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tfghost92
08-28-2010, 05:00 PM
Hey all,

In about an hour I am heading to my local Borders to pick up Jacinto's Remnant.


My question is, is JR the first book in the series of novels excluding Aspho Fields? I dont wanna open up the book and discover something happened then i'll be like FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
AdamFenix
08-28-2010, 05:03 PM
It goes in this order...

1st-Aspho Fields (released)
2nd-Jacinto's Remnant (released)
3rd-Anvil Gate (soon to be released)
4th-Coalition's End (not released; no date yet)
Sgt. Grub k1ller
08-28-2010, 05:08 PM
It goes in this order...

1st-Aspho Fields (released)
2nd-Jacinto's Remnant (released)
3rd-Anvil Gate (soon to be released)
4th-Coalition's End (not released; no date yet)

CE is released on March 1st I believe.

Ya, JR begins right after Gears 2. If you haven't read AF, then you will have no idea who Bernie is, or anything about Dom's brother.
tfghost92
08-28-2010, 05:16 PM
CE is released on March 1st I believe.

Ya, JR begins right after Gears 2. If you haven't read AF, then you will have no idea who Bernie is, or anything about Dom's brother.


Spoilers:



I know Boomer Lady, just not as much as the next guy.


And I know Carlos was Marcus' best friend and how he died.


I know moderate info on both :)
SKORGE
08-28-2010, 05:28 PM
Read them books heathen, for your life depends on it!
tfghost92
08-28-2010, 05:32 PM
**** one hour, I'm already back from Borders.


I cant wait to read it *opens book*



FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU I opened it backward!










































jk :D
SKORGE
08-28-2010, 05:38 PM
Damn thy, you shall read these scribe papers, and you shall learn from them!
tfghost92
08-28-2010, 06:11 PM
and That book was 15 bucks. Damn!
SKORGE
08-28-2010, 06:28 PM
Peon, do you not hear thy words spoken to you?
Jonesybites
08-28-2010, 06:44 PM
Yea, the paperbacks are a bit expensive...even if you by them cheaper online, you still have to pay for shipping...but the bookstore in my hometown is kinda lame so I have to order, or drive forty miles to the nearest Barnes & Nobles...with kids, :eek:
AdamFenix
08-28-2010, 06:46 PM
Yea, the paperbacks are a bit expensive...even if you by them cheaper online, you still have to pay for shipping...but the bookstore in my hometown is kinda lame so I have to order, or drive forty miles to the nearest Barnes & Nobles...with kids, :eek:

Who scream and bother you all the way while the husband navigates?

AM I RIGHT?

:D
SKORGE
08-28-2010, 07:24 PM
Who scream and bother you all the way while the husband navigates?

AM I RIGHT?

:D

Nah, Jonesy has them locked up and disciplined. All she does is;

"You feel like lucky punks, well do ya'?"

And then she gives them the glare. :eek:
AdamFenix
08-28-2010, 07:25 PM
Nah, Jonesy has them locked up and disciplined. All she does is;

"You feel like lucky punks, well do ya'?"

And then she gives them the glare. :eek:

I have a feeling you've been on the end of that discipline. >_>
SKORGE
08-28-2010, 08:15 PM
I have a feeling you've been on the end of that discipline. >_>

What? Why?

......
AdamFenix
08-28-2010, 09:45 PM
What? Why?

......

Why not?

:cool:
SKORGE
08-28-2010, 11:41 PM
Why not?

:cool:

Why so, brother, why do condone such acts against a kind of your own?
Jonesybites
08-28-2010, 11:48 PM
Actually, I'm usually on my own...hubby's gotta work, so guess who gets sole custody, :eek:

...the oldest one I can normally handle, but the younger one takes after me (imagine that) and he can be quite a pill...and the CPP frowns upon the use of duct tape for time out, like so:

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa275/LAUNCHPAD9650/Parodies/Time_Out.jpg
SKORGE
08-29-2010, 12:15 AM
Actually, I'm usually on my own...hubby's gotta work, so guess who gets sole custody, :eek:

...the oldest one I can normally handle, but the younger one takes after me (imagine that) and he can be quite a pill...and the CPP frowns upon the use of duct tape for time out, like so:

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa275/LAUNCHPAD9650/Parodies/Time_Out.jpg

Did you ..... is that your kid!?

