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...

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...

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...

I bet you guys are just pretending to miss some of it!

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...

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...

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 ...

I I think that's unrealistic... Yeah, this is the thing that bugs me...it's like many people see any criticism of the Israeli government as being antisemitic by default. It's like, "I can criticise your domestic policies without hating your religion dude..." :D --A Ya, tell me about it, t...

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...

The real question is, if conventional geopolitical discussion is allowed to spread to the Close, where (which subform[s]) would it not be feasibly able to spread to? It seems to me that Mallory's would be relatively safe, for one.

The weasel/stoat/whatever, I think it's name is Creature, owned by one of the malazan soldiers, is once described as something like "it was just smart enough to know how stupid it was, which made it extremely angry." This is a very similar description to one of the descriptions of the Prin...

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...

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...

I passed by a lady a few days ago wearing a shirt with a heart very beautifully imposed over a skull. A fun way of thinking about that "young/liberals think with their heart and old/conservatives think with their mind." Well I guess it's all pretty easy with a little guidance. I can see a ...

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...

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...

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...

I'm nowhere near done with the book yet, but some thoughts on me brought on by Kelmomas (sp?) You know, Kelmomas was probably among my least favorite characters in the series. But strangely, once he was caught, he seems to actually be a bit more worthy of thought. As far as I know, I've never killed...

I ordered an unholy consult from Amazon, hopefully this book we will have the proper diagnosis for kellhus.

I have an idea as to why Proyas was raped by Kellhus, and an idea as to the essence of the no-god. Proyas was raped because Kellhus - maybe - is trying to humiliate humanity or one of its leaders in preparation for his failure to eliminate the consult. Either to make them weak enough to survive, or ...