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Callidus Thorn |
Aug 24 2017, 10:41 PM
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QUOTE(TheCheshireKhajiit @ Aug 24 2017, 08:54 PM) Just bought a super cool new collection of selected works of Edgar Allen Poe! https://i.imgur.com/im9T3jc.jpgThat does indeed look damn cool Cheshire. I'm reading through my Star Wars: X-Wing books. Because I love them. And it's a nice change of pace for the Star Wars universe to not be Jedi vs Sith And because it reminds me of playing the games
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TheCheshireKhajiit |
Aug 25 2017, 01:30 AM
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Joined: 28-September 16
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QUOTE(Callidus Thorn @ Aug 24 2017, 04:41 PM) QUOTE(TheCheshireKhajiit @ Aug 24 2017, 08:54 PM) Just bought a super cool new collection of selected works of Edgar Allan Poe! https://i.imgur.com/im9T3jc.jpgThat does indeed look damn cool Cheshire. I'm reading through my Star Wars: X-Wing books. Because I love them. And it's a nice change of pace for the Star Wars universe to not be Jedi vs Sith And because it reminds me of playing the games It's so pretty! It has black edged pages! Khajiit has never read any Star Wars books. Is that strange given how much he likes Star Wars?
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"Family is an odd thing, is it not? Defined by blood, separated by blood, joined by blood. In the end, it's all just blood." -Dhaunayne Aundae
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Uleni Athram |
Sep 21 2017, 10:41 AM
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Elric of Melnibone!
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I wanna slap people and tell them I love them
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Decrepit |
Sep 23 2017, 06:38 PM
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Joined: 9-September 15
From: Mid-South USA
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At 0252 this morning I concluded my fifth reading of Robert Jordan’s Lord of Chaos, book six of The Wheel of Time. The final reading session occurred during a left-sided migraine, which explains why I was up so early. (To be fair, being awake for the day prior to 0300 isn’t all that uncommon for me. In this particular case, my head, neck, and at times stomach hurt so much I got no sleep at all.) It has been extraordinarily rare for me to get left-sided migraines since circa 1999. Due to recently being permanently (?) denied one of my two highly effective migraine medicines, such attacks are apt to become more commonplace in the future. Or rather, not being able to quickly terminate such attacks when they do occur will be the norm.
My first reading ended 8 January 1996. I made a slip-up on the inside-cover and first wrote the completion time as 1128, then overwrote the first two numbers to reflect the correct time, 2328. The month is written in cursive script. I do not recall if that was my norm at the time. Cursive disappeared by my seconding reading, 2004.
Sometime between my second and third reading (2007) I realized that “re” in “reread” was unneeded, since all readings beyond the first are by default re-readings. Therefore, completion two reads “reread...” while subsequent completions read “read...”.
All reading annotations appear as follows, using completion one as example:
“Read 2328hrs, 8 January 1996 <my unreadable signature>”
I am aware, and always have been aware, that adding “hrs” to military time is incorrect. I add it to cleanly differentiate time of day from day of the month. “2328hrs, 8 January...” is, for me, easier to decipher than “2328hrs, 8 January...”. (Notice that I type military time correctly elsewhere in this posting.)
As to the book itself…
Many consider this the first “lesser” Wheel volume. I have never before believed this, seeing book seven as beginning Wheel’s mid-series slump. This reading, more so than in the past, I begin to see validity in the opposing opinion. For me, it has to do with the sudden lack of almost any relieving humor and “lightness” in a series that previously supplied a good balance of light and dark elements. Certainly George Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire makes do without humor or lightness from the get-go to no ill effect. (Watchers of GOT get lightness and humor thrown in, but that’s TV for you.) With Lord of Chaos it’s not so much that such elements are greatly reduced but that we are not yet used to their near absence. Or so I believe.
Despite that, book six contains some of the best writing in the series. The whole business between the two competing Aes Sedai embassies and Rand from its beginning through the confrontation at Dumai’s Wells is for me utterly magnificent. I surprised myself in that after so many reading, including a few devoted solely to the book’s last hundred or so pages, my eyes still misted a number of times beginning when the true reason for Rand’s “disappearance” was finally unearthed and on through to the end, with tears soaking my pillow at the climax of Dumai. If I haven’t already, a rarity, I invariably lose it at Taim’s utterance, “Kneel and swear to the Dragon Reborn.”, followed by “...or you will be knelt.”
