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- Mon May 20, 2024 10:51 pm
- Forum: Steven Erikson Forum
- Topic: First read: Deadhouse Gates. Book 2
- Replies: 46
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First read: Deadhouse Gates. Book 2
Black Company is in my top 10 of series. You can feel the resemblance in the writing by Erikson. A long way to go to finish this series then I think I will revisit the Black Company. Hmmm, sounds like I should look for it. :D Seen it referenced here before but never read (or even seen) any of them....
- Mon May 20, 2024 10:51 pm
- Forum: Steven Erikson Forum
- Topic: Malazan Issues [And Stuff] (Spoilers)
- Replies: 42
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Malazan Issues [And Stuff] (Spoilers)
Does anyone remember when I first joined this forum and I had a signature with a big guy with a sword in it? (Guts from Berserk). I saw a common thread between that comic's opening act and Paran's traveling on the plain towards Darujhistan. Spoilers for Memories of Ice (book 3): Paran, at the time i...
- Mon May 20, 2024 10:38 pm
- Forum: Steven Erikson Forum
- Topic: First read: Gardens of the Moon: Book One of The Malazan
- Replies: 46
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First read: Gardens of the Moon: Book One of The Malazan
I was rereading Gardens of the Moon, thinking about how I might have very loosely imitated Hairlock-as-a-puppet during some minor events at work, years ago, without realizing it. Then I got to the part where Crone is flying through the sky and another Great Raven reports to her question as to what's...
- Thu May 16, 2024 10:36 pm
- Forum: Steven Erikson Forum
- Topic: First read: Deadhouse Gates. Book 2
- Replies: 46
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First read: Deadhouse Gates. Book 2
Black Company is in my top 10 of series. You can feel the resemblance in the writing by Erikson. A long way to go to finish this series then I think I will revisit the Black Company. Ya. Also, I don' really remember what I dread of the read empire series, but I believe there's a character in there ...
- Tue May 14, 2024 10:17 pm
- Forum: Steven Erikson Forum
- Topic: Malazan Issues [And Stuff] (Spoilers)
- Replies: 42
- Views: 12874
Malazan Issues [And Stuff] (Spoilers)
Liosan always seem to get the short end of the stick in Erikson. Same with the Fork'rul or however you spell it. I don't just mean they end up with bad fates, I mean I feel like those two races get depicted more negatively than most.
- Tue May 14, 2024 10:03 pm
- Forum: Steven Erikson Forum
- Topic: First read: Deadhouse Gates. Book 2
- Replies: 46
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First read: Deadhouse Gates. Book 2
Ahhhhh Kulp.... What a way to go... instantaneously eaten by thousands and thousands of rats..... Kulp's resume includes (or perhaps fails to include) one of my favorite references to Glen Cook's The Black Company. There actually is a mage, I think in the 4th black company novel, I don't think it's...
- Sun May 12, 2024 10:22 pm
- Forum: Steven Erikson Forum
- Topic: First read: Deadhouse Gates. Book 2
- Replies: 46
- Views: 1296
First read: Deadhouse Gates. Book 2
IMO the Semk Demon is one of the most threatening and competent antagonists considering it never -is named -gets a line of dialogue (hehe) -has a sequence even from its allies' POV that I can think of (many times in Malazan some of the clearer antagonists get a couple POVs IIRC) -is defeated with Mo...
- Fri May 03, 2024 9:02 pm
- Forum: Steven Erikson Forum
- Topic: First read: Deadhouse Gates. Book 2
- Replies: 46
- Views: 1296
First read: Deadhouse Gates. Book 2
Felesin is a very sad story. Many readers don't like her, thinking she's a nasty little thing. I can't imagine how they expect someone her age who's gone through what she's gone through to be Mary Sunshine. When I was on reddit somewhat recently it seemed like opinion on her had mellowed out a lot ...
- Thu May 02, 2024 6:38 pm
- Forum: Steven Erikson Forum
- Topic: Malazan Issues [And Stuff] (Spoilers)
- Replies: 42
- Views: 12874
Malazan Issues (Spoilers)
The people of Pale or the Moranth (due to their long enmity) might. It's true the malazan sappers are well regarded, though. The Moranth seem specifically nonhostile to the Malazans (they don't think they are corrupt), at least according to that one conversation where they say as much. So I don't th...
