Recommendations?

CyganAngel · Senior Member

Recommendations?

gappiee · Guru

hmmm i think i have mentioned everything i would recommend in the what do you read topic already =/ but ill let you people know if i find something good =)

LadyTwilight · Senior Member

One of my favorite book series is the Black Jewels Trillogy by Anne Bishop. Fantasy core drenched in drama, and black, grey, and white morality.
It's NC-17 and has gore and sexual content, but doesn't ever descend into porn or gorn. It seems to at peak have sex in it because the characters in it have sex, if that makes sense, which has sort of shaped my own characters and writing, as well as how I view literary sex in general, so it's a rather formative book for me!

As a transgirl, reading Julia Serano's Whipping Girl was quite the adventure, and I gained someone to admire! It's very sharply written in both the cerebral and critical senses.

I've been seriously recommended Stranger in a Strange Land (by Robert Heinlein) by my friend, but I haven't touched it yet.

CyganAngel · Senior Member

Ah, the Black Jewels Trilogy. I remember it fondly.

Recommended by me, too.

LadyTwilight · Senior Member

!

Someone else who's not only heard of it but read it?

Surreal and Saetan ftw.

CyganAngel · Senior Member

I like Jaenelle, personally.

LadyTwilight · Senior Member

Cradle!

CyganAngel · Senior Member

That game would be freakin' hard.

LadyTwilight · Senior Member

I think that's the point.

CyganAngel · Senior Member

Nah, couldn't be.

(This forum needs a sarcasm button.)

I just couldn't thik of a good response to that, so I went with the first thing I could think of.

{Although I kinda wanna learn how to play :P }

LadyTwilight · Senior Member

I'm trying to stave off the can't think of good response thing too so maybe we're just low on steam/coal (I'm aware they're linked powers)/3l3ctr!c!ty/et cetera.

(I wonder if I could make a variation that ends in some sort of 'draw' so NEITHER player wins, just because I'm spiteful like that)

CyganAngel · Senior Member

We should totally figure out the rules, make the game, then force people to play it.

Ingenious!

LadyTwilight · Senior Member

But since it's /cradle/, I get the feeling that just by making the rules we've made variations instead of the actual game...

CyganAngel · Senior Member

True.

Screw the rules, then! We'll just make the game, then force people to play without telling them there are no rules! They'll be left wondering if what they're about to do is even legal by the game...

LadyTwilight · Senior Member

That sounds like a really really fun game. I'd play it. I'd play it with you! *additional vaguely flirtful comment oh god I'm so tired*

CyganAngel · Senior Member

We could play two-against-two! We'd crush anyone who dared play against us!

Then along comes someone else who's read the book, and crushes us in turn.

Dammit, must I lose even in my imagine spots?

{Also, if you're tired, you should go to bed. We want you awake and alert

LadyTwilight · Senior Member

I wouldn't mind losing to someone who's also read it but I sure wouldn't make it easy!

"Dammit, must I lose even in my imagine spots?"

That reminds me of how somehow, one sleepless night, my thoughts went from magic cards, to [something in the middle] to the chinese action movie Hero (Jet Li), which features one duel where both combatants fight out the battle in their minds first, which made me think "Only fools win every battle inside their head," which made me think of an upcoming magic tournament and made me realize "Oh crud, I'll probably lose."

(But if I go to sleep I can't post on the forums anymore...)

-- Edited by LadyTwilight on Friday 19th of November 2010 03:15:44 AM

CyganAngel · Senior Member

That reminds me of how somehow, one sleepless night, my thoughts went from magic cards, to [something in the middle] to the chinese action movie Hero (Jet Li), which features one duel where both combatants fight out the battle in their minds first, which made me think "Only fools win every battle inside their head," which made me think of an upcoming magic tournament and made me realize "Oh crud, I'll probably lose."

I want to know what that step in the middle was.

Also, are you talking about Magic: the Gathering, or a different Magic? Because I played a Gathering tournament once.

I lost in the second round.

Dammit.

LadyTwilight · Senior Member

Y'know, I really want to know too. It's the thing I still can't grasp from that train of thought and I'm usually pretty good about tracking those.

Yes, MTG. Your tournament was elimination? The ones I go to are usually 'fight in each round, points are tallied up in the end'. At the one in question, I was taking a sort of personalized type of deck, and only won the first of four rounds--lost all my other games :(

If you want to get into/learn again, I can play over text!

CyganAngel · Senior Member

Yeah, my tournament was elimination. I prefer them.

