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You'll miss some, but I'm not sure how much it'll affect the outcome. Deadhouse Gates has a much better plot and better characters, but I can't remember if the writing in itself changed much...
You could try it, at least. It's worth it, if nothing else than for Coltaine and his Chain of Dogs.  (obscure spoiler  )
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06-03-2004, 07:56 AM
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The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator
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Currently I'm officially reading nothing, I'm under parental rule not to read books other than schoolbooks as long as the exams are going.
 With all the books I got for my birthday I wonder how long before I decide to break that curfew... yet again.   Quote:
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06-09-2004, 03:22 PM
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I've read a philosopical book by Roger-Pol Droit from France. 'm not really into philosophy, but I loved this book.
 It was 101 philosophical experiments you can do in your everyday life. I think it's a "feel-good"book. I recommend it.Now I'm reading Fakta om Finland by Erlend Loe. This far it seems to be a funny and very interesting book.
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06-09-2004, 03:30 PM
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Her 18th birthday came soon after, so I made her a special birthday present. It was a 'jacket' made from brown wrapping paper to go over her hard-back LotR. It was labeled M*A*T*H - which down below was spelled out as "More About Tolkien's Hobbits" in small letters. Then I drew on it, weaving mathematical figures into pictures from the story, for instance - a circle in black marker, but drawn around it more softly, in colored pencil, The One Ring, etc. Of course, it wasn't meant to fool anyone, but we all got a good laugh. She managed to finish the story and later read ch. 1 of the Silmarillion (that was last I heard - she liked it so much she was afraid the rest would let her down). Anyway - she even joined here, but I don't think she has posted.
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06-09-2004, 06:29 PM
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The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator
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06-10-2004, 05:50 AM
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) the characters have been pretty flat. Have focused on finishing Memories of Ice and Path of Daggers so haven't gotten any further...
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06-12-2004, 10:35 AM
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i am reading a indiana jones book
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06-12-2004, 04:50 PM
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Fëanorophobic
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I'm currently reading book 4 of the Wheel of Time
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06-12-2004, 07:10 PM
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Elf Lord
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Just finished reading The Hobbit for the umpteenth time. And ya know, it's really a wonderful adventure.
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06-14-2004, 02:16 AM
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Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!)
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Just finished The Brothers Karamazov - thanks, hector & others, for the recommendation! Great book! My first venture into Russian literature.
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç Ã¥ â„¢ æ ♪ ?*"How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! |
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06-14-2004, 02:21 AM
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Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!)
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Has anyone else read Wilkie Collins? (1824-1889, London). His "The Woman in White" and "The Moonstone" are great!
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç Ã¥ â„¢ æ ♪ ?*"How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! |
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06-14-2004, 03:38 AM
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Fëanorophobic
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06-14-2004, 03:40 AM
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And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool. |
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06-14-2004, 04:19 PM
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Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!)
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Betteredge is so sweet!
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç Ã¥ â„¢ æ ♪ ?*"How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! |
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06-15-2004, 11:07 AM
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Lady of Letters
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I agree! I love the way "The Moonstone" tells the story from lots of different perspectives - like the woman with all the moral tracts
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And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool. |
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06-15-2004, 05:32 PM
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Pride and Prejudice.
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06-15-2004, 06:09 PM
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Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!)
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Oh, are you reading it for the first time, BoP?! I envy you, if you are! What a great book! The opening line is one of the best in all of literature, IMO.
sun-star - yes, hearing the story from the different perspectives was brilliant, IMO - and that odious woman with the tracts is one of the most scathing (and entirely appropriate) condemnations of those types of people. Oh wait - actually, I got my "obnoxious women with tracts" mixed up - I was thinking of the one in Dickens' "Bleak House", who brags about her kids giving their allowances to her "worthy" causes, when she actually never gives them a choice, and she has pity for children in far-off Africa, while she ignores her own children right next to her  So sad that it's actually common enough that it's a literary stereotype (yes, that Moonstone lady is pretty awful!)
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç Ã¥ â„¢ æ ♪ ?*"How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! |
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06-15-2004, 06:18 PM
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the Shrike
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Yes it is. I've never read Austen before, so I'm excited.
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06-16-2004, 09:54 AM
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Rian--I recently started The Brothers Karamazov; I'm taking novel next year in school and the teacher recommended it we read it at least once prior to the class. Who was translator on your copy?
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06-16-2004, 11:28 AM
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Lady of Letters
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Great link, Mercutio
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