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Started by viper37, April 18, 2011, 09:25:26 PM

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viper37

April 18, 2011, 09:25:26 PM
Should I get it?  The 4 books (is that all there is?) are on sale for a little over 30$ at Amazon.  Is it worth reading?
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Lettow77

#1
April 18, 2011, 09:28:15 PM
 Yes. By the time you are done, the new one should allegedly be out.

It is quite excellent.
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Eddie Teach

#2
April 18, 2011, 09:39:47 PM
That doesn't seem like such a great bulk deal, you could probably find them separately for about the same. But yeah, good series, shame it's not going to be finished.
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Razgovory

#3
April 18, 2011, 09:46:20 PM
I say no.  They'll never be finished.
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Lettow77

#4
April 18, 2011, 09:53:00 PM
 I would dissent and say they will indeed be finished, but that's just me. He should have them done in eighteen years or so at the latest, and he'll probably live and be capable of writing that long.

Perhaps his draft for the final one will be a legacy work, but that's fine too.
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Valmy

#5
April 18, 2011, 09:54:12 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on April 18, 2011, 09:39:47 PM
That doesn't seem like such a great bulk deal, you could probably find them separately for about the same. But yeah, good series, shame it's not going to be finished.

Heh you have no idea whether or not he is going to finish.
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Razgovory

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April 18, 2011, 10:11:49 PM
Lettow probably still in his crib when the first book was released, fuck I was in the 8th grade or so.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

CountDeMoney

#7
April 18, 2011, 10:13:28 PM
Personally, I'm going to take a break from O'Connor, Steinbeck and various nonfictions to start the WH40K "Horus Heresy" series and melt my brain.

Razgovory

#8
April 18, 2011, 10:17:30 PM
Nothing wrong with that, you can't be weighty all the time.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

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#9
April 18, 2011, 10:46:10 PM
Sure, it's good, though dark. If you can handle lots of death and misery then go for it.
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Habbaku

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April 18, 2011, 10:48:41 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on April 18, 2011, 10:11:49 PM
Lettow probably still in his crib when the first book was released, fuck I was in the 8th grade or so.

What is your obsession with posters' ages?  I didn't realize you had suddenly joined the gays.
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Razgovory

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April 18, 2011, 11:13:46 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on April 18, 2011, 10:48:41 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on April 18, 2011, 10:11:49 PM
Lettow probably still in his crib when the first book was released, fuck I was in the 8th grade or so.

What is your obsession with posters' ages?  I didn't realize you had suddenly joined the gays.

I remember things.  I don't know why it's so weird, but everyone is weirded out though when I remember that Dguller is losing his hair, or that Tim is posting an article that Ank posted half a decade ago or that I remember that Lettow under 21.

Also I don't trust people who are younger then me, like you.  Or people who are older then me, like Berkut.  Or people about the same age like Tim.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Lettow77

#12
April 18, 2011, 11:19:02 PM
 Lettow is not either under 21. Not since several months ago, anyhow.
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Razgovory

#13
April 18, 2011, 11:20:09 PM
Quote from: Lettow77 on April 18, 2011, 11:19:02 PM
Lettow is not either under 21. Not since several months ago, anyhow.

Ah, okay.  I was off.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Slargos

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April 18, 2011, 11:46:25 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on April 18, 2011, 11:13:46 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on April 18, 2011, 10:48:41 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on April 18, 2011, 10:11:49 PM
Lettow probably still in his crib when the first book was released, fuck I was in the 8th grade or so.

What is your obsession with posters' ages?  I didn't realize you had suddenly joined the gays.

I remember things.  I don't know why it's so weird, but everyone is weirded out though when I remember that Dguller is losing his hair, or that Tim is posting an article that Ank posted half a decade ago or that I remember that Lettow under 21.

Also I don't trust people who are younger then me, like you.  Or people who are older then me, like Berkut.  Or people about the same age like Tim.

People with memory sponges are frightening because we suspect they might also recall all the times we made fools of ourselves. The blessing of a poor memory is that you can put things like that behind you.  :P

You, however, are a constant reminder. :console:

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