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I think you guys are going to have to break it down by subforum archetypes. I'll start: Kruppe is D&D.
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Habibi posted:I think you guys are going to have to break it down by subforum archetypes. I'll start: Kruppe is D&D.
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Jul 31, 2019 05:08
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Just finished the Bonehunters. I enjoyed this more than Midnight Tides, mainly because Erikson is really good at writing about soldiers and how they interact with each other. I also liked how he portrayed that this was a multicultural army and that just because you were born in the Malazan empire didn't mean that you're malazan. The battle of Y'Ghatan was also really good. Both the buildup, the actual battle and the escape. But..there was another rape scene that's solely there to make the male character feel really bad about himself. 
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Jul 31, 2019 08:33
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Habibi posted:I'll start: Kruppe is D&D. Cutter is E/N.
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Jul 31, 2019 08:34
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um kruppe is clearly FYAD hannan mosag is D&D
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Jul 31, 2019 21:45
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1994 Toyota Celica posted:um kruppe is clearly FYAD Is this before or after he becomes a hideous, malformed wreck of a man? Wait, nvm
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Jul 31, 2019 23:17
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1994 Toyota Celica posted:um kruppe is clearly FYAD No, way, Kruppe is too civilized for FYAD. FYAD would be like...Olar Ethil.
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Aug 1, 2019 22:15
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Kruppe is either CSPAM or CD.
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Aug 1, 2019 22:45
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Habibi posted:No, way, Kruppe is too civilized for FYAD. FYAD would be like...Olar Ethil. Iskaral Pust is FYAD and smdh if you think otherwise
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Aug 2, 2019 14:44
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Rereading and saw this bit in House of Chains. The foreshadowing! [Main series spoilers - The whole thing] "A low altar caught Karsa’s attention. Some lowlander god, signified by a small clay statue — a boar, standing on its hind legs. The Teblor knocked it to the earthen floor, then shattered it with a single stomp of his heel."
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Aug 2, 2019 15:22
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I really enjoyed how much of a gently caress up Crump was in Bonehunters. He blows up the malazan army at Y'Ghatan, pisses on a god's altar causing it to break and then  at an edur boat not realizing that they're the enemy combatants.
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Aug 2, 2019 18:33
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Alhazred posted:I really enjoyed how much of a gently caress up Crump was in Bonehunters. He blows up the malazan army at Y'Ghatan, pisses on a god's altar causing it to break and then I feel like there's a fun novel to be written about the Bole Brothers (and sister). It'd be more enjoyable than any of the Kharkanas stuff, that's for sure.
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Aug 2, 2019 19:43
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So far it seems like the 14th army is the type of army that can only perform under extreme circumstances but given enough leisure time they disintegrate completely.
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Aug 2, 2019 19:59
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kingturnip posted:I feel like there's a fun novel to be written about the Bole Brothers (and sister). The boles are in kharkanas tho?
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Aug 2, 2019 20:53
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Alhazred posted:So far it seems like the 14th army is the type of army that can only perform under extreme circumstances but given enough leisure time they disintegrate completely. pile of brown posted:The boles are in kharkanas tho?
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Aug 2, 2019 21:23
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They’re introduced in FoD as a jaghut creation.
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Aug 2, 2019 21:55
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kingturnip posted:Iskaral Pust is FYAD and smdh if you think otherwise Yeah, that sounds about right.
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Aug 2, 2019 22:15
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Alhazred posted:So far it seems like the 14th army is the type of army that can only perform under extreme circumstances but given enough leisure time they disintegrate completely. They've also been robbed of any proper fighting and it makes them cranky. As of the end of BH they've been in what, 3 proper battles? The Whirlwind was defeated by bizarre magic, Yghaten was a bloodbath and the perpetrator escaped, and at Malaz they massacred an angry mob
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Aug 2, 2019 23:07
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The Boles punching the poo poo out of the K'Chain assassin is one of the best scenes of the whole series.
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Aug 2, 2019 23:15
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I just wanted to say that I like how Erikson handles topics on his saga and since I . Can't wait for Karsa's trilogy to end so I can star reading Walk in Shadows. Been reading The Black Company, it's been a great ride but I just want more Malazan.
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Aug 3, 2019 00:38
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I loved the journey reading the Black Company books and you can see its ancestry of ASoIaF, and Malazan in particular. Malazan BotF is a bit like TBC on steroids and a good bit better written, so I'm glad I read the latter first.
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turboraton posted:I just wanted to say that I like how Erikson handles topics on his saga and since I . Can't wait for Karsa's trilogy to end so I can star reading Walk in Shadows.  I'm about due for a complete re-read of the series, with all the ancillary books I skipped the first time around.  my goodreads reading challenge for the next couple of years, I guess.
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Aug 3, 2019 03:43
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Wibla posted:I'm about due for a complete re-read of the series, with all the ancillary books I skipped the first time around.
