[jonny_anonymous]

Wickans! Wickans! Wickans!

[motherofdragons]

It wasn't a good holy shit moment, but how easy Pormqual got off. Decapitation was too good for that sniveling coward!

[SpanishDancer]

Hell yeah! Pormqual getting a quick decap really riled me. Justice would have demanded that he get the same death as all of the soldiers crucified along the Aren way, but this series isn't always about justice....

As far as holy %@^$ moments, Coltaine accidentally demoting Mincer was definitely a holy &#^% lol moment.

This post has been edited by SpanishDancer: 23 October 2013 - 08:24 AM

[Hazmandoo]

Apart from the ones everyone has with Coltaines death, etc my biggest WTF was the bringing down of Fener. I seriously had to reread that several times and still don't fully 'get' it (now a little way through MoI).

[Saitama]

It's been a while since I've read it, so I don't remember all the great moments that made me love the book. However, there can never be enough posts about awesomness of Deadhouse Gates, so I am compelled to write one myself. As the title suggests, my favourite holy @#$% moments:

Kalam vs Claws - amazing. Nuff said.

Duiker riding through the rebel camp, while the rebels slowly realise what is going on ('you go, gramps!/wait a minute, wtf is he doing/kill that motherfu**er!)

When Duiker is bargaining for the passage of the Chain of Dogs, and those he bargains with think that the price is for both the civilians and the soldiers. And then he corrects them. Simply heartbreaking.

Now, a more abstract one: Wickan determination. Throughout the book, they pull off amazing feats of strength, endurance, cunning and everything else. But it truly hit me when I've read a passage of how they take whatever they can from the bodies of slain enemies. I mean, a crazy stunt during a battle is one thing. But doing everything you can, no matter how small and insignificant, when you know that it cannot possibly make a difference in the final outcome, and yet you do it anyway... both heartbreaking and admirable.

And for the end, I've left a short but memorable quote:

"Children are dying."
Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words."

Consider how this quote relates to war. You can say a lot different things about it: how it is an ultimate evil. Or ultimate glory. Something in between, or merely a part of being human. But how can you justify it, when the argument against it is a simple 'Children are dying'?

I love this series for making me think about such things.

This post has been edited by Second Sword: 17 June 2014 - 07:27 PM

[worry]

Second Sword, on 17 June 2014 - 03:47 PM, said:

Kalam vs Claws - amazing. Nuff said.

Watching one man do the impossible is breathtaking. But what comes next will really make you think...

[BellaGrace]

I finished this book about two weeks ago and my mind is still blown.

Obviously Coltaine's death (like everyone else said) and then all the crows that came for his soul.

I thought the reveal at the end about Gothos being Icarium's father and that Icarium thought he was going to save him...followed by Icarium waking up and forgetting everything (very Dark Tower-ish)

Apt saving all the kids - totally didn't see that coming

10,000 men watching from the walls of the city while Coltain and his men are mowed down.

That entire epic scale that was the Chain of Dogs

Man, I loved this book...(and hated it)