Fantasy Buddy Reads discussion

Bill wrote: "Hellian!"

OMG she's a trainwreck. I've dated a few Hellian's in my life. Lucky to escape un-bobbited.

I'm laughing so hard right now! I haven't read all of malazan but a friend of mine told me I'm exactly like hellian.. So I must be a train wreck & a drubken sailor 😂😂😂

ahahha awesome topic!

definetely nursing a crush on lady envy rn, arista, kate daniels. for men, that would be a verra long list. a couole of them; coltaine *swoon*, anomander rake, cotillion, barrons from fever *I went trough the torture of reading 5 books of that series just for him!*, quick ben.

Bane and Shadow

I finally have one. Lady Merivale is, for those who have read Codex Alera, a younger non-psychotic version of Lady Aquitaine. Could not get enough of the mental boxing match between her and Red and innuendo galore.

Scott wrote: "Bane and Shadow

I finally have one. Lady Merivale is, for those who have read Codex Alera, a younger non-psychotic version of Lady Aquitaine. Could not get enough of the mental box..."

Sweet!! The comparison makes me want to read those even more...

Anomander Rake, fom Malazan.

My first crush was Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice and then later on Jamie Fraser from Outlander.

1. Why hasn't Tyrion Lannister made this list yet? Is it because his inclusion just so obvious? Is it because of his physical appearance as described in the books, i.e. his hotness quotient being limited to his heart and mind?
Or - MAJOR SPOILER FOR ASOIAF#3 - is it cuz of the whole (view spoiler)[ I tend to strangle my unfaithful gal when I'm at breaking point thing?
Also a moment please to just appreciate the way GRRM wrote that scene! (hide spoiler)]
Something must be wrong with me xcuz despite all those honkin' reasons...major Tyrion tingles!

2. Hey @Silvana, +1 on Jean Tannen. Brain+heart+brawn+swords+coffee+tells his friends stories of books he's read = what's not to love? If anything else bad, dark, or dirty happens to our Jean, Ima have words with Lynch. We don't want another long suffering FitzChivalry cluttering up the fantasy landscape.

3. Also, @Margret, I disagree with you, gal...Strider *cough* is too bloody perfect. Also can you imagine the aftermath of being with Aragorn? It would be all...like...uhhh my guy is away cleaning up all the spare orcs left behind after the fall of Mordor & mysteriously left unaccounted for by Tolkein....and I gotta be queen here all alone in The White City which ain't so bad but I relinquished immortality for Orc housekeeping?
I think Eowyn (view spoiler)[got lucky with that Faramir bloke. Ok should I even mark that as a spoiler? Everyone in the known world already gets that Eowyn ends up with Faramir, right? (hide spoiler)]

But by all means you go on rocking that Queenship, m'Lady. As the lowly Faramir's gal I'd have to bend the knee to ya + walk behind you carrying the train of your fabulous gowns at any and all Gondor state events+ Viggo Mortensen is way hot and if he stood in front of me my brain cells would be fried before I could say *Elessar*+don't forget you get Anduril forged from the shards of Narsil (because I can never just say Anduril alone) to keep for your very own.

Did I mention I have this thing for swords with cool names?
;-) ha!
Also I seem to have just uhhhh debated with myself. And defeated one of the Mes.
#TheWitlessWonderStrikesAgain

4. Not to mention my very 'unhealthy and prolly would end very badly' crush on Jorg Ancrath. Sigh. I appear to like them VERY flawed. Jean Tannen is my saving grace tho'.

Olivia wrote: "My first crush was Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice..."

Who gonna dispute that?
😍 swoons!
Haven't yet read Outlander tho'.

@Zaara- you know what? You just float this girls boat. I’m so glad you joined this group!

Ps. Did you know that my one and only sister is named Zara?

Thanks Margret. I'm loving it here too, it's such a refreshing change from other places cuz everyone is so CHILL! And yet we do get a lot of reading and book talk done.
Lucky day when I stumbled upon it during one of my aimless GR trawls.
Also you rock + no I didn't know xcuz I'm only just meeting ppl here and don't know much abt anyone yet. So...does the other Zara read fantasy? And is she here?

