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- Fri May 03, 2024 9:02 pm
- Forum: Steven Erikson Forum
- Topic: First read: Deadhouse Gates. Book 2
- Replies: 35
- Views: 749
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: 34
- Views: 12614
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: 34
- Views: 12614
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: 45
- Views: 1568
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: 45
- Views: 1568
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: 45
- Views: 1568
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: 45
- Views: 1568
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: 19268
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: 3143
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: 3143
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: 19268
- Wed Nov 02, 2022 11:42 pm
- Forum: The Close
- Topic: Can someone explain to me the reasons behind hating Jews?
- Replies: 88
- Views: 19268
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: 32741
- Sat Apr 02, 2022 9:12 pm
- Forum: Steven Erikson Forum
- Topic: Erikson: Tales of Witness
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1272
- Thu Sep 17, 2020 4:06 am
- Forum: The Close
- Topic: How Does Evolution Produce Consciousness/Reason?
- Replies: 539
- Views: 82603
That the mind emerges from and is dependent upon the brain is not the issue. No, the question is: When we speak of minds, can someone who would reduce consciousness to biology offer an adequate picture of what it means for us to know something? To know anything? Adequate for what purpose? If it's e...
- Thu Sep 17, 2020 3:38 am
- Forum: The Entire Chronicles
- Topic: Atoning for the rape of Lena as the core problem in TCTC
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8524
To be honest, I think it might make more sense if High Lord Kevin were considered as being the Creator. In this way Kevin and Covenant are more easily identifiable as one and the same person. Covenant has not exactly cast himself into his own creation, it's just that he has forgotten everything abo...
- Thu Sep 17, 2020 2:46 am
- Forum: The Entire Chronicles
- Topic: Ark of the Covenant
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3476
- Tue Jun 02, 2020 12:09 am
- Forum: Coercri
- Topic: President Trump
- Replies: 3914
- Views: 394496
Only an idiot does something because the POTUS appears to suggest it. The people who die from drinking and/or injecting some sort of disinfectant deserve to go pick up their Darwin Award in person in whatever afterlife awaits them. Apparently he has stopped taking it...presuming that he ever really...
- Fri Oct 27, 2017 4:12 pm
- Forum: General Fantasy/Sci-Fi Discussion
- Topic: Bakker's The Prince of Nothing series
- Replies: 322
- Views: 96899
Hmmm, IIRC, Sorweel got killed by the ancient non-man which then provoked him back to sanity in order to overthrow the influence of the Consult on the non-men... --A But didn't Sorweel make it out with Serwa? And then Zsoronga made Sorweel give him a handjob or something? Did the nonmen leave Ishte...
- Thu Oct 26, 2017 9:07 pm
- Forum: General Fantasy/Sci-Fi Discussion
- Topic: Bakker's The Prince of Nothing series
- Replies: 322
- Views: 96899
I have a huge post. I hope it garners some further discussion, as I just finished up the book today. 1: So I'm pretty sure I'm serving Golgotterath. I've been working at an emergency service for doctors and we get a lot of calls for consults. And they ain't from no priests ;) . 2: I'm also pretty su...