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Movies and TV / Re: King Arthur
« on: August 06, 2004, 04:12:10 AM »
She has all those little kids and she's a prolific poster? Holy cow. Now I know how she keeps sane.
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Max is a Shadowblade, a supernatural--and supernaturally competent--warrior bound to protect her witch Giselle. As a Shadowblade, Max doesn't age. She is better, faster, stronger than any ordinary human being. And she hates it. Giselle betrayed her trust to make Max what she is, and though she is magically compelled to protect Giselle and follow orders, Max works against her witch in every way she can. Continue reading Bitter Night
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Writing Group / Re: Hey dr. P.
« on: August 06, 2004, 03:58:31 AM »
Not after a few minutes, but very likely after several hours. I'd give it at least six hours if it is truly infected. Twelve would be safe.
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Rants and Stuff / Re: Three Word Story
« on: August 06, 2004, 03:46:23 AM »
pulling out his
Don't even go there, guys.
Don't even go there, guys.
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Everything Else / Re: Mistborn Reads
« on: August 05, 2004, 02:55:28 AM »
Brandon, I'd love to be able to read Mistborn (I even snagged it for a few days before I turned it over to Brenna) but I'd like to finally read TWoK part 2 first.
At least I now have a more direct way of pestering you for the copy instead of pestering Brenna to pester you.
At least I now have a more direct way of pestering you for the copy instead of pestering Brenna to pester you.
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Movies and TV / Re: SWIII
« on: August 05, 2004, 02:14:06 AM »Quote
Anyway, what could be scarier than Christopher Lee? He could bring in his troops of Orc armies!
Or Uruk-hai. Or he could turn into a bat and drink Padme's blood. Or he can use the Force with his creepy-Dracula hands.
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Movies and TV / Re: King Arthur
« on: August 05, 2004, 02:04:07 AM »Quote
I've been intending to see it but haven't had the time. From what I hear, they've done some good research on Celts and Romans of the time period, even if their idea of Arthur being a Roman is a bit off the wall. I enjoy reading nonfiction about that time period, though, so I'll see it eventually.
Linda Malkor is a family friend (her husband is my dad's boss) and was one of the main researchers. She said that the movie was based more on the research than having the research done for the movie. I don't know how much of the "Arthur was a Roman" idea is hers, but IIRC, her research showed that the legend of Arthur was based on the deeds of an actual Roman captain.
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Writing Group / Re: Plotting
« on: August 04, 2004, 03:19:49 AM »
I'm rather partial to mystery or puzzle plots. I love it when (the reader and) the hero is trying to figure out a solution to a problem (or figure out why things are falling apart) while on an impossible quest to save their world (be it their village, their kingdom, or their continent).
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Writing Group / Re: inventing regional accents
« on: August 04, 2004, 03:07:43 AM »
SE, be very careful. you don't want to do something that makes your character difficult to understand. I think ya and yer are fine, and dropping the gs off words will also work. Hoever, having yor for you're is probably a little over-the-top. When I read it in your post, I had to stop and think about what you were doing. That's story death, and I haven't even read the story. The ya thing might get irritating after a while.
I think that a syntax change would be better, perhaps something simple like putting adjectives after the nouns (which would only work in a parallel universe setting and may be a little too overt), or only using "is" and "was" for all the be verbs.
Edited for hubris.
I think that a syntax change would be better, perhaps something simple like putting adjectives after the nouns (which would only work in a parallel universe setting and may be a little too overt), or only using "is" and "was" for all the be verbs.
Edited for hubris.
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Books / Re: The Bookshelf of Life!
« on: August 01, 2004, 12:45:15 AM »
Aha! I saw those Terry Goodkind paperbacks.
I have one seven foot bookcase that has six 36" shelves, and the six student housing shelves which are each 48" long.
On the topmost shelf is my husband's laserdisc collection (including the original Star Wars trilogy, THX remastered and no those silly "special editions", and Star Treks IV and VI). On the next shelf are books by Anne McCaffrey, Eddings, Tolkien, Goodkind, Card, Pratchett, and a few classics like Shakespeare, the Iliad, Wilder, Hawthorne, Wells, and rounding out with Celtic Wisdom and Ancient Mysteries.
The next shelf are religious books.
The next is mostly populated by our filing box, AJR CDs, the odd Entertainment Weekly, and some circiut design/solid-state/logic books.
The next is also mostly religious books joined by Machines that Kill and Mostly Harmless.
The bottom shelf are all my kids' books. You know, the Dinosaur encyclopedias next to the Cat in the Hat next to Horton Hatches the Egg. There are a few Bill Peet books like Cyrus the Unsinkable Sea-Serpent and Cowardly Clyde (about a dragon-slayer) for good measure.
On the top of the bookshelf under our globe are the coffee table books that can't fit on the shelves - An Irish Moment, Sierra Club, National Geographic. You know, the boring stuff.
