do thatRipley wrote:@ArwenArianna: Maybe I should take a closer look at Nightwatch...
that is SO true! >.<Another thing is Tad Williams' affinity to bring one storyline to a really interesting point and then he seems to think "And now to something completely different" and he continues somewhere else. AAARGH.
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lol, almost everyone quits at that point...several friends of mine, my mom..me as wellSentinel wrote:About Otherland: So I´m not the only one who finds the "beginning" confusing. After about 200 pages I was like "WTF??" and lay the book aside. By now I´m reading the Arthur-Chronicles by Cromwell and after that I might give Otherland another chance.
you just shocked me.. you miss school times? I don't know what or how everyone does it... but.. I have less than no time at all Oo If I want to read I book, I have to do it at 3:00 am Oo (but sometimes I'm still working at that time.. my record is 5:30 amSentinel wrote:People keep telling me that, over and over again. My problem, my list of "books I want to read" is amazingly long, but by now I seldom find the time to read...I blame the work - I really miss the school times.
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that's discouraging 
Time seems to be racing indeed..Sentinel wrote:I know it may sound weird, but when I was still at school I thought exactly the same. People told me that someday I´ll miss these times. I denied it, immediatelly. But they were right.
Since I started to work, time is passing by like nothing. What is a week, a month, even a year? Time flies and in the little free-time I have, I try to do as much interesting stuff as I can. The main problem, as you´ve already mentioned: 24 hours a day is not enough, it seems.
Same here... This is at least my third attempt (not counting the radioplay...)Sentinel wrote:About Otherland: So I´m not the only one who finds the "beginning" confusing. After about 200 pages I was like "WTF??" and lay the book aside...[...]
)thanks for the adviceRipley wrote:Some time passed since I read it, but I liked it. The style and story is a little bit "Dragonbone-Chair-like". Not as confusing as Otherland.
But maybe you better wait until vol. 3 is published- waiting for a continuation can be very nasty...
coolWhen Vol 1 was published in German, my boss (I work in a bookstore...) asked me to supervise the reading event, which was really a great evening
I'll sure miss some people and maybe my history teacher, but that's about it.. (enough already...)Edit: Sentinel is right... When I was nearly finished with school, I couldn't wait to get out and everybody told me, I would miss it.
Long story short: Yes, I miss it. Sometimes...
Yes I heard about it, but I never was there. Sounds cool. But of course I know ElbenwaldArwen Arianna wrote: cool
Have you ever heard of the "Elbenwald Spektakel"? it's a fantasy festival that takes place once a year..
every time there is a reading around a campfire (this was at least always the case so far) and fantasy writers (e.g. Markus Heitz (Ritus, Sanctum, Die Zwerge etc) Christoph Hardebusch (Die Trolle) or Markolf Hoffmann) write stories for this event.. it's really cool.. some also offer writing workshops...
Right, but it can also turn into stress. Sometimes you don´t know what to do first, and thus you start one thing, then decide to do another thing and at the end do something completely different. *g*Arwen Arianna wrote:Sentinel wrote:I know it may sound weird, but when I was still at school I thought exactly the same. People told me that someday I´ll miss these times. I denied it, immediatelly. But they were right.
Since I started to work, time is passing by like nothing. What is a week, a month, even a year? Time flies and in the little free-time I have, I try to do as much interesting stuff as I can. The main problem, as you´ve already mentioned: 24 hours a day is not enough, it seems.
But there's one advantage: you learn to respect what little free time you have and don't waste any time...(or at least try not to) plus: "boredom" is an unknown term
...and either never get anything done properly or you just don't manage to do everything and the work just gets more instead of less, no matter how hard you work? yep....Sentinel wrote:Right, but it can also turn into stress. Sometimes you don´t know what to do first, and thus you start one thing, then decide to do another thing and at the end do something completely different. *g*Arwen Arianna wrote:Sentinel wrote:I know it may sound weird, but when I was still at school I thought exactly the same. People told me that someday I´ll miss these times. I denied it, immediatelly. But they were right.
Since I started to work, time is passing by like nothing. What is a week, a month, even a year? Time flies and in the little free-time I have, I try to do as much interesting stuff as I can. The main problem, as you´ve already mentioned: 24 hours a day is not enough, it seems.
But there's one advantage: you learn to respect what little free time you have and don't waste any time...(or at least try not to) plus: "boredom" is an unknown term
Check out my photography at Steemphoto.comHansi 24-09-2010 wrote:It's always good to be back in the United States Of The Netherlands
Well, let's see what happens to the Hobbit thing. I would probably like it...Gandalf de Grijze wrote:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903624/ ?
shooting won't start untill next year.
anyway.. there is still too much that i still need to read., about the school issue.. if i worked longer than 4 hours a day after school, something was terribly wrong.
Yep. When you check the catalogue with new books to be released and you see that every publisher offers at least 3 new elf-novels, after a certain time its getting annoying...Led Guardian wrote:Ripley wrote: Though I like fantasy there were times when I thought I could stand no more Elves...
)Good choice. Read the whole series. (In order, they connect together).Arwen Arianna wrote:Just read "Das Schlangenschwert" by Sergej Lukianenko.
and now:
Jim Butcher~ Fool Moon
)I started out with vol. 7... didn't realize it was a series until I started and then I thought "what the hell"Led Guardian wrote:Good choice. Read the whole series. (In order, they connect together).Arwen Arianna wrote:Just read "Das Schlangenschwert" by Sergej Lukianenko.
and now:
Jim Butcher~ Fool Moon
this somehow always happens to me -.- Check out my photography at Steemphoto.comHansi 24-09-2010 wrote:It's always good to be back in the United States Of The Netherlands
:P:PI first read it in 8th grade. But now I've just read it again and can flex my Tolkien muscles! Especially by the end of the year, by which time I hope to finish reading The History of Middle-Earth set.Arwen Arianna wrote:Once again:
J.R.R. Tolkien~ The Silmarillion
Last time I read it I was 9 or 10... meaning my knowledge of this book is almost 0 by now
I read it an think "oh, that's how it happened Oo"
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