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i move that we all write in eye-of-argonese for the remainder of this thread.

soph--

if you read further, you'll find someone getting kicked in the "urinary gland" during the quest for the "many fauceted [sic] scarlet emerald [sic]," or so.

I remembered the scarlet emerald, but not the fact that it had taps.

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sockpuppets favored by the stanek on goodreads typically feature avatars of scantily clad female persons. that means jaime L., mya stone, and jax, at the least, are the board stanek contingent.

Ahem.

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Yet more (this is from later in the book)

Yet with a cry of ironic agony, their charge ended. Feet no longer tread solely upon enemy dead. Seth felt vivid torment in his soul. The first of the Brotherhood fell, a blow from behind piercing the brother's heart.

Seth vowed to spare no suffering for the one who had delivered the deadly blow. With a jump and a kick, the guilty was knocked stunned to the deck, his demise not instantaneous like the others before him. He would be forced to lie and watch with eyes that were purposefully allowed to move as life slowly dripped away. Seth's blow struck the spinal cord just below the neck on the right side.

Nine and one trudged onward toward the high deck where Cagen now battled the enemy captain. Three sailors were all that remained of his once proud group and they protected his rear against the galleon's surly captain. Although thick lines of evident fatigue held to his countenance, Cagen persisted.

Note that Seth is supposed to be a good guy. Say what you like about Jim Theis, but he never descended to Paolini or Goodkind-style "inflicting terrible suffering is OK if it's the good guys". Shame on you, Stanek. Wanton and ironic cries of shame.

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Ironic agony? That's a new one. Does it make sense in context of what happens earlier?

So Seth is the Richard Rahl of this series? Tairy should make his lawyer send him an e-mail.

Nine and one? As in...ten? Or is the character called Nine?

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Nine and one trudged onward toward the high deck where Cagen now battled the enemy captain. Three sailors were all that remained of his once proud group and they protected his rear against the galleon's surly captain. Although thick lines of evident fatigue held to his countenance, Cagen persisted.

Are "the enemy captain" and "the galleon's surly captain" two different persons? Or are the three sailors protecting Cagen's rear against the guy he is fighting? Bizarre stuff!

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Seth vowed to spare no suffering for the one who had delivered the deadly blow. With a jump and a kick, the guilty was knocked stunned to the deck, his demise not instantaneous like the others before him. He would be forced to lie and watch with eyes that were purposefully allowed to move as life slowly dripped away. Seth's blow struck the spinal cord just below the neck on the right side.

Wow, that's one powerful kick. Most Badass Moves just break bones...here, spinal cords are liquified and dripping away!

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Woha, Roose's Leech, Please tell me you somehow found the korean translation and pasted it in google translate.

Ironic agony? Feet that tread on enemies? And the rest of the body? You can feel torment like you feel pain now? Why kill that brotherhood guy's brother too? I assume lines that hold to a guy are fishing lines? How does one hang lines to a countenance, anyway? Why does the captain get protected against himself by his sailors? Ubiquity? Why are the sentences so short? Why is the vocabulary and writing so limited as to repeat stuff like that "blow" in two consecutive sentences? Why is there not even the tiniest sparkle of life in apparently a dramatic battle?

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