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Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... I think I'm breaking some unwritten rule by posting twice in a row but I didn't want my review to get buried in my comments on Vondy's post, so here goes. I just finished "The Bards of Bone Plain" by Patricia A. McKillip. It's a story with a lot of mystery and with two separate plots, separated by many years, that eventually weave together at the end. I liked the characters for the most part and didn't mind the odd steampunk details thrown into an otherwise straightforward fantasy. In general there is a good variety of characters but my one complaint is that the book is unnecessarily confusing due to plot and character similarities between the two plot lines. There is good reason to have a lot of the similarities but McKillip didn't do a good enough job differentiating the settings, characters and plots. She is a very experienced author and I would have thought she could make these more clearly separate if she wanted to. It's possible the blurring and confusing is intentional but if so I didn't think it worked as she intended. This was the first book of hers I've read. I will probably read more of her books. I like her sense of characters, the way she created suspense and mystery and overall writing style.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... Valid points Vondy. I don't disagree with you but just didn't find the faults to be bad enough to stop reading...at least the first book. In fact I was so taken by the world and the characters that I really enjoyed it overall and looked forward to reading the second one. I think I read about three before I decided it just wasn't worth my time and effort to continue. Similarly with Tolkien, I loved the Hobbit and really enjoyed the Fellowship of the Ring but nearly didn't finish the Two Towers. That was a case where I forced myself to finish the book. It probably took me a few months to finish while reading several other entire books in between. Return of the King picked up again and for the most part held my attention.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: My strength, it's gone, along with my hair! Who could have done this? A: You've got to change your evil ways.

Re: A Game Of Questions Are you trying to make my head explode?

Re: Complicate the Person Above death tribble was Charlie Brown's stunt double in the football kicking scenes.

Re: A Game Of Questions Is that a rhetorical question?

Re: A Game Of Questions Would you believe he is batting .225 for the month of May?

Re: A Game Of Questions Is there a team in baseball with better pitching or worse hitting than my Mariners?

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Re: A Thread for Random Videos Another excellent video by CGPGrey. I never knew that the Union Jack was a combination of the English and Scottish flags. BTW, nice homage to Eddie Izzard with the "cunning use of flags" reference.

Re: A Game Of Questions Can anyone make...him...STOP!?!?

Re: A Thread for Random Videos Slow motion drop collisions. Beautiful photography.

Re: A Game Of Questions Could he be an exhibitionist?

Re: Complicate the Person Above Death Tribble was the first person to swim the English Channel while making motorboat noises with his lips the entire way.

Re: A Thread for Random Videos Very cool video of the galaxy. I must spread rep... I must have missed this news. They are talking on that web site as though it is established fact that the core of the Milky Way is a black hole. Is this so?

Re: A Game Of Questions Wouldn't we all be happier if we gave modern witches clothes?

Re: Complicate the Person Above Ever wonder how the Tribble came to be known as Death Tribble? Some fool had the nerve to call him The Dribble.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: So, this is your first LARP, what do you think? A: Teletubbies...of death!

Re: A Game Of Questions Why don't you ask Schopenhauer?

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Why did you say you were banned from the new Candyland MMORPG? A: Lovable but INSANE!

Re: Complicate the Person Above death tribble got a restraining order against French president Nicolas Sarkozy. The order itself is sealed so no one but deathy and Nicky know the real reason and they aren't talking.

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Re: "Neat" Pictures Opening May 21st, 2011. You'd better see it opening day because this promises to be the final coming.