Is Charan still around?

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FCK42 wrote:

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linkstatic wrote:

I_NO is a grill? o.O

Then again, hard to tell the gender of dinosaurs at first glance.

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鬼殺し wrote:

Well that got weird.

And yes. It's a pseudonym. Since it's set in a fantasy version of China, I thought it best to use a Chinese name. Yknow, so no one goes oh shit, gweiloh thinks he knows about our culture!

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鬼殺し wrote:

And yes. It's a pseudonym.

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raics wrote:

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鬼殺し wrote:

And yes. It's a pseudonym.

T be perfectly honest here, it sounds a bit generic. Was something like Wang Long taken?

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鬼殺し wrote:

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raics wrote:

Come on, somebody had to do the Dong line :)

Speaking of which, I wonder what would happen if anyone ever thought of drawing a line in the sand with his... corpus delicti.

Not really. I've been getting silly Chinese name puns pretty much most of my life...

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鬼殺し wrote:

The writing style was a bit...Odd for me. It was that highbrow descriptive mode trying to distinguish itself from more pulpy fantasy or sci Fi, to be alien.... Unfortunately it sort of alienated me. And I made the mistake of reading Abercrombie and Bakker beforehand. Both do similar but in a much more sophisticated manner. Or maybe it was after. Around then, at any rate.

So I didn't read past the first book, Shadow of the torturer.

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鬼殺し wrote:

Eh, "the narrator isn't a writer so the writing shouldn't be well written" is a fallacy. Not saying SotT wasn't well written. It was. But that sort of thinking is a bad path for a writer to take.