Quote from: TaoHorror on April 30, 2017, 06:47:35 pm

Too funny - I did a search on "Malazan ducks" ... er, so I take it you're referring to Steven Erikson, the "ducks" comment referring to criticism of the works elsewhere in this forum? Should be obvious to all by now I'm still new to connecting on blogs and the like ( hence 3 years ago, all I did was ask some questions on Prince of Nothing and then left ... ).

Lmao, this is hilarious. And yes, I meant the Malazan series by Steven Erikson. If you scrolled a bit through the literature sub forum here, you will know why I should duck...

Quote from: Beardfisher King on April 30, 2017, 07:37:50 pm

That confused me, too, Tao. Redeagl should have written  <ducks>, not "ducks". The typography for stage directions is <........>.

No more Qirri for you BK.

Lmao, Redeagl!  'S okay, I'm trying to quit, anyway. Otherwise,  it's Qirri rehab for me <shudders>.

Yeah, as with Begbie, my friend's a monster, but he's a mate.

Gotta have mates.....

Well, takes all kinds, the 4th Dune book of the series was my favorite 

Haven't read the last one yet, Chapter House, will get to it some day. The "end" written by his son wasn't at least worth it to learn how it ends? I heard Chaper House was a cliffhanger.

I've read a lot of Herbert, all so good.  Love the Void Ship series - that was one VERY fun read.

Hyperion is easily the coolest scifi environment ever rendered, even cooler than Dune ( so much better than Star Trek, Star Wars - and I like those works, so that's saying something ). I love all 4 of the Hyperion books. I got a friend of mine to read the first book and he threw it across the room when he finished it ( bit of a hanger in that one ) yelling "fuck him!". I tried to calm him down letting him know it continues in book 2, but was having none of it, LOL. I've read other Dan Simmon's ... so much of his stuff is so good. Carrion Comfort is worth the effort.

Not to kiss Bakker's ass, but the Prince books are my favorite fantasy. But not by far, Abercrombie's First Law stuff is very strong, good stuff. I liked the Cold Fire trilogy, Friedman knows her stuff.

I'm out of fantasy stuff to read - any recommendations? Didn't care for Prince of Thorns. Didn't care for American Gods ( though I like Gaiman's comics ).

Hey, Tao. How's it going?

Dune 4 (God Emperor) is good, as are Heretics (5) and  Chapterhouse (5). The Brian Herbert stuff is crap. They have moments, but.....mostly crap. Dreadful writing.

Dan Simmons, I dig very much. "Carrion Comfort"....yes! I've picked up quite a few of his non-sci-fi novels (Drood, Black Hills, The Terror, The Abominable. The Fifth Heart, in which Henry James meets Sherlock Holmes!) Hyperion/Endymion are very good reads. Rhadamanth Nemes......what a scary adversary!

I like Abercrombie's First Law trilogy. You might REALLY like the Engineer trilogy by K. J. Parker. And are there any fans of the Riddlemaster Of Hed trilogy by Patricia McKillip? WAY high up there on my list of favorites.

Anyone have any other sites, newspapers, blogs, columns, what-have-you, that they'd like to see Bakker interact with? Throw out your wildest wishes, even.

Cheers.

Bakker would be great on "The View". Good- looking guy like that......oh, you probably wanted serious suggestions. My bad.

I like the name Zöreius Öenghûs so much that I'm thinking of changing MY name to that. My REAL WORLD name.....

Helluva post, Tao. Obviously, I haven't read the whole thing, but I wanted to share with you my agreement on the practice of speculating on how the story will proceed. Some people like to do it; I'm not a fan, myself. What if someone stumbles on the Truth? You know what they say: get a thousand monkeys in front of a thousand typewriters and the works of Shakespeare will result.

I'm really digging Zöreius Öenghûs. Might be a short contest....

The only defining characteristic I've given my comedian is that he's not a rustic and not a Northerner. Maybe a Nansurian Empire subject? If so, I've got a possible name in my back pocket. Regardless....... I am starting a......



Yes, I'm putting out an OPEN CALL for submissions to "Name That Comic!". If a winner emerges, the prize will be an evening of unlimited Paper Planes! Unfortunately, you must either travel to St. Louis to collect, or corral me at a future TSA meet-up. But the offer is good. If you don't like Paper Planes.....perhaps a substitute can be conjured up. The tap water in St. Louis is particularly good.