600!

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Sounis has 600 members!

To celebrate, how about a question?

What is your absolute favorite part of A Conspiracy of Kings?

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[farens.livejournal.com]

When Sounis and Gen sneak out at night after Sounis pushes Gen down, and they talk and everything is okay because there are no awkward, official pretenses. And then Gen tells about when he knew he loved Irene XD Best. Part. Ever.

[ladymoon-kora.livejournal.com]

That's mine too! :) I'm such a sucker for scenes like that. I've had Gen's quote stuck in my head for weeks now--"...and then, between one heartbeat and the next, and to my complete surprise, it wasn't funny anymore."

[pico-the-great.livejournal.com]

The part where, once I graduate - one week! - I get to read it! :DDD!

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Yay you! Congratulations--on the graduation AND the reading.

[elle-winters.livejournal.com]

IRENE AND EDDIS HOLDING HANDS

*INGRAINS IN MEMORY FoR EvER*

[lizzyazula.livejournal.com]

<3

That's all that needs to be typed.

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

With apologies to Lois McMaster Bujold, the "Throw yourself on that unexploded lamb chop, boy!" moment. :-)

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

I had to think about this for about...*looks at clock*...three hours or so, but I finally got it! :)

[sgwordy.livejournal.com]

These two moments during the sword fighting farce:

I don't think unlikely means to him what it does to the rest of us," said the magus.

"Couldn't," Gen said coolly. "I needed you on the edge, looking slightly sick."

[drashizu.livejournal.com]

That second one is my favorite Gen quote from this book :) Well, tied potentially with "The simplest way to end a war..."

[eme369.livejournal.com]

Oooo, it's so hard to pick!
I'd have to say though that my favorite moment was the part where Gen shows up in Sophos' room and talks about how Irene and he have matching knives and guns in their bedposts because that's when Gen was shown again as his humorous self and it was one of the most funny sections of the book.

My very, very, very close second favorites would be when Gen, Irene, Sophos and Helen are talking on the couches and Irene "shyly" touches Gen's cheek before sending him back to his couch ~ because you just have to love any moment between Gen and Irene ~ and the final chapters when Eddis talks about how the Gods are "not dreams" to Gen and that "the veil for him is always thin" (sorry if the quotes are inaccurate, I don't have the book with me).

[lizzyazula.livejournal.com]

WE EAT THE CHICKEN NOW!!

[rosaleeluann.livejournal.com]

Lol. Lots of good Sophos lines.


"Give me your shirt."
"Why?"
"Because if you don't, I'll hit you really hard and take it anyway."



"I don't want your cake." I did actually. I wanted it alot.

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Mine is where Sophos pushes Gen down, with a roll in his mouth. He's been made a fool of and kept at arm's length, and he NEEDS his old Gen back so he loses it and acts like a kid. Not just pushing, but swinging his leg behind first to make sure his push is most effective. <3

[tiegirl.livejournal.com]

This is the first thing that came to mind for me too, so I had to pick it as favorite. Otherwise, I couldn't have picked.

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

THAT TONIGHT'S GONNA BE A GOOD NIGHT

THAT TONIGHT'S GONNA BE A GOOD NIGHT

THAT TONIGHT'S GONNA BE A GOOD GOOD NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT

*dances*

*mumbles through a bunch of the lyrics*

MAZELTOV!

probz Sophos and Gen's date barhopping trip once they're besties again.




checkers remind me never to go near a computer whilst hyped up on caffeine ever again

*borrows peggy's icon for the occasion*

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

But jade, we like you like this.

L'Chaim!

[tencups-i-swear.livejournal.com]

'Dirnes, I don't want your cake' I did, actually, I wanted it a lot.
Sophos tripping Gen up, then going out to the bar =D
Gen and Irene <3
And, and, and . . .
EVERYTHING.
Except when Sophos is being all sad or beaten up because it makes me too sad. Yes. Right.

[amolegere.livejournal.com]

Oh oh oh!!! Decisions... ummmmm... hmmm.

I did rather enjoy the part where Sophos knocks Gen flat on his backside... and the time when he shoots Akretenesh. But I think my fav is going to have to be the scene back in Attolia. "You SHOT the ambassador!?!?!?" "You gave me the gun!" "I didn't mean for you to shoot an ambassador with it!" "Oh how our carefully laid plans go astray." "You shut up." LOL.

My poor brother, I had to snatch the book away from him so I could decide on a part. He's sitting here like "What???" and I'm like "Don't read over my shoulder, it'll spoil the end" and he's like "Well, you basically just gave it away that SOMETHING funny happens." As I sit here loling at Sophos. Finish quickly mon frere so we can lol together!