- Wed May 01, 2024 6:46 pm
- Forum: Steven Erikson Forum
- Topic: Malazan Issues [And Stuff] (Spoilers)
- Replies: 42
- Views: 12874
Malazan Issues (Spoilers)
Regarding number 1: Erikson actually may have shored this up a bit in GotM before getting to it again in MoI...specifically, at some point it's mentioned that the, how to put this, geological structure/rock, ground formation under Pale was already set up to collapse the tunnels. So is that something...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:08 pm
- Forum: Steven Erikson Forum
- Topic: First read: Gardens of the Moon: Book One of The Malazan
- Replies: 46
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First read: Gardens of the Moon: Book One of The Malazan
That last 25% of the book was non stop action... it was hard to keep up... geez what a ride!! I will add more tomorrow. Off to create a new thread. OK so a few thoughts. Man.. it all came together so fast... Assassins going at each other, mages going at each other, Gods going at each other. Just ma...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:42 pm
- Forum: Steven Erikson Forum
- Topic: First read: Gardens of the Moon: Book One of The Malazan
- Replies: 46
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First read: Gardens of the Moon: Book One of The Malazan
I was actually wondering last night how much of those quotes get read...I tend to skip them quite a bit, but I do skim them to see if I can spot anything particularly relevant, which I often do. Sometimes however it won't be relevant for a long time...so long that one would have forgotten that fore...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 1:56 am
- Forum: Steven Erikson Forum
- Topic: First read: Gardens of the Moon: Book One of The Malazan
- Replies: 46
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First read: Gardens of the Moon: Book One of The Malazan
One of the things I missed until now is one of the historical/poetic preludes that comes before the meat of a chapter...I don't remember which one, but it's EARLY (like I know SB is past it because he's already touching on events I haven't caught up to yet). It specifically relates to some scholar w...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 5:45 pm
- Forum: Steven Erikson Forum
- Topic: First read: Gardens of the Moon: Book One of The Malazan
- Replies: 46
- Views: 1802
First read: Gardens of the Moon: Book One of The Malazan
I bet you guys are just pretending to miss some of it!
- Mon Dec 26, 2022 11:30 pm
- Forum: The Close
- Topic: Can someone explain to me the reasons behind hating Jews?
- Replies: 88
- Views: 20150
I don't think what she says is completely right, because the nazis identified jews - AFAIK - based on ancestry. Also, some people could identify jews on the street based on prior association in addition to documentary evidence of their ancestors. Also, I'm under the impression that black people were...
- Mon Dec 05, 2022 11:22 pm
- Forum: The Close
- Topic: Stephen Fry's 7 Deadly Sins
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3385
I suspect it's a learned behaviour, but yeah, we can't really know for sure. As far as a dog afterlife, I like the idea of the film A Dog's Purpose where the dog is reborn into another dog for several lifetimes to continue their journey. Perhaps humans are the same, but have no consciousness of the...
- Sun Dec 04, 2022 11:07 pm
- Forum: The Close
- Topic: Stephen Fry's 7 Deadly Sins
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3385
I'm not sure that animals are entirely immune to the concept of sin. If my dog pooped in the house (not often happened, but usually when she was sick), she would always go in the same place, a place in the house were where people didn't frequently go quite as much. And whenever someone came home on ...
- Thu Nov 17, 2022 1:34 am
- Forum: The Close
- Topic: Can someone explain to me the reasons behind hating Jews?
- Replies: 88
- Views: 20150
- Wed Nov 02, 2022 11:42 pm
- Forum: The Close
- Topic: Can someone explain to me the reasons behind hating Jews?
- Replies: 88
- Views: 20150
It may be that antisemitism in part exists because we are quite the minority, and sometimes people are just looking for a scapegoat. These days, sometimes I think the jews do run everything, but I also sometimes think everybody else is running everything, or that I do. It is also the case that if yo...
- Mon Oct 17, 2022 1:14 am
- Forum: The Close
- Topic: Pope Francis I
- Replies: 135
- Views: 34584