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  1. In Topic: Ye Big Movie thread

    26 March 2026 - 04:46 PM

    Yup. It's amazing how much interesting stuff the first movie did with a pretty simple premise, and how little the sequels accomplish (especially the World sequels) with much more baroque B-movie premises.

  2. In Topic: Reading at t'moment?

    26 March 2026 - 03:10 PM

    View PostAbyss, on 26 March 2026 - 02:18 PM, said:

    View PostWhisperzzzzzzz, on 26 March 2026 - 12:08 PM, said:

    Holey moley.

    JL Odom's first two Land Of Exile books — By Blood, By Salt and A Haunt for Jackals — are so, so, so insanely good.

    If you have not yet read them...please do. I don't even know what to compare them to, but everything is executed flawlessly. The plotting, the pacing, the characters, the history, the prose (oh man, the prose!), and the twists.

    It's like GGK meets Gemmell meets Erikson meets Hobb (sorry, yes, these characters get wrung out like sponges).

    (Oh, and she won the SPFBO 2025).


    Intriguing. Any idea how many books are planned? ....i'm reluctant to start incomplete series' lately.



    I looked into it after that post. It's a trilogy with the third book coming out some time this year. She originally wrote a huge manuscript 15 years ago encompassing the whole story, but in terms of publication it was split into three ground-up rewrites (including extensive editing, it seems) and she's finishing up the third one.

  3. In Topic: LOTR

    25 March 2026 - 12:51 PM

    It's an interesting idea.

  4. In Topic: Reading at t'moment?

    23 March 2026 - 08:38 PM

    The Notorious W.I.Z.

  5. In Topic: Ye Big Movie thread

    23 March 2026 - 06:56 PM

    Wicked For Good -- thought this was kind of a mess compared to the first one. I haven't seen it on stage or read the book, mind you, but this was tonally all over the place and the pacing was weird as hell. It's not a short movie, yet everything felt abrupt somehow. There's a time jump from the first, but there's almost zero new place-setting -- all plot plot plot. I did like that it was dedicated to its premise (light spoiler: not an 'origin story' of the Wicked Witch we know, but a full re-imagining of how things went down that's firmly on her side, which I honestly didn't know going in). Jeff Goldblum remains great as the Wizard, even if it's an uber-Goldblumy performance. I can't remember the last time he actually disappeared into a role, but also I don't really care. And Cynthia Erivo's voice is remarkable, and it still surprised me on occasion to hear how good she is.

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    Tsundoku 

    15 Dec 2025 - 19:57
    hey dude, happy another one
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    Tsundoku 

    13 Jan 2025 - 12:40
    cheers big ears ;)
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    Tsundoku 

    13 Jan 2025 - 05:16
    where=were, me bad English, that's unpossible :P
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    Tsundoku 

    13 Jan 2025 - 05:15
    On further reflection, maybe not so much "jolly good" as "the whole situation sucks but I'm very glad you and yours are safe and I'm sorry to hear that people you know where impacted, but again I'm glad they are safe".
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    Tsundoku 

    10 Jan 2025 - 13:08
    Jolly good then :)
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    Tsundoku 

    10 Jan 2025 - 07:16
    hey mate, I know you're in a vast sandy wasteland but I hope you and yours are OK during these fires. I note some aren't that far away from you. Take care.
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    Tsundoku 

    16 Dec 2024 - 12:23
    Bloody hell, did we get to that time of the year again so fast? Happy birthday anyway Barstowvian. Hope it's a good one and not too cold. Or sandy.
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    Tsundoku 

    22 Apr 2024 - 23:22
    Not too bad thanks. A couple of days off, could be worse.
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    Tsundoku 

    22 Apr 2024 - 09:58
    heyo Wuzza, what's the latest?
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    Tsundoku 

    15 Dec 2023 - 23:49
    That time of the year again, happy birthday mate. Hope it's a good one.
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    Tsundoku 

    16 Dec 2022 - 12:39
    Stop living in the past, man ...
    ;)
    Hope it was a good one.
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    Tsundoku 

    15 Dec 2022 - 14:07
    Happy birthday Tusken Raider dude
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    Tsundoku 

    26 Jan 2022 - 01:17
    Hah, western north south west. Nice. Hadn't thought of it that way.
    Sometimes us from regional New South Wales refer to NSW as Newcastle Sydney Wollongong - the main metro areas that get all the attention from govt and the media, the rest of the state being "here be dragons" as far as they are concerned. :P
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    Tsundoku 

    21 Dec 2021 - 14:10
    If it's all the same to you, I'd like 2022 to be very low on surprises ...
    Except the lottery-winning kind. I'd like at least a big pleasant surprise there.
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    Tsundoku 

    15 Dec 2021 - 20:20
    Well my call about a much better 2021 was a bit off :(
    Still, hope you had a good one, happy birthday.
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