People really need to go back and think on what they thought they read in the books. Dany is a child who has just been sold to a renowned killer and warlord, and the possibility of her consent is dubious at best - 'consent' is her only option.
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Yeah. I am starting to see that too. It kind of irked me that they were throwing some stuff from books 4 and 5 into this season. But as I thought about it I realized it had to happen to explain the back story while they would have been gone. And even in the intro to Dance with Dragons, Martin explains that it's…
Dune- so much I could say...
I wish Ulysses had an introduction by Joyce where he pats himself on the back for not dumbing down his book for his reader.
Thanks. I'll read through the re-read (heh) and then jump right into Book 2. Or I may just reread 1...bah. Decisions.
Although Erikson's style is not to everyone's taste, I'd say the Malazan Book of the Fallen is among the best the fantasy field has to offer and, in my opinion, the very best. The characters may not get the minute-level of attention you'd expect from Martin, but that doesn't mean they're flat or one-note; most are…
I tried out Gardens of the Moon because I was in the mood for something dark and epic.. I thought it was a juvenile mess. When an author's first novel is part one of a ten part series, it's not a good sign. The audacity of him writing in the introduction that he didn't make any compromises to dumb it down for the…
from what i gather you dont start putting the pieces til the back half of book 2 then it semi clicks in. I am in the EXACT same boat as you. I sludged through it and by the end i was like... "Well Quick Ben is kinda cool" and knew nothing else. I have had the second book in my amazon cart for a while and i just cant…
I love the Bas-Lag novels. I love the amount of time spent on world-building, the slow build-up, the incredible ideas he populates his fantasy world with, the deeply conflicted characters. Total Mieville fanboy.
Just in case anyone is like me and dies a little inside everyday with no more GoT books to read or episodes to watch, there is another series of books in a giant world with a huge cast of characters struggling to deal with life in a brutal dystopian society at war: Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen is pretty…
Captain's log, Stardate 33101.42, I had to set Phasers to disintegrate and destroy an army to save my crew. It seems this planet Westeros is in the middle of a protracted and violent power struggle.
Everyone on my crew survived the away mission except for three security officers, I forget their names, and one of…
WUUUHHHRRRUHGG!!! WHY IS FIREFLY BEATING ALIEN? People this is unacceptable.
You can pry thac0 from my cold, dead fingers.
Everyone is already hitting the big ones, so I'll go with one from my current obsession, the Malazan Books of the Fallen (spoilers ahoy!)
That, or Malazan Book of the Fallen.
Dragnipur - The sword that holds a gate to a magical realm, Gate of Darkness. This gate was held within an immense cart, which was drawn by chains linked to the souls of all individuals who have been slain with Dragnipur. The cart was endlessly pursued by the forces of Chaos. You could kill demons and gods with it.
Yeah, I couldn't believe I got this far down in the replys before I got some David Mack Love. C'mon! How about Scarab?
...and you left
Actually, this kind of things mean that democracy is dead or dying in the country where this takes place. 2 countries I have lived in recently (France and Switzerland)have had similar surveillance projects (on a smaller scale, only projects to record a little bit of data about citizens, create a record of names, birth…