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I'm the author of The Broken Empire, The Red Queen's War, & Book of the Ancestor trilogies - spare ideas land here. ______________ Twitter @mark__lawrence (2 underscores!)
Sunday, 13 November 2011
Here are just four of many:
"Prince of Thorns, by Mark Lawrence. It was exactly as I expected it to be–which is to say, full of unrelenting rape"
The idea that someone thinks Mark Lawrence's rapefest is "one of the very best" in SFF makes me want to live on a different planet.
(referring to THIS scene from Donaldson's Lord Fouls' Bane (1979)) "Prince of Thorns makes that depiction seem beyond mild in comparison"
"All men. All rape. All violence."
Facts have surprisingly little bearing in such matters, but for the sake of completeness I felt I should toss a couple of them out there.
Below are both the rape scenes in the book. Technically they constitute very minor spoilers, so take advantage of the spoiler space if you need to or if you feel they might be too harrowing.
1) I saw what they did to Mother, and how long it took.
2) The fat girl had a lot to say, just like her father. Screeched like a barn owl: hurt my ears with it. I liked the older one better. She was quiet enough. So quiet you'd give a twist here or there just to check she hadn't died of fright.
39 comments:
- Anonymous14 November 2011 at 08:55
What? Someone said that the rape scenes are bad, or what? It's just a part of the book like it is and always was in the world. Well, maybe not much women/men were raped by a 13-year-old boy but it is a book, for good sake, a fantastic book but although a book and furthermore the describtions aren't that ... detailed. My friend - who read the book because I praise it so highly - and I talk about it and I have to admit that even if there had been more detailed we wouldn't have a damn problem with it. It a part of this world.ReplyDelete
PS: My friend also liked the book a lot and two other going to read it ; )
Is this book set after the ... the apokalypse? Because she and I discuss about that all the time ...
@Julia - the rape in Prince of Thorns has been described/characterised variously as making Donaldson's page of graphic mechanical detail seem mild by comparison, as having made some physically ill, as being like drinking from a sewer, as being a dominant repeated theme... Like I say. I've had occasion to blink :)ReplyDelete
And yes, the setting is in our future a thousand years after a nuclear war.
Hardly harrowing; discreetly disturbing, but so is real life. I had a French friend once who told me that in reprisal for partisan activity in his town, a hundred citizens including his mother and father were lined up against a brick wall and shot while all of their children were made to watch the bloody scene that made them all orphans. This is emotional rape, which is probably harder to accept and deal with than physical rape. Keep up the good writing.ReplyDelete
My best.
Bwahahahaha! You write a hell of a lot better than we already thought you did if people believe there not only are harrowing rape scenes where none exist, they're sure they'ved read it. I'm so jealous.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous15 November 2011 at 17:44
In fairness to whoever wrote that I did come away thinking there was more rape in the book than just two passing mentions, I'm not sure exactly why and it didn't bother me at all or put me off the book, but nontheless I'm surprised to learn it was only in twice.ReplyDelete
PS loved the book, can't wait for the next one.
Obviously these people haven't read R. Scott Bakker... Now that man can write a brutal rape scene... These darker themes are what makes this new scene of "dark fantasy" so good IMO. I think it gives the books a sense of realism and puts fear in the reader thus building suspense. There have been a great many discussions about this new Nihilistic type of fantasy, but for me it hits home the most. Perhaps that says something about my generation...ReplyDelete
Jorg is an evil bastard at times. But I have read "worse" from Joe Abercrombie, Richard K. Morgan and G.R.R. Martin.ReplyDelete
There was a certain trend to ever darker fantasy for years already. Still there seem to be many readers who don't want and can't stand that. Quite a lot of my friends like "The Name of the Wind" and "The Wise Man's Fear" by Patrick Rothfuss. Violence is barely described and only really bad guys do that. Black vs White characters, that's something that bored many people but a lot of the not so vocal readers seem to like it that way. Jorg is ... a bad guy? A good guy? Why does he do such horrible things?! How can I still like a bad person, he did wrong... once... twice! :(
That's their line of thinking and I doubt there is any way how you can make them enjoy your books.
With only a few words you are pretty good at creating an intense atmosphere and as you noticed high impact on the reader.
That's actually high praise.
What is not so nice is when people who can't stomach that go on raving. I just wonder how they can watch television or just live at all.
Some people found Martin's female characters to be unacceptable, the whole society anti-feminist to the bone. That ruined the whole book for them. Martin violated their view how the world or books should be. I just don't get it how they can really focus on picking on every maybe sexist aspect of the book and totally hate all of it for that. I totally can't agree that his novels are casually sexist to the core. Doh.
Some of my friends find G.R.R. Martin's ASoIaF too brutal and his work by far too dark. You know, Eddard dies, people lose a hand and all that. Is that already excessive? I found many Takeshi Kovacs novels by Richard K. Morgan to be very very dark and depressing, everyone was mean and evil and all that. They would probably have killed the people who complain about you or Martin.
Sidenote, "The Cold Commands" by Richard K. Morgan is quite nice, no pure violence only useful to take aback a lot of potential readers but more focus on witty dialogue and story. I quite like that.
My grandma thinks the same of "The Borgias" as there is apparently so much sex in this series! And people die! How horrible! (I don't dare to show her True Blood).
Playing Panzer Corps (remake of Panzer General) makes me a latent Nazi and attending a muslim marriage makes me a terrorist, for the good christians in my neighbourhood turned down their invitations. But Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty are just games. I don't want to spoil their kids the fun, but I can't follow the logic of their parents anymore.
