Re: So i've just finished reading neverwhere and its amazing
I've heard that the amazon controls are accessible on the phone Ap, though since I have no chance in hell of getting anything visually out of something as small as a phone screen, I just haven't investigated that. Sadly, on PC
Re: The wheel of time and other fantasy books
@khomus, again, it depends upon what you want. The names in WoT have similarities, but the characters do not. Ishamael, and ba'alzamon have very different origins in WoT than in Abrahamaic religion, especially when the truth behind both becomes
Re: YOU vs THE TERMINATOR - Could You Defeat And Survive him?
I would just point out to the Terminator, that since humanity is intent on terminating itself, by terminating me and therefore saving humanity, the terminator is actually terminating humanity anyway, therefore catching it in a
Re: YOU vs THE TERMINATOR - Could You Defeat And Survive him?
I would just point out to the Terminator, that since humanity is intent on terminating itself, by terminating me and therefore saving humanity, the terminator is actually terminating humanity anyway, therefore catching it in a
Re: So i've just finished reading neverwhere and its amazing
@Lem, the sad thing is that as I said, Badali jewelary actually did sell a lot of WoT merchandise up until the series was announced. They had the Aja pendents, Ais Sidai rings, the forehead jewel that Moirane wears (which I also
Re: The wheel of time and other fantasy books
@khomus, many of the names have mythological origins or analogues, but the mythos is very rarely borrowed hole sale, EG The dark one is not a fallen angel or the like, Ba'alzamon is actually a guy who just went particularly evil, there is
Re: So i've just finished reading neverwhere and its amazing
I should check those unfettered anthologies. Lev Grossman's magicians trilogy is one people have recommended, in particular, the webmaster of fantasybokkreview.co.uk is a big fan. I do recall reading a story in a collection
Re: So i've just finished reading neverwhere and its amazing
@Lem, Yeah, my lady loves the great serpent ring and Green Aja pendent, actually rather the way I wear a copy of the one ring on the opposite hand to my wedding ring, my lady wears her great serpent ring all the time too. I also
Re: programming, the one power, and the wheel of time
BGT Lover wrote:in the past, there have been many wars between the two factions,, This place is clearly not rand land, since the idea of there being only two factions in rand land is imho far more of a leap of logic than the idea of a
Re: So i've just finished reading neverwhere and its amazing
@Lem, I'm looking forward to the next book too, and where things go, though I wish we were getting Zeth's backstory, as he's one of the most fascinating characters. I don't mind character power too much so long as the characters
Re: Monthly Chat October 2020
Okay well not a lot else to report, though both locally, and nationally, it seems we're heading back into lockdown ville, even over Jelly fish Jonson's idiotic protests and attempts to put up wishy washy regulations, like telling people more than one household
Re: your opinion on china
What is my opinion on China? Well china has been around for a very long time, virtually ever since humanity started making ceramic pots, however it was the development of glazing techniques and the formulation of coloured glazes that utility changed to art form,
Re: So i've just finished reading neverwhere and its amazing
@Lem my thoughts are the same on audiobooks, while I did read a lot of books in braille at one point, I always tend to prefer audio if possible. Since we recently had This topic, about the wheel of time it's probably not worth
Re: So i've just finished reading neverwhere and its amazing
@Lem my thoughts are the same on audiobooks, while I did read a lot of books in braille at one point, I always tend to prefer audio if possible. Since we recently had This topic, about the wheel of time it's probably not worth
Re: So i've just finished reading neverwhere and its amazing
@Lem, Magic systems are sort of what Sanderson does in general and something he's good at. I will say, while I have enjoyed all of his books I haven't found them all equal. I loved Skyward, but for a revelation about the
Re: So i've just finished reading neverwhere and its amazing
@Lem, with Canavan, the books did get better as they went on, in style and in terms of general plot progression, though I'm afraid Sonea's over all lack of motivation and calcuation sort of irritated me throughout the trilogy. I
Re: So i've just finished reading neverwhere and its amazing
Glad your liking the miniseries, as I said, to me it's an old friend. The radio play had some nice bits, but in general I just prefer the way the miniseries did things, EG the angel sounding far more nice, and Vandamar being
Re: So i've just finished reading neverwhere and its amazing
Neverwhere is a personal favourite of mine. I first was introduced to it when the 1996 miniseries aired in the UK< an adaptation which is still a favourite , actually while the 2013 radio play wasn't bad, imho the miniseries
Re: Monthly Chat October 2020
@wilson, I know not of these regular sleep schedules of which yee speak . Actually, since I'm still doing half an hour or so running with the zombies each day, I do at least sleep for a reasonable amount of time, albeit it sort of seems to have settled into a
Re: What type of music do you listen to?
