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Hot yoga? Speed yoga?
I just don't understand them newfangled things these days.
What happened to stuff like sit-ups and push-ups? Oh, wait, I hated that crap.
Anyway, kimwolhee, I feel I need to warn you: the people around here are NUTS. Don't listen to their seductive voices. Get out while you can!
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Hail and well met! Obviously I'm brand new to the site and still trying to figure out how things work...
I discovered these books many years ago and was instantly hooked. Books are so important in my life, and this particular series holds so much inspiration for me. I find that whenever I am going through hard times, this series can really inspire me to pull through them. I identify with some of the characters so much, at times it seems like they are speaking to me personally. In fact, I type up and print out passages from the books and stick them up around me, at home and at work...
Anyway, I'm glad to have found this site and hope to interact with lots of good people who get what I'm talkin' about...
Haunted
I discovered these books many years ago and was instantly hooked. Books are so important in my life, and this particular series holds so much inspiration for me. I find that whenever I am going through hard times, this series can really inspire me to pull through them. I identify with some of the characters so much, at times it seems like they are speaking to me personally. In fact, I type up and print out passages from the books and stick them up around me, at home and at work...
Anyway, I'm glad to have found this site and hope to interact with lots of good people who get what I'm talkin' about...
Haunted
'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'
--Lewis Carroll
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variol son
- The Gap Into Spam
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- Joined: Fri Apr 05, 2002 1:07 pm
- Location: New Zealand
Welcome Haunted
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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AjK
- The Gap Into Spam
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- Joined: Thu Jun 05, 2008 6:39 pm
- Location: Standing in the dark. Watching you glow. Lifting a receiver ...
Says the poor soul who has been here for 6 ish years and over 7K posts...matrixman wrote:Anyway, kimwolhee, I feel I need to warn you: the people around here are NUTS. Don't listen to their seductive voices. Get out while you can!
Wow, you are "in". Welcome to KW, Haunted! Glad you joined.Haunted wrote:In fact, I type up and print out passages from the books and stick them up around me, at home and at work...
Andy
... nobody I know.
New to This Land
Hi All,
I just joined the watch, mainly to look for indepth explanations of the different series. So far, I'm finding it a great site. I've read the series now several times over the last 20 years or so. To whomever put the time and energy into its creation, THANKS!
I just joined the watch, mainly to look for indepth explanations of the different series. So far, I'm finding it a great site. I've read the series now several times over the last 20 years or so. To whomever put the time and energy into its creation, THANKS!
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aliantha
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Welcome to all the noobs! 
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Compassion
- Servant of the Land
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Hey all...
Hey all,
I had been a member of Kevin's Watch for some years, though, unlike other forums where I am a member, I don't ever recall posting much.
Anyway, I had used a work email to sign up and after getting the boot and not being back here for a year, could no longer log in.
No big deal, I thought I'd create a new I'd be more comfortable with.
So anyway, I'm in Ireland.
I read the First Chronicles at the time of publication of "Power" and followed SRD ever since.
Isn't it interesting to see how we change with age in respect of our reading habits?
At the time I read SF & Fantasy only.
Being from an engineering science background, I had no grounding in literature other than a voracious appetite and gradually moved to modern and classical literature, leaving fantasy behind (except 1 or 2 exceptions, Tim Powers!) many years ago, though still reading SF, as I was sure (and still am) that at least SF had plenty of good writers amidst the rubbish, while 99% of fantasy was trite childish rubbish.
But a thing happened. I noticed over the years at times of greatest stress, I felt drawn back to SRD (not only then though).
When I was young much of my fascination with the Chronicles was with the obvious minutiae, the nuts and bolts of The Land, finding out more about Giants/Ranyhyn/Haruchai etc, feeling like many that I wanted more of The Land. I wanted Covenant to figure out how to use the ring!
The first (in retrospect) change came with the publication of Gilden Fire. I had a few friends at the time reading the Chronicles who bought Gilden Fire. I didn't, for the same reason they were excised, they detracted from the 1st person aspect. I think I was gradually appreciating more the characters. By White-Gold Wielder I was sure. And sure that even though I was getting older, SRD had contributed to some of my subconscious thoughts about people and life.
Then the 90s saw the Gap series and I was astonished. I had read Dune about 15 years prior when I was 14 and genuinely thought, that like Citizen Kane, it could never be equalled. SRD didn't equal Dune, he surpassed it. Like "The Godfather 1 & 2" will gradually over the next few years surpass Citizern Kane in the "greatest movie" lists, I would assert the Gap series' superiority in it's prime focus, character. Dune is great but primarily focused on superheroes. The Gap however is ordinary person centered, and Morn Hyland breaks your heart in the way that nothing in Dune can (except God-Emperor of Dune, the best but most disliked of the Dune series).