So my high opinion of book six remains. I do, however, now see in it foreshadowings of the slump that is to come. (This assumes, of course, that you see the series’ change in tone as negative.)
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TheCheshireKhajiit |
Sep 26 2017, 07:36 AM
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QUOTE(Callidus Thorn @ Sep 26 2017, 01:34 AM) I've now moved on to The Lord of the Rings, and have started by skipping the first nine chapters. I've always thought that the opening Hobbit section was too long, and I remember everything that happens in there anyway.
So are you starting with The Hobbit or with The Lord of the Rings proper?
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"Family is an odd thing, is it not? Defined by blood, separated by blood, joined by blood. In the end, it's all just blood." -Dhaunayne Aundae
May you walk on warm sands!
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Callidus Thorn |
Sep 26 2017, 08:25 AM
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Joined: 29-September 13
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QUOTE(TheCheshireKhajiit @ Sep 26 2017, 07:36 AM) QUOTE(Callidus Thorn @ Sep 26 2017, 01:34 AM) I've now moved on to The Lord of the Rings, and have started by skipping the first nine chapters. I've always thought that the opening Hobbit section was too long, and I remember everything that happens in there anyway.
So are you starting with The Hobbit or with The Lord of the Rings proper? The Lord of the RingsI'm just skipping to the point where Strider turns up.
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TheCheshireKhajiit |
Sep 26 2017, 06:22 PM
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Joined: 28-September 16
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QUOTE(Callidus Thorn @ Sep 26 2017, 02:25 AM) QUOTE(TheCheshireKhajiit @ Sep 26 2017, 07:36 AM) QUOTE(Callidus Thorn @ Sep 26 2017, 01:34 AM) I've now moved on to The Lord of the Rings, and have started by skipping the first nine chapters. I've always thought that the opening Hobbit section was too long, and I remember everything that happens in there anyway.
So are you starting with The Hobbit or with The Lord of the Rings proper? The Lord of the RingsI'm just skipping to the point where Strider turns up. Gotcha
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"Family is an odd thing, is it not? Defined by blood, separated by blood, joined by blood. In the end, it's all just blood." -Dhaunayne Aundae
May you walk on warm sands!
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Decrepit |
Oct 5 2017, 11:50 PM
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Joined: 9-September 15
From: Mid-South USA
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At 1657 this afternoon, during supper, I concluded my fifth reading of Robert Jordan's A Crown of Swords, book seven of The Wheel of Time. In the past I've felt this to be the volume which began the series' mid-book slump. This time round I noticed little evidence of that, though I did catch slight forewarnings in earlier parts of book six, a volume I previously considered above suspicion. Were I forced single out one plot-line of Crown as being my favorite, I might settle on the search for the Bowl of the Winds in Ebou Dar. That's likely due in large part to it being somewhat Mat centric. Jordan always did right by Mat Cauthon, imo.
I'm now a few pages into book eight, The Path of Daggers.
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TheCheshireKhajiit |
Oct 30 2017, 07:55 PM
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Joined: 28-September 16
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QUOTE(mirocu @ Oct 30 2017, 01:43 PM) QUOTE(TheCheshireKhajiit @ Aug 24 2017, 08:54 PM) Just bought a super cool new collection of selected works of Edgar Allan Poe! https://i.imgur.com/im9T3jc.jpgReally nice book, Khajiit... Lol, this one bets you like the cover of it! Thanks, Khajiit is most pleased with it.
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"Family is an odd thing, is it not? Defined by blood, separated by blood, joined by blood. In the end, it's all just blood." -Dhaunayne Aundae
May you walk on warm sands!
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ghastley |
Nov 2 2017, 04:35 PM
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Just read Sir Pterry's "Moving Pictures" where the magic of the cinema really is magic. It ends with a giant woman climbing the highest building in the city with a (heroic) ape in her hand, having parodied "Gone with the wind" and several others along the way.
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Mods for The Elder Scrolls single-player games, and I play ESO.
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Uleni Athram |
Nov 4 2017, 06:04 AM
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Joined: 19-September 11
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Since I haven’t bought any Cyberpunk books yet (apart from Blade Runner) I’m making do with Tom Clancy’s books + LotR and the Silmarillion + Asimov’s Foundation series. Eclectic I know but once I get my hands on Neuromancer and some other pieces I’ve been eying up...
I’ll be hot drek, chummers.
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