Scepticalscribe
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Em.. Given the name of the author, I think you have probably worked out that I didn't write this particular work.
No, I didn't. It is a bizarre joke between @pachyderm and myself...
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Em.. Given the name of the author, I think you have probably worked out that I didn't write this particular work.
No, I didn't. It is a bizarre joke between @pachyderm and myself...
yaxomoxay
macrumors 604
Oh too bad. I wanted to give to the author of that book half of my estate.
Scepticalscribe
macrumors Haswell
I wrote it. Really. No joking at all.
Scepticalscribe
macrumors Haswell
Bravo. When I return to teaching (in a future life) it will be on a reading list for students, if they ask me to teach Renaissance studies.
AVBeatMan
macrumors 603
BigMcGuire
macrumors G4
Scepticalscribe
macrumors Haswell
AVBeatMan
macrumors 603
"He's a very naughty boy" etc etc (think we can get a couple of weeks out of this!)
I'm Brian. And so's my wife!
I was going to have to comment on that making Scepticalscribe the most feminine guy I've ever run across, but well... I'll have to go back to believing he's a she. And, European.
But, since this is about books, I just finished Brandon Sanderson's The Well of Ascension. Book 2 of the Mistborn series. I started it based on recommendations here. He's come up with a slightly different reason and system of magic.
I've also finished the first two books in the Raven Cycle, by Maggie Stiefvater. The first was pretty good, the second a little less so. It's hard to say if I'll get to the third.
Scepticalscribe
macrumors Haswell
Now, - for you - next step, on to book Three of Mistborn.
As an aside: How did you like the first two? (This is a series I really enjoyed, by the way; the first book was brilliant, and I don't say that lightly).
Yes, I'm a European.
And, seriously, these threads are confusing me as to all this boring stuff on gender identity....an uber feminine guy, hmmm.....and, er, or, um, someone who is not quite identifying as a Barbie female, yes,....I never thought that the online world was so complex.
Indeed, I thought it was all painted in primary colours.....you know, stark, obvious, screaming......
Scepticalscribe
macrumors Haswell
It is brilliant - I cannot recommend it highly enough.
Read the first book - The Final Empire - and tell me you are not hooked. This book - and, again, I do not recommend such things lightly - is - to use the American adjective - awesome.
Yes, I have book three on reserve in the local library system. I previously finished the Wheel of Time series, and my complaints about Robert Jordan continued with Brandon Sanderson. That being said, the complaints are just with getting tired of the "swishing of skirts", "tugging of hair" and basically, the fact that the hero was so confused. I've really enjoyed the Mistborn books. The discussion of where magic comes from, and the way the Mistborn vs Mist-(touched, whatever) was novel and intriguing. The fact that really the hero is a strong female is a nice change from conventional fantasy.
The online world is definitely complex. I'd been enjoying a (or more than A) home-brew, and for an ever-so-slight moment, thought @pachyderm had discovered your identity. I re-read the picture, and realized I'd been had, as I'm sure was intended. But, who doesn't like running with confusion, or scissors?
However, the loss of my arm is merely a flesh-wound.
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cdcastillo
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Scepticalscribe
macrumors Haswell
The world has many books - including, for that matter, some very good history books - that are well worth losing yourself in on a Sunday afternoon.
And fiction, too. Serious fiction, as well as the sort of fiction you can happily lose yourself in.
about 100 pages into the hypnotist by lars kepler. really good so far, kind of hard to put my finger on why i enjoy it so much, but it's a treat
AVBeatMan
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Scepticalscribe
macrumors Haswell
Actually, I rather like that book. The atmosphere that it manages to convey is quite striking, and, as a child, the fate of Dr Manette haunted me.
Remember, when Dickens was young, he would most certainly have met people who had visited Paris, or been in Paris, during the revolutionary years, and so would have certainly heard first hand accounts; individuals such as Robespierre's sisters, for example, lived on well into the 1840s.
However, in a wonderful example of somewhat Missing The Point, Mrs Thatcher, who was Prime Minister of the UK at the time, gave, as a gift, a first edition of A Tale Of Two Cities, to M. Mitterrand, then President of France, in 1989 at a function to commemorate the Bicentennial of the French Revolution.
pachyderm
macrumors G5
he he he.
"you brilliant &*$%##@ !
I've read your book!" - George S. Patton
hmmm... clues...Sunday afternoon, losing, serious fiction...happily...
Scepticalscribe
macrumors Haswell
he he he.
"you brilliant &*$%##@ !
I've read your book!" - George S. Patton
[doublepost=1465753680][/doublepost]hmmm... clues...Sunday afternoon, losing, serious fiction...happily...
You seriously think that I wrote such a thing? Even as a poor joke?
Scepticalscribe
macrumors Haswell
still no luck..
Hm.
As someone who is - or has been and may yet will be again - an historian, I understand the excitement of burrowing away and losing myself in historical research.
However, I am not sure that this is anything other than bloodyminded, intense, persistence.
Anyway, I am also one of those people for whom a 'no' is a 'no'. As it happens, I rather like my boundaries, and I like it when they are respected.