I had a long time ago been disappointed by SRD refusing to condone 3rd party works set in his milieu. I now completely agree. Like almost all the imitators of HP Lovecraft, I'm pretty sure that the stories would miss the point, characters & characterisation.
And of course we now have the Last Chronicles. And Fatal Revenant was extraordinary, equalling or surpassing White-Gold Wielder in the entire Chronicles saga to date.
So life sucks big time and I'm back to SRD...again. I've recently <listened to> (for a change) the First Chronicles, the Gap series & and am currently in the middle of The One Tree.
I would no longer describe the Chronicles or Gap series as fantasy/SF but as books using an imaginary framework to investigate issues of responsibility, guilt, integrity and the value of powerlessness, and of course...look at my username.
And this time around, of course I'm noticing new things again.
Early on in "The One Tree", Covenant or Linden says something like "it's not about living or dying but how you react" or words to that effect, (don't have it handy). which are essentially the words of Victor Frankl, in "Man's Search For Meaning", about the psychological lessons he learned in Auschitz , where he says the one thing that can't be taken away from you is how you choose to react to anything.
Anyway, that's probably too much for an intro.
/Compassion.
I had been a member of Kevin's Watch for some years, though, unlike other forums where I am a member, I don't ever recall posting much.
Anyway, I had used a work email to sign up and after getting the boot and not being back here for a year, could no longer log in.
No big deal, I thought I'd create a new I'd be more comfortable with.
So anyway, I'm in Ireland.
I read the First Chronicles at the time of publication of "Power" and followed SRD ever since.
Isn't it interesting to see how we change with age in respect of our reading habits?
At the time I read SF & Fantasy only.
Being from an engineering science background, I had no grounding in literature other than a voracious appetite and gradually moved to modern and classical literature, leaving fantasy behind (except 1 or 2 exceptions, Tim Powers!) many years ago, though still reading SF, as I was sure (and still am) that at least SF had plenty of good writers amidst the rubbish, while 99% of fantasy was trite childish rubbish.
But a thing happened. I noticed over the years at times of greatest stress, I felt drawn back to SRD (not only then though).
When I was young much of my fascination with the Chronicles was with the obvious minutiae, the nuts and bolts of The Land, finding out more about Giants/Ranyhyn/Haruchai etc, feeling like many that I wanted more of The Land. I wanted Covenant to figure out how to use the ring!
The first (in retrospect) change came with the publication of Gilden Fire. I had a few friends at the time reading the Chronicles who bought Gilden Fire. I didn't, for the same reason they were excised, they detracted from the 1st person aspect. I think I was gradually appreciating more the characters. By White-Gold Wielder I was sure. And sure that even though I was getting older, SRD had contributed to some of my subconscious thoughts about people and life.
Then the 90s saw the Gap series and I was astonished. I had read Dune about 15 years prior when I was 14 and genuinely thought, that like Citizen Kane, it could never be equalled. SRD didn't equal Dune, he surpassed it. Like "The Godfather 1 & 2" will gradually over the next few years surpass Citizern Kane in the "greatest movie" lists, I would assert the Gap series' superiority in it's prime focus, character. Dune is great but primarily focused on superheroes. The Gap however is ordinary person centered, and Morn Hyland breaks your heart in the way that nothing in Dune can (except God-Emperor of Dune, the best but most disliked of the Dune series).
I had a long time ago been disappointed by SRD refusing to condone 3rd party works set in his milieu. I now completely agree. Like almost all the imitators of HP Lovecraft, I'm pretty sure that the stories would miss the point, characters & characterisation.
And of course we now have the Last Chronicles. And Fatal Revenant was extraordinary, equalling or surpassing White-Gold Wielder in the entire Chronicles saga to date.
So life sucks big time and I'm back to SRD...again. I've recently <listened to> (for a change) the First Chronicles, the Gap series & and am currently in the middle of The One Tree.
I would no longer describe the Chronicles or Gap series as fantasy/SF but as books using an imaginary framework to investigate issues of responsibility, guilt, integrity and the value of powerlessness, and of course...look at my username.
And this time around, of course I'm noticing new things again.
Early on in "The One Tree", Covenant or Linden says something like "it's not about living or dying but how you react" or words to that effect, (don't have it handy). which are essentially the words of Victor Frankl, in "Man's Search For Meaning", about the psychological lessons he learned in Auschitz , where he says the one thing that can't be taken away from you is how you choose to react to anything.
Anyway, that's probably too much for an intro.
/Compassion.
Regards