AngelEy3

12 minutes ago, Briar King said:

Beak

nuff said

Friends are important. I'll show you all. 

11 minutes ago, Briar King said:

Which is likely the longest chapter of 1-10. It was 80+ pgs in my tpb edition.

I have the same edition. Worth every page turn! I'm super excited now for Reaper's Gale since I found that hardcover at the thrift store on Friday. 

28 minutes ago, officiumdefunctorum said:

Just finished Fall of Light. For all my expectation that it would be a bit of a slog, I thoroughly enjoyed it. The first two books are frustrating and devastating, but moreso in the story they tell than in the telling. Anyone who's on the fence about reading it, I recommend giving it a go. Looking forward to Walk in Shadow, though admittedly not as much as Toblakai.

That's promising to hear. I have them already, just waiting for my 2nd readong of the main series and then I'm going to start them. About halfway through Bonehunters right now. I finished Chapter 7 and then turned around and read it again. 

3 hours ago, I think I am here. said:

Hmm, then maybe "I exchanged for food." Would work more. You're not saying "I exchanged food" Because your not giving food for food, but saying "I exchanged for food" would work better I think. Saying you ordered food, and on the flip-side saying you served some food creates two types of people: The orderers and servers, which gives a lot of assumption over who's superior. We should all say "I exchanged for food" instead.

Server and orderer doesn't imply a superiority at all. Their business is to provide a service. That service is gained in exchange for something of value; generally currency. You order what you want from a list of options that they are providing, then they fulfill the order as agreed upon. 

1 hour ago, I think I am here. said:

When we say "I ordered food" we dont really notice we use the word 'ordered', which is pretty much like the word 'demanded' except no one says "i demanded food" because thats being a spoiled brat but we say "i ordered food" like its better because we know we will get it eventually. We do it to make it sound like we are superior to the person giving us food, or maybe thats how it started. Anway, we should all say "i requested some food" it works much nicer. Just a random thought

The act of requesting something be served is called an order

Order
Verb
request (something) to be made, supplied, or served.

Whoa! Banner day at my local thrift shop. Grabbed The Expanse 1-7 in a mix of TPB and Hardcover plus Reaper's Gale by Erikson in Hardcover for the grand total of $23.75.

Infinity War was awesome. 

16 hours ago, officiumdefunctorum said:

"More tea, and less angst."

Quotable quotes from Gothos.

"I greet you as guests, and so I will not crush the life from you and devour your souls with peals of laughter. No, instead I will make some tea." 

Memories of Ice & Bonehunters spoilers :

I love the double meanings behind almost everything:

"And what so spurred their zeal?" 

"Vengeance, of course. And Anomandaris." 

"You are Leoman of the Feathers, and it shall be as you say." 

Just from that preview, I'm going to love FoD! Starting on the last 50 pages of Midnight Tides right now. 

I flipped a coin tonight to see if I was going to move on to Bonehunters or FoD. The Lady's pull has put me back in Seven Cities! 

2 hours ago, Briar King said:

Finished Fitz 3 3 days ago and on pg 210 of 4. About a month has passed since I started Fitz and in that time I haven’t read more then 20 pgs of Crimson Guard. Ha that’s also why I been silent in thread there.

RotCG is my favorite Esslemont outside Path to Ascendancy. I hope it goes smoother for you when you start back up again. 

Favorite characters? 

1. Anomander Rake 

2. Fiddler

3. Karsa 

4. Trull

5. Toc the Younger 

6. Tehol/Bugg

7. Gesler/Stormy/Truth 

8. Silchas Ruin

9. Tool

10. Cartheron Crust 

Just now, Xtafa said:

@Tesh

I'm interested in seeing the next step in progression for the cloaks.

We've gone from Mistcloak to Mistcoat, what would the 1980's version be? Mistsuit? 

I'm going with Mistglam. Think Cinderella or Bon Jovi circa 86'. Almost all their pants have tassels, lol. 

1 hour ago, Xtafa said:

When you start comparing games and stories to Cosmere right away. I am currently playing Ni No Kuni 2. 

You have swords that you summon, elemental 'definitely not spren', "Higher spren" that can be bonded with. 

Theres more but i'd be worried about spoiling both it and cosmere stuff. 

 

I know what you mean. I played FFXV after reading TWoK and as far as I was concerned, the weapons were shardblades. 

24 minutes ago, Yvainnie said:

I really want to read that trilogy about Andii people! Andii are my favorite nation and also I would love to read more about Cotillion if it is somewhere in those other books.

Path to Ascendancy is going to be good for you I think. Dancer's Lament especially. 

24 minutes ago, Yvainnie said:

Good to know that I will enjoy it. I admit so far I enjoyed Memories of Ice a lot because I like Whiskeyjack realtionship with Rake and Deadhouse Gates because I was a big fan to Coltaine. 

Indeed! Those two are so good and get the story really rolling along. It blows my my mind that

Are you planning on reading the Esslemont books along with the main series? I believe that they kick in chronologically after Bonehunters iirc. I didn't the first time, but I think I might try it this time. 

5 minutes ago, Yvainnie said:

@AngelEy3 yes first read it is

Nice. I'm on my 2nd time right now, about 1/4 through Midnight Tides. Bonehunters is what I'm most looking forward to. 

@Yvainnie Is this your first read of the series? 

Has anyone listened the audio version of Malazan? I'm finding myself in front of my pc more often and could be listening. 

6 hours ago, Yvainnie said:

 

But I admit that first few chapters of Midnight Tides were tough to read.

Indeed! They are quite grim until you start getting more Tehol and Bugg in the mix more often. 

@The Thinking Herald I think our worldview at this time is too differing for me to give any additional comment other than to say that I would have been less concerned about who was guilty or not, and more concerned with the outrageous response of the teacher. Any actions I would have taken at that point would have been to spite the abusive authority. 

@The Thinking Herald Hm... If you want to think on how you could have handled it differently, I'd suggest that your main error was in allowing that faculty member to put you in the position they did. 

It was petty and a tyrant-like move on the teacher to give a student the choice of who to punish. 

My personal opinion, and what I would have done in the circumstance would be to refuse the option to "play God." If you are worried at all about what those other students think of you, then you should have died on the hill with them. You sold them out, and now you feel guilty. Been there. Decided to never go there again. 

House of Chains spoilers 

Corabb's insane run of the Lady's pull is awesome. I forgot just how lucky he is. 

Update: Midnight Tides! 

Currently reading House of Chains (Malazan #4) by Steven Erikson. This series is absolutely amazing on a re-read. It's like 2nd day lasagna! 

WITNESS! 

20 hours ago, Steeldancer said:

No, but reusable bags are better! Plastic is fine. Paper I hate, but I’ll deal with. But paper and plastic is just stupid. Reusable bags do the same thing infinitely better- and they’re reusable! BAH

Well... Except for the part where the handles rip off and they aren't spill proof. I get the feeling that you work at a grocery store and your only real enmity towards paper bags is that you have to go through the extra step of opening the bag compared to the metal hanger that the plastic ones sit on. I should know cause I worked at the grocery store in HS. I hated paper bags cause they were more time consuming to actually bag groceries in. 

Am I close to the mark here? 

3 minutes ago, Madness said:

Followed up on that "pilot episode" of a Malazan podcast with Erikson/Esslemont. Notes link.

This just made my day!!! Going to check it out now.