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Benson Cunningham posted:Book of the New Sun is better than Lord of the Rings. Book of the New Sun is better then almost all things.
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ursula le guin and china mieville are the only white fantasy authors worth a loving hot drat
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Apr 13, 2017 08:27
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Avshalom posted:ursula le guin and china mieville are the only white fantasy authors worth a loving hot drat You might like Nicola Griffith.
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Apr 13, 2017 08:48
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Sampatrick posted:Obviously Robert Jordan is the American Tolkien. Fight me IRL
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Apr 13, 2017 11:29
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Avshalom posted:ursula le guin and china mieville are the only white fantasy authors worth a loving hot drat Gene Wolfe? Max Gladstone? Brian Catling? Naomi Novik? Neil Gaiman? Stephen King? Scott Hawkins? There are tons of good white fantasy authors.
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Apr 13, 2017 15:31
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Avshalom posted:ursula le guin and china mieville are the only white fantasy authors worth a loving hot drat Is "white fantasy" a race?
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Apr 13, 2017 15:38
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Has a D&D manual ever been written by someone who isn't white?
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Sampatrick posted:Gene Wolfe? Max Gladstone? Brian Catling? Naomi Novik? Neil Gaiman? Stephen King? Scott Hawkins? There are tons of good white fantasy authors. I don't think this is the kind of post Avshalom, praise be unto her name, was looking for. Benson Cunningham posted:Has a D&D manual ever been written by someone who isn't white? Mike Pondsmith did a bunch of D&D stuff.
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Apr 13, 2017 20:32
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Lightning Lord posted:Mike Pondsmith did a bunch of D&D stuff. God drat it. I was just on wiki to check that having worked with Mike in the past... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pondsmith
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Apr 14, 2017 17:09
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no it all sucks. fart
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Apr 15, 2017 04:25
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Avshalom posted:no it all sucks. fart Just to be clear I wasn't tryin to be all "oh yeah!? how dare you" it was a serious suggestion, Nicola Griffith was super inspired by LeGuin and writes well about some of the same issues
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Apr 15, 2017 04:26
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Apr 15, 2017 04:35
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rothfart lmao
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Apr 15, 2017 04:35
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Maybe the real murderer was fantasy fiction all along
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Avshalom posted:nicola griffart Avshalom posted:rothfart lmao haha
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Patrice Rothfart swept beardedly down the stairs. The hour was late. The drugs were in the basement. His office, the one with the computer whose screen had burned in its center the battlenet overlay, crisp above any other pixels, an unrelenting reminder on the rare occasions he clicked the file marked kingkiller3.docx that he'd already lost the battle of wills (Defeat was inevitable, and to protest it lacked grace and form)- that office was on the second floor. Fastidiously, he descended the steps, searching for his bong. The pain came in threes. The raised circular imprint touched first. This by itself was not intolerable- no. It was the pressure with which his foot caught the tiny plastic pistons. It reached inside his foot, found his soft meats, and spread a web of pain greater than any woman's scent. If one looked closely, down to the cellular level perhaps, they would see the word lego branded on each point of contact. This was the pain of the pegging. Next, as should be obvious by now my reader, comes the pain of the sharpened corners. I say sharpened here intentionally, with the 3/4 cut time of the contralto. What purpose could such corners have on a child's toy? The question, and its answer, are as plain as day. It is a utility of pain, a prerequisite to agony. Lego sharpens the corners with this thought in mind; it is not for construction, that these edges bite. This is the pain of the corner. A final pain, this one a combination. A gestalt. It has an aged oak character, a history- once part of a forest, a network of bark wrapped selves- was this floorboard that rushes up to meet my face. It is shocking and total pain- so complete that my mother's face flashes across the waxen pane of my consciousness- and sends me to a temporary oblivion. My neck is at an angle inhuman. My elbows and knees twitch, the pain in them so great that it is above my ability to feel- a state of temporary thanks, I assure you- because as the pane lessens, it will at last grasp the highest magnitude of agony I know and ride down the spectrum, up my nervous system, and blossom into my brain in all its colors, hues, and terror. This is the pain of the fall. In a room above me, though in my present state direction has no real meaning, a whirring begins. It is the oxygen cycle of a child, pulled like the zip cord on a push-mower into a state of unrest. It leaps and scrambles to free itself as a splash of gas hits the chamber of sparks I've created. Oot unleashes a toddler war cry for his mother. The light in my bedroom comes on. The door swings open, creaking as old houses do, and footsteps sound. "Oh Patrick, not again." Hasten back yon demons, to the dark places that bore you. Return yourselves to silence, to sleep! "You woke the baby," she sighs, heavily, and goes to placate with physiology I am barred from accessing. My bong, I whisper to no one but myself, I forgot- I had to sell it when I was homeless during college, fighting for education, food, and warmth. It was never really in the basement at all. Edit: I didn't mean to switch to first person halfway through, but you know what, I think it works for this piece. It captures the psychosis I imagine Pat feels every time a mirror hastens to cast his image from its surface. Also the fact the you know Kvothe is standing behind Chronicler trying to fix everything he writes. "No, I said I was imposing and regal when Denna slobbered her drug addict mouth on me." Benson Cunningham fucked around with this message at 07:50 on Apr 15, 2017 |
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Apr 15, 2017 07:42
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Avshalom posted:rothfart this is ummm, Good. it's a good joke
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Reene posted:this is ummm, Good. it's a good joke
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Apr 16, 2017 23:56
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My cousin and I will 'trade books' sometimes; I'll buy a book for him that I liked, he'll buy a book for me that he liked. We read and compare. Last time I got him 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay'. He got me 'In the Name of the Wind'. We don't trade books anymore. Edit: holy poo poo it is so bad. It is an open sore of a book. Eela6 fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Apr 17, 2017 |
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Eela6 posted:My cousin and I will 'trade books' sometimes; I'll buy a book for him that I liked, he'll buy a book for me that he liked. We read and compare. Your cousin obviously still needs your help, though. Show him the error of his ways and get him a better book. Or, print and bind BotL's "Let's Read Critically" posts.
