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09-16-2010, 05:39 PM
@Taiyo - Nope, don't know him.
@Iltu - Yeah, likewise I think I'm going to have it instead be NaDiWriMo -- dissertation writing. My goal will be to write a page or two a day, every day. Or at least to sit down and write every day!
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[email protected] figures bent for the use of fantasy in modern fiction. XD
Two more manga novels down. 7 more and I can re-read for the purpose of grabbing vocab words that I didn't understand. (japanese manga for study and fun)
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Yeah, that's pretty great. Or when anime incorporates actual historical figures but then people think they were made up for the show. :)
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09-17-2010, 12:50 AM
I've seen that happen too! It's so cool when that happens. I told my mom about The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, and she may end up reading them. Whether it's for the historical elements or the story, I'd definitly reccomend it. Some of the other characters that show up in there are Niccolo Machiavelli, Dr. John Dee, le Compte le Saint-Germain, Joan of Arc, Virginia Dare....Even Gilgamesh! He even brings in William Shakespeare.
Michael Scott has done a ton of research for these books, you can tell. Even all the locations he uses are real. In the second book they mention catacombs underneath Paris, and they're really there!
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09-17-2010, 04:48 AM
Ha! Who knew he was an actual person!... :oops: Well now that I'm up to date on that little trivia bit...
Almost done with Foundation! Soon to receive Foundation and Empire! :eager: I'll have to look at some of those Michael Scott books too. They sound pretty good.
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Iltu
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09-17-2010, 07:26 PM
I wanted to like those Nicolas Flamel books, but I got through the first one and just didn't particularly fancy it. :( I could tell he did a lot of research for those books, though!
James A. Owen does a lot of research for his Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica books as well, and I love those! He combines so may ideas and characters from mythology, legend, literature, and history to make his stories.
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Ling
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09-18-2010, 01:02 AM
Hehe...I dare to take up the challenge!!~
Though I'll probably post my finished list when I actually finish reading them....I'll keep a track of the books I read though. from....beginning of next month, make it easy for me to remember. :D
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09-18-2010, 03:00 PM
Good luck Ling. ^^
I managed to go to the library to return books and not get any more out. Usually I end up with about two more books than I started with- especially when I've just bought new books.
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09-18-2010, 08:45 PM
A few days ago the professor of my History seminar sent out an email reminding us to read two entire books before our first meeting Tuesday after next. So, those'll go on my list soon!
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09-18-2010, 09:03 PM
I'm getting a new bicycle so I can get to and from my local library a little more often. My household has one car to share, and I send it off with my fiancee in the morning so he can run errands for his store if he needs to. Leaves me with no way to get places, since we live past good walking distance to much of anything. But I think I could bike to a lot of places.
Then I can catch up on two or three entire series that I've fallen behind on.
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scholar
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09-18-2010, 09:13 PM
Yay for biking! When I lived in Holland, I biked pretty much everywhere that I didn't walk. I prefer walking to biking, personally. Not sure why, but I do.
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09-18-2010, 11:28 PM
I've finished it already. Started in on Brisingr now.
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09-19-2010, 12:28 AM
Who's idea was it to stay up until 2 AM last night reading?! Well at least I finished The Foundation! Still waiting on the next one to arive so on to Black Wind!
@Taiyo - Do you speak of the Eragon series?
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09-19-2010, 12:51 AM
@ Carn: Yes I do.
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scholar
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09-19-2010, 01:03 AM
I've been meaning to read the Foundation books (you do mean the Asimov ones, right?) for a long time. My father had them, and I inherited all his books -- because no one else wanted them :glare: -- and I know he had copies of a whole bunch of Asimov. I can't wait to have a big enough place where I can put all his books on shelves and catalog them all! He was such an avid reader.
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09-19-2010, 01:29 AM
That sounds like my parents. Believe it or not, before I started reading Harry Potter I hated the idea of reading.
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09-19-2010, 01:42 AM
Seriously? I've heard of that happening, but never met someone who actually had that experience, of Harry Potter changing their attitude towards reading. Cool!
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RisikaFox
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09-19-2010, 02:58 AM
@Taiyo: I still haven't managed to get very far into Brisingr. I think I need to go reread the series again. *sigh*
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09-19-2010, 03:53 AM
I had to stop halfway through because of leaving for college
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09-19-2010, 05:40 AM
@Taiyo - That was a good book! I really like the Eragon series. I can't wait till he comes out with the next one!
@Scholar - Yes it's the Asimov Foundation book. I love it. It's so much a thinking and outwitting book. The action is never really seen in the book and it's mostly just a bunch of people having conversations with other people when it comes right down to it but it is just awesome how he thinks and sets up the plot and the way things play out. He must have been a formidable chess player! :XD You should read them if you like oldschool sci-fi. That's one of the other things I love. They are in an era of rocketships and planets covered entirely by cities but they still use paper! And value gold! It's just so refreshing to me :P
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09-19-2010, 06:11 AM
@ Scholar: My first grade teacher must've been psycic or something. A year before I read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone she told my parents that I'd take off reading once I found something I liked. Sure enough, the first Harry Potter movie came out and i wanted to see it, but my mom made me read the book first. Probably a good thing too, cuz that means I've found myself in a pretty good circle of friends.
It also drilled it into my head as to how boring the Dursleys are.
@ Carn: It's also the last one in the series!
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09-19-2010, 06:34 AM
Brisingr is the last one?!? But I thought he said a couple of years ago that there was gonna be a fourth! There better be! There was too much left undone! :gonk:
Up until about the middle of fourth grade I hated reading... I was terrible at it too. The book that got me going was a collection of Calvin and Hobbes comics, The indispensable Calvin & Hobbes! I love that book XD Then after that I got into the Animorphs books and I read those till about book number 27. Good memories!
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09-19-2010, 06:55 AM
I was talking about the fourth book being the last, not Brinsingr.
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09-19-2010, 07:03 AM
I knew that!! >.> I was just... testing you... yeah! Umm... Congratulations! you passed! :sweat:
I can't wait till it comes out!
Goodnight everybody!
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09-19-2010, 07:09 AM
*not believing* Night Carn
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Iltu
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09-19-2010, 01:09 PM
Did I miss the Inheritance cycle discussion!? Blast! :gonk: Those are great books. I want to reread the first three before the last one comes out! I hope it does in the next year or so...
Augh, any desire to read is being leeched away by knowing I've got to read 90 more pages of A Farewell to Arms before starting anything else... I am really not a Hemingway fan at all. But at least this one is better than The Sun Also Rises!
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Remrems
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09-19-2010, 03:32 PM
Ahh I so want in on this! I'm going to start now. I'm currently reading...
1. Lost by Gregory maguire
2. Your Heart is Mine by Dean Koontz
3. Tokyo Zero by Marc Horne
None finished yet however. xD But anyway, these shall be my first three for the challenge. Starting now, ending 19 September 2011 ;D
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