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Payne, your favourite series ever just took a medium shift

Started by Cain, January 25, 2010, 10:10:48 PM

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Cain

#15
January 26, 2010, 08:27:14 PM
Probably.  Up to book three is a tolerable Robert Jordan rip-off.  From book five until Naked Empire its Full-Metal-Randroid, and then it gets a bit more normal again.  Or so I hear

Triple Zero

#16
January 26, 2010, 11:27:50 PM
I only read the first book and I really did enjoy it. I heard it got worse after that. Even if it didn't get worse after that, I can totally imagine it getting rather tedious, just for the fact that it goes on and on and on and on.
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#17
January 27, 2010, 01:06:39 AM
Quote from: Cain on January 26, 2010, 08:27:14 PM
Probably.  Up to book three is a tolerable Robert Jordan rip-off.  From book five until Naked Empire its Full-Metal-Randroid, and then it gets a bit more normal again.  Or so I hear

No, book five until the end is the same story, but in reverse.

Reginald Ret

#18
January 27, 2010, 01:14:27 AM
eh, there are worse ways to spend your time.
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#19
January 27, 2010, 06:52:48 AM
I liked the first book, when I read it in my early teens.

I usually hate the things I used to like.  Usually.

Jasper

#20
January 27, 2010, 06:58:23 AM
Huh?

Cain

#21
January 27, 2010, 10:01:22 AM
I haven't a clue, but they all have the correct names and number in their filenames, so its not really an issue.

Cramulus

#22
January 27, 2010, 04:55:21 PM
I enjoyed Wizard's First Rule. It was well written, even though there wasn't a single original idea in the whole book.

I love how every sci-fi or fantasy series at some point becomes a vehicle for the author's brand of perversion. For example, the Mord Sith.

Can you imagine if in the real world, Osama Bin Laden was protected by an order of red-leather wearing hot bitch interrogators? It just doesn't make any goddamn sense!


Despite my enjoyment of the first book, I couldn't keep reading Goodkind's attempt to generically rehash every sword & sorcery fantasy novel ever written.

Cain

#23
January 27, 2010, 05:16:01 PM
Fortunately, those red leather wearing dominatrixes interrogators are also included in the TV series.  Hurrah for author appeal/fan service.

Cramulus

#24
January 27, 2010, 05:22:17 PM
yeah when I heard they were making a TV series I was like, "oh sweet, more bdsm in the mainstream media!"







I don't recall this from the books, but I am not complaining:

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#25
January 27, 2010, 05:23:41 PM
Top pic, did they steal the backdrop from the old Dr Who episodes?

Also, the chicks in leather need less leather.  I'm thinking red leather bikinis.
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#26
January 27, 2010, 06:08:38 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on January 27, 2010, 05:22:17 PM
I don't recall this from the books, but I am not complaining:


There were indeed two lesbian Mord Sith in the books. One of them died of the plague.

Reginald Ret

#27
January 27, 2010, 08:50:40 PM
Red leather not bloodcaked enough.
Lord Byron: "Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."

Nigel saying the wisest words ever uttered: "It's just a suffix."

"The worst forum ever" "The most mediocre forum on the internet" "The dumbest forum on the internet" "The most retarded forum on the internet" "The lamest forum on the internet" "The coolest forum on the internet"

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#28
January 28, 2010, 08:59:20 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on January 27, 2010, 04:55:21 PM
I enjoyed Wizard's First Rule. It was well written, even though there wasn't a single original idea in the whole book.

really? which author did the "hypnotize an 8-year old boy that is buried up to his head into believing he is drinking warm blueberry surprise sauce instead of hot molten lead pouring down his throat" theme originally, then?

it's probably on TVTropes, though.
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#29
January 29, 2010, 05:05:32 AM
That was Goodkind, if memory serves.

Isn't that awful?
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