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Twilight: Wet dreams becoming reality... ...and not in a good way.

#481 Tapper

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Posted 04 June 2009 - 11:26 AM

Ain't_It_Just_, on Jun 4 2009, 11:56 AM, said:

Illuyankas, on Jun 4 2009, 09:35 AM, said:

Welcome to Hell. Population: People with taste.

Godless bastards!

On the home front-I think my brother's will is weakening. He has stopped reading Twilight ferociously.

"pours a drink and toasts himself"

Or maybe he finished the book?

Tapper, toasts your efforts nonetheless.

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Posted 04 June 2009 - 11:30 AM

Wouldn't he just move onto the next one?

AIJ, if you get him to read GotM I will be astounded.

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#483 Sixty

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Posted 04 June 2009 - 01:29 PM

Mappo's Travelling Sack, on Jun 4 2009, 07:30 AM, said:

Wouldn't he just move onto the next one?

AIJ, if you get him to read GotM I will be astounded.

A 12 year-old reading Malazan? I'd be surprised if he could comprehend the first 50 pages without getting lost.

(I personally started with the more cohesive DHG, which worked out in my favor

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Posted 04 June 2009 - 01:30 PM

*shrugs* I read GotM at 13, and I comprehended it just fine. So it is possible. For a Twitard though...

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Posted 04 June 2009 - 01:44 PM

This has been kinda cool. Its been like Operation Cleanse AIJ's Brother of Twilight lol.

I still heart Goodkind.

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Posted 04 June 2009 - 02:05 PM

It's a worthy cause.

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#487 Assail

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Posted 04 June 2009 - 02:07 PM

Indeed. We now need a name for ourselves. Brainstorm foolios!

I still heart Goodkind.

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Posted 04 June 2009 - 02:10 PM

prod him towards Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski

don't let your family be twitards...

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

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Posted 04 June 2009 - 03:24 PM

lol, forget GotM and DG, start him on MoI right away. Then get ready to answer a lot of questions when he gets to the Children of the Dead Seed parts...

{though in seriousness, the Night Watch books by Sergei Lukyanenko could be an easy jump from Twilight into better fantasy, since like Twilight it is urban fantasy and has vampires instead of doing a complete jump to (pseudo)-medievalized fantasy with elves and orcs (yeah yeah, malaz doesn't have that, but its the same style)}

This post has been edited by D'rek: 04 June 2009 - 03:26 PM

worrywort, on 14 September 2012 - 08:07 PM, said:

I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.

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Posted 04 June 2009 - 07:07 PM

D'rek, on Jun 4 2009, 11:24 AM, said:

Either that or the Lies of Locke Lamora for fantasy--it doesn't have much magic, which should make it an easier transition instead of jumping into SE headfirst and encountering all the inevitable "eww elves and dwarves magic" complaints.

And as for MoI first...DHG was better.

This post has been edited by Sixty: 04 June 2009 - 07:07 PM

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Posted 05 June 2009 - 01:34 AM

Tapper, on Jun 4 2009, 09:26 PM, said:

Ain't_It_Just_, on Jun 4 2009, 11:56 AM, said:

Illuyankas, on Jun 4 2009, 09:35 AM, said:

Welcome to Hell. Population: People with taste.

Godless bastards!

On the home front-I think my brother's will is weakening. He has stopped reading Twilight ferociously.

"pours a drink and toasts himself"

Or maybe he finished the book?

Tapper, toasts your efforts nonetheless.

No, I heard my mum say that he hadn't. VICTORY IS MINE

Mappo's Travelling Sack, on Jun 4 2009, 09:30 PM, said:

Wouldn't he just move onto the next one?

AIJ, if you get him to read GotM I will be astounded.

Would you believe that he wanted to at one point? 'Course, that was only after I told him about the Moranth munitions, Avowed, Seguleh, Warrens and crossbows.

Assail, on Jun 4 2009, 11:44 PM, said:

This has been kinda cool. Its been like Operation Cleanse AIJ's Brother of Twilight lol.

And I thank you all for your hard work and suggestions...and not dobbing me in to the mods on the grounds I was "hijacking the thread".

Mappo's Travelling Sack, on Jun 5 2009, 12:05 AM, said:

It's a worthy cause.

That's what it says on the pamphlets.

At first, I thought GotM was fucking impenetrable. The story wouldn't let me in. All I knew was that the BB's had been mostly wiped out and that Tayschrenn was a baddie.

But things got better when I got up to Darujhistan.

Suck it Errant!

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QUOTE (KeithF @ Jun 30 2009, 09:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

It has been proven beyond all reasonable doubt that the most powerful force on Wu is a bunch of messed-up Malazans with Moranth munitions.

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Posted 05 June 2009 - 03:53 AM

Ain't_It_Just_, on Jun 5 2009, 11:34 AM, said:

Assail, on Jun 4 2009, 11:44 PM, said:

This has been kinda cool. Its been like Operation Cleanse AIJ's Brother of Twilight lol.

And I thank you all for your hard work and suggestions...and not dobbing me in to the mods on the grounds I was "hijacking the thread".

Good point. This thread has gone off topic on numerous occasions, but it's a Twilight thread, so anything Twilight-related is alright.

If he wanted to read GotM, then why hasn't he?

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Posted 05 June 2009 - 07:37 AM

I told him, quote on quote, "your puny mindset conducive to reading cheap fantasy such as Harry Potter will FAIL when subjected to the brain-shattering godliness that is the Malazan Books of the Fallen. Bitch."

Then I told him it was too complicated for him. Maybe in a few years.

Suck it Errant!

"It's time to kick ass and chew bubblegum...and I'm all out of gum."

QUOTE (KeithF @ Jun 30 2009, 09:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

It has been proven beyond all reasonable doubt that the most powerful force on Wu is a bunch of messed-up Malazans with Moranth munitions.

#494 Sixty

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Posted 05 June 2009 - 02:10 PM

Best way to make a kid want to do something...tell him he's not good enough.

(at least, if he has some balls, which I hope your brother does)

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Posted 05 June 2009 - 02:14 PM

He reads (or has read) Twilight...does that not tell you something Sixty?

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Posted 05 June 2009 - 07:54 PM

Touche.

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Posted 05 June 2009 - 08:38 PM

My little sister is completely obsessed. She's seen the movie a total of 20 times and is starting the third book tomorrow.

At least she's reading something, which is good, but it's Twilight, which is bad. I think she's a lost cause...

Things and stuffs...and other important objects.

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Posted 06 June 2009 - 12:42 AM

Grimhilde, on Jun 5 2009, 04:38 PM, said:

Well now you can say: "So looking for another book to read? I just so happen to have something right here!"
Hand her a better book. Any book!

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