<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=310217.msg15115900#msg15115900">Quote from: TinCanTalos on 12-10-2019, 07:30:50</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Nope. This cannot stand. Honor dictates we have a deathmatch over an active volcano in response to your collective incorrect remarks. En Garde!<br/><br/>Although I don't think I'm as much of a fan as Wolfling, but that's probably just due to me being... easily... dist..rac...ted... [Falls into a vat of Swamp Thing, Courtney Crumrin, and Fables comics].<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Terrible...oh so damned terrible.  And yet...somehow...I understand this as well.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=310217.msg15115901#msg15115901">Quote from: Cold Heritage on 12-10-2019, 07:33:16</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Swamp Thing? He is amazing.<br/><br/>*video snippage*<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I just can't *blinks*<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=310217.msg15115903#msg15115903">Quote from: BlackStone on 12-10-2019, 07:34:11</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">They were to me as well.  Do not get me started on how much I loathed William Faulkner.  Oh I can appreciate his genies now in how he organized and wrote Sound and Fury, but still hate him.  Just like Terry Goodwind, Anne McCaffrey, Kevin Anderson, Anne Bishop.  Good sci-fi writers, champions and pioneers really, but really can't read them<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>*hides half of my first three book shelves*<br/><br/>*whistles*<br/><br/>So, how 'bout those uh Jets?<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=310217.msg15115907#msg15115907">Quote from: Crensler on 12-10-2019, 07:36:00</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Sorry, I just didn't enjoy any of the required reading they made us do.  Maybe because it was "required"?  I dunno &gt;w&gt;<br/><br/>Speaking of scifi, there was one wrote the Honor Harrington series.  Good stuff, when it didn't get bogged in the minutia of its tech or overly describing a scene.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Now, see the Honor series was one I couldn't get into...And I tried. I figured if I could wade into (and out of) Neal Stephenson's ReamDe and SevenEves (Plus SnowCrash and The Diamond Age) I could handle anything! I was wrong. *sighs*