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Top 5: Judas Priest Kreator Iron Maiden Overkill Blind Guardian Honourable mentions: Heathen, Mekong Delta, Sodom, Kamelot, Shadows Fall [quote:lyq2yco3]W.A.S.P - The Crimson Idol [/quote:lyq2yco3] That album is completely incredible. view post
[quote="Nauticus":hmgx7k4a]Umm... I get the impression he's referring to [i:hmgx7k4a]only[/i:hmgx7k4a] the book, The Darkness that Comes Before. Well... there's two more books that make up this trilogy. The Prince of Nothing Trilogy Book 1: The Darkness that Comes Before Book 2: The Warrior-Prophet Book 3: The Thousandfold Thought[/quote:hmgx7k4a] He does say "series" in the original post. So yeah, Aspect Emperor, should be excellent. view post
I love all three series. Erikson is probably my least favourite of the three; two many completely unrealistic uberpowerful characters (the climax in the Bonehunters is a good example of just way too much) and non-deaths for Malazan Book of the Fallen to be my favourite. Bakker is second, and GRRM pulls it away for being my favourite author and writing my favourite book series of all time. view post
Besides Bakker: Fantasy/sci fi: A Song of Ice and Fire- George R.R. Martin Malazan Book of the Fallen- Steven Erikson The Coldfire Trilogy- C.S. Friedman Hyperion- Dan Simmons The Dark Tower- Steven King The Foundation Trilogy- Isaac Asimov The Wheel of Time- Robert Jordan Lord of the Rings/The Silmarillion- JRRT Non Fantasy Fiction: War and Peace- Leo Tolstoy Lord of the Flies- William Golding Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad A Clockwork Orange- Anthony Burgess 1984- George Orwell Classics/Philosophy/History: The Iliad- Homer The Aenid- Virgil History of the Peloponnesian War- Thucydides The Annals of Imperial Rome- Tacitus Alexander- Theodore Ayrault Dodge Ethics- Spinoza The Republic- Plato The Nicomachean Ethics- Aristotle Beyond Good and Evil- Nietzsche view post
The two books I most regret reading are... Wizard's First Rule and Stone of Tears by Terry Goodkind. I finished Wizard's First Rule, thinking quite accurately that it was a piece of shit. Yet, noting how popular the series was and how fanatical his fans, I thought that it might get better as the series went on. If it does get better after the second book (which I doubt, from what I hear) I will never know. Not only was Stone of Tears equally as shittily written as Wizard's First Rule, Goodkind also plagiarized the Wheel of Time series. Add that to his interviews, arrogance, assholish fans= Terry Goodkind sucks ass. I also regret reading Crossroads of Twilight, for obvious reasons. Stranger in A Strange Land I never even finished, due to the poor writing, a less than compelling plot and a section of the book where it stops being a story and becomes a series of essays concerning the author's worldview. view post
[quote="Anonymous":je9ufy9c]Interestingly enough, however, Mr. Bakker does not give us a date for Conphas' death in the appendix which follows TTT.[/quote:je9ufy9c] Ya, but the appendix does not include spoilers from TTT. Its meant to be looked at while you're reading the book; hence Bakker doesn't include events that take place during or after the book. view post
You probably don't know me as I just joined here, but on the ASoIaF board I am (very originally) Brahm_k. view post
What Peter said concerning the lying. I think at this point Kellhus is letting his lie getting ahead of him. I really doubt he is actually some sort of prophet; the golden haloes, whike strange, I think to be some sort of hallucination. view post
Heraclitus is just such a badass that I am tempted to vote him, and Hume isn't on the list, so I'm going to vote Spinoza. view post
Tacitus- The Histories view post
I got the Bonehunters a week before it came out here in Montreal and finished it in four days. I completely loved it; Y'Ghatan was simply incredible. My only complaint would be the climax; too many characters acting out of character, not to mention that it just got a little ridiculous that... SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!!! Kalam is able to take on about 200 Claws and win, until the very end, wherein he doesn't even die due to a literal deus ex machina. Erikson needs to start being more realistic with these things. END SPOILER Besides that, TBH is probably my third favourite in the series. I liked how it wasn't as standalone as the past 5 have been, even if Erikson did go to the other extreme and end it a bit too abruptly. Can't wait for Reaper's Gale, which really looks to be, based on the ending of TBH, the most interesting of the series thus far. view post
[quote="Murrin":31iexx7o][quote="Brahm_K":31iexx7o]...it just got a little ridiculous that... SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!!! Kalam is able to take on about 200 Claws and win, until the very end, wherein he doesn't even die due to a literal deus ex machina. Erikson needs to start being more realistic with these things. END SPOILER[/quote:31iexx7o] SPOILERS: To be fair, he actually only fought and killed forty or fifty, some with the help of T'amber, and all of them unable to use their usual sorcery to sneak up on him because of Tavore's sword. Apsalar, on the other hand, killed about 300 on her own, but then, she's Ascendant.[/quote:31iexx7o] SPOILERS: Ya, that Apsalar thing was pushing it too, but she is Ascended, so I was able to give the benefit of the doubt (a bit). However, Kalam, without use of magic or anything killing 50 men? Its just too much. Maybe I would be more accepting of it if he hadn't ended it with that whole Azath thing... That just really pissed me off. view post
[quote="sunnKHANN":3cr5n87t][quote="Xray the Enforcer":3cr5n87t]Never enjoyed Catcher in the Rye.
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Portents 
I'm about to start reading that. 
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Don't listen 
... Its a bit strange, but a great book.
Xenephon- Anabasis (The Persian Expedition)
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I second Werthead's Guy Gavriel Kay reccomendation (and all the books he reccomended), but above all I reccomend Kay's Sarantine Mosaic (composed of Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors). Fantasy does not get much better than that. view post