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#24101 User is offline   QuickTidal 

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Posted 01 March 2019 - 02:44 PM

View PostTiste Simeon, on 01 March 2019 - 11:52 AM, said:

Exactly TRB. I'm currently not reading much since the baby was born but I love it so much. So I'm rereading Harry Potter. It's light, fun and not too heavy or challenging which is exactly what I need at the moment.

Acting like you're more intellectual than everyone cos you enjoyed a book that was really dense and whatever else just makes you sound like a bit of a pretentious douche.


Samesies. Since our son was born I've been knee deep in Discworld for the same reason. Light, fun, funny, and just SO enjoyable!
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Posted 01 March 2019 - 03:10 PM

Mind you, after the first few Discworld is also deeper than any edgy grimdark angry fantasy. Coz it's FUCKING GREAT.
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Posted 01 March 2019 - 06:38 PM

View PostMaark Abbott, on 01 March 2019 - 08:16 AM, said:

View PostEnd of Disc One, on 28 February 2019 - 10:07 PM, said:

Maark how often is it that you enjoy reading a book? I'm not trying to be antagonistic, just curious. I worry as I get older that I may lose some of the joy I find in reading.


I find it harder in recent days but that's primarily disillusionment with what's coming out from big publishers and what they seem to think readers want (which is by and large analacritous drivel to my mind). The general feeling of disgust has bled over into my reading, and I've not completed a book in over six months.

We can see this trend in how Kharkanas got delayed whilst for some bizarre reason Path to Ascendancy has praises sung from every which way when it's rushed, underdeveloped, and for a Malazan book, entirely subpar.

I've been plugging away bit by bit at Kate Elliott's 'In The Ruins' which is restoring my faith somewhat (beautiful pacing, never rushes, well written), but you'd better buckle up for me to be cranky if this reprehensible trend in contemporary releases continues.


Did you just use the word 'analacritous'???

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Posted 01 March 2019 - 07:42 PM

View PostAbyss, on 01 March 2019 - 06:38 PM, said:

Did you just use the word 'analacritous'???

"Alacritous" means fast-paced (from "alacrity" meaning quickness or enthusiasm) so analacritous would be the opposite of that. Not sure why Maark of all people would use that as a pejorative, though.

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Posted 01 March 2019 - 08:05 PM

It's just a fancy word for 'butt stuff' imo.
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Posted 01 March 2019 - 10:58 PM

View PostTiste Simeon, on 01 March 2019 - 11:52 AM, said:

Exactly TRB. I'm currently not reading much since the baby was born but I love it so much. So I'm rereading Harry Potter. It's light, fun and not too heavy or challenging which is exactly what I need at the moment.

Acting like you're more intellectual than everyone cos you enjoyed a book that was really dense and whatever else just makes you sound like a bit of a pretentious douche.


Right, I'll remember that enjoying well written books over middling to crap rushjobs makes someone a douche. How foolish of me to forget that a book doesn't need to be well written or even enjoyable at the base level before I can consider it to be good. Oh, what a world. What a world.
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Posted 01 March 2019 - 10:59 PM

View Postworry, on 01 March 2019 - 08:05 PM, said:

It's just a fancy word for 'butt stuff' imo.


W-what are you aksing for baka senpai
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Posted 01 March 2019 - 11:21 PM

Yeah cos that was my point... 🙄
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Posted 01 March 2019 - 11:40 PM

I think the one thing we can all agree on is that heavy metal sucks.
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Posted 02 March 2019 - 06:00 AM

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View PostMaark Abbott, on 01 March 2019 - 10:58 PM, said:

View PostTiste Simeon, on 01 March 2019 - 11:52 AM, said:

Exactly TRB. I'm currently not reading much since the baby was born but I love it so much. So I'm rereading Harry Potter. It's light, fun and not too heavy or challenging which is exactly what I need at the moment.

Acting like you're more intellectual than everyone cos you enjoyed a book that was really dense and whatever else just makes you sound like a bit of a pretentious douche.


Right, I'll remember that enjoying well written books over middling to crap rushjobs makes someone a douche. How foolish of me to forget that a book doesn't need to be well written or even enjoyable at the base level before I can consider it to be good. Oh, what a world. What a world.


