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Post by dajuke on May 1, 2015 12:50:45 GMT -5
Greetings fellow forum members. I rarely post on this board, but the world would be a lesser place if I did not bring to light a series of books which I feel has been sorely underappreciated. It is called The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay, and every page of it shines like starlight seen through falling tears. Read it, weep, and exult. Let this hour know your name.
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Post by Fenix on May 1, 2015 13:03:48 GMT -5
I rarely post on this board dajuke Old School *** Posts: 738 Posts: 738Posts: 738 but the world would be a lesser place if I did not bring to light a series of books which I feel has been sorely underappreciated. It is called The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay, and every page of it shines like starlight seen through falling tears. Read it, weep, and exult. Let this hour know your name. In seriousness i've never heard of them. Got a kind of synopsis of what theyre about for us? |
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Post by dajuke on May 1, 2015 13:40:13 GMT -5
The Off Topic Fun Fenix:
They are three books. A group of college students are brought over to a fantasy world to aid in a great battle against The Unraveller. It pulls from many different mythologies, but the writing style itself is what pulls it above the rest.
Reading it, is like what reading The Lord the of Rings should have been. It's high, noble, and tragic, and triumphant.
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Post by Munroe on May 1, 2015 13:53:13 GMT -5
I rarely post on this board dajuke Old School *** Posts: 738 Posts: 738Posts: 738His forum join date is 2 days after mine. 11 March 2005 vs. 09 March 2005. Even if he was referring to the whole forum, I'd say he rarely posts. :-P Dajuke has been lurking around forever. 738 posts in 10 years? I'd say that qualifies as rarely posting. I assumed he meant the Off-Topic forum though. In case you didn't notice, posts in the Off-Topic forum don't add to post count. |
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Post by nemusator on Oct 18, 2018 0:35:56 GMT -5
Currently reading the Witcher. Quite refreshing writing style, positively surprised.
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Post by malclave on Oct 18, 2018 1:19:12 GMT -5
Several years ago when I bought my first Kindle, I decided that part of what I would be reading would be the classics I didn't read when I was younger.
Right now I'm reading Anna Karenina. It's really slow going, in that I'm having trouble sticking with it... if I spend half an hour a day reading right now, that's a lot. I'm thinking of taking a break from it for a couple of days... maybe pull out one of Heinlein's juveniles for a re-read.
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Post by Dobian on Oct 18, 2018 13:35:03 GMT -5
For classics I have 1984 sitting on my night stand, I need to get to reading it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2018 14:51:33 GMT -5
For Kindle versions of classics (copyright expired) see Project Gutenberg online. I recently read a couple Jules Verne classics, Journey to the Center of the Earth and Around the World in 80 Days. There are tons of others. Sherlock Holmes, the Harvard Classics, etc.
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Post by malclave on Oct 18, 2018 15:20:40 GMT -5
Gutenberg is where I often go, though Amazon has a lot of them for free as well. The free classics (books from before 1923, I think, at least in the U.S.) were a big reason I bought the Kindle in the first place. One issue with the Sherlock Holmes, though... Gutenberg is just scanned text, so in at least one of the stories a vital clue was missing as it appeared as an image. In that case, it was worth it to me to pay a couple of bucks for a version with the image.  |
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Post by lucid on Oct 20, 2018 11:30:09 GMT -5
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Post by crawlingchaos63 on Oct 20, 2018 17:30:58 GMT -5
yes Lucid, I super highly reccomend the mountains of madness AND the Dunwich Horror
HECK those are ALL great reads! shadow over innsmouth is super creepy |
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