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Habbaku

#30
June 13, 2011, 06:23:27 PM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on June 13, 2011, 06:03:34 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on June 13, 2011, 05:54:38 PM
What fantasy series would you recommend?

Office of Management and Budget, Federal Budgetary Projections, 2001 - present.

Great mix of sorcery and horror with each serial presenting a cliffhanger ending.  Only downside is like Martin, it probably won't come to resolution before the bloated creature keels over.

I don't have time for more forlorn hopes as far as my reading goes.  I will stick to reading things like The Wages of Destruction that have good endings.
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Habbaku

#31
June 13, 2011, 06:24:15 PM
Quote from: Siege on June 13, 2011, 06:15:37 PM
Can Jon be a legal son of Rhaegar rather than his bastard?
Is there any way, according to Westeros laws, that Rhaegar could have married Lyanna before giving birth?

No.  Rhaegar already had a wife and I suspect bigamy is just as unacceptable in Westeros as it is outside of Utah and your neck of the woods.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

HisMajestyBOB

#32
June 13, 2011, 06:37:42 PM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on June 13, 2011, 06:03:34 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on June 13, 2011, 05:54:38 PM
What fantasy series would you recommend?

Office of Management and Budget, Federal Budgetary Projections, 2001 - present.

Great mix of sorcery and horror with each serial presenting a cliffhanger ending.  Only downside is like Martin, it probably won't come to resolution before the bloated creature keels over.
:D
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HisMajestyBOB

#33
June 13, 2011, 06:39:15 PM
I highly recommend the Dresden Files series. It's an urban fantasy series, but well-written, and the author reliably puts out a new book each year.
It's currently on book 13 of about 20.
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Slargos

#34
June 13, 2011, 06:59:53 PM
Quote from: HisMajestyBOB on June 13, 2011, 06:39:15 PM
I highly recommend the Dresden Files series. It's an urban fantasy series, but well-written, and the author reliably puts out a new book each year.
It's currently on book 13 of about 20.

Sounds like Supernatural.  :hmm:

Josquius

#35
June 13, 2011, 07:58:02 PM Last Edit: June 13, 2011, 08:00:19 PM by Tyr
Urban fantasy....I'm really not big on modern fantasy....Has just never done it for me in book form for some reason.
Though I should read more fantasy....

China Mieville is rather good. I imagine particularly so if you're a big city person.

QuoteNo.  Rhaegar already had a wife and I suspect bigamy is just as unacceptable in Westeros as it is outside of Utah and your neck of the woods.
Maybe he married Liana in secret before her...maybe Dani is the bastard.

And of course the Targs have done polygamy in the past.
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Habbaku

#36
June 13, 2011, 08:21:44 PM
Quote from: Tyr on June 13, 2011, 07:58:02 PM
Maybe he married Liana in secret before her...maybe Dani is the bastard.

:huh:
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Josquius

#37
June 13, 2011, 08:31:55 PM
Forget it, just checked and got the timeline wrong.
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Maximus

#38
June 13, 2011, 09:57:28 PM
Quote from: Tyr on June 13, 2011, 07:58:02 PM

And of course the Targs have done polygamy in the past.
Although this is quite true. Along with incest. The rules of marriage didn't seem to apply to them, probably because they had dragons.

Viking

#39
June 14, 2011, 03:11:08 AM
Quote from: Habbaku on June 13, 2011, 06:24:15 PM
Quote from: Siege on June 13, 2011, 06:15:37 PM
Can Jon be a legal son of Rhaegar rather than his bastard?
Is there any way, according to Westeros laws, that Rhaegar could have married Lyanna before giving birth?

No.  Rhaegar already had a wife and I suspect bigamy is just as unacceptable in Westeros as it is outside of Utah and your neck of the woods.

hmm the Targaryens seem to ignore Westerosi customs, Aegon the Conqueror did marry BOTH his sisters.
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A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
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viper37

#40
August 23, 2012, 05:41:44 PM
Jesus, that guy is slow.  They're waiting for GRR to finish a part of his next book to include in the paperback version of this one.  It was supposed to be released in May.  Then August.  Now, it's for March 2013. :glare: :bleeding:

I'll have to revise my whole reading strategy.  No more Star Wars Books post-Yavin to read, no more Song of Ice and Fire, well, I'll have to do something else of my spare time.  Maybe I'll finish all those games I started.
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Siege

#41
August 23, 2012, 06:00:24 PM


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Queequeg

#42
August 23, 2012, 07:14:21 PM
You're useless, Siege. 
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#43
August 23, 2012, 08:06:20 PM
Quote from: Queequeg on August 23, 2012, 07:14:21 PM
You're useless, Siege.

Not at all. I was going through the thread thinking "needs Miley pics" and he saved the rest of us the trouble of googling and posting them. :thumbsup:
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Alcibiades

#44
August 24, 2012, 04:36:38 PM
Could use a ban for that one  <_<
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