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danlo
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On page 250, so I guess I'm at the halfway mark-let's calculate: If I bought it the last time I saw SRD, Oct 16th at Barnes and Noble, and it's the 3rd of November now-that means I should be done by Thanksgiving at the very latest. I tried to stretch it out 3 years, but just didn't quite make it...
fall far and well Pilots!
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...Conversation earlier this week...
Wife-"Are you gonna take that book to work and try to sqeeze in a chapter or two?"
drew-"NO, It deserves more respect than that."
Wife-"wow, you must really like it so far, eh?"
drew-(Thinks for a moment)-"The only thing I can compare it to, is the first time I read Lord Foul's Bane when I was 15...I never thought a book could be THAT GOOD."
---and this is first time I'm felt this way about a book since--12 years later.
Wife-"Are you gonna take that book to work and try to sqeeze in a chapter or two?"
drew-"NO, It deserves more respect than that."
Wife-"wow, you must really like it so far, eh?"
drew-(Thinks for a moment)-"The only thing I can compare it to, is the first time I read Lord Foul's Bane when I was 15...I never thought a book could be THAT GOOD."
---and this is first time I'm felt this way about a book since--12 years later.
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My copy was delivered Tuesday (UK edition, along with UK ed of Tad Williams' 'Shadowmarch'), but due to a small displacement between where I am now and where my Amazon delivery address is, I won't be reading it until this weekend (I 'just happened' to be going home for the weekend right as the books were due to arrive).
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Just got my copy
I just got it yesterday (nov 4)
I'll let you know when I've finished the whole thing.
We got some 4 day weekends coming up and you know what I'll be doing!!
I'll let you know when I've finished the whole thing.
We got some 4 day weekends coming up and you know what I'll be doing!!
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I got my copy on Tuesday. But I swore to myself that I would not read them until I have finished my School Certificate (very important tests) tomorrow and the next day. I must study!!!!........................Haruchai has no will power. 
Am up to page 219. Oh the shame!
I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But am very, er, disturbed at the same time. Oh the shame again!
Am up to page 219. Oh the shame!I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But am very, er, disturbed at the same time. Oh the shame again!
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"I'll move on when I'm ready to" - Reservoir Dogs
"Their pheremones fizzled like ice cream and lemonade" - Harvie Krumpet
"I'll move on when I'm ready to" - Reservoir Dogs
"Their pheremones fizzled like ice cream and lemonade" - Harvie Krumpet
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Damn living in such an isolated little country. DAMN IT! 
Sum sui generis
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Sum sui generis
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You do not hear, and so you cannot be redeemed.
In the name of their ancient pride and humiliation, they had made commitments with no possible outcome except bereavement.
He knew only that they had never striven to reject the boundaries of themselves.
In the name of their ancient pride and humiliation, they had made commitments with no possible outcome except bereavement.
He knew only that they had never striven to reject the boundaries of themselves.
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variol son
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I got Runes! I GOT RUNES! I GOT RUNES!
Sum sui generis
Vs
Sum sui generis
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You do not hear, and so you cannot be redeemed.
In the name of their ancient pride and humiliation, they had made commitments with no possible outcome except bereavement.
He knew only that they had never striven to reject the boundaries of themselves.
In the name of their ancient pride and humiliation, they had made commitments with no possible outcome except bereavement.
He knew only that they had never striven to reject the boundaries of themselves.
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I just got mine this weekend, probably only be able to read a chapter or two a week, so it'll take forever, not that I'm complaining, mind you, since it'll be 3 years before the next one.
I'm up to about page 30 so far.
Are there any threads by chapter, in case I want to comment on what I've read so far, without being spoiled by folks further along? Or is the thread for all finished?
I'm up to about page 30 so far.
Are there any threads by chapter, in case I want to comment on what I've read so far, without being spoiled by folks further along? Or is the thread for all finished?
I Never Fail To Be Astounded By The Things We Do For Promises - Ronnie James Dio (All The Fools Sailed Away)
Remember, everytime you drag someone through the mud, you're down in the mud with them
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to dance in the rain
Where are we going...and... WHY are we in a handbasket?
Remember, everytime you drag someone through the mud, you're down in the mud with them
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to dance in the rain
Where are we going...and... WHY are we in a handbasket?
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I'd be staying out of the Runes forum until you're done...the titles of the topics in there can be spoilers, too....
"A choice made freely is stronger than one compelled"
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- Stephen R. Donaldson's The Wounded Land
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Thanks Iryssa, that was my intitial thought, glad I followed it.
When the 5th Harry Potter Book came out, I was on another board, that was supposed to be spoiler free for the first week of release, and someone from outside the regular posting group came in and blurted out who died, with no warning whatsoever, it looked to be very obvious that it was intentional, rather than an innocent mistake. Why do people enjoy doing that?
When the 5th Harry Potter Book came out, I was on another board, that was supposed to be spoiler free for the first week of release, and someone from outside the regular posting group came in and blurted out who died, with no warning whatsoever, it looked to be very obvious that it was intentional, rather than an innocent mistake. Why do people enjoy doing that?
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*shakes head* Dunno...boredom, maybe? For a while, I was actually preparing myself to stop visiting the Watch until I was done reading Runes...I was afraid that there would be too many spoilers flying around. Wasn't too bad, though...the creation of the Runes-specific thread really helped keep that to a minimum...
