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#3061 Abyss

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Posted 24 September 2013 - 05:53 PM

D, on 24 September 2013 - 05:34 PM, said:

Abyss, on 24 September 2013 - 05:07 PM, said:

Except for the pirate parts.

My favourite part.
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I think we've had this debate before...

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#3062 D'rek

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Posted 24 September 2013 - 06:02 PM

Abyss, on 24 September 2013 - 05:53 PM, said:

D, on 24 September 2013 - 05:34 PM, said:

Abyss, on 24 September 2013 - 05:07 PM, said:

Except for the pirate parts.

My favourite part.
....

I think we've had this debate before...

I think you've mentioned how we've had this debate before before...

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.

#3063 polishgenius

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Posted 24 September 2013 - 06:03 PM

The problem with Red Seas wasn't that it was a bad or average books, it was that it's too seperate good stories forced into one story that doesn't really hang together.

There are a couple of other foibles as well (the meaningless false tension of the prologue, the way some of the Bastards' methodology is masked from the reader in a way that didn't happen in Lies) but altogether I still highly enjoyed it, it just wasn't quite as solid as the first.

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#3064 Abyss

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Posted 24 September 2013 - 06:39 PM

D, on 24 September 2013 - 06:02 PM, said:

Abyss, on 24 September 2013 - 05:53 PM, said:

D, on 24 September 2013 - 05:34 PM, said:

Abyss, on 24 September 2013 - 05:07 PM, said:

Except for the pirate parts.

My favourite part.
....

I think we've had this debate before...

I think you've mentioned how we've had this debate before before...

I think you may have mentioned that i mentioned that i think that we've had this debate before...

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#3065 D'rek

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Posted 24 September 2013 - 08:13 PM

Abyss, on 24 September 2013 - 06:39 PM, said:

D, on 24 September 2013 - 06:02 PM, said:

Abyss, on 24 September 2013 - 05:53 PM, said:

D, on 24 September 2013 - 05:34 PM, said:

Abyss, on 24 September 2013 - 05:07 PM, said:

Except for the pirate parts.

My favourite part.
....

I think we've had this debate before...

I think you've mentioned how we've had this debate before before...

I think you may have mentioned that i mentioned that i think that we've had this debate before...

Actually, I don't think I ever did mention that I think you've mentioned how we've had this debate before before...

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.

#3066 QuickTidal

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Posted 24 September 2013 - 08:24 PM

I'm dizzy now. Thanks Abyss and Drek.

LOL

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#3067 Abyss

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Posted 24 September 2013 - 09:20 PM

QuickTidal, on 24 September 2013 - 08:24 PM, said:

I'm dizzy now. Thanks Abyss and Drek.

Are you dizzy, or are you just blown away by how I had this debate with D'rek about having an earlier debate about a debate we may have had?

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#3068 QuickTidal

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Posted 24 September 2013 - 10:32 PM

I hate all of you...in the most loving way.

LOL

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#3069 Grief

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Posted 25 September 2013 - 03:51 PM

Red Seas is good, just disappointing as a follow up to a book as good as The Lies of Locke Lamora.

But if it's the forum's second most divisive book, I'm wondering what is first?

No books bought today :rofl:

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Grief, FFS will you do something with your sig, it's bloody awful

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Grief is right (until we abolish capitalism).

#3070 QuickTidal

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Posted 25 September 2013 - 03:59 PM

Grief, on 25 September 2013 - 03:51 PM, said:

Red Seas is good, just disappointing as a follow up to a book as good as The Lies of Locke Lamora.

But if it's the forum's second most divisive book, I'm wondering what is first?

No books bought today :rofl:

Indeed. This is my view as well. It's very A FEAST FOR CROWS...the "it's kind of hard to top the book that came before it" trope.

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#3071 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 25 September 2013 - 04:17 PM

Grief, on 25 September 2013 - 03:51 PM, said:

But if it's the forum's second most divisive book, I'm wondering what is first?

I'm guessing that's Tigana.

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#3072 Grief

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Posted 25 September 2013 - 09:21 PM

People really dislike Tigana?

I vaguely remember discussing it here before but don't remember it ever seeming too divisive.

Maybe I was just so mystified by their hatred that I assumed they were joking.

Cougar said:

Grief, FFS will you do something with your sig, it's bloody awful

worry said:

Grief is right (until we abolish capitalism).

#3073 polishgenius

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Posted 25 September 2013 - 09:26 PM

Iirc, Abyss hates Tigana because he's a weird soulless freakoid.

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#3074 Grief

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Posted 25 September 2013 - 09:34 PM

I thought Abyss quite liked Kay?

Or is it just Tigana specifically?

Abyss, your ~~good~~ passable reputation is in peril from these slanderous rumours, clarification is needed.

Cougar said:

Grief, FFS will you do something with your sig, it's bloody awful

worry said:

Grief is right (until we abolish capitalism).

#3075 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 25 September 2013 - 10:38 PM

polishgenius, on 25 September 2013 - 09:26 PM, said:

Iirc, Abyss hates Tigana because he's a weird soulless freakoid.

Correlation does not necessarily imply causation.

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Posted 25 September 2013 - 11:06 PM

Grief, on 25 September 2013 - 09:21 PM, said:

Tigana is overhyped. It failed to connect to me. Even Arbonne was better. and it's nowhere close to the awesomeness that was the Sarantine Mosaic. I really have no idea why people consider it to GKK's best work.

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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.

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Posted 26 September 2013 - 08:25 AM

This could only get worse if someone came in and said robin hobb was great, and bakker was terrible.

Cue the board exploding into a running argument.

For what its worth red seas I enjoyed, but not as much as lies. Tigana I enjoyed, but I wouldn't put it alongside either Kay's best or worst books, just middling.

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Posted 26 September 2013 - 12:15 PM

Oh it can get much worse than that.

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Posted 26 September 2013 - 07:11 PM

Long time lurker coming back to ask a quick question...
Have we stooped so low that we're now trolling ourselves?

On topic, though picked up Ace of Skulls by Chris Wooding and On the Steel Breeze by Alistair Reynolds. Sad to see the former series end, but hopefully it'll end well and interested to see what Reynolds does after his last book didn't quite sit right with me.