Edit: you "rock" is kinda vague so specifically I think you're a sport+you (and also that Mayim chick) have a great sense of comedic timing+you like dragons gal so that's major lift in my eyes.

Yes Zara reads fantasy, she’s a genius though so she spends a lot of her free time on smarty pants stuff, and she has beautiful rock hard abs so she probably is too busy doing planks or CrossFit or something too so she doesn’t read as much as us. But she did cuckold me into reading the Wheel of Time

I haven't been cuckolded yet! Sounds like quite an experience, all things told. But in 2018 I plan to get dirty with Malazan. Abs may get involved. I hear those books are very heavy lifting too.

So she made you watch her read Wheel of Time until you couldn't resist asking to read, too, and she said no?... How long did this go on for?

Well this thread just got all kinds of interesting!

I'm definitely more likely to have a man-crush, in terms of 'well he is pretty damn badass', than I am to pine over a female in a book. Cnaiür urs Skiötha in Bakker's books is probably my number one 'effing-badass' man-crush, with Kalam in Malazan being a close second.

Seán wrote: "Well this thread just got all kinds of interesting!

I'm definitely more likely to have a man-crush, in terms of 'well he is pretty damn badass', than I am to pine over a female in a book. Cnaiür u..."

I agree with your premise and would say just bad ass character in general notwithstanding gender. Kalam is the bomb as is Dancer. Royce from Riyria, Arya ASOIAF......

Seán wrote: " Cnaiür urs Skiötha in Bakker's books ..."

Sounds like I would definitely need to make a character chart for that series.

Yea... I kind of want to catch up on Game of Thrones season 4/5-7 for the Arya storyline alone... I haven't read the books...

@Scott: Oh yeah, gender notwithstanding. It would be unfair not to mention Laseen here as well.

@Veronica: Yeah, he definitely likes to through in some unnecessarily complicated names every now and then, but it's not too bad really. I mean Cnauir is supposed to be pronounced Nay-ur, but he's always just going to be C'nair in my head.

Yea... that's the thing about almost exclusively listening to audiobooks these days... I don't have to figure out how to pronounce things anymore, or remember... but it makes talking about the book harder since I don't KNOW how their names are spelled as a result... just how they sound...

@Sean - Yeah, lol, I have names like that in my head too...names that I unknowingly mispronounced but could never shake even after hearing the correct pronunciation.

@Iain - Unless the audiobook narrator is the one who mispronounces the name. That's happened to me a few times where the narrator said it one way but then I heard the narrator say it another way. And of course, the author would be right.

Aaagh autocorrect! Convinced!!! She convinced me!! Haha

Margret wrote: "Aaagh autocorrect! Convinced!!! She convinced me!! Haha"

Now that is just a superb autocorrect right there :D

LOL, I was wondering how cuckold made sense in that sentence.

I'm more worried that it made perfect sense to me... :p

Margret is all about cuckolding.

I assumed she meant what she said lol... I was just curious for more details...

@Veronica: one of those narrators should be author I take it... and not just the narrator pronouncing the name differently throughout the book...

See and I had went back after saying tricked because I thought that would discourage people from the series

Cuckold all you want, Margaret. We won't judge. ;-)

Margret wrote: "Aaagh autocorrect! Convinced!!! She convinced me!! Haha"

Veronica wrote: "LOL, I was wondering how cuckold made sense in that sentence."

Seán wrote: "I'm more worried that it made perfect sense to me... :p"

Mha! I'm slow, I never even thought of auto. Xcuz after all this is the thread of Bookish Affairs, ergo a little cuckolding is to be expected.
Naaaawww I just assumed the TrashBot had taken over and was self-replicating across threads and memes like a spreading teastain. It's been known to happen before, which is why we need cyberpatrol, i.e. HIM:



@Sean, I think John Connor and James (Titanic *urk* Cameron) mighta neglected to name this guy. Do you think we can call him Cnaiür urs Skiötha? Do you reckon he's badass enough? A bit creaky and old-school perhaps but we have to cater to the Ancient Ones in our audience. Besides, doesn't Cnaiür look like he just belongs on the TT thread?
:-D

Margret wrote: "See and I had went back after saying tricked because I thought that would discourage people from the series"

Tricks are just right for October, Marge. Me I prefer the treats. Ergo bring on the cuckolding!
Cnaiür oyeiii oiiiii

Lol! You crack me up

Well all of this cuckolding has made me work up quite the appetite today so I made sure I got the delicious breakfast sandwich with the extra hashbrown patty as well (even though there’s a hashbrown in the sandwich)

It was an epic autocorrect Margret. I can't wait for the Masked Mod Menace to strike again with new group names a la Cuckold, although now I've said it I'm guessing I've killed it.
Bwaaaa!

