plushman In reply to UnknownsMan [2024-04-13 14:21:57 +0000 UTC]

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plushman In reply to gummy-gundam [2023-01-26 05:23:03 +0000 UTC]

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plushman In reply to Bakerdezign [2019-08-29 14:23:05 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, I appreciate it

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plushman In reply to Zachary-A-Valerian [2019-07-08 23:34:52 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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plushman In reply to MyeongKD [2019-01-08 01:12:18 +0000 UTC]

all g

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plushman In reply to jflaxman [2018-07-04 02:18:37 +0000 UTC]

Cheers

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plushman In reply to MarkAlexValdendorf [2018-07-03 14:03:36 +0000 UTC]

Cheers

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plushman In reply to Schuschinus [2018-02-27 09:23:45 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, glad you also enjoy the tasteless taste

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plushman In reply to RolfDBruehwiler [2017-09-15 16:09:38 +0000 UTC]

all good

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plushman In reply to King-Van [2016-08-11 09:02:06 +0000 UTC]

Cheers

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plushman In reply to PsykoHilly [2015-12-15 14:03:44 +0000 UTC]

Your welcome

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plushman In reply to zabdyr [2015-12-04 01:00:12 +0000 UTC]

No Problem, well deserved

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plushman In reply to bear48 [2015-11-26 23:45:54 +0000 UTC]

haha no problem thanks for the return

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plushman In reply to Bernardumaine [2015-09-11 23:50:41 +0000 UTC]

no probs

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plushman In reply to jflaxman [2015-08-10 05:42:55 +0000 UTC]

Cheers and no to Joe sorry, however what (book, series, starting point) would you recommend?

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jflaxman In reply to plushman [2015-08-10 08:27:00 +0000 UTC]

I'd recommend starting with The First Law trilogy (first book: The Blade Itself). It delivers a great mix of action, suspense, intrigue, and moral ambiguity - you won't get many clear distinctions between good and evil in this series! Abercrombie's next three books are standalone novels set in the same world. I didn't enjoy Best Served Cold or The Heroes quite as much, though they're both very readable. I thought Red Country was excellent and it wraps up a couple of plot threads left over from First Law.

I haven't read any of Abercrombie's recent Shattered Sea series. It's been billed as Young Adult but most of the reviews I've read suggest it still deals with mature themes.

Feel free to recommend others you've read, I'm always looking out for more!

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plushman In reply to jflaxman [2015-08-10 13:48:36 +0000 UTC]

thanks, I have been scraping the barrel of my known interests for books lately as I seem to be becoming unlucky in recent picks so I shall check it out. I am glad to read the no clear distinction of good vs evil as that is always a killer in my taste.

However best I can recommend from recent memory is a book I loved, mostly due to shock value, Its very short and quite old (1880's I think) 'Taras Bulba' by Nikolai Gogol. The book has been made into films but I wouldn't bother as they cannot contain the extreme racism and gore of which the book so casually hands out. In short a tale of a Cossack father who finally gets to take his sons on a military campaign against Poland which becomes a dramatic saga of mass murder, revenge, sacrifice and family betrayal. Gives great insight into the minds of the time, isn't GoodvEvil as almost every action is highly questionable, it's a history based fantasy.

All else I can recommend is perhaps
Alexey Pehov's Chronicles of Siala, its a bit Tolkien like which can be quite annoying however it defeats that later in by revealing the hidden layers of the fantasy universe's making to be quite creative and far deeper than the polarized good vs evil surface.

Also feel free for further reccomendations
 

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jflaxman In reply to plushman [2015-08-11 21:23:20 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the reply. I've read a bit of Gogol but haven't heard of Taras Bulba. I love stories that give us insight into other places, times and mindsets. I've enjoyed a lot of Eastern European/Russian work. Glukhovsky's Metro 2033 is a great post-apocalyptic novel and Klimov's Come and See is one of the best war films I've seen. 

I haven't heard of Pehov either, but I'll definitely look out for it as I'm not reading enough right now!

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plushman In reply to Lauryn-Lilith [2015-06-13 23:55:05 +0000 UTC]

Noprobs

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plushman In reply to Lavey1917 [2015-05-10 04:44:16 +0000 UTC]

no probs

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plushman In reply to Orphydian [2015-04-12 12:21:37 +0000 UTC]

Thats fine, thanks for the attention

(oh wow i forgot i did that, not much fantasy only the amount of axes and the up turned curve for throwing)
weird when you look at work that isn't that old and feel disappointed, i could have done that better

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Orphydian In reply to plushman [2015-04-12 13:20:43 +0000 UTC]

pls considering redoing it then 

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plushman In reply to Hunadin [2015-03-02 15:35:21 +0000 UTC]

no problem

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plushman In reply to Pajelder [2015-02-20 00:32:59 +0000 UTC]

well deserved

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