[blewin]

the part when we have everything happening and exploding at once in Darujhistan, and all of a sudden, we get the perspective of an ox! mulling about the normalcy sustained by simple routine.

the revelation that the Book of Shadow was written by Pust!

I love how SE pokes fun at humanity with these obscure and hilarious events, seemingly so small and insignificant, but actually says it all.

[Cougar]

Well we had lots of Ox POVs which were quite cool. I thought these were further evidence of Erikson trying to break fantasy archetypes, going to the extreme of not only giving an alternate perspective but giving it from an Ox.

I loved that Shadowthrone claimed to be delegating responsibility for the BoS, like a true middle manager/bureaucrat, which also seemed a minor theme(ie: the clerks conversation with Karsa, the Guilds attempts to evict Barthanol)

Also the Pust charge was hilarious where it was described as him riding hell for leather and the mule strollling along.

[VampireGoat]

Raest asking for a cat.

Picker slowly dieing and antsy panicing and raest is insisting on it being a white one.

- ok not quite the meaningful piece of humour but oh god was it great.

[Use Of Weapons]

Cougar;346073 said:

Also the Pust charge was hilarious where it was described as him riding hell for leather and the mule strollling along.

Aha, I'd forgotten that one -- I laughed for ages at that image! Funniest thing in the book, I thought

[Sinisdar Toste]

speaking of the ox, during one of the rare times when we hear his driver talking, the dude reveals that he has deduced the existence of cells, nuclei and dna! talk about mind-blown. bags, wallets and notes. and he wants to make a half man half ox!

[caladanbrood]

Yes, I thought the cells part was very strange... I mean, where the hell did that come from?

I thought the funniest stuff came from Raest. I mean, enforced isolation can do that to anyone, I suppose, even a Jaghut Tyrant.

[Ursus]

The ox scenes were really quite neat. I must also say i liked the gravedigger/scientist scene, his idea of stuffing human notes into an ox wallet, or how he explained it, really cracked me up!
Technology, science and progression is also part of the worldbuilding. Now I'm just waiting for someone to come up with the idea of to stuffing munitions into a cast iron barrel, for 'secure storage'

[Andy_is]

[simpsons]SKINNER!!![/simpsons]

seriously though Raest is win

[H'Ranga]

"I shall call it Tufty."

That one was awsome. And the ST-moments of course:
"You were hiding behind that curtain! I knew it!"

[Traveller]

That was one of the best... deadpan Raest. Slightly irritated that I had seen it before, on Toblerones user profile though!

[Traveller]

And what about the Imass? waitng for millennia to be free... getting new legs, escaping the mines, and ending up in the azath garden! Just brilliant.

[Use Of Weapons]

My favourite funny moments are Iskaral Pust's internal monologues that aren't so internal -- and the abuse between him and Mogora is delightfully awesome. I think, reading between the lines, that this couple is even better matched than Torvald Nom and Tissera. When she sticks her tongue out at him and it's still sembling from spiders -- erotically grotesque

[Dark Mac]

Everything with Raest was absolutely hilarious. Definitely one of the highlights of the book.

I found Pust to be much less funny than usual this book. There wasn't any amazing "I'd kill the mule" moment (though the scene where he was trying to get the mule to charge was great).

[Slum]

Dark Mac;349962 said:

Everything with Raest was absolutely hilarious. Definitely one of the highlights of the book.

I found Pust to be much less funny than usual this book. There wasn't any amazing "I'd kill the mule" moment (though the scene where he was trying to get the mule to charge was great).

Agreed. I did not care for Pust's ramblings-on about Sordiko's swaying fanny; and I did not find his arguments w/ Mogora particularly amusing. His speaking-his-thoughts-out-loud bit has kind of lost its charm. It's funnier when he does it to Shadowthrone...

I wasn't terribly impressed by the Kruppe/Pust confrontation either, though I was happy to see Kruppe get the better of it.

[bubba]

Pust, Kruppe Mano a mano.....Kruppe using the external/internal dialog against Pust


The poor farmer with the two legged dog

[Urb]

"Next time you see Gothos, punch him in the face."
Another good idea

EDIT: Bole brothers pouncing on an angry Jaghut. Awesome!

[Illuyankas]

Slumgullion Spitteler;349966 said:

Agreed. I did not care for Pust's ramblings-on about Sordiko's swaying fanny; and I did not find his arguments w/ Mogora particularly amusing. His speaking-his-thoughts-out-loud bit has kind of lost its charm. It's funnier when he does it to Shadowthrone...

I wasn't terribly impressed by the Kruppe/Pust confrontation either, though I was happy to see Kruppe get the better of it.

The twelve-year-old part of my mind (the one that posts on the forum) must point out that fanny means something different in England than it does in America.

[Agraba]

The whole thing with Pust raging in a charge, and his mule going at an excruciatingly leisurely pace made me laugh like hell but... didn't that happen sometime earlier in the series? I can swear it did, I just can't remember when.

A lot of characters either scorn at or simply don't notice Iskaral Pust's tendency to unwittingly (or wittingly while feigning lack of wit) think out loud, and I always wondered how Kruppe would react to it. I think it was perfect, and it made me laugh my ass off.

Jula and Amby Bole were always funny, especially with the argument about saving one's life and stealing one's pants.

Leff accepting Studlock's "remedy" for his "worms" and then having orange eyes.

I just think the very existence of Chillibais is funny. Every time SE describes one of his futile attempts to fly, which is just falling at a slow pace, I'd laugh.

I thought Kadaspala was funny, even though he was supposed to be a serious character. The whole bickering between Kadaspala and Ditch about keeping his place just made me laugh. Then Draconus had to come and ruin it.

Scillara yanking the woman's braid, saying it got caught in her bracelet... even though she didn't have a bracelet.

[Aptorian]

Agraba;351131 said:

The whole thing with Pust raging in a charge, and his mule going at an excruciatingly leisurely pace made me laugh like hell but... didn't that happen sometime earlier in the series? I can swear it did, I just can't remember when.

Are you sure it's not Kruppe's mule galoping out of control im MoI and Kruppe hanging on for dear life?

[Quick Fett]

my favorite was when Baruk came to see Pust...and Pust is sharping the knives to kill the Bhokala with, and the Bhok. and trying to be stealthy. They they Zoom in and snatch all the knives.