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kcroy posted:100 pages in, got our first gay rape! Bakker does not disappoint!
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kcroy posted:100 pages in, got our first gay rape! Bakker does not disappoint! Whoa whoa whoa man spoiler that, I haven't gotten to the gay rapes yet
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TommyGun85 posted:Jon being named King in the North is a very different scenario that Cersei being Queen of Westeros or the Sand Snakes ruking Dorne, both of which are absurd and nonsensical. Cersei declaring herself Queen is one thing. Anyone else agreeing outside of those within her reach to murder is another.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:yeah I got an advance reader copy, didn't want to talk about it in that thread yet but I definitely thought "wild cards" to myself when I got there stayed up all night reading the gently caress out of it. pretty good stuff. Do you know if the entire series is supposed to be wrapped up after this next book? Or just the end of a trilogy. Another 500 pages doesn't seem enough to do it justice.
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Jul 13, 2016 10:54
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kcroy posted:stayed up all night reading the gently caress out of it. pretty good stuff. Do you know if the entire series is supposed to be wrapped up after this next book? Or just the end of a trilogy. Another 500 pages doesn't seem enough to do it justice. AFAIK one more book in this quadrology + final trilogy to come.
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mcustic posted:AFAIK one more book in this quadrology + final trilogy to come. So someone who's never read Bakker should start with the prince of nothing trilogy?
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Jul 13, 2016 13:31
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Is Prince of Nothing good? My buddy was explaining it to me the other night and it sounded like an even worse Kingkiller Chronicles in that the main character is just the bestest ever.
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VegasShirtGuy posted:So someone who's never read Bakker should start with the prince of nothing trilogy? Yes and it's very good. Solice Kirsk posted:Is Prince of Nothing good? My buddy was explaining it to me the other night and it sounded like an even worse Kingkiller Chronicles in that the main character is just the bestest ever. Your buddy might have misunderstood who the main character is. There is a good at everything character, but he is not main character.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Is Prince of Nothing good? My buddy was explaining it to me the other night and it sounded like an even worse Kingkiller Chronicles in that the main character is just the bestest ever.
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Eh, we were drunk. Maybe I was just focusing on that character and assumed he was the main. I just got some gift card from Amazon for being a part of some class action suit so I guess I'll just use that and pick up the first book to check it out.
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He's also the best at everything as a result of a four(?) thousand year old ruthless eugenic project to create a race of philosopher ubermensch, so it's not like he's an rear end in a top hat. He's beyond that.
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mcustic posted:AFAIK one more book in this quadrology + final trilogy to come.  tetralogy
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Yeah he said the final "trilogy" would be "2 or maybe 3" books. I'm a little worried about him getting it published given the difficulty with this one, but hopefully these two will sell well enough.
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Jul 13, 2016 21:38
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CaptainRightful posted:
My bad. drat those Alien movies.
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Mujaji posted:This guy has nominated HIMSELF for Hugo awards three years in a row came last or close to last and calls himself a "Five-time Hugo Award nominee" Really? That's loving hilarious. I'm tempted to buy one of his books to show my respect for his chutzpah.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Yeah he said the final "trilogy" would be "2 or maybe 3" books. I'm a little worried about him getting it published given the difficulty with this one, but hopefully these two will sell well enough. Was that the issue? I thought his publishers just dropped the ball for some reason ( changing editors, etc ).
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The Little Kielbasa posted:Really? That's loving hilarious. I'm tempted to buy one of his books to show my respect for his chutzpah. He lost to 'No Award' last year. The Hugo voters disliked his work enough that they'd rather not give out the award for the year than vote for it. Edit: actually, Vox Day lost out to No Award in multiple categories! Best Editor, Short Form -AND- Best Editor, Long Form His publishing company, Castalia House, had eleven other works on the ballot as well. None of them won, and most of them lost out to No Award. Two authors, an editor, ad a fanzine nominated on his slate withdrew their own nominations in order to not be associated with him. He is, so far, the sole and only person ever expelled from the Science Fiction Writers of America due to his sheer unpleasantness, open misogyny, and blatant racism towards other members. In short, gently caress that guy. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Jul 14, 2016 |
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Jul 14, 2016 02:19
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Liquid Communism posted:He lost to 'No Award' last year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_Day quote:Vox Day grew up in Minnesota, the son of entrepreneur and jailed tax protester Robert Beale.[1] He claims to be of English, Irish, Mexican, and Native American descent.[2] He graduated from Bucknell University in 1990,[3] where he studied economics, history and Japanese language. Day first began to write short stories while he was in college.
