07-21-2005, 05:21 PM | #361 |
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I deeply resent your insinuation, accusation and crude attempt at slander. Fortunately Rosie knows me far better.
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*ahem* what are you reading now, Andúril?
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07-23-2005, 05:07 AM | #365 |
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I took a look at Barnes & Nobles site and they have several different covers with that title. It goes on my wish list as of now.
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07-23-2005, 12:31 PM | #366 |
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Absolutely GREAT book, a MUST READ!
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07-26-2005, 07:49 PM | #367 |
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wow, what a quote from Frankl!
Darn, so many good books to read, and too much laundry
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07-26-2005, 08:31 PM | #368 |
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Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins
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07-26-2005, 11:12 PM | #369 |
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OK, just got in my Goblet of Fire and will now read at my leisure as the last time it was the library's copy and I whizzed through it. I expect to learn more this way.
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07-27-2005, 09:14 AM | #370 |
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Finished ~ Dracula (Brahm Stoker). I read it mostly alone, mostly in silence, mostly with no lights on, and mostly during the day. It was, incidentally (and probably consequently), mostly boring. Plus, Stoker killed off my favourite character at the end. And no, I'm not talking about the Count. ~ The Princess Bride (William Goldman). Delightful and funny. Loved it, except, perhaps, for the end. A mite weak, I thought. Started ~ The Riddle-Master Trilogy (Patricia McKillip). Well, it's kind of unengaging so far, but I'll keep optimistic.
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07-27-2005, 09:32 AM | #371 |
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wild cards
old grr martin series of books wrote in colaboration with many other writers... very ineteresting so far
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07-27-2005, 10:48 AM | #372 |
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Rosie, you're jaded , Dracula, boring ???? Oh, well, I guess you live too much on the edge Watched the Princess bride for the 30+ time the other day. I've never read the book. Just started "The Goblet of Fire", my own (precious) copy bought to refresh my hasty reading of the library loan.
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Do you know, I've only seen Princess Bride once, and that was forever ago. I plan to get it out from my library one of these days--actually, I think I have it on hold. But the book was brilliant. If the fellow who wrote The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy were to write a fairy tale, that would be it. p.s. Who's your favourite character in the movie? In the book mine is Ingio.
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07-27-2005, 11:25 AM | #374 |
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It's Renfield, Rosie, jeeeeshhhhhh
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Ingio's the best! "I want Domingo Montoya, you son of a -----!"
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07-27-2005, 11:40 AM | #377 |
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...."mostly dead, I can do something" Miracle Max
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07-27-2005, 11:47 AM | #378 |
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"I'm good at dead..." ~ same
There's a bit in the book where it's talking about Fezzik as a boy, and his father is trying to teach him how to fight. But Fezzik doesn't even know how to make a fist. So he teaches him to make a fist and says, "Hit me." Fezzik refuses because he loves his father, and his father starts yelling, "We're gonna stay here all night until you hit me! And if it takes all night, than we stay out here all night and if it takes all week than we stay out here all week...." It's just too funny. I don't remember if that was in the movie?
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07-27-2005, 03:24 PM | #379 |
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Nope it wasn't.
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