Quote from: mhensley;1079790They are quite fine with literal communists though. :rolleyes:

  There is something curious going on in the new Worlds United sourcebook for Mythras. According to the preview, the USSR is one of the big villains, but apparently Stalin turned it from communism to a "hyper-capitalist plutocracy."

Quote from: mhensley;1079791His books are still better than Ed Greenwood's.

What, you don't like Big Ed's pervy porn fantasies?

Quote from: Doom;1078697And Wolfe is ridiculously good, they'll be studying that guy a century from now.

Which Gene Wolfe books do (any of) you recommend?

Quote from: mhensley;1079791His books are still better than Ed Greenwood's.

Maybe? I have to say, Greenwood was a better world-builder.

Quote from: Spinachcat;1079878Which Gene Wolfe books do (any of) you recommend?

The Book of the New Sun is his "LOTR", as it were. But my favorite is Soldier of the Mist and its sequels.

I quite enjoyed the Gord the Rogue novels in my youth.

Quote from: kythri;1079823What, you don't like Big Ed's pervy porn fantasies?

I think I would respected him more if he just wrote actual porn.

Quote from: Warboss Squee;1080033I think I would respected him more if he just wrote actual porn.

Elminster just showed up with a pizza and Mystra has no gold to pay him...

Quote from: HappyDaze;1080037Elminster just showed up with a pizza and Mystra has no gold to pay him...

Pretty sure that happened in chapter 11.

Elminster: The Making of a Mage is awesome. I know it's a cliche to say so but that book really is so bad it's good. I laughed out loud many times when reading it. 5/5 would read again.

Sadly the rest of the series is just awful, even if the books are full of chicks with malfunctioning wardrobes.

My take on the whole Zak S thing is, he is a weirdo, and always has been.
Not that there is anything wrong with being a weirdo, but Zak is a special level.
Case in point, my first exposure to Zak was an episode of Attack of the Show, back when it was on. One of the regulars of the show would go to the Adult Video Expo in Vagas, and one of the things he did there was show a DVD extra from a movie that Zak and his, at the time, girlfriend Mandy Morbid, Hospital!
Apparently during the filming of the video, (which is set in an old time abandoned asylum) the two of them learned about tripanning, which if you don't know, is the practice of drilling a hole in the patient's skull to 'release the evil spirits that cause madness'.
(Some of you may see where this is going)
Zak and Mandy, being into the body modification scene, exclaimed in the DVD extra that this sounded interesting so they were going to try it. They had a Black and Decker drill...  and a watermelon. They, wisely, decided that they were going to test how this was going to work out on the watermelon before either of them got a cordless drill to the head.
The watermelon, as you might imagine, exploded, and unleashed its sticky contents all over the two of them, the drill, and he patio they were filming on.  They both expressed disappointment in the failure of the test.

So, anytime I read anything from either of the 2, I take it with a grain of salt, and think, "do I really want to take the word of someone who wanted to use an off the shelf cordless drill to drill a hole in their skull at face value?"
I advise doing the same.

Quote from: remial;1082306So, anytime I read anything from either of the 2, I take it with a grain of salt, and think, "do I really want to take the word of someone who wanted to use an off the shelf cordless drill to drill a hole in their skull at face value?"
I advise doing the same.

Too bad this forum doesn't have a Like function.

JG

Quote from: James Gillen;1082534Too bad this forum doesn't have a Like function.

JG

It used to have such a feature, but too many people bitched about like the losers they are.  Mainly because they got down voted.

Quote from: Zalman;1079960The Book of the New Sun is his "LOTR", as it were. But my favorite is Soldier of the Mist and its sequels.

Excellent! Thank you!

Quote from: Morblot;1080750Elminster: The Making of a Mage is awesome. I know it's a cliche to say so but that book really is so bad it's good. I laughed out loud many times when reading it. 5/5 would read again.

Sadly the rest of the series is just awful, even if the books are full of chicks with malfunctioning wardrobes.

He also tried his hand at writing a novel for Pathfinder. Not the worsr fantasy ever yet close imo. The mary and gary stu trademark main characters being able to do everything just ruins the novel.