I believe, most teens go through an "if it's not band x" or at least "style x", or "if it's not in the top fourty" phase. Me? I went through an "if it's not got an orchestra," Phase instead, though admitedly partly as a rebellion against the
Re: Blind male - Sighted female relationships on World wide
On the one hand, Britain is incredibly crappy for blind people anyway, on the other I'm hardly a typical example since when you start with genophobia and all the other issues I had to deal with, then suddenly run into a
Re: Discussion of the 2020 American Federal Election
Having done some research, it seems my lady will be able to register to vote as an ex pat after all, so at least she can do as much as any American voter for what that's worth.
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Re: Discussion of the 2020 American Federal Election
@Defender, thumbs up, that is pretty much what my lady and I would say as well. From what we've gathered from this side of the Atlantic, Biden is by no means perfect, and probably won't be ending the economic, racial or generally
Re: Discussion of the 2020 American Federal Election
Hearing the mere anarchy of the debate, Trump's general idiocy and Biden's less than calm response to it, my lady today said: "Things fall apart", I replied of course with:"the centre cannot hold." And it's actually quite scary just how
Re: Discussion of the 2020 American Federal Election
Hearing the mere anarchy of the debate, Trump's general idiocy and Biden's less than stellar response to it, my lady today said: "Things fall apart", I replied of course with:"the centre cannot hold." And it's actually quite scary just
Re: Discussion of the 2020 American Federal Election
Hearing the pure anarchy of the debate, Trump's general idiocy and Biden's less than stellar response to it, my lady today said: "Things fall apart", I replied of course with:"the centre cannot hold." And it's actually quite scary just
Re: Monthly Chat October 2020
Things are sort of crappy right now, since my attempts to get published continue to fail myserably for no discernible reason, and finding an agent who doesn't specify that they want "edgy female voices", or "minorities viewpoints" (you know because I'm
Re: Urgent advice needed!
Is braille %100 necessary for all of your books. for those in history and other arts subjects wherre you don't need specifically tabulated layout, you might want to look at getting either digital, or audio copies instead, since odds are those would be easier to
Re: What's the name of the online voting system for disabled people (USA)?
