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(Quote) I agree entirely. This is one of the two things that bothered me the most about this book's background. Yes, groups can survive in isolation for huge lengths of time, BUT they change differently than those not isolated. Languages always chan…
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But yes, Americans should take our great president for life's lead and write only about Americans in America and fuck the rest of the world. The characters should be the color of the writer. We must write what we know and we all know nothing.
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I said it was handled like a noir mystery, not written like one! I was thinking of something like Poisonville or The Maltese Falcon - both Hardboiled, actually, but I said noir as the later film style which was used in the movie versions of these s…
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Actually the Hypatia's crew - based on the names - were multi-ethnic. Maddie's name was French. I believe Russian was just a common language in the Hypatia's earth, so they knew how to speak it.
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IIRC, the knowledge of the location - and the existence - of the third ring was deliberately suppressed and removed from any data accessible to the colonists. Anya was in fact searching very close to the area for lost people at one time.
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I have always thought this. I didn't know Tolkien was so enamored of She, but Haggard was one of my favorite authors growing up. Knowing after reading this how influential Haggard was to Tolkien, I would say there is little doubt Galadriel was an ev…
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I am ready just as soon as I can finish my questions...
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I have read it a while ago.
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(Quote) I agree entirely!
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(Quote) I watched it since I was a child in the sixties. The Avengers was formative for me. Not only was Emma Peel my first crush, the show just changed the way my brain worked. I found it brilliant and fascinating.
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(Quote) Sounds like my wife's reaction to the Lord of the Rings book. "They tromped around, and then tromped around some more, did something then started tromping again. There was a whole lot of tromping involved."
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Great Song! I owned it at one time - on the album of a different name... something about a ghost - and had entirely forgotten it! Thank you for reminding me! Looks like our presidente for life got the numbering wrong himself!
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is Greenland the 52nd state, or is Gaza the 52nd state and Greenland the 53rd? I'm forgetting my order of annexation!
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Here is an aerial photo of part of the East Frisian Islands, showing low tide conditions. I believe the leftmost island shown is Norderney: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FwQZIy2aMAkdzBA?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
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Yeah - she's definitely from around here...
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(Quote) Exactly! This is a 'Table Level" part of role playing gaming.
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(Quote) Not codified, but certainly any good GM can extend the mechanics of the game into unforseen circumstances. My games are designed to do this, because that flexibility was a major design criteria, but I am confidant I could do so with any set …
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I think I could run it in any of my own games if I took the time to prep it properly - using tide tables to fill and empty a set of contour maps showing the same area at different times as well as a weather and wind direction table based on prevail…
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I thought the trip in the fog to Memmert was breathtaking in it's danger! It was a tour de force of sailing.
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I'm with Apocryphal here. The undertones were so fascinating! I thought the author did an amazing job with the feel of those conversations...
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His style reminded me very much of Hammond Innes - though I suppose the actual relationship would have to be the reverse...
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Well, It's not so unthinkable as it used to be - certain thugist Nazi-like authoritarian regimes might find the prospect of a 51st - or 58th - state the logical next step.
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I enjoyed all the characters. I found them all very different from each other, but all were real seeming. Yes, it was a product of it's time. Definitely! Yet I would point out back then cultures were far more insular back then. Nations were not expo…
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I freaking love books about sailing, the more technical the better! This one was very satisfying! So I'm a total outlier and my opinion shouldn't count.
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I enjoyed it, greatly! I was expecting it would be right up my alley and it was. All that fascinating information about the Baltic and North Seas, the fact that my mother's father's family were from Friesland, the sailing and nautical descriptions, …
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I am well into it. Should be no problem!
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(Quote) :D
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I am thinking Arkangelsk by Elizabeth Bonesteel (Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09NML4V97/ref=kinw_myk_ro_title). I have not read anything by this author, but it looked interesting, and her name is badass...
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(Quote) Agreed with Barner! If the author had any clue about this, they would have not butchered the ending as they did!
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(Quote) Yeah, it would, wouldn't it?