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General Misc. / Re: [TV Spoilers] Game of Thrones (S7)
« on: August 28, 2017, 08:53:07 pm »
Anybody else feel something big happened between Cersei and Tyrian that we didn't see? The scene with him creeping in the hallway while Danny and Jon made inbred baby's seemed odd, like he was sad about something, my initial thought was betrayal but I can't see that happening


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General Misc. / Re: [TV Spoilers] Game of Thrones (S7)
« on: August 21, 2017, 07:59:38 pm »
Anybody else on board with the idea bran might be the night king? Seems fitting to me. "A song of ice and fire" Danny we all know is fire, the night king is ice, Jon snow is half fire (targayian) and ice (stark) so for symbolisms sake shouldn't the night king be a stark? Having bran potentially warg back in time in an effort to stop the creation of the night king may inadvertently make him the night king. Seems like a nice balance in my eyes. Targayian-targayian/stark-stark. Fire-fire/ice-ice


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Can we post GoT theory's here?


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General Misc. / Re: New titles?
« on: August 18, 2017, 05:27:22 pm »
I bought it, haven't started it yet.


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General Misc. / Re: New titles?
« on: August 18, 2017, 04:42:14 pm »
I read other genres but only high fantasy gives me that escape. Something to be said when you read the unholy consult in order to relax


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General Misc. / New titles?
« on: August 17, 2017, 07:38:54 pm »
I hear you there wilshire! I barely get an hour or two of reading time. Between work , hobbies, and my wife I'm pretty booked. Currently building a conversion van, vintage truck, 3 motorcycles, and one bass guitar. Oh and just signed up to go back to college in the fall


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I like to rotate the music I listen too pretty regularly.  Good for the brain, I reckon.

Latest addition to the play list.

Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction.
Doom metal
8/10

Doom and stoner/physcadelic(?) rock are the perfect companions to a Bakker book. On my rotation
Wo fat (soooo good)
The sword (check out apocryphon, it has some very Bakker etc themes)
Gorilla pulp
Monkey3 (my current favorite)
All them witches (another favorite especially if you don't mind some blues with your sludge)


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General Misc. / New titles?
« on: August 17, 2017, 07:27:52 pm »
When I've reached that point that comes after I finish every Bakker book. What do I do with my life now? What are all you guys reading in the interim?


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The Unholy Consult / Re: [TUC Spoilers]What was the point
« on: August 16, 2017, 03:44:09 pm »
A decade of real life waiting and in the last 30 pages the author pissed the whole lot up the wall its just a generic "LOL bad guys win and all the good guys die LOLOL"

Im being very black and white about this but and stripping all the philosophy out to get to the root of the story, the whole exercise was pointless.
Nothing was resolved. Its just an unsatisfying, cliche resumption of the status quo.

7 book and 10 years can be boiled down to two words - dont matter
A beautifully complex world collapsing into a pile of "K Nope"

What am i missing here?

I see where this is coming from, I just this morning finished this amazing adventure and was left with a pit in my gut, even now I'm hiding in the bathroom at work, poring over this forum for clues, I must have missed something! But the more I think about it the more I enjoy the ending. So please bare with my rambling (and poor grammar ) for I'm not one for monologues...

I was blown away when the five dunyain we're reveled, I didn't see it coming. I was blown away when we learned what kellhus sees in the inverse fire. Blown away when the four horned brother is reveled. I was and still am colossally disappointed that that scene seemed to all come crashing down as soon as it began, kellhus turned to salt? Just like that? But then the no-god rises and with it my excitement, in the end I found myself more excited then before, with no kellhus to stop it who will? But then the book just ended. I was stunned again, I stared at the stack of remaining pages, appendix... at this point I had no clue that we may be getting a third series, I struggled to come to terms with all the open ends, but I think in the end while a bit anti climatic the ending serves its purpose. If this is it then it is a fitting end to the greatest adventure I've ever read and if not then the next chapter will be amazing I'm sure. It made me really think about the one character above all others that I truly think this story is about. Akka. I think we all see akka as the "main" character, we all love him, but I've always wanted it to be HIS story and I think in the end we got that. Here he stands, the broken, tired old wizard against the end of the world. He is seswatha reincarnated, in some ways I think he is so much more. If it stops here then I'm glad it closes with him, if it continues then I hope it continues to be the story of akka and the apocalypse


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General Misc. / Re: Science fiction horror by Bakker
« on: August 11, 2017, 03:58:12 pm »
Good read thanks for bringing it to my attention. Not exactly the story I was thinking though.


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General Misc. / Re: Science fiction horror by Bakker
« on: August 10, 2017, 07:13:33 pm »
God now I really want this


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General Misc. / Re: Science fiction horror by Bakker
« on: August 10, 2017, 06:51:47 pm »
That's cool, I'm looking forward to it. I think the biggest issue with a book focusing on the inchori/ark/whoever came before them would probably be the complete lack of character pool for him to choose from. As much as non stop evil and horror would be cool for us fans I don't think it would really work. Unless other passengers we don't know about existed that were not complete world destroying psychopaths


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lol yeah, i see what you mean.

Would have to go way back. Maybe a series of short stories, think "I Robot" except instead of the positronic brain as get the IF and the Inchoroi decent into madness.

That would be awesome. Maybe back far enough to see their home planet and the different factions at play


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General Misc. / Re: Science fiction horror by Bakker
« on: August 10, 2017, 04:47:07 pm »
That's cool, I'm looking forward to it. I think the biggest issue with a book focusing on the inchori/ark/whoever came before them would probably be the complete lack of character pool for him to choose from. As much as non stop evil and horror would be cool for us fans I don't think it would really work. Unless other passengers we don't know about existed that were not complete world destroying psychopaths


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General Misc. / Science fiction horror by Bakker
« on: August 09, 2017, 10:14:22 pm »
Anybody else think a story about the Ark before it's fall would be cool? Some sort of sci-fi horror novel about the inchori or the race that created them


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Author Q&A / Re: What's with the circles on the map of Eärwa?
« on: April 05, 2017, 03:40:47 am »
I recall reading a similar question somewhere else where Bakker answered that their was only one crash sight but that the circles were "nuke" craters caused during the war between nonmen and inchoroi.


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