Ah, this is not good to hear. My lady was going to see if she could submit a vote from another country, as indeed many ex pat Americans here do, however if the system is inaccessible whilst in America, goodness
Re: Moving to Twitter for game releases
Well since I don't have twitter myself or much intention to get it, it will be fairly hard to know about what games are released. A shame since I rather liked the idea of adding tunmi13's games to the db when they were ready, and they had a lot of
Re: The wheel of time and other fantasy books
I'm afraid Wing of iturnity, that blog article I find down right incorrect as regards Robert Jordan, since saying Jordan is in any sense similar to Tolkien, is like saying chilly con cani is like beef Stroganov. Both are stews with beef and
Re: The wheel of time and other fantasy books
@wing of eternity, I'm no expert on the starwars extended universe, but I have heard the idea that the dark and light sides are not as blatantly good or evil. However, the problem is those who expound this theory tend to be people like darth
Re: The wheel of time and other fantasy books
@khomus, as regards WoT, I'd suggest starting with eye of the world and only reading new spring around book 5 or so. It's well worth reading, indeed it was reading new spring in the legends collection that first got my lady into the series, but
Re: The wheel of time and other fantasy books
@khomus, as regards WoT, I'd suggest starting with eye of the world and only reading new spring around book 5 or so. It's well worth reading, indeed it was reading new spring in the legends collection that first got my lady into the series, but
Re: The wheel of time and other fantasy books
@khomus, as regards WoT, I'd suggest starting with eye of the world and only reading new spring around book 5 or so. It's well worth reading, indeed it was reading new spring in the legends collection that first got my lady into the series, but
Re: The wheel of time and other fantasy books
@khomus, as regards WoT, I'd suggest starting with eye of the world and only reading new spring around book 5 or so. It's well worth reading, indeed it was reading new spring in the legends collection that first got my lady into the series, but
Re: The wheel of time and other fantasy books
@Berenion, I've heard a lot of good things about Stephen Ericson. Fantasybookreview.co.uk list his series as in the top ten fantasy series of all time. I'm always slightly put off by the length of the books, since these days as I said, in a lot
Re: The wheel of time and other fantasy books
@Berenion, I've heard a lot of good things about Stephen Ericson. Fantasybookreview.co.uk list his series as in the top ten fantasy series of all time. I'm always slightly put off by the length of the books, since these days as I said, in a lot
Re: The wheel of time and other fantasy books
@Wing of eternity, short answer, nope, the age of legends and age of heroes are entirely %100 different concepts and are treated differently in their respective seriesIn song of ice and fire, you say for example that thing ex, like the forest
Re: The wheel of time and other fantasy books
@drums61999, there is a difference of emphasis here I think however. Yes, in WoT you don't really get to see Shara or Seanchan , and obviously the sea folk travel to different lands because; well it's sort of in the name . However, far more of
Re: The wheel of time and other fantasy books
@wing of eternity, yes, there are places in WoT you hear about by rumour, however, you get to see far more of the world than in Ice and fire, because Jordan literally deals with most of the known world in the book, especially later in the
Re: Any tips for dealing with lonelyness?
I'm less certain I agree with Camlorn about "english speaking countries" being automatically better for disability, ", my lady's experiences in Germany suggest different, as does what I've heard of Scandinavia. However, I totally agree with
Re: The wheel of time and other fantasy books
@Taga I can't speak on the witcher as I've not read it yet, but I will agree that if grim dark gets to the point that everyone is so totally dislikeable then there really isn't a point. That is one of the genius bits of Martin and Williams,
Re: The wheel of time and other fantasy books
I keep hearing about the Witcher, the games, books and tv series. I suspect this is going to be again like Harry Potter or the Hunger games where something is so hugely popular it almost puts me off, and I eventually just have to bight the
Re: Any tips for dealing with lonelyness?
While I'm very in to creativity, solo exploration and contemplation myself, and therefore would not disagree with the last two posts, I'm afraid my point in post 12 was a little harsher than that. The plane fact is, that despite all people's talk
Re: Any tips for dealing with lonelyness?
While I'm very in to creativity, solo exploration and contemplation myself, and therefore would not disagree with the last two posts, I'm afraid my point in post 12 was a little harsher than that. The plane fact is, that despite all people's talk
Re: monthly chat September 2020
@Dark eagle, that's slightly scary as regards India and Pakistan, and not particularly something I'd heard. Then again, most Indians and Pakistanis I've met have been third or fourth generation English, so how far they've followed the country's politics I
Re: The wheel of time and other fantasy books
@Targa, have you read shadowmarch by Tad Williams? I didn't like them as much as memory sorrow and thorn, but they were an awesome series nonetheless. Williams is also currently writing a sequel series set in ostin ard a good thousand years
Re: The wheel of time and other fantasy books
@Targa, have you read shadowmarch by Tad Williams? I didn't like them as much as memory sorrow and thorn, but they were an awesome series nonetheless. Williams is also currently writing a sequel series set in ostin ard a good thousand years
Re: Any tips for dealing with lonelyness?
