https://parahumans.wordpress.com/I can’t find this on the kindle... what am I doing wrong?
https://parahumans.wordpress.com/I can’t find this on the kindle... what am I doing wrong?
Thanks!
Thanks!
I’m too old so I have to ask this like the idiot I am: I am supposed to read this on my phone or laptop? Can I get it on my kindle somehow?
Perfectly fine.Hes releasing a more traditional published version at a later date.
Couple of people have done unofficial versions - You'd probably need to be somewhat techie to get them working though
@Damien the above link ok or should i delete it?
I know its partially recency bias but that's the best trilogy I have ever read. Of any genre. The three individual books are all superb as standalone novels but the way the three books tie together is just GOAT tier writing. I would also say it compares favorably to any of the great literature writers - Cixin Liu is on Dostoevsky/Tolstoy level.
I loved this series. Still has me thinking about it often even though I read it a while ago.
Just finished Book 1 and I agree. It's a bit too technical in many phases and the scope is staggering. Now hooked and have to start book 2 immediately.
But is this in line with the Drake Equation and Fermi Paradox? Finding not just an intelligent life, but one with so many similarities to humans this close should be extreme. It is especially praiseworthy that author talks about cultural similarities more than physical ones...very novel and interesting.
Hes releasing a more traditional published version at a later date.
Couple of people have done unofficial versions - You'd probably need to be somewhat techie to get them working though
@Damien the above link ok or should i delete it?
Moiraine Damodred.Who's your favorite fantasy book character?
For me, it has to be Mat Cauthon. Brilliant, funny and utterly likeable rogue.
Mat CauthonWho's your favorite fantasy book character?
For me, it has to be Mat Cauthon. Brilliant, funny and utterly likeable rogue.
The Fool.Who's your favorite fantasy book character?
For me, it has to be Mat Cauthon. Brilliant, funny and utterly likeable rogue.
Who's your favorite fantasy book character?
For me, it has to be Mat Cauthon. Brilliant, funny and utterly likeable rogue.
Good call.Kvothe, Locke Lamora, Sand dan Glokta.
You have to be realistic.Logen Ninefingers.
The last story in Sharp Ends had a very weird ending for Logen, which kind of totally changed my opinion over him (to be fair, he is so complicated that having an opinion over him is so difficult).You have to be realistic.
Who's your favorite fantasy book character?
For me, it has to be Mat Cauthon. Brilliant, funny and utterly likeable rogue.
Mat would have been high on my list if he wasn't by far my least favorite character in the saga for around half of it. He was easily the best character in WoT later on, but until book 5 or 6, Gosh, he was totally insufferable.Mat Cauthon
Mat would have been high on my list if he wasn't by far my least favorite character in the saga for around half of it. He was easily the best character in WoT later on, but until book 5 or 6, Gosh, he was totally insufferable.
Now, a more interesting question, what is the character you hated most?
But you chose Moiraine who is not even there for most of the books!
Most of women in WoT with few exceptions (Moiraine, Min and Tylin, Siuan etc)
Nicomo Cosca in Red Country
Kallor in Malzan
Joffrey in GoT
Frodo in LotR
Fair enough.You mean like real hate? As in "i want this character the die the ugliest death" hate?
WoT as a whole
Achamian, Kellhus, the consult, the gods from TSA
Karos Invictad and his minion, the bastard that killed Trull, and most of the letherii in general. Mallick Rell and Korbolo Dom. The Tiste Liosan high priestess and mage(don't remember the names) from the kharkanas trilogy, along with Father Light. And Errastas of course. Karsa in HoC too, but he grows a lot throughout the books and by the end is genuinely likeable
Logen Ninefingers, Bayaz and Khalul
(TSA i'm currently reading, FL recently read, Malazan favourite series, WoT biggest disappointment, hence i'm only mentioning those 4. Malazan, Gentleman Bastards, First Law and TSA are just about the only fantasy series to leave a mark on me)
Funny that i can't even consider ASOIAF as a fantasy book series anymore . Yeah, plenty from that one too. Joffrey, ALL the freys, Viserys, Lisa Arryn, Littlefinger(love and hate in equal measures), Janos, Alliser, Craster, ah feck, too many to count
When she is, she is great though. I was almost forced to skip Mat's chapters on the first few books, he was worse than the hobbits in LOTR.
Don't understand why you dislike Frodo, and found Cosma very funny. Kallor is a good shot though, such a hateable character.
Was Tylin that old queen who made Mat her sex-slave? Didn't like her. Tuon was great though, in a series with genetically insane people (Rand, Ishamael), she somehow was the most insane one.
