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Random Babbling Post #35

Discussion in 'Whatnots' started by Taluntain, Mar 18, 2005.

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  1. Gnarfflinger

    Gnarfflinger Wiseguy in Training

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    Remove all ads!
    I have an opinion. I hate early mornings and sore backs.
     
    Gnarfflinger, Apr 13, 2005
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    The book is The Shadow Kingdom by Cory Daniells, which is really a trilogy just thrown all in together - The Last T'En trilogy.

    The US cover for Dark Legacy (known by some other name in the US...) is especially bad in the cheesy romance department :(
     
    Aikanaro, Apr 13, 2005
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    Would anybody recommend 'Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy' the trilogy?
     
    Jaguar, Apr 13, 2005
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    Are you joking? :p I thought The Hitchhiker's Guide was manatory reading, especially if you're into sci-fi/fantasy. One of the best books I've ever read, definetly the funniest, think Monty Python or Pratchet (only really funny :D ).
     
    Sticker, Apr 13, 2005
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    Yes - Hitchhikers rules.
     
    Harbourboy, Apr 13, 2005
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    Back on the boards. For some how the big I didn't look that atractive the last coupel of days, I'm I becoming a more outgoing person? Scary...
     
    SleepleSS, Apr 13, 2005
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    Arabwel Screaming towards Apotheosis Veteran

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    *snickle*

    As it is, life is suclicious as susual.

    But I blieve that I have Mysterious Cockroach Powers.
     
    Arabwel, Apr 13, 2005
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    Tomorrow I am getting my nipples pierced
     
    Cúchulainn, Apr 13, 2005
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    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    Jaguar, it's highly overrated and the literary value of it close to nil... still funny though. And you'd be hard-pressed to find another series of books where it's pretty much impossible to predict anything that'll happen next because Adams comes up with such unbelievable stuff in his books that you're left wondering just which dimension exactly did he come from, because it sure as hell wasn't ours.

    But anyway, read it, you'll see what I'm talking about. I suggest you get the all-in-one version which contains all the Hitchhiker's books, because otherwise you don't really get any closure and everything seems even weirder...
     
    Taluntain, Apr 13, 2005
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    Got to love the world's only five-part trilogy :D
     
    Arabwel, Apr 13, 2005
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    I can't imagine anything less important in the greater scheme of my life than Britney Spears' reproductive habits.

    Unless, of course, it's the ransom for that stupid rabbit. Make confit already!
     
    Rallymama, Apr 13, 2005
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  12. Arabwel

    Arabwel Screaming towards Apotheosis Veteran

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    Ah yes, the rabbit.

    I wonder if I should do the same thing to raise the huge amouint of cash I am currently short?
     
    Arabwel, Apr 13, 2005
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    Try selling your kidney. I hear that most people have two so you should have a spare one laying around somewhere.
     
    Arahar, Apr 13, 2005
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    Almost finished the Arylin trilogy. She acted like a whore close to the end after being asexual all her life. How ironical.
     
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    ah crap. all i have is the first book which i picked up in in a sale for the equivalent of USD .25 :/
     
    Enagonios, Apr 14, 2005
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    You have to get the rest of them...

    You just have to...
     
    Gnarfflinger, Apr 14, 2005
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    I got a reference :D
     
    Arabwel, Apr 14, 2005
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    I got the first book a few months back. 20 pages into it and I just couldn't get myself interested enough to continue.
    Inter galactic bureaucratic road wideners!?! WTF :hmm:
     
    Shrikant, Apr 14, 2005
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    Do not diss the Vogons. We are scary.

    and yes, I have been nick named "The Vogon" by some - I am THAT bad at recitng poetry :D
     
    Arabwel, Apr 14, 2005
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    Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is fairly unique. Reminds me of Voltaire's Candide just for the speed and randomness of it all - damn funny though. And as endlessly quotable as Spinal Tap :D

    If you don't mind a few slightly self-indulgent ramblings (imagine un-edited Pratchett, with all the wandering wonderings that must go on in his mind left in) with a metaphysical/theological bent, it's heartily recommended. A warning though - it gets *more* obscure as you go on. Things happen with no reason, and little explanation. Book 5 is as hard to understand as Terry Gilliam's animation, and scarcely less weird. But the ending of it all... at once infinitely disappointing and exactly right.

    Moving along a step: Has anyone read those Stainless Steel Rat books, by Harry Harrison? I seem to remember being hooked on them 7 years back, but little else. Snatches of story here and there. Got them out of the school library - no rereading unless I find them again somewhere :)
     
    Arifirh, Apr 14, 2005
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