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Jul 14, 2016 05:08
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better question, why isn't Game of Bones nominated?
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Jul 14, 2016 10:03
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We didn't have enough people in the thread willing to buy a membership.
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Jul 14, 2016 10:13
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I am compelled to write a science fantasy novel called No Award
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How is there a human being named "Vox Day" I would have thought that would be a really lame holiday celebrating a lovely website
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Mike N Eich posted:How is there a human being named "Vox Day" I would have thought that would be a really lame holiday celebrating a lovely website "Vox" is Latin for "voice". you can fill in the blanks from there on why a self-important shithead would choose it for a name.
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Jul 14, 2016 16:54
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fun followup to that, in classical pronunciation you'd pronounce that "wokes".
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Jul 14, 2016 16:55
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Something something open your eyes something wake up sheeple I'm the one speaking the truth here you can't silence me etc.
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:fun followup to that, in classical pronunciation you'd pronounce that "wokes". All those Space Marines speaking the Emperor's Gothic are doing it wrong
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Jul 14, 2016 20:06
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Where's my phonebook novel you bastard
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Game of Thrones: Fuckers of Arizonaros
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Game of Thrones: Fuckers of Arizonaros I don't get..
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Hot drat Preston's back to 1000 worlds book club. Skimped on the guest star this time but okay. Says tuf is the only time he's ever ended a series, so probably someone's going to make a terrible choice taking agency away from everyone in westeros but stopping them from annihilation. I don't get how that'd work.
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So I started watching prestons videos. This guy has an amazing talent for talking sense and then immediately throwing something insane in the followup. "The question is: how did Dany survive the flames? I believe she is telekinetic"
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Arcsquad12 posted:So I started watching prestons videos. This guy has an amazing talent for talking sense and then immediately throwing something insane in the followup. he has mastered the art of having people who "hate" him and think hes an "idiot" consistently watch his videos. Dude is doing something right.
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Arcsquad12 posted:So I started watching prestons videos. This guy has an amazing talent for talking sense and then immediately throwing something insane in the followup. TommyGun85 posted:he has mastered the art of having people who "hate" him and think hes an "idiot" consistently watch his videos. Dude is doing something right.  it's almost entertaining waiting for the crazy moment to drop. Sensible, sensible, sensible, BATSHIT.
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Jul 19, 2016 15:34
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Preston is great.
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I like it when he makes these series of videos that get increasingly batshit. Like three exhaustively sourced and detailed video about Westerosi hair and beard fashion and then in the fourth video he starts talking about how this connects to some sci-fi story GRRM wrote 30 years ago and in the fifth video he reveals how all the major events are planned by barbers who are secretly working for the iron bank which is in turn using coins with implanted microchips to monitor the movements of earthlings for their alien merling overlords. Or something along those lines.
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Preston's best video will always be the one about the time he met GRRM and wanted to talk about his nerdery, but GRRM just wanted to talk about food.
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So what you guys are saying is that Preston is the Ron Paul of GRRM reviewers, 5 minute rule and all?
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My favorite preston thing he ever said was: When you look at the results of his actions, everything that Bronn says and does pushes Tyrion into acting in line with varys's overarching plot. Therefore, Bronn is an agent of Varys. (interesting, tell me more? When was he turned? What was he offered? Preston ignores these questions and plows onward) Bronn only entered Tyrion's company because of a chance meeting of Bronn, Tyrion, and Catelynn at the inn. Catelynn only went into the inn because it was raining, to get out of the rain. There is no such thing as coincidence, therefore, someone can literally control the weather and make it rain to bring characters together.
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