The next shelf is completely occupied by my husband's film theory books. And a copy of the Polar Express.
The next shelf is my shelf, and is populated by the 5 Harry Potter books, the four Song of the Lioness books, the five The Dark is Rising books, and a couple of Jordan books, a Piers Anthony, a bunch more Anne McCaffrey, Mystic Warrior, and Shadowmancer (that I'm borrowing from Brenna).
The next shelf has mostly my foreign language dictionaries (Irish, French, Latin, Welsh, Spanish, Chinese, and Russian. Another copy of The Lord of the Rings, some some logic books, linguistics books and The Rivan Codex.
Next shelf are a few more McCaffrey, some history books, some music books, an etymological dictionary, a book on David Letterman, A Hard Day's Night in America, and another logic machine design book.
The last shelf is a hodgepodge of religious books, language books, writing books, and music books.
We have a few boxes of books still hiding somewhere deep in the depths of our minimal storage space.
How's that for the most boring post ever?
I have one seven foot bookcase that has six 36" shelves, and the six student housing shelves which are each 48" long.
On the topmost shelf is my husband's laserdisc collection (including the original Star Wars trilogy, THX remastered and no those silly "special editions", and Star Treks IV and VI). On the next shelf are books by Anne McCaffrey, Eddings, Tolkien, Goodkind, Card, Pratchett, and a few classics like Shakespeare, the Iliad, Wilder, Hawthorne, Wells, and rounding out with Celtic Wisdom and Ancient Mysteries.
The next shelf are religious books.
The next is mostly populated by our filing box, AJR CDs, the odd Entertainment Weekly, and some circiut design/solid-state/logic books.
The next is also mostly religious books joined by Machines that Kill and Mostly Harmless.
The bottom shelf are all my kids' books. You know, the Dinosaur encyclopedias next to the Cat in the Hat next to Horton Hatches the Egg. There are a few Bill Peet books like Cyrus the Unsinkable Sea-Serpent and Cowardly Clyde (about a dragon-slayer) for good measure.
On the top of the bookshelf under our globe are the coffee table books that can't fit on the shelves - An Irish Moment, Sierra Club, National Geographic. You know, the boring stuff.
The next shelf is completely occupied by my husband's film theory books. And a copy of the Polar Express.
The next shelf is my shelf, and is populated by the 5 Harry Potter books, the four Song of the Lioness books, the five The Dark is Rising books, and a couple of Jordan books, a Piers Anthony, a bunch more Anne McCaffrey, Mystic Warrior, and Shadowmancer (that I'm borrowing from Brenna).
The next shelf has mostly my foreign language dictionaries (Irish, French, Latin, Welsh, Spanish, Chinese, and Russian. Another copy of The Lord of the Rings, some some logic books, linguistics books and The Rivan Codex.
Next shelf are a few more McCaffrey, some history books, some music books, an etymological dictionary, a book on David Letterman, A Hard Day's Night in America, and another logic machine design book.
The last shelf is a hodgepodge of religious books, language books, writing books, and music books.
We have a few boxes of books still hiding somewhere deep in the depths of our minimal storage space.
How's that for the most boring post ever?
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Rants and Stuff / Re: Three Word Story
« on: August 01, 2004, 12:00:55 AM »
than arranged before
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Books / Re: Wheel of Time
« on: July 30, 2004, 11:44:36 PM »
I kinda figured that. It's a good thing I waited until this evening to reply or you'd all be subject to a blast of sarcasm. This is the first board I've been on where people get upset for bringing up old threads. Elsewhere it's encouraged as opposed to starting a new one.
Just out of curiousity, if an entire forum should fail to have a post for over a month, does the forum die? Or would the poster that resurrects a thread therein be also subject to such a blast of ire? And if you're looking to kill a thread, why don't you just wield that handy-dandy sysop power and delete it?
Just consider those to be rhetorical questions. And since you seem to feel that everything that could be said about Jordan has been said, and since I don't feel like defending my opinion on the subject, I'll go ahead and let this thread "die in obscurity."
BTW, fuzzyoctopus, I picked this name because Brenna never lets me forget my age. I'm what, 235 by now?
Just out of curiousity, if an entire forum should fail to have a post for over a month, does the forum die? Or would the poster that resurrects a thread therein be also subject to such a blast of ire? And if you're looking to kill a thread, why don't you just wield that handy-dandy sysop power and delete it?
Just consider those to be rhetorical questions. And since you seem to feel that everything that could be said about Jordan has been said, and since I don't feel like defending my opinion on the subject, I'll go ahead and let this thread "die in obscurity."
BTW, fuzzyoctopus, I picked this name because Brenna never lets me forget my age. I'm what, 235 by now?
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Ok who keeps on resurecting this thread! Some threads deserve to die in obscurity and this is one of them.