Ron MilesWebsite Owner Commander In Chief Posts:864
2/28/2014 8:47 PM |
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This is the official thread for comments on Deathlands #118- Blood Red Tide
The bibliography page is located HERE
You can submit your own review HERE
Be warned, this thread may contain spoilers for the book.
"Sadly then I knew the answer. All her life she was a dancer, but no one ever played the song she knew." - The Residents
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ChuckPublished Author New Member Posts:55
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twinsrule26Basic Member Posts:109
3/1/2014 11:16 PM |
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Posted By Chuck on 3/1/2014 9:27:45 PM
That's me!
Does this mean you are the author of both #117 & #118 ??? If So, That's Great news !!!
I'm Really looking forward to your next book Chuck.
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Ron MilesWebsite Owner Commander In Chief Posts:864
3/2/2014 6:06 PM |
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#117 (Desolation Angels) is definitely not Chuck's. I am not sure of the author on that one yet.
"Sadly then I knew the answer. All her life she was a dancer, but no one ever played the song she knew." - The Residents
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silentalbinoAdvanced Member Posts:742
3/9/2014 9:43 PM |
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We are off to the Caribbean with Mr Chuck, full story on amazon.com. It's gonna be great or I'm a stickies uncle.
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ChuckPublished Author New Member Posts:55
3/12/2014 11:32 PM |
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You all will be the judge of that, tooting mine own horn? I am rather proud of this one. I believe this is a DL that has not been done before.
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silentalbinoAdvanced Member Posts:742
3/13/2014 8:50 AM |
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If it's only half as good as Hell Road Warriors we would still be in for a treat. When is GE going to get its finger out and have you writing this series full time. Or at least two Chuck Rogers DL novels a year.
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The PhantomBasic Member Posts:219
3/13/2014 11:57 AM |
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Posted By silentalbino on 3/13/2014 8:50:26 AM
If it's only half as good as Hell Road Warriors we would still be in for a treat. When is GE going to get its finger out and have you writing this series full time. Or at least two Chuck Rogers DL novels a year.
Or better yet, I would like to see what Chuck can do with Outlanders.
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silentalbinoAdvanced Member Posts:742
3/13/2014 12:01 PM |
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It could only be good I'm guessing.
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4/9/2014 7:08 PM |
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Here's the full rear cover text -
RUINS OF WAR
In a nuclear wasteland where death and destruction are the norm, Ryan Cawdor and his fellow survivors seek out refuge while looking to one another for protection. Civilization no longer exists in the barren Deathlands. There is only the will to survive and the dim hope of a promised land.
CREW OF THE DAMNED
Taken captive on a ship in the former Caribbean, Ryan and his companions must work as part of the crew or perish at the hands of the captain. But the mutant in charge of the vessel is the least of their worries. Each day is a struggle as they face rivalry among the sailors, violent attacks and deadly storms. Worse, a powerful enemy is hunting the ship to destroy everyone on board. Fighting for their lives and those of their shipmates, the companions must find unity within the chaos or die in the attempt.
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silentalbinoAdvanced Member Posts:742
9/1/2014 7:16 PM |
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So got the Kindle version today and i'm 52% through it. Chuck mate I'll have some of what you were smoking when you wrote this. Wasn't too sure about Mr S to begin with but now I'm really liking him and the odd animal rider scene had me in stitches. You guy's are going to love this. I did notice one mistake though. Ryan is called "Bolan" by one of the crew.
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Wordsmith-repriseFreelance Editor Basic Member Posts:150
9/1/2014 7:32 PM |
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Now that makes me mad! I distinctly recall editing that out and making a change. I own up to my mistakes and omissions, but I DID change that! Editing online can be a bit of a pain. I often wonder if all of my edits make it.
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ChuckPublished Author New Member Posts:55
9/1/2014 7:47 PM |
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What I was smoking . . . I believe I am going to take that as some sort of compliment on how wildly creative it was. Glad you liked Mr. Squid. I consider him one of my better DL creations. Sorry about the Bolan/Ryan mix-up. After thirty plus Executioner books it is sort of hardwired into me when writing for GE. A certain editor will tell you it is not the first time I have engaged in this behavior...
