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Books / Re: So did you hear about Chris Paolini's books?
« on: February 05, 2008, 10:27:55 PM »
Quote from: White on February 05, 2008, 05:42:44 PM
I have to admit though, my beliefs were stengthened about Eldest/Eragon after I found out Paolini had been home school and based one of the characters off his sister

- other people fear carny folk, I fear the home schooled. Something about their pressed polo shirts or whatever *freaks* me out... though I love polo shirts really, great material to physically exert yourself in, I just get very weirded out by people who iron it---- or eat pizza with untensils.

Please don't fall prey to the stereotypes and be afraid of homeschoolers. Granted, there are cases in which there are some wacko homeschoolers that you probably should run away from. But the VAST majority are just normal people who do not wear insanely well-ironed polo shirts. (The creepy ones you want to run away from are probably wearing overalls.)


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Books / Re: So did you hear about Chris Paolini's books?
« on: February 04, 2008, 05:03:25 AM »
You aren't an English major by chance, are you?

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Books / Re: So did you hear about Chris Paolini's books?
« on: February 03, 2008, 12:45:21 AM »
Yeah... me either...  ???


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Books / Re: Books you dislike or used to dislike?
« on: February 01, 2008, 09:25:28 PM »
Thanks for the recommendation. If I can ever get up the gumption to pick up a book by Terry Brooks again, I might give it a shot.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: If Mistborn was a movie. . . .
« on: January 29, 2008, 10:46:48 PM »
lol... you should make him watch it with you... I'm positive he'll laugh.

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Books / Re: Books you dislike or used to dislike?
« on: January 29, 2008, 10:42:58 PM »
Quote from: Tekiel on January 29, 2008, 07:58:24 PM
Also (please don't hit me) The Once and Future King.  The thought of all those soon-to-be knights tying a little girl up to a tree to lure a unicorn so they could kill it . . . ugh, not my favorite part.

Yikes, I agree with that one!

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad... bleh. I do not understand why people like that novel.

Also O Pioneers by Willa Cather. I'm still not sure what the whole point of that one was...

Oh, and Terry Brooks' Sword of Shannara. It's really quite amazing how he managed to pack every fantasy novel cliche into one nice compact volume. I want the hours I spent reading it back.... I should have just stopped after the first few chapters, but I have this neurotic need to finish books once I start them. Perhaps it's a naive hope that they will get better.

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Books / Re: How has your views on WoT characters changed over the years?
« on: January 29, 2008, 10:38:04 PM »
I actually have come to like Moiraine a lot more whenever I go back and read WoT. Especially after reading New Spring. when you finally understand her and her motives a little bit more.

And I also agree with Comfortable Madness about Elayne. *gag* I just can't stand her... I seriously hope she gets killed off in the last book. I need vindication for all the torture she put me through.


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Brandon Sanderson / Re: If Mistborn was a movie. . . .
« on: January 28, 2008, 11:27:02 PM »
Leonardo diCaprio for ELEND? Yikes....

Quote from: charity on January 28, 2008, 04:48:29 PM
I agree that Eragon was somewhat lacking, and had a lot of elements from books the author must have read. I like to read for enjoyments sake though and so I was fine with the general storyline, although I saw through the plot fairly quickly (to much reading). But the movie killed me, it was like one of those cheap 'b' movie sci fi's that my husband likes so much and forces me to watch. They HURT, I can't stand sitting through them and I often wonder why I have to watch these when he won't watch chick flicks.

You're definitely right about that. But if you'd like to "re-discover" the Eragon movie, so to speak, I highly recommend downloading the Rifftrax commentary for it. I swore I would never purchase the movie it was so awful, but after watching it with Rifftrax... wow, the hilarity made it worth every penny.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Atium question
« on: January 27, 2008, 06:52:08 PM »
Quote from: Ookla The Mok on January 25, 2008, 11:43:05 PM
"RAFO" is such a useful term.

Ack! Evil, evil phrase!!  :'(

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: If Mistborn was a movie. . . .
« on: January 27, 2008, 06:48:18 PM »
Quote from: Nessa on January 27, 2008, 03:09:05 AM
Quote from: charity on January 22, 2008, 04:30:05 AM
No Eragon's please. I don't think I could handle them slaughtering Mistborn, it might make me cry.

Heh. The problem with Eragon was that the book wasn't that great to begin with. Have you ever really listened to the dialogue? In a word: trite. He tried to hard and it turned into something too big for Paolini to handle--too large a cast (which ends up making them flat and stereotypical), too large a scale (with a generic plot). I don't think those are problems Mistborn has.

I agree, but let's face it. Even the best book can be absolutely butchered beyond all recognition in the hands of Hollywood.... The thought of that happening to Mistborn practically gives me night sweats....

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: what does kelsier look like?
« on: January 25, 2008, 06:29:25 AM »
Quote from: charity on January 24, 2008, 09:44:14 PM
wouldn't rakish imply
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a man who is licentious;
  (that's from the dictionary.com for rake).

My OED (Oxford English Dictionary for those of you who aren't English majors  ;D ) defines it as "having or displaying a dashing, jaunty, or slightly disreputable quality in appearance" or "trim and fast-looking," and "devil-may-care".

That's more of what I was going for....

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: what does kelsier look like?
« on: January 24, 2008, 08:35:19 PM »
As far as Kelsier being "crazy" goes, I think maybe he would have a little of the mad scientist look. A blonde Aragorn plus the mad scientist look? I don't even know if that works... maybe "rakish" is the word we're looking for here....

Quote from: VegasDev on January 24, 2008, 07:20:57 AM
Quote from: Pygmalion on January 24, 2008, 03:19:59 AM
Ummm... puppy?  ;D

Ahhh!!!   Get out of my head! Get out of my head!

bwahahaha... I knew you were going to say that.

 ;)

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Movies and TV / Re: Masterpiece Theater Jane Austen
« on: January 24, 2008, 08:30:30 PM »
Well, I sort of agree with about Emma. It's my least favorite Jane Austen novel, solely because I think that character of Emma is annoying. But Jane Austen knew that. I recall reading somewhere that she said Emma was a character that not many people besides herself would like...

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Movies and TV / Re: Masterpiece Theater Jane Austen
« on: January 24, 2008, 03:28:36 AM »
I believe Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, and Sense and Sensibility are all new. (Although how they think they could improve on the Emma Thompson version of Sense and Sensibility is beyond me).

They're going to show the Colin Firth version of Pride and Prejudice, as well as an older version of Emma that was originally made in the 1990s for A&E, if I remember correctly.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: So..what should Brandon do next?
« on: January 24, 2008, 03:25:34 AM »
haha, ok I admit myself beaten... But I will re-arrange my schedule when one comes out so I can get it first thing and then spend the day reading as much as I possibly can. (Although I like to try to savor it. I know I purposely read more slowly when Knife of Dreams came out because I figured it would be forever until the next one came out. And I was kinda right... lol). I hope it comes out in the summer, though. Blasted college....

But you sound like you've got yourself a nice spot there... camped out in a bookstore, plus a Starbucks and a bathroom. What more could a person want?

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