Actually the douchism is the part where you state your subjective opinion as objective fact implicitly overriding anyone else's subjective opinions that don't align w yours.I suppose. I tend not to take that style of expression of opinion very seriously.
.... but seriously Maark.... analacritious.... you just made that up, didn't you?
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Posted 02 March 2019 - 06:24 AM

View PostAbyss, on 02 March 2019 - 06:00 AM, said:

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View PostMaark Abbott, on 01 March 2019 - 10:58 PM, said:

View PostTiste Simeon, on 01 March 2019 - 11:52 AM, said:

Exactly TRB. I'm currently not reading much since the baby was born but I love it so much. So I'm rereading Harry Potter. It's light, fun and not too heavy or challenging which is exactly what I need at the moment.

Acting like you're more intellectual than everyone cos you enjoyed a book that was really dense and whatever else just makes you sound like a bit of a pretentious douche.


Right, I'll remember that enjoying well written books over middling to crap rushjobs makes someone a douche. How foolish of me to forget that a book doesn't need to be well written or even enjoyable at the base level before I can consider it to be good. Oh, what a world. What a world.


Actually the douchism is the part where you state your subjective opinion as objective fact implicitly overriding anyone else's subjective opinions that don't align w yours.I suppose. I tend not to take that style of expression of opinion very seriously.
.... but seriously Maark.... analacritious.... you just made that up, didn't you?


Ah, it's a High House Hydra joke. It ties back to The Unready, whose puerile bleatings have delayed beloved Kharkanas because words are hard.

The Alacrity HHH used to refer was alacrity of thought, so Analacrity was simply Alacrity but run through Korabas so as to abnegate it. We didn't do our jokes simply in HHH, no siree.
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Posted 02 March 2019 - 10:54 AM

Ah those idiots who loved to spoil the series for others on FB group yeah those guys are hilarious...
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Posted 02 March 2019 - 07:20 PM

View PostTiste Simeon, on 02 March 2019 - 10:54 AM, said:

Ah those idiots who loved to spoil the series for others on FB group yeah those guys are hilarious...


In fairness the FB group is literally nothing but 'Jhag Horse', 'Is this Korabas' and 'who would win Character X or Character Y'. I don't miss it.
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Posted 03 March 2019 - 12:12 AM

Okay, Part 4 of the Guide , "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" is back to being up to scratch.

I'll probably try to finish the Guide before picking up anything else. I got some commuting to and from soccer tomorrow, so I can probably make a good dent in it. Then I'll pick 2 new books.
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Posted 03 March 2019 - 05:02 PM

I'm reading Carter and Lovecraft by Jonathan L Howard.

It's supposed to be a detective crime book based on som kind of Lovecraftian mystery murder stuff. It's okay. It's entertaining enough but it's not very good at recreating the atmosphere of Lovecraftian stories, despite the lying praise claiming otherwise on the back of the book.

The baddie is not so much a source of Eldritch horror, more of a petty magician.
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Posted 03 March 2019 - 07:32 PM

Yeah I hated Karkanhas because words are hard.
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Posted 04 March 2019 - 06:57 AM

View PostMacros, on 03 March 2019 - 07:32 PM, said:

Yeah I hated Karkanhas because words are hard.


Me too. Best give up on that dinosaur book while I'm at it too - if I can't handle Kharkanas because words are hard, goodness knows I won't be able to deal with anything scientific Posted Image
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Posted 04 March 2019 - 08:08 AM

View PostMacros, on 03 March 2019 - 07:32 PM, said:

Yeah I hated Karkanhas because words are hard.


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Posted 04 March 2019 - 05:07 PM

View PostMaark Abbott, on 04 March 2019 - 08:08 AM, said:

View PostMacros, on 03 March 2019 - 07:32 PM, said:

Yeah I hated Karkanhas because words are hard.


The fall of the Irish as depicted in Family Guy is truly one of the abalacritious tragedies of our era.


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Posted 04 March 2019 - 10:02 PM

View PostAbyss, on 04 March 2019 - 05:07 PM, said:

View PostMaark Abbott, on 04 March 2019 - 08:08 AM, said:

View PostMacros, on 03 March 2019 - 07:32 PM, said:

Yeah I hated Karkanhas because words are hard.


The fall of the Irish as depicted in Family Guy is truly one of the abalacritious tragedies of our era.


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