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@RichardAbbott - I have October, so maybe you have November or December? I am thinking of another Becky Chambers book, or possibly Vance's Languages of Pao. I don't think we did LotR - just the Silmarillion, and I don't think you had joined yet, as …
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Boughtted
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Welcome home BurnAfterReading! Enjoy!
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(Quote) True! So true!
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I should have made Helkaraxe a brown dwarf instead of a rogue hot gas giant.
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(Quote) That... makes a stupid sort of sense...
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It's called "High Concept" From Wikipedia "High-concept is a type of artistic work that can be easily pitched with a succinctly stated premise. It can be contrasted with low-concept, which is more concerned with character development…
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I press my vanity so its creases are sharp!
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True! The book club got me hooked on Becky Chalmers!
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Do we have a policy on that! I'm sure I have exceeded it on occasion!
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My comment made no sense due to misreading the OP. I have nothing worthwhile to add, so I just deleted it. That seems to anger some people at times, so I made a second vacuous post to tell all what I did.
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Plus Nemo's end was told by Verne in a different story. I don't like Rodman taking that away.
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Well, the author started to color in the background of Brunel a bit, but kept on getting bored and eventually couldn't be bothered hauling the crayons out.
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(Quote) You're Canadian. Probably what the Trumpers would feel if somebody beat Mr. Trudeau, eh?
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Probably for the best!
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(Quote) Amen.
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(Quote) My mistake. I have never done that, and can't think why I would.
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I do it all the time. I use historical settings like AC in a Texas summer.
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If the novel captured any ideas in particular, the author was unable to communicate them to me.
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I had no problem with any of that.
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(Quote) I need not say another word!
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(Quote) Everything @NeilNjae said is on point. The writing was execrable! Bad. Pretentious. Fake. I could deal with that. I have read many of Verne's works - he has always been a favorite of mine - including both 20000 Leagues and Mysterious Islan…
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The use of fictional characters from other authors is fine given the permission of the authors or the passage of the property to public domain. What use is made of that property is the province of the new work, and needs to be judged on its own meri…
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(Quote) Well... The first two times I tried to read Hitchhiker's Guide I threw it down swearing it was the stupidest thing ever, but I tried one more time and it was hilarious, and so was the rest of the series. So who knows! :o I think it's becaus…
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You did a similar set up for High Strung, didn't you, @Apocryphal? I was wondering why it sounded so familiar!
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Hmm. I am wary of comedies - my sense of funny does not correspond to other people's - so I would prefer the thriller.
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(Quote) I came in for the pulp and had a tough time finding anyone. My assumptions were utterly off base. I'm half way through and the sledding is tough. I am NOT a 'literature' kinda guy. I'm fine with novels that happen to be lit, like Nabokov, bu…
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(Quote) Yeah, only cause you are all terrible shots! ;)
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I will not be with you. I just can't deal with leGuin.
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(Quote) Perhaps, but snake_case has_its_charms