I would agree with others that it gets much better at university, however once you finish university it gets worse again, because that's when those few people you've met who are in your interest/interlect bracket move on to do things like procreate
Re: Any tips for dealing with lonelyness?
I would agree with others that it gets much better at university, however once you finish university it gets worse again, because that's when those few people you've met who are in your interest/interlect bracket move on to do things like procreate
Re: The wheel of time and other fantasy books
Interesting there Oriol. I checked This entry, on the wheel of time fandom wiki. The part about Spanish translations is well out of date, since it only details the release up to gathering storm, but it is interesting that they split the books.
Re: The wheel of time and other fantasy books
Wow Oriol 20 books in Spanish? In the English release, the wheel of time is 14 books, plus one prequal novella. My lady absolutely adores the series, has read it three times and is currently doing one of a couple of reread blogs on the
Re: The wheel of time and other fantasy books
Wow Oriol 20 books in Spanish? In the English release, the wheel of time is 14 books, plus one prequal novella. My lady absolutely adores the series, has read it three times and is currently doing one of a couple of reread blogs on the
Re: In memorium, Terry goodkind
@Quasar, I did suspect the omen machine had little to do with the previous conflict, though again, as the series had built to a definite ending with the death of Jagan and the destruction of the imperial order, it seemed a bit of overkill, particularly since
Re: In memorium, Terry goodkind
@Shinobi, not to take away from Terry Goodkind's books, but these days I actually think I am coming to prefer shorter series, trilogies, quadrologies etc especially in fantasy, since I tend to find things get a bit strung out in later books, and even if the
Re: In memorium, Terry goodkind
@Shinobi, not to take away from Terry Goodkind's books, but these days I actually think I am coming to prefer shorter series, trilogies, quadrologies etc especially in fantasy, since I tend to find things get a bit strung out in later books, and even if the
Re: In memorium, Terry goodkind
@Oriol, That scene in Wizard's first rule was obviously specifically shocking to me for the above reasons. As with many things in Goodkind, I think the torture and brutality went a bit into overdrive as his books got more overt in displaying his political
In memorium, Terry goodkind
Here is a copy of an article I've sent off for the fantasybookreview.co.uk blog, which I thought people here might be interested in, given I know several here have read Goodkind's work.“Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self. IN memoriam
Re: monthly chat September 2020
Lol Dark eagle when you said "Caped buffalo" I thought you were talking about a super hero, rather than a super animal, well now at least I've learned something I did not know before . Btw, nice to know there are buffalo in Africa.I've now started peace
Re: monthly chat September 2020
Well I just had a rather fun experience. I booted up Amazon (which I have to say has been quite a good friend over the lockdown period), in order to buy some speciality chocolate. Getting to the checkout I suddenly notice two items in my shopping basket
Re: How do you spell "video games"/"audio games"?
Wiktionary wrote:Nounvideo (countable and uncountable, plural videos)File:VHS_cassette_tape_05EnlargeA VHS video casette1. Television, television show, movie.2. A short film clip, with or without audio (as in a music video, or one of the
Re: Your favorite Harry Potter spells?
Latinlitarium confabulato! The spell used to create other random spell words for weird incantations .
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Re: Your favorite Harry Potter spells?