"A choice made freely is stronger than one compelled"
- Stephen R. Donaldson's The Wounded Land
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- Stephen R. Donaldson's The Wounded Land
https://www.xanga.com/Iryssa
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ZefaLefeLaH
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I'm nearly done with the book. I purchased it last week. I read at the speed of speaking. I don't know how or why anyone would read a book in a day or two. I feel as if it would completely ruin the experience. Instead, I read everything as if it were being spoken aloud. I feel strongly that this enhances my enjoyment of the books I read as I refuse to shift into overdrive when things get intense. And the intensity & suspense is prolonged just as the writer intended. The dialogue and battle scenes all get read at the speed of a spoken voice.
I think that for me, and other slow readers, this allows us to better immerse ourselves into that imagination realm where we cease to be reading & feel more a part of the world which we are reading about.
It's like this.
Linden runs around. Linden jumps on a horse. Linden makes white magic. Linden heals someone. Linden jumps on a horse. Linden goes here. Linden goes there. Linden heals herself. Linden joins up with some people. Linden runs around.
If you read at the speed of light, you have to be missing things. If someone were to speak to you at such a rate, it would begin to all clump together & words would be omitted. When a slow reader reads, it is the speed of speaking. All of the dialogue is read as if those speaking in the story are actually speaking it; not in a blur of speed that removes so many of the imaginative gestures we can apply to the people. By the time a fast reader considers what the people might be doing, how they are sitting, where their hands are at, what their expressions might be, the dialogue is already done. They can't imagine it at that speed, they have to be told. They can't guess at the little details of whether character A is possibly tapping her toes and how the cheese tasted? By the time they read through a section, they have to be told that Linden was tapping her toes or that the cheese tasted moldy or they simply will pass it by in their haste. Even SRD's characters the giants told people to slow down! Even our sayings tell people to stop going 100mph & look around you, smell the coffee & the flowers, it's all in the details & you're missing it.
I read in this thread somewhere that a person read the book in 8 hours or something. LIke it was a race or something?? AS if the person were actually proud of it! What a complete waste!!!! Yes, that person knows what happens & if you drilled the person they could answer your questions. But did they live in the Land at all????? Eight hours indeed. What a complete waste of time. Would you watch the Celebration of the Spring in 42 seconds? Wouldn't want it to last as long as the writer wanted you to feel it? DO you listen to music on Fast Foward? How can you hear the individual notes when you are concentrating so much on the feel of the music. Sure you can identify it if you hear it again, but you've never really "listened" to it! You merely heard it.
Slow down. Enjoy this book at the speed it was intended to be read. You will be delighted.
I think that for me, and other slow readers, this allows us to better immerse ourselves into that imagination realm where we cease to be reading & feel more a part of the world which we are reading about.
It's like this.
Linden runs around. Linden jumps on a horse. Linden makes white magic. Linden heals someone. Linden jumps on a horse. Linden goes here. Linden goes there. Linden heals herself. Linden joins up with some people. Linden runs around.
If you read at the speed of light, you have to be missing things. If someone were to speak to you at such a rate, it would begin to all clump together & words would be omitted. When a slow reader reads, it is the speed of speaking. All of the dialogue is read as if those speaking in the story are actually speaking it; not in a blur of speed that removes so many of the imaginative gestures we can apply to the people. By the time a fast reader considers what the people might be doing, how they are sitting, where their hands are at, what their expressions might be, the dialogue is already done. They can't imagine it at that speed, they have to be told. They can't guess at the little details of whether character A is possibly tapping her toes and how the cheese tasted? By the time they read through a section, they have to be told that Linden was tapping her toes or that the cheese tasted moldy or they simply will pass it by in their haste. Even SRD's characters the giants told people to slow down! Even our sayings tell people to stop going 100mph & look around you, smell the coffee & the flowers, it's all in the details & you're missing it.
I read in this thread somewhere that a person read the book in 8 hours or something. LIke it was a race or something?? AS if the person were actually proud of it! What a complete waste!!!! Yes, that person knows what happens & if you drilled the person they could answer your questions. But did they live in the Land at all????? Eight hours indeed. What a complete waste of time. Would you watch the Celebration of the Spring in 42 seconds? Wouldn't want it to last as long as the writer wanted you to feel it? DO you listen to music on Fast Foward? How can you hear the individual notes when you are concentrating so much on the feel of the music. Sure you can identify it if you hear it again, but you've never really "listened" to it! You merely heard it.
Slow down. Enjoy this book at the speed it was intended to be read. You will be delighted.
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I had it read in two days. Took my mom longer, but she has alot going on.
When I read, I usually do it when I have nothing else to do, and then I just do what my mom calls a "binge read". It's not because I want to get it over with, it's just that I can't put it down!
I couldn't read slow if I wanted too. 
When I read, I usually do it when I have nothing else to do, and then I just do what my mom calls a "binge read". It's not because I want to get it over with, it's just that I can't put it down!
I couldn't read slow if I wanted too. For Myles--
When evening shadows and the stars appear
And there is no one to dry your tears
I could hold you for a million years
To make you feel my love
For Mom--
Did you ever know that you're my hero,
and everything I would like to be?
I can fly higher than an eagle,
for you are the wind beneath my wings.
Fly...fly high against the sky...
Thank you, thank you, thank God for you
The wind beneath my wings
When evening shadows and the stars appear
And there is no one to dry your tears
I could hold you for a million years
To make you feel my love
For Mom--
Did you ever know that you're my hero,
and everything I would like to be?
I can fly higher than an eagle,
for you are the wind beneath my wings.
Fly...fly high against the sky...
Thank you, thank you, thank God for you
The wind beneath my wings
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Untrue. You watch television at normal speed. You listen to music at normal speed. You ****CAN**** read at normal speed & you won't have to miss all the details & all the personal thoughts that you would have had if you had simply just slowed down & read the way it was written for you to read it.Fire Daughter wrote:I couldn't read slow if I wanted too.
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