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« Reply #220 on: February 18, 2009, 02:30:18 AM » |
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I'm starting "The Art of Sign Language" by Christopher Brown because I don't like not being able to communicate with some deaf people, especially children, whom I occasionally meet.
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« Reply #221 on: February 18, 2009, 03:50:01 AM » |
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I nearly started the Twilight series, but then I thought to myself, "No... I'd rather drive dozens of needles into my eyeballs than subject my mind to such utter tripe!"
I mean seriously. Teenaged emo vampires who SPARKLE in sunlight? If it wasn't already a book series and feature film, I'd think it was a prank!
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« Reply #222 on: February 18, 2009, 10:02:35 AM » |
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I nearly started the Twilight series, but then I thought to myself, "No... I'd rather drive dozens of needles into my eyeballs than subject my mind to such utter tripe!"
I mean seriously. Teenaged emo vampires who SPARKLE in sunlight? If it wasn't already a book series and feature film, I'd think it was a prank!
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« Reply #223 on: February 18, 2009, 11:18:43 AM » |
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except Stoker's Dracula has become so synonymous with vampires in the public's imagination that if vampires don't conform to his standards, then they're wrong. God help us if that becomes true for twilight.
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« Reply #224 on: February 18, 2009, 11:20:28 AM » |
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« Reply #225 on: February 18, 2009, 11:49:08 AM » |
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Thats an awesome idea, veekie. I think I'm gonna do that next time I read 'em.... which will probably be my 4th or 5th trip.
Speaking overly drawn out novels that make you want to kill yourself, has anyone ever attempted Tad Williams' "Otherland" series? 3500 pages, and I could not complete the last 500. Seriously.
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« Reply #226 on: February 20, 2009, 04:16:42 AM » |
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Cyrano de Bergerac.
Did you read that in French or in some other language ? I really wonder what a translation could be like... I've reread much of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series (awesome...) and I'm now half-way into Joe Abercrombie's Last Arguments of Kings - very nice ! I recommend that series (which starts with The Blade Itself). |
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Silanah heard their songs and prayers. And she watched. Sometimes mortals did indeed forget. Sometimes, mortals needed… reminding…
The Malazan Book of the Fallen, Steven Erikson
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« Reply #227 on: February 20, 2009, 03:42:44 PM » |
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Hero of the Shadows - David Gemmell. One of the Waylander books.
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« Reply #228 on: February 20, 2009, 06:35:35 PM » |
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Cyrano de Bergerac.
Did you read that in French or in some other language ? I really wonder what a translation could be like... In French, but I've read a decent translation before. |
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« Reply #229 on: February 20, 2009, 06:52:17 PM » |
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Death of a Salesman and Hamlet for school.
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My choice place for buying Magic: the Gathering Singles: adventuresOn.comCurrently DMing a Solo PbP, Check it out hereLike the leaves of the forest when Summer is green,
That host with their banners at sunset were seen:
Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown,
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« Reply #230 on: February 20, 2009, 07:10:26 PM » |
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The former is awesome, the latter sucks.
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Ja vuosia myöhemmin
kalvas kaksikko lattialla motellin tihrustelee,
kun sama keiju katossa leijailee.
Kyselevät: "Mikä päivä nyt on?
Tiedätkö sen?"
Kuiskaten laulaa keiju:
"Tämän elämän viimeinen."
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« Reply #231 on: February 20, 2009, 07:12:42 PM » |
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Really? I quite enjoy Hamlet, and Shakespeare in general, and find Death of a Salesman to be borderline tedious.
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My choice place for buying Magic: the Gathering Singles: adventuresOn.comCurrently DMing a Solo PbP, Check it out hereLike the leaves of the forest when Summer is green,
That host with their banners at sunset were seen:
Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown,
That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. |
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« Reply #232 on: February 20, 2009, 07:13:56 PM » |
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I dislike Shakespeare. He sure uses a lot of words, but that doesn't really make up the lack of actual content. I just can't read Shakespeare without falling asleep.
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Ja vuosia myöhemmin
kalvas kaksikko lattialla motellin tihrustelee,
kun sama keiju katossa leijailee.
Kyselevät: "Mikä päivä nyt on?
Tiedätkö sen?"
Kuiskaten laulaa keiju:
"Tämän elämän viimeinen."
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« Reply #233 on: February 20, 2009, 08:02:49 PM » |
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You want content? Read Titus Andronicus.
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Kai
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« Reply #234 on: February 20, 2009, 09:49:32 PM » |
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"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." ~Mahatma Gandhi
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« Reply #235 on: February 20, 2009, 10:07:06 PM » |
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I'm rereading the Sword of Truth series, just finished book one earlier today. It's interesting that the only part that I really remembered was the extreme Dominant/ Submissive relationship towards the end...
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« Reply #236 on: February 20, 2009, 10:15:13 PM » |
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I keep meaning to try again with that series. I've made it most of the way through book one twice and then...I don't know? I hear that it's good, I like the parts that I remember, I don't know what keeps stopping me. I'll put it back on my to read list, may have to wait a while though.
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"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." ~Mahatma Gandhi
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« Reply #237 on: February 21, 2009, 03:29:10 AM » |
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I'm rereading the Sword of Truth series, just finished book one earlier today. It's interesting that the only part that I really remembered was the extreme Dominant/ Submissive relationship towards the end...
That, "This was no chicken. This was evil manifest." and that speech about "Fire is bad", are all I can recall of the series. |
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The mind transcends the body. It's also a little cold because of that. Please get it a blanket. I wish I could read your mind, I can barely read mine. "Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. At 2:15, it begins rolling up characters."
"Just what do you think the moon up in the sky is? Everyone sees that big, round shiny thing and thinks there must be something round up there, right? That's just silly. The truth is much more awesome than that. You can almost never see the real Moon, and its appearance is death to humans. You can only see the Moon when it's reflected in things. And the things it reflects in, like water or glass, can all be broken, right? Since the moon you see in the sky is just being reflected in the heavens, if you tear open the heavens it's easy to break it~"
-Ibuki Suika, on overkill
To sumbolaion diakoneto moi, basilisk ouranionon.
Epigenentheto, apoleia keraune hos timeis pteirei.
Hekatonkatis kai khiliakis astrapsato.
Khiliarkhou Astrape!
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« Reply #238 on: February 21, 2009, 01:36:08 PM » |
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I don't think that the chicken line was in the first book, I don't remember it. And yeah, "Fire is bad" is all over book one, heh.
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« Reply #239 on: February 21, 2009, 02:37:18 PM » |
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The chicken line was in, I think the book with the chimes, whatitsname again. The one with the super killgongs.
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The mind transcends the body. It's also a little cold because of that. Please get it a blanket. I wish I could read your mind, I can barely read mine. "Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. At 2:15, it begins rolling up characters."
"Just what do you think the moon up in the sky is? Everyone sees that big, round shiny thing and thinks there must be something round up there, right? That's just silly. The truth is much more awesome than that. You can almost never see the real Moon, and its appearance is death to humans. You can only see the Moon when it's reflected in things. And the things it reflects in, like water or glass, can all be broken, right? Since the moon you see in the sky is just being reflected in the heavens, if you tear open the heavens it's easy to break it~"
-Ibuki Suika, on overkill
To sumbolaion diakoneto moi, basilisk ouranionon.
Epigenentheto, apoleia keraune hos timeis pteirei.
Hekatonkatis kai khiliakis astrapsato.
Khiliarkhou Astrape!
There is no higher price than 'free'. "I won't die. I've been ordered not to die." |
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