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#1 Artanthos

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Posted 08 February 2011 - 02:46 AM

Through it, this arrived in the mail today.

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About to crap myself here.

Sorry that this is my first post around here, by the way. I've lurked around these forums for a long time...The joke thread is a particular favorite of mine. Anyway, I was so giddy I had to share.

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Posted 08 February 2011 - 02:55 AM

Are you telling me that Facebook got you an early copy of TCG? Or the Tor giveaway they also have going on their site?

Edit: It's obviously not the latter because you already have it.

Fucking Facebook.

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Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....

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Posted 08 February 2011 - 02:56 AM

You.. fiend D:

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Posted 08 February 2011 - 02:59 AM

It's times like these I hate living on the other side of the world. Then again, I won a free copy too, so why am I complaining?

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#5 Artanthos

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Posted 08 February 2011 - 03:20 AM

Hoosier: It was a Tor giveaway. They had one last week, as well.

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Posted 08 February 2011 - 03:21 AM

What?? How did I not know about this facebook giveaway?

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Posted 08 February 2011 - 03:23 AM

MTS, on 08 February 2011 - 02:59 AM, said:

It's times like these I hate living on the other side of the world. Then again, I ~~won~~ a free copy too, so why am I complaining?

Earned, actually.

I figured that out Artanthos, but you got it from a Facebook sort of Tor giveaway is what I was implying. Not the current one which is also giving out 5 copies.

#8 Artanthos

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Posted 08 February 2011 - 03:25 AM

End: If you have the Tor.com Facebook feed, it's easy to miss stuff they post. They post a LOT each day, so much so that sometimes they'll post like three things in a row. Facebook "helpfully" will hide some of it so you're not too inundated with it.

What this translates to is that when a Tor post comes up about the new Thor movie trailer or something, underneath it there will be a thing that says "Show 5 more posts by Tor.com." If you didn't expand that and see those other posts you may well have missed the giveaway, as they only announced it in one regular post.

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Posted 08 February 2011 - 03:25 AM

Can you tell us anything about the book? What's the dramatis personae like? Any new maps?

I guess use spoiler boxes for those who don't want to know.

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Posted 08 February 2011 - 04:22 AM

i don't know if i could handle a dramatis personae right now, i might just froth at the mouth and fall over convulsing...

a map, or even a confirmation thereof, on the other hand, would be pure ambrosia

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#11 Artanthos

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Posted 08 February 2011 - 07:17 AM

Sinisdar Toste, on 08 February 2011 - 04:22 AM, said:

We've got a close up map of Kolanse. I can't remember if that was in DoD, as well...I don't have my copy handy.

As far as the DP goes, you can really tell that this was supposed to be one book in two.

Spoiler

Gonna start reading tomorrow, as I just finished Black Company book 10.

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Posted 08 February 2011 - 08:00 AM

HoosierDaddy, on 08 February 2011 - 02:55 AM, said:

Fucking Facebook.

Echo.

Edit: MAP, PLEASE.

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Posted 08 February 2011 - 12:26 PM

Ditto with da Map *makes Mafia Boss 'gimme that thing' hand gesture*

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Posted 08 February 2011 - 01:53 PM

Spoiler

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Posted 08 February 2011 - 05:48 PM

Well, tiam, I didn't mean to be misleading:

Spoiler

By the way, all of my spoilers are safe to read. I won't be posting anything about the plot at ALL even if you ask me. Anything I post is strictly chapterer 1/dramatis/map related.

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Posted 08 February 2011 - 05:56 PM

Artanthos: I mean this in the best way....

Damn you! I'm so entirely jealous!

Enjoy it! Enjoy every last drop!

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Posted 08 February 2011 - 05:57 PM

Artanthos, on 08 February 2011 - 05:48 PM, said:

Well, tiam, I didn't mean to be misleading:

Spoiler

By the way, all of my spoilers are safe to read. I won't be posting anything about the plot at ALL even if you ask me. Anything I post is strictly chapterer 1/dramatis/map related.

You're more than welcome to post your spoiler-free thoughts as you read

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Posted 08 February 2011 - 06:21 PM

Artanthos, on 08 February 2011 - 02:46 AM, said:

Through it, this arrived in the mail today.

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Nice. You live in So Cal by chance?

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Posted 08 February 2011 - 07:34 PM

Haha, sorry...Alaska. ;p

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Posted 08 February 2011 - 08:19 PM

Curse You!!! haha. I hope I win one today!

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