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If people are still interested in going through the books, I'd definitely give posting it a shot. I do think Everworld is a really interesting series for where it goes.
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# ? Jun 12, 2023 07:35 |
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# ? Jun 7, 2024 18:28 |
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I would still be interested in reading along; I never finished the series the first time around.
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# ? Jun 12, 2023 08:01 |
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I'd like to see the let's read keep going. I planned to continue reading the series and I'd love to do so with the thread.
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# ? Jun 12, 2023 10:08 |
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I'd be down for some more Everworld. Hell, I could take a book or two.
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# ? Jun 12, 2023 13:08 |
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I was actually gonna offer too, as I think I've got the books lying around on my hard drive. Just figured it was better to let the thread sit on the news for a bit. Regardless of who continues, I will be around to post about it.
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# ? Jun 12, 2023 14:06 |
I have the books if someone wants to continue posting. I was thinking of volunteering but knew I wouldn't be able to add all the insightful stuff and behind the scenes action that Epi did.
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# ? Jun 12, 2023 14:14 |
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Kazzah posted:I'd be down for some more Everworld. Hell, I could take a book or two. This seems like a good idea. Split the workload up between three or four people. Each person gets like 3 or 4 books and they just pass the baton to whoever's next in the order once their book ends.
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# ? Jun 12, 2023 16:48 |
nine-gear crow posted:This seems like a good idea. Split the workload up between three or four people. Each person gets like 3 or 4 books and they just pass the baton to whoever's next in the order once their book ends. sounds like a plan. If anyone needs the books, PM me
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# ? Jun 12, 2023 18:17 |
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I just got called up on the Animorphs thread and learned the news. RIP Epicurious, you were a real one, and made the world a more enjoyable place to be over some really lovely years.
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# ? Jun 14, 2023 05:27 |
Okay, so I guess I'll start this off so this thread doesn't just fade away. I hope Epi had a better copy of the book because the PDF I'm using is formatted like poo poo and has all sorts of punctuation weirdness to correct when pasting over.quote:Chapter Twenty-Eight
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# ? Jun 16, 2023 22:09 |
So now, I'm actually getting interested in the real world stuff, their normal selves are obviously having problems while they're in Everworld and it's affecting their lives.
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# ? Jun 16, 2023 22:33 |
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Real fun to just get random bursts of new traumatic memories every few days. I'm sure it'll only get better with time.
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# ? Jun 17, 2023 00:50 |
No kidding, it'd be one thing if their earth selves were just having some missing time when the everworld versions were back, but having these memories just appear? I wonder if the stay at home versions are talking to each other about this?
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# ? Jun 17, 2023 04:12 |
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They definitely are since we're seeing them sort of already working out when the Everworld version has been 'uploaded'. Its probably the most existentially horrifying way this could play out. The ones in Everworld get brief tastes of familiarity and home when they sleep which appear to be colored massively by the fact that they're all starting to have serious issues with the massively traumatizing memories being uploaded. The ones in Earth are having to live their normal lives knowing that at any minute they might essentially get a huge flashback of horrible memories. And that isn't even getting into the fact that they're all already dissociating the Everworld selves and the Earth selves. Feels like the perfect way to get someone to have a mental break.
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# ? Jun 17, 2023 04:33 |
New chapter comes with a bit of world building. The folks of Everworld know *of* earth, but don't know what it's like. The Hetwan are throwing things off balance and not native to the world, it seems.quote:Chapter Twenty-Nine
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# ? Jun 18, 2023 02:10 |
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Don't the books shift perspective with each volume? I remember getting Jalil's but the version I read as a kid was a consolidation of however many volumes.
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 04:57 |
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Yeah, they all get a turn. Man, I still remember that conversation with Sven Swordeater perfectly.
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 05:03 |
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I'm currently recovering from very minor surgery that required about an inch of suturing, and it turbo sucks, and this leads me to conclude that a) Mr. Swordeater would be wishing for death more or less constantly and b) the kids, upon being hung by their wrists from the cliff, really should be physically and mentally crippled for the next few hours/days/years.