Achamian is a sexist, misogynous cnut, a little man full of envy and hatred. Kellhus is a monster but he actually did more good for people than Akka. Especially EsmenetFair enough.
I liked Achamian, he genuinely was trying to do the right thing, just that he got fooled like everyone else. I hate Kellhus too, for two reasons: a) being an arsehole of unprecedented measures, b) being badly written to the point when everyone wanks when he talks and does things despite that his monologues are absolutely boring and devout of anything good. No other author has done more wrongly 'show, don't tell'. Here it was definitely 'tell, don't show'.
Achamian is a sexist, misogynous cnut
, a little man full of envy and hatred.
Kellhus is a monster but he actually did more good for people than Akka.
Esmenet. I know he's pretty normal for the setting, even among the better ones. But he's the POV character who interacts with women the mostWhy in particular?
No, his hatred of Kellhus is the one thing i don't dislike about him.Come on, he knew from the start that Kell will become far more powerful than him, if he teaches Kell. Heck, he said that Kell will become more powerful than Sevanna. His hatred for Kell wasn't cause of envy, more because of Kell fooled him and everyone else and essentially became a malignant dictator.
Sure, not saying otherwise. And he still does more good than AkkaGoing into never-ending wars, and the stuff he does in the later books? Biggest scumbag in the history of fantasy books, without a single redeeming virtue.
Leo there but no Vilgefortz? Both scumbags, and both terrifying. Unlike in Leo's case though, turning Yennefer lose on Vilgefortz would have done feck nothing. He was genuinely terrifying, being able to neutralize 'that vampire' with ease, and playing with Geralt like he was a kid.I'm going to cheat on most hated character and pick a few for different reasons:
Leo Bonhart from the Witcher series. I wanted Yennefer to get turned loose on him. Which I suppose is good writing as he's a horrible scumbag. Joffrey falls into the same category.
Nynaeve. Given I've only just started book 6(or 5? I can't remember) of WoT, I've clearly got time for her to redeem herself. But feck me is she an insufferable prick for the majority of it so far. Shut up, stop being a judgemental bitch and leave your god damn motherfecking braid alone! I just wanted Yennefer to get turned loose on her.
Kvothe. His POV where he tries to lick his own arse Hideo Kojima style completely put me off the series. I couldn't even finish the first book. Lacked Yennefer.
Triss Merrigold. She was fine in the books, bit of a traitorous bitch, but fine. Add the games into the mix and she's all sorts of sociopath. I just wanted Yennefer to take her out for her traitorous ways the second they met in TW3. It's the one thing that really annoyed me about TW3. That and the fact it had to end. She annoys me in every scene where the scheming fecker is acting all noble and nice.
Every Mandalorian written by Karen Traviss. An entire race of Mary Sue's. Great. Something, something Yennefer...
For some reason Vilgefortz doesn't stick in my mind the way Leo does. Maybe because Leo seemed more human, whereas Vilgefortz was so powerful he seemed a bit beyond that. I agree though, complete scumbag.Leo there but no Vilgefortz? Both scumbags, and both terrifying. Unlike in Leo's case though, turning Yennefer lose on Vilgefortz would have done feck nothing. He was genuinely terrifying, being able to neutralize 'that vampire' with ease, and playing with Geralt like he was a kid.
Triss a sociopath? Naaaah. I found her alright in the books, great in the first game, and then again alright in the next two games. She cared for Ciri and loved Geralt. Of course, choosing Yen over her was easy peasy. Especially considering that her biggest priorities were those Sorceresses Lodges, unlike Yen, who eventually cared only for two people in the world.
Yen of games was a softened version of Yen of books. Also, Geralt kind of chose her again, even without the gini spell, and dropped his relation with Triss when he met Yen again (assuming that the player did the logical thing). There was no need to kill her, I guess.For some reason Vilgefortz doesn't stick in my mind the way Leo does. Maybe because Leo seemed more human, whereas Vilgefortz was so powerful he seemed a bit beyond that. I agree though, complete scumbag.
Triss wanted to help the Lodge take control of Ciri at the expense of her "friend" Yennefer, tried to steal Geralt away from Yennefer and then tried it again when he lost his memory. She's exceptionally shady. I can't see why Yen would have let her live after she'd gotten use out of her in TW3. She'd proven you can't turn your back on her with your man or anything else.
Mallick Rell isn't powerful?the guy had Mael doing his bidding! And he becomes emperor! Even a competent emperor apparently
Eagerly awaiting for him to get Karsa'd in the trilogy