Prince of Thorns will polarize early on. I know which books I would recommend people who are already in despair after reading the first pages of PoT! (I know which books would totally destroy them hehe)
I don't like a certain kind of mindless violence and brutality that kicks in when authors run out of ideas. I consider that cheap. Some of my favorite authors unfortunately did that, thinking of brutality like sugar. No ideas how to fill some pages or what else to write? Sugar=brutality is always a good filler for a cake/book.
It just doesn't work like that. But you never did that so far. Prince Jorg is a fascinating character because he is like you made him. You can't change him to a character that's acceptable for everyone because he simply doesn't fit in a black/white scheme of thinking.
- Anonymous24 November 2011 at 12:25
Well I did have to go back and check but there are lines these:ReplyDelete
"There's a lot to be said for not being in a queue, or not having to finish up before the flames take hold of the building. And the willingness! That was new too, albeit paid for. In the dark I could imagine it was free."
This is not to say that the book is a promotion guide for sexual abuse, but I think there may be more mentions of such things than you originally accounted for.
I also should note that when I first saw a complaint about this, the blogger removed the last line which I think is sorta telling.
- Mark Lawrence24 November 2011 at 12:32
@Anonymous - if the lines you cite were a rape scene then you'd be right that I missed one. But they ain't :)ReplyDelete
In fact they're a fairly oblique reference to the original brief and rather distant 4 lines.
But yes, I agree there has been selective editing on various occasions to try and support misleading portrayals...
I feel your pain, Brother Mark.ReplyDelete
It might make more sense to you if you'll consider that there are a lot of things that are beyond authors control such as a reader's expectations, experiences with other books which may lead to making presumptions about future plot lines...ReplyDelete
For me the mention of rape made it seem like a story about a group of people who only go around looting towns and raping women...yeah it could happen in real life but my real life is bad enough so I just don't see the point of reading about worse things...
@deathbysunlight - but you wouldn't of course post a review that told other people that it was a book with 'all the rape' just on the basis of your expectations having read a few pages? I mean if it wasn't your sort of book you'd probably just move on, rather than posting a review about what you thought the contents might be and giving people the impression you had read it... yeah? ...because you'd understand this is someone's livelihood here...ReplyDelete
I think there's a dilemma in the mind, sometimes the very deep down mind, of the reader. They need to really connect with the character in order to care about what they're doing, but they don't want to connect with nasty characters, or even just characters who do nasty things, because wouldn't that mean they were nasty?ReplyDelete
Then you get the people who want to believe that the whole world is sweetness and light and only lovely things happen in books. They don't want to read about dark, real-life-type stuff in books, but other people do. So, you know, live and let live.
If the story is a gruesome one, it's going to have icky bits in it. You can hardly have a book which goes, "well, there was this prince, and some nasty stuff happened to him, so he essentially murdered his way across an empire to get revenge. Which you can kind of understand because he was only a kid, bless him."
Well, you could, but it would be very short and might have some issues getting published...
I read the 'heinous rape' reviews before reading the book and can honestly say that I got to the end and thought I must have missed them, because I didn't even remember reading a rape scene - only oblique references to it.ReplyDelete
I then questioned if these reviewers were on crack.Replies
well here's a comment that came today but appeared to be posted to a blog that it had no relevance to so I'll add it on this one:Delete
Jonathan M. wanted to say:
Maybe if you stopped writing about rape people would stop discussing the rapes featured in your books.
Just a thought...
To which I would reply:
Since the rapes featured in my book occupy 61 words out of 85,000 it seems a strange characterisation. I spend far more words describing doors . . .
Even so, I would be perfectly happy for people to discuss the rapes featured in my book (singular) - it's when they discuss imaginary ones that I boggle a little. At 61 words I should think anyone wishing to discuss them could include them in their entirety for completeness rather that create the wholly false impression which is demonstrably given out in many instances.
- Anastasia26 July 2013 at 12:38
I'm now going to refer to this book as "the book with all the door porn".Delete
Only yesterday on twitter somebody described the book as a 'rape-fest'. Testimony to the enduring power of stupid.Delete
Fuck the rape, it shouldn't be addressed that much, but in the end it was probably a good thing (for the author) as it helped promote the book, which is not all that, for me anyway.Delete
Hey Mark,ReplyDelete
I remember when Prince of Thorns was compared to Lord Foul's Bane. I also remember being shocked that those critics thought the "rape scenes" in PoT were so graphic and numerous. I just started reading Lord Foul's Bane and I finished the rape scene. I was truly disgusted by what I read for numerous reasons and wanted to share the contrasts I found between the two books.
For fairness I am going to paste the quote from LFB here. For those that do not wish to read it, please skip the rest of this post and move to my follow up post (tried to post it all together, but I broke the 4096 character limit... oops!):
Lena flared with sudden courage. "I do not believe it. It may be that your world-but the Land-ah, the Land is real."
Covenant's back clenched abruptly still, and he said with preternatural quietness, "Are you trying to drive me crazy?"
His ominous tone startled her, chilled her. For an instant, her courage stumbled; she felt the river and the ravine closing around her like the jaws of a trap. Then Covenant whirled and struck her a stinging slap across the face.
The force of the blow sent her staggering back into the light of the graveling. He followed quickly, his face contorted in a wild grin. As she caught her balance, got one last, clear, terrified look at him, she felt sure that he meant to kill her. The thought paralyzed her. She stood dumb and helpless while he approached.