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 07:45 |
We are now on pg 93 of 100, it really doesn't feel like we're coming up on a natural ending, but I guess that goes back to this series being one giant story instead of monster of the week episodes like Animorphs.quote:
quote:I waved my hand, dismissing it all. "There used to be adventure. You know? Going west in a wagon train, or going to war, or exploring someplace no human being had ever been before. Now what do we have? Look at Sven. Look at that guy. He's my age. Look at his life. Then look at mine or Jalil's or yours." Goddamn do I feel this. At the risk of getting a bit autobiographical, after christmas 2019, I went into the hospital because I had been having chest pains. Turns out, they were heart attacks! I ended up getting a triple bypass on 1-2-2020 and between recovery from surgery and then getting furloughed from covid, I was out of work for about seven months. But thanks to those covid bucks and Illinois taking that unemployment boost, I was making more money than I had been working. With no enforced schedule, with my bills taken care of, those few months were the most joyous of my adult life. I was healthier, stress free, my typically antisocial demeanor melted away and I longed to be with people. I had a taste of what life could be outside of capitalism and it broke me. Going back to work, and I'm a dog trainer, I love my job, is such a drain on my soul that I long for the same thing David is expressing. Yeah, that kind of life is brutal and short, but it's a life that seems to matter. My current dream is that the revolution comes in my life time, so I can die soaking up bullets meant for someone younger, meaner, and gayer than me. But I feel both David and I are full of poo poo. Anyways, therapy hour is over, looks like we found Senna?
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 17:53 |
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I really like this argument with David and April because it really digs into and starts showing off David's serious issues with toxic masculinity. He's got some serious issues with feeling like he isn't a real man bound up in a whole pile of trauma he's only barely able to allude to in his own thoughts, and its pushing him in some really weird ways now that he's in Everworld and has a chance to be a 'real man'. The specifics that he goes with though are incredibly 80s/90s and feel increasingly out of place with the world today. You can definitely tell the book was written in a certain cultural milieu that's really foreign to today when David's thoughts are mostly 'Life is too good and easy and only going to get better and have no real struggle, this sucks' as he aimlessly drifts through the real world scenes.
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 20:14 |
Oh yeah this is really anchored in that "end of history" time period, not just with David, but with April's counterargument. Imagine trying to use that line of no one in America starving or suffering or enslaved in 2023.
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 20:46 |
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Soonmot posted:Goddamn do I feel this. At the risk of getting a bit autobiographical, after christmas 2019, I went into the hospital because I had been having chest pains. Turns out, they were heart attacks! I ended up getting a triple bypass on 1-2-2020 and between recovery from surgery and then getting furloughed from covid, I was out of work for about seven months. But thanks to those covid bucks and Illinois taking that unemployment boost, I was making more money than I had been working. Hah, I remember that first fortnight of lockdown. That feeling of my brain uncurling. The quiet. Just heaven. Zore posted:The specifics that he goes with though are incredibly 80s/90s and feel increasingly out of place with the world today. You can definitely tell the book was written in a certain cultural milieu that's really foreign to today when David's thoughts are mostly 'Life is too good and easy and only going to get better and have no real struggle, this sucks' as he aimlessly drifts through the real world scenes. Yeah. it's fascinating. There was an offhand comment made in the animorphs thread that still sticks in my head- Rachael's family are "middle class 90's rich." Things have changed. It's been interesting, too, spending years now with these forums as a window into life in the US. It's hard not to get the impression that things are really, actually, incredibly bad over there and having any kind of empathy is like putting a giant KICK ME sign on your back...
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# ? Jun 20, 2023 02:32 |
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Soonmot posted:Oh yeah this is really anchored in that "end of history" time period, not just with David, but with April's counterargument. Imagine trying to use that line of no one in America starving or suffering or enslaved in 2023. She did say that there are pockets like that so even though she originally might have meant the entire US it is still decently valid.
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# ? Jun 20, 2023 07:34 |
Work schedule flipped on me yesterday, turns out it was a short one anyways.quote:Chapter Thirty-One
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# ? Jun 22, 2023 01:22 |
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Having never read this before, my current theory is: Everworld didn't exist until Senna and friends somehow called it into being, which is why it's such a hodge podge of times and spaces, and reflects so much about our protagonists. Hi dad, I'm off to the dream world to hang out with a bunch of sailing dudes with an uncomplicated approach to masculinity.
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# ? Jun 22, 2023 01:44 |
quote:Chapter Thirty-Two ngl, I dislike the Aztecs being evil. I'm hoping that it's just a thing with the gods in general, both Loki and Huitzilopoctli, the only two gods we've met have been evil. But that sure is a place to end it. This is like a Marvel D+ series, just end whereever because the whole this is one big story. Overall, I've enjoyed this, this is my first time going through it and it's interesting enough that I think I would have been reading this alongside my Dragonlance books back in the day had I known about it. Let's give this a couple days for discussion now that book 1 is finished. If no one takes up book 2 before them, I'll start on Monday. If you're using the same scans I am, Find&Replace is gonna be your good friend when formatting these chapters!
