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Books / Re: New Hitchhiker's Guide books
« on: September 18, 2008, 06:19:27 PM »
Yes! More Dirk Gently would be much better. I don't re-read Hitchiker's anymore, but I still love the Dirk Gently books.
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"Magic is what makes fantasy fantastic," someone says, "you can't apply rules to them or else it loses wonder!" I respond, "Sure, but if you want to write them you will certainly want to know how they work." Writing is all about execution, and I find applying some basic laws of physics to magic systems make them more understandable and realistic. Here, I'm going to outline my basic method for developing a magic system.
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Books / Re: New Hitchhiker's Guide books
« on: September 18, 2008, 01:24:07 AM »
Having read a bit of Eoin Colfer, I don't see that this is a good match. He is too serious, even when he is trying to be funny. Douglas had a serious side, but a lot of Hitchiker's is just pure silliness for the sake of making no sense at all.
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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: September 18, 2008, 01:20:38 AM »
I enjoyed Off Armageddon Reef, but of course I like Weber a lot. I can actually understand what is happening in a space battle when he describes it. The sequel is out in hard back and I had a very hard time not buying it. Keep trying One Hundred Years of Solitude. I read it for a class and irritated the teacher to no end by finishing it in a weekend and talking about what happens later. I've got the latest Artemis Fowl but I'm not very excited about reading it.
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Rants and Stuff / Re: Happy Things 2008:Generation X [part deux]
« on: September 14, 2008, 01:26:42 AM »
I shouldn't complain about the things I cannot do because of the choices I made to do other, more worthwhile things. I guess I feel like my youngest, who will be two in a week. She gathers up all her blankets, her bottle, and then gets really mad she doesn't have a hand left to hold my hand to go down the stairs. You can't do everything. The piano will be there for years; my babies, only a little while.
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Rants and Stuff / Re: Happy Things 2008:Generation X [part deux]
« on: September 13, 2008, 02:17:41 AM »
I tried for a while, but my two year old would scream and try to shove me off the bench whenever I got on. So I've decided a toddler-free household is necessary first. Its on my list of things to do when my kids are all in school.
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Rants and Stuff / Re: Happy Things 2008:Generation X [part deux]
« on: September 11, 2008, 05:32:28 PM »
I love having a piano. I grew up in a music-lesson-free household but I love having my children just wander in and play. My 9 yr old has figured out the Star Wars theme and related music, so that's what we have floating around our house after school gets out. Once I no longer have toddlers in my home I want to learn to play the thing myself. It sits there, tempting me all day long,"You can't play me, neener neener." 
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Books / Re: Clean Urban Fantasy Recommendations
« on: September 06, 2008, 12:12:13 AM »
Charles de Lint's stuff is good and mostly clean. He tends toward YA. His last one, Blue Girl, I recommended for my 14 year old neice. They tend to take place in a city modeled after Toronto. I am not sure how much, I've never been there 
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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: August 27, 2008, 11:30:15 PM »
I love Dawn Cook, gnooks came up with her on my first try. I would like that site bette if I lived in a town with a decent sized library. Of course that would only be the Library of Congress, so I guess its OK I live in the middle of nowhere.
I just started on The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. I fed my kids pizza last night so I could keep reading Red Mars.
I just started on The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. I fed my kids pizza last night so I could keep reading Red Mars.
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Rants and Stuff / Re: Bad Science
« on: August 07, 2008, 09:23:45 PM »
This begs the question, if it is so pervasive in the media, why does it seem lacking in certain areas of fiction? Perhaps not having facts to avoid makes it more difficult.
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Rants and Stuff / Re: Bad Science
« on: August 06, 2008, 07:50:25 PM »
I think explaining it well is the key. You have to make me believe something ridiculous, I'm not just going to accept it because you just stuck it in there.
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Books / Re: review: The Name of the Wind
« on: August 02, 2008, 08:49:44 PM »
Yeah, I was slightly annoyed when I realized how the story was set up, but I must say it is one of the best first person narratives I've ever read. I don't know how I managed to missed the information that the next book doesn't come out until next YEAR, but I was very upset when I found out. I hate waiting for the next book.
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Alcatraz Versus The Scrivener's Bones cover art on amazon
« on: July 08, 2008, 07:30:47 PM »
I showed it to my 8 & 9 years olds, both huge Alcatraz fans. They asked so many questions about the cover alone that I wished I hadn't. October feels further and further away.
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Movies and TV / Re: review: Get Smart
« on: June 20, 2008, 06:04:46 PM »
Thanks for the review. I loved Get Smart as kid but I think I can wait for the video to see this version.
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Movies and TV / Re: review: Kung Fu Panda
« on: June 18, 2008, 10:54:11 PM »
We took our kids to see it and y husband laughed his guts out The kids liked it too but they were unfailiar with the genre to get a lot of the jokes I think anyone who enjoys Jakie han oies would like this though he only has a bit part ery Funny- Sorry for the typos y keyboard is dying No letter after n or b and no periods
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Movies and TV / Re: review: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
« on: May 28, 2008, 11:08:25 PM »
I came out of this movie wanting to find people who hadn't seen it and telling them "YOU MUST GO NOW!"
A very strange feeling for me.
A very strange feeling for me.