Recruiting Forum Football Talk IV

[OGbabyaviVol]

Folks, it’s Kentucky week. I hate they lost last night. Takes a little shine off the boat racin we’re gonna give them Saturday night.

I do not hate that they lost! I love it! It gives us a very slim outside chance to be second in the east.

 

[drvenner]

Best bargain buy ever. My aunt got me started reading by giving me a box of science fiction/fantasy books when I was 8. Read The Hobbit, LoTR and the Silmarillion all in a row and was hooked. She gave me Eye Of The World when I was 11 and I was blown away.

I remember being out of school for a week due to a broken humerus and I read The Shadow Rising and Fires Of Heaven during that week....good memories. I go back every few years and read the series over again. I really, really like Sanderson's Stormlight Archive right now and am really looking forward to book 5. Mistborn series also great and discovered Robin Hobb's Farseer books a couple of years ago....3 amazing trilogies by her. I really need Rothfuss to finish the Kingkiller trilogy. He has pulled a GRRM with waiting so long. I almost don't even care any more about the ending of the Song Of Fire And Ice series because of Martin's disdain for his readers. Pathetic that I started that series in 2000 and it still isn't finished.

Sanderson is my very favorite writer. He is an unbelievable world builder and I love his characters. He is so good.

 

[OGbabyaviVol]

Just wanted to drop in and tell everyone yet again that UK is the same ole UK on offense. One dimensional and when that run game ain’t going, they suck.

I wonder if Elijah will be good to go this week. We really need him in the middle of the Defense plugging it up. Our run defense is much better when he is in there.

 

[OGbabyaviVol]

Just wanted to drop in and tell everyone yet again that UK is the same ole UK on offense. One dimensional and when that run game ain’t going, they suck.

I wonder if Elijah will be good to go this week. We really need him in the middle of the Defense plugging it up. Our run defense is much better when he is in there.

 

[therickbol]

We are now officially 1 week away from Season 4 of Yellowstone. Watch UT crush UK on Saturday and watch Yellowstone on Sunday. Now THAT is a real weekend.

 

[jave36]

I’m a bit sporadic cause too much of the same thing will burn me out. So I hop around, fantasy, sci-fi, suspense/mystery, horror, and then general classics.

I don’t read much biography stuff or self help, but everything else is fair game.

Couple of the best I've listened to if you're struggling to pick a new one. Not necessarily the best books, but the audio performances are stellar:

First Law by Joe Abercrombie
Hyperion by Dan Simmons

If you really want to settle in and plod through one of the more challenging but most satisfying series ever, give Malazan a try. The first 2 will have you feeling more lost than satisfied, but if you stick with it, the payoff is incredible. The Audiobooks are pretty well done, but it's a commitment.

 

[gainesvol82]

It is extremely tempting because so many have told me the same thing, but I just can not and will not start another series until it is finished.

Hopefully Rothfuss does his job and finishes what he started and this becomes moot...I really do want to read it.

I'm going to let Sanderson get farther into his "Cosmere" and see how great he ties it all together before I start his books too, but from what I know of them, at least I think you can enjoy each of his series as standalone epics in his case.

Yes. Each of the Cosmere series are self contained and are usually only minimally connected by "world hopper" characters that pop up from time to time.

The Stormlight Archive is connecting more of the Cosmere because characters from other solar systems are interested in the investiture(magic) sources on the Rosharan planet. Each planetary system usually has 2 Shards of Adonalsium (16 people who became gods by destroying and splintering god). These Shards are usually opposing cosmic forces and some have killed others which has interesting effects on the solar systems they are in. Roshar had 2 Shards until Odium arrived. He destroys other Shards when he can and is probably the overarching bad guy of the entire Cosmere with lots of lesser ones in each system.

Sanderson's universe is like the MCU meets dark fantasy meets high fantasy meets science fiction/steampunk. It's freaking amazing and Sanderson consistently cranks out good to great series. From your descriptions of what you like, the first Mistborn trilogy and especially Stormlight would blow you away. Elantris, Warbreaker, White Sand(novel version) and second Mistborn trilogy are also good.

 

[jave36]

I hate audio books. Every character ends up having the narrator's voice in my head and I end up not being able to visualize anything/anyone and I don't get connected to the story. It's like I'm listening to a podcast of someone reading a book.

Lots of people love them though. To each their own.

It all depends on the narrator. I agree with you sometimes, but if the narrator is good, his/her voice is way better than what you could have come up with on your own. First Law is a book that I thought was pretty lackluster until I switched to audio. Then it became one of my favorites.

 

[butchna]

Just wanted to drop in and tell everyone yet again that UK is the same ole UK on offense. One dimensional and when that run game ain’t going, they suck.

If you’re selling that this is happening to a team that hired a totally inexperienced OC to implement a polar opposite scheme to what they had been running for almost a decade? I ain’t buying.

 

[scienceteaching_vol]

Couple of the best I've listened to if you're struggling to pick a new one. Not necessarily the best books, but the audio performances are stellar:

First Law by Joe Abercrombie
Hyperion by Dan Simmons

If you really want to settle in and plod through one of the more challenging but most satisfying series ever, give Malazan a try. The first 2 will have you feeling more lost than satisfied, but if you stick with it, the payoff is incredible. The Audiobooks are pretty well done, but it's a commitment.

Commitment is an understatement. Took me a solid year to finish that series and that was basically reading one book after the other. I did have a job and a new baby but still... I will say I did enjoy it but it drove me nuts how the next book in the series would go 150 pages before I even knew how it connected to the last book. You'd get attached to characters and then the next book would be about someone completely different.