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# ? Jun 22, 2023 13:58 |
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This might be a product of having read through the thread as it was being posted and so i don’t have strong memories of when the aztecs were initially discussed, but I wouldn’t be shocked to discover that it’s less of a “the aztecs are evil” and more of a “societies that live in Everworld aren’t real great at communication and resolving disputes diplomatically” - the vikings are certainly portrayed as sympathetic because they’re sitting around chatting with David and it seems like they’re offering him a model of masculinity that is more in line with his core beliefs, but it’s only through the grace of authorial fiat and the lyrics of Killing Me Softly that the gang didn’t get wrecked by the vikings early on, you know? I’d hesitate to say that either one of these groups is really good or evil right now. Now, the gods, I can absolutely buy that the gods are evil. I definitely don’t know this is a canon interpretation of Huitzilopoctli, that’s something i’d want to look up when i’m not phone posting. That’s certainly one hell of a place to end the book, though.
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# ? Jun 22, 2023 14:57 |
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Yeah, I think its important that we are seeing this through David's perspective at the moment and he's uh got some serious issues he's currently working through. And I'm not sure this is really any sort of battle between 'good' and 'evil'. The Vikings, by their own admission, have been raiding the Aztecs and others for slaves and loot for centuries and are currently attacking them unprovoked at home to advance Loki's interests. And Loki is working with some kind of alien on top of being a huge poo poo. The only god anyone has been remotely positive about so far is Thor who's dead or missing.
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# ? Jun 22, 2023 15:37 |
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Tree Bucket posted:Having never read this before, my current theory is: Everworld didn't exist until Senna and friends somehow called it into being, which is why it's such a hodge podge of times and spaces, and reflects so much about our protagonists. Hi dad, I'm off to the dream world to hang out with a bunch of sailing dudes with an uncomplicated approach to masculinity. I don't think it's this; I think there's more going on. That's not a spoiler even though I read this because that was nearly a quarter-century ago and I barely remember any details.
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# ? Jun 22, 2023 17:03 |
Coca Koala posted:This might be a product of having read through the thread as it was being posted and so i don’t have strong memories of when the aztecs were initially discussed, but I wouldn’t be shocked to discover that it’s less of a “the aztecs are evil” and more of a “societies that live in Everworld aren’t real great at communication and resolving disputes diplomatically” - the vikings are certainly portrayed as sympathetic because they’re sitting around chatting with David and it seems like they’re offering him a model of masculinity that is more in line with his core beliefs, but it’s only through the grace of authorial fiat and the lyrics of Killing Me Softly that the gang didn’t get wrecked by the vikings early on, you know? I’d hesitate to say that either one of these groups is really good or evil right now. Yeah, that's what I'm hoping, that the Aztecs view the vikings as bloodthirsty raiders that come in from the sea to steal and murder, that only Aztec society is civilized, I trust Applegrant enough to give them the benefit of the doubt.
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# ? Jun 22, 2023 17:14 |
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Tree Bucket posted:Having never read this before, my current theory is: Everworld didn't exist until Senna and friends somehow called it into being, which is why it's such a hodge podge of times and spaces, and reflects so much about our protagonists. Hi dad, I'm off to the dream world to hang out with a bunch of sailing dudes with an uncomplicated approach to masculinity.
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# ? Jun 22, 2023 19:06 |
So do we think Senna is originally from Everworld? April says her parents are pretty relieved that she's gone. Has she been leading the dual life the kids have been this entire time?
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# ? Jun 23, 2023 01:25 |
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Soonmot posted:So do we think Senna is originally from Everworld? According to David in chapter 1, we know April and Senna are half sisters who are only 3 months apart in age so they're probably relieved because she's unsettling and a reminder of the dad's infidelity. It gives an interesting little window into her home life at least.
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# ? Jun 23, 2023 01:45 |
Hey mods can we get a tag change to religion, please? My question about Senna in the real world is: Was she born or is she a cukoo? Is she some being that escaped from Everworld to hideout and made it seem like she's a part of April's family? I can only assume we learn more about her in the following books, but her relationship to the real world and Everworld is interesting to me.
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# ? Jun 24, 2023 00:10 |
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Soonmot posted:Hey mods can we get a tag change to religion, please? Oh like she could be some kind of changeling situation, swapped with the real child or just kind of spoken into existence by magic? There's just absolutely no way she's entirely human. I agree that she was probably already leading the double life before the plot began.
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# ? Jun 24, 2023 00:16 |
Soonmot posted:Hey mods can we get a tag change to religion, please?
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# ? Jun 24, 2023 01:32 |
Awesome ty. Book 2 will be starting on Monday when I go to the bar after work.
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# ? Jun 24, 2023 19:44 |
T O M O R R O W Book 2 of Everworld: Land of Loss
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# ? Jun 25, 2023 23:29 |
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Help, I've been sucked through a time vortex to the year 1999
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I DEMAND to be able to post on these forums in Papyrus
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