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Aug 7, 2019 03:11
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If you want to read a book about a big rear end battle, I really liked Joe Abercrombie - The Heroes.
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Aug 7, 2019 21:57
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boba fetacheese posted:I just finished my re-read of Malazan, and my Black Company copies are dog earred. Got a vacation coming up and no idea what to read. Tried the Powder Mage trilogy and meh. What else can scratch the itch? If you can find any of David Gemmell's output, I can't recommend Legend, Echoes of the Great Song or Dark Moon too highly. All stand-alone novels, though Legend has sequels. Just, be prepared to cry. Gemmell's work was as beautiful and merciless as the Chain of Dogs. 1994 Toyota Celica fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Aug 8, 2019 |
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Aug 8, 2019 01:54
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1994 Toyota Celica posted:If you can find any of David Gemmell's output, I can't recommend Legend, Echoes of the Great Song or Dark Moon too highly. All stand-alone novels, though Legend has sequels. Just, be prepared to cry. Gemmell's work was as beautiful and merciless as the Chain of Dogs.
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Aug 8, 2019 17:01
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If you want more Malazan, then I recommend the Second Apocalypse. Malazan is said to be why it even exists. However, er, SA is a bit more bleak. 
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Aug 13, 2019 05:37
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Pleiades posted:If you want more Malazan, then I recommend the Second Apocalypse. Malazan is said to be why it even exists. However, er, SA is a bit more bleak. I enjoyed it a few years ago but just can't anymore. But the world building is strong at least.
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Aug 13, 2019 17:34
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I am all too ready to defend the rapeyness in PoN because I think Bakker is doing something deliberate with it. But by Aspect Emperor it just become gratuitous and grisly because the world sucks and everything is awful and life is miserable. The Inchoroi being literal utility monsters is a great gag though, and the characters are wonderful when they're not busy sobbing about unrequited love.
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dwarf74 posted:It's even more rapey than Malazan, and also pretty child-rapey. It's pessimistic while Malazan is optimistic. I read the prologue or whatever and noped out afterwards. At least you know what you’re in for from the beginning.
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Aug 13, 2019 19:43
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I tried the first book, but I didn't even get far enough in to get a feel for it. The names were just way too fa'nt'asee'ish for me with multiple circumflexes and umlouts abounding. It's just hard for me to get into something where actual names are things like "Anasûrimbor Ganrelka II, High King of Kûniüri" on the first page. Basically everyone should be named by Braven Tooth.
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Started the kharkanas series this week. Really enjoying Arathan's story so far. Way better than I expected it to be based on some feedback it's received.
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Aug 14, 2019 03:14
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BlindSite posted:Started the kharkanas series this week. Really enjoying Arathan's story so far. Way better than I expected it to be based on some feedback it's received.
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anilEhilated posted:It's great and really deserves an ending we are not getting thanks to Karsa being more popular. It's less Karsa being more popular I'd say than the writing style of Kharkhanas turning off a bunch of people. But also Karsa is more popular.
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Aranan posted:I tried the first book, but I didn't even get far enough in to get a feel for it. The names were just way too fa'nt'asee'ish for me with multiple circumflexes and umlouts abounding. It's just hard for me to get into something where actual names are things like "Anasûrimbor Ganrelka II, High King of Kûniüri" on the first page. I actually found Bakkers names way better than Malazan. Theres a lot of DnDisms that sound just odd on the page (Clawmaster Topper, Sergeant Trotts) and I remember getting weirdly annoyed at how Stonny Menackis randomly gets a surname. Bakkers names nicely evoked a hellenistic/byzantine atmosphere - Xinemus, Nersei Proyas, Coithas Saubon (who are, incidentally, the best dudes in the whole series) And the Great Ordeal has to rival DoD for "transformative death march". Sadly it ends in atrocity piled on atrocity, which feels like a slap in the face compared to Eriksons gentle humanism. Even DG is more uplifting!
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Finished "House of Chains" a few days ago and have been taking a moment to digest instead of just grabbing "Midnight Tides" off the stack. It's probably been said a hundred times, but I seriously wish I had an ebook copy so I could search for how many times " chain" shows up as a text string. It's probably not as many times as it seemed.
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Aug 19, 2019 10:11
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282. So about every other page.
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Aug 19, 2019 11:03
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Okay, that's actually more than I expected.
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Aug 19, 2019 11:26
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Andrigaar posted:Finished "House of Chains" a few days ago and have been taking a moment to digest instead of just grabbing "Midnight Tides" off the stack. Wait, you read them in ... dead tree format? What is this, the early noughties?
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Andrigaar posted:Finished "House of Chains" a few days ago and have been taking a moment to digest instead of just grabbing "Midnight Tides" off the stack. Boy howdy do I have a site for you!
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