Pesky pixi, pestadomi! it's entirely ineffective, used by an egotistical arse hole, and may not be magic at all, but really, how can you not love an incantation which includes the words pesky pixi?I wonder are there other versions, vicious vampire,
Re: Sad to read this
@Simba, my lady had lots of good things to say about the German medical system, and that after growing up in the states.Okay, as to the "how life is in other countries" comment. When I was in America, I stayed with my sister in law and her husband. My brother in law is
Re: Sad to read this
@Simba, my lady had lots of good things to say about the German medical system, and that after growing up in the states.Okay, as to the "how life is in other countries" comment. When I was in America, I stayed with my sister in law and her husband. My brother in law is
Re: Sad to read this
kjsisco wrote:Free health care? Seriously? Hmmm! Learn to realize that nothing is for free.Funny how many people in America are quite happy to pay tax to support the military, and not to, mmm, help the sick? then again, I'm English, from a medical family myself, and
Re: Sad to read this
kjsisco wrote:Free health care? Seriously? Hmmm! Learn to realize that nothing is for free.Funny how Americans are quite happy to pay tax to support the military, and not to, mmm, help the sick? then again, I'm English, from a medical family myself, and yes, I'm
Re: Sad to read this
@Superb, I personally wouldn't generalise about Amerca or the people there, I'm married to an American who has friends and family over there who are people I have come to care about as well. Likewise, I spent a very happy few months in the states in 15, and actually
Re: Sad to read this
And why I'm glad I live in a country where most police officers don't run around with guns, and armed response teams are only sent, well if the criminal is confirmed to also be armed. what is it with the police in the United states, especially the amount of escalation
Re: monthly chat September 2020
@Bgt, lover, wow your reading the wheel of time? I have read the series twice (well I've read books 1-10 twice and books 11-14 just the), however my lady absolutely adores! the wheel of time, to the point she spends considerable time online looking up stuff
Re: Assistance with Zoom?
Thanks, good to know. Is there a way of testing it out before you actually need to connect and make calls with it to check the program is actually working?
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Assistance with Zoom?
Okay, now I apparently have a working microphone, I am wondering about Zoom, since my lady would like to start using it to have singing lessons. I have heard that the program has issues with NVDA, how true is that? Any recommended NVDA addons or the like? Advice
Re: This site is draining me so I'm leaving.
@Brad, leave or stay, good luck to you, however it seems a little strange to leave because of Drama and then not consider the fact that much drama is caused by people doing this very thing, as witness the replies in this thread Might I If you're
Re: a question that really intrests me in these days
All the swords I've seen have been either ornamental (I even own a couple of those myself), Larp or historical reenactment weapons, or weapons from museums. obviously in Britain at least, firearms; historical or otherwise, are less
Re: What are the youtube channels you watch regularlly?
Interesting. Generally the stuff I watch usually comes because I look up a specific subject, then see if the creator has created more, and most are either reviews or literary theory.Some I can recommend however are Dominic noble's
Re: monthly chat September 2020
Well the hand seems to be moderately less painful now, so I can type as long as I do it slowly, which means no playing muds, also unfortunately, no work on my novella which is really taking shape at the moment (think dark fantasy fairy tale told from the
Re: monthly chat September 2020
Well the hand seems to be moderately less painful now, so I can type as long as I do it slowly, which means no playing muds, also unfortunately, no work on my novella which is really taking shape at the moment (think dark fantasy fairy tale told from the
Re: monthly chat September 2020
Well the hand seems to be moderately less painful now, so I can type as long as I do it slowly, which means no playing muds, also no work on my novella which is really taking shape at the moment (think dark fantasy fairy tale told from the perspective of an
Re: monthly chat September 2020
Well the hand seems to be moderately less painful now, so I can type as long as I do it slowly, which means no playing muds, also no work on my novella which is really taking shape at the moment (think dark fantasy fairy tale told from the perspective of an
Re: monthly chat September 2020
Unfortunately, I fell over the other day and badly bruised my hand, making typing rather painful, hence why I've not been around on this forum or indeed gaming much recently. Currently reading second in the heart striker series, good dragon deserves another
Re: pole, would you go for perpetual or subscription for software? Why?
