Here, tooDesert_Storm wrote:ASOIAF 5.
Like it a lot

Here, tooDesert_Storm wrote:ASOIAF 5.
Same thing happened to me exactly a year ago. Wheel of Time has been my no. 1 song ever since I heard it so I just couldn't let it go and had to start reading it. I finished the 13th book in January and it took me roughly 10 months, but I have to say that it was worth the time. So ... Turn the Wheel of Time.Agea wrote:The Shadow Rising
4th book of The Wheel of Time.
Its a great book. It has so many cultures so many characters. Rest in peace Robert Jordan. I wish I could meet him.
I started to read Wheel of time because of Hansi and the wheel of time song.
Please, god, tell me that that's an obscene exaggerationGreenAjah wrote:Just finished my hundredth re-read of The Eye of the World
Check out my photography at Steemphoto.comHansi 24-09-2010 wrote:It's always good to be back in the United States Of The Netherlands
I would pronounce it [frɛmən] personally. Like Yemen. But I could be wrong.Midnight wrote:Dune by Frank Herbert.
A great book so far, however, I am having some trouble with the pronunciation of several names.
For instance Fremen. I read it as [fremən] but in Traveler in Time Hansi pronounces it as freeman.
Or Bene Gesserit but I think I may have figured that out already
Anyway, a book worth reading.
Yea, that is what I thought. I just don't really understand these pronunciation symbolsLed Guardian wrote:I would pronounce it [frɛmən] personally. Like Yemen. But I could be wrong.Midnight wrote:Dune by Frank Herbert.
A great book so far, however, I am having some trouble with the pronunciation of several names.
For instance Fremen. I read it as [fremən] but in Traveler in Time Hansi pronounces it as freeman.
Or Bene Gesserit but I think I may have figured that out already
Anyway, a book worth reading.
You're missing the joys of IPA.Midnight wrote:Yea, that is what I thought. I just don't really understand these pronunciation symbolsLed Guardian wrote:I would pronounce it [frɛmən] personally. Like Yemen. But I could be wrong.Midnight wrote:Dune by Frank Herbert.
A great book so far, however, I am having some trouble with the pronunciation of several names.
For instance Fremen. I read it as [fremən] but in Traveler in Time Hansi pronounces it as freeman.
Or Bene Gesserit but I think I may have figured that out already
Anyway, a book worth reading.
Well, thanks for the enlightenment I can die in piece nowLed Guardian wrote:...
Hansi is decent at it. His singing accent is much better now than it used to be. There are the infamous ones like "eye-ron hill" and "whylderness" though. "Torin" is another. He uses some strange grammatical constructions still. Like "I have thought that this will never end" where he mixes verb tenses. Although I'm okay with that one, because This Would Never End is not as cool of a song title. One of the things I notice the most is his use of contractions, things like "I've to." Saying "I've to leave" instead of "I have to leave" is not really incorrect, per se, it's just not something I've ever heard any native speaker say.Midnight wrote:Well, thanks for the enlightenment I can die in piece nowLed Guardian wrote:...![]()
Anyway, while we're at it, I've always wondered how you native English speakers perceive songs that are sung by non-native English speakers - like BG. Can you hear the differences here or you find it quite natural? Because if I imagine I'd be listening to, let's say, a Chinese singing in my language I'd probably get cancer or something.
And I hope there are at least some native English speakers here
wade-newb wrote:It was just me, Blind Guardian, and a whole lotta awkward D:
Blind Guardian wrote:A fairly small but absolutely bravehearted crowd in Tempe has made that a night remember. Marcus(on behalf of the band) says: Thank you:-)
They really do call him that? Sweet Jesus, they have gone mad. It's one of the worst books I've ever read. They really dare to compare him with Tolkien? Seriously that Martin doesn't even know how to write a good story, but then, if people are complaining about the Hobbit being too unrealistic it's no wonder they like that stuff being oh so realistic.Baby_Kürsch wrote:A Storm of Swords by George R R Martin
A song of Iced and Fire is probably now one of my favorite series Ive ever read. I can understand why the critics are calling him the next Tolkien.
!!!arenamaster wrote:The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
I must admit that, while The Name of the Wind quickly became one of favorites, in particular due to the excellent prose, likeable characters and a great sense of both humour and tragedy, The Wise Man's Fear suffers a lot from middle-book syndrom, as in it seems to lead nowhere and, which is quite a bit worse in my mind, manages to make Kvothe come across as less and less interesting and more and more a total mary-sue-ish superhuman who is just better at everything than anyone else. In particular the two episodes with the ninjas and the fairy sex goddess seemed a) superfluous and b) just there to show how amazing, interesting and great Kvothe is. I liked him better when he was just a smart guy trying to get by.Little Dragon wrote:The stories about Kvothe are indeed quite entertaining.
ME TOO!Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age.
You know, a lot of people level the Mary Sue criticism, and I've just never agreed with it. He's brilliant and good at basically everything, yes. But honestly, that's the point. The whole thing is a hero deconstruction. The story is about his meteoric rise to notoriety and power. But as the reader, you already know that he completely failed in the end, in some horribly tragic way. The Chandrian are obviously still around (at least that's heavily implied), and he's somehow responsible for a bunch of monsters being set loose in the world, plus a war. He's living in misery and losing his own self-identity. All that despite his abilities. I don't think the story would work as well if he weren't great at everything, because the point is that his brilliance is not sufficient to save him from his human faults. What makes him an interesting character isn't his skill, it's his personality and his flaws as a person. That's what distinguishes him from a Mary Sue. He's heavily flawed in his person, and in his interactions with people, and like all tragic heroes these flaws lead to his destruction, in spite of his almost superhuman abilities. A traditional Mary Sue isn't just good at things, they also are unassailable in character is some fashion, unable to make mistakes. Everything always works out as they desire. That is not the case with Kvothe.t.a.j. wrote:I must admit that, while The Name of the Wind quickly became one of favorites, in particular due to the excellent prose, likeable characters and a great sense of both humour and tragedy, The Wise Man's Fear suffers a lot from middle-book syndrom, as in it seems to lead nowhere and, which is quite a bit worse in my mind, manages to make Kvothe come across as less and less interesting and more and more a total mary-sue-ish superhuman who is just better at everything than anyone else. In particular the two episodes with the ninjas and the fairy sex goddess seemed a) superfluous and b) just there to show how amazing, interesting and great Kvothe is. I liked him better when he was just a smart guy trying to get by.Little Dragon wrote:The stories about Kvothe are indeed quite entertaining.
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