|
Plucky Brit posted:One thing I didn't pick up from the books. Why are the Magi so long-lived? I believe the answer to this one is officially 'a wizard did it'.
|
#
¿
Jun 10, 2010 08:43
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 29, 2024 05:31 |
|
|
Casao posted:But yeah, I'm thinking it's a throwaway plot point. There's been no word of another trilogy or anything, has there? Not another trilogy but I know Abercrombie's on record (probably somewhere in his blog, I don't have time to dig for it right this second) that for the forseeable future everything he does write is intended to be set in the same world. So, while that's not a promise of another trilogy...
|
|
#
¿
Sep 3, 2010 15:14
|
|
|
Flatscan posted:It might be familiar to you due to Lynch pulling a GRRM and being well overdue with the next book. Apparently he has a nasty habit of completely dropping off the grid to such an extent that his publishers can't contact him. Oh, and it's Scott Lynch, not Stephen. He at least appears to have some sort of crippling depression issues, as opposed to just, you know, not writing. The net result is the same to the reader, but I find it easier to be sympathetic towards someone who's got actual problems as opposed to vague writer's block.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 31, 2010 23:49
|
|
|
After reading the recent posts in this thread, I sat down and tried to think: Is there a single named character who ends the trilogy happy? It's been a while since I've read it, but I honestly can't think of anyone. I mean, Glokta is probably in the best state out of anyone, but he's certainly not happy.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 11, 2011 07:58
|
|
|
Decius posted:Regarding who is happy at the end of The First Law: Bayaz seems reasonably happy, since everything went his way and then some. Well, besides that person.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 11, 2011 11:25
|
|
|
Juaguocio posted:Nope, sorry- as Ballsworthy noted earlier in this thread, Bayaz is Jeff Bridges from Iron Man: That is the most Bayazy man that has every Bayazed Bayaz, I think. I should find where I put my copy of the blade itself, I could do with a reread, I think.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 12, 2011 03:25
|
|
|
Arglebargle III posted:O'Quinn is a good actor but he doesn't have the voice to play Bayaz. Even when he's playing a roid-raging spaz his voice has a nasal whine and I suspect there's nothing he can do about it. So dub him with James Earl Jones, clearly the best solution for everyone. 
|
|
#
¿
Jan 12, 2011 22:09
|
|
|
Ornamented Death posted:Look at all of you, with your regular hardcovers or even paperbacks - I just preordered my signed/numbered copy of Before They Are Hanged I hear those are covered in poison. You'd better have it shipped to me so I can make sure it's safe for you.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 21, 2011 18:55
|
|
.
|
Bummey posted:Have I forgotten this much about what happened in BSC? What did Bremer do to deserve this? Hey, guy's made an automatic balls-kicking machine. No point unless you use it to kick everyone and everything in the balls! I guess the book's out now? I'll have to wait until payday to grab it... sigh. Oh well.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 9, 2011 15:05
|
|
|
Fly Molo posted:One of the most "enduring, powerful, and popular" characters in The First Law? That seems much more Logen to me. That's not the way Cosca tells it.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 14, 2012 22:24
|
|
|
Clinton1011 posted:Isn't there an online store someone posted earlier in the thread that you can get the UK version from and have free shipping anywhere? Thanks. Gonna get me some Red Country. 
|
|
#
¿
Sep 21, 2012 04:05
|
|
|
I guess there's more room for interpretation than I originally thought but so much of the point of Logen's story in LAoK was about how no, it was really him responsible for the poo poo he did that I feel like the possession angle undermines it entirely.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 31, 2014 01:28
|
|
|
Grand Prize Winner posted:I like the idea of not being entirely sure, myself. I lean toward some kind of possession, but it doesn't really match the behavior of Malacus Quai after he got possessed (or is it that he was eaten and then the crazy demon lady wore his skin). Do we still need to spoiler the first trilogy? It's been out for years now. Yeah I've seen enough arguments about it lately that I've softened on it such that I wouldn't rule it out as a potential factor entirely, but it's just not a surmise I can agree with in the end.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 31, 2014 02:16
|
|
|
I'm not sure that's against moral labels-- since that's a thing we regularly do IRL-- so much as that it's against objectively correct moral labels. Calling Bayaz or anyone else evil is a certainly valid position, and easily supportable based on his actions. But I don't think it's possible to say that the story takes the position that he's evil. It doesn't really give an opinion either way.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 8, 2014 07:06
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 29, 2024 05:31 |
|
|
Pick up Best Served Cold.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 3, 2016 07:23
|
|