Currently reading a book set in the western U.S. circa rhe year 1867, involving cattle drivers hoping to soon settle down and make better lives for themselves and their loved ones. It's called The Daybreakers , by Louis L'Amour. Sigh. :D OK. :D My dad was a huge western fan, and I basically grew up...

Of course any ideology (for want of a better word) is going to produce its militant adherents. I also think that the "current" generation feels frustrated by the (from their perspective) pace of social change / acceptance etc. being unable to take into account (for example) how long it too...

That's a pretty dark joke Fist...

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Should I self censor insofar as making a pretence at interest, because this might be of key interest, even importance, to the person? Or should I be honest and just make it plain, the moment the subject arises, that it's not something that I understand or attach any importance to. I mean, personall...

But that isn't why I'm here today; I have a different topic in mind - that of self censorship and how it effects our discourse. Hmmm, differing perspectives. :D I think of it as knowing one's audience rather than censoring oneself. I have long been of the opinion that it is possible to say almost a...

LOL

I also forgot that this is where we meet Iron Bars.

Anyway, started The Bonehunters today, another great one.

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The Bonehunters, book (definitely) 6 of the Malazan Tale of the Fallen.

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Prob about 1/4 way through MoT, as always I end up skimming far less than I intend to, but still pretty happy jumping through stuff like Udinaas and the Wyveral story line, (at least until Ruin shows up), and a lot of the Edur stuff, although some bits, like Trull and the Jheck, and Rhulad's "e...

Well I will be re-reading them again soon, (which I guess will be the 4th time according to the previous post, but also I don't know if anybody has mentioned there is a 4th of these out now (already for some time), Forge of the High Mage which if I recall is more about Tayshrenn. Guess I need to be ...

I also like that style of switching points of view and telling the story over and over again from each one. (The only time I can think of offhand that I have seen it done well in film was Tarentino's Jacky Brown and for a change I actually think he under did something...I would have liked more of th...

This time it appears to have been the other way around Av. Must say I long since stopped keeping up with the details. Of course, a significant faction of Hamas is probably still invested in the most overwrought Israeli response possible, which as you say, Netenyahu seems bound on producing, so not ...

Also, Apt is a "she."

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Please...the Kharkanas books were so depressing he couldn't even bring himself to start writing the last one.

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This seems to me to be putting obstacles in front of enterprising individuals just for the sake of satisfying current social trends. I thought the current social trends were for unisex / gender neutral bathrooms... :D In which case those small restaurants should be on top of the pile. :D As for Isr...

He did pretty well against the Liosan.. (That whole scene is pretty hilarious...when they finally find Gesler and Stormy and get themselves beaten up again. )

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LOL, very true.

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Aeschylus wrote:In war, truth is the first casualty.

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Some do, some don't. Human condition doncha know.

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Reinforcing my opinion that every one of these books is actually damn depressing, her story is a tragic one indeed...

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So, I changed the title of this thread a bit, since I'm running ahead in my re-read so I might as well use this for just random stuff as well. Just finished HoC and I'm reminded why this was for a long time my favourite, and remains such a good book...I might skim the first couple hundred pages, at ...