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Post by Merv on Mar 27, 2022 17:48:36 GMT 1
Just read this part and laughed and thought Id share because Joe Abercrombie has a hilarious way with words...
Two warriors bump into each other during a charge of battle and one is calling the other one out for his cowardly tendencies.
"A cowards just a man with the proper respect for sharp metal."
The other warrior is flabbergasted by this statement, so the 'cowardly' one goes on to explain further.
"A battle is no place for a warrior. No room to swing. More men killed by bad luck than good swordwork. It's all just shovin' and gruntin' at the mercy of choices made miles away and hours before by men you'll never meet. Your trouble is you've got yourself an idea of how life should be, but it's not how life is."
I just love how it starts off making no sense...but by the end it makes all the sense in the world. So many characters in the First Law world have these pearls of wisdom.
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Post by Merv on May 20, 2022 18:54:17 GMT 1
"Evil turned out not to be a grand thing. Not sneering Emperors with their world-conquering designs. Not cackling demons plotting in the darkness beyond the world. It was small men with their small acts and their small reasons. It was selfishness and carelessness and waste. It was bad luck, incompetence, and stupidity. It was violence divorced from conscience or consequence. It was high ideals, even, and low methods."
"I've made peace with myself." "Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win." "Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting."
"'Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into your grave."
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Post by primemcgee on May 23, 2022 2:24:03 GMT 1
"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."
"Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow." Frankenstein
"It's this accursed science," I cried. "It's the very Devil. The medieval priests and persecutors were right and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper with it—and it offers you gifts. And directly you take them it knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way. Old passions and new weapons—now it upsets your religion, now it upsets your social ideas, now it whirls you off to desolation and misery!" The First Men in the Moon
"Beauty -- coolness -- aloofness -- philosophic repose -- self-sufficiency -- untamed mastery -- where else can we find these things incarnated with even half the perfection and completeness that mark their incarnation in the peerless and softly gliding cat, which performs its mysterious orbit with the relentless and obtrusive certainty of a planet in infinity?" HP Lovecraft
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Post by Merv on May 23, 2022 4:12:10 GMT 1
"Conscience can be painful but so can the cock-rot. A grown-up should suffer his afflictions privately and not allow them to become an inconvenience for friends and colleagues." "Conscience and the cock-rot are hardly equivalent." "Indeed, the cock-rot is rarely fatal." ...Legendary swordsman Nicomo Cosca.
"If your sword's drawn, you've already made at least one mistake. Unless you're cleaning it, or sharpening it, or maybe selling it." "What if you're in a battle?" "Then you've made at least two mistakes, possibly a lot more. A battle's no place for a self-respecting warrior. But if you must attend one, at least have the good taste to be where the fighting isn't." "What if some bastard tries to kill you?" "Ideally, you'd have worked that out a while back and done 'em first, preferably while they're asleep. That's what knives are for." "That and slicing cheese." "That's the thing about knives, cheap to get and with endless applications. Swords are dear as all hell and they've got just the one, and it's one every man should avoid." ...Same character as the 'coward' above. Clover from the Age of Madness trilogy by Joe Abercrombie.
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Post by LokisMom on May 23, 2022 23:08:20 GMT 1
"Conscience can be painful but so can the cock-rot. A grown-up should suffer his afflictions privately and not allow them to become an inconvenience for friends and colleagues." "Conscience and the cock-rot are hardly equivalent." "Indeed, the cock-rot is rarely fatal." ...Legendary swordsman Nicomo Cosca. "If your sword's drawn, you've already made at least one mistake. Unless you're cleaning it, or sharpening it, or maybe selling it.""What if you're in a battle?""Then you've made at least two mistakes, possibly a lot more. A battle's no place for a self-respecting warrior. But if you must attend one, at least have the good taste to be where the fighting isn't.""What if some bastard tries to kill you?""Ideally, you'd have worked that out a while back and done 'em first, preferably while they're asleep. That's what knives are for.""That and slicing cheese.""That's the thing about knives, cheap to get and with endless applications. Swords are dear as all hell and they've got just the one, and it's one every man should avoid."
...Same character as the 'coward' above. Clover from the Age of Madness trilogy by Joe Abercrombie. I first read this as “Conscience can be painful but so can the crock-pot.”
