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#9201 Macros

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Posted 28 September 2012 - 09:43 AM

Reading stonewielder
Not halfway through yet but I'm enjoying it a lot more than return of the crimson guard
I think esselmonts skills have improved which leaves me guardedly optimistic for OST

( why does guard read fine but always feel wrong when I'm writing/typing it?)

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#9202 End of Disc One

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Posted 28 September 2012 - 11:38 AM

Defiance, on 28 September 2012 - 04:57 AM, said:

End of Disc One, on 28 September 2012 - 02:30 AM, said:

Okay who here tagged Brandon Sanderson in this picture on facebook

http://www.facebook....&type=1

This has to be someone from this forum

Out of curiosity, what was the picture? The link is currently down.

I don't know how to link to facebook pictures apparently.

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#9203 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 28 September 2012 - 02:53 PM

Macros, on 28 September 2012 - 09:43 AM, said:

Reading stonewielder
Not halfway through yet but I'm enjoying it a lot more than return of the crimson guard
I think esselmonts skills have improved which leaves me guardedly optimistic for OST

Wait for it--

"Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?"
―Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch

#9204 Captain Beardface

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Posted 28 September 2012 - 05:51 PM

Reading Forge of Darkness when not reading about Finite Element Method... FOD is much more interesting than FEM

Monsignor:...Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men.
Connor: [as the brothers exit the church] I do believe the monsignor's finally got the point.
Murphy: Aye.

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#9205 QuickTidal

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Posted 28 September 2012 - 06:05 PM

It's scary how much those book shelves in that picture look like mine....it's not, but it's got most of the same content.

It's also possible that is the bottom of a Canadian flag.

Still, not mine, but can we wager it's a Canadian members shelves?

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 28 September 2012 - 06:07 PM

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#9206 Baco Xtath

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Posted 28 September 2012 - 06:12 PM

Is that a Terry Goodkind book to the left of Dead Beat?

"Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life." - Terry Pratchett, Jingo"Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken." - Terry Pratchett, Eric
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#9207 QuickTidal

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Posted 28 September 2012 - 06:28 PM

Possibly...it kind of looks like it.

Though that shit wouldn't be on my shelf.

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#9208 amphibian

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Posted 28 September 2012 - 07:51 PM

QuickTidal, on 28 September 2012 - 06:05 PM, said:

He's in Ottawa. So yeah, you win your hypothetical bet.

Fbook profile screams "Would probably like it on this forum".

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#9209 polishgenius

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Posted 28 September 2012 - 10:42 PM

The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers. My first Powers and not far in, but I'm already antsing for more by him.

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#9210 Baco Xtath

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Posted 28 September 2012 - 11:44 PM

About 30% into Small Favor, about 50 pgs left in Cold Copper Tears, and about 26 hours into listening to A Storm of Swords. Just finished with the Red Wedding - what the fuck? Is this the most tragic fantasy or what? And, holy shit is that man vulgar. I thought Richard Morgan could push it but he's Disney in comparison.

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Posted 29 September 2012 - 12:39 AM

Baco Xtath, on 28 September 2012 - 11:44 PM, said:

You're claiming that GRRM is more vulgar than Morgan? have you forgotten the part of the Takeshi Kovacs series where our hero breaks into whore-central and catches some dude fucking a dog?

Perhaps you're using the term vulgar in a way that I am unfamiliar with - the simple number of expletives? If so, fine, but that's not worth talking about imo.

#9212 Baco Xtath

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Posted 29 September 2012 - 01:55 AM

Malaclypse, on 29 September 2012 - 12:39 AM, said:

Baco Xtath, on 28 September 2012 - 11:44 PM, said:

You're claiming that GRRM is more vulgar than Morgan? have you forgotten the part of the
Takeshi Kovacs series where our hero breaks into whore-central and catches some dude fucking a dog?

Perhaps you're using the term vulgar in a way that I am unfamiliar with - the simple number of expletives? If so, fine, but that's not worth talking about imo.

No, I'm using the term vulgar as it's defined. I thing GRRM is much more vulgar than Morgan. Much more. Morgan bothered me a little, (Rigil, with the smell of shit wafting through the air) but it doesn't compete with GRRM, he almost made me walk away, but that's my opinion, for whatever the fuck that counts.

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#9213 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 29 September 2012 - 04:23 AM

Baco Xtath, on 29 September 2012 - 01:55 AM, said:

that's my opinion, for whatever the fuck that counts.

Stop being so vulgar!

#9214 Dr Trouble

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Posted 29 September 2012 - 05:16 AM

Malaclypse, on 29 September 2012 - 12:39 AM, said:

.... the part of the Takeshi Kovacs series where our hero breaks into whore-central and catches some dude fucking a dog?

Good times!

#9215 amphibian

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Posted 29 September 2012 - 05:46 AM

I don't think the character was fucking a dog - the character was torturing it. If I remember right, Morgan made the character a politician. Or maybe that was the guy in the next one over.

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#9216 Dr Trouble

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Posted 29 September 2012 - 12:25 PM

It's not so much what he was actually doing, it's what Mal chooses to believe he was doing.

I also love how he put it as catching the man fucking the dog. As if the guy was red faced about the whole affair. Slowly letting the dog go, rubbing the back of his head with his hand and dragging his foot backwards and forwards on the ground as if to say, "You got me..." with a sheepish smile.

Gonna have to read Altered Carbon again.

(PS, Reading King of Thorns, 100 pages in its shitty so far. But I didn't really care much for Prince of Thorns, so I don't know why I thought this would be diffrent.)

#9217 amphibian

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Posted 29 September 2012 - 04:44 PM

Re-read the scene. Mal is kinda right. However, there was no embarrassment felt by the character.

Not sure why you're not connecting to King of Thorns. Lawrence is terrific.

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#9218 Dr Trouble

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Posted 30 September 2012 - 02:48 AM

Yeah, really don't know. It's right up my alley. Bottom line I guess is I just don't like the story.

Started The Dirty Streets of Heaven by Tad Williams today. Seems totally kick ass.

#9219 acesn8s

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Posted 01 October 2012 - 09:58 AM

Finished up White Knight over the weekend. Moved on to Small Favor. Man, I thought these books went quick the first time I read them. I'm just flying through them now.

I have Forge of Darkness warming up in the on deck circle. Should be too long before I finish up my Dresden rereads.

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#9220 Serenity

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Posted 01 October 2012 - 12:00 PM

amphibian, on 26 September 2012 - 02:12 PM, said:

Serenity, on 26 September 2012 - 01:38 PM, said:

Haven't done a lot of reading in the last couple of weeks due to having a week away in Chicago. As a result, I waded through Stephen Leather's Hard Landing in fits and starts whilst on holiday - it was a fairly generic thriller - but am now back in the UK and just over halfway through David Gemmell's Stormrider - absolutely loving it.

A week in Chicago? You realize that there are a few board members in that area, right? They're very fun.

I didn't know that - we went over for the Rush show, wonder if any of them were there . . .

Finished Stormrider. In the end it was, imo, the weakest of the 'Rigante' series. Still very good, though, but it had a lot to live up to. Now reading The Owl Killers by Karen Maitland.