Reaching her, he knotted his hands in the front of her shift and rent the fabric like a veil. She could not move. For an instant, he stared at her, at her high, perfect breasts and her short slip, with grim triumph in his eyes, as though he had just exposed some foul plot. Then he gripped her shoulder with his left hand and tore away her slip with his right, forcing her down to the sand as he uncovered her.
Now she wanted to resist, but her limbs would not move; she was helpless with anguish.
A moment later, he dropped the burden of his weight on her chest, and her loins were stabbed with a wild, white fire that broke her silence, made her scream. But even as she cried out she knew that it was too late for her. Something that her people thought of as a gift had been torn from her.
But Covenant did not feel like a taker. His climax flooded him as if he had fallen into a Mithil of molten fury. Suffocating in passion, he almost swooned. Then time seemed to pass him by, and he lay still for moments that might have been hours for all he knew -hours during which his world could have crumbled, unheeded.
At last he remembered the softness of Lena's body under him, felt the low shake of her sobbing. With an effort, he heaved himself up and to his feet. When he looked down at her in the graveling light, he saw the blood on her loins. Abruptly, his head became giddy, unbalanced, as though he were peering over a precipice. He turned and hurried with a shambling, unsteady gait toward the river, pitched himself fiat on the rock, and vomited the weight of his guts into the water. And the Mithil erased his vomit as cleanly as if nothing had happened.
And now for the contrasts:ReplyDelete
The first contrast is simple. I like Jorg! You have a way with words that Donaldson lacks. You really know how to get your readers to sympathize with your anti-hero (for the record, I hate that word). Your first person POV helps, but it's not just that.
Jorg is (rightfully?) pissed at the world (or his view of it) for crimes unanswered against his mother and brother and himself (and his poor doggy). Thomas is a self loathing leprous freak who hates and loves only himself. Really no comparison between the two in my opinion.
As far as the rape goes, there's no comparison there either. So Jorg has done some bad shit. You did not endeavor to paint the scene in your readers' eyes. You mentioned it to show your readers his history and to warn them Jorg is not just some teenage kid. Thomas is simply a rapist - the type of guy I'd pay to witness his execution.
The worlds are also very different. Future earth is kind of a hellhole. "The land" is a place of wonder and beauty. You can understand Jorg's actions being of self preserving types. Thomas is just a ravager of beauty and innocence.
So those are the biggest contrasts I found. I wanted to make sure any potential future readers of yours are not dissuaded by these critics' opinions as their vocalizations are highly exaggerated.
My only complaint about what you have said is that you are one of far too many people who views the covenant books through the light of a single scene, in fact you are very much viewing Covenant and LFB in the same way as the critics which you are complaining about. While the rape in LFB is obviously hideous it's obvious that it is designed to 'cause the reader to loathe covenant in much the same was as he loathes himself and becomes a key point in the later books. To use similar words to Mr Lawrence (who's books I love) the rape scene takes up less than a page in a series of books which is now rapidly approaching almost 10,000 pages. You describe Covenant as a "a self loathing leprous freak who hates and loves only himself." Firstly if you had actually paid attention to Covenants history you might begin to understand that A) he loves far more than himself and B) his entire character has been twisted and shaped by people viewing him as a "Leprous freak". Finally C) Covenant does not believe that what is happening is truly happening to him, hence his name in The Land, "The Unbeliever"Delete
A renowned and successful writer with a loving wife and a young son who comes down with leprosy, he has gone from being beloved of all to being reviled and hated, his wife has left him and taken his young son with her making it clear that Covenant will not be permitted to ever see his son again, let alone to live with him. He is reviled by those in town and deprived of all human contact but the torment and assaults by those who wish nothing more than for him to leave this mortal coil, All the while knowing that this will never change that his disease cannot be treated. Alone and without hope, left alone with nothing but his despair. All of a sudden after a particularly traumatic assault by his peers whereby a razor blade hidden in a bun cuts his mouth, a particularly dangerous event for a leper, He cleans his wounds, yet another reminder of the hate borne him by his fellow man. He receives a phone call and as he answers and hears the voice of his wife, the woman he loved, the woman who abandoned him. He falls. He bangs his head. He finds himself elsewhere. As if a dream in his unconsciousness he hears a voice, the voice of Lord Foul, Despair incarnate, telling him that he, Lord Foul, will destroy The Land. Believing, justifiably, that this is a dream he encounters a young girl Lena who mystically cures his illness, an illness that he KNOWS to be incurable, an illness that he knows will haunt and torment him until the day he dies. This merely reinforces his belief that he is in a dream. He's overwhelmed, he has senses again, he can feel the air and the sun on his skin and he is taken to a place where he is flooded with human contact, human contact that is not harsh or attempting to punish him for being near. It's as if his dreams are come true, or more correctly it's as if he's in a dream in which all his hopes have come true. He has spent so long in his despair and in his loneliness that were he not in a mystical land then it would still seem a dream, but the aura of a dream is only reinforced that he is somewhere that cannot exist in his worldview. He is sent off alone with Lena to travel to Lord's keep, and all of the information that he is being fed is merely reinforcing the belief that he stands in a dream. As he renounces once again Lena's statement that The Land is real he is horrified by the thought that he might be going crazy, that the only part of him that was not rotting due to the disease, his mind, is now working against him. He, in a fit of anger rapes Lena. The reader is horrified, Covenant is horrified that he is capable of such a thing. but it is still just a dream to him.