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Post by hyundaifromyuggoth on May 25, 2022 18:45:27 GMT 1
Just read this part and laughed and thought Id share because Joe Abercrombie has a hilarious way with words... Two warriors bump into each other during a charge of battle and one is calling the other one out for his cowardly tendencies. "A cowards just a man with the proper respect for sharp metal." The other warrior is flabbergasted by this statement, so the 'cowardly' one goes on to explain further. "A battle is no place for a warrior. No room to swing. More men killed by bad luck than good swordwork. It's all just shovin' and gruntin' at the mercy of choices made miles away and hours before by men you'll never meet. Your trouble is you've got yourself an idea of how life should be, but it's not how life is."I just love how it starts off making no sense...but by the end it makes all the sense in the world. So many characters in the First Law world have these pearls of wisdom. "I would not eat them on a boat, I would not eat them with a goat!" -Hamlet by Willyum Shakespeare
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Post by Merv on May 25, 2022 18:57:16 GMT 1
Just read this part and laughed and thought Id share because Joe Abercrombie has a hilarious way with words... Two warriors bump into each other during a charge of battle and one is calling the other one out for his cowardly tendencies. "A cowards just a man with the proper respect for sharp metal." The other warrior is flabbergasted by this statement, so the 'cowardly' one goes on to explain further. "A battle is no place for a warrior. No room to swing. More men killed by bad luck than good swordwork. It's all just shovin' and gruntin' at the mercy of choices made miles away and hours before by men you'll never meet. Your trouble is you've got yourself an idea of how life should be, but it's not how life is."I just love how it starts off making no sense...but by the end it makes all the sense in the world. So many characters in the First Law world have these pearls of wisdom. "I would not eat them on a boat, I would not eat them with a goat!" -Hamlet by Willyum Shakespeare Classic shakespeare.
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Post by Merv on Jun 14, 2022 22:09:16 GMT 1
“He'd grown himself a little bit of a beard, just under his mouth, while he shaved the rest. Clover couldn't understand it. Grow it or don't, but why leave bits? It was like leaving your wife half-fucked.”
“You are a king. You have no business talking about the right thing.”
“Principles are like clothes,’ said Vick, straightening her jacket. ‘You have to change them to suit the audience.”
“He was one of those men loves to be despised. That treats loathing like gold, to be clawed for and hoarded up. He hadn’t learned yet that hate’s the one thing never runs out.”
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Post by Merv on Jul 5, 2022 19:40:51 GMT 1
“Everyone likes me,” said Caul Shivers, the most feared man in the North.”
^This had me laughing so much.
“The thing about history is you don’t know what the right side is till long afterwards, and by then it hardly matters.” “That’s the sort o’ thing you hear from folk who know they’re on the wrong side.”
“You know the trouble with a pretty face? People get used to its advantages, and when it’s took away, they lack the wherewithal to make a success of themselves. Nothing sadder’n a person who used to be beautiful. They have this desperate smile. Like me, it says. Like me, even though there’s nothing left to like.”
“He’d never been one for war cries. Why tell your enemy where you are? They’ll learn soon enough. Surprise, that’s the key. Whether you’re fighting one man or a thousand or ten thousand. The more you’re fighting, the more important it becomes, ’cause shock spreads faster’n plague, faster’n fire, and turns the bravest into cowards. So he rushed up silent as winter, silent as sickness.”
“Doubts and regrets, they're the cost of casting a shadow. The only folk without 'em are the dead.”
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Post by Merv on Aug 16, 2022 19:00:48 GMT 1
I’m more than halfway thru Stephen Kings 11/22/63, a book about a time traveler who intends on saving JFK. Here’s some quotes…
“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.”
“Yea but what if you went back and killed your own Grandfather?” “We’ll why the f-ck would you do that?”
“Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn’t it?“
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Post by Lord Death Man on Aug 16, 2022 20:35:13 GMT 1
I’m more than halfway thru Stephen Kings 11/22/63, a book about a time traveler who intends on saving JFK. Here’s some quotes… “We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.” “Yea but what if you went back and killed your own Grandfather?” “We’ll why the f-ck would you do that?” “Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn’t it?“ That's one of his stronger novels in the last few years. I didn't find the human threat as convincing as I thought it should be, but the supernatural threat was on par with some of his more diabolical nasties. If you like 11/22/63 you'll love Revival and The Outsider.
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Post by Merv on Aug 16, 2022 20:43:41 GMT 1
I’m more than halfway thru Stephen Kings 11/22/63, a book about a time traveler who intends on saving JFK. Here’s some quotes… “We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.” “Yea but what if you went back and killed your own Grandfather?” “We’ll why the f-ck would you do that?” “Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn’t it?“ That's one of his stronger novels in the last few years. I didn't find the human threat as convincing as I thought it should be, but the supernatural threat was on par with some of his more diabolical nasties. If you like 11/22/63 you'll love Revival and The Outsider. I’ve read tons of King but less of his really recent stuff (last 10 years). Although I will probably see if Fairy Tale is well received when it releases later this year.
