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The Giants are in the Legendarium. Tolkien wrote in a name-guide to LotR: Tarlang belonged to a group of giants who in "ancient days" were building the White Mountains in order to prevent Men from entering the giants' land close by the Sea. While carrying a heavy load of rocks, Tarlang stumbled and fell on his face, fatally breaking his neck. His corpse was used by the other giants to finish the wall: his remants formed the pass Tarlang's Neck (from the break in his neck), Dol Tarlang (consisting of his head), and Cûl Veleg and Cûl Bîn (remnants of his load of rocks) there grew up a local legend to explain the name. It was said that when ‘in ancient days’ some giants were building the White Mountains as a wall to keep Men out of their land by the Sea, one of them called Tarlang tripped and fell on his face and as he was carrying a heavy load of rocks on his head he broke his neck and was killed. The other giants used his body to complete the wall at that point, but left his neck lying southward, leading to the three mountains of the spur: Dol Tarlang ‘Tarlang’s Head’, Cul Veleg ‘Bigload’ and Cul Bin ‘Little Load’. The break in his neck was shown by a depression in the ridge, near the junction with Tarlang’s Head, over which the road went. THE PASSING OF THE GREY COMPANY 537 In consequence the Tarlang was called Achad Tarlang using another word for ‘neck’ (Q[uenya] axo), properly referring only to the bony vertebral part and not including the throat, this was generally called in the vernacular C[ommon] S[peech] Tarlang’s Neck. And in LotR its hinted to this: "And upon its out-thrust knee was the Guarded City, with its seven walls of stone so strong and old that it seemed to have been not builded but carven by giants out of the bones of the earth."

Ben's maximalist stance is so fun

Thank you guys for being awesome. I laughed for the 1st time since tuesday. NightmareNovemberN8 speaking facts

So what happened to the election day stream? I was keeping an eye out for that.

Blame the two party system itself. Also Bobby Kennedy Jr was the closest to breaking it in history. That's why the DNC used unprecedented lawsuits and resources to keep him from being on the last couple of ballots necessary to make him a true third contender.

Ah... I remember reading this book in the 7th grade, the main takeaway our class had was to be paranoid of your classmates stealing me' memories with thar dirty friggin' fingers... Quickly our school's student body broke into wareimg factions by homerooms to defend from the wacky english teach making us read about paenis envy... you wont make me reciever nuthin' Old Man Giver!! But yeah, I like your interperation better.

This is soooo coool, keep up the good work

I actually like the straightcomic vs roastcomic criticism dynamic, its an interesting story about a story with a healthy dose of witty shittalkin

Just came here for the "Sprawl" chat. Thought "Ben" did a pretty darn good job putting things in thematic order, but that other guy's corny shtick got stale after about four seconds. He added nothing to the conversation other than the urge to simply fast-forward over his annoying voice. Like, if you have nothing meaningful/relevant to add to the conversion then just shut up. That said, where I think Mona Lisa Overdrive really shines is in its uplifting/transcendental pay-off. Meditating on it, I didn't feel at all cheated by the fact that Gibson was intelligent enough to treat his readers as potential equals in terms of existential speculation. I think though you may have a point about Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive should've being one book. I always felt that there should've been a full novel between Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive which centered more on the creation of the Aleph and the intrigue surrounding Bobby's discovery and theft of the device, but that's just a pet peeve of mine. The only real negative I ever had with this work was that it ended. But I guess Gibson staying honest to his muse must've realized he'd reached a point where the "human" elements in this story cycle had achieved their ends and that what would come afterwards may simply be beyond the power of mere words to express?

Thank you very much for this talk, Ben. It was great to hear someone else's explanation of this complex book. Side note: The other guy who forgot what the book was about was really annoying throughout the entire podcast. Every time Ben tried to make an interesting point, the other guy would say something distracting and annoying and derail the conversation. Next time, Ben, a solo episode would be much better! Once again, thanks, Ben, for your talk about this book. There’s not much available on it in video or podcast format, so I was happy to hear your thoughts.

