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02-09-2004, 07:06 AM
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Ignorance is bliss and I'm orgasmic
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Brian R- I've never heard of any of those Cussler titles. Please tell me none of them involve Dirk Pitt. Please,please, please for god's sake man !
Not that I should be throwing stones. I've just finished The Black House ( Stephen King/Peter Straub collaboration) and loved every page. Having said that I should point out i'm not drawing a comparison between these authors in terms of quality, only in the escapism/fantasy stakes. |
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02-09-2004, 07:38 AM
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Ignorance is bliss and I'm orgasmic
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Rendezvous With Rama ( Arthur C Clarke) is coming out this year as a major Hollywood production. As far as I can tell Morgan Freenman is driving with Arthur himself navigating. It's being touted as a sci-fi- bar raiser but Hollywood and their money's involved so i'm worried, but optimistic.
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02-09-2004, 08:24 AM
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Come on, cat.
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Speaking of major Hollywood productions, does anyone know when O. Scott Card's _Ender's Game_ is coming out? I heard it was going to combine Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow.... I can't wait to see it.
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02-09-2004, 08:37 AM
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Ignorance is bliss and I'm orgasmic
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www.frescopictures.com seem to have the goods.
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02-09-2004, 08:37 AM
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I can hear my ears
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did you see this? it doesn't shed much light, but it does indicate that the movie IS being made, so that's good news. at least......those books are right up there on the top of my all time favorites list.
oops. wrong link try this one novice beat me to it.
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02-09-2004, 08:46 AM
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Ignorance is bliss and I'm orgasmic
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Yeah pal, like you were even in the race.
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02-09-2004, 10:07 AM
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lobber of scimitars
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Finished Norse Mysteries and Magic by Edred Thorsson this AM, and totally unexpectedly started reading The Treasure of Green Knowe, a children's book by L.M. Boston. (how do you read a book unexpectedly? You finish one while lying in bed, and think, " you know, I should still be reading right now" ... and you reach out and grab the closest thing).
Great series of books for kids, by the by ... very magical, make the mystic real in unexpected ways. Good for about bright second or third graders and beyond. I enjoy them as an adult. Thank you amazon.com used!!
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02-09-2004, 10:34 AM
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Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult
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sorry novice
Trojan Odyssey involves Dirk Pitt...and has some interesting plot twists that do NOT involve saving the world.
I will not spoil the book for you by even dropping a hint. Brian "dum dum da dum, dum DUM da dum..."
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02-10-2004, 07:17 AM
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Ignorance is bliss and I'm orgasmic
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" Trojan Odyssey" Sounds like Greek porn
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02-10-2004, 09:05 AM
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dar512 is now Pete Zicato
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BTW it's "Books you're reading".
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02-10-2004, 10:36 PM
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a real smartass
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I've recently finished:
August 1914* by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll *Technically, I didn't finish it. I noticed that there were a whole slew of characters, checked the cool chapter listing at the end of the book, and realized that the set of characters and timeline and storyline in the first half of the book only had a few more chapters at the end of the book. So I read a bit more, and didn't read the 2nd book within the book. The story that I did read was remarkable, though. It felt like he had really captured the confusion of war. I bought a bunch of Dover Thrift Edition books, because they're inexpensive and almost certainly worth reading. |
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02-11-2004, 01:09 AM
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no one of consequence
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What is the point of this thread when we have the one in Lady Sidhe's forum?? My god you people are stu.. uh... wai.. wait a second.. er, nevermind.
::sheepishly walks away:: |
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02-14-2004, 12:34 PM
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bent
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I started the Wheel of Time series a couple months ago, and have made it to the 10th book. I.....can't......finish.....it. I'm stubborn enough to try and read it every day, but I can't slog through it. I just don't care what happens to any of them anymore. Such a promising start, too. In fact, I was into it all the way through book 7 or 8.
Now I'm reading the Bible a lot. The minor prophets are overlooked too often, imo. While I share the religious beliefs of the authors, if I didn't, the Bible would still be an amazing work. Wake of the Perdido Star by Gene Hackman (!) and Daniel Lenihan. While celebrity-written books are usually almost completely the work of their co-author, Hackman has a real flair for storytelling. And I like the adventure-on-the-high-seas genre anyway. |
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02-16-2004, 02:38 AM
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Excellent buyer!!! Fast payment!!!! A++++++++
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The Prophet - Kahil Gibran. It's absolutely amazing. You can read it for yourself here:
http://www.columbia.edu/~gm84/gibtable.html |
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02-16-2004, 09:31 AM
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The future is unwritten
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Read Gibran a lot in the 60's. Somehow it's not the same when I'm straight.
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