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Post by Lord Death Man on Aug 16, 2022 22:40:24 GMT 1
That's one of his stronger novels in the last few years. I didn't find the human threat as convincing as I thought it should be, but the supernatural threat was on par with some of his more diabolical nasties. If you like 11/22/63 you'll love Revival and The Outsider. I’ve read tons of King but less of his really recent stuff (last 10 years). Although I will probably see if Fairy Tale is well received when it releases later this year. I've read about half of his newer output, it doesn't have the same impact as vintage King, but he does maintain a baseline of quality. I think he's still on par with most of the contemporary voices in horror, though he's definitely sharing the space and not dominating it - as in the past.
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Post by Merv on Aug 16, 2022 22:45:24 GMT 1
I’ve read tons of King but less of his really recent stuff (last 10 years). Although I will probably see if Fairy Tale is well received when it releases later this year. I've read about half of his newer output, it doesn't have the same impact as vintage King, but he does maintain a baseline of quality. I think he's still on par with most of the contemporary voices in horror, though he's definitely sharing the space and not dominating it - as in the past. After I became a fan at some point I started at the beginning of his bibliography and started working my way through his work. I got all the way to about 1996 before I got a little burnt out. I’ve still read dozens of novels past that point but now I mostly skip around to what I’m interested in. I’m also reading a lot more other authors so they get their time in my light as well. I tend to jump back into King when I’m not sure what else to read and as I just finished all of Abercrombies First Law stuff I was struggling to pick a title, so I went with 11/22/63…partly because my cousin had just read it so I could talk to him about it.
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Post by Lord Death Man on Aug 16, 2022 23:17:15 GMT 1
I've read about half of his newer output, it doesn't have the same impact as vintage King, but he does maintain a baseline of quality. I think he's still on par with most of the contemporary voices in horror, though he's definitely sharing the space and not dominating it - as in the past. After I became a fan at some point I started at the beginning of his bibliography and started working my way through his work. I got all the way to about 1996 before I got a little burnt out. I’ve still read dozens of novels past that point but now I mostly skip around to what I’m interested in. I’m also reading a lot more other authors so they get their time in my light as well. I tend to jump back into King when I’m not sure what else to read and as I just finished all of Abercrombies First Law stuff I was struggling to pick a title, so I went with 11/22/63…partly because my cousin had just read it so I could talk to him about it. I think I got to the Tommy Knockers before I ended my chronological reading of King's back catalog. I use It as the dividing line between vintage and contemporary King. I recall Tommy Knockers being the first book I read by him that I didn't love. A few of the novels that came after It seemed like throw away ideas that he spun out into novels. Hypergraphia seems to be a good way to make a living - at least for King.
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Post by Merv on Aug 17, 2022 1:58:36 GMT 1
After I became a fan at some point I started at the beginning of his bibliography and started working my way through his work. I got all the way to about 1996 before I got a little burnt out. I’ve still read dozens of novels past that point but now I mostly skip around to what I’m interested in. I’m also reading a lot more other authors so they get their time in my light as well. I tend to jump back into King when I’m not sure what else to read and as I just finished all of Abercrombies First Law stuff I was struggling to pick a title, so I went with 11/22/63…partly because my cousin had just read it so I could talk to him about it. I think I got to the Tommy Knockers before I ended my chronological reading of King's back catalog. I use It as the dividing line between vintage and contemporary King. I recall Tommy Knockers being the first book I read by him that I didn't love. A few of the novels that came after It seemed like throw away ideas that he spun out into novels. Hypergraphia seems to be a good way to make a living - at least for King. That’s about when I started to feel the burn out as well. It started with Needful Things and then I started but didn’t finish (right away) the Tommyknockers. I think that’s my first break from King. I had no problems through his 70s and 80s work. I will say I didn’t love everything along the way tho. Roadwork is one of my least favorites. But yea right around his 1990 stuff I started feeling the bog.
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Post by Merv on Sept 2, 2022 23:50:45 GMT 1
Storm Front by Jim Butcher
“Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.”
“I think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts.”
“Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.”
“I don't want to live in a world where the strong rule and the weak cower. I'd rather make a place where things are a little quieter. Where trolls stay the hell under their bridges and where elves don't come swooping out to snatch children from their cradles. Where vampires respect the limits, and where the faeries mind their p's and q's. My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. When things get strange, when what goes bump in the night flicks on the lights, when no one else can help you, give me a call. I'm in the book.”
“EASTER HAS BEEN CANCELED - THEY FOUND THE BODY”
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