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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by PiMuNu on Monday February 01 2021, @05:16PM (4 children)

    by PiMuNu (3823) on Monday February 01 2021, @05:16PM (#1107512)

    In the same boat. I looked up "The Seven Satrapies" and apparently it is Lightbringer series that I have never heard of. First review on Amazon has this which made me laugh (but I don't think I will be picking the books up any time soon):

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/customer-reviews/R3V3L6UJUISDVK/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B0041G6RR4 [amazon.co.uk]

    I stopped reading at the line 'two squat bricks of bread and a pale wine in a clear glass cup.' All bricks are squat, there's no such thing as a tall brick. And most people would just say a glass. A glass of white wine... a pale wine in a clear glass cup. I've lost sleep over that. I can't concentrate at work and it's ruining my marriage. A PALE WINE IN A CLEAR GLASS CUP. That's actually in a published book, written by a man and seen by an editor.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday February 01 2021, @05:48PM

    by Freeman (732) on Monday February 01 2021, @05:48PM (#1107529) Journal

    The Lightbringer Series was very interesting and very convoluted.

    --
    Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"

  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 08 2021, @03:21AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 08 2021, @03:21AM (#1110123)

    It's a fantasy world! For all you know, this is a world where ordinary bricks are cube-shaped, and squat bricks must be special-ordered from the next dimension over. And as for "clear glass cup", perhaps glasses are so rare there that the vernacular has no single-word term for them; by translating the phrase word-for-word, the author is preserving this for you, the attentive reader, to infer from. Such careful and subtle world-building, and you, amazon reviewer, you spit on it.

    • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday February 16 2021, @10:24PM (1 child)

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday February 16 2021, @10:24PM (#1113848) Journal

      In a world of wonder, the inhabitants have the ability to rotate things 90 degrees thus magically transforming a squat brick into a tall one. That's the fantasy land I want to live in!

      • (Score: 2) by DECbot on Monday February 22 2021, @09:02PM

        by DECbot (832) on Monday February 22 2021, @09:02PM (#1116172) Journal

        Oh the calamity! Do you intend to doom us all?!?

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        cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base