Donaldson provides all of the information and all of the tools to work out Covenants mindset, to see why he might have done what he had done. Who among us could say they have never done something in a dream that they would not do in real life. While the rape is still not acceptable it is a tool in this case, It shapes the events of The Land for thousands of thousands of years to come. You state that "Future earth is kind of a hellhole. "The land" is a place of wonder and beauty". This is a significant contrast, Jorg went from being loved and treasured by his mother to alone in a hellhole, Covenant went from being alone in a hellhole of despair and disease to loved and treasured in a place of beauty.Delete
I beg you, do not discard Lord Fouls bane because of this event, it's a key event. I think the differences between the two are that Mr. Lawrence's scenes were to provide a skeleton view on what future earth is like, while they might be the only such events that are mentioned in the book it is clear from the context that it is something that happens regularly around future earth, much as the same thing is made clear in ASOIAF (i'd like to be clear here that i love both series and think they are wonderful books) where as in Donaldson's work it is a key defining event, and forcing the reader to suffer through it puts a context on what Covenant, Lena, Trell and Atiaran go through over the years that pass in the land
- Neil Pearson23 December 2012 at 02:31
I don't have the book at hand to get all of the context of those two lines but if someone wanted to be really pro-Jorg the second sentence is ambiguous enough that he may have witnessed rather than performed the rapes. It still paints him in a bad light but he is a bad guy at that point.ReplyDelete
I can imagine how annoying it is to have people mis-represent the book though. It's a bit like when authors get labelled with misogyny - it can be a hard one to shake off. At least in your case you can defend yourself quite easily with the evidence you only mention it twice in the book.
I'm not surprised, months later, this piece is still getting hits and discussion.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous22 January 2013 at 10:23
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all." Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.ReplyDelete
Of course I would not read this book to my 5 year old son, but it strikes me that the glorious 21st century still seems to be struggling with a fundamental literary principle.
I think Mark said something along these lines earlier but I honestly don't resent what these people think of the story and I'll admit that a part of me thinks they're idiotic for panning a book over one little detail that's pretty fecking irrelevant to the entire story but yeah I don't get why they're lifeless enough to sit down and rave about how much they hate some book they've clearly barely even read.ReplyDelete
I'll use an example; there's a tv series called Arrow that I somewhat dislike cos of the writing but I won't go any further however when random people ask me about Arrow; I just say I'm not too into it cos they'll just take it as my "personal preference", I mean why on Earth would you sit down in front of a PC or Mac or what have you or go out somewhere and rave on about how much you hate something you barely know jack about?
People have different preferences, if you dislike something; just bloody move on. There's no need to ruin a show, movie or book's popularity cos you disliked what you saw in the first 20 pages or the first episode or first five minutes of a movie.
I think we've just built up this weird little era where everybody's a butt hurt critic for some odd reason.
- Anonymous24 May 2013 at 11:07
You've got to paint a picture of a cold, harsh world, and a 13-year old who's torn up both physically and mentally. People at 12 were giving birth back then, and consummating marriages by giving their wives and bit of the old in-out on their wedding night at 12,13. Surely rape and violence are a must in such a world, you're not writing children's books here. You're genuinely trying to paint a picture of a world full of evil bastards. You're doing a great job, and you justify any use of violence because your writing is decent. Concentrate on your writing, don't give a shit about "sensitive content". You should open your next work with a mass-rape scene.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous14 July 2013 at 17:03
Really enjoyed this book. I did find the violence and evilness shocking but I assume that was the intent. I believe there are far more references to rape by some of Jorge's brothers after every town they conquer. There are no scenes but it is assumed that that is what is going on, no?ReplyDeleteReplies
This reply is really what this post is all about.Delete
"I believe there are far more references to rape"
You believe this... but it isn't true.
"There are no scenes but it is assumed that that is what is going on"
You can assume what you like, but with no words to that effect... this isn't so very different from the reviewer who complained about the spaceship.
You can - if you want - assume that rape occurs in every book where there are wars and conflict. But it would hardly be fair to call every war book 'the book with all the rape'.
I have read and enjoyed all three books and can honestly say I had forgot about the rape scene in prince of thorns until I saw this. That's how much of it there is. It aids in setting up the characteristics of jorg as a anti hero but is not crucial to the story. There is so much story this very minor part of the books is not what I remember most.ReplyDelete
The reason I think that a lot of people find the rape scene problematic or jarring isn't so much because it's particular vivid or prominent. There are far more descriptive rape scenes in a lot of books that don't raise any eyebrows. The problematic phrase isReplyDelete
"you'd give a twist here or there just to check she hadn't died of fright."
It's jarring because it almost breaks the fourth wall to include the reader in the first person POV in the middle of the rape. If you had written it "I gave a twist here or there just to check..." you probably would have gotten a whimper instead of all the hype about it that you are now. But by saying "You'd" - who is Jorg referring to? The reader. So Jorg is saying that I as the reader would give a twist here or there - Uh...I most certainly would not be participating in this act at all thank you very much. On the other hand, the way you've put it has more impact as far as bringing Jorg's nature across - but it explains why it's struck such a nerve I think.
- Anonymous1 December 2013 at 05:11
Oh please, some people will protest anything, anyone who considers Jorg's (Lawrence's) rather tame and unfocused description, and believes this to be a good reason not to ride the Broken Empire, is well advised to stay well away from anyone like George R Martin, Terry Goodkind, Bernard Cornwell or Brent Weeks (and kinda Jim Butcher but his setting is way different so its a bit iffy), all writers in the same relative genre as Mark, and all of fairly similar quality (above and beyond excellent) and their descriptions of rape are sometimes actually integral to the plot or story or a character, rather than Mark's sideglance at the rather common aftermath of what a rather rutheless bandit leader would do. I think it is simply more "shocking to reviewers as they see what they believe to be a slightly dark teen's book description inside the cover, perhaps they were expecting a medieval Artemis Fowl book? It ain't a kids book folks, sorry. This here is good, proper, genuine, adult, fantasy-sci-fi literature ladies and gentlemen (reading in a texas auctioneer's drawl is optional but advised). It's not unnecessary, it shouldn't be glorified but its not, it's a glance at the desensitization in the world and simply a part of the circumstances. Just read it, accept it, turn the page and continue on.ReplyDelete
This must be really frustrating to have this false perception about your book. It's quite unfair.ReplyDelete
Have these folks not read Thomas Covenant? I mean, if one is going to label things "Rapey" at least get it right.