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silentalbinoAdvanced Member Posts:742
9/1/2014 7:54 PM |
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As the Chairman of the Chuck Rogers Official Fan Club off course its a compliment. Great book and I've just got to the bit where they find the Glenmorangie.
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ChuckPublished Author New Member Posts:55
9/1/2014 8:48 PM |
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Thank you for the kind words. Doc really got to shine in this one. I have a friend who is a Scotch whisky affiicianado and he said he almost cried during the Scotch speech. Doc really is my favorite character to write in the series.
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GrantboNew Member Posts:46
9/7/2014 1:17 AM |
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WOW! I don't know who wrote this one, but they did an outstanding job.
This story really brought the series up a notch--maybe two. The story was super interesting, very well written and had believable characters. The squid was VERY cool.
The hand thing was a nice touch.
After 117 books, Christy finally got new boots (at least for awhile) and a new gun. I didn't think that'd ever happen.
This is a real winner.
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twinsrule26Basic Member Posts:109
9/7/2014 1:45 AM |
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Posted By Grantbo on 9/7/2014 1:17 AM
WOW! I don't know who wrote this one, but they did an outstanding job.
This story really brought the series up a notch--maybe two. The story was super interesting, very well written and had believable characters. The squid was VERY cool.
The hand thing was a nice touch.
After 117 books, Christy finally got new boots (at least for awhile) and a new gun. I didn't think that'd ever happen.
This is a real winner.
The Gun is her new best friend she keeps from now on.
The book was written by none other than the great Chuck Rogers . If you ask me he should be given full command of writing Deathlands from now on .
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silentalbinoAdvanced Member Posts:742
9/8/2014 3:15 PM |
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The book was written by none other than the great Chuck Rogers . If you ask me he should be given full command of writing Deathlands from now on .
Amen to that. Chuck should be given overall control of the series or at the very least write two of the books a year. These Bolan chappies are truly being spoiled.
Does anyone know which series is the more successful? Who do we have to bribe/extort or make disappear for this to happen
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WoT Vet07New Member Posts:12
9/19/2014 1:06 AM |
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Here's a direct question for Mr. Chuck Rogers: Is Bosun Manrape a Mutie or is his super human speed, strength, and reflexes just a quirk of regular genetics? Also could Ryan ever take Manrape, hand to hand, if he was well rested and not recovering from injuries and/or drugging??? In the beginning, it seemed that Ryan and Manrape were destined for a showdown until the conflicts with Doc and Ricky were resolved. Also, Ryan's promise to Kristy seemed to firmly preclude a final smack-down.
Mr. Squid: Initial thoughts when reading the passage where Doc discovers Mr. Squid's sentience and intelligence - WTF! I would've figured that based on Doc's observations of the terrified captive cephalopod listening to the cooks discussing the best way to prep her as an entrée would lead to a revelation that the octopus was a semi-intelligent bio-wep, like some others that Ryan and Company have encountered before. Instead, Mr. Squid turns out to be an articulate, multilingual, problem solving intellect; who can follow Doc's esoteric threads in conversation better then Ryan and friends who knew him much longer. Mr. Squid may not lie but she certainly has a sense of humor. She demonstrated it by tacitly accepting Oracle's paradoxical nickname as a permanent alias, signing it with her own tentacle into the Ship's Book, and rattling Strawmaker by returning his initial greeting in perfect Espanol. Commander Miles better watch out, Mr. Squid just might end up commanding the Glory if her popularity grows any larger.
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ChuckPublished Author New Member Posts:55
9/19/2014 6:22 PM |
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SPOILERS . . .
Thanks for your interest!
I never made up my mind on Manrape whether he was mutie or peak human, and in the end I just left it up in the air. I had absolutely planned for him and Ryan to have a knockdown/drag out, slobber-knocker of a fight after Ryan took a flogging, but after Ricky won his duel and kept his rear contact point intact, it suddenly didn't seem necessary. Nor did the flogging, and in the end Manrape went from nemesis to great supporting character. Books sometimes have a way of writing themselves . . .