I am in the same boat here too. I will subscribe if I'm getting new content like zombies run, or if it is something that requires maintenance like office, but generally speaking if I buy something, I want to by it out
Re: Monthly Chat - August, 2020
Beware possible game of thrones season 5 spoilers.@Wing of eternity, while we are not sure of Melisandre's over all motives, I don't think Melisandre would necessarily want to harm Stanis without a good reason, so I suspect the death of Shirreen was exactly
Re: Another series I've rediscovered
@Cookie, Niel gaiman is well worth a try, his stuff is fantastic, also I absolutely loved Jo Hill's nos4atu recently, which sort of hovers between horror and magical wimsy and is one of the best books I've read for a considerable time. For me at least,
Re: Monthly Chat - August, 2020
@Wing of iternity, that about Jaime is precisely my point. It seems that the end of season 5 simplified a lot of factions down to more basic characters. Rather than the sons of the harpy being a small scale terrorist group and one which Denaerys actually
Re: I am mad at this forum
Woe doods? This is not radical? this is like totally bogus!Oh and sorry for anyone who didn't grow up in the eighties or nineties, when Tv was filled with Surfer lingo.
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Re: Books by Stephen King
@Lightning dragon, yepp, I've read all of Becky chambers books, and reviewed them. I was a wee bit disappointed with her most recent novella, though I did enjoy the wayfarer's trilogy as a nice, upbeat bit of fun with some interesting ideas.
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Re: Books by Stephen King
@Rich, I have read game of thrones, and indeed all the song of ice and fire books, however at the moment the reason I site game of thrones as getting in the way of my reading is thee tv series, since as I'm having to watch each episode visually, then! listen
Re: Weekly poll, your favorite tacos
I think Tacos must be something which is far more common in the states than in the UK, since on the rare occasions I've seen them over here, they've been at pretty good quality Mexican restaurants (we certainly don't have tacos as a fast food item), so
Re: Another series I've rediscovered
@Cookie, I agree with camlorn, there's no specific reason why adult books, or at least books supposedly intended for adults don't have relatable characters, or for that matter lack of extreme content. Hobb has likable characters, however the problem
Re: Monthly Chat - August, 2020
@Dark eagle, that is semi true (partly also affected by post world war 2 paper shortage), however a lot of other books have gone this way since, Tad williams and robin Hobb are famous for it, so it's not something I mind. I must admit I am a little irritated
Re: Another series I've rediscovered
@Camlorn, again this is probably where either my reading them with me having the flew, or me not taking them too seriously kicks in. Usually, I'm the first to jump on authors for shallow characters and convenient contrivances in plot, but with Artemis
Re: Another series I've rediscovered
@Cookie, I agree I have a thing about finishing book series as well, though unfortunately with Artemis Fowl, by the time I realised there were more books in the series I'd sort of lost touch with them, and while I enjoyed them as fun with the odd
Re: Another series I've rediscovered
I had an interesting history with this series.Back in 2000, the braille library produced a short book of extracts and mini reviews of titles they'd recently brailled. There were ones for each different genre, from romance, to horror, to crimeWhat was
Re: Another series I've rediscovered
I had an interesting history with this series.Back in 2000, the braille library produced a short book of extracts and mini reviews of titles they'd recently brailled. There were ones for each different genre, from romance, to horror, to crimeWhat was
Re: Another series I've rediscovered
I had an interesting history with this series.Back in 2000, the braille library produced a short book of extracts and mini reviews of titles they'd recently brailled. There were ones for each different genre, from romance, to horror, to crimeWhat was
Re: Books by Stephen King
@Lightning Dragon, I actually haven't read much lovecraft either myself, though I really should. Peter Straub is another author I want to read more of along with jo Hill. Indeed, i don't know how his other stuff is, but Jo Hill's nos4a2 was one of the single best
Re: Books by Stephen King
@lightningdragon, You're welcome. At risk of tooting my own horn, I have written spoiler free reviews for several mentioned here, including Phantoms, hill housse and Scot Sigler's infected, as well as Stephen King and various other things Find my reviews here. I'm
Westeros, an American musical
Here's something fun for all Game of thrones fans, especially those who are also Hamilton fans. Westeros! an american musical. follow a story of political intrigue and upheaval which begins with that bastard fathering, lover of whores from the stormlands,
Re: Books by Stephen King
@lightning dragon, I have read several horror authors and good horror novels, but I don't know anyone as consistently good as stephen King, since even when King produces less good stuff, it's still pretty good, where as other authors like Dean Koontz or Clive
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