Furthermore, in a medieval or post-apocalyptic setting one cannot exactly expect the rule of law. Bad things will happen.
If a writer doesn't want to write a Dungeons and Dragons, light-hearted romp in which these truths are glossed over, they should be able to do so. Isn't the whole point of these settings is to remind us what was and what will be if the lights ever go out?
I can only speculate (and I love to speculate) is that your book gets this bad rap because the mention of rape happens early, and it is done in a way that might work too well. Peoples' brains fill in the off scene rape with more detail than you can ever write.
- Anonymous25 May 2014 at 19:12
I just finished all 3 books in a couple of weeks and came across this while looking for info on the Red Queen series - sorry to dredge up an old post!ReplyDelete
After reading a lot of Abercrombie, Martin and a whole slew of other authors I am flabbergasted at the hoo-ha regarding Prince/King/Emperor's supposed fixation with rape. I can't help but think these people haven't read the books, or perhaps the sly, sidelong portrayal of such a "fact-of-life" is what really stuck with them. I don't think I have been so effected by a series of books - I have been pestering my husband to read them since I was halfway through Prince so we could talk about it! I don't think it is the violence, or the rape or the "world gone to sh*t" portrayal - for me it seems most to be that you find yourself hoping that Jorg actually triumphs, and absolutely disgusted with yourself a heartbeat later for so hoping.
Please, for the sake of everyone who loves your work, keep doing what you do best and don't be discouraged by the internet warriors and all of the "butt hurt critics" (so eloquently named by a commentor earlier) who have difficulty stringing together a coherent email, let alone a novel.
I can't wait until Prince of Fools!
- Anonymous29 September 2014 at 08:32
I like how so many people get so worked up about two extremly mild scenes. The one with Jorg's mom could even be played of as something else. Seriously dont get these people. (all the ones having a fit)ReplyDelete
But in the new book from Brent Weeks, theres about 5 scenes where a man gets his junk mutilated and nobody so much as bats an eye.
I bet all the same people are watching Outlander, (seen at least three attempted rapes so far) or loved seeing The Snake in GOT order young men to stay behind and join the orgies. It's just an easy attack point for people who don't like the book or who want to jump on their moral high horse but are too lazy to just finish the book and critique it properly.ReplyDelete
If you have a problem with this but not game of thrones, you're barking up the wrong tree.ReplyDeleteReplies
I suspect that the difference is the attackers don't think they can damage GRRM's career!Delete
This all started on day 1 of my first book being published, when I was a very soft target. Fortunately I think it misfired and the publicity actually helped me a lot.
- Anonymous27 June 2016 at 07:49
This book has characters with no regard for human life, they might kill their own road-Brothers over a bad temper, practice torture, sacrifice tens of hundreds of bystanders just because it's convenient, quicker to draw a sword than to simply talk it out, and this is exactly what makes the series more enjoyable. The main protagonist regards his fellow humans as mere pieces on a chess board, who wouldn't put a pawn to flames just to see what color will the smoke be? It would be out of character for him, or his brothers not to rape over some ethical considerations.ReplyDelete
It is an R rated book, so a little rape (or a lot for that matter) is expected. If the R rating didn't scare you off, and you stomached the first pages of burning down a village, murdering it's leader, finishing off the injured and piling decapitated heads in a cart, you can probably tolerate a few mentions of rape.
I find it amusing that some people tolerate all the mass-murder and torture present in the book, and draw the line at rape.


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Back in 1835 or so, laborers working on the Woolen Mill took literally the biblical admonition to "build a house upon solid rock." They positioned their office/store in front of a gigantic stone outcropping below the railroad tracks. Some years later, an enterprising builder, no doubt constrained by the fact that the two-story building was smack on the road and had nowhere else to go, bumped his addition up against the hill and incorporated the big stone mass into the new wing.
According to the agent, unenlightened residents at first hid the rock behind a wall. But when a creative developer/renovator took possession in 1986, he wisely decided to demolish the wall and incorporate into his condominiums one of the most striking architectural elements in any house in town. (In fact, although it's right down there in the Woolen Mills neighborhood in front of the dam, the place is actually in Albemarle county.)
The building originally housed mill offices and a store. The mill used the Rivanna to create power to run the machines that made, among other commodities, wool used in Confederate soldiers' uniforms.
But today's buyers want modernity with their antiquity, and they can find that here to a point. It seems that everywhere possible the original brick has been exposed and repointed to provide an interesting textural adjunct to the wide pine floors on the first level (oak is upstairs).
Only the small kitchen and two full baths have tile floors instead of wood. Deep pine windowsills reflect brick walls of a thickness unimaginable in construction today.
Kitchen counters are tile, and across a narrow hall, large cabinets/storage shelves sport copper doors which look pretty (but rattle annoyingly when opened and closed).