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Eela6 posted:My cousin and I will 'trade books' sometimes; I'll buy a book for him that I liked, he'll buy a book for me that he liked. We read and compare. Get your cousin "Twisted" by Miranda Leek.
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PJOmega posted:Get your cousin "Twisted" by Miranda Leek.
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anilEhilated posted:Come on, that's way too much of an escalation. Maybe something by Piers Anthony? I think that's worse. Twisted is in the Maradonia sphere, PedAnthony is in the "this should never have been acceptable" sphere.
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I like my cousin, though.
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Eela6 posted:I like my cousin, though. Honestly, if you take JosephWongKS's Let's Read and print it out they'd have to be cold and dead inside to not enjoy it.
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Benson Cunningham posted:It captures the psychosis I imagine Pat feels  gently caress off with this.
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So when's the next book coming? I just reread NOTW while sick over easter, and I don't want to read the next one again, so... NOTW was published in 2007 right? What's the holdup? Oh. Is... can Rothfuss be... bad?
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Nice piece of fish posted:So when's the next book coming? I just reread NOTW while sick over easter, and I don't want to read the next one again, so... NOTW was published in 2007 right? What's the holdup? Why didn't you read something good instead?
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Andrast posted:Why didn't you read something good instead? I just finished the Witcher series and Rothfuss was good in comparison.
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it is i, pedroth funk. with gunt in hand i descend the spiral staircase. she waits there at the bottom, my woman with her lantern and her tits like twin halves of apricots in syrup, her face like a wistful porcelain moon; her hair is an extravagant symphony of autumnal hues and her legs are many. i draw my wretched blade. its name is erect heretic. it is six thousand years old, forged by a sex elf from the purestrain gold excreted by the heart of a supernova, it is too heavy to lift so i have to wheel it around. my lady's diamontine eyes fixate on my erection. a dusting of a smile like the snow upon the boreal pine needles appears to brush its grace lightly across her delicate lips, HONK IF YOU'RE HORNY she says and i say HONK HONK and then i swirl into an effortless whirlwind of the blade that strikes her head from her neck and sends it flying through the open window like the lonesome albatross
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:
Aww someone having a hard day?
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It's incredibly creepy to obsess over someone like that because you don't like their dumb fantasy bestsellers and blog posts That this extremely simple, common sense observation seems to escape comprehension of so many posters means that I've failed. BravestOfTheLamps fucked around with this message at 17:52 on Apr 18, 2017 |
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Benson Cunningham posted:Aww someone having a hard day? BoTL is in the odd position of seriously disliking Rothfuss' work, writing dozens of pages of analysis of how bad it is on repeated rereads, but being very sensitive and disapproving of suggestions that Rothfuss might be deeply weird or have mental illness issues.  Hey, wait a minute...
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:It's incredibly creepy to obsess over someone like that because you don't like their dumb fantasy bestsellers and blog posts Are we basing obsession on time spent posting? If so, I have no doubt your name rockets straight to the top. I'm betting the word psychosis is what really triggered you. Just hope you're getting the help you need, man.
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Benson Cunningham posted:Are we basing obsession on time spent posting? If so, I have no doubt your name rockets straight to the top. I have the basic ability to separate my dislike of a work from its author. You're the one claiming I'm mentally ill now. What the gently caress.
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I guess that's a no on the help then.
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Benson Cunningham posted:Are we basing obsession on time spent posting? If so, I have no doubt your name rockets straight to the top. Truly posting in this thread is a sure sign of mental illness.  ...oh God, no!
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ulmont posted:Truly posting in this thread is a sure sign of mental illness. That... That can't be true. I couldn't have posted that much about Rothfuss... Could I?  God drat. Seriously, though, when's book 3 coming out? e: I can't believe it was 6 years ago that I read WMF. Reading some older posts, I think I may have matured as a person. Or, at the very least, a reader. SpacePig fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Apr 18, 2017 |
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ulmont posted:Truly posting in this thread is a sure sign of mental illness. I knew it! I'm only the second most mentally ill person here. Take that, BOTLs.
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