 

[scienceteaching_vol]

Couple of the best I've listened to if you're struggling to pick a new one. Not necessarily the best books, but the audio performances are stellar:

First Law by Joe Abercrombie
Hyperion by Dan Simmons

If you really want to settle in and plod through one of the more challenging but most satisfying series ever, give Malazan a try. The first 2 will have you feeling more lost than satisfied, but if you stick with it, the payoff is incredible. The Audiobooks are pretty well done, but it's a commitment.

Commitment is an understatement. Took me a solid year to finish that series and that was basically reading one book after the other. I did have a job and a new baby but I still... I will say I did enjoy it drove me nuts how the next book in the series would go 150 pages before I even knew how it connected to the last book. You'd get attached to characters and then the next book would be about someone completely different.

 

[Ten_Titans]

I hate audio books. Every character ends up having the narrator's voice in my head and I end up not being able to visualize anything/anyone and I don't get connected to the story. It's like I'm listening to a podcast of someone reading a book.

Lots of people love them though. To each their own.

But don't all the characters end up with your voice if you read it in your own head? Or do you assign them different voices in your head? lol

 

[Ten_Titans]

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[Jackcrevol]

Commitment is an understatement. Took me a solid year to finish that series and that was basically reading one book after the other. I did have a job and a new baby but still... I will say I did enjoy it but it drove me nuts how the next book in the series would go 150 pages before I even knew how it connected to the last book. You'd get attached to characters and then the next book would be about someone completely different.

Commitment is an understatement. Took me a solid year to finish that series and that was basically reading one book after the other. I did have a job and a new baby but I still... I will say I did enjoy it drove me nuts how the next book in the series would go 150 pages before I even knew how it connected to the last book. You'd get attached to characters and then the next book would be about someone completely different.

You can say that again.

 

[jave36]

Commitment is an understatement. Took me a solid year to finish that series and that was basically reading one book after the other. I did have a job and a new baby but still... I will say I did enjoy it but it drove me nuts how the next book in the series would go 150 pages before I even knew how it connected to the last book. You'd get attached to characters and then the next book would be about someone completely different.

It alllll comes together though, and man some of the payoffs were so amazing. It's a chore sometimes though for sure.

 

[Jackcrevol]

I wonder if Elijah will be good to go this week. We really need him in the middle of the Defense plugging it up. Our run defense is much better when he is in there.

I wonder if Elijah will be good to go this week. We really need him in the middle of the Defense plugging it up. Our run defense is much better when he is in there.

holy duplication Batman

 

[Jackcrevol]

Frank aka @Freak I think we have some server issues.

 

[jave36]

Yes. Each of the Cosmere series are self contained and are usually only minimally connected by "world hopper" characters that pop up from time to time.

The Stormlight Archive is connecting more of the Cosmere because characters from other solar systems are interested in the investiture(magic) sources on the Rosharan planet. Each planetary system usually has 2 Shards of Adonalsium (16 people who became gods by destroying and splintering god). These Shards are usually opposing cosmic forces and some have killed others which has interesting effects on the solar systems they are in. Roshar had 2 Shards until Odium arrived. He destroys other Shards when he can and is probably the overarching bad guy of the entire Cosmere with lots of lesser ones in each system.

Sanderson's universe is like the MCU meets dark fantasy meets high fantasy meets science fiction/steampunk. It's freaking amazing and Sanderson consistently cranks out good to great series. From your descriptions of what you like, the first Mistborn trilogy and especially Stormlight would blow you away. Elantris, Warbreaker, White Sand(novel version) and second Mistborn trilogy are also good.

Eh, after oathbringer and rhythm of war, I've soured on Sanderson. He's had some good ones, but his writing keeps getting in the way of his storytelling. If he could craft the stories and have someone else write them, might be the best series ever written.

 

[scienceteaching_vol]

You can say that again.

 

[scienceteaching_vol]

It alllll comes together though, and man some of the payoffs were so amazing. It's a chore sometimes though for sure.

True! Its one I did really enjoy, but not one I'd ever endeavour to devour a second time.

 

[Orangeburst]

Frank aka @Freak I think we have some server issues.

 

[gainesvol82]

Sanderson is my very favorite writer. He is an unbelievable world builder and I love his characters. He is so good.

Favorite Sanderson character?

Kelsier, Kaladin, Dalanar, Vin, Vasher/Zahel, Sazed, Wayne, Sylphrena, Lift, Odium, Navani, Taravangian....there's so many to choose from. Probably Kaladin for me but it's really close.

I liked Sanderson before but Stormlight has put him on another level. I still consider Robert Jordan my favorite but by the time Sanderson is done with Stornlight, Silverlight and the other series he has planned then he will probably surpass Jordan based on quantity of quality content and how varied it is. The Cosmere is such an amazing concept and I can't think of any fantasy writer who has ever done anything close to as ambitious.

 

[Jackcrevol]

 

[peaygolf]

'It was a classless move': High school football team blows out opponent 106-0

Wow!
13 TD passes?

If I was the backup, I'd be pissed.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

So my wife was given backstage vip concert tickets to Lynard Skynard this coming Saturday and we are a bit of disagreement on going.
Concert is at 7, game is at 7, and I could give two Brandon’s about seeing Lynard Skynard!!!

Skynard was awesome back in the early 90s when it was still mostly the originals with Johnny taking Ronnies place. I saw em four times back then and absolutely loved it...I could not care less now.