Modern updates include a skylight/cupola. This lights up the second level's "music room" and the sunniest spot in an apartment with its northeast exposure. Situated at the top of the stairs, with French doors leading to a bedroom and another door opening to the private patio out back (just beneath the RR tracks), the music room is undoubtedly the place if you don't have a baby grand or a cello to saw away on to locate an office or den.
The master suite on the top floor is also unusual, containing not only a bedroom and full bath, but also a private second living room or sitting area with fireplace.
None of these elements can compete, however, with the rock out in the atrium. Undoubtedly there are other places in the area with beautiful floors, exposed brick walls, and deep windows maybe even with a river view. But it seems safe to say that no other residence offers the uniqueness of this condominium's common area.
Even though the unit itself is situated on the second and third levels, the front door is on ground level and leads right to the rock. Two large balconies– one with commodious bookshelves, the other an extension of the music room– loom over the entrance area and suggest all sorts of creative decorating possibilities. Strobe lights, exotic plants, an aquarium or two this is the place where an imaginative decorator can go wild.
Basic necessities include a metal roof, ample parking, access to a little garden spot on the river, nice neighbors, proximity to town and, of course, the river itself, which is, after all, the reason the house exists.
That and the many other unusual and appealing things about the Mill House make it easy to second the words of Matthew 7:24: "The smart person built a house upon a solid rock. And the rain came down and the rivers flood and the winds blew and it did not fall."
The Lord's been right about the Mill House for almost 170 years.


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posted on Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 6:18 pm
Dear Mplus team;
I have done a longitudinal investigation. the Independent variable is depression, the dependent variable is stress, and the mediator is attributive style.All these 3 variables are continuous and administrated to students 4 time. I'd like to do a MSEM analysis, and select "1-1-1"model according to Preacher's article"A General Multilevel SEM framework for Assessing Multilevel Mediation"published on psychological method(2010,03), but the Mplus5.1 can't work, I'd like to ask you if this kind of data is possible to do "1-1-1"MSEM, thank you!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2010 - 10:26 am
This can be done in the current version. I can't think of any reason it can't also be done in Version 5.1.
Wu wenfeng
posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2010 - 7:20 pm
Dear Mplus team, I have a question, when doing MSEM analysis for longitudinal data, do we need to set the baseline variable? such as,I investigated depression 4 times, and I set the first investigation as the baseline.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, December 23, 2010 - 10:27 am
If there is a baseline measure, it is common to use it as the first time point. See the Topic 3 and 4 course videos on the website which cover growth modeling.
Wu wenfeng
posted on Tuesday, December 28, 2010 - 12:28 am
Thanks for your reply!
I tried my best want to watch the topic 3 and/or 4 course videos on line, but it seems very difficult to me, the download speed is very slow,always show 0 kb/s.Could you please give me another way to solve my problem? thank you!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, December 29, 2010 - 8:42 am
Try looking at the Topic 3 and 4 handouts, the examples in Chapter 9, and the references and papers on the website.
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Whenever people ask me where the best gelato in the city is, I point them to Otto. The downside of Otto is that it's a sit-down restaurant, not a gelateria where you can easily stroll in and out with a gelato cup in hand (though you can buy pints to go). But if you've never been to Otto, you should check it out now, before pastry chef Meredith Kurtzman's summer flavors go out of season.
Kurtzman's gelatos and sorbets are silky smooth and creamy, with balanced flavors that are enhanced by sweetness, not dominated by it. I've eaten my fair share of gelato—her's are among the few that make me think, "Whoa, this actually tastes like what it's supposed to." She transforms nectarines and plums from the local farmers' markets into smooth sorbets, and local strawberries and sweet corn into gelati. Sweet corn was my favorite—like chomping into a plump ear of corn, but better, because it's sweeter and dairy-based—but I would recommend trying all of them.
Another seasonal dessert is the honeydew and strawberries, made of layers of honeydew granita, prosecco, strawberry granita, and verbena crema. If you don't mind a hint of booze in your sweets, this is a light and refreshing dessert that combines the satisfying crunch of granita with soft melon and cream, and a touch of fizz from the prosecco.
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Legendary singer Tina Turner has married her long-time German beau Erwin Bach in a Swiss civil ceremony.
The mayor of Kuesnacht, the wealthy Zurich-area community where Turner lives, says that she and Bach, a music executive, were married several weeks ago at the registry office.
Markus Ernst said it was a routine ceremony, followed by a private celebration on Sunday at the couple's home.
Ernst says the community has "a special relationship" with its most famous inhabitant, who enjoys the typical Swiss discretion toward celebrities that allows her to shop or go about town like anyone else.
It is the second marriage for the 73-year-old singer, who also gained Swiss citizenship this year, nearly 20 years after moving to a chateau along Lake Zurich.


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Michael Jackson's mother and three children may be on the hook for $800,000 if they lose their appeal of the AEG wrongful death verdict, a judge ruled Monday.
Katherine Jackson and grandchildren Prince, Paris and Blanket would have to personally pay the money, because California law prohibits her lawyers, who footed much of her legal costs in the lawsuit, from paying it.
The Jacksons sued the concert promoter, accusing the company of responsibility in the pop icon's 2009 death because it hired, retained or supervised the doctor convicted of involuntary manslaughter. A jury rejected their case after a six-month trial last year.
AEG Live lawyers initially asked for $1.2 million from the Jacksons, but Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Yvette Palazuelos ordered them to resubmit their claim with $400,000 in expenses removed.
The Jacksons will not have to pay the $800,000 until their appeal is concluded and only if they lose. A California appeals court will hear arguments on the case in November, but it could be years before the judgment is final.
Jackson's mother and children are the only beneficiaries to the trust funded by his estate.