[jennifer19l.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, this is so difficult. It's almost like choosing what child you like best, because, honestly, it's not that I like one more than the other. All my favorites touch me in different ways.

That said, I think I have to go for when Sophos stuffs the bread in his mouth, drops his practice sword, trips up Gen and shoves him. And the following scenes.

Before that I was so worried about Gen and how he was acting and reading that was such a release. I knew then everything was going to be okay. And I think it was the first scene in the book that I had to stop at and read about twenty times before I could continue.

Oh, and one more reason. I have three boys myself, and as I read this I could see my own kids resolving an "issue" like this. It's such a boy response to emotional turmoil. It made me wonder if MWT drew this scene from her own experience with having three boys.

[rosaleeluann.livejournal.com]

Can I choose, like a whole section? Not at all original, since everyone else loves this part too, but my favorite section starts with the sparring with the Mede through Sophos pushing Gen through going out to the bar together... that whole section is basically made of awesome.

[zumie-ashlen.livejournal.com]

"No doubt she had overcome her own rebels with ten men and a penknife."

<3

[amolegere.livejournal.com]

YES! That was the best, I can so see Irene doing that!

[hapaxnym.livejournal.com]

Bang!

and then: BANG!

Crowning. Moment. Of. Awesome.

Also, the Other Ion, pleading "Don't forget me." Because it just ripped my heart out.

[elle-winters.livejournal.com]

omg Ion..!! I totally FORGOT about him...*slaps forehead*

[lylassandra.livejournal.com]

When he shot that SOB. I was floored. I wanted to jump in the story and kiss him, but I settled for cackling like a madwoman instead. =)

[styromgalleries.livejournal.com]

Cpngratulations sounis!! That's awesome!

So many good ones, but I love Love LOVED the Gen and Eddis moment on the roof. Gah! It slays me with how awesome it was!

[elle-winters.livejournal.com]

*slays you*

because it's just that awesome =D

[agh-4.livejournal.com]

Whoa... 600 be many manykins. !!!

Yes! What everyone else is saying! Love, love, love! The "Sophos, you sleep with a knife under your pillow? I'm hurt." scene, the chicken Magus conversation,

Oh, also the fake heart attack,
also the remchik scene!

Oh, and the dust motes thingy!

[rosaleeluann.livejournal.com]

THE FAKE HEART ATTACK! I was like, what, Magus, you can't be that old! You're fit and soldierly! Come BACK! and then he did and I was like MAGUS YOU ARE MADE OF AWESOME THAT WAS HILARIOUS. AND AWESOME.

[teenareena.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is so hard!

I probably have to go with the BANG! BANG! scene in the theatre. I love how the tension builds up and that if-I-can-be-Eddis-then-I-shall-be-Attolia speech.

I also have this extremely fond feeling for the scene where Attolis and Sounis first conducted their negotiation in private. They act all so grown up!

[philia-fan.livejournal.com]

I think my favorite part was the return of Basrus and the way Sophos would rather trust him than anyone else, and the whole, "No, I'm Bruto" thing.

[sgwordy.livejournal.com]

I think this is one of those moments where we begin to see how Sophos' mind works. One thing I like about our royals is that they each have such distinctive ways of reacting to problems. The only other person I can see come close to interacting with Basrus in this way is Eddis and even then that's a stretch.

[rosaleeluann.livejournal.com]

Also! I really liked how Sopohs was thinking "What would Gen do?" Ha.

[drashizu.livejournal.com]

Haha love the icon XD

[emerald-happy.livejournal.com]

*hearts the 'sounis milestone's tag

Nice work, SuperCheck

also...Helen and Irene holding hands. Also Irene in general.

[magicsandwiches.livejournal.com]

SuperCheck. I love it.

[magicsandwiches.livejournal.com]

"I was a treasure to be parceled out slowly."

That whole moment is just beautiful and made me love Sophos so much.

[reader-marie.livejournal.com]

Way too many good scenes to pick just one! Every time somebody here says one, I agree wholeheartedly. Sword-fighting, pistols, bars, dinners, rooftops,gardens, and libraries all have something to recommend them. If I had to pick, it would probably be Gen and Sophos' middle-of-the-night excursion, both because it gives us some lovely backstory and because they both act like their former selves more than their royal selves. (Not that I object to royalty.)

Also, every time Sophos gets called "Bunny." Just because.

[mortalasabee.livejournal.com]

"WE WILL EAT THE CHICKEN NOW!!"

That's my favorite part. :D