As for the rest of your post...suffice it to say...it's complicated. :D 1) Google paywall premium thing: This is not really to affect the quality of the search results you receive, but more to make use of their "AI Assistant" for your search, your emails, your calendar etc. (Bing already o...

Forgive my obtuseness, but are you going so far back as the transition from white rule to some kind of nominal democracy in S.A. when you refer to regime change? I hadn't marked you as old enough to have been around for that momentous transition. In fairness my recollection of the dates of these si...

For a sufficient amount of WGD I will agree to pretend that the outrageous claim regarding the capabilities of the forum is true...

(Wait, do we have WGD anymore?)

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StevieG wrote: ↑ Eh, getting a little forgetful in my advancing years

I have literally gotten 1 year older while waiting for this question...

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Fist and Faith wrote: ↑ Oops. Good thing he's a few books away.

LOL, to be fair, the only real reason is because of implied spoilers for RG, so it can go before, but it has to be read before Toll the Hounds.

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Here's a question. Do governments in functional democracies answer to their people, or do the people answer to their governments? Answer seems pretty straightforward to me - that governments answer to the people. I don't know where you got that ridiculous idea from. :D As I have frequently argued b...

Looking pretty good for your age there @aTOMiC.

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Hahahaha

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LOL, ok, I'm not a tablet user. :D What we need to do is establish the file type of the page you've downloaded. I found this: Select the file with a long tap and choose the Properties (i) icon or tap the Actions (:) icon at the end of the line and choose Properties from the context menu. The general...

Well, I'm starting with Night of Knives. I'll see how I go compared to how fast you manage to get through them before deciding about the others.

I do however agree about Crimson Guard, but it must be read after Reaper's Gale, not after Bonehunters.

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peter wrote: ↑ The world is only in a pre-war state because assholes like him insist on behaving like it is..

Pretty much agree with that.

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Damn, it was my birthday again yesterday.

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LOL, ok, how are you downloading them? (What process are you following?)

What format is the downloaded file in?

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Oh well, @SoulBiter has inspired me...I'm joining his Malazan read. Starting with Night of Knives because that's how I like to do it.

@Fist and Faith, for the record, this is the 8th time I'm reading it according to this thread.

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Fist and Faith wrote: ↑ Wish I was Av, so I could read it tonight

Haha, I have literally been wondering what to read, and SB's post in the other thread convinced me. I'm in!

So how you doing it SB? Straight through the main 10 books, or diverging to the Esselmont books where relevant?

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Let's see...since my last post, I finished Dark Prince, then read the 4 Rigante books by Gemmel, Sword in the Storm, Midnight Falcon, Ravenheart and Stormrider, then the 3 Troy Books, Lord of the Silver Bow, Shield of Thunder and Fall of Kings.

Now...I don't know what to read next.

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hierachy wrote: ↑ Well, certainly a different category than I would have selected when I joined this forum.

21 years ago!!!

a) Nice to see you around, b) welcome to the discord (everybody should join) and c) we're none of us as young as we used to be.

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SeventhWard wrote: ↑ My Wormoftheworld'send account doesn't work and my avatar was removed.

LOL, sorry, it wasn't removed. Well, per se. We moved servers and lost a bunch of images. If you have a backup you can just upload it. Also, PM me if you want me to reset the password on the old / other account.

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It never seems to occur to these people that if we were to open up safe and effective routes of asylum application within the countries from which these people are coming, then they wouldn't need to make the dangerous trip across the world, and ultimately the English Channel, in the first place. Bu...

Went back to Gemmel after all...Read Waylander and Waylander II, just finishing off Lion of Macedon then will read the sequel Dark Prince.

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