Palazuelos denied the Jacksons' request for a new trial in January.
Jackson lawyers argued the verdict form used by the jury was faulty and that the judge erred by refusing to let them pursue a negligence claim independent of the hiring case.
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It had to come sooner or later. California's community colleges are now in the cross-hairs of the budget-cutting guns. Using terms like efficiency, progress and alignment, a task force under the direction of Community Colleges Chancellor Jack Scott and his 17-member board has recommended changes that could save as much as $89 million annually. But at what cost in personal development?
The task force has focused on ways to assure more success for community college students. Too many, the members say, attend community college unsure of their direction. Too many, they say, drop out without ever completing an A.A. degree, a training program, or moving on to a four-year institution. Bearing in mind the limited resources available, the task force has come up with ways to help students succeed.
Some suggestions are right on the mark, including better assessments of student needs and capabilities; better guidance for students to make sure that they take the right courses; making technology more available to students; assuring more financial aid; and realigning community college programs with U.C. and C.S.U. programs.
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All these recommendations and others are long overdue and most welcome.
But there is another part of the original community college mandate -- to serve as an entry level institution of higher learning for those who are searching for their future. This "open access," while laudable, is no longer affordable, according to the task force. To that end, only students who know what they want to do, would be allowed to proceed. That's because the recommendations call for all incoming students to develop an "education plan."
Therein lies the rub. A primary purpose of the first two years of higher education is for students to take a variety of courses that will help them find their passion. Large numbers of students have no clue of what they want to do. Others decide after a semester or two that college is not for them. Some may view these experiences as a waste of community resources. But in reality, these experiences probably go a long way in helping these attendees to define themselves and their futures. That goes for working adults, too, people who decide to take a second shot at a new career path by beginning anew in community colleges.
The bottom line is: efficiency is always good as long as the product doesn't lose value along the way.
Community colleges give students the opportunities to self-discover and grow. Some will more than others, but without those opportunities, hundreds of thousands may find their options limited before they even know what they are.
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is Dr. Craig Froehle when this random post
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Last Thursday while I was in a breakout session during our Spring TEC-SIG meeting, session presenter Wendy Jones referenced this graphic as she discussed teacher professional development and access to technology. Wendy had seen it when attending the aforementioned panel at SXSWedu.
After Wendy mentioned the graphic in the TEC-SIG session, other attendees requested that I Tweet it out. I did so, and after being re-tweeted by a couple of folks, it has gone viral and still continues to be passed around via Twitter. Check out the number of re-tweets and favorites on the Tweet below!
Why giving everyone the same isn't fair in one simple graphic shared by @EdTechSandyK #truth #txed #education pic.twitter.com/kH4s0Rh5it
— Amy Mayer (@friEdTechnology) March 27, 2014
Why has this graphic resonated with people? I think it's because it captures in a simple picture concepts that are difficult to communicate with words: Equality connotes treating everyone the exact same way regardless of need while equity references providing each individual with the resources they need to operate in as level a playing field as possible.
By providing all of the kids in the picture with the same box, in other words, treating them equally, we give the tallest student help he does not need, the middle student exactly what he needs, and the shortest student gets closer to the goal but still does not have his needs entirely met. If we look at each student as an individual through the lens of equity, we see in this case our tallest student does not need extra support, we are meeting our middle student's needs, and we need to give an extra boost to our shortest kid. Suddenly, everyone is successful.
Equality and equity are not the same thing; a focus on equity will probably achieve the ultimate purpose of equalizing the playing field in education. When we say we want all students and educators to be successful and have equal opportunities, equity is probably where we need to focus.
Are You Planning for Equality or Equity?As I have contemplated the resonance of this graphic over the past few weeks, I've begun to think about how we approach decision making in education, especially when it comes to large-scale endeavors. And I've begun wondering about areas where we usually talk equality but instead might do better to talk about equity. Here is what I have come up with so far:
- Replacing technology for teachers: Does everyone need the exact same (equal) setup? Or do different teachers/grade levels/subjects need different types of technology (equitable) to meet their learning goals? (Thanks Wendy Jones for planting this one in my head!)
- Replacing technology for students or offering it for the first time: If you are moving into or moving on with 1:1 deployments for students, are you providing the exact same device for all students K-12 (equal) or have you taken into account their unique needs based on their developmental stages and the learning they need to accomplish (equity)?
- Professional development: Is every teacher going to be expected to complete the exact same sessions (equal) or are you providing multiple tracks or choice based on their individual development needs (equity)?
- Planning new buildings: Are you building your next elementary/middle/high school campus on the exact same template that has been used for other campuses on your district (keeping it "fair" and "equal") or are you looking at the latest research on best practices for learning spaces and planning accordingly? Consider that you could at some point retrofit existing campuses to aim for equity.
- Course offerings and graduation plans for students: Do we need to provide the same course plans for every student in order to prepare them for college (equality) or should we be providing multiple, flexible options to prepare them for what they are interested in after high school (equity)?
I know I am missing some important topics regarding equality and equity. What are your thoughts on these concepts in education? What other areas do we need to contemplate through the lens of equity? I hope you will share your thoughts in the comments so we can continue to learn together.
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Discussion in 'MMA Training: technique, diet and fitness' started by darcebandit, Mar 9, 2013.
First round armbar
what you won? or lost...
very nice. you shrimped out and up to the arm bar all in one. good wrist control through the roll and finish. congrats.
You can't you practised that a lot in training good Win bro
Was that a full contact fight? It all looked a bit strange, being on wrestling mats and with one dude wearing a shirt.
