Do you think we would have perpetuated quite so many lovely atrocities against the Natives, in our Eastern Seaboard early Colonial days? I mean, do you think we would have been quite so diligent about taking allllllllllllllll the land by whatever means necessary, around the east coast, if we knew ex...

Am I alone in thinking that if Stalin wasn't such a powerful enemy of Communism, a lot more of the world would have joined the revolution? Including the USA and UK?

I think he was elected dictator for life around 1-3 months before his assassination? He was appointed dictator several other times prior, it is just a political office. It was the addition of 'for life' that freaked everyone out. I felt...the opposite of good, about bringing up Dante, as he is very ...

Cover art, across all mediums, is notoriously... um... well let's just say the more specific the artist tries to be to the contents the more discrepencies there are. Music seems to have solved this by taking the nonsensical approach. Books still seem to suffer from the same difficulties old 8-bit g...

Well apparently I just see what I want to see. Anyways, I still maintain that 300 pages of SRD's repetitions and digressions would be far more !@#$ing relevant and well done than 1200 pages of what many authors try to pass off as books! :( I actually consider SRD's book lengths to be somewhat miracu...

(quick off topic post re fan-fiction. I had the idea of writting a short story where a Haruchai turns up in a psychiatric hospital in our world/time transported I guess by a ceasura, and the job of the psychiatrist who has to evaluate him). That would be interesting to see. I can imagine the diagno...

I read a couple of chapters closer to bed time than I should have, but I am pretty confidant there was no mention of the Blood Guard doing their usual Haruchai brainwavetalk. Bannor never reports what Korik sees while scouting, or prepares for an attack before the scouts return fully to the camp wit...

Do they describe Mahrtiir's age/physical appearance much when he is first introduced in Runes of the dearth? The suspense is kind of killing me. Maybe I just picked up this whole notion of him being young from his...zealousness?

Did 300 pages really get cut, or was that Orlion person just making that all up? 9XX pages for the third draft, 688 for the release? I wanna know what these cuts were! Hasn't he written enough best sellers by now to ward off excessive editing and "input"?! I mean it seems pretty clear that...

sgt.null wrote:the Black Cauldron series by Lloyd Alexander

OOOOO I actually did read that in like 2nd grade or so. I pretty well forget everything about it except Fofofofofofluterflam. And Gurgi, or is that Pirates of dark water?

Maybe the Harichari will become human at the series finale!

Related note, when do they gain their mind-meld powers? I mean, plot-wise I'm sure they had it all along. But I am halfway through Ill Earth War and the Harrykarrys don't use it/demonstrate it/appear to have it, so far.

But the Lords do.

Yeah he is, so is Pahni. But they aren't originally Mahrtiir's cords, I think. I really really remember them describing Mahrtiir as 30s. Oi Oi I wish I could check. Then again, look how tiny Revelstone is on the original Ill-earth war cover. Also how different Caerroil Wildwood looks on the Ill Eart...

Isn't Bhapa one of Hami's cords, who sort of got adopted by Mahrtiir, as he was comparatively younger and destiny filled, not content to just tend the Ranhyn and eager for battle? And thus was the Manethrall selected to leave the herd and go off with Linden. I think Doan was the old Manethrall who s...

When he keeps repeating her comment about how she does not forgive? I think she says it out loud like once, and he keeps repeating it forever. I assumed it was him saying that he understood her feelings and or had his eye on her (eye, singular, see what I did there?). But i'm re-reading the original...

I'm sure you guys know this but fron a related thread re the glossary of AATE the term ak haru ia a supreme Haruchai honorific, a state to be aspired to (but obviousely not limited to use for Haruchai only because) Kenaustin Ardenol is the true name of the Theomach. ie ak haru is a title. No I know...

I want to say he could have, but Covenant is sooooooooooooo determined to not believe, which is why Lena gets raped to begin with. It is really starting to seem like TC is unbelieving 1% from self preservation and 99% for spite. He only disbelieves because he forces himself to, conciously it seems, ...

Oh no, I mentioned them earlier, somewhere in my first txtwall. Besides, that is what all wars are for, power, money, or land. At least he was honest about it and didn't concoct some fake villain =p Also ALSO, my instinct is to zig when you say zag, so. I am actually not trying to defend Ceaser, yet...

The bible, by far.

That rapture thing is gonna happen and we are all gonna be like whaaaaaaat

Bam! Supernecrotrollbump. I am going to find something else to do now. In my defense I was looking for good book suggestions in earlier posts!

I need a series, or stand alone book, that isn't by Piers Anthony, or SRD, or Mikhail Bulgakov. I hate cliches, tropes, and any author who uses the word 'and' under any circumstances, ever. Probably sticking to sci-fi or fantasy. I don't like series that have 9378492874 characters, because I remembe...

And SRD and GRRM both have very long breaks between books. In fact, no one has ever seen SRD and GRRM in the same room. Oh, mygod! Is that why the third trilogy took 30 years to come out, he spent that time writing the Song of wind and water series?!!?! I don't think SRD takes very long breaks betw...