Mr. Squid was a whole bunch of fun to write. Her character just grew and grew and grew. The book was set as a salty sea adventure, and did not technically take place in the Deathlands. (None of my DLs have . . .) I loved writing it, but I also needed to keep it firmly in the realm of the post-apocalyptic future, and Mr. Squid was one of the stronger sci-fi elements of the story. Plus? I learned a whole lot about octopuses!
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RandarchistBasic Member Posts:217
9/24/2014 5:28 AM |
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Aye, if it was a movie it'd be rated "Aaarrrgh"
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RPGjunkieNew Member Posts:35
10/3/2014 5:53 PM |
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I'm just about finished this one, and it's been quite brilliant so far. The thing I appreciate the most about Mr. Roger's books are the strong supporting characters he creates. Also, if I have to wait 2 more years - the amount of time between Blood Red Tide, Hell Road Warriors and Blood Harvest - for another DL penned by Chuck, I'll probably riot. It will be a miniscule and inconsequential riot, but a riot nontheless.
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silentalbinoAdvanced Member Posts:742
10/3/2014 6:06 PM |
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I've got the Molotov's ready. Mr Squid, Manrape et al brilliant. I've just finished rereading Blood Harvest and there was an amazing supporting cast in it as well. Mr Rogers along with Mr Philipson should split the writing of the series between them with a Vic Milan book every so often. We Axlerites know what we want, so should GE.
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RandarchistBasic Member Posts:217
10/6/2014 4:47 PM |
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Catching up on reading, in the middle of Hell Road Warriors... can't wait to get to this one, sounds like a real hoot!
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)3az )3aziahBritish Bloke Veteran Member Posts:1060
10/15/2014 8:42 AM |
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Like a man drowning in a sea of endless banality, I grabbed and grasped at the next DL book in the series after Desolation angels and hoped that it would provide just a brief sweet taste of something beyond the darkness I had been traveling through these last several outings. With morose forbidding I opened the cover and began to take it its offerings... ...Oh the joy, oh the sweet feeling of once more letting my eyes fall on well constructed prose, from the very first page I KNEW this was what I was wanting. Like a man denied good food for so long, the first taste of this was pure heaven! What a stonker of a book. The characters, the setting, the everything is just first class -OK I hate the cover, but nothing is perfect is it? I'm looking forward to picking it up to continue and feeling anger when forced to put it down. Chuck you have done us proud and I'm looking forward to digesting this one as much as I did LJ's work. Jim
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)3az )3aziahBritish Bloke Veteran Member Posts:1060
10/22/2014 6:04 PM |
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I'm on my second reading of this one and its one of (if not) the best post LJ books to date. It reads like a DL should, its intelligent, the characters are all in full 3D and the story is well planned and executed. A full five stars from me on this one. Jim
=============================== Billy Fish: He wants to know if we are gods.
Peachy Carnehan: Not gods - Englishmen. The next best thing.
Please check out my FLICKR photos
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silentalbinoAdvanced Member Posts:742
10/26/2014 1:49 PM |
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No stupid muties is always a good sign as well.
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RandarchistBasic Member Posts:217
10/26/2014 11:01 PM |
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I prefer smart muties, personally.
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The PhantomBasic Member Posts:219
10/27/2014 2:34 PM |
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Would a mime be considered a mutie? lol
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)3az )3aziahBritish Bloke Veteran Member Posts:1060
10/28/2014 2:36 AM |
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Posted By <span class='af-profile-name'>The Phantom</span> on 10/27/2014 2:34 PM <p>Would a mime be considered a mutie? lol <img alt="" src="http://www.jamesaxler.com/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/dark/emoticons/tongue.gif" /></p> <p> </p> That depends on how you look at them Jim
=============================== Billy Fish: He wants to know if we are gods.
Peachy Carnehan: Not gods - Englishmen. The next best thing.
Please check out my FLICKR photos
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RandarchistBasic Member Posts:217
10/28/2014 10:39 AM |
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There are still mimes left??
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RandarchistBasic Member Posts:217
12/1/2014 9:04 PM |
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About 2/3 through this one, and I have to say that this is one of the best adventure stories I've read in a very, very long time. Period. Seriously, it's a damned excellent book. This book deserves every praise possible. Five out of five. I have not been able to put it down.
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