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Movies and TV / The Hobbit Movie
« on: February 02, 2011, 05:12:31 AM »
They keep announcing or rumoring a realease of Hobbit. But to date all we've ever gotten is the crappy cartoon that never finished.

Now it's slated for release in 2012. But wait! It's in two parts and we only get the FIRST half in 2012. Dejavu all over again.

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Movies and TV / Re: Should all 2012 movies be removed from the media?
« on: February 02, 2011, 04:48:44 AM »
I'm not holding my breath for any 2012 movies, But the world can't end before Summer in 2012, otherwise we don't get to read the last installment of WoT!

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Thanks,

I appreciate the comments. Expecially I appreciate you pointing out that line that got garbled. It seems I put a comma where a possessive should have been:

Aellir's slight and the princess', obvious dislike filled Goeener with a cold and calculating rage.

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Thanks. That was a very flattering response.

The Copyright thing is necessary on this piece because of where I have posted it other than here.

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Dan Wells / Re: Buy Dan Bacon?
« on: January 21, 2011, 02:21:10 AM »
That's true, except they repeatedly call it "sushi" and what maki are famous for are the sashimi inside. . . .

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Thanks,

I appreciate the comments.

Yes a world like our own, called terra and centering around a mainland continent called n'Far Lugada or just Lugada and an Island empire half a large as the continent called Albion.

I'm surprised that in the context of a fairy tale it didn't stand on it's own. I'll have to give that some thought. I do hope others find the time to comment. The more the merrier.

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Dan Wells / Re: Buy Dan Bacon?
« on: January 20, 2011, 07:28:02 AM »
Ummm the only thing worse than pork is raw pork. Disgusting.

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Rants and Stuff / Re: I would like to announce!
« on: January 20, 2011, 07:19:30 AM »
Be safe Chris. Hope you find what you need. I'll be praying for you.

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Reading Excuses / Jan 17, 2011 - Renoard - The Bullfinch and the General
« on: January 17, 2011, 09:31:58 PM »
Just to prove that I am flexible enough to write without a VLDS tag. :P

This is a little fairy tale, or a long one perhaps, that I wrote as background material for my current novel. These are the sort of Faerie Tales that a character in the world of Redmantle might have grown up with. I've posted it to my blog previously, but since I have so little readership it's very similar to unpublished. :P Just remember this is a Faerie Tale, not a formal shortstory.

For newbies feel free to be honest, I may ask you to clarify where you think your cirtique is plain, but I look forward to seeing the real opinion. Think of it this way, if you had really bad BO and and didn't notice and your sister let you leave the house that way, I think you'd be rather upset by that. Tough critique is being honest enough to help. ;)

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Reading Excuses / Re: Email List + Submission Dates
« on: January 17, 2011, 03:39:28 AM »
Nat put me up too, if you would.

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Rants and Stuff / Re: I would like to announce!
« on: January 15, 2011, 02:02:39 AM »
I found that my Deviant Art site was still up dispite my total disregard and lack of sales.

I just can't understand why a FEW people didn't want Strawberry on a teashirt or mug.



BTW Yes, Yes she is. © 2006-2011

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Site News / Re: Relocation: Choose a Direction
« on: January 15, 2011, 01:58:11 AM »
I'm strangely drawn to Patagonia, which is west and south. But I'm not sure I'd care for Llama.

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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: January 15, 2011, 01:52:19 AM »
Not sure if I mentioned it, but The Hobbit is on my next read list, but I can't seem to make myself pick it up and get started. Rereading has always been difficult for me. I remember too much content and it takes something special to let me reread without feeling bored.

I don't do amazon and I don't do ebooks. Partly for ethical reasons and partly for the aesthetic. But the B&N and the Borders locally are always very nearly empty of new books. The crappy tradesbound Manga have edged out the decent books for adult readers. I never see a lot of the titles cited here, alas. Why they aren't even stocking WoK, and the massmarket edition is a ways off yet.

sigh!  :-\

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Reading Excuses / Re: Stopping at a Green Light - 01/03/11 - scenetk421
« on: January 09, 2011, 11:41:32 PM »
At the risk of being pedantic, let me define sentiment.

1) an attitude toward something; regard; opinion. 2) a mental feeling; emotion: a sentiment of pity. 3) refined or tender emotion; manifestation of the higher or more refined feelings. 4) exhibition or manifestation of feeling or sensibility, or appeal to the tender emotions, in literature, art, or music. 5) a thought influenced by or proceeding from feeling or emotion. 6) the thought or feeling intended to be conveyed by words, acts, or gestures as distinguished from the words, acts, or gestures themselves.

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The piece as a whole is sentimental because of the relationship between this lonely demented man and his kind neighbors, also because of the theme of self sacrifice.

The Sentimentality of the piece is woven throughout. Edvard's every interaction with the little girl and her mother is sentimental. His thought's about them as he plans his excavation are sentimental. The theme of self-sacrifice that threads through the piece is sentimental. I'm not sure if anything except the statistics, is unsentimental. Even his attachment to comic books is sentimental in a geekish sort of way.

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That clashed with the genuine if somewhat cliche'd emotions of the piece.

Why does the affected tone of a hard-boiled narrator clash with the sentimentality of the piece? Because the sentiment is ingenuous (not ingenious) and open-hearted, even naive. While the narrator tries to be calculated and even a touch cynical. It clashes because the narrator doesn't sound like he is reading the same story we are, and what he is picking up he doesn't quite understand.

How is the emotion of the piece cliched? It is boiler-plate chick-lit fiction. The stereotypes are so thick you have to walk carefully to avoid cutting yourself on them. We have the Martyred Messiah, Self Discovery Through Battling the Figments of One's Imagination (Quixote), The Eternal Apprentice (in the little girl), and the May December Romance in a very chaste version. Also the more modern archetype of the "Concerned but Ultimately Ineffectual Neighbor".

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: WOT Help
« on: January 08, 2011, 09:53:55 PM »
Edit: A comment that doesn't specifically relate to your post. I was at first quite sad that Moiraine was so drained of Power coming out. Then I realized that she's suffered a loss of power similar to that suffered by Siuan and Leane, which has a really nice symmetry to it. Those two were able to parley their loss into an advantage, and I have no doubt Moiraine is capable of the same.

Nice observation! 

Ryan I'm not sure it really qualifies as symmetry given that Siuane, Leanne and Moiraine were in fact members of a single cabal rather than opponents. It does clear the way for her to become the head of the new 'kin' auxiliary however. But the whole thing begins to have the flavor of a kung-fu theatre flick when ANYONE who really has any power and stands up to big bad, has to limp away dead or diminished. It is a recipe for closing the book with a whimper rather then the roar it deserves.

Sorry to hijack your post Bikemon.

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