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Ccs posted:Go tend to your Bonfire thread, it's languishing. Your wish is my delayed shitpost.
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This guy writes badly on his blog.
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At least he only posts horribly occasionally
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new first law book, A Little Hatred, is dropping Sep 2019 https://www.orbitbooks.net/2018/11/28/joe-abercrombie-is-back-with-a-little-hatred/
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Awesome. Looking forward to seeing the interior of the Union again after so long on the outskirts.
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quote:The chimneys of industry rise over Adua and the world seethes with new opportunities. But old scores run deep as ever.
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Alright, a daughter of Glokta and Ardee. That should be fun, and a good way to address the issue of Ardee not having the ability to do much of anything in the first trilogy.
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Ornamented Death posted:Savine dan Glokta – socialite, investor, and daughter of the most feared man in the Union – plans to claw her way to the top of the slag-heap of society by any means necessary. But the slums boil over with a rage that all the money in the world cannot control.
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I've read shitloads of fantasy and some westerns so I was well prepped for Joe's first works. I have not really read any Victorian era / Industrial revolution books. Time to hit up some Dicken's I guess 
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Dec 5, 2018 00:32
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She won’t really have to claw her way there if she was already born at the top though. Hopefully she gets a great arc but Glokta had a much further way to climb.
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Ccs posted:Alright, a daughter of Glokta and Ardee. That should be fun, and a good way to address the issue of Ardee not having the ability to do much of anything in the first trilogy. I gather we're all assuming it's probably Jezal's daughter also since Mr Glokta lacks the equipment to make children? Neurosis fucked around with this message at 07:05 on Dec 5, 2018 |
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Dec 5, 2018 07:02
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Neurosis posted:I gather we're all assuming it's probably Jezal's daughter also since Mr Glokta lacks the equipment to make children? Perhaps I missed something here?
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Collateral posted:Perhaps I missed something here? First law trilogy spoilers: Glokta got snipped by the Gurkish, he married Ardi at the end of the first trilogy to hide that she was pregnant out of wedlock.
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Dec 5, 2018 15:35
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So I'm taking it as a given that at some point in the new trilogy, Savine and Orso will gently caress.
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Don't recall that glokta was snipped. Wouldn't make sense to marry and claim the kid if he had.
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xsf421 posted:First law trilogy spoilers: I know what he meant, sorry. I must have missed an important monologue or comment by another actor, about him being no man at all? I do, perhaps mistakenly, remember an internal comment about "at least that still works, not that he would get to use it." Him being a despicable cripple and too proud to see a pro.
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Collateral posted:I know what he meant, sorry. I must have missed an important monologue or comment by another actor, about him being no man at all? I do, perhaps mistakenly, remember an internal comment about "at least that still works, not that he would get to use it." Him being a despicable cripple and too proud to see a pro. I don't immediately see that comment. Glokta has to piss sitting down, established early in book 1. Ardee is at least willing to make out with Glokta, late in book 3, although it's not clear how far that goes.
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He might still be able to reproduce but if he only has one kid it’s probably Jezals bastard since they likely wouldn’t abort it
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Ccs posted:He might still be able to reproduce but if he only has one kid it’s probably Jezals bastard since they likely wouldn’t abort it Well yes considering the whole marriage was to protect the kid and Ardee.
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Everyone would probably know if he was snipped so he wouldn't have any explanation as to how he was able to have a kid so no one would believe him if he said Ardee and Jezal's kid was his.
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He makes a lot of allusions to not being able to gently caress anymore and one about having to piss sitting down. It was never outright stated but my impression was always the Gurkish had castrated him.
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Destro posted:Everyone would probably know if he was snipped so he wouldn't have any explanation as to how he was able to have a kid so no one would believe him if he said Ardee and Jezal's kid was his. Yes, but considering who Glokta is, nobody would question the story.
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Yeah anyone questioning whether the kid was his would probably be found face down by the docks in the river...
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Destro posted:Don't recall that glokta was snipped. Wouldn't make sense to marry and claim the kid if he had. He loved her mother. Also, he wants a legacy and pretending the kid is his lets him have one. It'll be fun to see what a couple of decades of being one of the most powerful men in the world has done to him.
