Arrggghh! Now, if they'd perform that same service (parts you can skip) for Robert Jordan, I could see the value in it. I *like* the Tom Bombadil sequence....
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Apr 1, 2004 3:42 pm
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In a message dated 3/31/2004 2:34:04 PM Eastern Standard Time, jbcroft@... ... My first thought of a better comparison would be Shane from the movie of that...
In a message dated 4/1/2004 1:16:02 AM Eastern Standard Time, odzer@... ... I think that if someone thought that there are large parts of the book that can...
... Though there -are- parts of the movies that can be skipped over, easily! :) -- Joshua Kronengold (mneme@...) "I've been teaching |\ _,,,--,,_ ,) ...
In a message dated 3/31/4 11:17:55 PM, Diamond Proudbrook wrote: <<Another friend calls it "Myth-Sock," but that reminds me unpleasantly of Orwell's IngSoc....
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Apr 1, 2004 5:29 pm
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Lisa Harrigan saw this story on CBBC Newsround Online and thought you should see it. To get to the story click on the link below. If it doesn't work cut and...
Funny! This one goes on the office door for a while. I enjoyed your "Tolkien in the Land of the Heroes," and I hope you've seen our call for papers for...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- Crofton, Maryland. April 1, 2004 In a packed multi-media press event, Carl Hostetter, head of the former Elvish Linguistic Fellowship,...
... This combination of quick work and popularity prompts me to ask, with the fear of going too off-topic: how complex and/or believable a language is Klingon,...
Actually, for what it is intended to be (namely, a single fictional language for use in a television show, and thus inherently utilitarian), Klingon seems to...
... But what about when an author changes voice in the middle of a story? Case in point: David Brin's _The Practice Effect_ . About halfway through, something...
... _The Lord of the Rings_, somewhere around chapter 9. _The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_, somewhere around chapter 23. It's not an uncommon problem. -...
Diane, you've actually given some serious thought to this matter. This may seem out of place for an April Fool's joke, but I think your version would have...
Readers might be amused to learn that I recently received a Nigerian spam claiming to be from South Africa, whose author gives his street address as "3/5 Rider...
<http://www.the-tls.co.uk/this_week/story.aspx?story_id=2106861> Supposedly this is a review of Jared Lobdell's edition of Williams's detective fiction...
But what about when an author changes voice in the middle of a story? Case in point: David Brin's _The Practice Effect_ . About halfway through, something...
A side note: At a con in the 80s, saw Steve Brust "win" over Brin in a panel topic of which was better, SF or Fantasy. <g> >> Now THAT must have been almost...
Lizzie, A good source for listings of -real- sf/fantasy cons, the ones where they talk about literature (as well as visual media, or sometimes instead of it) ...
Note the presence of Mythcon on the list. >> PS I don't mean to slight Mythcon by my queries. Likely I will get to one someday. But you already think I'm an...
Just out of curiosity, how late can one register for Mythcon? As I recall, there was a bit of a discussion here about the registration process (which I didn't...
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