or view, and SE goes to the effort to make each character in his books as special as a real life individual.

[Trull's son]

Agreed. there is a small POV from a child in RG that always comes back to me, and seems to be a perfect example. SE gives him a couple pages to describe his backround, and his aspirations, when all of a sudden he gets eviscerated by K'Chain Che'Malle. this death would have been much less poignant, and i would have cared alot less for this one death, if SE had not gone to the trouble of giving the characters backround story.

[Gothos Folly]

One of my favourite quotes is right at the beginning,

Speak truth, be still, till the water grows clear between us...

Meditations of the Tiste Andii

Deep.

I think the Tiste races are even better than Elven races in other fantasy.

They're more well thought out and complex, imo.

[BeLeG]

High Priestess : "Shall I dance?"
Anomandaris:"Shall I sing?"

He is AWESOME

[Ain't_It_Just_]

Remember when Cartographer is on the beach, drawing patterns?

"I have found seventeen species of shellfish on this beach. Proof that the world is round."

That was hilarious.

[Bauchelain the Evil]

Yes it was.

I loved the one where Mappo is wondering why Quell didn't seem to care to have fred an undead dragon and Gruntle says that he cared because he heard him saying ooops.

Or the opening of chapter 6:

Quote

The miracle of hindsight is that it transforms every great military genius of the past in incompetent idiots and every incompetent idiot of the present in great military genius-Kellanved

[Ain't_It_Just_]

Mcflury, on Dec 12 2008, 05:33 AM, said:

aye, since the Seguleh have actually started to use words to converse and not only their silly nods and glares I actually started to love the balls on those guys... Of course, I already loved them before.
In fact, I want a Seguleh as a pet

You want a brooding, cold eyed killing machine in a ninja suit that could kill you, your friends, your family and everyone on your street and then go out for a smoke?

[Sinisdar Toste]

WHO DOESN'T?

[D'rek]

You could name it... Tufty?

[Mcflury]

Ain't_It_Just_, on Dec 30 2008, 04:46 AM, said:

Mcflury, on Dec 12 2008, 05:33 AM, said:

aye, since the Seguleh have actually started to use words to converse and not only their silly nods and glares I actually started to love the balls on those guys... Of course, I already loved them before.
In fact, I want a Seguleh as a pet

You want a brooding, cold eyed killing machine in a ninja suit that could kill you, your friends, your family and everyone on your street and then go out for a smoke?

Yes... and if my pet (I could call it Tufty indeed, sounds nice and cuddly) would kill someone of my relatives, and someone else would hold that against me, I'd probably look at them, head cocked a bit, and say "Why, they shouldn't have looked at him..."
Yepyep, killing mean as hell pets are awesome. So I either want a Seguleh or a pinguin as a pet

PS: I don't think Seguleh smoke by the way, it's bad for their health...

[Ain't_It_Just_]

Mcflury, on Dec 30 2008, 08:56 PM, said:

PS: I don't think Seguleh smoke by the way, it's bad for their health...

Tell that to the Seguleh Second...

[Sinisdar Toste]

that hypocrit smokes two packs a day!