The DOD Awards
#41
Posted 03 September 2009 - 01:19 PM
My favourite humour in the whole book is the list of Dramatis Personae, featuring Bugg in three different roles. And then his subsequent hat-swapping in conversation. Bugg FTW!
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
-- Oscar Wilde
-- Oscar Wilde
#42
Posted 03 September 2009 - 06:35 PM
I think one of my favourite scenes is where the Errant calls all the Elder Gods together and they completely pwnzor him. One minute he thinks he is in control, and then they put him in the right place and he is completely dejected. I loved it...
A Haunting Poem
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.
#43
Posted 03 September 2009 - 06:56 PM
I only just finished. Holy fuck. SE is a genius imo.
In regard to QB... Ruthan Gudd, stormrider,
'caught the stench of howling warrens being forced to do unspeakable things - Quick Ben, how much longer can you hide?'
Is there even more about QB we don't know yet? I can't really believe he was 'Ranalled!'
Also I liked the way the stone Azath that..
'had once been Kalse Uprooted, holding it as if it were a gem or a giant shattered eye. Something about the stone was familiar, but for the moment, he could not place it.'
Sounds like a huge stone Azath with the Uprooted embedded in it ended up looking like the Malazan Sigil of the claw holding a globe, standing like a monument in the wastelands.
In regard to QB... Ruthan Gudd, stormrider,
'caught the stench of howling warrens being forced to do unspeakable things - Quick Ben, how much longer can you hide?'
Is there even more about QB we don't know yet? I can't really believe he was 'Ranalled!'
Also I liked the way the stone Azath that..
'had once been Kalse Uprooted, holding it as if it were a gem or a giant shattered eye. Something about the stone was familiar, but for the moment, he could not place it.'
Sounds like a huge stone Azath with the Uprooted embedded in it ended up looking like the Malazan Sigil of the claw holding a globe, standing like a monument in the wastelands.
This post has been edited by Traveller: 03 September 2009 - 06:59 PM
So that's the story. And what was the real lesson? Don't leave things in the fridge.
#44
Posted 03 September 2009 - 08:52 PM
Traveller, on Sep 3 2009, 11:56 AM, said:
Also I liked the way the stone Azath that..
'had once been Kalse Uprooted, holding it as if it were a gem or a giant shattered eye. Something about the stone was familiar, but for the moment, he could not place it.'
Sounds like a huge stone Azath with the Uprooted embedded in it ended up looking like the Malazan Sigil of the claw holding a globe, standing like a monument in the wastelands.
'had once been Kalse Uprooted, holding it as if it were a gem or a giant shattered eye. Something about the stone was familiar, but for the moment, he could not place it.'
Sounds like a huge stone Azath with the Uprooted embedded in it ended up looking like the Malazan Sigil of the claw holding a globe, standing like a monument in the wastelands.
That's brilliant!
Buddhacat
#46
Posted 03 September 2009 - 10:02 PM
just finished it for the second time round (hahah i know, i know) and it seems to me that icarium had moved on. his sulkit-turned-matron remarks on being alone. and she is very definitive about that. her master is gone she says, but strange flavours or currents or whatever flow through kalse. strange as in not the familiar jhag who was just here. i think he's either back on the wastelands or gone through the azath to another warren or something. he could even be moving throughout the realms, attaching his warrens to various azath houses or something, though that's just wild speculatin
EDIT:BEST SET-UP FOR MEETING EACH OTHER IN TCG (BESIDES MAPPO AND ICARIUM): Torrent and Kalyth. i can't believe i never thought of this before, they both go on and on about woe is them and how they are the last of their kind, then brys offhandedly remarks that beyond the wastelands and the glass desert there is the elan, possible off shoot of the awl and it just clicked! awl, elan, not so done for after all maybe
EDIT:BEST SET-UP FOR MEETING EACH OTHER IN TCG (BESIDES MAPPO AND ICARIUM): Torrent and Kalyth. i can't believe i never thought of this before, they both go on and on about woe is them and how they are the last of their kind, then brys offhandedly remarks that beyond the wastelands and the glass desert there is the elan, possible off shoot of the awl and it just clicked! awl, elan, not so done for after all maybe
This post has been edited by Sinisdar Toste: 03 September 2009 - 11:23 PM
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
- Oscar Levant
- Oscar Levant
#47
Posted 06 September 2009 - 03:16 PM
Best opening of the series so far: everyone running away from the reading, a reading which is totally anti-climatic. Classic SE.
#48
Posted 06 September 2009 - 04:40 PM