I had my personalized deck with me. I had my awesome little black slug crawler-type creature out- he's like a 6/6 swampwalker, or something ridiculous like that- in the first game, nd I annihilated my opponent. In the second round, I just kept drawing islands and swamps. I didn't get a single creature out 'til the fifth round!

How would you play over text?

LadyTwilight · Senior Member

Um, it mostly has a lot to do with instant messages like AIM or IRC, and trusting the opp not to cheat, but since I mostly play just friends this way it's no problem. The one I brought was based around http://magiccards.info/zen/en/143.html and these with these as ammunition. The normal Ascension deck doesn't bother with land destruction, but it's my own personalized creation.

CyganAngel · Senior Member

Nice.

Mine's mainly a blue/black deck, with rgues, faeries and merfolk.

I rely on swampwalk and islandwalk if facing against a similar opponent. Otherwise, I rely on cards like Protective Bubble (An enchant card that makes the target unblockable, and gives them shroud) and cards like Notorious Throng.

LadyTwilight · Senior Member

I like Whispersilk Cloak, it costs a little more (it's an equipment artifact granting unblockable and shroud, (3) to drop and (2) to equip), but goes a little farther in case of instants or swapping creatures to attack with!

CyganAngel · Senior Member

Tsk tsk.

I play Protective Bubble and Notorious Throng together. I can usually deal 8 damage in a turn by sacrificing spell cards and such; at least some of that is by a rogue. Then I play NT for its' prowl cost, and get 8 1/1 black Faerie Rogue tokens with flying into play- Plus, I take an extra turn!

LadyTwilight · Senior Member

Dear god that's a lovely card I've never seen before. I have a monoblue fae deck that doesn't focus much in the way of rogues though.

CyganAngel · Senior Member

I love these cards so hard.

I'll see if I can find what deck it's from. Then you can sit down and start drooling at the awesomeness of my cards.

-- Edited by CyganAngel on Friday 19th of November 2010 03:48:52 AM

gappiee · Guru

O.O you guys soud like your really good at magic =O whats that game mentioned earlier?

CyganAngel · Senior Member

Cradle?

RAFO

gappiee · Guru

O.O what ?

CyganAngel · Senior Member

Read And Find Out.

gappiee · Guru

what should i read? that black jewels thing ?

CyganAngel · Senior Member

No, Harry Potter.

{Sneaky reccomendation, even though everybody has already read it}

Yeah, the Black Jewels.

gappiee · Guru

i might read it sometime .. I recently started a series called: "prince of nothing" Ihad 3 books of the series just standing on a shelve, so a couple of days ago i just picked it up and started..... seems like it could be pretty good, i have only read two chapters so far but it starts out quite interesting. =)

CyganAngel · Senior Member

I recently read a book called 'I am Number 4' or something.

It was terrible. The main character was a Mary Sue- he could trash a dozen humans with ease, he ws absurdly handsome, he had latent 'gifts' that just happened to be things like telekinesis and invisibility-, his girlfriend was a Mary Sue (everybody wanted her. Literally everyone), the plot was cliched and unoriginal, nd the book just plain sucked.

Two thumbs down.

gappiee · Guru

..... but you do recommend it ? =P

CyganAngel · Senior Member

NEVAR!

gappiee · Guru

just checking since the topic is called recommendations =P

ooh i started reading something pretty nice some time ago ..... ill put the title here if i find the book again ^^

CyganAngel · Senior Member

I'm recommending that you stay away from it.

gappiee · Guru

ooh good way of putting it =D

grrrrrrr!! stupid timer doh

Susanah · Master Member

I read 'Forfedrene' (The Ancestors) by Yngve Frøyen some time back, it is a teen book of plain awsomeness =D
....I'm not sure if it's translated into any languages (it's in Norwegian), but if you happen to stumble across it (and just mysteriously learn Norwegian in a poof), you should definitely read it =)

gappiee · Guru

hmmm seems unlikely that i will learn norwegian in a poof =/ altough i might be able to get the general story line if i try really hard .... page a day =P

Susanah · Master Member

Aww :(

gappiee · Guru

would be nice to be able to learn languages in a poof though =D

Susanah · Master Member

It would, wouldn't it? :)

gappiee · Guru

i could travel the world and speak with everyone =D

Susanah · Master Member

Yay, that would be fun =D

gappiee · Guru

it would! O.O i gotta find a wizard to magically let me know all languages........ hmmm where to look i doubt the wizard of oz is a reliable source to tell me where to find wizards =/