This time the folder just changes to the Team Reading Cuckpetition...

Margret wrote: "Well all of this cuckolding has made me work up quite the appetite today so I made sure I got the delicious breakfast sandwich with the extra hashbrown patty as well (even though there’s a hashbrow..."

I'm eating an apple right now. I don't know why. It's 2AM here in Melly. And now I'm thinking of hashbrowns. Oh well Good Morrow, Queen of Gondor. May thy hash be well-crisped and thy bread as soft as a maiden's uhhh do I really wanna finish this sentence and having done so, can I still face bread in the morning?
Blush. There! A maiden's blush.
I'm evil. Evil. And I appear to have terrified Sean into silence. And on that note gnite!

Iain wrote: "This time the folder just changes to the Team Reading Cuckpetition..."

Ok now I have snorted apple mush all over my couch. Damn you I-yay-n.

Melbourne?... sometimes I swear half of Goodreads lives in Australia... or maybe just half the people in the handful of groups I'm in...

I'm just visiting. It's gonna be a long visit tho. Like 15 Os long. Gnite mate.

How often are you using this word that autocorrect would even assume that it's a feasible option haha?

^^ That's the one thing I forget until other people bring it up... autocorrect skews towards words you use often... it learns from your previous conversations...

Of course, I hate how sometimes it takes a shorter word and assumes you meant a longer word that contains that word, and hitting space fills in unnecessary letters you then have to erase, so I disabled autocorrect and word suggestions years ago... I just check for misspellings at the end and click the ones I need to fix and the popup gives me options...

I don’t know! My dirty slang is much more direct than that! But I’m definitely going to add it into my list now! And I’m not convinced on the autocorrect algorithms, I still seem to do an inordinate amount of ducking.

@Zaara. You’re visiting? And still awake? So this means you’re drunk then doesn’t it.

I’m so boring, any time I’m up at the wee hours it’s because I’m stuck at work in the midst of an overtired delerium.

Nah. Sober Me unfortunately. Although a lotta ppl make that redaction from my average ditz to sense ratio.
Did I just trashtalk myself? Bwaaak! *Self Goal*

And you're not boring. You're just right. I should be sleeping or working or drunk. Unfortunately, I'm none of those things right now.

Nobody ever knows when I'm staying awake late... I work nights, so I'm generally awake 8pm to noonish... staying up late just means I'm talking a lot when conversations really start flying around here in the afternoons...

I work nights too Iain! I feel the nights camaraderie! What do you do for a living?

I stock shelves at a Sam's Club... really flexing that computer science degree (at least it's paid off finally... and I get a month of Paid Time Off)...

Overnights is about the only way to get full-time and benefits from retail these days as an hourly employee... from what I've seen anyway...

Living on the fringes of society. My Dad waited forever for his career job in forestry to come as well and had to rely on his plumbing trade. Hopefully yours comes soon!

I have a harder time with nights now that I’m a parent and in my 30’s. I kind of short circuited when I was logging meds on the computer the other night and kept falling asleep and typing in the wrong med even though in my head I was typing the other.

I understand that... typos make very little sense these days... for awhile when I was younger and didn't learn my keyboarding skills like I should in computers class there was an excuse... but by now I've gotten so much practice keyboard typing that I've learned to type that way and THINK I'm typing correctly when something weird happens sometimes... then I double-check before posting and am like "what are my fingers doing?"

I'm not sure there's much hope for me at this point on computer science... a) I'm rusty and b) programming has shifted so much the past decade that I need to learn a whole slew of new programming languages to be useful...