It is MMA League rules, no head strikes, everything else is the same though.
It's a tournament
It's a rash guard, not a t-shirt
Ah cool, I understood about the rash guard but it was the no head strikes that were making it look a bit weird.
Good Stuff man, Congrats!
Nice man. That was a great finish.
Same day, second fight.
my fight from last saturday.... tell me this ref isnt bulls---
Good finish, quick and fluid, one motion is how to get it done.
That was early and those punches had no pop. That kind of stuff happens all to often. Learn from it. Maybe you can get a rematch and don't go for the guillotine like that...it is never recommended in an MMA fight unless you have it perfected because it usually just puts you in a bad spot. You looked pretty good up until then...work on your ground game from your back. Good deal getting the experience...keep at it.
Yeah you're it was an early stoppage, but, he had alot of time to work from a good position anyway, Do you think you could have lasted the rest of the round? Also on another note, no disrespect intended, but, you were taunting kind of early man wasn't very sportsman like.
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Welcome to the KCRW Corner on DrownedinSound.com. KCRW is one of the most influential public radio stations in the United States, broadcasting at 89.9FM from Santa Monica, California. We've got our ears trained to catch the best new music and you can hear us online all the time at KCRW.com. We also have 11 years' worth of live performances archived for your listening pleasure.This month Accidental Rhythm (link) host Jason Eldredge (pictured) shares his favorite music.
"I really get the vibe of what's going on out there on the streets of LA. I'm playing to someone who is going to a concert or coming home from a bar and I feel like they are an adventurous audience – my show is not soft and cuddly, it's sharp around the edges and it moves fast.
"We get a lot of phone calls in the studio when there's a track people like, and I can also tell when they've had a few cocktails."
Jason recently had a dream DJ gig, spinning tunes in one of the special Las Vegas suites during the MTV Video Music Awards for big artists (Gnarls Barkley, Fall Out Boy) and industry bigwigs. "Record execs asked me what the hell Chromeo was and if they could sign those guys (too late). People also loved it when I played Joy Division - which should make the late Tony Wilson proud."
He has worked as a music supervisor on various TV shows and movies, but most of all likes taking risks on the air.
"I always take chances. The things I always think people are going to hate are the things people usually love. That's the best part of my show."
Here are some of the things Jason is feeling now:
Chester French
"This is officially the new sound of pop. You can hear so many different influences in their songs from 1960s guitars to '80s synth claps and modern day electronica. I can't say enough about them. The album is Love The Future (Star Trak/Interscope)."
Black Kids
"This band from Florida has a lot of buzz right now but what gets me with them is their lyrics – like the track 'Hurricane Jane' .Their tracks sound like a demo, like it needs to be mastered. I don't know if it's on purpose but I don't care, it's good."
Bran Van 3000
"Rosé'is my favorite new record. I first came across this band when I was 13 and vacationing in Montreal with my parents. Years later, I met the band in LA and was lucky enough to be at some of the recording sessions for this CD at Steve Vai's house."
The Cloud Room
"I saw them live and the energy in their songs is positive even though lyrically some of the things they sing about are not the most positive of things. Their self-titled debut was just released in the UK."
"He is Kanye West's DJ and a star in his own right. I met him when I deejayed the VMAs and he knows so much about music. He has this thing called Dirty South Dance, a compilation of bootleg remixes. Also, his brother is in Chromeo."
"He's an American, but I found him while shopping on a UK record website. He has a song called '1984' that has really crunchy U2 guitars in it but he also does some spacey weird disco stuff. Black Disco Edits Vol 1 will be coming out soon."
Jason could resist throwing one UK band on the list. "The Black Ghosts (MySpace) are not getting their due so I have to give them some attention. I first heard a remix they did for the Gossip but I took to their original material pretty strongly as well. It's a bit more poppy and lyrical, but definitely straight up dance."
If you want to get an insta-audition for Jason, hit him up on MySpace. He often will check out bands that take the time to reach out.
KCRW is broadcast on 89.9FM across Santa Monica, California. If you have to put up with British weather every day of your life, however, you'll be pleased to now that you can hear news of the Californian clime, as well as a host of hot musical treats, online here.


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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — After his eight-year winning run in Monte Carlo was ended by Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal is quickly refocusing on winning an eighth title at the Barcelona Open.
Going into another clay-court tournament that Nadal has dominated, the Spaniard said he still needs to improve following a lengthy injury layoff before he's able to beat the likes of Djokovic in a final.
MONTE CARLO: Djokovic ends Nadal's streak[1]
"When you make it to the final in Monte Carlo you cannot think that you had a bad week," Nadal said Monday. "Now I'm in Barcelona and I want to enjoy it. I love playing here."
"Against the world No. 1 you can win or lose, and this time I lost."
Nadal has reached five consecutive finals since returning in February from a knee injury — winning three, and losing two. This time, he won't be the top-seeded player at Real Club de Tenis Barcelona. That honor goes to compatriot David Ferrer.
"I think I'm on the right track but missing things after all that happened," said Nadal, who opens against either Carlos Berlocq or Daniel Gimeno-Traver on Wednesday. "They are both good players on clay."
In first round play on Monday, Ivan Dodig saved five of seven break points in beating Aljaz Bedene 6-7 (6-8), 6-3, 6-2. Andrey Kuznetsov took only 46 minutes to beat Igor Sijsling 6-1, 6-3, and Paolo Lorenzi defeated Guillaume Rufin 6-4, 6-2 after winning 80 percent of points on first serve. Ernests Gulbis topped Radek Stepanek 7-6 (7-4), 6-2.
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