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Started by Syt, March 16, 2009, 01:52:42 AM

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grumbler

#5070
October 25, 2024, 03:20:26 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on October 25, 2024, 09:16:49 AMWhat sets it apart?

Fascinating, unique characters and a grimdark setting that makes Game of Thrones seem like a Disney musical. 
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

crazy canuck

#5071
October 25, 2024, 04:04:29 PM
Quote from: grumbler on October 25, 2024, 03:20:26 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on October 25, 2024, 09:16:49 AMWhat sets it apart?

Fascinating, unique characters and a grimdark setting that makes Game of Thrones seem like a Disney musical. 

I will pick it up

grumbler

#5072
October 25, 2024, 06:31:34 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on October 25, 2024, 04:04:29 PM
Quote from: grumbler on October 25, 2024, 03:20:26 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on October 25, 2024, 09:16:49 AMWhat sets it apart?

Fascinating, unique characters and a grimdark setting that makes Game of Thrones seem like a Disney musical. 

I will pick it up

Let us know what you think.  It's okay if you don't like it.  It's not for everyone, especially at the beginning when you don't know why anyone is doing what they are doing.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Crazy_Ivan80

#5073
October 25, 2024, 06:42:07 PM
Quote from: Gups on October 25, 2024, 02:29:48 AM
Quote from: grumbler on October 24, 2024, 04:45:08 PMJoe Abercrombie's First Law trilogy is now out in Kindle Unlimited, for those that have the service and haven't read the books yet.  Very highly recommended.

Seconded. Pretty much the only decent fantasy books I've come across in the last 10 years or so.

thirded.
Found the ending of the first trilogy a bit a 'wtf' at the time, but it fit the universe. Will need to pick this up again as I got derailed after 'Best Served Cold' which I enjoyed a lot too.

grumbler

#5074
October 26, 2024, 06:30:48 AM
Quote from: Crazy_Ivan80 on October 25, 2024, 06:42:07 PMthirded.
Found the ending of the first trilogy a bit a 'wtf' at the time, but it fit the universe. Will need to pick this up again as I got derailed after 'Best Served Cold' which I enjoyed a lot too.

The Age of Madness trilogy (aka "First Law, the Next Generation") is even more powerful/dark/fascinating than the first trilogy.  It's presumption that a fictional society can go from medieval to Industrial Revolution in three decades is something you have to get over, though.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

crazy canuck

#5075
October 26, 2024, 03:54:34 PM
Quote from: grumbler on October 25, 2024, 06:31:34 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on October 25, 2024, 04:04:29 PM
Quote from: grumbler on October 25, 2024, 03:20:26 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on October 25, 2024, 09:16:49 AMWhat sets it apart?

Fascinating, unique characters and a grimdark setting that makes Game of Thrones seem like a Disney musical. 

I will pick it up

Let us know what you think.  It's okay if you don't like it.  It's not for everyone, especially at the beginning when you don't know why anyone is doing what they are doing.

Will do, I am away this week but will dive into after that.

Thanks for the recommendation.

Gups

#5076
October 27, 2024, 10:12:10 AM
The final instalment in NAM Rodger's history of the British Navy has just been published

Habbaku

#5077
October 27, 2024, 11:34:35 AM
 :o
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

grumbler

#5078
October 27, 2024, 12:58:18 PM
Quote from: Gups on October 27, 2024, 10:12:10 AMThe final instalment in NAM Rodger's history of the British Navy has just been published

I've forgotten the plot and characters of the first two books, so I'll have to re-read those before reading the concluding volume.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Maladict

#5079
October 27, 2024, 03:07:26 PM
Paperback to be released in 2026  :lol:

mongers

#5080
November 21, 2024, 10:45:52 AM
My order for an etymological dictionary arrived today.  :bowler:
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

crazy canuck

#5081
November 21, 2024, 10:56:51 AM
Quote from: grumbler on October 25, 2024, 06:31:34 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on October 25, 2024, 04:04:29 PM
Quote from: grumbler on October 25, 2024, 03:20:26 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on October 25, 2024, 09:16:49 AMWhat sets it apart?

Fascinating, unique characters and a grimdark setting that makes Game of Thrones seem like a Disney musical. 

I will pick it up

Let us know what you think.  It's okay if you don't like it.  It's not for everyone, especially at the beginning when you don't know why anyone is doing what they are doing.

The books have now arrived, the only downside is I have trouble putting the book down to go to sleep.
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