I love this channel so far and the discussions on cyberpunk media, y'all are too underrated

Once he said never make movies longer than 90 mins I realised he’s a moron. Switched off, never coming back

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Next Sci-Fi series suggestions: The Book of the New Sun Hyperion Cantos Foundation - Asimov Rama series - Arthur C. Clarke LLAP 🖖

27:11 that’s interesting. I read AG as an outsider, so my understanding of the US is way less than yours (but similar perhaps to NG’s). From this distance the things you talk about do not jar. But then again what NG says about Norse mythology does not jar either and I definitely know about as much about that as I did when I read the stories as a child. Perhaps the book is for people who know a little but not too much, and upsets both scholars of Norse mythology and Americans.

1:00:17 further the conversation about Shadow isn’t this half the point? After all later in the book Laura tells him he may not be dead but he’s not exactly alive either (I think she calls him a ‘great big man sized hole in the world’ or something). Talk about a 🔥 from a zombie 🧟

No way a facehuger would impregnate an ape or a gorilla, they would rip it off their faces in instance acid or not : a chimp would tear it off and face f**k wouldn't stand a chance I seems to fit only human face and nothing else and this is where the film starts to make less and less sense And I never understood why these creatures had to break out from the chest there are 2 better exits 😁

Just started the video and I'm curious to hear your thoughts. I listened to the audible adaptation of the script and found it very odd and unsatisfying honestly. For some reason I thought it would be some sort of glorious godsend of a script.

Bobby Newmark was always as annoying as. His only real contribution to the book was to give as his handle its great title, which even other characters in the book thought ridiculous and overblown on him.

I just wanted to hear about this book (I also didn't enjoy) and I got hit with a Tonga Loa bomb lmao

Awesome upload Thanks

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I only have the audiobook. They do not speed up his voice as a narration as he's falling.

In the first book they mentioned that the name Ghost Hunters Adventure Club was "the most search engine optimized". I don't know the time period but I imagine it's modern day and the people just look act like they're in a Wes Anderson movie.

The conductor isn't described as looking like him, but I imagine the conductor as being played by Idris Elba. "Train Law" "It's encouraged"

My opinion is that the boxmaker is not the original Wintermute/Neuromancer, but the "memory" of Wintermute/Neuromancer...

Continue to keep the solid work. Extremely good post, Words About Books. {Can't wait|Looking forward

the short stories like "Fragments of a Hologram Rose" from 1977 to "Burning Chrome" and "Johnny Mnemonic" from 1981 were his first short stories, put together into the 1986 short story collection "Burning Chrome"

Guess I have to wait for LOTR now

GJ, it's not often for u to find a review about this book...

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Quick add: I thought the Loas were created by Neuromancer and Wintermute when they merged to communicate with humans in order to make an attempt to join with the other AI in Alpha Centauri.

This podcast was great, I really needed some clarifications on some points after reading the book. You guys covered them all! Thank you!

oh man, this is totally sitting on my book shelf right now! Thanks for giving me a reason to read it

Great job u guys did...

Are you a “History Matters” fan

To Mona, he was both boyfriend and pimp. But yes, very glad he got got'd

"I guess going back to the book..." so fucking funny, hilarious video

wtf this???

They'll never stop the Star Wars! Have no fears, they've got stories for years, like Luke becomes a robot, Maybe Han gets a holophone, has Dooku ever owned a bear?

Just discovering your channel and blog and I love it, keep up the good work.

Figures you guys would think Denis Villanueve is great. This adaptation is garbage.

Badass.

Didn't expect this one. Entertaining either way.

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💯 about the “number lock” lol😂 spot on, sounded like me ranting haha

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I need you to hurry up and review Heretics of Dune & Chapterhouse Dune. I don't want to wait 2 years. I finished them and I need to hear you talk about sex kung-fu, Miles Teg being the coolest Dune character & what the heck that last chapter Frank Herbert wrote was about?

Just finished reading this and was looking for someone to help clarify the book. Glad I'm not the only one who struggled to understand the plot. Regarding Jackie being a "Horse", She does get possessed by the AI at the end of the book when she is helping Bobby do net runs. Also regarding how the AI saves the day at the end, I felt like that was a fun play on Deus Ex Machina since the god Machines literally saved the characters from certain death. That being said, it would have been fun to see Turner go John Wick on the gangs, or if the gangs were trying to bust in and they are fighting when Bobby finally kills Virek. Anyways, thanks for the good podcast!

I've read the every book in the sprawil trilogy over 5 times each. the AI said itself that when they combined in unity. the form split in the middle as the mirror was flawed. and the individual fragments ran each their own way