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#6321 Use Of Weapons

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Posted 09 November 2011 - 11:46 AM

Happy for my editor friend, who got a testimonial quote from Brandon Sanderson: "Olivia did a fantastic job fixing up the ebooks for the Mistborn trilogy in the UK. She even noticed a few minor continuity errors that we hadn't caught in any other edition. I'm very pleased that all of my readers will be able to benefit from her work. It's a shame that readers can't truly appreciate the work that copyeditors and proofreaders do, because when they do a perfect job like Olivia did, readers won't notice a thing. All they'll see is the story itself, and that's the best thing a writer can hope to ask for." Brandon Sanderson.

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#6322 Darkwatch

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Posted 09 November 2011 - 04:53 PM

Writing my Nanowrimo project with a good cup of tea, cookies and good music.

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#6323 Adjutant Stormy~

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Posted 09 November 2011 - 05:48 PM

Was trolling the Occupy Cal facebook, and pretty much had flawless victory.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Aptorian @ Nov 1 2008, 06:13 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=462161"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'>God damn. Mighty drunk. Must ... what is the english movement movement movement for drunk... with out you seemimg drunk?

bla bla bla

Peopleare harrasing me... grrrrrh.

Also people with big noses aren't jews, they're just french

EDIT: We has editted so mucj that5 we're not quite sure... also, leave britney alone.</div>

#6324 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 09 November 2011 - 10:39 PM

Was talking to some squatters today and their pretentious, hypocritical, zealous BS made me laugh. Not in their faces of course as I was speaking to them in a professional context, but really they are ridiculous...

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#6325 Jade-Green Pig-Hog Swine-Beast

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Posted 09 November 2011 - 11:01 PM

Oh, only THIS:

http://www.rammstein...ture/newsingle/

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#6326 Coco with marshmallows

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Posted 09 November 2011 - 11:08 PM

This Post from the thread in Other Literature related to The Cold Commands:

richard m, on 09 November 2011 - 06:44 PM, said:

Wow! Some really cool speculation here - warms my heart to see the text dragging people this deep.

Special thanks to Abyss for vast chapter and verse enthusiasm; also to Pig Iron for letting it "click" and simply enjoying - would that a lot more fantasy readers were equipped to do exactly that! Oh, and amphibian - in partial answer to some of your speculation - you might want to wonder about Dark Lady Firfirdar...........

Cheers guys

Yes, richard m is Richard Morgan, the author in question.
Now if only we could get Sanderson back on the board regularly again as well we'd be laughing.....

This post has been edited by Cocoreturns: 09 November 2011 - 11:08 PM

meh. Link was dead :(

#6327 amphibian

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Posted 09 November 2011 - 11:25 PM

Cocoreturns, on 09 November 2011 - 11:08 PM, said:

Yes, richard m is Richard Morgan, the author in question.
Now if only we could get Sanderson back on the board regularly again as well we'd be laughing.....

I think he went over to Reddit. Bigger audience there - even if Abyss, QuickTidal, Stone Monkey and the others apparently buy 854390 books a year.

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Posted 09 November 2011 - 11:33 PM

amphibian, on 09 November 2011 - 11:25 PM, said:

I think he went over to Reddit. Bigger audience there - even if Abyss, QuickTidal, Stone Monkey and the others apparently buy 854390 books a year.

Actually it probably had more to do with someone badmouthing his first book on here. I think it was Gothos

and hey, I buy more books than that.....

meh. Link was dead :(

#6329 Loki

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Posted 09 November 2011 - 11:47 PM

I just bought a hardcover copy of Toll the Hounds for $5. I really want to read it - considering ignoring Reaper's Gale completely and just accepting anything that doesn't make sense.

Wry, on 29 February 2012 - 10:50 AM, said:

And you're not complaining, you're criticizing. It's a side-effect of being better than everyone else, I get it sometimes too.

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#6330 worry

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Posted 09 November 2011 - 11:59 PM

Not advisable.

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#6331 Loki

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Posted 10 November 2011 - 12:02 AM

It's that or never finish the series. Reaper's Gale is less entertaining/interesting than listening to my friend talk about her newborn's bowel motion for the fourth time in ten minutes.

Wry, on 29 February 2012 - 10:50 AM, said:

And you're not complaining, you're criticizing. It's a side-effect of being better than everyone else, I get it sometimes too.

~TQB~

#6332 Illuyankas

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Posted 10 November 2011 - 12:25 AM

There's still a lot of stuff in it to enjoy, and if you can't read more Tehol and Bugg I'm not sure what's wrong with you, but I still can't find my copy of it to summarise HOC style which sucks.

In thread related news, Mississippi voted down Proposition 26, which has caused a unique instance in human history where people can be moderately proud of Mississippi, for about twenty minutes or so.

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#6333 JLV

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Posted 10 November 2011 - 01:01 AM

Speaking of Voting, issue 2 just got destroyed in Ohio. Not saying Unions are flawless, but the firefighters and police deserve better.

#6334 pathos

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Posted 10 November 2011 - 04:11 AM

Nearly finished this damn project that has taken much of my time and will to live

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#6335 Loki

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Posted 10 November 2011 - 04:49 AM

Harvey Norman broke the street date for Skyrim - I'm not buying Skyrim but I like that I had Harvey Norman as my no 1. Street Date Breaker

If only I had put money on it...

This post has been edited by Loki: 10 November 2011 - 04:50 AM

Wry, on 29 February 2012 - 10:50 AM, said:

And you're not complaining, you're criticizing. It's a side-effect of being better than everyone else, I get it sometimes too.

~TQB~

#6336 Slow Ben

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Posted 10 November 2011 - 06:09 AM

Why are 18 guests reading this thread?

Weird

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#6337 Adjutant Stormy~

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Posted 10 November 2011 - 06:48 AM

At pubquiz night I saw my best friend from when I was 8 or so. And then we cajoled him onto our team, AND into coming next week!!!

#6338 Dutch

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Posted 10 November 2011 - 09:37 AM

Loki, on 09 November 2011 - 11:47 PM, said:

I just bought a hardcover copy of Toll the Hounds for $5. I really want to read it - considering ignoring Reaper's Gale completely and just accepting anything that doesn't make sense.

Like others say: TEHOLLLLLLLLLLLL and BUGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't skip them Knight Commander.

I got my Hardcover when I was reading my TPB version.

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#6339 QuickTidal

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Posted 10 November 2011 - 04:21 PM

Last day of work and then I am on vacation till next Thursday!

Also, fucking SKYRIM comes out tomorrow!

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#6340 QuickTidal

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Posted 10 November 2011 - 04:23 PM

Loki, on 10 November 2011 - 12:02 AM, said:

It's that or never finish the series. Reaper's Gale is less entertaining/interesting than listening to my friend talk about her newborn's bowel motion for the fourth time in ten minutes.

Once you get into it, RG has some of my favourite things in the entire series! It's worth a push to get through, and yeah it would be inadvisable to read TTH without having read RG.

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