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Glokta dick chat: Collateral posted:I do, perhaps mistakenly, remember an internal comment about "at least that still works, not that he would get to use it." Him being a despicable cripple and too proud to see a pro. I remember something like this as well, I don't think he was cut. But the kid POV is probably Jezel's bastard.
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spandexcajun posted:Glokta dick chat: I thought I remembered that too. I guess I'll have to re-read the series when the new book's getting close anyway, may as well keep an eye out for that.
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spandexcajun posted:Glokta dick chat:
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Yeah it's Jezal's. He married Artie just so she could save face. She has no family (in the platonic or the class sense) so he did it as a favor to Collum.
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Destro posted:it's definitely jezals kid That's interesting, though. If she's Jezal's kid, will she be as generally worthless as he is? Or if she's competent and ruthless, is that a tell that she's Glokta's kid?
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Nature vs Nurture is an age-old problem.
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Beastie posted:Yeah it's Jezal's. He married Artie just so she could save face. She has no family (in the platonic or the class sense) so he did it as a favor to Collum. Also as a gently caress you to the Lord Chamberlain for all but ordering Glotka to kill Ardee.
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ZekeNY posted:That's interesting, though. If she's Jezal's kid, will she be as generally worthless as he is? Or if she's competent and ruthless, is that a tell that she's Glokta's kid? Probably she will turn out fine, is the kid a girl? She's only going to be Jezals kid by blood, but being raised by Glokta and Ardee probably will be competent and ruthless. It's definitely Jezal and Ardees kid though since Glokta never did anything but talk to her until she was pregnant.
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$20 says the new Glokta's flaw is that she's hopelessly sheltered but thinks she's hardcore because her dad keeps backing her up
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ZekeNY posted:That's interesting, though. If she's Jezal's kid, will she be as generally worthless as he is? Or if she's competent and ruthless, is that a tell that she's Glokta's kid? Jezal was mostly worthless because he was spoiled rotten and allowed to get away with everything. He started coming around after his trip with Logen, but ran into Bayaz and got told something along the lines of "Sit down, shut up, sign what we put in front of you. You're useful but not irreplaceable and horrible things can and will happen to you."
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Ornamented Death posted:
Oh gently caress. Isern-i-Phail is Crummock-i-Phail's daughter that says "sheepfucker!"
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Khizan posted:Jezal was mostly worthless because he was spoiled rotten and allowed to get away with everything. He started coming around after his trip with Logen, but ran into Bayaz and got told something along the lines of "Sit down, shut up, sign what we put in front of you. You're useful but not irreplaceable and horrible things can and will happen to you." Well, yeah. And then when he tried to act like he was the king for real, Bayaz told him that he’s a worthless figurehead who’ll do as he’s told, or else, and Jezal decided he’s pretty much fine with that, aside from maybe fiddling around the margins of his orders now and then. But it’ll be interesting to see if nature vs nurture will be a theme of mini-Glokta’s story ZekeNY fucked around with this message at 12:22 on Dec 7, 2018 |
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ZekeNY posted:Well, yeah. And then when he tried to act like he was the king for real, Bayaz told him that he’s a worthless figurehead who’ll do as he’s told, or else, and Jezal decided he’s pretty much fine with that, aside from maybe fiddling around the margins of his orders now and then. That was an entertaining chapter. I remember re-reading it again immediately, and then listening to it a couple times when I bought the audiobook recently. Steven Pacey is a fantastic narrator, btw.
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spandexcajun posted:I've read shitloads of fantasy and some westerns so I was well prepped for Joe's first works. I have not really read any Victorian era / Industrial revolution books. Time to hit up some Dicken's I guess Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn universe starts medievalish then applies the rules of the magic system to a functional western in a follow on trilogy. It's fun!
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn universe starts medievalish then applies the rules of the magic system to a functional western in a follow on trilogy. I'm about 100 pages from finishing "Word's of Radiance". I might need a Sanderson break after 2400 pages
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