HarrierThe Star Spangled ManRegistered Userregular
edited January 2009
Robothero, when you say you're going to read Twilight, do you mean you'll read merely Twilight, the first book, or will you be reading the entire Twilight Series?
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Posted this in another thread, but I had forgotten that there is actually a book thread!
Ella Minnow Pea is an epistolary novel about a fictional small island nation of the coast of South Carolina. The country was founded by the man who wrote the sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" (which uses every letter in the alphabet in only 35 letters).
They live kind of like the Amish, and have a large cultural love of the English language. The letters are mostly written by Ella, a young girl who lives in one of the main villages. The country has a statue to the creator of the sentence in the middle of their main village. One day, one of the letters of the sentence breaks off, and the town elders decide that it's a sign to remove it from usage. So every time a letter falls off, it's banned, and the writers have to find ways to express themselves without using them. If correspondence is found bearing the forbidden script, there are three levels of punishment
1) stocks
2)banishment
3)death
So the letters quickly devolve as the writers try find a way to prove that the statue is not truly a sign from the afterlife, which their leaders have set out as portraying a sentence that uses all 25 letters while going under the 35 letter limit of the original sentence.
If you like language and/or alternate history novels, this one is really, really wonderful
Need some help finding a book. I believe its a fantasy book. Two different groups live near each other. One is a warrior/hunter type group, the other is a strange group that has a thing about sleeping, dreams (they think dreams are important) and everyone shares parenting. The main character's father is a or the leader of the warrior group, and he has a possibly crazy sister who turns out to be a dragon. I don't know why but the main character (warrior group) and his friend from the other group set out to travel, either because they did something or they're carrying a message, I can't remember. There are invaders, and the main characters father is captured, and at some point sleeps with a human/invader hybrid female. Near or at the end the main character has found a cursed dagger of some sort.
I maybe read this several years ago, and I think it was newish at the time. A biggish book, but it was the hardback I remember reading.
that does not sound like a good book
abort your quest
Yeah, that sounds like shit
Why not read a real book?
I don't want to read it, I just want to remember what it's bloody called, it's been bugging me, and I don't want to spend money for 2 trains to get to the library where I first took it out. I do remember skipping like the whole middle half of it though.
And I just remembered there are elves in it.
There was a scene in a market I remembered too.
The two main characters stopped at a market, and I believe they stopped at an elf's stall or something. One of them bit a coin, he doesn't care about money, but recognizes the worth of metal.
Need some help finding a book. I believe its a fantasy book. Two different groups live near each other. One is a warrior/hunter type group, the other is a strange group that has a thing about sleeping, dreams (they think dreams are important) and everyone shares parenting. The main character's father is a or the leader of the warrior group, and he has a possibly crazy sister who turns out to be a dragon. I don't know why but the main character (warrior group) and his friend from the other group set out to travel, either because they did something or they're carrying a message, I can't remember. There are invaders, and the main characters father is captured, and at some point sleeps with a human/invader hybrid female. Near or at the end the main character has found a cursed dagger of some sort.
I maybe read this several years ago, and I think it was newish at the time. A biggish book, but it was the hardback I remember reading.
that does not sound like a good book
abort your quest
Yeah, that sounds like shit
Why not read a real book?
I don't want to read it, I just want to remember what it's bloody called, it's been bugging me, and I don't want to spend money for 2 trains to get to the library where I first took it out. I do remember skipping like the whole middle half of it though.
And I just remembered there are elves in it.
There was a scene in a market I remembered too.
The two main characters stopped at a market, and I believe they stopped at an elf's stall or something. One of them bit a coin, he doesn't care about money, but recognizes the worth of metal.
You should write this novel yourself, in the form of posts about your memories of it.
You'd have all the English profs making eyes at you from across the room.
oh come on by comparison to the other books like two important things happen in Game of Thrones
also hi Bale
really yaya
really
like starting all of the major plotlines isn't important
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edited January 2009
So I'm 3/4 through The Hunchback of Notre Dame
And finally to the Quasimodo and Esmeralda part
Which is obviously the best part of the book
Funny, my initial There's Something About Mary comparison becomes more apt
There is a lot of examples of bad love, selfish love where a person only thinks about their own feelings and how the other person makes them feel
Never thinking at all about the other person
Versus completely selfless love, only thinking of the other person and nothing about yourself
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Ella Minnow Pea is an epistolary novel about a fictional small island nation of the coast of South Carolina. The country was founded by the man who wrote the sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" (which uses every letter in the alphabet in only 35 letters).
They live kind of like the Amish, and have a large cultural love of the English language. The letters are mostly written by Ella, a young girl who lives in one of the main villages. The country has a statue to the creator of the sentence in the middle of their main village. One day, one of the letters of the sentence breaks off, and the town elders decide that it's a sign to remove it from usage. So every time a letter falls off, it's banned, and the writers have to find ways to express themselves without using them. If correspondence is found bearing the forbidden script, there are three levels of punishment
1) stocks
2)banishment
3)death
So the letters quickly devolve as the writers try find a way to prove that the statue is not truly a sign from the afterlife, which their leaders have set out as portraying a sentence that uses all 25 letters while going under the 35 letter limit of the original sentence.
If you like language and/or alternate history novels, this one is really, really wonderful
I love it.
should I get it?
yes, as nerdy as it sounds it is really good.
But don't take my word for it!
just gonna wait at the jungle gym for you
they owe me like $300
And I just remembered there are elves in it.
There was a scene in a market I remembered too.
The two main characters stopped at a market, and I believe they stopped at an elf's stall or something. One of them bit a coin, he doesn't care about money, but recognizes the worth of metal.
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I gotta say, I thought it was pretty mediocre
holy shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
well they just announced the film version, so
twilight got a film too
why
I'm just saying that somebody liked it, obviously
I haven't read it, but the news was relevant, so
You should write this novel yourself, in the form of posts about your memories of it.
You'd have all the English profs making eyes at you from across the room.
yeah i havent read it either
and i don't doubt it's way better than twilight
just saying that a film version doesn't mean it's good
wasn't a shot against you or anything my ghostly friend
I said it was mediocre but comparing anything neil gaiman has written to twilight is just heinous
AN ELF STALL?
I MAY KNOW WHAT BOOK IT IS
go read two joyce short stories and a yeats poem
in Avenue Q in the song "For Now"
what're they going to say instead of "George Bush is only for now"
in other news a game of thrones is awesome but i'm worried that catelyn
edit: also why did you post that in this thread
this made me laugh
and then i cried a bit
I just want to read the first book. This way I will have cold hard knowledge of how awful it is instead of just conjecture.
Although I hear there is sexins and babies in the later books
oh sna--
the economy?
nancy pelosi?
bwaaaaaaahahahahahahahah
hey guys look at lockout
he thinks things happening in game of thrones are important
um
because the other one was locked, and this is the closest thread to pooping
i'll just go away until i've caught up
Yaya is just being a dick for no reason
also hi Bale
really
like starting all of the major plotlines isn't important
And finally to the Quasimodo and Esmeralda part
Which is obviously the best part of the book
Funny, my initial There's Something About Mary comparison becomes more apt
There is a lot of examples of bad love, selfish love where a person only thinks about their own feelings and how the other person makes them feel
Never thinking at all about the other person
Versus completely selfless love, only thinking of the other person and nothing about yourself
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setting up-wise it's super important yes
but event wise nothing really happens
and I have forgotten how much I love Tyrion
seriously, that little imp is awesome