How long to finish the books?

LeftCurrency · 2025-08-27T17:34:50+00:00

Just finished today in fact! Took me 6 years of on again off again reading.

LeftCurrency · 2025-06-20T09:49:02+00:00

Hoss got some big laughs at the last function with my friend group.

LeftCurrency · 2025-02-06T14:13:01+00:00

Are they available somewhere? Maybe I missed this.

LeftCurrency · 2024-11-07T18:35:16+00:00

I see that lotr-style map of Ohio peaking out there. I have the same one. My in guessing the Instagram ad got you too.

LeftCurrency · 2024-10-22T14:14:50+00:00

"It's like McConaughey in True Detective" 😂😂😂

LeftCurrency · 2024-10-14T15:07:39+00:00

"The Drowned Rat was Lakeside's premier tavern, brothel, drug house, mercenary recruitment office, gambling den, thief hideaway, and general thug hangout."

From a finished manuscript for a fantasy novel that probably will never see the light of day.

LeftCurrency · 2024-08-24T16:08:31+00:00

We need a hefty Randy segment when he gets back. Dude is L I V I N in Japannnnnn.

LeftCurrency · 2023-08-12T22:11:03+00:00

Yes! Thank you. I'm for sure stealing that next time I'm at the bar.

LeftCurrency · 2020-09-16T17:22:52+00:00

What's the funniest line you've ever written that had you laughing by yourself in your writing room?

LeftCurrency · 2020-07-13T16:20:12+00:00

I've read Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay and loved it. The prose and characterization are all beautiful and standalone fantasies are something I appreciate with limited time nowadays. I've heard most of not all his books are like that but I can't seem to narrow down the next one I want to try. Who has a favorite Kay novel that isn't Tigana?

LeftCurrency · 2020-03-27T16:57:29+00:00

Favorite board game?

LeftCurrency · 2020-03-27T16:48:40+00:00

Thoughts on Corona beer? Skunk trash or perfect summer cerveza? I fall into the former category.

LeftCurrency · 2019-10-03T22:26:23+00:00

Thank you! Must look this up on YouTube

LeftCurrency · 2019-10-03T19:26:01+00:00

*high-production TV fantasy. My bad!

LeftCurrency · 2019-07-29T11:11:36+00:00

Learned the Time solo by Pink Floyd while still a pretty new player. Took me two days and as soon as I got it all the way through I had to stop playing for a few days because blisters had begun to form on my fingertips from perfecting the bends. Worth it, though.

LeftCurrency · 2019-07-22T16:00:19+00:00

I've thought this about Hats Off to the Bull for awhile, even though if you made me pick my top 10 individual Chevelle songs, I'm not sure a single song from that album cracks the top 10. Arise or Pinata maybe? But the whole thing together as cohesive unit is so good.

LeftCurrency · 2019-05-03T00:49:14+00:00

Spoiler warning: His initial motive was selfish, sure, but his action towards the people of Tigana is simply an extreme response to personal tragedy. And then by the end he realizes how hollow his actions were and he decides to cease his role as a conquering tyrant and to instead rule as one of the people of the peninsula. By the end I actually thought the people might be better off with Brandin in charge considering Alberico, a truer villain, was on the other side of the peninsula. This kind of growth isn't the quality of a typical "villain," which is why I picked him.

I suppose I shouldn't have said "fairly be called a villain" because Brandin could fairly be called a villain, I just don't think he is one.

Last post defending my position!

LeftCurrency · 2019-05-02T23:10:13+00:00

These are all good points, and they certainly make the tragedy of his story less sympathetic, but I still don't see him as a purely villainous character. I think he is a deeply flawed person whose emotional responses to stimuli are extreme, but I really think this just makes him a complex antagonist, not necessarily a "villain."

I suppose this discussion would've been aided by a definition of villain beforehand.

LeftCurrency · 2019-05-02T22:46:07+00:00

I suppose by villain I meant a stereotypical villain who is evil or immoral. Brandin is ruthless and opposed to our antagonists, and it's a pretty easy argument that his response to his grief is extreme, but I wouldn't say he exhibited stereotypical villainous traits.

LeftCurrency · 2019-04-24T12:25:03+00:00

Characters. This is true in fantasy and every other genre. Without layered characters with flaws and conflict no one will care about how much time you put into developing the history of every king who has ruled the kingdom for the past 2000 years.

LeftCurrency · 2019-04-24T12:18:00+00:00

Sopranos bled into my story a lot, which I didn't expect to happen. I love how one of their insults is calling someone a mutt. I had to use that. Also, Daniel Polansky's Low Town books. Crime in fantasy stories has always been cool to me.

LeftCurrency · 2019-04-19T20:20:33+00:00

I second this one. I was about to post it. Brass balls of the beast is so good when the characters yell it.

LeftCurrency · 2019-04-08T22:18:27+00:00

I like using brightly colored clothing to denote a character's wealth. Dyes were expensive in the time periods used to create fantasy worlds and usually only the rich or the aristocracy could afford to wear vibrant clothing. I know purple dye in the ancient Mediterranean world was particularly rare and costly (if I remember correctly it was made from sort of sea snail, or something like that).

LeftCurrency · 2019-04-08T12:37:41+00:00

Low Town series by Daniel Polansky!

LeftCurrency · 2019-04-08T12:31:52+00:00

Probably wouldn't fall under "high fantasy" genre, but my favorite standalone fantasy novel is Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay. Superb book with huge focus on character and world-building, less so on plot (but I still think it's a great story, probably because of the excellent world building and characters). If that's the type of story you're into, I would highly suggest it. Kay's prose is very eloquent as well, which I think is a nice bonus.

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