Social Services...... take it off before someone contacts that! :eek:

Damn, you hung the duck!? What is that.... some kind of message!?
AdamFenix
08-29-2010, 12:19 AM
Actually, I'm usually on my own...hubby's gotta work, so guess who gets sole custody, :eek:

...the oldest one I can normally handle, but the younger one takes after me (imagine that) and he can be quite a pill...and the CPP frowns upon the use of duct tape for time out, like so:

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa275/LAUNCHPAD9650/Parodies/Time_Out.jpg


So... this picture made me laugh quite hard.

:cool:
SKORGE
08-29-2010, 12:47 AM
She hung the duck, man!
Jonesybites
08-29-2010, 12:54 AM
CPS is our syn for Child Protection Services...and no, that's not my kid...I'm not blonde...!...?...wait...
SKORGE
08-29-2010, 12:57 AM
CPS is our syn for Child Protection Services...and no, that's not my kid...I'm not blonde...!...?...wait...

Oh.
It's not?
Yes.
Jonesybites
08-29-2010, 12:58 AM
...that wasn't to well thought out...damn.
JD aus
08-29-2010, 05:35 AM
I have started reading Jacinto's Remnant and I am a little puzzled as to where they are. Can anyone help me?
tfghost92
08-29-2010, 07:37 AM
I have started reading Jacinto's Remnant and I am a little puzzled as to where they are. Can anyone help me?

from my understanding they all moved to Port Ferral. I think Jonesy's Snowblind takes place after Jacinto's Remnant or maybe during. I'm not sure yet.


Also, SPOILERS KIND OF



I find it so terribly sad to be Dom. Not only does he now know his wife is dead, but the HE had to be the one to finish her off. The thing I am getting at is that only Dom and Marcus knew. So now everyone who knows he was looking for her will ask "Hey, did you finally find Maria?" and he has to tell him that he personally ended her life. Like during the Prologue Cole asked him about her and he just out and said "I killed her. I helped her go."

That must suck big time.
AdamFenix
08-29-2010, 11:12 AM
Saying goodbye to the one you love is never easy...
Jonesybites
08-29-2010, 02:08 PM
--SPOILERS--somewhat...

As tfghost elaborated before, what is left of Jacinto's civilians and military is relocated, temporarily to Port Farral, but the COG will eventually investigate Vectus Island as a prospective, permanent location/starting point, to rebuild humanity.

The way the story goes back and forth between two time frames I found to be hideously annoying, but that's just me.
JD aus
08-30-2010, 03:50 AM
The way the story goes back and forth between two time frames I found to be hideously annoying, but that's just me.

Me to. I sometimes forget which time frame I'm in.
Wisdom Thumbs
08-30-2010, 03:54 AM
Really? I never had that problem. Maybe it's because I established two different "head movies" (to use a phrase from the hilariously awesome Tropic Thunder), one of which was distinctly Pendulum Wars and had beautiful landscapes, and the other of which was distinctly Locust Wars and had destroyed, apocalyptic environments (or islands and water).

Never lost track of it. Is it because I'm such a visual person and have to visualize each scene I read as it would look like in a movie?
JD aus
08-30-2010, 04:15 AM
Really? I never had that problem. Maybe it's because I established two different "head movies" (to use a phrase from the hilariously awesome Tropic Thunder), one of which was distinctly Pendulum Wars and had beautiful landscapes, and the other of which was distinctly Locust Wars and had destroyed, apocalyptic environments (or islands and water).

Never lost track of it. Is it because I'm such a visual person and have to visualize each scene I read as it would look like in a movie?

Both time frames are after E-Day. But yes, in Aspho Fields it was a lot easier.
Jonesybites
08-30-2010, 09:17 AM
It wasn't so much "losing track," I just hated it when I'd be reading along, wanting to see what happene next, and then I would get transferred into the other timeline. It severed the pace for me, and then I would have to go back and remember, ok why are they here again, oh wait that's right...but I've always had a peeve about that. It doesn't bother some people.

I should be getting Anvil Gate sometime in the next few days, since they shipped them first thing this morning....
Sgt. Grub k1ller
08-30-2010, 09:31 AM
It wasn't so much "losing track," I just hated it when I'd be reading along, wanting to see what happene next, and then I would get transferred into the other timeline. It severed the pace for me, and then I would have to go back and remember, ok why are they here again, oh wait that's right...but I've always had a peeve about that. It doesn't bother some people.

I should be getting Anvil Gate sometime in the next few days, since they shipped them first thing this morning....

Lucky >_> :mad: