Basement X

To start this one up again. I just bought:

DVD's:

Hot Fuzz
Dog Day Afternoon
Serpico


Statues:
Optimus Prime bust by Art Asylum
Sandman 20th anniversiry bookends

Book(s)
R.A. Salvatore's The Legend of Drizzt book VII - The Legacy

Oy, which story is that part of?

MGM wrote:Oy, which story is that part of?

Have you not heard tell of the Legend of Drizzt?


That book is part of the Drow arch in the overall Legend of Drizzt story. There are 13 in that one, and then comes The Hunter's Blade Trilogy and now there's the Transitions series which at the moment consists of 2 books, but there's supposed to be three.

Grand total: 19 books, 3 series.

There's also the off-shoot series, The Sellswords, which has three books and little to no Drizzt.

P.S. I love Todd Lockwood for drawing that. I really do.

Yes yes, I've got 'em all (well, except the last part, I'm waiting for the rest of the series to come out). The Dark Elf trilogy is the best of it all, BTW. But which part of the tale is the book you're reading now? What happens in the book?

MGM wrote:The Dark Elf trilogy is the best of it all, BTW. But which part of the tale is the book you're reading now? What happens in the book?

Indeed.

It's after The Halfling's Gem (where they have to go to Calimport to save Regis). I can't remember what this part of the overall story is called.

Summary of The Legacy: Wulfgar and Cattie-Brie's wedding approaches, but there's friction between the happy couple. Regis unexpectedly returns to Mithrall Hall, but he seems different.
Eventually it's revealed that Regis is Artemis Entreri in disguise and he (with a bunch of drow elves including everybody's favourite mercenary Jarlaxle, Drizzt's sister Vierna and his recently be-driderred brother Dinnin) captures Drizzt and takes him away into the Underdark.
And then there's fighting and Pwent and a "death" of someone important (I didn't really feel that bad for him though).

That was a fairly messy summary, but there it is.

Ah, that one. Can't for the life of me remember who died, but whatever.

Have you read the War of the Spider Queen books (six of them)?

MGM wrote:Ah, that one. Can't for the life of me remember who died, but whatever.

Have you read the War of the Spider Queen books (six of them)?

Since you've read them, I'll tell you. It's Wulfgar and he's not really dead.

I've seen them, but never picked them up. Are they worth reading?

I figured it was him. I think the character comes out the better from it. He's so whiny before the death.

SpiderQueen books are pretty good, I enjoyed them a lot.

In New York, I got :

Books :

A gentleman's game - Greg Rucka
Private Wars - Greg Rucka
The Outfit - Richard Stark aka Donald Westlake
The man with the getaway face - Richard Stark aka Donald Westlake

Here, in France

DVDs

The Dark Knight - Christopher Nolan

Buy? lol

The French Biscuit wrote:Have you not heard tell of the Legend of Drizzt?

I met this guy once in Baldur's Gate. He helped me win a fight against some gnoles or something and I wanted to kill him and take his stuff but for some reason I can't recall that didn't happen.

I was going to say I liked being Biscie's friend because she's nerdier than me but after that anecdote I'm not sure it's true.

Fasheem wrote:Buy? lol

Fasheem wrote: I met this guy once in Baldur's Gate. He helped me win a fight against some gnoles or something and I wanted to kill him and take his stuff but for some reason I can't recall that didn't happen.

Yeah, probably not. Drizzt is king in fantasy game world.

Fasheem wrote: I was going to say I liked being Biscie's friend because she's nerdier than me but after that anecdote I'm not sure it's true.

LOL I think I'm still the nerdier of the two of us. I make all my friends look cooler.

XBOX 360

HALO 3
Gears of War
Ninja Gaiden 2
Vampire Reign

I brought the XBOX just before the Con but then the boards died. Having spent a butt load of money at Best Buy, I received a bunch of gift certificates which I used to buy Nina Gaiden 2 and Vampire Reign.

The French Biscuit wrote:Have you not heard tell of the Legend of Drizzt?

I tried reading this, and just found it to be trite for teenagers.

Very wrong. Read the Dark Elf trilogy.

wolf_2099 wrote:I tried reading this, and just found it to be trite for teenagers.

I tried reading something by RA Salvatore as a teenager and found it to be really dull shit.

Mr Wallstreet wrote: Gears of War

This game is so hard, I died early on in training.

Wally, why would you buy Gears 1 over Gears 2?

What the fucks?

I didn't know if I'd like the GoW series. I wanted to test it out first so I picked up the first part of the game for $20. Now that I know I'll like it, I'll pick up the second game in a bit.

I'd rather be safe and drop $20 on a game to see how it is. If I didn't like it, it's no big loss because its only $20. But if I'd spent $60 and wound up hating it, I'd just be extra pissed.

Fasheem wrote:I tried reading something by RA Salvatore as a teenager and found it to be really dull shit.



This game is so hard, I died early on in training.

I'm not great at first person shooters either but good enough to survive.